Mr. Suave's Mod Mod World
by Mr Suave
Mr. Suave's Mod Mod World is the web's original modcast celebrating the music of the mod lifestyle, as well as mod-influenced music from past eras. You'll hear everything from power pop to rock, soul to ska, acid jazz to lounge, and whatever falls in between. One of the things which has impressed me most in life was the mod movement in England, which was an incredible, youthful thing." -- Pete Townshend, The Who, 1968 Catalogued here are the sights and sounds of mod as I understand it. Much will be familiar to other mods. I realize many narrow-minded people, mods and others, will look at much of this and dismiss it as not truly "mod." So be it. However you view it, I hope you enjoy exploring these sights and sounds as much as I did putting them together.
Episodes
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Episode 612: Modcast #612: Get Ahead Of It
Here we go again with another mod friendly mix featuring lost cool new tunes as well as a few older gems and deeper cuts from the wayback machine. As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs, and all the important links to all the important stuff over on the modcast homepage…
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Episode 32767: Modcast #611: Still Walkin' The Dog
Walkin' the dogs, walkin' the dogs. If you don't know how to do it, tune in, listen up and I'll tell you how to walk the dogs. As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs, and all the important links to all the important stuff over on the modcast homepage at Mistersuave.com....
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Episode 610: Modcast #610: Lean Into It
Back at it with another modcast packed with new music you can shake your tailfeather to. Lean into it kids! As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs, and all the important links to all the important stuff over on the modcast homepage at Mistersuave.com. Listen on Mod Radio...
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Episode 609: Modcast #609: Summer Sets
Say so long to summer and ride into autumn with some cool, new, mod friendly music. As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs (some cool live footage of old DC mod revival bands this time around), and all the important links to all the important stuff over on the modcast...
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Episode 608: Modcast #608: Reviving DC's Mod Revival
Join me for a deep dive into the nation's capitol, not the swampy reflecting pool, no I am turning the wayback machine to the early 80s and the beginnings of the mod revival in Washington DC. To bring us this mod origin story I am joined by a man who was there to see it all as it happened, the…
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Episode 607: Modcast #607: Walk On The Wild Side
Welcome to the wild side of the mod beginnings, the wild, wooly, often whacky, world of freakbeat. What is freakbeat? Good question and depending on who you ask people will tell you the sound of freakbeat includes everything from The Dave Clark Five to The Pretty Things, Herman's Hermits to The...
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Episode 606: Modcast #606: Listen Up
Get a jump start on your week with all new music on Modcast #606: Listen Up with cool new tunes from the likes of The Sankaras, Dirty Weather Blues Revue, Bilk, Amplifier Heads, Wishy, 20th Century Boys and more. As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs, and all the...
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Episode 605: Modcast #605: Scene, 'Zines & Sounds
It's all happening here with my special guest mod DJ, Derek Delboy Shepherd. Derek has his finger on the pulse of new mod music, and has had for quite a while. In the 80s he published one of the longest running mod fanzines ever, In The Crowd. And in the 90s followed that up by publishing another...
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Episode 604: Modcast #604: Come Play With Star Collector
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more I am joined by Star Collector front man Vic Wayne, who shares with us some of the new tunes he's digging of late. So come and play, the modcast's afoot! As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs, and all the important links...
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Episode 603: Modcast #603: 3 Chords, 3 Minutes, & Skinny Ties - Vol. III
It's green light go for another race through some great power pop songs of the past and present. This is the third installment in my occasional power pop series 3 Chords, 3 Minutes, & Skinny Ties. As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs, and all the important links to all...
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Episode 602: Modcast #602: Mods Talkin'
And now for something just a little bit different .... What happens when two old mods finally sit down and compare style notes? They discover their paths directly crossed nearly 40 years earlier for one thing. And they explore new sounds, old bands, and the everlasting strength of the mod...
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Episode 601: Modcast #601: Days Like These
From funky soul to northern soul, from power pop to jangle pop, and everything in between, this show has something for everyone. It's on days like these you want to feel the sun on your skin, taste the tonic in your gin, and listen to some beautiful tunes. I've got you covered. Relax, kick of…
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Episode 600: Modcast #600: The Modcast's 20th Birthday
Twenty years ago I got an iPod. The rest as they say is history. Having published a mod fanzine in So Cal in the 80s, and then a website in the 90s devoted to mod style and cocktail culture, I was predisposed to be intrigued by this new fangled publishing medium called a podcast. I dove in head...
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Episode 599: Modcast #599: The Time Is Now
Is there a new mod renaissance upon us? That is the question I've been asking myself since last year. Sitting in Seattle casting my jaundiced eye on the scene from afar I ask you: is London swinging again? Over the years claims of new mod revivals have been made, and almost never supported,...
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Episode 31: Modcast #31: Music for the Modern Mod's Catalog
This is the modcast 31 and I'm finally getting around to presenting what I think are the essential tracks for the modern mod's music library. These bands represent the latest wave of mod music reflecting sixties R&B, power-pop and soul. As always find a complete track list and all the important...
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Episode 598: Modcast #598: Move It Or Lose It
Spring has sprung, and it's time to get moving and grooving. I've got a perfect, mod friendly mix of music just right for a sunny spring day, or even a rainy Sunday evening. As always find a complete track list and all the important links to all the important stuff over on the modcast homepage at...
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Episode 597: Modcast #597: Funk-N-Fun On 14th Ave
What makes a hit? It's as hard to know today as it ever was. Beauty is in the ear of the belistener, and you better be listening to this modcast because it is packed with hits and shoulda been hits. From Mighty Hannibal to Say She She, from The Allergies to Kanpai Quartet to Steve White Trio.…
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Episode 131: Modcast #131: Get The Mod Blues
From the vaults! Another long lost, but not forgotten, modcast of a bygone era. Enjoy. Welcome to Mr. Suave's Mod Mod World, modcast #131 if you can believe it. I don't know about you, but I've got the blues. The legendary queen of the blues Koko Taylor died a little more than a week ago, and…
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Episode 596: Modcast #596: Licensed To Cover
Ooops! I did it again, another all covers show. Now these are what you might call ... not the originals. More like echoes and interpretations. So, get you earbuds settled and top off your cocktail because I'm about to flip it and rip it on Modcast #596 Licensed to Cover. As always find a complete...
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Episode 595: Modcast #595: Wait For It
Good things come to those who wait. Here come the goods from the likes of The Selectmen, The Corner Laughers, Drool Brothers, The Eddies, Jim Basnight, The Decibels and many more. As always find a complete track list and all the important links to all the important stuff over on the modcast...
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Episode 594: Modcast #594: Last Drink Before Trouble
New year, new music, same issues. Here comes the first modcast of 2026 featuring a mix of music from garage rock to sophistipop, from northern soul to indie rock. Tune in, turn on, and be careful on the dancefloor. There are witnesses. As always find a complete track list and all the important...
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Episode 593: Modcast #593: Mr. Suave's Faves of 2025
New year, new music. But what about last year's great music? Here's a last hurrah for some of the best releases of 2025. These are 20 of my favorites that I listened to on repeat in 2025. So many best of lists are ridiculously long with 200, 250, even 500 releases. What's the point? I like to…
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Episode 592: Modcast #592: Get Tight
Even as it's the start of the holiday season I'm eschewing the holiday sounds for when we get a bit closer to Christmas. Right now I've got a whole show of new songs to share with you. Tons of good music has been dropping since the summer, and earlier in the year as well, and I realized I haven't...
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Episode 591: Modcast #591: Pogo Au Gogo
Here's your guide to the ups and downs of the mod world. Doing the pogo is fun, fast and anyone can do it, even you! Boing boing! As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs, and all the important links to all the important stuff over on the modcast homepage at...
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Episode 590: Modcast #590: They'll Get You Tonight (Halloween 2025)
The season's spookiest selecter -DJ Ken- is back with a plastic pumpkin packed with full size candy bars. No minis, no worthless snack size treats, no siree, this is Halloween as it is meant to be enjoyed. As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs, and all the important…
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Episode 589: Modcast #589: Pre-Season Warmup
There's a chill in the air, baseball playoffs on TV, and candy on sale. You know what means? That's means it's almost Halloween. Come on along for some cool new music, and a chat with Rex & Christina of Big Stir Records about the label's new seasonal release: Chilling, Thrilling Hooks And Haunted...
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Episode 577: Modcast #588: Get Up Tonight
The right mix to make you get up on your feet and shuffling to the beat. Get to grooving with all new, cool, soulful, sixties R&B styled tunage. As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs, and all the important links to all the important stuff over on the modcast homepage at...
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Episode 587: Modcacst #587: Ready! Set! Now!
Get ready for all new music. Get set to be blown away. Modcast 587 is now, is new, is on! As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs, and all the important links to all the important stuff over on the modcast homepage at...
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Episode 586: Modcast #586: Suave Summer Vibes
Summertime, summertime, it's sum-sum-summertime at Suave Manor. That means it's time for music to sip tonics & gin with. From The Postmarks to The James Taylor Quartet, The Happy Somethings to Say She She, I've got the sounds of summer coming through to you. As always find a complete track list…
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Episode 585: Modcast #585: Shakin' It Down with Star Collector
This week on the Modcast I shakedown the breakdown with Vancouver's own power pop sensations Star Collector. Vic and Steve join me to dish the dirt on the making of the band's latest album, Everything Must Go! They're not holding anything back, the band puts it all out there for their seventh…
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Episode 206: Modcast #206: Sum-Sum-Summertime Booze
Welcome to Mr. Suave's Mod Mod World, it's time to get some summertime booze. At last, at long last, summer has come to seattle. This has been one of the coldest springs on record in the northwest, but the times they are a changin'. The thermometer has actually eeked up over 80 degrees…
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Episode 584: Modcast #584: Listen Up!
Lots of musical goodness headed your way with some rocking power pop, some punk rock, some indy rock, some garage rock -- all of it with the mod friendly sound we all love so much. As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs, and all the important links to all the important...
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Episode 583: Modcast 583: The Decline Of Western Civilization Contd.
No one is united, And all things are untied, poetic lines that emotionally personalize the political, are the opening lines of X's The World's a Mess, It's in My Kiss and now this Modcast #583: The Decline of Western Civilization Contd. As poignant now as they were in 1980 when written by Exene...
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Episode 22: Mr. Suave's Mod Mod World Episode #22: More Mod Beats
Welcome to episode #22 featuring an exceptional track list. I've got a new feature I'm trying out, tracing the roots of current mod bands and bands obviously heavily influenced by mod music. So for this episode I've got The Who, The Jam & Green Day. [Originally aired August 2007 on…
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Episode 582: Modcast #582: Modxotica
It's time to get exotic. DJ Ken joins me to dig into some modern, 21st century, exotica and lounge music. Perfect mix to vibe out and escape the chaos of the mundane, uncool world we're all stuck with these days. As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs, and all the...
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Episode 266: Modcast #266: Get Ready To Rumble
Another week, another great modcast coming your way. I'm, kicking off the show with an American 60s band that sounds almost more mod than the British mods of their day. The band is Powder and I included them this week in part because this coming Saturday I'm going to get to meet them when they…
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Episode 581: Modcast #581: For Your Consideration
Happy birthday to me, and to the modcast! Launched at the end of May in 2006 and here we are both still kicking 19 years later. Kick it with me and enjoy another episode packed with all new music from northern soul to power pop to garage punk and everything in between. As always find a complete...
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Episode 580: Modcast #580: It's All Too Beautiful
What can I say about the Small Faces that hasn't already been said? Not much honestly. I'm not a Small Faces junky. But I do love their music. In fact, in my earliest mod days I think I preferred them to The Who. It's been said that The Who was a band that became mods, but the Small Faces were…
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Episode 579: Modcast #579: My Big Fat Modcast
Are your ears hungry for tasty music? This is Modcast #579 my big fast modcast. I have a scrumptious buffet of tunes lined up for your listening pleasure, so get ready to dig in and gorge yourself on some great music. For starters we have The Molotovs, and the menu of main courses includes...
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Episode 578: Modcast #578: Get Mod Jazzed
Good luck trying to get a definitive answer to what mod jazz is. It's like the famous comment by US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart when asked to define what obscenity is: "I know it when I see it." Well that's me with mod jazz folks, I know it when I hear it. Maybe soul jazz is a better...
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Episode 577: Modcast #577: Floor Fillers
From deep within the bowels of Suave Manor in -somewhat- beautiful West Seattle on this third rock from the sun comes another pack of power poppin' floor fillers guaranteed to get you up and pogoing, shimmying, shoulder shakin' or whatever it is that moves your tailfeather. New tunes from KVNX…
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Episode 576: Modcast #576: I Can See Clearly Now
I'm walking, I'm seeing, it's like I'm a real boy again! What's a boy to do when things start getting better? Make a better modcast! And here it is, a show stocked with all new music from bands and artists to whom I give my mod world seal approval. As always find a complete track list, a bonus...
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Episode 32767: Modcast #97: Now Is The Time
Welcome to Mr. Suave's Mod Mod World. It is hot hot hot here in the pacific northwest. After almost no spring to speak of, Seattle is finally jumping feet first into summer. So, I've happily put together a show that plays well in any climate, but especially seems suited for the summer sun we're...
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Episode 575: Modcast#575: Never Stop
Here we come with the first real new show for 2025 of the Modcast that just keeps going and going. I'm spotlighting some brand new music this time around, as well as some great recent releases that I think you all will enjoy. And of course, I've dropped a few gems yesteryear throughout. So, quit...
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Episode 574: Modcast #574: Mr. Suave's Faves of 2024
Time again for me take a look back at last year, not in anger, but in awe that I survived. And it was thanks in large part to some great music from many great artists. So here is my humble little list of the bands and albums that I played over and over again, my favorites from 2024. As always…
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Episode 573: Modcast #573: Insert Theme Here (Christmas 2024)
Here comes Santa's two laziest elves with a sackful of songs for your seasonal enjoyment. The pack is bulging with tunage from The Happy Somethings, Mayer Hawthorne, Bite Me Bambi, Ben Folds, the Monkees and lots more. DJ Ken from The Shingles joins me in hosting this year's modcast Christmas...
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Episode 32767: MIster Suave's Swingin' Christmas Mix
All music, no annoying chatter! A way back when, every year I would crank it up at our annual holiday hootenannies. Then eventually posting the track list online, and generally spreading the cheer. And every year people would beg me to burn them a copy. I even burned dozens of CDs as Christmas...
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Episode 572: Modcast #572: More Garage Stompin'
It wouldn't be the mod world without some serious snarling, fuzzy guitaring, drum smashing, maraca shaking, loud and snotty music. I've got all that and more lined up for you from the classics of the sixties, the revivalists of the 80s, and some brand new garage sounds. As always find a complete...
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Episode 571: Modcast #571: One More Lap
Time to kick the tires and see what this modcast is really made of! All new music from power pop to indy rock to ska with a few pit stops in between for some truly mod friendly sounds. As always find a complete track list, a bonus third set of songs, and all the important links to all the…
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Episode 2024: Electile Dysfunction: Mr. Suave's Election Special
Just like elections themselves, every four years whether we need it or not I trot out my election playlist. Think of it like a soundtrack for your breakdown. So, turn on your least favorite cable news outlet, turn their sound down on the tube and turn this sound way up on your stereo system. With...
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Mr. Suave's Mod Mod World is the web's original modcast celebrating the music of the mod lifestyle, as well as mod-influenced music from past eras. You'll hear everything from power pop to rock, soul to ska, acid jazz to lounge, and whatever falls in between. One of the things which has impressed me most in life was the mod movement in England, which was an incredible, youthful thing." -- Pete Townshend, The Who, 1968 Catalogued here are the sights and sounds of mod as I understand it. Much will be familiar to other mods. I realize many narrow-minded people, mods and others, will look at much of this and dismiss it as not truly "mod." So be it. However you view it, I hope you enjoy exploring these sights and sounds as much as I did putting them together.
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