This is...I don't know what to say this is. It's Hungarian, first of all. Second of all, it sounds like this: you're in a movie. You're on horseback and you're surrounded by a ragtag bunch. Y'all are looking at a hill. You hear the beat of several thousand horse hooves. And then, suddenly, on the hilltop, you notice the horizon becomes blotted with riders ready to descend and fuck you up. You realize some of them have fire. You whisper, "Oh shit."
That's what it sounds like to me. What does it sound like to you?
Side A 1. Mojochronic - Whoville (Won't Get Yuled Again) 2. Men Without Pants - And the Girls Go 3. Groupe El Azhar - Mazal Nesker Mazal (I'm Still Getting Drunk... Still) 4. Pale Face - Burn and Rob 5. Don Ho - This Christmas 6. Rock Shop - It's Hurting Me 7. Rifle Sport - The Little Drummer Boy 8. Herman's Rocket - Space Woman 9. Paul Piot & Paul Guiot - Amour Vacances Et Baroque 10. Davila 666 - Oh Baby! 11. Red Sovine - Santa Is A Texas Cowboy 12. Wire - One Of Us 13. Henry Mancini - My Friend Andamo 14. Guided by Voices - I Am A Tree
Side B 1. Mojochronic - Xmasploitation (Santa's Baddass Revenge) 2. Monks - Complication 3. The New Year - Gasoline 4. The Shandells - Go Go Gorilla 5. James Brown - Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto 6. She - Outta Reach 7. Bo Diddley - Rooster Stew 8. Union Carbide Productions - Cartoon Animal 9. The Wildebeests - lucinda 10. Darlene Love - Marshmallow World 11. Wooden Shjips - Auld Lang Syne 12. Scrawl - 11:59 (It's January)
This is excellent late 80's punk rock from Cincinnati. Under-produced and totally endearing. Kind of sounds like the Misfits filled with doughnuts and Pabst.
I used to watch the shit out of Night Flight and, as such, was treated to a heavy dose of Residents videos. The one below is for a song that is not on this mix, but it's worth posting for nostalgia-value. At the time, it gave me both the creeps and a boner for the tight-sweatered eyeball lady in the chair. This is actually not a great combination to imprint on someone of an impressionable age. And maybe it explains some things.
But the Residents song on here had a creepy video, too, and it's worth looking for. And none of the above has anything to do with how the mix turned out, which, I'm happy to say, was pretty good!
I need to find out if there's a plane to Skaville. It sounds like a nice place and maybe it's not covered in snow that no one will plow. Because that would be a refreshing change.
I also need to figure out who the hell Tic Tac Toe were because if they were capable of the brain-infecting track enclosed, they may be plotting something in a smoke filled room somewhere. And they must be stopped.
Oh. And the funny thing about that Shellac song. I tried to find a less-shitty copy of it and the two I got from Soulseek had the same skip. Which means my awful rip of it has been circulating for years. Go, go internet!
Anyway. Here's what's inside:
Side A 1. Jackie Mittoo & The Soul Brothers - Train To Skaville 2. Louis Bellson et al - Mouth To Mouth Resuscitation 3. Johnny Guitar Watson - Nobody 4. Nancy Sinatra - The Last Of The Secret Agents 5. George Brigman - Schoolgirl 6. Tic Tac Toe - Leck Mich Am A B Zeh 7. Serge Gainsbourg - Cargo Culte 8. Railroad Jerk - Bang the Drum 9. Ursula Bogner - 2 Ton 10. Sammy Davis, Jr. - You Can Count On Me 11. The Residents - Hello Skinny 12. Roger Miller - Chug-A-Lug 13. Mavi Isiklar - The Great Airplane Strike of 1967 14. Kent Yedilisi - Mühür Gözlüm
Side B 1. Phil Johns And The Lonely Ones - Ballad Of A Juvenile Delinquent 2. The Treble Spankers - Red Hot Navigator 3. Jackie Lee - The Duck 4. Dara Puspita - Soal Asmara 5. Pretty Purdie and The Playboys - Artificialness 6. Freddy Fender - Mi Nena 7. Shellac - The Rambler Song 8. Jack Costanzo - Don't Squeeze the Peaches 9. Folkes Brothers - Oh Carolina 10. Mick Farren - Let's Loot The Supermarket Again Like We Did Last Summer 11. Los Apson - Satisfacion 12. The Gossip - Jealous Girls 13. The Out Casts - Weird Ties Wide Belts 14. Edwin Starr - Agent Double O'Soul 15. Michelle Shocked - 5AM In Amsterdam
1.Belly Full of Lead 2.Promise Me 3.Slopen Hood 4.Greasy Spine 5.Brother Superior 6.Like Bucks 7.Now File 8.Balancing Act 9.The Mouth That Roared 10.Magic Sky 11.Lummox 12.What's Happening To Me 13.Barricade 14.Crotch On Fire 15.Storm In My House 16.Testify
This is them live in the early eighties in San Francisco and, of all places, Cincinnati (reprazent!). About 90% of this is fantastic, especially their cover of "Heard It Through The Grapevine" which you may listen to below.
The other 10% is, I think, Neneh Cherry doing guest vocals and sounding like a kitten with its paw in a meat grinder.
But what are you going to do?
I was lucky to see them a couple of years ago and the show was fantastic. After one song, Ari Up said, "That one was tight. Like my boom boom!" And then she patted her boom boom.
Oh Ari! You silly!
Here's the track list: 1. New Town 2. Walkabout 3. Man Next Door 4. Life On Earth 5. Heard It Through The Grapevine 6. Typical Girls 7. Fade Away 8. In The Beginning 9. Or What Was It
I don't know if it's the onset of winter or the holidays or what, but I have been in the foulest of tempers for a while now. I've never quite understood why that leads me to listen to bleak and mournful music, but I do find it comforting during these short, cold days.
I wonder if watching a video featuring Black Box Recorder's ultra-hottie Sarah Nixey will help.
Huh. It kinda did!
Anyway. Here's my bad mood mix.
Side A 1. Swans - Failure 2. The Waterboys - Be My Enemy 3. Songs: Ohia - Love Leaves Its Abusers 4. Heartless Bastards - Done Got Old 5. Big Star - Nightime 6. Blatz - California 7. Fastbacks - Call it what you want 8. Morphine - I'm Free Now 9. Robert Pete Williams - I've Grown So Ugly 10. Love Battery - Damaged 11. The Kinks - Predictable 12. Cringer - Signals
Side B 1. Scrawl - Sad 2. Flipper - The Way of the World 3. Palace - Stablemate 4. Thee Headcoats - Don't Like The Man I Am 5. Proton Energy Pills - Nothing 6. Pussy Galore - Kill Yourself 7. Sebadoh - Hoppin' Up And Down 8. Black Box Recorder - Child Psychology 9. Honor Role - Purgatory 10. Hayden - Bad As They Seem 11. Panda & Angel - Dangerous 12. Bettie Serveert - Healthy Sick 13. Kristin Hersh - Listerine
Excellent twang. Recommended if you like Lee Hazlewood. Because he wrote some of the songs. Like the one I am posting via this cute little internet thingy below.
I think this might still be commercially available in Germany, so I feel bad about posting it. But, then again, there was that whole Hitler thing...
I guess these are Rough Trade demos and Peel Sessions. And as such they're really raw. I don't know, though...I think some of these songs should be rawer. A good example is "I Can't Do Anything." The studio version of that sounds all Brady Bunch and sunshine handclaps. The version here will poke your eye out.
I was so happy to find this in the late 80's because Germfree was out of print and this was the only way I could listen to these songs. You damn kids with your damn internet.
This is my vinyl rip, so you know it'll be extra shitty. And there's a big old skip on "Plastic Bag." And I didn't break it into tracks. Punk rock!
Side A 1. Oh Bondage Up Yours 2. Obsessed With You 3. Identity 4. Let's Submerge 5. Plastic Bag 6. I Live Off You 7. I Am A Cliche 8. I Can't Do Anything 9. The Day The World Turned Dayglo
Side B 1. Genetic Engineering 2. Identity 3. I Am A Poseur 4. Genetic Engineering 5. Germ Free Adolescents 6. Age 7. Warrior In Woolworths 8. Artificial
- Finally dumping Rapidshare and their ilk. All links are now live and hopefully permanent. (Except for Mix Tape #1, which I didn't save...if anyone has it, send it to me, yo.)
- Probably occasioned by Wanda, I'm realizing I have a thing for low-budget movies from the 70's about losers. Here's one. And, holy crap, you can watch this one online.
- I was kind of kidding about that "Oh Boo Hoo" thing at first, but, no, really. I've listened to it for about 15 hours now...
5/24 - 5/30
- Throwing everything Jason Molina did up through Pyramid Electric Company into a playlist, calling it "Oh Boo Hoo" and listening to it non-stop while walking around in the bright, beautiful sunshine.
- Holy crap. I was going through a pile of old CDs and found this which Derek burned for me and it's just awesome. I should email him. And you should download that.
