You know what? I think "Christmas Wrapping" is my favorite Christmas song ever.
Here's a youtube of me lip-synching to it.
Just kidding. That's not me. I have a penis.
Taking a week off after this. Happy holidays, yo.
Side A 1. Eruption - I Can't Stand The Rain 2. Afghan Whigs - Retarded 3. Strong Arm Steady - Bark Like A Dog 4. Jorgen Ingmann - The Little Drummer Boy + Jingle Bells 5. PJ Harvey and John Parish - A Woman a Man Walked By/The Crow Knows Where All the Little Children Go 6. Connie Francis - Who's Sorry Now? 7. Afrika Bambaataa - Zulu Nation Throwdown 8. Suicide - Hey Lord 9. Artie White - A Love Like Yours (Is Hard To Find) 10. Boris - Nothing Special 11. The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
Side B 1. The Wedding Present - Santa Ana Winds 2. Jim Jones - Ballin' On Xmas 3. Band of Horses - The Great Salt Lake 4. Electric Jungle - Funky Funky Christmas 5. Beastie Boys - Pass The Mic (Green Lantern Mix) 6. Terakaft - Iswegh Atay 7. The Fall - (We Wish You) A Protein Christmas 8. Geto Boys - Mind Playin' Tricks On Me 9. Nouvelle Vague - Heart of Glass 10. The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So 11. The Coup - We Are the Ones 12. Yoome - Dubai 13. Davitt Sigerson - It's a Big Country
Oh wow. New decade! Time for a whole slew of completely arbitrary best-of lists!
Here's one song each from my favoriteist albums of the 00's. I forgot Joanna Newsom and her shapely buttocks. Sorry Joanna!
Something that really bummed me out in the 00's: Acetone's lead singer killed himself. Just doesn't make any sense to me. They were awesome and had a really unique quietLOUDquiet sound.
Rest in peace, yo.
List:
Side A 1. Shellac - Prayer to God 2. Acetone - Wonderful World 3. Ghostface Killah - 9 Milli Bros. 4. Kristin Hersh - Sno Cat 5. Princess Superstar - Do it Like a Robot 6. DEV2.0 - Beautiful World 7. The Mountain Goats - Source Decay 8. Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - The World Exposed 9. Wooden Shjips - Death's Not Your Friend 10. Carolyn Mark - Not a Doll 11. Sleater-Kinney - Entertain 12. Black Box Recorder - The Facts of Life 13. Pinebender - Polly Gray 14. Davila 666 - Bla Bla Bla 15. The Books - Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again 16. Hot Snakes - XOX 17. Fruit Bats - Glass In Your Feet 18. Madvillain - Rhinestone Cowboy
Side B 1. The Lights - When You Smile 2. Consonant - Buckets of Flowers, Porno Mags 3. Damien Jurado - Medication 4. Dougal Reed - The Chain 5. Mr. Lif - New Man Theme 6. Coachwhips - I Drank What? 7. Mclusky - Alan Is A Cowboy Killer 8. King Geedorah - The Fine Print 9. Petty Booka - Tiki Torches at Twilight 10. Lady Sovereign - A Little Bit of Shhh 11. Uzeda - Steam, Rain and Other Stuff 12. Panda & Angel - Ohio, December 24th 13. 50 Foot Wave - Petal 14. Quasimoto - Return of The Loop Digga 15. Big Business - O.G. 16. Hot Pursuit - Lucky Seven 17. Isis - From Sinking 18. Songs Ohia - Didn't It Rain 19. Ugly Casanova - So Long To The Holidays
This violates time constraints and is way too long. But. Eh. Hope you like something herein.
- That Jaylib re-issue is pretty fucking great, yo.
- That Frankie Avalon song is pretty fucking creepy.
- That Florence Henderson song is just fucking terrible.
So's that Guns N' Roses. I finally listened to Chinese Democracy. What a delightful freakshow that is.
List:
Side A 1. Transmissionary Six - Beautiful World 2. Denny Gerrard - Hole in My Shadow 3. Usha Uthup, Bappi Lahiri & Chorus - Auva Auva Koi Yahan 4. Shocking Blue - Love Buzz 5. feedtime - Drag Your Dog 6. Pain Teens - Bannoy 7. Nick Noble - The Bible Tells Me So 8. West Street Mob - Break Dance Electric Boogie 9. Guided By Voices - Cut-Out Witch 10. Gene Vincent - Woman Love 11. Florence Henderson - That Old Black Magic 12. Gossip - Fire/Sign 13. Guns N' Roses - Street Of Dreams
Side B 1. Brakes - Two Shocks 2. Jaylib - The Heist 3. Leichtmetall - Im Paradies 4. John Lurie - Horse Guitar 5. Lou Monte - Pepino The Italian Mouse 6. The Books - An Animated Description Of Mr. Maps 7. New Bag - You'll Lose 8. Frankie Avalon - Bobby Sox To Stockings 9. Melvins - Let It All Be 10. Dolly Parton - The Man 11. Johnny Burnette - Eager Beaver Baby 12. Joe Tex - The Love You Save (May Be Your Own) 13. Micronotz - Lately 14. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Arise Therefore 15. Thelonious Monster - Life´s A Groove
I love that phrase. I was reminded of that fact when reading this. If that's too many words for you, here's a short, trippy, animated ode to one of our finest athletes ever:
What does this have to do with these songs? Nothin'.
Oh. And I'm taking next week off. Happy Thanksgiving, yo.
Side A 1. Sea Wolf - I Made A Resolution 2. Buzzcocks - Boredom 3. El Michels Affair - Walk On By 4. Kyuss - Writhe 5. EPMD - Get Off The Bandwagon 6. Future Of The Left - Chin Music 7. Ken Nordine - Confessions Of 349-18-5171 8. Boris - Statement 9. Ace Frehley - New York Groove 10. Simply Saucer - Low Profile 11. Lyle Workman & Bob Thiele - Fortunate Son
Side B 1. Carolyn Mark - Yanksgiving 2. Cannonball Adderley - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy 3. Nirvana - Negative Creep 4. Tater Totz - I've Just Seen a Face 5. The Peace - Peaceful Man 6. Couch Flambeau - I Know Where you Live 7. Them Crooked Vultures - Dead End Friends 8. Alvin Cash - Twine Time 9. Can - Outside My Door 10. Marshall Tucker Band - Fly Like An Eagle 11. PJ Harvey - This Wicked Tongue 12. Tom Petty - A Woman In Love 13. Wire - Heartbeat 14. Nine Pound Hammer - Headbangin' Stockboy 15. Madlib - King Chop (Top Line)
Man. I feel like hell. I wonder if Robitussin'd mix well with Malibu.
I'm about to find out.
Side A 1. Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle - Officer Down 2. Kiki Dee - Love Is A Warm Kind Of Sorrow 3. Galt MacDermot - Duffer in F (Version 2) 4. The Epoxies - No Interest 5. Guido & Maurizio De Angelis - Salt Lake Feelings 6. Sajid Kahn - Getting To Know You 7. The Fall - Kurious Oranj 8. Ike & Tina Turner - Sexy Ida (Part 1) 9. The Shadows of Knight - My Fire Department Needs A Fireman 10. Tubby Hayes - A Pint of Bitter 11. Volcano Suns - Magic Sky 12. Lord Invader - Pepsi-Cola 13. Cringer - The Dumb Song
Side B 1. Matthew Sweet - Ugly Truth (Rock) 2. C'est Tout - Olé in de USA 3. Cher - Dark Lady 4. Dércio Marques - Folia Do Divino Espírito Santo 5. Buddy Hackett - Ting Me A Tong 6. Blatz - Lullabye/Chuck 7. Phoem Khlaibanleng & His International Mixed Mahori Orchestra - Mon Son Pha 8. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site 9. Mel Tormé - Comin' Home Baby 10. Dougal Reed - Oh Daddy 11. Aus-Rotten - The Promise Keepers 12. Mulatu Astatke - Shagu 13. Fastbacks - I Need Some Help
Side A 1. Palace Music - For The Mekons, Et Al 2. Mekons - Born To Choose 3. Charlie Palmieri - Fat Papa 4. The Books - All Our Base Are Belong To Them 5. Osmonds - Down By the Lazy River 6. King Geedorah feat. Hassan Chop - I Wonder 7. Dinosaur - Yeah, We Know 8. Glen Campbell - Guess I'm Dumb 9. Shellac - Billiard Player Song 10. 24 Carat Black - The Best Of Good Love Gone 11. Ink Spots - That Cat Is High
Side B 1. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Everyday 2. Hot Snakes - Why Does It Hurt? 3. Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner - The Party 4. Fabolous - Pachanga 5. The Iditarod - Move 6. The 5,6,7,8s - Howling At The Moon 7. Salak Silathong - Sung Nang 8. Mongo Santamaria - Black Dice 9. Public Image Limited - Bad Life 10. Eh - I Honestly Don't Know, But I Like It
Side A 1. Julian Cope - Out of My Mind on Dope & Speed 2. Поет Аманда Лир - Never Trust A Pretty Face 3. John Vanderslice - Exodus Damage 4. Adalberto Santiago and Ray Barretto - Right On 5. Chi-Lites - Stoned Out Of My Mind 6. Pop Defect - Windy 7. Superchunk - Let It Go 8. Poly Styrene - Toytown 9. Skullbot - Phase 90 10. L ed Zepp elin - In My Time of Dying 11. Camper Van Beethoven - Ambiguity Song
Side B 1. Killdozer - Cotton Bolls 2. Roger & The Human Body - Truth Be Known 3. Pavement - Debris Slide 4. Eurythmics - It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back) 5. Pugh Rogefeldt - Haru Sett Mig Va 6. Laughing Hyenas - Let It Burn 7. Donald Byrd - Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 8. LiLiPUT - Ü 9. Mission of Burma - 1,2,3 Partyy! 10. Lucia Pamela - In The Year 2,000!!! 11. Low & Dirty Three - When I Called Upon Your Seed 12. Flesheaters - Divine Horseman 13. The Stylers - Enjoy Yourself
Side A 1. Violent Femmes - Prove My Love 2. RZA & MF Doom - Biochemical Equation 3. Jacildo e Seus Rapazes - Day Tripper 4. The Mortals - Disintegration 5. Merle Haggard - Rainbow Stew 6. Cacka Israelsson - Zambesi 7. DJ P - Hell On Wheels 2 (Excerpt) 8. Polly Scattergood - Nitrogen Pink 9. The Hooligans - Juanita Banana 10. Polvo - In This Life 11. Yvonne Prenosilova - Boty Proti Lasce 12. Carmen Miranda And The Benny Goodman Orchestra - Paducah
Side B 1. Let's Wrestle - I Won't Lie To You 2. Marais & Miranda - Dust Upon the Roadway 3. DJ Quik And Kurupt - Watcha Wan Do 4. UT - Evangelist 5. The Beets - The Devil 6. Los Peniques - Caminando 7. The Herbaliser feat. MF Doom/Wu Tang Clan - Uzi (Pinky Ring)/It Ain't Nothin' 8. feedtime - Shovel 9. Ted Cassidy - The Lurch Song 10. William Onyeabor - Better Change Your Mind 11. ABBA - The Visitors 12. Modest Mouse - Perfect Disguise 13. The Flesh Eaters - Drag My Name In The Mud
So you know what's awesome? Doing 85 on a deserted back road surrounded by Utah scrub and blasting "Skates" by Hayden.
MAN, I'd forgotten what a barn-burner that album is. It's nearly perfect and highly recommended. Awkward, self-conscious, and featuring songs about: being hot for 16-year-olds, how hard it is to talk to girls, calling in sick to work, fucking up romantic overtures, shoving rocks up one's nose, not being able to die in your dreams, and Susan Smith. And "Skates" which is just weird, sad and, uh...passionate? It's about ice skates. Sort of.
And you know who was really cute? Tawney Reed.
I love that dude to her right. I've got a feeling he has wood.
Anyway. Here's the list:
Side A 1. Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino 2. Helen Bozeman - Sugar Baby 3. Camper Van Beethoven - Seven Languages 4. Gong - Tried So Hard 5. Th Faith Healers - Reptile Smile 6. Billie Jo Spears - Get Behind Me Satan And Push 7. Ms. Cristal - Ho, You Just Mad 8. Dyke & The Blazers - City Dump 9. Amanaz - History of Man 10. Jeanne & The Darlings - Soul Girl 11. Sparkle Moore - Killer 12. Pinkos - Pinkos Theme Song 13. Hayden - Skates
Side B 1. Thee Mighty Caesars - Lie Detector 2. Chrissy Zebby Tembo + Ngozi Fa - My Ancestors 3. Will Powers - Adventures in Success 4. Tawney Reed - Needle in a Haystack 5. First Chips - My Love 6. The Knife - Neverland 7. Enter...Da Dizms - No Panties 8. Laura Lee - Women's Love Rights 9. Asha Bhosle - Dilwala Mastana 10. Pat Boone - Stairway To Heaven 11. The Flesh Eaters - Dragstrip Riot
I was going to post a video of them, but they're pretty dorky lookin'. I mean, the guitar player's cute. But all that gothiness and button punching betrays how the finished product sounds.
So I'm going to post a Davila 666 video instead. My God. They're just the best, too.
I'm taking another two weeks off from this thing. Partly because we're going to Utah. Yes. UTAH.
List:
Side A 1. The Chemical Brothers - It Began In Africa 2. Matata - Good Samaritan 3. Lady Sovereign - Random 4. King Biscuit Time - Eye O' the Dug 5. Jimmy Forest - All the Gin is Gone 6. The XX - Crystalised 7. Joe Bataan - It's a Good Feeling (Riot) 8. Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends 9. Bohannon - Dance With Your Parno 10. Love 666 - MDMA 11. Rush - Vital Signs
Side B 1. Killdozer - 3/4" Drill Bit 2. J.P. Decerf - Sailor Stories 3. Fort Minor - There They Go (DJ Green Lantern Remix) 4. The Wedding Present - Softly Softly 5. The Mummies - Shot Down 6. Camper Van Beethoven - The History Of Utah 7. Melvin Jackson - Funky Doo 8. Edan - Ultra '88 (Tribute) 9. Will Oldham - Blue Lotus Feet 10. Camille - Home Is Where It Hurts 11. Davila 666 - El Lobo 12. Hank Thompson - The Squaws Along The Yukon 13. Brakes - Margarita 14. Hildegard Knef - Im 80ten Stockwerk 15. Comus - The Prisoner
but definitely a jukebox...one you can put 45s in). But I also realized I'll probably be in a small apartment or condo when that happens.
Space is going to be an issue.
I listened to these songs a lot this week:
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(It's like zombie mods back there...)
Here's the list:
Side A 1. Big Stick - Daddy Long Leg 2. Naked Raygun - Home of the Brave 3. Laurie Anderson - Frames for the Pictures 4. The Ramsey Lewis Trio - The In Crowd 5. Micachu - Lips 6. March Violets - Snake Dance 7. Raekwon - Black Mozart 8. Samantha Jones - It's All Because of You 9. Polvo - Beggars Bowl 10. Helmet - Unsung 11. Ladytron - Black Cat 12. Jimmy McGriff - Cotton Boy Blues
Side B 1. Hüsker Dü - Friend, You've Got To Fall 2. Crust - Traveling With Berltz 3. C'est Tout - De Cowboys van Oranje 4. Marble Valley - Babylon 5. Luna - 23 Minutes In Brussels 6. Plunt - Gouda 7. Renee-Louise Carafice - (I'm Your) Bodhisattva 8. Psychopathic Rydas - Duk Da Fuck Down 9. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely 10. Max Frost & The Troopers - Try To Make Up Your Mind 11. Old Man Gloom - The Volcano 12. John Trubee - Blind Man's Penis (Peace and Love)
Side A 1. Cut Chemist - What's the Altitude? 2. Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution - Yummy Love 3. BBL and the Rollercoaster - Monkey Man 4. Mac Rybell - Meu Sonho 5. Junior Walker and the All Stars - Monkey Jump 6. Derek - Cinnamon 7. Sunset Rubdown - Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh 8. Todd Rollins & Orchestra - The Boogie Man 9. Young Fresh Fellows - Mo' Gorilla 10. Hideo Shiraki - Cherokee 11. Part Chimp - War Machine 12. Low - Monkey
Side B 1. The Jesus Lizard - Monkey Trick 2. Simian Mobile Disco - It's The Beat 3. Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band - Dirty Dirty 4. Louis Prima & Orchestra - Mr. Ghost Goes To Town 5. Sage Francis - Dance Monkey 6. Jimmy Castor Bunch - King Kong 7. Justin Hines - The Higher The Monkey Climbs 8. Kasenetz-Katz Super Circus - Up In The Air 9. The 13th Floor Elevators - Monkey Island 10. Asha Bhosle et al - Chhup Chhup 11. The Revels - The Monkey Bird 12. Kristin Hersh - Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey 13. James Carr - A Lucky Loser 14. The Rolling Stones - Monkey Man
Well hey there! This turned out really well. I hope you like it as much as I did.
Neil Sedaka has a delightful new children's album and that's where the name of this mix came from. It also features "Where the Toys Are" and "Waking Up Is Hard To Do." It does not feature this [super fucking creepy] song.
What else, what else?
- Oh. Thanks, Ben, for lending me this which is awesome. Congratulations on your nuptuals!
- Look, I'm not goofing around with that Neulander. It's my favorite Eurotrash album ever and I listened to that song in a loop while driving around aimlessly one very sad day in Cincinnati last year.
- That Red Sovine song is endearingly racist. I bet he was hell at family gatherings.
- "Strip Club" is my favorite cover. Ever.
- I'm sort of suddenly obsessed with Teddy Parker and...OMFG WATCH THIS:
Anyways, here's the list:
Side A 1. 1,000 Clowns - Kitty Kat Max 2. Brenda Holloway - A Favor For A Girl (With A Love Sick Heart) 3. The Grifters - Covered With Flies 4. Meic Stevens - Shw' mae? Shw' mae? 5. Disco Construction - Lady Bump 6. Quasimoto - 1994 7. The Quests - Georgy Girl 8. Neil Sedaka - Lunch Will Keep Us Together 9. Ron Warren Ganderton - Virgins Do 10. The Spotlights - Que Sera 11. Neulander - Sex, God & Money 12. Billy Preston - The Octopus 13. Wellwater Conspiracy - Teen Lambchop 14. AD 73 - Higher and Higher 15. Webb Pierce & Red Sovine - Little Rosa
Side B 1. Breaking Circus - Smoker's Paradise 2. Bratmobile - Girl Germs 3. Henny Vonk - You're Gonna Hear From Me 4. Teddy Parker - Nachtexpress Nach St. Tropez 5. Speech Debelle - Searching 6. Ed Wood (?) - A Pussycat Is Born To Be Whipped 7. The Mops - I'm Just a Mops 8. 5 Royales - Mohawk Squaw 9. 100 Flowers - Strip Club 10. The Monkees - Cuddly Toy 11. Snowpony - Easy Way Down 12. Freakwater - Your Goddamn Mouth 13. William De Vaughan - Be Thankful for What You Got 14. Sebadoh - Punch In The Nose
Because of school and other things this got kind of Iron Chef in that I just threw a bunch of songs together. And I fear I made shrimp cakes with butt sauce.
But, still. There's some good stuff in here. I swear!
Three songs come from this. It's a weird little compilation of Turkish folks living in Germany and making Turkish-y music while singing in German. The combination is oddly endearing but the songs here are the only ones I really like. (Psst. I wouldn't buy it.)
Oh. And this is my second favorite music video ever:
And that Charles Wilp album is terrible. Don't buy that, either.
I'm not making you want to listen to this, am I?
Side A 1. Sender Freie Rakete - Istanbul Berlin 2. Wu Tang Clan - Fast Shadow 3. Gangsters of Love - Sorry 4. Flesheaters - The Wedding Dice 5. Turid - Välkomme Hus 6. Volkanik Man - Oriental Lady 7. Unknown - Istanbul 8. Karate - Diazapam 9. Ivan and Pricila - Mandu 10. Helium - Leon's Space Song 11. Herbie Mann - Push Push
Side B 1. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Chiapas! I MUST GO THERE ! 2. Apache Indian - Boom Shack-A-Lak 3. Charles Wilp - Bunny 4. Cal Tjader and Charlie Byrd - My Cherie Amour 5. Damien Jurado - Texas To Ohio 6. Wesley Willis - Annie Vookman 7. Hot Snakes - Plenty For All 8. Ensaio de Escola - Welcome to Rio 9. Fresh Familee - Ahmet Gundez I 10. Cows - By The Throat 11. Telegraph Avenue - Tookie Tookie 12. Death In Vegas & Hope Sandoval - Help Yourself
Oh. Hey. Can you do me a favor? If you know what the instrument featured in that Ensaio de Escola song is called, could you email me? It's just about my favorite instrument, but I've been unsuccessful when trying to google image "Brazilian instrument that goes 'hoo-a-ha-ha.'"
It's probably not going to sound like it, but this mix came from two places:
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There's this Stephen Crane poem I really like. Here it is:
I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. I was disturbed at this; I accosted the man. "It is futile," I said, "You can never — " "You lie," he cried, And ran on.
I think I like it for the wrong reason. I'm pretty sure that Stephen Crane is the "I" and that he doesn't approve (or want us to approve) of the runner's actions.
But, see, I like the runner. A lot.
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There's a scene in that Away Me Go movie where the wife asks, "Are we fuck ups?" And the husband says that they're not. But the scene ends with her saying, "I think we're fuck ups."
I kind of feel like a huge fuck up lately. Need to tend to that.
But you didn't need to know any of that. What you need to know is that this sounds good. Really!
Notes:
- Two absolutely huge favorites here: "Make it Betta" and "The Dawn of Understanding." The Angel made film music, I guess, and then a great album. The Long Goodbye were a one-off project featuring Melissa Farris from Tuscadero. I need to make a mix of the axis of awesome that was Melissa Farris, Margaret McCartney and Evelyn Hurley. Imma do that in the next two weeks.
- Noel Harrison's shade of pale is really, really white.
- I kinda wanted to upload that Bebe and Serge album, but I think it's still for sale. Worth getting.
- When I heard Nicole Atkins, I thought, "Do we really need someone else who sounds like Regina Spektor?" And then I thought, "Yep."
- What the hell is going on in that Spencer Davis Group song? Who's looking at whom? Who is "he"? Why's he looking at them? Am I dumb? I so don't get what's going on.
- Oh neat. The video for Big Stick's "Drag Racing":
Anyway, here's the list:
Side A 1. Co Real Artists - What About You (In The World Today) 2. The Angel - Make it Betta 3. The Tiffany Shade - Come Softly to Me 4. The Long Goodbye - Dawn Of Understanding 5. I Gres - Sweet Steel 6. Francesco De Gregori - Pablo 7. Big Stick - I Look Like Shit 8. Noel Harrison - A Whiter Shade of Pale 9. Some Russian Guy - Some Russian Song 10. Neil Young - Fuckin' Up 11. Bebe & Serge - Surfin' In Space 12. Ann Margaret - It's A Nice World To Visit (But Not To Live In) 13. Straw Dogs - Tie Your Mother Down
Side B 1. Nicole Atkins - Brooklyn's On Fire! 2. Lesley Gore - I Don't Wanna Be A Loser 3. Hazel - Mr. Magazine Man 4. Bakersfield Boogie Boys - Okie from Muskogee 5. Buzzcocks - I Dont Know What To Do With My Life 6. The Spencer Davis Group - Looking Back 7. Bullet LaVolta - Before I Fall 8. Kim Fowley - I Hate You 9. Deltron 3030 - Love Story 10. Kirk Douglas (I Think) - A Whale Of A Tale 11. The Impossibles - Sarika Ha Khu 12. Os Brazoes - Espiral 13. 50 Foot Wave - Petal 14. Lou Reed - Bottoming Out
Dig Mos Def, rockin' the Selda sample. Yeah! That whole album's great.
Wim Mertens is a crazy Belgian who sings in a language he made up. That track sums up where I'm at right now, in tone and title.
The metaphorical curtain is calling for me. I'm glad it's on its way up and not down, but it's still terrifying. I have to figure out what I'm going to do with my life and soon.
But. Until then, hopefully there'll be more of this:
Fair warning: the next two weeks are going to SUH-HUH-UCK school-wise, so expect either flakiness or a complete disappearance. I'll be back, though.
Anyway, here's the list:
Side A 1. Peter Thomas Sound Orchstera - Raumpatrouille 2. The Curbs - Pinball Junkie 3. Erma Franklin - I Dont Want No Mammas Boy 4. Joe "Fingers" Carr - Portugese Washerwomen 5. The Inner Thumb - Soul Ecstasy 6. Jonathan Fire Eater - When the Curtain Calls for You 7. Adjeef the Poet - Iekk!....I'm A Freak 8. Cookies - Don't Say Nothing Bad About My Baby 9. Cabaret Voltaire - Nag, Nag, Nag 10. Scott Baio - What Am I Suppossed To Do 11. Thee Headcoats - I'm An Idiot 12. Kamal Ahmed feat. Noor Jehan - I Am Very Sorry 13. Couch Flambeau - Dogshow
Side B 1. Bob Colbert - Tuning Up 2. She Trinity - He Fought The Law 3. White Flag - Shattered Badge 4. B.J. Ward - Keep It To Yourself 5. Mos Def - Supermagic 6. Steve Kuhn - Time To Go 7. Unknown - Yogi 8. Jimmy McGriff - Miss Poopie 9. Queen Esther - I Dont Want You To Hurt Me 10. Shellac - Spoke 11. Sisters of St. Francis with Lenny Rich - In Heaven There Is No Beer 12. Swell Maps - Let's Build a Car 13. Reg Tilsley - Sexy Sox 14. Slickers - Johnny Too Bad 15. The What Four - I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy 16. Wim Mertens - No Plans, No Projects
If you haven't visited Zen Running Order, it's a really nice place. Lots of folks who love music putting together great mixes.
They're having a mixathon and the theme is "Autobiography." So I got my self-absorption on and coughed this up. All of these songs were, at one time or another, really important.
You know what my favorite music video of all time is? This one:
Here's the list and some notes:
Side A 1. Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City (First album I bought) 2. Squirrel Bait - Kid Dynamite (Closest thing to a theme song) 3. Big Black - Kerosene (Wayward youth/nascent Albini obsession) 4. DRI - Couch Slouch (Doin' crimes) 5. Thelonious Monster - Yes Yes No (High school ended very very badly.) 6. The Pixies - Brick Is Red ("Oh hey, I can listen to something other than hardcore...") 7. Scrawl - Remember That Day (They've gotten me through so much, really) 8. LL Cool J - Kanday (Christy) 9. Nirvana - School (I need to start writing Lara) 10. Helios Creed - I'm Your Spaceman (The Union's jukebox) 11. The Fluid - Cold Outside ("After hours at my place.") 12. Madonna - Bad Girl (Laura) 13. Pavement - Summer Babe (Katie/Eric) 14. Unknown - Sehnsucht (Thanks for all of those letters and drawings.) 15. Unknown - Some Chinese Song That Rips Off The Stooges' "Dirt" (Taiwan was the best thing that ever happened) 16. The Cynics - Erica (Erica)
Side B 1. Tricky - Ponderosa (So many trips to Cleveland) 2. Codeine - New Year's (Jolie) 3. Royal Trux - Sewers of Mars (Grad school sucked...) 4. The Palace Brothers - I Tried to Stay Healthy for You (...but the music got better) 5. Silver Jews - Dallas (Dallas is a shithole) 6. Acetone - Wonderful World (Working at UW almost killed me) 7. Stereo Total - Holiday Innn (Driving to Vancouver on 9/11) 8. Madvillain - All Caps ("Oh hey. I like this.") 9. Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission (I lost so many years...) 10. The Mountain Goats - No Children (Thanks for trying to make me think it was all my fault) 11. McLusky - The World Loves Us and Is Our Bitch (Ok, let's light this up...) 12. The Blue Hearts - Linda Linda (Damn you, Marsha) 13. Knock Down Ginger - Fool (Same to you, Christine, with your $500 skirts and your Silly Strawberry) 14. Ananda Shankar - Jumpin' Jack Flash (I do often miss you) 15. Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 - Wichita Lineman (RIP Mom and Dad) 16. Cal Tjader - Gimme Shelter (I stop listening to new music) 17. Quickspace - Quickspace Happy Song #1 (Sorry for the repeat...it's really where my head is at right now)
Of course, this violates time constraints. Nostalgia > rules.
- Whenever I hear that Thee Michelle Gun Elephant song, I think they're singing "Sloe Gin, Baby." Which is stupid, because what they're actually singing is THE NAME OF THE SONG.
- "Lying" is a Martina Topley Bird cover from her [excellent] album Quixotic.
Side A 1. The Jimmy Stuarts - Transformers Theme 2. The Hombres - Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) 3. Plastilina Mosh - Niño Bomba 4. Nina Hynes - Swallow 5. DMZ - Mighty Idy 6. Rodriguez - Only Good For Conversation 7. Manu Dibango - The Panther 8. Caesar - Spain 9. Barbara and Ernie - Play With Fire 10. Jeannie C. Riley - Widow Jones 11. House of Large Sizes - Nocturnal 12. Curly Moore - Don't Pity Me 13. Hazel - Everybody's Best Friend 14. Titan Go Kings - Forever Idol
Side B 1. Toni Basil - Mickey (Spanish Version) 2. Nostalgic Progression - Just Another Crew Song 3. The Professionals - Theme From The Godfather 4. Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - Smokin´ Billy 5. The Twilight Singers - Lying 6. Eddie Bo - Check Your Bucket 7. Hugo Busoni - Controspionaggio 8. Cornelis Vreeswijk - Rio De Janeiro 9. Dana Gillespie - Taffy 10. Carolyn Mark - Edmonton 11. John Holt - Sister Big Stuff 12. Francis Cabrel - Tot Ou Tard S'En Aller
There's a gladness in my heart and it's tearing me apart.
List:
Side A 1. Quickspace - Quickspace Happy Song Number One 2. The Brood - Satisfyin' 3. Lulu - Love Loves To Love Love 4. Don Ho - E Lei Ka Lei Lei 5. Coffin Break - 6. Spacemen 3 - I Love You 7. Isabel Bond - Let's Find Out 8. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary 9. Barbara Manning and the Go-Luckys! - You Knock Me Out 10. Tricky - Makes Me Wanna Die 11. Sam Cooke - Cupid 12. The Dwarves - Let's Fuck 13. Leaky Chipmunk - Our Secret 14. Clawhammer - Pumping My Heart
Side B 1. Rod McKuen + The San Sebastian Strings - Gifts From The Sea 2. Sebadoh - Soulmate 3. Don Fardon - I'm Alive 4. Devo - Girl U Want 5. Big Stick - I'm Amazed 6. Isaac Hayes - Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic 7. Unrest - West Coast Love Affair 8. The Matchmakers - Thank You Baby 9. Rob Base - It Takes Two 10. The Flaming Lips - Be My Head 11. Thelonious Monster - Happy #12&35 12. Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus
And when I was making this, I think I was filing it under the vague heading: "Dating sucks."
But you know what? Dating doesn't suck. One good trial obliterates all errors.
So. When I made this, I didn't have any soul. But today I'm full to bursting with soul.
Next week's entry is likely to be a lot more joyful.
But this one's isn't bad.
Erika Wennerstrom has the most amazing voice.
Never underestimate Cincinnati, yo.
Tracks:
Side A 1. Senor Soul - I Ain't Got No Soul Today 2. Yo La Tengo - Emulsified 3. The Dandy Warhols - Minnesoter 4. The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Congo 5. LI Xiang Lan - Plum Blossom 6. Prolapse - Killing The Bland 7. White Hinterland - Dreaming of the Plum Trees 8. Tullio De Piscopo - Medium Rock 9. Spanky And Our Gang - Like To Get To Know You 10. Simon Turner - Shoeshine Boy 11. The Count Five - Peace of Mind 12. Hall and Oates - Lady Rain 13. Heartless Bastards - Be So Happy
Side B 1. Laurie Anderson - Smoke Rings 2. Jacques Dutronc - On Nous Cache Tout, On Nous 3. Roy Harper - Male Chauvinist Pig Blues 4. Gilberto Cruz - Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants) 5. Francoise Hardy - Catch A Falling Star 6. Ruby Andrews - Tit for Tat 7. Michael Stipe & Rain Phoenix - Happiness 8. Ian Hunter - All Of The Good Ones Are Taken 9. Lesley Gore - 98.6/Lazy Day 10. The Stuarts - Just A Little Bit More 11. The Scorpions - Worrying Kind 12. The Lennon Sisters - Green Tambourine 13. Mick Farren - Son of a Millionaire 14. The Viking Moses! - Providence
Oh. Hey. Christine? If you ever find this? I hate you. Seriously.
That said, this mix turned out pretty well! There's actually new stuff in here. Occasioned by the latest issue of The Big Takeover, which is my favorite place to read about music. Jack Rabid's kind of a windbag [pot...kettle-ed.], but his heart's in the right place. And the reviews section is pretty much the size of the yellow pages. They uncover seriously cool stuff. Screw Pitchfork. Get that magazine.
What else to say? Well, the new Dinosaur doesn't suck which was a pleasant surprise. And I know that Magik Markers isn't a crowd pleaser, but it made me wistful for all the terrible things on Homestead in the late 80's. Like Jad Fair or something. If you bail there, though, you're going to miss Plunt. You don't want to miss Plunt. No, no.
And what's with all the Sparklemouse Dangerhorse lately? I never would picture them being friends.
I'm not complaining.
Here's the list:
Side A 1. Morphine - Scratch 2. Archie Shepp - Attica Blues 3. Japandroids - Sovereignty 4. Dana Gillespie - Like I'm A Clown 5. Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw 6. Hitch - Carbon Wheels 7. Impacto Cinco - Viver Triste 8. Seaweed - Foggy Eyes 9. Kinetic Stereokids - Free Money 10. The Lord Executor - We Mourn the Loss of Sir Murchison Fletcher 11. Dinosaur Jr - Friends 12. Joker's Daughter - Bouncing Liquorish Bears 13. Pop Five Music Incorporated - Fire 14. Otis Clay - Pouring Water On A Drowning Man
Side B 1. Parts & Labor - Wedding In A Wasteland 2. Gene Marshall - Jimmy Carter Says Yes 3. Magik Markers - The Ballad Of Harry Andstrom 4. Los Shakers - Got Any Money 5. Thee Oh Sees - Ruby Go Home 6. Split Enz - One Step Ahead 7. Consonant - Buckets of Flowers, Porno Mags 8. Fire - My Father's Name Is Dad 9. Plunt - Boner 10. Mike Proctor - Mr. Commuter 11. Pavement - The Killing Moon 12. Love Is All - Untitled 13. 101 Strings - Taps For Fallen Brave
I feel like I'm getting more and more laconic on this thing. I guess I feel like writing about music is like fucking about dancing. For me. Others do it really well.
I'll just say that I didn't have high hopes for this one, but it turned around into all kinds of fun and I listened to it a lot. I hope you like it.
Highlights for me: that Randy Rice album is mindblowing...like eavesdropping on someone's therapy session set to music...and I'm going to link to it on the right hand side. And I realize Zoroaster won't be for everyone, but if it's for you? Get. That. Album. It's one of my favorite things from this year.
And, yes, that is Nancy Walker from the Bounty commercials.
Oh. Hey. I'm taking two weeks off from this thing. Partly because it's summer, and partly because I'm going to London. Please don't rob my apartment.
Here's the track list:
Side A 1. Noonday Underground - London 2. Palace Music - The Mountain Low 3. Monika Herz - Bimbo, Nimm Die Gitarre Und Sing 4. The Promise Ring - Make Me A Chevy 5. Randy Rice - Mrs. Bitch 6. Lafayette Afro-Rock Band - Darkest Light 7. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Look Around 8. Tweak Bird - Whorses 9. Midniters - I Found A Peanut 10. Dick Hyman and Mary Mayo - Desafinado 11. Mudhoney - Flat Out Fucked 12. Saxons - Things Have Been Bad 13. Daliah Lavi - Jerusalem 14. Zoroaster - Undying
Side B 1. The Chesterfield Kings - Street Fighting Man 2. Viva L'American Death Ray - Getting Better 3. Kyra Rubella And The Shanks - Orgasm Addict 4. Liberace - Teenager's Holiday 5. Chumbawamba - Tianamen Square 6. Nancy Walker - I Hate Men 7. Celibate Rifles - Bill Bonney Regrets 8. The Time And Space Machine - Amorous Ways 9. Andrea Carroll - Gee Dad 10. The Adverts - One Chord Wonders 11. Christopher Lee - The Streets Of Laredo 12. Brainiac - Flypaper 13. Can - Butterfly
When it gets like this outside, I just want to dive into the closest body of water.
I wish my neighbors had a pool. Instead of an 8-year-old who stands outside and screams all day.
Side A 1. The Turner Brothers - Let's Go Fishing 2. Screaming Blue Messiahs - Sweet Water Pools 3. Kristin Hersh - Cold Water Coming 4. The Standells - Dirty Water 5. The Distant Galaxy - Water Brother 6. Chemical People - Aquaman 7. Dire Straits - Water Of Love 8. David Arvedon - Buckets of Water 9. Dennis Coffey - Bridge Over Troubled Water 10. The Saints - River Deep Mountain High 11. The Ovations - Mr. River 12. Miaow - Thames at High Water 13. Low - Walk Into The Sea
Side B 1. White Hassle - Watertank 2. Serge Gainsbourg - Sea, Sex and Sun 3. Smog - The Well 4. The Weakerthans - Watermark 5. Jack McDuff - Cry Me a River 6. Takeshi Terauchi & the Bunnys - Dream In The Ocean 7. Melodians - Rivers Of Babylon 8. Yo La Tengo - Sea Cruise 9. Roscoe Holcomb - Boat's up the River 10. Tonettes - Teardrop Sea 11. Bitch Magnet - Sea of Pearls 12. Tangle Eye - Drowned
Oh. If you're from North Carolina, I should let you know that you'll be instructed to do the following during this mix: 1. Raise up. 2. Take your shirt off. 3. Twist it around your hand. 4. Spin it like a helicopter.
The rest of you can just listen to it like normal people. I liked it. You may. You may not.
Saide A 1. Jess & James with the J.J. Band - Don´t Let Me Be Misunderstood 2. Davie Allan and the Arrows - Make Love Not War 3. Ikara Colt - Rudd 4. Dirty Three - Better Go Home Now 5. Trea Dobbs - My Love 6. Sparklemouse? Dangerhorse? - Everytime I'm With You 7. Roger Roger - Safari Park 8. Davey Sands & The Essex - Advertising Girl 9. Ugly Casanova - Things I Don't Remember 10. Los Babys - Encuentros Cercanos 11. Petey Pablo - Raise Up 12. Songs: Ohia - Coxcomb Red 13. Redd Kross - Linda Blair 14. Tom Zé - Senhor Cidadão
Side B 1. Snatch - All I Want 2. Eileen Barton - If I Knew You Were Comin 3. Luna - Slash Your Tires 4. Hugo Busoni - Raid 5. The Takeoffs - Knock Down The Door 6. The Pebbles - Playing Chess 7. Bill Cosby - Stop, Look & Listen 8. Stacey Ames - Calendar Boy 9. Kelis - Bossy 10. Billy Paul - Your Song 11. Public Image Ltd. - Ease
Tracks: 1. Scrawl - I Need You 2. Lee Hazelwood - You Look Like a Lady 3. APB - Shoot You Down 4. Egg Hunt - Me And You 5. Gabba - Knowing Me Knowing You 6. Astrud Gilberto - You Didn't Have to be So Nice 7. Marva Whitney and James Brown - You Got To Have A Job 8. The Psychedelic Furs - We Love You 9. Roger Bonnette - The Hell With You 10. Judy Henske - I Know You, Rider 11. Highly Likely - Whatever Happened To You? 12. MF Doom - Who You Think I Am? 13. Uzeda - What I Meant When I Called Your Name 14. Marvin Gaye - You 15. The Palace Brothers - You Will Miss Me When I Burn
1. Doris - Did You Give The World Some Love Today, Baby? 2. The Lights - When You Smile 3. Ellie Greenwich - You Don't Know 4. Sweet - No You Don't 5. Stone Jazz - Miss You 6. Rocket From The Crypt (with Holly Golightly) - Eye On You 7. The Go-Gos - Turn To You 8. Consonant - Who Touches You Now? 9. Sanford Clark - Bad Case of You 10. Soulsavers - Ghosts Of You And Me 11. MC5 - Looking At You 12. Tara Angell - When You Find Me 13. Farah Fawcett and Jean Paul Vignon - You
Did you know that there was an HR Pufnstuff movie and that it had a soundtrack?
I didn't.
Oh anyway. I was really happy to see Obits are touring and my favorite local band The Lights are opening. You should see them if you can. Or just listen to them.
The rest of the mix was just supposed to be "fun." And it mostly is. "A Promise" isn't, but it was in my head all week. Wonder why.
Here's a tracklist:
Side A 1. Lil Mama Vs. Marnie Stern - Absorb The Lipgloss 2. The Lights - Mr. Pussy 3. Hoyt Axton - ABC (Put On) 4. Prototypes - Je Ne Te Connais Pas 5. The Lovedolls - Beer & Ludes 6. Faust - Flashback Caruso 7. Urge Overkill - (Now That's) the Barclords 8. Rabbits and Carrots - Express Yourself 9. Barbara Manning - Your Pies 10. Franco Micalizzi - Special Cop 11. Reaction - Life Is A Wheel
Side B 1. Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie 2. Violent Femmes - A Promise 3. The Rogers Sisters - Les Fantaisies Sont Bien 4. Carmen Villani - Brilla Bollo 5. Louis Hjulmand - War Dance (2nd Movement) 6. Connie Stevens - Little Kiss Is A Kiss Is A Kiss 7. Wanda de Sah - Sweet Happy Life 8. Volt - Testbild 9. Jack Wild, Billie Hayes, Martha Raye - Zap The World 10. Perrey & Kingsley - Barnyard in Orbit 11. Harvey Averne - 'stablishment 12. Spanky & Our Gang - Hong Kong Blues 13. Peter Thomas - Opium - Pinjah Poppy Juice (The Maxwell Implosion Remix)
I got this over the weekend and literally listened to it six times straight through because it's just nutty good except when it's bad and then it's even nuttier.
E.G. The sexiest song about the alphabet I've ever heard:
I love that he actually sings "If you want to love me you have to know your ABCs." Who exactly has he been dating? [Edit: Wikipedia says he's from Oklahoma. So. There you go.]
I also love when his voice gets all muppety and growlly. When he sings "ALLLLOOOOONNE" he makes the same noise my cat makes when she's about to puke.
Whole album is just as good.
Here's the list:
1. Never Gonna Work 2. Bring Your Lovin' 3. Tiger In The Closet 4. Red, White And Blue 5. L. A. Town 6. Heartbreak Hotel 7. Big Red 8. Look Down That Lonesome Road 9. I'll Be There 10. Double Dare 11. ABC (Put On) 12. Young Man 13. Greenback Dollar 14. Thunder 'N Lightin' 15. This Little Light 16. Trombone Cholly 17. Ox Driver's Song 18. Gambler's Blues 19. We'll Sing In The Sunshine 20. Five Hundred Miles 21. Grizzly Bear 22. Hoochie Coochie Man 23. They've Been On Their Jobs Too Long 24. Voodoo Blues
- German songs. (Probably occasioned by this guy's excellent postings.)
- The new Future of the Left about a billion times because it shreds. The only song I don't like is the first single, and it seems like a weird choice for a first single because it sounds nothing like anything else on the album. All the other songs are fairly skull crushing.
So. Put it all together and you get this mix.
Is it me, or does Dorthe look kind of psychotic?
Here's a tracklist:
Side A 1. Howard Carpendale - Du Hast Mich 2. Archie Bronson Outfit - Dead Funny 3. The Wombles - Invitation to the Ping-Pong Ball 4. Dorthe - Wärst Du Doch In Düsseldorf Geblieben 5. Die Ärzte - 12XU 6. David Bowie - Helden 7. Marianne Mendt - Wie A Glock'n... 8. Elly & Rikkert - Draad van Ariadne 9. Sandie Shaw - Puppet on a String 10. Big Business - O.G. 11. Baccara - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie 12. Jason Molina - Honey, Watch Your Ass
Side B 1. The Mountain Goats and John Vanderslice - Surrounded 2. Klaus Doldinger - Frei Mit Boots 3. The Trip - Little Janie 4. Future Of The Left - Yin/Post-Yin 5. Martin Böttcher - Ich Schlafe Mit Meinem Mörder 6. Luisa Fernandez - Lay Love On You 7. Chet Baker - I Get Along Without You Very Well 8. Bellrays - Changing Colors 9. Peggy Sue - All American Husband 10. Manfred Krug - Wenn Der Urlaub Kommt 11. Lale Andersen - Ein Schiff Wird Kommen 12. Franco Godi - Viva Happiness 13. Dadamah - High Tension House
Sometimes alcohol + internet = awesome. I woke up one morning to find a folder on my desktop and it contained 90 minutes of 60's radio promo spots. I have no recollection from where they came. So I either blacked out or I have the BEST COMPUTER VIRUS EVER.
Here's an example. The Rolling Stones shilling for Rice Krispies:
So anyway, I tossed some of my favorites into a mix that needed some help and it turned out to be just the thing and I enjoyed listening to it a few times and hope you feel the same way.
And hey. No bailing on "Diana." I know it gets off to a rocky start, but it errupts into this great chorus and I swear that thing gets stuck in my head for days on end.
Here's the track list:
Side A 1. The Who - US Air Force Spot 2. Stan Boreson and Doug Setterberg - Everybody's Talkin' 3. Sir Douglas Quintet - Sixty Minutes Of Your Love 4. The Velvet Underground - 3rd LP Spot 5. The Velvet Underground - Temptation Inside Your Heart 6. Sherbet - Coke Spot 7. Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand The Rain 8. Nina Hagen - Universal Radio 9. The Rolling Stones - Rice Crispies Spot 10. Fabulous Flee-Rakkers - Summertime 11. Roland Alphonso - Hop Special (Whiter Shade Of Pale) 12. Vanilla Fudge - Coke Spot 13. Comus - Diana 14. Herb Alpert - Diet Pepsi Spot 15. Obits - Lillies In The Street 16. Vox Dei - No Es Por Falta De Suerte 17. John Leyton - Three Cute Chicks 18. 13th Floor Elevators - Bull Of The Woods Spot 19. 13th Floor Elevators - Dr. Doom
Side B 1. Iron Butterfly - Ban Roll-On Spot 2. Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda 3. Roy Wood - Songs Of Praise 4. Hater - Circles 5. Jefferson Airplane - Levis Spot 6. Ian & Sylvia - You Were On My Mind 7. Bill Lawrence - Pussy Baby 8. Cream - Fallstaff Beer Spot 9. PJ Harvey - Pocket Knife 10. Neil Diamond - Coke Spot 11. Lloyd Charmers & The Hippy Boys - Look-ka-py-py 12. Josh Macrea - Messing About On The River 13. Quicksilver - Chevy Camaro Spot 14. France Gall - J'ai Retrouve Mon Chien 15. Lulu - Gentle Care Hair Spot 16. Joey Heatherton - Live and Learn 17. Star Anna & The Laughing Dogs - Spinning My Wheels 18. Love Generation - Hormel Hot Dogs Spot
I used to work across the street from this really shitty record store. It's dangerous for me to be that close to one every day, because I always end up pumping a ton of cash into any record store, no matter how shitty. Because I'm an idiot.
The one good thing about this store was that the owner would sell these "imports" that were actually just bootlegs he was burning en masse. I bought this one and it had a wicked skip and I took it back and he was, like, "Oh. Uh. We may be getting another copy in...uh...tomorrow. Sorry. You never know what you're going to get with these 'imports.'" Sure dude. Whatever.
But it's a decent live performance from Glastonbury circa '95. Includes some radio recordings as well.
Here's the tracklist.
1. Meet Ze Monsta 2. Working For The Man 3. My Naked Cousin 4. Telco 5. C'Mon Billy 6. Hook 7. Long Snake Moan 8. Me Jane 9. 50 Ft. Queenie 10. Goodnight 11. Walking On The Moon 12. C'Mon Billy (acoustic) 13. The Dancer (acoustic) 14. Harder 15. Long Time Coming 16. Send His Love To Me 17. Down By The Water
This seemed like a good idea at the time, but, re-listening to it, I'm not so sure.
I am sure that this Tullycraft video is fun, though.
Anyway, here's the tracklist:
Side A 1. Spacemen 3 - Mary Ann 2. Unrest - Cath Carroll 3. Lee Hazlewood - Kari 4. The Damned - Melody Lee 5. The Quests - Jesamine 6. Slint - Carol 7. Tullycraft - Josie 8. Helium - Lucy 9. EPMD - Jane 10. The Wildebeests - Lucinda 11. Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - The Redhead Kelly 12. Redd Kross - Ann
Side B 1. Honor Role - Listening To Sally 2. Prisonshake - Molly London 3. Big Star - O, Dana 4. T. Valentine - Betty Sue 5. Crooked Fingers - Juliette 6. Patti Smith - Kimberly 7. Sebadoh - Kath 8. The Mummies - Justine 9. Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Molly 10. The Cynics - Erica 11. Marvin Gaye - Poor Abbey Walsh 12. The Beat-Berrys - Carol 13. The Rolling Stones - Miss Amanda Jones 14. Descendents - Wendy 15. Sleater-Kinney - Jenny
Surprisingly crisp bootleg of live material from '76 and '79.
You can listen to Kimberly now, but you're just going to hear it again in two days anyway...
Here's the tracklist:
1. Horses/Hey Joe 2. Because The Night 3. 25th Floor 4. We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together 5. Privilege 6. Ain't It Strange? 7. Kimberly 8. Free Money 9. Pumping My Heart 10. Time Is On My Side 11. Free Money 12. The Boy I'm Going To Marry 13. Ask The Angels 14. High Over The Hills/Radio Ethiopia 15. White Christmas
It's weird that two of their best songs never made it to any album. This was released on Bob Mould's "Singles Only Label" and it neatly encapsulates everything that made Scrawl so Scrawlingly good. "Misery" is a mewly mess and it makes me want to hug Marcy Mays. (Actually, I always kind of want to hug Marcy Mays).
And "Just Plain Bad" actually makes me bang my head like a dumbass during the bridge. Listen:
Back to randomness. Highlights: bluegrass Modest Mouse cover, Dutch folk with kazoo, angsty anthem to salted pork, Alley Oop on a handful of Vicodin, Bill Callahan being creepy, and the best song about the apocalypse ever.
There's nothing else to say really. Here's the tracklist:
Side A 1. Iron Horse - Dark Center 2. Add N To (X) - Metal Fingers In My Body 3. The Garnets - Indian Uprising 4. Elly & Rikkert - Kauwgomballenboom 5. Obits - Pine On 6. King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew 7. Death Of Samantha - Roses Rejoice 8. Buck Owens - I've Got A Tiger By The Tail 9. Sonic Youth - Sunday 10. Tallulah - Bacon 11. Kristin Hersh - Vertigo (Live)
Side B 1. Friar Tuck - Alley Oop 2. Simple Minds - Up On The Catwalk 3. Joan Jett And The Blackhearts - The French Song 4. Mad Curry - Beauty 5. Rikkert Zuiderveld - Vreemde Vogel 6. Lambchop - Your Fucking Sunny Day 7. Kakkahätä-77 - Go-Go 8. The Mountain Goats & Kaki King - Black Pear Tree 9. The Super Eagles - Love's a Real Thing 10. Janeen Brady & The Brite Singers - I'm A Mormon 11. Kaleidoscope - Lie To Me 12. Bill Callahan - My Friend 13. Hazel O'Connor - The Eighth Day
I'm really happy that the most downloaded album from this site is this one. The fact that this band didn't make it is a total head scratcher.
Here's their follow-up. It's a collection of demos, outtakes, and live stuff. So it's a way different experience than the studio effort. Muted and muddy and in some ways more personal. Long, compelling instrumentals and great covers. Just a perfect album. These people never wasted a note.
Huh. It's weird to me that these guys aren't getting more internet love. To me, they really stood out from the herd of 80's punks. They were raw and speedy, but the singing and lyrics were a lot more emotive than most. Not quite emo [thank God] but I think stuff like this [unfortunately] paved the way. Some tasty bass licks, too.
Did I just say "tasty bass licks?" I should stop typing right now.
- 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.
