It’s done … finally!
Totally, Dudes! can be yours for the low low price of FREE. An updated, expanded version of Ladies of the Eighties will follow soon. And who knows, maybe I’ll even include a booster pack of ’80s duets, combining the men with the women-folk?
A new mix, just for you and yours.
“I Had Lost My Mind”
00:00 Daniel Johnston — “I Had Lost My Mind”
01:10 Dick Hyman — “Strobo”
02:41 Gary Glitter — “I Didn’t Know I Loved You”
05:58 Kim Wilde — “Cambodia”
09:45 Miike Snow — “Animal”
14:05 Mtume — “Juicy Fruit”
17:44 Lee Fields & The Expressions — “My World Is Empty Without You”
21:41 The Sound Offs — “The Angry Desert”
24:00 The Jelly Bean Bandits — “Generation”
26:54 The Staple Singers — “I Had a Dream”
29:43 The Almighty Defenders — “Cone of Light”
32:58 Warren Zevon — “Excitable Boy”
35:28 Bill Fox — “I’ll Give It Away”
38:47 Chris Knox — “It’s Love”
41:20 Music Go Music — “Light of Love”
46:28 Roky Erickson — “Nothing in Return”
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About 8 months ago I began work on a mix that I’m finally releasing to the public. Titled “Foreign Substance,” it is a compilation of global psychedelia stitched together with found-sound drug references — hence the double entendre — that I’m rather proud of. I hope you enjoy it.
Here’s the track list:
01 Psychoactive Substances
Serge Gainsbourg, “Melody” (France, 1971)
Blues Section, “Cherry Cup-Cake Twist” (Sweden, 1968)
Embryo, “The Music of Today” (Germany, 1975)
02 Very Few People Have Heard Marijuana
Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier, “Psyché Rock” (France, 1967)
Improved Sound, LTD., “Leave This Lesbian World” (Germany, 1969)
Terry Jacks, “The Love Game” (Canada, 1974)
03 A Voice in the Head
Bjorn Olsson, “Visionen Vecklar Ut Sitt Landskap” (Sweden, 1999)
Bran, “Y Gwylwyr” (Wales, 1975)
Yura Yura Teikoku, “Soft Death” (Japan, 2005)
04 Go Out of Your Mind
Hemant Bhosle feat. Asha Bhosle, “Phir Teri Yaad” (India, 1970s)
The Apryl Fool, “The Lost Mother Land (Pt. 2)” (Japan, 1969)
Los Holy’s, “Holys Psicodélicos” (Peru, 1967)
05 If Tim Leary Were Here
Kraftwerk, “Klingklang” (Germany, 1972)
Robert Wyatt, “Heaps of Sheeps” (United Kingdom, 1997)
Brigitte Fontaine & Areski, “L’engourdie” (France, 1974)
06 There Wasn’t Anything Close to It
Pugh Rogefeldt, Har Kommer Natten (Sweden, 1969)
Illes, Nem Erdekel Amit Mondsz (Hungary, 1973)
Los Dug Dug’s, “Smog” (Mexico, 1972)
07 The Effects of Grass
Barıs Manço, “Coban Yildizi” (Turkey, 1979)
Cluster & Eno, “Fur Luise” (Germany, United Kingdom, 1977)
Arthur Brown, “I Put a Spell on You” (United Kingdom, 1968)
08 Discovering Fire for the Second Time
Caetano Veloso, “Asa Branca” (Brazil, 1972)
Here’s a mix featuring several newish releases. Enjoy!
Kurt Vile – “Freeway”
Wooden Shjips – “For So Long”
Papercuts – “Future Primitive”
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – “Without Word, You Have Nothing”
Animal Collective – “No More Runnin'”
Bill Callahan – “All Thoughts Are Prey To Some Beast”
Dan Deacon – “Snookered”
Arthur Russell – “Habit Of You”
Woods – “To Clean”
The War On Drugs – “Taking The Farm”
Without a job to wake up for, I stay up until two in the morning, slip on the comfortable pair of headphones, peruse the ass end of my iTunes catalog (Ys, Zs, and numeral bands), and get to work.
00:00 Introduction
00:19 3’s a Crowd — “I Don’t Wanna Drive You Away” (excerpt)
01:42 Zoo — “Hard Times, Good Times”
05:03 Yo La Tengo — “False Ending”
05:49 Young-Holt Trio — “Wack Wack”
08:44 Young Jacques — “Jacques Cousteau”
11:05 The 6ths — “Falling out of Love with You”
13:47 Yoko Ono — “I Felt Like Smashing My Face in a Clear Glass Window”
17:46 Yuya Uchida & The Flowers — “Combination of the Two” (excerpt)
20:59 Yabby U — “Version Dub”
23:29 24-Carat Black — “Poverty’s Paradise” (excerpt)
25:30 6ix — “I’m Just Like You”
28:07 The Yellow Jackets — “So What”
30:48 The Yardbirds — “Hot House of Omagararshid”
33:23 The 5th Dimension — “Let the Sunshine In (Reprise)”
ORGANS!, the long-awaited (by me anyway) follow up to last year’s smashing success, HORNS!, is ready to hit the shelves. If you’d like a copy, leave me a comment.
01 Introduction
02 Memphis Black: Why Don’t You Play the Organ, Man?
03 ? and the Mysterians: 96 Tears
04 Elvis Costello & the Attractions: The Imposter
05 The Small Faces: What’cha Gonna Do About It?
06 The Clean: Tally Ho!
07 Kim Fowley: Bubblegum
08 The Cyrkle: Red Rubber Ball
09 Adrienne Posta: Something Beautiful
10 Beefeaters: Hey Little Girl
11 Jonathan Fire Eater: Give Me Daughters
12 The Crazy World of Arthur Brown: I Put a Spell on You
13 Yo La Tengo: Sudden Organ
14 Blues Magoos: (We Ain’t Got) Nothing Yet
15 Status Quo: Green Tambourine
16 Mouse & the Traps: Cryin’ Inside
17 Clinic: Distortions
18 Rocketship: I Love You the Way I Used to Do
19 Camera Obscura: If Looks Could Kill
20 Adventures in Stereo: Down in the Traffic
21 Chubby Checker: Stoned in the Bathroom
22 Elfstone: Louisiana Teardrops
23 The Artwoods: One More Heartache
24 The Modern Lovers: Old World
25 The Lyres: She Pays the Rent
26 XTC: Are You Receiving Me?
27 The Galaxies IV: Piccadilly Circus
Filed under: cold blooded old times, compilations, music | Tags: garage rock
The Druids of Stonehenge — do they make the cut?
Ever since my freshman year of high school I’ve been on a quest to create my own personal “best of rock” compilation. My first attempt came on the heels of inheriting my older brothers’ record collections, which meant I finally had access to the catalogs of The Police, Dire Straits, and Led Zep. In response to what at the time seemed like a somewhat comprehensive influx of rock music into my collection, I tried to compile a list of the Top 500 All-Time Rock Songs, a concept that is utterly silly for even the Christgaus of the world. I had to have a recorded version of this list, which meant that I had to of course own the songs I was selecting. That meant an awkward, incredibly limited hodgepodge of mainstream rock crap, from then-current radio staples like Extreme and Bon Jovi to AC/DC, from old Aerosmith to “new” Aerosmith. Luckily, time has swallowed both the list and the 15 or so cassette tapes that made up the compilation. But time has not taken away my desire to chronicle my tastes.
Nowadays that urge manifests itself in fun, sometimes clever compilations (like the Songs About Girls 3CD mix) or end-of-the-year Best of CDs. But as of late I’ve been kicking the tires on another overwhelmingly ambitious project, a 100-song, four CD mix of my personal fave “garage rock” songs from pre-1970. I haven’t actually began to seriously research the mix, but I’m certain that it would be much more significant than a combination of the two Nuggets boxes. Otherwise, what would be the point?
While the comp would no doubt frustrate me to no end, it would nonetheless be a challenging project that I’m sure would feel dated to me the minute I completed it (hopefully far less so than the Top 500 comp of 18 years ago, though; just a year after compiling that list I discovered the Chili Peppers and my world tilted on its axis). The frustrations for the garage rock comp would come as a result of being limited to just 100 songs. To most, I’m sure that seems like a lot of room to maneuver, but I’ve got so many records that feature garage rock from around the globe — not to mention like 20 volumes of the Rubble series and countless other garage series comps — that I could easily do a USA and non-USA Top 100 (a la the Nuggets model). I don’t want to do that, however; I want to force myself to make stupid decisions, to narrow down my favorite Druids of Stonehenge songs from three to the one that could make the cut, or to mandate that no more than three Kinks songs can make the list. Then, after deciding which 100 songs cut the rug, I’d have to actually order them 100 down to 1. That process on its own could take me a month.
My question to you is, “Am I crazy?” Would you actually listen to a 100-song comp of my fave garage rockers? I mean, do you even ever listen to Nuggets, assuming you own it? And does it sound largely obvious and deficient to you, as it does to me? Give me some direction here folks.
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