I'm glad I got a couple responses to last week's rant about Pitchfork. If you feel the same way about them, I suggest checking out Daytrotter . They're similar to Pitchfork, but their reviewers don't walk on hipster horses that judge you if you happen to like a single that is in the Top 40. On to the rock. John Lydon - The Rabbit Song Yes, more John Lydon. I don't care if I've already posted tracks by The Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd. and Time Zone, I [...]
Okay, first a rant, then the tunes: In regards to Pitchfork Media's review of Jet's latest album ... Wow guys, what an awesome burn! Way to find a video that everyone else saw in 1997 and use that as a form of insightful and informative criticism! You hipster kids sure are cool! When the idea for this little gem of a review was thought up did you guys nearly jump out of your purposely worn-down canvas shoes and ironic t-shirts to give half-mocking/half-serious high-fives to each other? Did you guys actually know it [...]
I have a Statcounter on my site that only I can view - mostly because I don't want anyone else to know how few visitors I have - and I'm constantly amazed at the variety of people I get here. While most of you are in the US, it seems that quite a few of you are in Canada (as far north as the Yukon!) Ireland, England, Norway, Lithuania, Croatia, Kuwait, Japan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Brazil and Australia. Its nice to see my unique message of obscure 80s music [...]
People keep telling me I'm angry, and I usually tell them to fuck off. But they may have a point. Here are some selections from some of my older postings: September 18th: "...the record industry is run by batshit crazy jackasses." August 31st: "Sting Is A Pussy" This entire post July 7th: "(Dashboard Confessional are) dickless emo fuckers." Meh. Whatever, being nice happy is totally overrated. Originality is highly overrated too, so all the songs on [...]
I pride myself on posting a wide variety of music, but I think this is the weirdest selection of shit I ever put up. Also, that image is from Musicstack , a pretty good site if you are looking for some rare vinyl. Wolfmother - The Earth's Rotation Around the Sun I saw these guys live a few days ago and sweet holy Jeebus do they bring the rock. A lot of people describe them as an updated Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath, but with this b-side they're are obviously [...]
Every now and then I find an album so odd and so amazingly bizarre that makes me happy I still own a record player. Dick Hyman's Moog was one, the Urgh! soundtrack was definitely one, and so is Music From Mathematics . This incredible recording is an amazing piece of musical (and technological) history. This album came out in 1962, and if it wasn't the first 'electronic' album ever to be released, it was damn near close. Made by two electric engineers that worked in Bell Labs computing department, they created it under [...]
Run - Praise My DJs (Washington Remix) You know how when you're a kid and you scribble some lines down on a piece of paper and you show your mom and she's like "Wow honey that's really...interesting?" Well, I'm a huge fan of Run from Run-DMC and this dance track by him and his wife Justine is really...interesting. I picked this up off of a two LP set, that featured six remixes of the song - this is the only one that was close to being good. Sugababes - Round [...]
Pete Townshend - We Won't Get Fooled Again (Live) This is the B-side to 'Face The Face' a relatively boring Pete Townshend solo track. What's really cool is that this live version features David Gilmour on guitars, making this his second guest appearance at The Lost Turntable in one week. Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran (Live) The band with the best hair of all time - that's all I gotta say. The Sugarcubes - Motorcrash (Live) I wonder what happened to that annoying [...]
Someone pointed out to me that the MP3 of 'The Puppet' from The Urgh! Soundtrack was gone. It's back now . I don't know what happened, maybe it hopped away. I'll have a real update later tonight/early Friday.
In celebration of Lucas finally getting off of his bearded ass and releasing the original version of the Star Wars Trilogy on DVD, I present these classic Star Wars-inspired songs. If you want to hear more crazy Star Wars music, buy anything by Meco . All of these have some tiny skips in them - but I'm not picking these because of their audio quality, I'm picking them because they are a lot of fun. (Also, I'm not claiming that I created that image on the right, but I do know it's the greatest fucking [...]
Duran Duran - Save A Prayer It's weird how I managed to stumble upon all three Secret Policeman's Ball records in the course of a couple of weeks. These amazing concerts (which were charity events for Amnesty International ) featured some amazing performances from Eric Clapton, Sting, Bob Geldof and Pete Townshend. The third one was probably the most pop-friendly of the bunch, featuring tracks by Erasure, Nik Kershaw and other 80s pop stars. 80s pop stars don't get much bigger than Duran Duran of course and this slow acoustic version of one of their best songs [...]
Garyn Numan - Radio Heart This is a real oddity. The song was only available on a single, which was credited to 'Radio Heart featuring Gary Numan.' From what I all intensive purposes this is a Gary Numan track, and the name trickery might have been an attempt to counter Numan's decreasing popularity at the time. The song is alright, but is not one of Numan's best. Granati Brothers - Go Crazy (Live) Another live track from the Propaganda (previously mentioned here ) compilation album. I never heard of these [...]
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ZZ Top - Sleeping Bag When I was a kid I totally loved ZZ Top. Looking back, their combination of synth-pop and blues probably served as a gateway drug from 80s pop music to 70s classic rock. This remix of Sleeping Bag is more of the former than the later, but its still fun (and that cover is really something else.) Now if I could just find an extended remix of "Pearl Necklace" I'd be set. New Edition (Muzak) - Funky Town I bought an album [...]
Here She Comes - Bonnie Tyler In what has to be one of the most colossally stupid and needless ideas in the history of all things, the silent sci-fi classic Metropolis was re-released in theatres in the 80s with new color tinting and an amazingly 80s soundtrack with songs by Billy Squier, Loverboy, Freddie Mercury and this power-ballad by Bonnie 'Total Eclipse Of The Heart' Tyler. I like 80s music, and I like Fritz Lang movies, but some things just don't belong together. I shudder to think what might have happened [...]
A while ago I posted the entire Urgh! soundtrack. I know people sell bootlegs of that soundtrack for insane amounts on eBay and shit, so those MP3s will only go away if I get a cease and desist letter. Go get them if you want them. Also, in case you are wondering, I got that amazingly bizarre scan from this amazingly bizarre site ) Side One (One More Song from Side One) Side Two Side Three Side Four [...]
In case you haven't noticed, I've been upping the number of posts I do here. I have a feeling my complete lack of posting had me loose a large portion of my audience. So if you're still reading this stuff and digging the tunes let me know, and maybe shoot me some recommendations too! White Stripes - You've Been Striped I picked this up at The Leech Pit, and I know nothing about it. It's a remix of 'Seven Nation Army' done up all techno and big-beat. For some reason [...]
Public Image Ltd. - Commercial Zone When someone leaves a band over 'creative differences' the fans usually don't get to find out why, but that wasn't the case with Keith Levene and PiL. When he quit the band in he took what they recorded with him. So when John Lydon and the rest of the band re-recorded much of it and released it as This Is What You Want...This Is What You Get he went ahead and put out his version of it, and called it Commercial Zone . It's technically a bootleg and [...]
B.A.D. C'mon Every Beatbox (Extended Vocal Version) Beatbox's At Dawn It's a scientific fact that Mick Jones is the coolest motherfucker ever to sport a Stetson hat. Big Audio Dynamite (or B.A.D.) was his band that followed The Clash and was one of the first rock acts to fully embrace dance beats and extensive sampling, which are both evident and this extended mix of one of their best songs. The B-Side, 'Beatbox's At Dawn' is a remix of that song. Terry Reid [...]
Snakes On A Plane is awesome. Go see it. Now on to the music. Alphaville Forever Young (Extended Mix) Big In Japan (Extended Vocal Remix '88) Two synth-pop classics. There's nothing I can say about these songs that hasn't already been said. I feel the same way about Forever Young that I do about George Clinton's 'Atomic Dog', I could listen to it forever. These are taken [...]
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