Public Image Ltd. - Commercial Zone (complete album download) In 1983, Keith Levene and Pete Jones left Public Image Ltd. Considering the events that followed, it can be assumed that the split was not a clean one. When Keith left the band, he didn't leave empty handed. He took with him the master tapes to their yet-unreleased follow-up to The Flowers of Romance . As if that act of sabotage wasn't enough, he then mixed and mastered the recordings on his own and put the album out under the title Commercial Zone. [...]
Lost Turntable news! The long-awaited, incredibly-overdue, far-too-complex, incredibly-well-written Lost Turntable Guide To Recording Vinyl will be published here within one week's time! Now, that doesn't mean this week, that means a week from today (Wednesday). I mean it. It's actually almost done. I'm just polishing up the rough edges and adding in screencaps/photos. It's turned into a damn epic, well over 4,000 words, and I'm going to have to split it up into multiple parts (which will all be published simultaneously). I really hope it doesn't suck. Anyways, time I got something off my [...]
I'm on Instagram now! I don't know how to link to my Instragram account from here, but if you follow me on Twitter you'll get my Instragram updates. So now instead of me just talking about what I'm listening to on Twitter, you can SEE what I'm listening to on Instragram! Sure, it's kind of pointless and stupid, but most fun things are, so don't complain. Moby Porcelain (Clubbed To Death Version by Rob Dougan) Porcelain (Futureshock Remix) Porcelain (Futureshock Instrumental) [...]
Congratulations North Carolina! You passed an amendment to ban gay marriage, making it the second amendment in your state to limit marriage rights. In case you were wondering, the first was in the 187s0, when you banned interracial marriage. I don't know about you, but news like that makes me want to dance to some incredibly gay disco as an act of defiance. I hope this post can serve as a soundtrack to a giant gay dance party in North Carolina, preferably one outside a church run by closet-case homophobes who all secretly want to drop the bibles and vamp [...]
The History Mix Volume 1 has to be one of the weirdest albums of the 80s. There are multitudes to its weirdness that extend past the content of the record and into the nature of its release. But first some background, The History Mix Volume 1 is an album by Godley & Creme, who were in the first incarnation of the 70s group 10cc. They left the band after their fourth album to continue as a duo. They never really achieved anything close to mainstream success in the 70s, and I really can't tell you [...]
Beastie Boys Rock Hard Alive At Youch's House fuck
Today sucked. Seriously. There was a bunch of stuff I don't even want to get into, and then there's this stupid cold or I-don't-even-know-what that I've had for like two and a half weeks now. First it was a flu with a fever; then it was a regular cold with congestion; then it turned into a hellacious cough that literally kept me up for hours in bed. Now the back of my tongue hurts. Not my mouth, not my throat, my tongue. Really? What the hell? You know what you get if you Google "tongue pain?" CANCER. [...]
I'm a journalist (at least I try to be), so allow me to drop a journalism term on you: Advetorial content. An advertorial is a paid advertisement that tries to come off like editorial content. You'll sometimes see them in magazines, they're the multi-page ads that look like articles but have the word "advertisement" in tiny print a the bottom of the page. Advetorials are deceptive by design, and if you ask me, more than a little bit evil. They're not made to be intriguing or thought-provoking content designed, they serve no other purpose than to drum up [...]
When I was a little kid, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka was one of my favorite movies of all-time. That's right, the R-rated spoof of blaxploitation films was the favorite movie of nine-year-old me. Allow me to explain how something like this happens. My father opened a video store in 1983, when I was just four years old. For much of the 80s my parents were divorced, and it came time for me to visit my dad I would spend much of the dayin the store watching movies, from when I got [...]
Tony Banks is the keyboardist for Genesis, and being a keyboardist in a rock band is usually a pretty thankless job. No matter how good their licks may be, most fans, members of the media, and groupies are more interested in the singer, guitarist, drummer and even the bass player than the keyboardist. That's because, quite frankly, there's no way anyone can make playing the keyboards look cool. But back in the 70s and 80s Banks probably had it even rougher than most keyboardists when it came to making a name for himself. First Peter Gabriel leaves the [...]
Allow me to present a hypothetical situation: Say you're a Flaming Lips fan. For months you've heard about this crazy Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends album that features collaborations from everyone from Chris Martin and Bon Iver to Prefuse 73 and Ke$ha. You want it badly. It's announced that the album will be a Record Store Day exclusive. You get to your local record store an hour before they open and find that there's already a line around the block. You wait regardless. When you finally make your way inside the store you find out that they [...]
Musics below. Peter Schilling Major Tom (Coming Home) (Special Extended Version) Major Tom (Coming Home) (Instrumental Version) In the 70s and 80s Italian exploitation filmmakers had a habit of making unofficial sequels to established, popular films. Dawn Of The Dead (known as Zombi in Europe) begat Zombi 2 . The Australian film Patrick , inspired a completely unrelated piece of crap called Patrick Still Lives . The Italians also made rip-off wanna-be sequels to Evil Dead II ( La [...]
I think I'm nearly almost done with the damn guide. Hopefully I'll have it up in a week or two! It's kind of become a monster. I don't know what happened. In completely unrelated news, I got bored tonight and decided to see which of my Sega CD/Sega Saturn games had audio tracks I could rip. Turns out, most of them did. Would anyone be interested in me posting music from such classics as Sonic CD, Panzer Dragoon and Vitura Fighter 2? How about from such not-so-much classics like Golden Axe: The Duel and Virtual On? Are they [...]
Rare daytime post! Art Of Noise Art Of Love (Extended Mix) Ambience Of Love Heart Of Love So how the hell didn't I know about this? In 1990, Art Of Noise released "The Ambient Collection." As its name suggests, it is a collection of Art Of Noise tunes reworked as a continuous ambient mix. That alone sounds pretty rad. What makes it even more rad (I'm totally bringing "rad" back, by the way) is that the [...]
My April curse is in full effect already. Sure, I haven't been robbed at gunpoint; broken a leg; gotten a strep infection; been fired; broken a rib; had my parents split up; or have my car break down (all things that have happened to me in past Aprils), but shit ain't getting off to a good start.Hopefully I can use the power of 80s pop music to scare away the bad vibes. Cyndi Lauper Money Changes Everything (This Version) Money Changes Everything (That Version) Oh Cyndi, [...]
I wanted to write something kind of awesome tonight but technology stopped that from happening. Instead, here's something I cobbled together in five minutes. Whatever, I'm sure more people will enjoy this than the incredibly bizarre stuff I have planned for later in the week. I hope that didn't sound bitter. Pink Floyd Not Now John (Single Version) The Heros' Return - Parts I and II Every few years I re-visit The Final Cut to see if my opinion of the record [...]
I added an RSS/Google Reader/I don't know what reader to my sidebar. Does it work? I never use that stuff. Someone tell me, I'll be your best friend if you do. Guns N' Roses Don't Cry (Demo) I never thought I'd get a chance to post some rare and out-of-print GNR, mostly because I didn't think that there was any rare and out of print GNR. But hey, I love being proven wrong. This demo version of the classic "Don't Cry" is the B-side to to the 123 "Don't [...]
Okay, let's try this again. I wrote a thing for Nerve. You should read it. After you do that, come back here. I have music for you. And if you're visiting here for the first time because of Nerve, well then welcome! Want to listen to the soundtrack to Urgh!? If so, you might find this post of some interest. David Bowie When The Wind Blows (Extended Mix) When The Wind Blows (Instrumental) I [...]
I've been annoyed by something over the past few weeks, and I've continually debated with myself if it's something I wanted to bring up on this blog. But since I'm posting a video game soundtrack tonight, I figure that's enough of an excuse for me to go on a video game related rant of sorts. Fucking Mass Effect 3 . If you at all follow gaming news, you know what I'm going to talk about now. If not, a quick summary. Mass Effect 3 is a video game made by [...]
Hey, it's a post with a couple of bands from the 80s. I've never done that before! Pet Shop Boys Se A Vida É (That's the Way Life Is) (Mark Picchiotti's Deep And Dark Vocal) Se A Vida É (That's the Way Life Is) (Deep Dish Liquid Remix) To Step Aside (Ralphi's Disco Vox) To Step Aside (Hasbrouck Heights Mix) To Step Aside (Davidson Ospina Dub) [...]
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