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Christmas 2001: A Space-Age Adventure
The "Space-Age Santa" collection from a couple Christmases ago featured a track "from a kiddie xian xmas album that I found in a thrift-shop called "Christmas 2001: A Space-Age Adventure"; I actually...
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Sounds Of The American Fast Food Restaurants
As a follow-up to last months' posting of Gregg Turkington's Sounds of San Francisco Adult Bookstores is the equally silly:The Golding Institute-Sounds Of The American Fast Food Restaurants (1996)17...
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The Roto Rooter Good Time Christmas Band
"Bernie Green plays More Than You Can Stand In Hi Fi" is back on line.This cheerfully eccentric band of refugees from the UCLA jazz program made just this one 1974 album, perhaps never fully realizing...
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Singing TV Horror-Show Hosts
In 1953, the late Maila Nurmi aka Vampira invented that beloved American tradition, the TV horror host. Did other countries pick up on this concept? Low budget local stations filled their late night or...
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The BAT Pack: A Halloween Mix
Rockin' soul, surf, lounge, jazz, comedy, novelties, outsider oddities, movie ads and dialogue clips...hey kids, it's a '50s/'60s lowbrow All Hallow's Eve! Inc. dusty vinyl corpses robbed from my tomb,...
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The Groovy World Of Marcia Strassman
The recent news about the passing of actress Marcia Strassman payed little heed to her short, strange music career. She recorded a few singles in the late '60s, including one of my all-time fave...
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The Sicodelico Sounds of Peru's LOS HOLY'S
Seeing as how Latin America's Day of The Dead festivities begin today and go thru Nov. 2, now's the perfect time to rock out to these juvenile delinquents from, of all places, Lima, Peru. Trashy...
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Buy This Box or We'll Shoot This Dog: The Best Of The National Lampoon Radio...
By request, "Night of the Living Monster Mash-up" is back up. I had a fine time when I recently spoke with M4M contributor James "DJ See" Carroll of Orange County, CA's KUCI on his "Radio Chimichanga"...
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Oh, so horrible, so hilarious...how can this be real?! I just discovered this on craigslist whilst looking for something else entirely. From reading the below description, you know this is all kinds of...
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2 ALBUMS OF AUTHENTIC BURLESQUE MUSIC
This blog is now 10 years old. And amidst all the media hype, the presidential pronouncements, and the parades, one lovely maniacs actually sent me an email headed: "I love Filthy Fridays and want to...
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THE CLASSICS PLAYED ON 57 WINE GLASSES
I am quite delighted to announce that the crucial WFMU show "Bodega Pop" will devote all three hours of its weekly programming to this here web-log as our 10th anniversary festivities continue. This...
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MUSIC MADE FROM SOUND EFFECTS
For newcomers looking for a crash course, or vets who want to relive old favorites, check out the now-archived 3 hour Music For Maniacs special on WFMU's Bodego Pop, a look back at ten years of...
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MORE STRANGE INSTRUMENTS FOR JESUS
If the GlassDuo album I posted last week had you hungering for more musical wine glasses...My review of the first Musical Betts album posted here three years ago also applies to this one: "The Musical...
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TOILET TIDBITS
Zoogz Toozday returns with some re-up requests: the sick punk/jazz/prog of Zoogz Rifts'"Amputees In Limbo,""Island of Living Puke," and "Torment" are all back on-line. And if that still isn't enough...
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Krazy Krustmas Kollections
I don't usually post things I haven't listened to, but by the time I have the opportunity to check these recent presents that Santa dropped into my in-box, these seasonal sounds will be out of...
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"Christmas Memories Played on Antique Musical Boxes"
Victorian-era robots! Plinkety-plonkety music not played by human hands!If the phrase "music box" conjures up images of that tchotchke in your grandma's living room with a ballerina twirling around on...
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Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO's Mutated Christmas Album
This 1999 collection of eccentric electronic instrumental Christmas music by Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh doesn't sound much like Devo, or, for that matter, Christmas music. It does sound really nice, tho....
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Spike Jones: 1941-1948
To make up for my lack of posts during my winter break, here is every single record Spike Jones and His City Slickers released in their first 7 years, 106 songs in all (split up into three sections)....
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Nugglets: Strange/Novelty DIY Compilation
By request, the "Soft, Safe and Sanitized" collection is back on line.DJ Useo, when not creating mashups, or blogging and podcasting, scours the internet for strange and silly song stuff, as featured...
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THE COMMIES ARE COMING! THE COMMIES ARE COMING!
The Berlin Wall may have fallen 20 years ago, and you can buy McDonald's in Red Square, but that festering hot bed of godless Communism the United Nations is still around. Side 1 of this ludicrous...
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