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RAW MEAT: Other Mutts From The Bonzo Dog Band's Kennel
The Bonzo Dog Band were like Beatles for Maniacs - the great, wildly-innovative British band of the '60s. But the kind of surreal humor that the Bonzos trafficked in was actually fairly common in the...
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RAW MEAT! Vol. 2
Continuing our survey of songs from the hippie era that are similar to the surreal, psychedelic humor of the Bonzo Dog Band (git yer Vol. 1 here)... Count Otto Black made many contributions to this...
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R.I.P. ORNETTE COLEMAN
By request, the Guatemalan garage psych album "Electronicos La Fuente" is back.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ There's...
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JAMES LAST "VOODOO PARTY"
By request, "America's Most Nonsensical Band," The Korn Kobblers", are back on-line. This time using Google Drive, the latest candidate in my search for a good file-sharing platform. For those of you...
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TRIBUTE TO PINK FLAMINGOS
Donald Featherstone, the appropriately-named creator of those plastic reproductions of our pink feathered friends, has just passed away at the age of 79. As if being the father of the world's most...
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If you feel like genuine musical weirdness died with Sun Ra and Captain Beefheart, take heed! We have some stone-cold freakazoids in our midst even today. To whit: - The Everyday Film is raising funds...
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HERB ALPERT GOES MOD
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass sold more albums than almost anyone else in the '60s, so it's no surprise that any goofball with a trumpet would try to cash in on their effortlessly enjoyable,...
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"Female Trouble": The Soundtrack
By request from multiple requesters requesting requests...now back on-line:RIAA: "Sounds For The Swing-Set,""Radical, Intense and Awesome", and "Schizophonia Suite." And just in time for summer: "Soul...
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Ross Bolleter's Music For Ruined Pianos
A reader left a comment today: "How does one download from Google on a Mac? I cannot figure it out..." I'm not a Mac-intologist. Anyone?...
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COSMIC DENNIS GREENIDGE
"Cosmic" Dennis Greenidge is a 60-something Londoner who sings off-key nonsense lyrics over other people's instrumental music playing out of a boombox in the background. Ha! In fidelity as low as early...
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When Surfing In Space, Apply MOON-TAN LOTION
46 years ago today, humans walked on the moon for the first time, as millions watched on TV (the Soviets, via their own Luna 15 craft, were no doubt angrily shaking their fists at the screen!), and...
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"Another Goddam DEATH Dedication"
R.I.P. Don Joyce of Negativland. The legendary sound collagist/radio mastermind/culture-jammer has joined Snuggles. If you didn't download the "Helter Stupid" show that I posted last year, a bootleg...
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6 ALBUMS ABOUT...ER, YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO KNOW...
The music of Zoojay (Jonathan Niehaus) might be the most disturbing, disgusting stuff I've ever heard. Simply put, he sings about having sex with dogs. Siberian huskies, to be precise. There is some...
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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF HISTORY...
It's amazing what sorts of things actually became hit records in the Sixties.Buddy Starcher was a country singer/guitarist best known for the goofy, not-entirely-accurate, 1966 proto-conspiracy theory...
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TALES OF MANHATTAN: The Cool Philosophy Of Babs Gonzales
In this 1959 album of rhymed poems set over a cool jazz beat, Babs Gonzalez posits himself as the hippest of the hip, here to school all you cosplay-wearin', video-game playin', indie "rock"-listenin'...
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THE CORILLIONS DOUBLE ALBUM
The liner notes on the back of this true outsider music classic detail Marlin Wallace's years of pain at the hands of communists (or "reds," as he calls them) shooting painful laser-like rays at him...
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A Little Tiny Smelly Bit of The Stinky Puffs
As we've learned from Stinky Picnic, child musicians like the word "stinky." But The Stinky Puffs weren't just any kiddie rockers - Simon Fair Timony (age 7 when the band was formed) was the stepson of...
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ATTACK OF THE KILLER FILLER
WILD! RAW! UNINHIBITED!These savage young rock'n'roll instrumentals live for 'kicks'! And beware the 'square' who stands in their way!In the 1950s and 1960s, countless records were cranked out by the...
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HOOSIER HOTSHOTS: One-and-a-half Albums
Just realized a couple days ago that my emails have been getting deleted. If you've written to me in the past couple weeks, sorry. I am trying to restore them. And reader Dolmance needs your help re...
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Music for Homemade Instruments - A Decade of Debris (1988)
(Dolmance, email me at mrfab3@hotmail.com re: your computer issue. Much thanks to reader John for the tech support.)Like the band featured in this blog's previous post, The Hoosier Hot Shots, this...
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