THE WEIRD WORLD OF BLOWFLY
Back up by request: Zoogz Rift "Ipecac" and "War Zone."David Bowie's death has rocked the world (as well it should), but let's not neglect to note the recent passing of another legend, albeit a very...
View ArticleSESAME STREET DISCO - TWO ALBUMS
Back in 2007, I posted a rip-roaring "Rubber Duckie" as part of my "Disco Sickness"collection I put together for Otis Fodder's 365 Project and WFMU. I never got around to digitizing the entire album,...
View ArticleRobert Williams: Buy His Records
Anyone who played in Captain Beefheart's Magic Band is of course an automatic A-lister in the avant/strange music world. So it's no wonder that late-period Magic Band member Robert Williams' debut solo...
View ArticleTHE BIG RUMBLE! Uncensored Scenes of the Nightmares of a Weirdo
(Back up, by request: Roky Erickson live, Jonathan Brandmeier,Bah Humbug, and CURL ACTIVATE 2: More '80s Hip-Hop...
View ArticleOffensive Humor + Space-Age Music = ROY AWBREY's "Laugh It Up!"
This is absolutely the greatest bad comedy album I've ever heard, an amazing documentation of mid-'60s culture at its' sick weirdest. I was personally knocked out by the fact that side 1 is recorded in...
View ArticleLAS VEGAS DAMMIT! Six Disks That Sing of Sin
I don't have to say much about this stupendous, endlessly entertaining collection of audio celebrating Sin City because it's compilerDon-O, the cat who previously slipped us the "Xanadu" tribute comps,...
View Article"THE BANYAN TREE": Groovy '60s Soundtrack to A Lost Film
Hello, and welcome to another episode of "Mysteries...of the Mysterious." I am your host Mr. E. Train. Today, we shall explore the baffling riddle of a film from the late 1960s entitled the "The Banyan...
View ArticleParty Like It's Only $19.99
What better way to note the shockingly sudden passing of Prince then with this 1999 release by mashup pioneers the Evolution Control Committee? Prince, and in particular his song "1999," serve as the...
View ArticleTrying to get caught up on the re-post requests.
So far I have resurrected:- WiIdman Fischer and Smegma and "An Evening With WildMan Fischer"- Junkanoo & Goombay - Bobby Jimmy & The Critters"Ugly Knuckle Butt" - RIAA"USA" - "Bah! Humbug: The...
View ArticleEvangelist Jimmy Swaggart "The Ring Of Fire: A Message To The Youth of America"
You boys and girls that have Beatle records at home...This is the most rotten, dirty, damnable, filthy, putrid FILTH that this nation of the world has ever known. And you parents that would allow this...
View ArticleROBERT WILLIAMS "Late One Night"
Former drummer for Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, Robert Williams, followed up his debut solo EP with this 1982 full-length. He's still joined by some Zappa/Beefheart sidemen, (e.g.: Bruce Fowler's...
View ArticleLowbrow Vol.7: Devil Dance
Reposts! By request: Pierre Bastien's marvelous mechanical musics and Snoopy's Beatles Classics on Toys. I won't be re-upping any Twink The Toy Piano Band, as he has put all of his stuff on Bandcamp,...
View ArticleMADRIGALS FOR MANIACS
We've been following Frenchman Cartone Sonore's curious career for some time now, most of it concerned with obscure and toy instruments. But his new album is created solely with his voice. Yep, no...
View ArticleBINGO GAZINGO
Whilst perusing the roughly 5,372 albums R. Stevie Moore has put up on his Bandcamp page, I was delighted to see that the Bingo Gazingo album is now available for your free listening/low-cost...
View ArticleTHE WORLD'S TALLEST MUSIC: Joseph Bertolozzi's "Tower Music"
An entire album made solely from the sounds of someone banging on the Eiffel Tower?! Now that is the kind of thing to warm the cockles of a Maniac's heart, and to thoroughly confuse, if not annoy,...
View ArticleCOVER THE EARTH Vol. 6
I had not planned on compiling another selection of odd ethnic covers of Western hits, thinking that I had exhausted that particular well, butour pals over at the Growing Bored For A Living blog hit us...
View ArticleCASSIUS CLAY: "I Am The Greatest"
When great men die, of course, we should remember them by their weird novelty records.To note the passing of the former Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali, let's listen to The Lip From Louisville's early '60s...
View Article"The Best Things In Life Are Free...But You Can Leave Them To The Birds and...
I have not had a full-time job since Feb. 2015, and it's getting serious. So you will forgive me for putting ads on this site. It's so fun to click on things. Click, click, click! Very relaxing. Some...
View ArticleHIPPIE NOISE IN A LAUNDROMAT
The self-titled 1971 album "The Roots Of Madness" is a truly historic avant/outsider artifact. Incredibly, the recordings of this, well, madness date back as far as 1969. That beats The Residents, and...
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