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MAS & HOPE: Words and Music For the Now Generation
Imagine if the Shaggs wrote songs for a christian Mrs. Miller...Some years ago, I posted a few choice cuts off this mind-boggling private-press release that my brother found in a thrift-store,...
View ArticleAJNA: A Giant, Strange Mechanical-Music Contraption
From Sweden comes some fantastic new videos of AJNA, a large musical robot that looks like Dr. Who's police box tricked out with drums, sound-making thingies, and visual artworks. The first video is a...
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"Percussion: Playful And Pretty"
is now back up, by request:http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2012/02/rip-phil-krauss.html And I'll be guest dj-ing once again THIS Sunday, June 2nd, 8pm PST on Spacebrother Greg's "Radio Misterioso,"...
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TOM WILSON - "GAY NAME GAME"
Back in 2008, I wrote: "One day in the early '90s, I was looking through one-dollar records in a thrift store when I came across one called "Gay Name Game." With a song entitled "Lesbian Seagull"...
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RE-POST RE-QUESTS REDUX...AND DELIGHTFUL XYLOPHONE NOVELTIES
The New Age pseudo-Hindu bluegrass album Hindu Kush Mountain Boys is back up, by request. I say! Does anyone have: The Full Life All-Stars, "Ya No Hay Beatles," The Musical Betts, March Fourth 2012....
View ArticleEVERYBODY DANCE WITH MEEEEEE! MusicForManiacs Returns To Radio Misterioso
I once again guested on Spacebrother Greg's crucial show Radio Misterioso recently, and I think it was one of our best ones yet. As Greg wrote on his site: "The wonderfulness began with a piece which...
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The Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra
It took me a while to track down some albums by this very obscure group, but it was worth it - The Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra is as wonderfully strange and unique as its name. They are (were?)...
View ArticleSaving You From Filth and Degradation
You axed for 'em , you got 'em - more re-up requests fulfilled:Howard Finster- Night Howard Finster Got SavedModern Purveyors Of Filth And DegradationUPDATE 6/19/2013: The Country/Eastern Music of...
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SILLY 78s
A hardworking, generous Maniac known to us commoners as Count Otto Black has bequeathed unto us an old wooden chest crammed full of mp3s. As I picked each one up and blew the virtual dust off them, my...
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L. Ron Hubbard & Friends "The Road To Freedom"
We interrupt our usual assortment of good music for this...this...well, it's a Scientology album, whaddya expect? Clunky amateurish lyrics, horribly dated '80s wimp-pop that makes Toto sound like the...
View ArticleRE-UP: Strange Instruments For Jesus
If today's Scientology post isn't your cup of religion, try the Musical Betts:http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2011/11/strange-instruments-for-jesus.htmlMuch thanks to the blessed Maniac who sent us...
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Silly 78s pt2
Count Otto Black returns! With a further batch of awesome audio oddities and atrocities from the first half of recorded history. Perhaps even more spectacular than part one. The Count sez:Firstly, for...
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Dan Knudsen Won't Hurt You
Another great outsider musician named Daniel, Dan Knudsen is just as sincere, child-like, likeable, odd and God-fearing as D. Johnston, minus the mental-illness related drama and trauma (so far as I...
View ArticleRe-Post: The Korn Kobblers
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Le Enfant Terrible: Music Made from Pots, Pans, and Toys
Manchester band Le Enfant Terrible sent me a link to their new album, describing it thusly: "It's effectively 'World Music' but not quite. It's music made from pots and pans, and toy instruments bought...
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CHRISTMAS IN JULY - SILLY 78S EDITION
Count Otto Black has been sending us an amazing smorgasbord of shellac lately, including these three seasonal numbers, just in time for these hot, humid months. The Count sez: "here's a 78 which has...
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HOW TO PICK UP GURLZ!
Hey losers! A while back I posted a "charm school" album for girls, and now it's the fella's turn. From 2000 comes this curio:"Pheremones are in the air ... and San Francisco's nationally known spoken...
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COVER THE EARTH 4
Yet another batch of strange and wonderful covers of Western pop songs performed by people of other lands on ethnic instruments in various exotic styles. Some real mind bogglers here, e.g.: Jamaican...
View Article"COVER THE EARTH" Series Back On-Line
By request(s), now all 4 volumes of bizarre ethnic covers of your favorite oldies are back up:http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/search?q=cover+the+earthI hope to get up your other re-up requests some...
View ArticleRESUMING RE-UP REQUESTS
You axed for 'em, you got 'em!Philip Glass for accordion:http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2010/11/philip-glass-goes-polka.htmlThe Everyday...
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