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RE-POST: MUSIC FOR WEIRDOS
Have had requests for the mother-lode of audio oddities that reader Chris Swank compiled few years back. Chris asked that I don't reveal the exact contents of the 4 volumes, just let 'em hit like a...
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Got another request for a re-up, and tho I said I wanted to get back to posting new things, this is a classic: outsider legend Paul Super...
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SILLY 78s pt3
At long last! Count Otto Black's continued spelunking into the dark, forgotten caverns of music history has resulted in another overdue (my fault, not his) collection of funny, strange, suggestive,...
View ArticleRe-Up Request: "Money No Be Sand"
Another one of the classics is back up by request, the '60s African lunacy of "Money No Be Sand":http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2010/02/afro-spazz.html
View ArticleSTRANGE INTERLUDES WITH HARMONICA RASCALS
I'm worried about zippyshare. It seemed to be working fine but I just had a request to re-post an album I had just re-upped in April. It had already "expired." Do I need to look for yet another hosting...
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Beat Writer's Got The Beat: William S. Burroughs Sings!
One of the most unlikely stars of the late '70s-to-early '90s punk/college rock days wasn't a musician at all, but a taciturn, elderly writer clad not in flannel shirts and Doc Martens, but a...
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FRANK SINATRA'S GREATEST SHITS
I love Frank Sinatra's music, got tons of his records. But anyone with a career spanning six decades has got to drop a few turds along the way, and even The Chairman of The Board is no exception. And...
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Tony "The Cool Casanova" Fabbri
There is almost no info on Tony Fabbri on the 'net, but all you need to know is that this is seriously some primo outsider awesomeness. His thick accent of undetermined origin, his unique songwriting...
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BeerBottle Percussion, NewWave Music-Boxes, Avant-Catholic Masses
Last year's assortment of experimental/alt-classical/unclassifiably weird new releases received a succinct two-word comment from reader Outa-Spaceman: "Astonishing stuff!" Like last year's roundup,...
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PETER COOK RARITIES pt1
By request, the private-press lounge crooner Mr. "Home" Center is back up.Count Otto Black, our expert in silly 78 rpm oddities, has sent us another batch of wonderfulness, this time a collection of...
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PETER COOK RARITIES pt2: "Here Comes The Judge"
Here's a second and final blast of comedic genius from the late Peter Cook, this time from 1979 - 24 minutes of "Here Comes The Judge" (no relation to the Pigmeat Markham song, or any of those other...
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MONSTER BEACH PARTY
At last! All the greatest songs with "monster"/"creature" + "beach" /"surf" in the title. Most of these records are from rock 'n' roll's glorious sleazy-listening era of the early '60s. The rest from...
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PRIMITIVE: LOU REED'S PRE-VELVETS RECORDINGS
I first encountered the early works of the recently-departed Lewis Reed as a youngster obsessed with all things Lou/Velvets (I even bought "Sally Can't Dance"!) in the '80s visiting New York City. I...
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Halloween Stomp: A Haunted House Party
UPDATE 11/12/13: Back on-line Hey, all you hep cats 'n' flipped chicks, here's a voot-o-rooney volume of vintage jazz, blues, and music hall spooky songs that I meant to post earlier, 'til the death of...
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FREE LUNCH DINER pt1
("Halloween Stomp" is back on-line)They say there's no such thing as a free lunch. Yeah, well, "they" say all kinds of crap, don't they? What do you call all of these free/name-your-price audio feasts?...
View ArticleHELP ID AN (*Burp*) OLD NOVELTY SONG
By request, Wild Man Fischers'"Wildmania!", "Space Age Santa,""Christmas Is For Weirdos,""Curl Activate: '80s rap novelties", and "White Men Can't Rap" are all back...
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Ahh...Outsider Music...
The George King/Joe Corney Space-Age Organ Sounds are back on-line.The first thing many Americans think when they hear the phrase "folk music" is still the Joan Baez/Dylan types listlessly strumming...
View ArticleT.V.O.D.
Turn on the t.v., watch a movie, what do you get? Inane sitcoms, "Transformers," cops chasing serial killers for the umpteenth time...but what's this?! Video being put to good use for a change,...
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STRANGE/OUTSIDER/NOVELTY JFK SONGS
John F. Kennedy inspired a lot of music. This is some of the weirdest. Song-poems! A Frank Zappa composed/produced surf record! A singing psychic! Mexican music! And all 6 tracks from the great "Sing...
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DISCO SELLOUT!
By the late 1970s, the memo had come down from the music biz execs: make a disco record. Everyone, and we mean EVERYONE is hereby ordered to march into the studio and sing over anonymous lush...
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