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JOSIE COTTON "Invasion Of The B-Girls"
Yes, that "Johnny Are You Queer?" gal is still around and still recording. Witness this 2007 release that came and went with scarcely a trace, tho it should be of interest to fans of strange music and...
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Peter Sellers & Spike Milligan: Strangest Comedy LP Ever?
The Goon Show was hugely influential to Monty Python, British comedy in general, and even The Beatles (George Martin had worked with the Goons before his stint with the mop-tops). Count Otto Black has...
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Better Than The Beatles! 26 Tunes That Failed to Oust the Fab-Four From the...
Four things learned from this album of recordings released 1963-1965 as a reaction to the Beatles U.S. invasion:1. The "greatest band of all time" was widely resented/disliked.2. Some thought they...
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Fat Head's Conspiracy-Theory Rap
One of the latest amusing bat-shit crazy conspiracy theories is that the contrails exhaust coming out of airplanes are really "chem-trails" that drift on down to populated areas and supposedly do all...
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THE BLACK SWEDEN: Heavy-Metal Versions of ABBA Hits
As one-joke album concepts go, "Gold" by the one-off Black Sweden works better than most. Don't know how many ABBA songs one really needs to hear performed in full-on head-banging fashion, but the...
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Maggie Estep "No More Mister Nice Girl"
A couple/few months ago, our frequent contributor Windy sent me a big ol' batch of vinyl (that I'm still going thru) along with something he rarely sends me: a CD. 'Twas by a half-remembered '90s...
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BAD BOB: "The Tunes They Are A-Changin'"
As if that "Better Than The Beatles" comp we recently posted wasn't enough to blow a baby-boomer's brain, now we've got 23 mind-boggling Bob Dylan covers: celebrity actors who have no business making...
View ArticleThis Is What You Want, This Is What You Get...
By request, the following golden oldies are now back:Zithers!Hollywood Stomp (Los Angeles in song from the 78 rpm era)Zoogz Rift and his Amazing Shitheads: "Water," and "Water II."
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The Gospel Accordion To Frank
And lo! the Lord appeared to Father Frank Perkovich, saying unto him: go amongst the Catholics of the American Midwest, and playeth polka music, so that they might gather in My name on the Sabbath. And...
View ArticleTHE EVERYDAY FILM Speaks!
Will wonders never cease? Jandek now tours, Dot Wiggin of the Shaggs has a new album, and our own fascinating outsider music discovery (actually, he discovered us) The Everyday Film has given his first...
View ArticleR.I.P. SCOTT ASHETON: BRASS BAND PLAYS THE STOOGES
Had a request a few months ago for The Ridiculous Trio plays The Stooges album to be re-upped, but the files had gone missing. So big thanks to reader Traitor Vic for sending it our way yesterday - the...
View ArticleLet Us Explore The Pocket Calculators of Many Lands
Kraftwerk, the greatest, most visionary band that will never be voted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, are in the midst of an 8 show stand at Disney Concert Hall. And as it has been sold out for...
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ODD-STRALIA pt 1: Ice Cold
By request, Scott Johnson's "Rock Paper Scissors" is back up. You may have seen that "viral" (as the kids say) sensation Babymetal, the cutesy Japanese girl metal band. But from down Melbourne way...
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ODD-STRALIA pt 2: Stinky Picnic
"If you're dead, you're totally deadIf you're dead, you're totally dead, not alive"Can't argue with that. These words of wisdom come from the title track to shoegaze-y electro father/daughter duo...
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ODD-STRALIA pt 3: The Invented Instruments of Rod Cooper
Another strange-music-making Australian ("odd-stray-alien," as our expert in such matters Buttress O'Kneel says) is the chap in the above video, Rod Cooper, a metal-worker who makes fantastic...
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Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra: "Experiments with Auto-Croon"
("Better Than the Beatles" is back on-line.)Ira Robbin's Trouser Press review of The Bonzo Dog Band begins with an excellent examination of the nature of absurdity in music, an essay equally applicable...
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"Hurray, The Rattles Are Here!"
At first (and second, and third) listen, Germany's The Rattles sound like a Beatles clone. And a particularly bizarre and hilarious one, at that. But as our man in Scotland, Count Otto Black, points...
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Barnyard Beat: Livestock Rock And Jungle Jams
Musique concrete for pre-schoolers: this 1995 release on the Kid Rhino label takes played-out wedding-dj oldies, and thru the Space-Age miracle of sampling, replaces the lead vocals with animal sounds....
View ArticleRe-Post: "Hear The Animals Sing"
Following on the heals of yesterdays'"Barnyard Beat" album of animals "singing" via modern sampling, here's a re-up request for the '50s equivalent: Jim Fassett's tape concrete work for children:"Hear...
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PETE BRADY - "How The West Was Swung"
Does what it says on the tin: "The Best of the West Done With A Swingin' Beat." This 1962 album, one of the few recorded by lounge crooner Pete Brady before an errant tennis racket damaged his throat,...
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