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Peel slowly

2011-11-24T09:24:00.001-08:00

The definition of one of my favourite words - experimental...

VU - Run Run Run

VU - I'll Be Your Mirror

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1996) [Reissue 1967 LP] [Germany] [320]

[FLAC]

Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father

2011-11-06T14:19:00.000-08:00

British rock magazine NME assembled this song by song cover album of the Beatles' classic (in honor of the album's 20th anniversary on 1 June 1967). The album was produced by the New Musical Express and with all proceeds going to raise money for Childline, the charity founded by the now-defunct BBC TV consumer programme That's Life!. ChildLine is the first free national telephone helpline for children in trouble and danger. It was set up as a registered charity on October 30th 1986,

Fab compilation with alternative rockers of the time recording new versions of the songs on The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. LOVED IT - I'll leave it for you to say the rest....

Tracklisting:
A1 The Three Wize Men - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
A2 Wet Wet Wet - With A Little Help From My Friends
A3 The Christians - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
A4 The Wedding Present with Amelia Fletcher - Getting Better
A5 Hue & Cry - Fixing A Hole
A6 Billy Bragg with Cara Tivey - She's Leaving Home
A7 Frank Sidebottom - Being For Benefit Of Mr. Kite
B1 Sonic Youth - Within You Without You
B2 Courtney Pine Quartet - When I'm Sixty-Four
B3 Michelle Shocked - Lovely Rita
B4 The Triffids - Good Morning Good Morning
B5 The Three Wize Men - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
B6 The Fall - A Day In The Life

Michelle Shocked - Lovely Rita (revamped as a lesbian love song)

Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father (1988) [VA] [RARE] [320]

Groovy Chainsaws

2011-11-01T19:34:00.000-07:00

Debut release from Goth Rock outfit Groovy Chainsaws from 1988 (12" EP ).

Groovy Chainsaws consisted of Alien Sex Fiend founder member Yaxi, his German girlfriend Katrina, Turkey from Turkey Bones & The Wild Dogs and drummer Batteries. It was recorded at: Von's Studios, Liverpool Rd, London, N7. The band only had one other release, the EP Bad Situation on Flicknife Records 2 years later.

Side A's opener 'Chainsaw' is a wall-of-noise fuzz monster of a track featuring Bruce Campbell's classic "Groovy" line from Evil Dead 2 and is the standout track of this EP.

Cross-panning fuzz guitars merge with chainsaw samples and a steady beat that will have you uttering "Groovy" as you lie in a puddle of your own melted brains asking for more by the end of it's 5 minutes and 40 seconds.

'Rock Hard' is another goodie, which sees Katrina on vocals, sounding like a horny as hell zombie hooker both chewing and screwing a hapless punter to death, and enjoying every minute of it.

Flipping over to side B, 'Voodoo Man' has a nice catchy hypnotic groove running through it and suitably doomy vocals, and closing track, primitive punk pounder 'Human Meat' sees Katrina reappear in 'zombie mode' fiercer and more brutal still, although you're probably more likely to stifle a snigger or two than a scream this time around.

An interesting and indeed a 'groovy' little slice of Goth obscurity to get your teeth into.

Chainsaw

Groovy Chainsaws 12" [320]
A1 Chainsaw
A2 Rock Hard
B1 Voodoo Head
B2 Human Meat

Enjoy!
Thanks to mogadonia.

The Adverts | Gary Gilmore's Eyes

2011-10-31T15:17:00.000-07:00

What better for Halloween than an infamous serial killer?

The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes

The lyrics describe an eye donor recipient realizing his new eyes came from the executed murderer.

I’m lying in a hospital,
I’m pinned against the bed.
A stethoscope upon my heart,
A hand against my head.
They’re peeling off the bandages.
I’m wincing in the light.
The nurse is looking anxious,
And she’s quivering in fright…

I’m looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes.

The doctors are avoiding me.
My vision is confused.
I listen to my earphones,
And I catch the evening news.
A murderer’s been killed,
And he donates his sight to science.
I’m locked into a private ward.
I realise that I must be…

Looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes.

Looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes.

I smash the light in anger.
Push my bed against the door.
I close my lids across my eyes,
And wish to see no more.
The eye receives the messages,
And sends them to the brain.
No guarantee the stimuli must be perceived the same…

When looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes.

Gary don’t need his eyes to see.
Gary and his eyes have parted company.

The echo of the thud?

2011-08-29T16:02:00.000-07:00

Nancy va Italiano ...et en Français

2011-07-30T10:03:00.000-07:00

Do not you know that Arthur would die for me ??

I went through the attic floor ! [stating the obvious]

Pull My Daisy

2011-07-14T16:39:00.000-07:00

For the beatnik at heart, a tortured poet, a lover of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Corso, Burrough.

‘Doing something and saying goodbye and saying goodbye and doing something are both the same." | Jack Kerouac

Pull My Daisy (1959), the quintessential beat film.
Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, Daisy tells the story of a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman’s bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results.

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg during the filming of Pull My Daisy, New York, March 1959 ©John Cohen

G-String Enterprises:
Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie, Directors; Walter Gutman, Producer; Jack Kerouac, Writer; Robert Frank, Director of Photography; Leon Prochnik, Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie, Editors; with Richard Bellamy, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Delphine Seyrig, David Amram, Alice Neel, Sally Gross, Denise Parker, Pablo Frank

Pull My Daisy - David Amram, Lynn Sheffield

Pull My Daisy.mp3

The Shaggs, Philosophy Of The World (1969)

2011-05-19T19:08:00.000-07:00

“Oh, the rich people want what the poor people’s got / And the poor people want what the rich people’s got / And the skinny people want what the fat people’s got / And the fat people want what the skinny people’s got / You can never please anybody in this world.”

“The Shaggs. Better than the Beatles–even today.” – Frank Zappa

“They bring my mind to a complete halt.” – Carla Bley

“Maybe the best worst rock album ever made.” – New York Times

Either way and for whatever reason The Shaggs are the coolest. Maybe they're just weird enough for me...

Philosophy Of The World

My Pal Foot Foot

What Should I Do

Dorothy "Dot" Wiggin, Betty Wiggin (vocals, guitar); Helen Wiggin (drums)

Additional personnel: Rachel Wiggin (bass)

Producer: Austin Wiggin, Jr.

Recorded at Fleetwood Studios, Revere, Massachusetts on March 9, 1969

From the Portsmouth Herald, New Hampshire December 18, 1969

Oh Bondage Up Yours! [update]

2011-05-10T17:13:00.000-07:00

“Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard” Poly shouts at the beginning of X-Ray Spex’s best-known anthem....

I've never been one of those little girls either.

Oh Bondage Up Yours!

"Poly Styrene was the singer of 70s punk pioneers X-ray Spex.
Can't say there was anyone else quite like her as a frontwoman in a band, before or since.
Unglamorous in the traditional sense, she wore braces on her teeth, 'granny clothes' like you'd find in a charity shop, and I think she was one of the first punks to wear plastic bin-liners as dresses.
She was well cool.
The band were cool too, they had a great sax player, which not many bands of that type had at the time, and they wrote some good pop tunes as well as some out-and out punk belters."

Being in a band, saying what you want. It was better than being in a girl gang. - Poly Styrene

"We can confirm that the beautiful Poly Styrene, who has been a true fighter, won her battle on Monday evening to go to higher places." (Twitter) April 25, 2011

X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours! 7" [320]