MP3 Truffles: Hunchback Discotheque

First off, goodbye to Hilly Kristal. I know I tend to lead off my posts with death, and I know people venerate CBGB's too much, but it was the home of my first scuzzy New York rock and roll experience (Lubricated Goat, sometime in '92, I think) and it will therefore always hold a special spot for me. Here's hoping his ghost haunts CBGB's for a good long time, keeping that Space Available sign in action and dissuading any further bogus redevelopment. Mr Dante Fontana offers a fitting video tribute: The Dead Boys. (photo via Forklift's Flickr page)

And now for a whole slew of mp3s for you. I'm going to keep it short and quick this week, and let the music do most of the talking.

• From Brazil (via Argentina) comes a full LP with Caetano Veloso's rocking backing band, Beat Boys.    MP3: "Wake Me, Shake Me"   MP3: "Meu Tamborim (Green Tambourine)"
• Always magic words in my book: midwest lounge funk. Here is the Don Neal Collection, recorded live at Uncle Dirty's Sound Machine in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Note: they will still play your parties.  MP3: "After the Lovin'"
• Garage Hangover has the scoop on thirteen-year-old 60s garage rockers Billy and the Kids.   MP3: "When I See You"
• Alan Vega, Ric Ocasek and Al Jourgensen - together in '82. Bad idea? Maybe... MP3:"Saturn Drive"
• Pinball & trucking finally get an anthem.  MP3: Merle Kilgore's "Pinball Machine"
• MP3: "Ya Mama!" Simple as that.  
• Disney is kicking themselves for not coming up with it first. MP3: The disco version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Some classic French psych with Les Fleurs de Pavot.  MP3: "Hippies Nous Voila" MP3: "A Degager" MP3: "Pourquoi L'Amour a Deux"
• More "Din Daa Daa"! This time crossed with "Axel F", crossed with the theme from Moon Patrol, crossed with a toy piano. Makes a strange kind of sense... MP3: "Din Daa Da'Axel"
• R.I.P. great master of the Hammond, Mr. Louis Chachere, whose anthem was MP3: "The Hen, Part One".
• The always reliable Record Robot posts what happens to be one of my favorite vinyl finds - Henson. How can you go wrong with such a heavenly slice of 70s soft rock as MP3: "Do Me Wrong, But Do Me"? I for one love his cover of MP3: "God Only Knows", but the question remains...how did this ultra-mellow non-Muppety Henson come out of the kick-ass Muscle Shoals Sound? The sad answer lies here.
• A bellydance song with "one thunderfuck of a funky beat"! MP3: Jean Kassapian's "The Snake".
• Anthony Newley's big career stumble: "Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?". MP3: Anthony Newley, "The Princess and the Donkey" MP3: Joan Collins, "Chalk & Cheese"
• You would think that after a million Joe Meek compilations that there would be nothing left to discover. But Fluxblog shares this gem found on the most recent compilation, Joe Meek Freak Beat. MP3: Birds of Prey, "Love Gone Again"
• While not on the best compilation, I defy you not to sing this on your next high school-style date. MP3: McDonalds, "Miniature Golf". Also from the same blog is a hardcore picture sleeve not to be missed, for ISM's Partridge Family cover.   

 

Follow the jump for links to even more net-wide mp3s out there this week!

• From Music For Maniacs comes a fascinating bit of science: Adriano Primadei is a music therapist from Florence, Italy who has some interesting mp3s with his on-line article detailing his work with a teenage boy named Stefano. "His diagnosis is not clear...His language is very limited, bizarre and non-communicative. He is unhealthily attached to his mother and becomes distressed when she is absent. He tends to favour relationships with mainly soft objects...He shows different types of stereotypy, such as flapping his hands and rocking, and vocal stereotypy...in the form of babbling or small obsessively repeated melodic cells."
• Space music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
• Here's a huge (7 record!) collection of Mexican organ master Juan Torres & His Melodic Organ.
• WXB 102, the Philippines' first (and last) all New Wave station. Take a look at their history and download their top 100 songs!
• If you're going to be a truly cool muzak moog musician, it helps to have a name like Killer Watts.
• Goodbye, Mr. Spock. (sorry for your double-kitty loss, Stax o' Wax)
• Egg City Radio offers up a big batch of live CAN (part one - part two).
• Bon Scott or Brian Johnson? Sometimes, it takes an economist to really answer the big questions.
• Songs about cars are always cool and all, but what about songs about the bus? Well, if it's a "Double Dutch Bus", then yeah, totally cool.
• I sometimes miss those jangly days when I had crushes on girl-lead pop bands like The Primitives.
• A collection of the singles of Motown subsidiary V.I.P.
• Find out the true story behind The Rojays' self-press concept album Tommy Ran.
• An in depth discussion of Barry White's top five songs.
• Hmm...which would be more fun to listen to? "Nam", featuring crappy incidental music from 80s Chuck Norris films, or the soundtrack to Van Damme's "Bloodsport" (based on a true story). Better grab them both.
• And finally, Bloggio Oddio posted a selection of random interactive internet musical toys that will steal a day from you before you know what happened. I spent the most time with the Library Science Robot Room, and with the silly songs of Scrumpdillyishus Land (hey, a steak singing out "joy" is hard to pass up).

Comments

[Dale Hazelton]

I had only been to CBGBs once, back in the mid 80s. I got stinking drunk and as I was in the bathroom on my knees in front of the bowl refunding, I found a $20 bill! I proceded to buy another $20 worth of drinks! I have no idea who was playing that night....

[Jason]

The Fall did a pretty good cover of Pinball Machine.

[Vic]

Man, I have been looking for the song "Pinball Machine" by Merle Kilgore for almost 40 years! Of course, I didn't know who the song was by because there are a few different versions out there of this song. So tonight, I just happened to think about the song and do a search. My father had an old 8 track tape of "truckin' songs" that he would play in the car and that song was on it and I always loved to hear it. Thanks so much, you've helped fill a small gap in the ol' memory banks!!

[Halk]

Umm, I listened to the Hunchback of Notre Dame Disco, and at 3:37, the Esmerelda girl starts making these wierd sounds like she's being raped. What's up with that? (I mean, the story implies that Frolo was a creep, but I never thought he was THAT creep-ish, if you know what I mean) I've tried to find the main site online from which this song came from, but the farthest I got was here, and when I clicked on it, it just wanted me to save the song to my computer. So, then you must have some answers for me, since I can not go no farther. Please, tell me why it sounds like she's being raped.

[John]

Whoever that guy is who has been looking for a song for half a century, get a life.