Whew. I gots me a big ole backlog of great mp3 links to share this week, so I think I'll just dive right in...
Another sad passing last week, a bit under the radar, (except it didn't get by us, thank you) was Franakie Lane. Say good bye to him the best way...with music. 1961's Hell Bent For Leather.
- Meanwhile, over in the Netherlands, they said goodbye to Robert Long.
- The life and work of Polk Miller, a Southern son of slave owners who mimicked the black vernacular - to questionable ends.
- Just what I've been waiting for: Christian Moog.
- The evolution of Cocaine Blues.
- Lounge music for 30,000 feet.
- Peanut Butter Wolf gives you a Valentine's present.
- The eerie score to the original Phantasm - and the far more surreal Phantasm 2.
- Ski better with Hans Gmoser.
- Rock on with some Cinderella. No, not the hair-metal artistes, but a sweet Filipino pop band.
- Nico live in 1985, and Tiny Tim live in 1968.
One of Jersey's earliest punk bands, The Burnt.
- Before Sleater-Kinney there were female ass-kickers like Liliput, (aka Kleenex) and San Francisco art punks Inflatable Boy Clams - who have a whole fansite devoted just to their one double 7" single.
- This week's Corporation Rock pick is "I am Florida Power", from Florida Power's Singing Truck Driver.
- Just a taste of the amazing first Bathory album. Shouldn't you own this, already?
Many many more MP3 links, video links and a secret fun surprise after the jump.
- From Crud Crud: "Why is the moon made of cheese? Is the ocean really filled with God's tears? Who buys midget porn? What was the event, the force, the explosion that resulted in Uge's Mad Charles?"
The B Side celebrated V-Day with a red label 45 featuring the word love.
- Miss Sexy Voice, Ella Mae Morse.
- If you like Oscar Brown Jr. or Josh White, you need to hear the folk/jazz/doo-wop/funk of Terry Callier.
- Sammy Davis Jr. goes country.
- I can't decide: No Wave with Y Pants, or New Wave with Dalek I Love You? Ah heck, take them both.
- It's a pretty way to die, listening to French 80s Casio grooves with Mary Moor.
- Pop songs turned on their ear by David Lynch. (get it?!?)
- Speaking of Lynch, check out Mr. Hopkinsons's Computer's cover of the Twin Peaks theme.
- Or how about an album from Twin Peaks' Peggy Lipton? Fun facts: not only did Peggy star in the Mod Squad, but she retired from acting when she married Quincy Jones. That is her daughter co-staring on The Office.
- 50 Incredible Rap Songs! Nothing terribly old school, but who can resist an offer like that? Aw heck, here's 20 more!
- A kinda crappy tribute to Sgt. Pepper's, but some gems in there from the Fall and Sonic Youth.
Which reminds me, who could outsell the Beatles in East Anglia? Why, the Singing Postman, of course.
- It's the pop folk album from Bruce Lee's brother (complete with touching tribute).
- Locust St. wraps up an exhaustive look at 1958 with a slew of great tracks (that Clyde McPhatter slays me).
- Polkas con Cabrito.
- New wave mime with Tik and Tok.
- If I had to pick a favorite Nurse With Wound, it would have to be this one.
- Before Bob Log III there was Doo Rag.
- Martin Subotnick's electronic epic The Double Life of Amphibians.
- As sampled by Negativland, the chanting and anti-rock warnings of a creepy religious cult as heard on the Sounds of American Doomsday Cults (Volume 14). More on the church in question.
- 90 minutes of college radio, circa 1983.
- Or if you weren't yet that hip, how about the anthemic themes to all those crappy 80s movies you used to watch.
- Bad 80s songs aside, that's still no excuse for crap Jimmy Buffett soundtrack throwaways. From gems like The Great Outdoors, Arachnophobia, and Urban Cowboy, it adds up to music that only Parrot-heads could love (though I do like that song from Fast Times).
- Edward Furlong doing The Doors (scroll to the end of the post, if you dare).
- Fabio's After Dark collection.
- The way un-funky homemade funk of D.C. and Company.
- "It’s like Jim Steinman and David Foster decided to have a synthfight, and we all won." Ouch...Wax UK.
Music Videos:
Biggest news of the year: The lost footage from Leonard Nimoy's Ballad of Bilbo Baggins video. Yup, that's Ricky Nelso introducing the clip.
- Carl Stalling was amazing, but Flip the Frog works pretty darn well with some Howlin' Wolf.
- Charo takes Las Vegas!
- We're all about the Roy Head right now, thanks to his son's potential American Idol sweep.
- That new Hugh Grant movie looks terrible, but the rip-off 80s video within is pure genius.
- The overrated Lady Sovereign takes on a jelly donut.
- The Arabic pop version of Shaft!
- The Virgin of Guadalupe meets the Voice of Xtabay
- The Ramones cover of Time Has Come Today, sung in church, of course.
Okay, I'm going to sneak this non-music link here into the end. Wax On
Wax Hoff, perhaps one of the creepiest and somehow most enjoyable pointless flash games I've run
across. Watch those nipples!
Thanks for the nod dude; but one caveat: I don't think Polk Miller was ever actually a slave owner, he only came from a family that held slaves.
Minor point, but worth clarifying.
Posted by: forksclovetofu | February 21, 2007 at 10:34 AM
Thanks. I changed that so it reads properly.
Posted by: ResidentClinton | February 21, 2007 at 12:40 PM
Hey!
Thanks for BOTH links (Frankie Laine AND Peggy Lipton) to my blog! I love your site and will be adding a link to it from mine!
Esther from Stax 'o Wax
www.stax-o-wax.blogspot.com
Posted by: Esther | February 21, 2007 at 04:52 PM
Am I hallucinating, or did the link to the 80's movies theme collection disappear?
Posted by: James | February 22, 2007 at 09:20 AM
I think you're hallucinating...
Posted by: ResidentClinton | February 22, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Ack. You're right. I was looking for it in the wrong column.
Posted by: James | February 22, 2007 at 11:42 AM
It is funny that you put the Nurse With Wound "Sylvie and Babs" record up on here, since just the other day I found an LP copy in excellent condition in a 25 cent box! AMAZING!
Posted by: Reggie | February 22, 2007 at 07:26 PM
That Church Universal And Triumphant album...Hail Fucking Satan! It rocks more than the rock it condemns. Arise!
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