MP3 Truffles: The Lord Knows I'm Drinkin'

The big music blog news this week is that Big Rock Candy Mountain is finally starting their massive list of the 100 Top Drinking songs. But 100 wasn't nearly enough, so they have also created a whole 'nother site to accommodate those outside of that top 100, Bar Stool Mountain. Not every drinking song is downloadable, but there are some choice cuts that are, so check it out while you're still sober. In honor, here is one of my favorite drinking songs that probably will make the list:
"Booze Party", Three Aces & A Joker (mp3)
And one that probably won't make the list:
"Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)", John Denver (mp3)
Hmmm, I guess drinking to this song is kind of in the "wrong" category, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy doing it.

Speaking of sobering, have you heard about the early career of The Office and Extras co-creator Ricky Gervais? Well, it's not that unknown, but it was news to me that he was front-man to an early 80s new romantic pop band with a terrible name, Seona Dancing. Here, have a taste of their "hit" single (by hit, I mean the one that they made a video for):
"More To Lose" (mp3)
The music isn't half bad for the style (better than most A-ha album cuts, anyway), and shucks, he is cute enough for locker pin-ups. Here's a clip of their music video, and you can find out the scoop on the band and download both of their 7" singles on this fan site.

For some reason, Flexidiscs are all over this week. You can shoot for "little chinese colored flexis", or head to the UK for Blutin's 85 Summertime Special and a unique Durium cardboard flexi. Or you could stay hardcore with a rare Take It! magazine promo flexi. Personally, I prefer to get the bejezus scared out of me by the makers of my macaroni and cheese.

Keep reading for more of this week's mp3 and music video finds.

• Enough with the free music, how about a load of free SOUNDS via The Free Sound Project.
• Another use for sounds: a mashed-up collection of wasted moments, and a penis power remix.
• Asian 70s psych? Check! Start with Korea's Shin Jung Hyun & the Questions, then move to Japan's mind melting Brast Gurn/Karuna Khyal. And if you have 4 hours 42 minutes and 14 seconds to spare, top it off with the 72-75 box set of the inimitable Magical Power Mako.
• Dem bones, dem bones, dem fourteen versions of "Dry Bones".
• Some people would be embarrassed to admit that they still like Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me", but those people wouldn't include me.
• A Swede, a guitar, and 13 songs on one side of a 45. That's not a bar joke, it's Terminalpatienten.
• Some excellent tracks from garage rock legends The Centurys.
• Marty Manning and his orchestra present The Twilight Zone, a sound adventure in space.
• Heck with that modern Battlestar Galactica, this week I'm kicking old school cylon butt.
• Wow, prog-rockers Renaissance go new wave. Terrible and beautiful at the same time.
• The complete history of Warner Brothers loss leaders compilations. No mp3s, but it is rather interesting, especially the fact that Barret Hansen (aka Dr. Demento) was the man behind most of them.
• Late 80s Brooklyn was awash in Milk and Gizmo - and by that I mean Audio Two, of course.
• What do Fred Astaire, Rodd Keith and Phil Spector have in common? How about Charlotte Ann Matheny, aka Bonnie.
• "I'm a love volcano/Needing to rise up and pour out my love on you/Losing all control...it's time to explode!!!" ...and it only gets better from there.
• Someone tell JM in the AM that this song needs to be put into heavy rotation right away: The Kosher Twist!

And now for this week's Music Videos:

• I only saw a snippet of this in The Nomi Song, but here is the full version of Klaus Nomi's "Lightning Strikes".
• Polyrock's "Bucket Rider", one of the few instrumental new wave videos, and produced by Philip Glass. (thanks, Tony).
• Eurovision masters the Teach-In sing their love song to John Travolta.
• Looking for another singing local ad as good as Flea Market Montgomery? Look no further than Wet Pets! Looking for one a million times worse? Try the "other" Slick Rick.
• The trailer for You're Gonna Miss Me, the new documentary on Rocky Erickson.
• Really annoying and yet catchy as hell: Ebn Ozn. The video for "Bag Lady" is an unintentional laugh riot.
• The Replacements, Husker Du, Prince...man, Minneapolis in the 80s was pretty awesome.  Well, that is until Apollonia 6 started doing "Sex Shooter".
• My old favorite blog, Post Punk Junk, is now a TV show (or web show, or whatever the heck they call them these days).
• First, witness two great Bee Gees songs get the 60s trippy video treatment: "Massachusetts" and "I Started a Joke". Then, check out the awesome live videos of Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich. (via Bedazzled)
• Probably the most painfully 80s thing I've seen in a long time, Jean Michel Jarre's "Zoolookologie".

Comments

[WmMBerger]

The Four Lads' version of "Dry Bones" is the one used with surreal impact in the final episode of The Prisoner series. It's that hyper-bizarre scene from The Prisoner that led me to dub my long-running WFMU show "The Hip Bone." Thanks for posting that link (and the Ricky Gervais Neuromantic photo!)

[krokus]

That is one hell of a nice makeup job. Good eyebrow shaping, too.

[Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll]

thanks for linking my blog so much *lol*

Guys do leave comments!

[Max]

From All Music Guide:

Ignored in the U.K., "More to Lose" became the theme song of angstridden New Wave youths in the Philippines in the '80s; with its brooding, Michael Hutchencelike vocals and jumpy percussion, it swept the clubs as well. Ironically, this was oblivious to the duo; when "More to Lose" started its rise to neverending airplay on Manila FM stations in the mid'80s, Seona Dancing wasn't even together anymore.

Well, I thought it was some dry listening. Sounded more like filler for a Tom Delonge CD than an 80's pop anthem.

[Brian]

Hey, thanks for link and the mention! I hope you'll be entertained by our little attempt at a drinking songs list.

You called it right on Booze Party-see # 67 on Thursday. My personal ballot had it coming in at #36, but such is the nature of a democratic process.

cheers,
Brian @ Big Rock Candy Mountain

[california sober living]

Thanks for posting that link (and the Ricky Gervais Neuromantic photo) keep posting.

cletsey