A Collection of Oddities

 

 What it says.... A few odd tunes from the 1950s to the 1970s. Some are peculiar/insane cover versions, some are songs you wouldn't expect from a certain artist, and the rest are just... rather odd! 

Just a few words about some of the artists on this mix:
If Sparks were a 60s beat band, they would've sounded like Allen Pound's Get Rich. The Jonna Gault song sounds like it could've come from a warped version of Mary Poppins. Doug Ashdown sounds so stoned, it's hard to believe he could actually shake anything... Groove to Gert Wilden's cheesy ad music for Moulinex, for all you schlager fans out there! 

 People from the UK will probably know Rodney Bewes more as an actor, from the comedy series "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?", well listen to his one stab at musical immortality... Then listen to the most demented version ever of "Hey Joe", from Japan's The Golden Cups. Hasil Adkins, what can I say? He was always slightly deranged, on the track featured here he sounds not just deranged, but positively psychotic. As for Mad Sound, this Danish band's contribution is their own unique version of "Hey Joe". You might not understand most of the lyrics, but what you can understand just sounds... depraved.

  1. Ron Geesin - Agitation in Anticipation of Offspring Part "W" (2:17)
  2. Allen Pound's Get Rich - Hey You (1:40)
  3. Jonna Gault and Her Symphopop Scene - Wonder Why, I Guess (2:46)
  4. Doug Ashdown - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (2:29)
  5. Gert Wilden & Orchestra - Moulinex (2:39)
  6. Dean Carter - Run Rabbit Run (1:58)
  7. Yan Tregger - Bubble Bubble (1:52)
  8. Roger Ruskin Spear - Drop Out (2:03)
  9. The Bermuda Jam - Good Trip Lollipop (4:48)
10. Ken Nordine - Flesh (1:32)
11. Doris Troy - Kill Them All! (4:14)
12. Ron Grainer Orchestra - Boy Meets Girl (2:21)
13. Tarantula Ghoul & the Gravediggers - King Kong (2:14)
14. Race Marbles - Like a Dribbling Fram (2:56)
15. Mystery Track (2:01)
16. The American Breed - Radio Spot: Temperature's Rising (1:27)
17. Randy Johnson - Fly Superman Fly (2:00)
18. Rodney Bewes - Meter Maid (3:13)
19. Jun Mayuzumi - Ai Ga Hoshii No (2:49)
20. Hasil Adkins - We Got a Date (2:42)
21. The Golden Cups - Hey Joe (5:26)
22. The Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra - Da Doo Ron Ron (2:23)
23. The Driving Stupid - Green Things Have Entered My Skin, Gladys (2:20)
24. Saddlesore - Pig Ankle Strut (2:24)
25. Preston Epps - B'wana Bongos (1:56)
26. Mad Sound - To Masturbate (4:17)
27. Peter Sarstedt - Mary Jane (2:18)
28. The Zodiac - Leo - The Lord of Lights (2:33)
29. The Id - Boil the Kettle, Mother (2:45)

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Best of 2015 mix

01. Jacco Gardner - Make Me See (1:37)
02. Pika - Ryu no Sumika (8:34)
03. Les Big Byrd - I Woke Up in a Dream (5:00)
04. The Fall - First One Today (2:45)
05. Pigs - Mope (2:59)
06. Dungen - Sisten Gästen (2:40)
07. Hills - Milarepa (3:01)
08. Robert Forster - Learn to Burn (4:35)
09. DRINKS - Cannon Mouth (3:51)
10. Brainticket - Singularity (5:02)
11. The Backhomes - Solid Gold (2:58)
12. Six Organs of Admittance - Maximum Hexadic (2:21)
13. The Owl Service - Samhain (2:55)
14. Moon Duo - Thieves (3:34)
15. Spectres - Family (3:55)
16. The Chills - Warm Waveform (4:10)
17. Gurun Gurun - Atarashii Hi (4:09)
18. Novella - Two Ships (2:47)
19. Fuzz - Pipe (3:20)
20. My Sleeping Karma - Vayu (5:55)

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Post-Punk Mix - Volume 4

 

 

 It's been a long time coming, and I apologise for the lack of posts this year! Anyway, continuing the theme of the previous volumes, another collection of songs from the peak post-punk era, 1978-1982. Also, like before, a few familiar names here along with some very obscure! Hope you enjoy.


01. Glaxo Babies - It's Irrational (4:06)
02. The Boys Next Door - The Voice (3:51)
03. Androids of Mu - Bored Housewifes (2:18)
04. Fire Engines - New Thing in Cartons (2:53)
05. Sad Lovers and Giants - Landslide (2:59)
06. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Overground (3:06)
07. The Lines - Background (4:53)
08. Phew - Dream (3:15)
09. The Prefects - Bristol Road Leads to Dachau (10:03)
10. The Chameleons - Here Today (3:54)
11. Come On - Don't Walk on the Kitchen Floor (3:39)
12. Family Fodder - Savoir Faire (3:14)
13. Diagram Brothers - Discordo (3:29)
14. Bauhaus - A God in an Alcove (4:07)
15. The Red Crayola - Uh, Knowledge Dance (2:55)
16. Bush Tetras - Things That Go Boom in the Night (4:24)
17. The Passage - Mr. Terror, Chief of Police (3:20)
18. The Homosexuals - False Sentiments (2:52)
19. Middle Class - A Skeleton at the Feast (4:17)
20. The Cravats - You're Driving Me (4:44)

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Best of 2014 mix, Volume 2

 

01. The Paperhead - None Other Than (4:42)
02. Les Big Byrd - 1,2,3,4 Morte (4:19)
03. White Fence - Arrow Man (2:34)
04. Lola Colt - Heartbreaker (3:56)
05. Swans - Oxygen (edit) (3:04)
06. Pere Ubu - Road to Utah (4:19)
07. Temples - Keep in the Dark (4:35)
08. Motorpsycho - The Magic & the Wonder (A Love Theme) (4:37)
09. Polska Radio One - Surf 2 (5:51)
10. King Creosote - For One Night Only (4:07)

11. Acid Mothers Temple SWR - Black Waffle With Jolokia Souse (3:42)

12. The Len Price 3 - Medway Sun (3:31)
13. Gulp - Vast Space (3:17)
14. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Take Away These Early Grave Blues (6:45)
15. The Black Angels - The Flop (2:57)
16. The Cambodian Space Project - Whisky Cambodia (5:32)
17. Camera - Parhelion (4:06)
18. Gallon Drunk - The Speed of Fear (5:55)

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Best of 2014 mix

 

01. Ty Segall - The Clock (2:52)
02. Gruff Rhys - Iolo (3:45)
03. Wovenhand - King David (4:47)
04. Lætitia Sadier - The Milk of Human Tenderness (3:10)
05. Doug Tuttle - Sewn Day (2:16)
06. Chrome - Prophecy (5:11)
07. Psychic TV - After You're Dead, She Said (6:57)
08. Luminous Orange - Kissing the Moon (4:44)
09. Mark Fry - Dials for Home (4:23)
10. Chris Joss - Incidental Affair (3:46)
11. Half Man Half Biscuit - Old Age Killed My Teenage Bride (4:02)
12. David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights -  I Don't Want to Live Alone (3:07)
13. Half Japanese - Each Other's Arms (2:22)
14. Klaus Johann Grobe - KOthek (3:27)
15. Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs - Can't Pretend (3:13)
16. Damien Jurado - Silver Timothy (3:15)
17. Three Dimensional Tanx - King of the Country (4:27)
18. Circulatory System - Sounds That You've Never Heard (2:36)
19. The Soundcarriers - So Beguiled (3:41)
20. Total Control - Black Spring (7:24)

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The Bachelor Pad - The Albums Of Jack

 

Artist: The Bachelor Pad
Title: The Albums Of Jack
Released: 1987
Label: Warholasound
Catalog#: WST THREE MINS
Country: UK
Style: Psychedelic, Indie Rock 


Tracklisting:

A1. The Albums Of Jack (2:26)
A2. Jack & Julian (2:10)
B1. Norwegian Wood (3:00)
B2. Albert Hofmann (3:28)
B3. Jack & Julian (Demo) (2:21)

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 "A head-on collision between The Buzzcocks and Syd Barrett."

 Biography:
The Bachelor Pad (1986 - 1991) left a legacy on their wake. The vinyl output started with the famous Sha La La flexi via “Simply Thrilled” and “Are You Scared to Get Happy” fanzines, before 2 singles with Leeds based Warhola Sound records, a LP with Imaginary Records and 3 releases with Egg Records. The Egg releases included a LIVE EP distributed with several fanzines in the UK, US, Japan, Germany and France. The second Egg release was a 7” single “Smoothie” before the 5 track “Jenny Brown” EP single.

 The Bachelor Pad started life as: Vocals/Guitars - Tommy Cherry, Vocals/Guitars - Martin Cotter, Keyboards - David Harris, Bass - Willie Bain, Drums - Graham Adam. Christine Gibson replaced Willie at some point around 1989. Tom Donnelly (ex The Close Lobsters) replaced Martin around 1990.

The Bachelor Pad gigs where plentiful and memorable. Some of the highlights were supporting The Wedding Present at the Barrowlands, Glasgow (with the go go dancer), the debut gig in Edinburgh (with Baby Lemonade and Jesse Garon) and the first show without Martin at King Tuts.

Flour - Flour

 

Artist: Flour

Title: Flour   

Released: 1988   

Label: Touch And Go   

Catalog#: T&GLP#33   

Country: USA   

Style: Rock, Alternative, Indie Rock

Tracklisting:

A1. Love (4:55)
A2. Red (2:11)
A3. Accordion (2:59)
A4. Fade to Grey (2:34)
A5. Coffee (3:14)
B1. Intro (3:37)
B2. One by One (2:11)
B3. There's Blood in My Food (3:34)
B4. Mirror on the Ceiling (2:00)
B5. Outro (3:52)
B6. Starts a Fire (3:03)

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As bassist for two of the finest post-punk/guitar noise bands of their era, Breaking Circus and Rifle Sport (the latter also contained Todd Trainer, later of Brick Layer Cake and Shellac), Pete "Flour" Conway had a hand in shaping both the harsh Chicago sound of the mid-'80s and its more loosely defined Minneapolis counterpart. He also released four consistently good solo albums of claustrophobic noise, of which Fourth and Final is, as the title suggests, the last. Flour toured as a live band twice with a lineup that featured Steve Albini on bass and former Breaking Circus percussionist Todd Trainer on drums before they went on to form the band Shellac.

Slovenly - Riposte

 

It's been some time since my last comp, and will probably be a while until my next. So, to fill the gap, I shall post some more of the vinyl I have converted to FLAC/mp3. I will start with this hard to find album from one of my favourite 80s bands, Slovenly.

Artist: Slovenly
Title: Riposte
Released: 1987
Label: SST Records
Catalog#: SST 089
Country: USA
Style: Rock, Alternative Rock

Tracklisting:

A1. The Way Untruths Are
A2. Old / New
A3. On The Surface
A4. Prejudice
A5. Emma
B1. Enormous Critics
B2. Myer's Dark
B3. Not Mobile
B4. As If It Always Happens
B5. A Little Resolve


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 review by Patrick Foster:

Slovenly's third album doesn't quite pack the wiry power of its predecessor, Thinking of Empire, but it is nonetheless a potent blend of the quintet's offbeat insightfulness and guitar majesty. The band takes a softer tack on Riposte (the title meaning a quick, sharp return in speech or action), mixing acoustic guitars with their staple electric lines and succeeding spectacularly on the memorable instrumental "Emma," though songs like "Enormous Critics" (in which singer Steve Anderson advises "Don't take yourself too seriously") still prick the skin with enough force to make goosebumps appear. Riposte is the first indication that Slovenly was beginning to be drawn to longer, more abstract washes of sound -- an approach that would manifest itself on the two efforts that would follow, 1989's We Shoot for the Moon and 1992's Highway to Hanno's -- but their still-strong attraction to the straightforward art-punk of bands like Wire keeps the record from slipping down the hill of indifference. The tangling guitars of songs like "The Way Untruths Are," "Not Mobile," and the record's highlight, the stinging "Prejudice," make this album a close second to Thinking of Empire within the Slovenly canon, and a must-own for serious fans of 1980s indie guitar scholars.

 

Post-Punk Mix - Volume 3

Continuing the theme from the first 2 volumes, covering the peak years of the post-punk movement. As usual featuring quite a few bands who should have been more widely heard, amongst more familiar names. Enjoy!

  1. Wah! - The Death Of Wah! (5:45)
  2. Girls At Our Best! - This Train (2:57)
  3. Second Layer - In Bits (3:04)
  4. Mission of Burma - Weatherbox (3:26)
  5. This Heat - S.P.Q.R. (3:25)
  6. The Turquoise Swimming Pools - Burst Balloons (3:59)
  7. Delta 5 - Triangle (3:18)
  8. The Happy Family - Puritans (3:13)
  9. Scars - She's Alive (2:58)
10. Guerre Froide - Peine Perdue (3:21)
11. Savage Republic - When All Else Fails... (3:04)
12. Bilders - Alien (2:31)
13. Pink Military - Back On The London Stage (3:04)
14. 23 Skidoo - IY (5:01)
15. The Wake - Patrol (3:31)
16. Mo-Dettes - Sparrow (4:12)
17. Blurt - Get (3:42)
18. Modern English - The Token Man (6:31)
19. Nikki Sudden - Knife My Heart (2:12)
20. Commando M. Pigg - Om Nej (2:12)
21. Josef K - Drone (3:06)
22. Crispy Ambulance - Bardo Plane (3:32)

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Psychedelic Obscurities Volume 5

 

It's been much too long since I compiled volume 4 in this series, so I hope this new one is worth the wait!!

  1. Welfare State - Silence Is Requested In The Ultimate Abyss (4:47)

  2. Lincoln St. Exit - Sunny Sunday Dream (3:21)
  3. Earth Island - Ride The Universe (3:21)
  4. Puff - Vacuum (2:12)
  5. The Little Boy Blues - Mr. Tripp Wouldn't Listen (3:41)
  6. Friendsound - Joyride (4:21)
  7. The Aggregation - White Light (2:04)
  8. Buffy Sainte-Marie - Adam (5:06)
  9. Flat Earth Society - Shadows (1:54)
10. Le Stelle Di Mario Schifano - Molto Lontano (A Colori) (2:47)
11. Graffiti - New Life (2:51)
12. The Happenings - Don't You Think It's Time (3:57)
13. The Bermuda Jam - Good Trip Lollipop - An Antihystahimn (4:32)
14. The Litter - Breakfast At Gardenson's (3:01)
15. Autosalvage - Land Of Their Dreams (3:07)
16. Mortimer - Life's Sweet Music (2:23)
17. Index - Yesterday And Today II (4:07)
18. Art Boys Collection - Stoned Wall (4:35)
19. Truth - Thoughts (3:30)
20. The Mystery Trend - What If I (2:43)
21. Afterglow - Morning (2:02)
22. Damin Eih, A.L.K. and Brother Clark - Take Off Your Eyes (5:47)

Remastered version here!