If you don't have The Flaming Lips on your wall...

...you're wack!


You're so wack!

(mp3) The Flaming Lips - She is death
Available on Shambolic Birth and Early Life of... (2002)

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #120

(mp3) Graham Gouldman - Go for it
Available on Animalympics: Music From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1980)

(mp3) Jandek - Tell me who you are
Available on Somebody in the Snow (1990)

(mp3) Tenhi - Revontulet
Available on Kauan (1999)

(mp3) Mos Def - Ghetto rock
Available on The New Danger (2004)

(mp3) The Olivia Tremor Control - Today I lost a tooth
Available on Presents: Singles and Beyond (2000)

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #119

Ian Ball is in Gomez.

Gomez.

(mp3) Kate Rusby - I courted a sailor
Available on Little Lights (2001)

(mp3) David Bowie - Up the hill backwards
Available on Scary Monsters (1980)

(mp3) Hard-Fi - Hard to beat
Available on Stars of CCTV (2005)

(mp3) Ian Ball - I knew you were trouble
Available on Who Goes There (2007)

(mp3) The Sugarcubes - Dark disco 1
Available on Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! (1989)

Gomez up your life

Totally dig Gomez so you get an hour of my favorite Gomez tracks.

These are taken from Bring It On (1998), Liquid Skin (1999), Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline (2000), In Our Gun (2002), Split the Difference (2004), How We Operate (2006), A New Tide (2009), and Whatever's On Your Mind (2011).

One thing my favorite Gomez tracks have in common is that they're nearly all sung by the gravel-voiced dude. Don't know his name, but he's the one with the Mark Lanegan-ish, Tom Waits-esque pipes. Not even sure why they even bother to let the other two dudes (don't know their names either) take the mic. Such a waste.

(zip) Gomez - You've done been Gomez'd (89 mb)

1. Get miles
2. Do one
3. Our goodbye
4. Little pieces
5. Shot shot
6. Tear your love apart
7. See the world
8. We haven't turned around (x-ray)
9. Bring your lovin' back here
10. Free to run
11. Revolutionary kind
12. Make no sound
13. Even song
14. Miles end
15. All too much
16. Whatever's on your mind

Buy all things Gomez @ Amazon.com.

FAK + FF

(mp3) First Aid Kit - Theme from Filip & Fredriks Podcast

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #118

(mp3) The Beach Boys - She's goin' bald
Available on Smiley Smile (1967)

(mp3) The Peepshows - Nailed to the ground
Available on Refuge For Degenerates (2003)

(mp3) Ebba Grön - Svart & vitt
Available on Kärlek & Uppror (1981)

(mp3) The Hollies - Charlie and Fred
Available on Butterfly (1967)

(mp3) The Horrors - A train roars
Available on Strange House (2007)

Happy Birthday, Eddie Izzard!

The big 50. Damn.

Celebrate by downloading the audio rips I made of some of his DVDs a few years back. I didn't bother with Sexie, as it isn't very good.

(zip) Unrepeatable (1994)
(zip) Definite Article (1996)
(zip) Glorious (1997)
(zip) Dress To Kill (1998)
(zip) Circle (2000)

Buy all things Eddie Izzard @ Amazon.com

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #117

Like I said on my other blog yesterday: the second season of Portlandia is fucking incredible. I wasn't entirely convinced by the first season - too uneven. But this second one? Tits. Though I'll never be able to take Carrie Brownstein seriously again.

I only mention this because this post includes a song by Wild Flag, Brownstein's current band. Great song, but I can't help but think of her as a Battlestar Galactica junkie.

I would also recommend the Fireside song. A very underrated band that deserved more success.

(mp3) Fireside - Player
Available on Get Shot (2003)

(mp3) Wild Flag - Black tiles
Available on S/t (2011)

(mp3) Eddie Spaghetti - I don't wanna grow up (Tom Waits cover)
Available on Old No. 2 (2005)

(mp3) Television - Little Johnny Jewel (parts 1 & 2)
Available on Marquee Moon (1977)

(mp3) Pulp - The birds in your garden
Available on We Love Life (2001)

Monty Python tracks that get my juices flowing

A personal favorite is the Holy Grail album, which features John Cleese trying to explain the visuals of each scene in case you haven't seen the film. Brilliant and incredibly annoying.

I also realised listening to these that they don't really work on their own, as the tracks on the Python albums, much like the sketches on Monty Python's Flying Circus, tended to flow into one another and taking them out of their context sort of defeats the purpose.

You should just get the albums or something. Quite a disappointing post, this.

(mp3) Monty Python - Stake your claim
Available on Another Monty Python Record (1971)

(mp3) Monty Python - Alistair Cook attacked by a duck
Available on Monty Python's Previous Record (1972)

(mp3) Monty Python - Novel writing
Available on Matching Tie and Handkerchief (1973)

(mp3) Monty Python - "You're using coconuts"
Available on Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The Album (1975)

(mp3) Monty Python - Bookshop
Available on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (1980)

Huh?

Any issues with Rapidshare?

Has anyone had any problem with downloading since I switched to Rapidshare?

If so, I hope you'll let me know.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #116

Lizard Street by Loosegoats is one of my favorite Dinosaur Jr songs of all time.

(mp3) Loosegoats - Lizard sheet
Available on Plains, Plateaus and Mountains (1999)

(mp3) FreeBass - Secrets and lies
Available on It's a Beautiful Life (2010)

(mp3) Cabaret Voltaire - Automotivation
Available on Listen Up With Cabaret Voltaire (compilation, 1990)

(mp3) Dead Meadow - Between me and the ground
Available on Old Growth (2008)

(mp3) Gang of Four - What we all want
Available on Solid Gold (1981)

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #115

Damn, there's a lot of Amanda Jenssen around here lately. Happyland is a great album, what can I tell ya?

This is the last one though. Promise.

(mp3) Amanda Jenssen - Charlie
Available on Happyland (2009)

(mp3) Slim Cessna's Auto Club - Americadio
Available on Cipher (2008)

(mp3) The Chocolate Watch Band - I'm not like everybody else (The Kinks cover)
Available on The Inner Mystique (1968)

(mp3) Linda Thompson - Paddy's lamentation
Available on V/A - Gangs of New York (2002)

(mp3) Isaac Hayes - Soulsville
Available on Shaft: Music From The Soundtrack (1971)

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #114

(mp3) Björk - Cvalda
Available on SelmaSongs (2000)

(mp3) Amanda Jensson - Save me for a day
Available on Happyland (2009)

(mp3) Stackridge - Father Frankenstein is being your pillow
Available on Friendliness (1972)

(mp3) Canned Heat - An owl song
Available on Boogie With Canned Heat (1968)

(mp3) Tomorrow - Strawberry fields forever (The Beatles cover)
Available on S/t (1968)

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #113

I'm on like Dr John, yeah Mr Zu Zu
I'm a newlywed, not a divorcee
And everything I do is funky like Lee Dorsey

(mp3) Lee Dorsey - Do-re-mi
Available on Ya! Ya! (1962)

(mp3) Donny Hathaway - What's goin' on (Marvin Gaye cover)
Available on Live (1972)

(mp3) Tiny Vipers - On this side
Available on Hands Across the Void (2007)

(mp3) Fairport Convention - Cajun woman
Available on Unhalfbricking (1969)

(mp3) John Lee Hooker - Process
Available on Burnin' (1962)

Duger Just Till Ingenting

(mp3) The Tallest Man on Earth - En fattig trubadur

It's Caught Me in Its Spotlight

(mp3) The Tallest Man On Earth w. Augustifamiljen - Dancing in the moonlight (Thin Lizzy cover)

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #112

(mp3) Muddy Waters - Ramblin' mind
Available on After the Rain (1969)

(mp3) Amanda Jensson - Common Henry
Available on Happyland (2009)

(mp3) S - Wait
Available on I'm Not As Good At It As You (2010)

(mp3) FreeBass - She said
Available on It's a Beautiful Life (2010)

(mp3) Sly & The Family Stone - Poet
Available on There's a Riot Goin' On (1971)

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #111

(mp3) New Order - Paradise
Available on Brotherhood (1986)

(mp3) Isaac Hayes - Runnin' out of fools
Available on ...To Be Continued (1970)

(mp3) Public Image Ltd. - Careering
Available on Second Edition (1980)

(mp3) The Crystals - He's sure the boy I love
Available on Sing the Greatest Hits (1963)

(mp3) The Growing Concern - All I really want
Available on S/t (1968)

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #110

In case you missed the memo, my Mediafire account got wiped clean the other day, without warning or explanation. Very odd. Very annoying.

I'm working on reuploading shit at the moment, but there's no way I could or would upload everything again, so just for future reference: never expect a download link posted prior to this date to actually work. They might, but they could just as well not.

(mp3) Amanda Jensson - The rebounder
Available on Happyland (2009)

(mp3) Hamell On Trial - Nancy's got a new boyfriend
Available on Choochtown (2000)

(mp3) Neil Young - Like a hurricane
Available on Unplugged (1993)

(mp3) Imani Coppola - It's all about me, me and me
Available on Chupacabra (1997)

(mp3) New Order - Chosen time
Available on Movement (1981)

syntax error ftw

It appears my Mediafire account has been wiped clean.

Hm. How utterly arse.

Oh well, I'll reupload my shit later. Stay tuned.

Metal Bastard ♥ The Red Hippie

Last night, while looking around for some Sly & The Family Stone, I stumpled upon The Red Hippie, which within minutes became my new favorite blog.

What grazed my tired, jaded eyes was an impressive amount of 60s and 70s prog, psychedelia, blues rock, folk, jazz, and combinations and variations of the five. It wonderfully fills the void of two of my favorite blogs of all time - the much missed ChrisGoesRock and the hibernating Time Has Told Me. I ended up spending the next five hours downloading close to a hundred albums. I didn't get to bed until 02:00 AM.

I just had to lump a bunch of my favorite tracks together and share it with y'all. Turned out an awful lot of them were from 1968. It was a good year, whaddayagonnado. Technically the title of this complilation, Songs Metal Bastard Learned From The Red Hippie, is misleading as I was already familiar with the Richie Havens and Donovan tracks, but everything else on here was new to me.

The opening track by Bill Plummer is a personal favorite. Some kind of demented, pre-historic new age rap over sitars and tablas. It's even stranger than it sounds. So weird and so incredibly addictive.

The best part about all of this? The dude behind The Red Hippie is only seventeen. Apparently not all kids today are douchebags.

There is hope for the future.

(zip) V/A - Songs Metal Bastard Learned From The Red Hippie (77 mb)

1. Bill Plummer - Journey to the east (1968)
2. H.P. Lovecraft - Spin, spin spin (1968)
3. Ravi Shankar - An introduction to Indian music (1968)
4. Gnidrolog - A dog with no collar (1972)
5. Ten Years After - I'd love to change the world (1971)
6. High Tide - Walking down their outlook (1969)
7. The Hobbits - Break away (1967)
8. John Mayall - She's too young (1968)
9. Quintessence - Notting Hill gate (1969)
10. Ramases - Balloon (1971)
11. Richie Havens - Handsome Johnny (1968)
12. Tomorrow - Three jolly little dwarfs (1968)
13. Canned Heat - Bear wives (1968)
14. Fresh Maggots - Car song (1971)
15. Donovan - Three king fishers (1966)

Pay for your music.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #109

Fuck you, SOPA!

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck YOOOOUUUUU!!!!

(mp3) Asva - Birds
Available on Presences of Absences (2011)

(mp3) Dr Dre & B Real - Pupper master
Available on Muggs Presents: The Soul Assassins, Chapter I (1997)

(mp3) Gong - Perfect mystery
Available on You (1974)

(mp3) Mahavishnu Orchestra - Thousand island park
Available on Birds of Fire (1973)

(mp3) King Crimson - Three of a perfect pair
Available on Three of a Perfect Pair (1984)

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #108

(mp3) Architectural Metaphot - All tomorrow's parties (Velvet Underground cover)
Available on Creature of the Velvet Void (1997)

(mp3) The Lonely H - Sweet Madeline
Available on Kick Upstairs (2006)

(mp3) S - I'm so bored I'm going to sleep
Available on Puking and Crying (2004)

(mp3) Sera Cahoone - Tryin'
Available on Only As the Day is Long (2008)

(mp3) Crack Sabbath - Breed (Nirvana cover)
Available on Bar Slut (2004)

MP3 Shuffle #140

I posted this on my metal blog three weeks ago and it only just now struck me that readers of this blog would perhaps enjoy it as well.

Go nuts.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #140 (81 mb)

1. Rainbow - Tarot woman (1976)
2. Mountain - Silver paper (1970)
3. ZZ Top - Move me on down the line (1973)
4. Asoka - Leave me (1971)
5. Electric Sandwich - Nervous creek (1973)
6. Uriah Heep - Tears in my eyes (1971)
7. Slam Creepers - Summertime (1967)
8. Black Sabbath - The thrill of it all (1975)
9. Siena Root - Mountain II (2005)
10. Bigelf - Frustration (1997)
11. Jimi Hendrix - Ain't no telling (1967)
12. Three Seasons - Life's road (2011)

Pey fer yer mewsick.