Boo!

A ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person, taken to be capable of appearing in visible form or otherwise manifesting itself to the living.

Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely: the mode of manifestation can range from an invisible presence to translucent or wispy shapes, to realistic, life-like visions.

(zip) Metal Bastard's Ghost Songs (72 mb)

1. Band of Horses - Is there a ghost (2007)
2. Aimee Mann - Ghost world (2000)
3. Drive-By Truckers - A ghost to most (2008)
4. The Specials - Ghost town (1981)
5. Pure Soundart - The ghost (2010)
6. Robert Johnson And Punchdrunks - Ghost train (1996)
7. Ryan Adams - Natural ghost (2001)
8. Neutral Milk Hotel - Ghost (1998)
9. Jose Gonzalez - The ghost of Tom Joad (2005)
10. Stiltskin - Scared of ghosts (1994)
11. Johnny Cash - (Ghost) riders in the sky (1979)
12. Sex Gang - Land of ghosts (1999)
13. The White Stripes - Little ghost (2005)
14. Florence And The Machine - Ghosts (demo version, 2009)
15. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Little ghost song (2003)

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(Cover) Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #33

Here's a bunch of fine cover versions of fine songs, some of which I considered including during Covers Month last year.

(mp3) Moneybrother & Howlin' Pelle Almqvist - Jag skriver inte på nåt
Available on Pengabrorsan (2006)

(mp3) Nick Cave & Shane McGowan - What a wonderful world
Available on B-Sides & Rarities (compilation, 2005)

(mp3) Norah Jones - Jesus, etc
Available on The Fall (deluxe edition, 2009)

(mp3) The Cure - World in my eyes
Available on V/A - For The Masses (1998)

(mp3) Bobby Womack - I'd be ahead if I could quit while I'm behind
Available on Lookin' For A Love Again/BW Goes CW (compilation, 2004)

Locomotives - "G.R.I.L.L." (1997)

This is the story of a Norwegian pop band called Locomotives.

And here the story ends. Because I know very little about them, and googling proved futile. I saw the video for the song Universe on MTV Europe's Alternative Nation in 1998 (damn, that was a good show... Toby Amies was the man). I liked the video, liked the song, and ordered the EP G.R.I.L.L. from a shitty online shopping site called Boxman (the company that would let you wait a month for a delivery and then tell you the product you wanted is out of stock). As unlikely as it was, G.R.I.L.L. arrived in the mail and turned out to be a rather pleasurable experience. Nothing earthshattering, but a good listen nonetheless.

Universe still managed to put a smile on my face (any songs that namedrops Madonna and Karl Marx in the same line is alright in my book), and the more mellow tracks Penthouse and You Can't Always Get What You Want have a lot to offer as well.

According to bandinfo.no Locomotives released an album called Spin in 1997, one called Albert in 1999 and another EP in 2001. I haven't been able to track them down, but I'd love to hear them one day. If you have any info on Locomotives and what they're up to these days, email me.

(mp3) Locomotives - Universe (recommended!)
(mp3) Locomotives - You can't always get what you want
(mp3) Locomotives - Penthouse

As long as I gets a little golden shower

Gold is a chemical element with the symbol "AU" and an atomic number of 79.

It has been a highly sought-after precious metal for coinage, jewelry, and other arts since the beginning of recorded history. The metal occurs as nuggets or grains in rocks, in veins and in alluvial deposits.

Gold is dense, soft, shiny and the most malleable and ductile pure metal known. Pure gold has a bright yellow color and luster traditionally considered attractive, which it maintains without oxidizing in air or water. Gold is one of the coinage metals and has served as a symbol of wealth and a store of value throughout history.

Gold standards have provided a basis for monetary policies. It also has been linked to a variety of symbolisms and ideologies.

(zip) Metal Bastard's Gold Songs (81 mb)

1. Basia Bulat - Gold rush (2010)
2. David Bowie - Velvet goldmine (1971)
3. The Posies - Golden blunders (1990)
4. Katy Perry - Black & gold (2009)
5. Silverbullit - Only gold (2004)
6. Ash - Goldfinger (1996)
7. Shed Seven - Going for gold (1996)
8. Ryan Adams - Fools gold (2001)
9. Pink Floyd - The gold it's in the... (1972)
10. The Soundtrack of Our Lives - From gravity to gold (1998)
11. The Stranglers - Golden brown (1981)
12. Neil Young - After the gold rush (1970)
13. Tom Waits - Diamonds & gold (1985)
14. Red House Painters - Golden (2001)
15. Nina Simone - Plain gold ring (1964)

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Robert Johnson And Punchdrunks - "Feels Like Buzz Aldrin" (1996)

Remember back in '94 when Pulp Fiction came out and suddenly surf music became cool? Thanks to Quentin Tarantino including the likes of The Lively Ones, Dick Dale, The Centurions and The Impacts, this long lost genre that no one had cared about for 25 years was the shit for about a moment and a half.

Robert Johnson and his merry gang of roughnecks The Punchdrunks released this their second album two years later and got quite good reviews for what they themselves called "tropical exotic rock". Boxing enthusiast Johnson shows off his fascination with Muhammad Ali with tracks such as Ali Boom A Lay, and the album was recorded during something called "Rope-A-Dope sessions". Their third album, 1997's Aloha From Havana, had songs like Do The Punch and Thrilla In Manilla.

Feels Like Buzz Aldrin was recorded in mono with all the levels deep in the red. The distortion rips at your eardrums in some of the most ass-kicking intrumental rock 'n' roll ever recorded. It's sweaty, feverish, horny, violent, furious and ferocious. It's surf rock all coked up and with a thirst for blood.

Imagine four people losing their minds on a mezcal & tequila binge being so pissed off at their instruments they're trying to beat them to death while the tape's running.

Imagine the motion picture soundtrack to Tony Montana vs. James Bond.

Imagine the sound of Lux Interior and Larry Parypa taking turns buggering Link Wray behind a burning whorehouse in Shanghai.

(mp3) R.J. And Punchdrunks - Buzz Aldrin (recommended!)
(mp3) R.J. And Punchdrunks - Tigercharm
(mp3) R.J. And Punchdrunks - Asiatic flu (recommended!)
(mp3) R.J. And Punchdrunks - Ali boom a lay
(mp3) R.J. And Punchdrunks - Ramrod

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Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #32

(mp3) DJ Format feat. Abdominal - Vicious battle raps
Available on Music For The Mature B-Boy (2003)

(mp3) Queen - Doing all right
Available on S/t (1973)

(mp3) Sammy Davis Jr - Mr. Bojangles
Available on Mr. Bojangles (compilation, 1999)

(mp3) Anthony Hamilton - Can't let go
Available on Ain't Nobody Worryin' (2005)

(mp3) Rhonda Vincent - Drivin' nails in my coffin
Available on The Storm Still Rages (2001)

V/A - "Batman Forever Soundtrack" (1995)

Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever - bullshit movie, great soundtrack.

Any questions?

(mp3) U2 - Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me
(mp3) Massive Attack feat. Tracey Thorn - The hunter gets captured by the game
(mp3) Nick Cave - There is a light

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Oh, what's in a name?

Women - the inspiration of all writers throughout the ages. Well, all male ones at least. Or most of them anyway. And some female writers too.

The list of songs with a girl's name in the title is almost endless and I couldn't possibly squeeze all my favorites into one mix, so Volume 2 will be posted some time in the future.

(zip) Metal Bastard's Girls Names Songs Vol. 1 (69 mb)

1. Derek & The Dominoes - Layla (1970)
2. Jarvis Cocker - Angela (2009)
3. Ronny & The Daytonas - Diane, Diane (1968)
4. Mando Diao - Josephine (2006)
5. The Band - Ophelia (1975)
6. Bob Dylan - Sara (1976)
7. Pugh Rogefeldt - Colinda (1969)
8. Foo Fighters - Aurora (1999)
9. Weeping Willows - Louisa (1997)
10. Songs Of Soil - Paige (2000)
11. Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)
12. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Lucy (1990)
13. Einstürzende Neubauten - Sabrina (2000)
14. Morphine - Sheila (1993)
15. P.J. Harvey - Catherine (1998)

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Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #31

(mp3) Kula Shaker - Govinda
Available on K (1996)

(mp3) Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Portrait of a man
Available on Portrait Of A Man And His Woman (1972)

(mp3) The Magic Numbers - Undecided
Available on Those The Brokes (2006)

(mp3) The Specials - Monkey man
Available on S/t (1979)

(mp3) Prefab Sprout - Appetite
Available on Steve McQueen (1985)

A real live lover, could have been a book

Last month I got a big ass package of dvds in the mail, today it was a box full of books.

There is something spectacularly satisfying about ordering tons of stuff that will take weeks to deliver, because when the shipment finally arrives at your door you've forgotten what it was you ordered, so it's like Christmas all over again! Only it's a gift you're paying for yourself.

This here ol' box 'o books set me back a cool €160, but goshdarn if it wasn't worth it. I'm giddy like a school girl, I don't know what to read first! Weeeeeeeeee!

PS. Yes, I prefer paperbacks. Always.

(mp3) Eleven - Howling book
Available on Howling Book (2003)

(mp3) Desert Sessions - Interpretive reading
Available on Volume 7 & 8 (2001)

(mp3) The Last Shadow Puppets - My little red book
Available on My Mistakes Were Made For You (ep, 2008)

(mp3) Forss - Funk for nerds
Available on Soulhack (2003)

Silver&Crimson Vol. 29

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(zip) Silver&Crimson Vol. 29 (37 mb)

Psycho Sayid

So first we have Crazy Claire, now we get Psycho Sayid.

Lost is firmly shaping up to be my favorite TV show of all time. The X-Files held the #1 position for a long time before Six Feet Under conquered the title, but bugger me backwards on a blue buggy if Lost isn't inching itself closer and closer.

Locke/M.I.B. hitting full-on Colonel Kurtz mode, rallying up the dark troops for a rumble in the jungle? Fucking badass.

(mp3) The Sonics - Psycho
Available on Here Are The Sonics (1965)


Bonus track:

(mp3) The Sonics - Psycho (live)