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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, January 15, 2014 | 09:00 to 11:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Frank Zappa Willie The Pimp Hot Rats Bizarre/Reprise from his 1969 LP, his first after the Mothers of Invention disbanded. Feat. vocal by Captain Beefheart on this one, and interesting use of ratchet wrench as percussion.
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band Dirty Blue Gene Doc At The Radar Station 4 Men With Beards Orig. 1980 on Virgin Records. Happy Birthday Beefheart! He'd have been 73 today.
* Lost Kids Alle Taler Cola Freaks 7" Sing Sing b-side. Late 1970s Denmark punk
* Brett Smiley Va Va Va Voom Va Va Va Voom / Space Ace 7" Sing Sing 1974
Savages City's Full Silence Yourself Matador from last summer
* Drunken Prayer Frenchy House of Morgan Fluff & Gravy this is Morgan Geer, sometimes of Asheville, prev. of Unholy Trio.
* Flamin' Groovies She Said Yeah Shake Some Action 4 Men With Beards orig. on Sire Records, 1976. Produced by Dave Edmunds. Tune co-written by Sonny Bono and Roddy Jackson.
Psychic Ills See You There One Track Mind Sacred Bones 2012
* Selda Kiymayin Efendiler Selda Pharaway Sounds Turkey, 1979.
* Souha Abdel Amir Kolli Ala Al Makshouf (VA) Choubi Choubi! vol. 2: Folk & Pop Sounds from Iraq Sublime Frequencies song means "Be Honest With Me." 2 LP set, all songs taken from Iraqi cassettes found in Iraqi and Syrian neighborhoods of Detroit, 1995-2010.
Doris Day Keep Cool Fool (VA) Head Over High Heels: Strong & Female 1927 to 1959 Trikont 1955
The Prairie Ramblers I Haven't Got A Pot To Cook In Swingin' Down The Old Orchard Lane With The Prairie Ramblers Bronco Buster 1936
* Hiss Golden Messenger Jesus Shot Me In The Head Bad Debt Paradise of Bachelors new set from HGM - kitchen table guitar-vocal demos recorded in 2010.
Gillian Welch The Way It Goes The Harrow & The Harvest Acony 2011
* Damien Jurado Silver Donna Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son Secretly Canadian new
Spacemen 3 Honey (VA) Destination Bomp: The Best of Bomp Records' First 20 Years Bomp 1989 i think
Deerhoof Fresh Born Offend Maggie Kill Rock Stars 2008
Songs: Ohia How To Be Perfect Men Axxess & Ace Secretly Canadian 1999. Thx for the request for Magnolia Electric Co.! Since I played 'em last week I hope JM's earlier project will satisfy!
The Doors End Of The Night The Doors Elektra 1967. Happy to be playing this off my Mom's LP :)
* Sapphire Slows Fade Out Allegoria Not Not Fun new from Tokyo's Kinuko Hiramatsu -- her first full-length
* Glaxo Babies Shake (The Foundations) Nine Months to the Disco Superior Viaduct Bristol UK, 1980. Their only album.
* Student Teachers Channel Thirteen Invitation to . . . The Student Teachers 1978-80, the Complete Syllabus Nacional late 70s NYC
* Alarms & Controls Ocean of Storms Clovis Points Dischord new Dischord
Faith No Choice (VA) 20 Years of Dischord Dischord old Dischord
Last Year's Men Beware Sunny Down Snuff Churchkey 2010
Joe Jackson One More Time Look Sharp! A&M 1979. Joe Jackson's stellar debut. Check it!
Lyres Not Looking Back Lyres, Lyres Munster Boston, 1986. Orig. on Ace of Hearts Records.
* J.T. IV Destructo Rock Cosmic Lightning Drag City/Galactic Zoo Disk late 70s, early 80s stuff from John Henry Timmis, IV