R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders - R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders

1. Laughing Rag
2. True Blue Lou
3. Little Rascals Medley
4. Willy the Chimney Sweeper
5. Kiwi Bump
6. Cuckoo Waltz
7. Sweet Lorraine
8. Lucille
9. I Had But Fifty Cents
10. Down In Jungle Town
11. Get A Load Of This
12. Cheap Suit Blues
13. I'll See You In My Dreams
14. Ducks Yas Yas

Cartoonist Robert Crumb is a musician too. Did you know that? Well, you do now. He made at least three albums with his band the Cheap Suit Serenaders, and they are an amazing cross between blues, jazz, and ragtime. They're so much fun and so beautiful at the same time. I don't feel like writing anything more, so just download it already! Get it HERE!

Hillbilly Casino - Sucker Punched

1. Plain To See
2. Pretty Baby
3. Shoe Leather
4. Smashed Down Flat
5. Way Past Gone
6. Filler Up
7. PBR
8. Come On Camille
9. Voodoo Doll
10. Devil Comes To Town
11. Sooner Than Today
12. Mimes Of The Old West
13. County Jail
14. Blanche's Song

Sort of from my home state, but mostly not. The lead singer of this band is Nic Roullette, the same lead singer from the Blue Moon Boys, which I posted a while back. At one point, he took off from Fort Wayne and hurried down to Nashville where he started this band. A hell of a live band, to boot. The album is a lot of fun. A landmark by no means, but it's worth listening to, it's worth buying, and it's especially worth catching them in concert. Long live rockabilly! Get it HERE!!!

Eddie and the Hot Rods - Life On The Line

1. Do Anything You Wanna Do
2. Quit This Town
3. Telephone Girl
4. What's Really Going On
5. Ignore Them (Still Life)
6. Life On The Line
7. (And) Don't Believe Your Eyes
8. We Sing... The Cross
9. Beginning Of The End

One of my personal favorite punk albums, and definitely one of the more underrated ones, this is a great document of how beautifully creative punk rockers could be. The melodies in this are unique, the lyrics are good, and the music itself is what will sell you. The guitar playing has never and would never be better for this band, and Eddie's vocals are so perfect, it makes you want to jump for joy. This is the original album, if you order the remastered edition from Captain Oi, you get nine bonus tracks, it's definitely worth the extra money. For now, listen to this amazing album RIGHT HERE!

MC Honky - I Am The Messiah

1. Sonnet No. 3 (Like A Duck)
2. Hung Up
3. The Object
4. A Good Day To Be You
5. Baby Elephant Rock-A-Bye
6. What A Bringdown
7. Only A Rose Pt. 1
8. My Bad Seed
9. The Devil Went Down To Silverlake
10. Soft Velvety 'Fer
11. The Baby That Was You
12. 3 Turntables & Two Microphones
13. Only A Rose Pt. 2

This one is for my Eels fans. Master of Ceremony Honky is the pseudonym for Eels frontman E (aka Mark Oliver Everett) when he tinkers around on his synthesizer and computer. It's not fantastic, but it's interesting and it is fun. There's one song on here in particular that sounds like an Eels song that was cut from their last album. I've got some Eels bootlegs to get up here eventually, and there's a documentary about E and his scientist father. Get it HERE!

Pixies ballet video

Thought you might enjoy this, it's a ballet performance of the Pixies' "Where Is My Mind."

To You

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has been e-mailing me and commenting.

The only way I know people stop by here at all and download this stuff is when you give me some kind of feedback. So every piece of feedback I get is greatly appreciated.

Likewise to those who have contributed and shared music with me. This blog would not be nearly as cool as it is without people with great music collections of their own that they, in turn, are also willing to share.

So thanks are due all around. It's all of you that make this worth putting so much time into. Next week expect quite a few new posts. Classes end today, finals are next week, but I should be finished with them all by Wednesday, so I'll have a bit of time on my hand to get more out to you. I've got some good ones! So keep checking back, and keep commenting!

Sweeney's Men - Sweeney's Men

1. Rattlin' Roarin' Willy
2. Sullivan's John
3. Sally Brown
4. My Dearest Dear
5. The Exile's Jig
6. The Handsome Cabin Boy
7. Dicey Riley
8. Tom Dooley
9. Willy O'Winsbury
10. Dance To Your Daddy
11. The House Carpenter
12. Johnston
13. Reynard the Fox

I originally found this on the Time Has Told Me blog. As a result I picked up the two-albums-in-one CD, and both albums are very good, but this is definitely where you want to start. It's very much along the same lines as The Dubliners and The Clancy Brothers, appropriately, as they got going around the same time. This band included later Pogues band member, Terry Woods. "Willy O'Winsbury" is an absolutely beautiful track, by itself enough to make this album not to be missed. Drink this one down right now, by CLICKING HERE!

Check this out: new link

I found a new blog, called Stupid and Contagious, with some very very cool rare stuff.

Definitely worth checking out.

I think I've added some other new links recently as well, check out the list on the right hand column.

On the blog mentioned above, look for some rare stuff from Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and many many more!

RECEIVED: The Clash - D.O.A. (Demos, Outtakes, Alternates)

I've seen the track listing for this 2-CD set on various blogs, but every single download link is dead and no one seems to want to answer my e-mails/comments.

So I was wondering if anyone had this or could send a working download link to me.

I would greatly appreciate it! In turn, I will post it on this blog so others can find it.

UPDATE: I have received a copy of D.O.A. from a fellow named Repe. Thank you so much, sir, and I'll be posting that here before too long. I've got some other treats coming up for you all including.... you guessed it: more Fall bootlegs!

The Stooges - Live In Chicago (04/15/2007)

1. Loose
2. Down On The Street
3. I Wanna Be Your Dog
4. TV Eye
5. My Idea Of Fun
6. Dirt
7. Real Cool Time
8. No Fun
9. 1970
10. Fun House
11. Skull Ring
12. Trollin'
13. audience
14. 1969
15. She Took My Money
16. Not Right
17. I'm Fried
18. audience
19. Little Electric Chair

Without a doubt, the best show I've ever been to in my life. I was there, I took those photos, and I've never seen a live band blow me away like The Stooges did on that night just one short year ago. I wrote a review of the show for my college's newspaper, so I don't terribly feel like going into details here, but this show was an experience that you won't get any where else or with any other band. It's definitely a lot different just hearing it through a bootleg, but I was front and center for this orgasm of rock 'n roll. GET IT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thom Yorke - Live At The Bridge School (acoustic)

1. intro (10/26/2002)
2. Everything In Its Right Place
3. I Might Be Wrong
4. Sail To The Moon
5. Like Spinning Plates
6. There, There
7. Pyramid Song
8. Lucky
9. After The Gold Rush (Neil Young cover)
10. intro (10/27/2002)
11. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
12. Morning Bell
13. Nice Dream
14. I Might Be Wrong
15. Sail To The Moon
16. Like Spinning Plates
17. True Love Waits
18. Paranoid Android

I'm honestly not too sure what the story is behind this one. I know it was a benefit gig, and that it was only the two performances, but other than that I don't know much about it. I know that the lead singer for Radiohead went solo for this one with nothing but a guitar and a piano and went through some of the Radiohead catalog, and did a very good job of it. I wish he hadn't repeated any material, but that's all right, they're still very good performances. Some of the songs are given a completely different kind of treatment, and if you're a fan, then it's just fascinating to hear some of those songs under these circumstances. Excellent performance, and top-notch recording quality! Get it HERE!

Magic Sam - West Side Soul

1. That's All I Need
2. I Need You So Bad
3. I Feel So Good (I Wanna Boogie)
4. All Of Your Love
5. I Don't Want No Woman
6. Sweet Home Chicago
7. I Found A New Love
8. Every Night And Every Day
9. Lookin' Good
10. My Love Will Never Die
11. Mama, Mama/Talk To Your Daughter
12. I Don't Want No Woman (alternate)

I hope you don't think that I assume you're stupid, because I most certainly don't. However, I never cease to be amazed at the number of people I run into (even people who say they love blues) who have never heard of this guy, much less heard this album. I don't understand how someone can be a fan of blues, or even just rock 'n roll, and have not heard this essential masterwork of brilliance and skill. There are just a handful of people in this world who are as talented as this man, and ordained by God to do what they do. What I mean is that everything about Magic Sam's work is flawless, but he makes it seem so easy. It just flows out of him like water and I just can't help but be impressed every time I listen to him. If this will be your first listen, prepare to be amazed. Get it RIGHT HERE!

Jello Biafra - High Priest Of The Harmful Matter

Disc 1:
1. Intro - Love American Death Squad Style
2. Talk On Censorship

Disc 2:
1. Tales From The Trial

Jello Biafra has been a big influence on my life recently. His spoken word albums (I think he's up to 8 of them now) are pretty much all dedicated to spreading information that you might not have otherwise heard. While it's sometimes entertaining, his mission is not to entertain. He is an artist on a mission to challenge the listener. He receives news sources from all over the world, often times from very obscure places and I'm not even exactly sure how he does it, but it all comes together in very powerful messages. One of his most-covered topics is of the utmost importance on this album: CENSORSHIP. It sounds like the kind of thing that's saved for the 1950s, but that's if you're to believe that everything they say on the news is true and that we have a "liberal" media. This is really just the tip of the ice berg for his work, I encourage you to go out and buy his albums and become challenged. He cites a lot of his information on the album, so you can even check up on most of the information he presents if you think he's exaggerating or lying. The "Tale From The Trial" segment is in regards to the Dead Kennedys album "Frankenchrist," being put on trial under the recently put-in-place obscenity laws thanks to Tipper Gore and the PMRC. It was the first (and maybe only) album to ever be prosecuted under that law, and he walks you through the entire process from start to finish, and even if you're only mildly interested in underground music it's a fascinating listen. Get it RIGHT HERE!

Red London - This Is England and Sten Guns In Sunderland EP

This Is England
1. CND
2. Guitars And Crime
3. Windward Drifter
4. Clubland Rock
5. Red Alert
6. Where I Was Born
7. Bric-A-Brac Youth
8. No War No Hate
9. Kill A King
10. Posers Retreat
11. Durham Boys
12. Production Line
13. This Is England (part 2)

Sten Guns In Sunderland EP
14. This Is England
15. Soul Train
16. Revolution Times

I'm going to get this out of the way: this is not a very good album. So I have a different motive in posting this. Let me explain. These are the first two releases by the band, put onto one CD. It contains the indisputable punk rock classic "CND." That song has shown up on a LOT of punk compilations. I loved it then, I love it now. So, naturally, I wanted to hear more. I went looking for more Red London for a while with no luck whatsoever. I eventually found a greatest hits compilation of theirs, but the first thing that struck me was the "CND" was not on it, which was odd, but then I listened to it and it sounded like a whole different band. I may be mistaken, but I think it's a collection of work that the band (with a different singer) did on a label they were on later in their career. So NONE of this early work is on their greatest hits CD. Through much effort, I finally found this CD, and...... I didn't like it. The singer, who I liked so much on the opening song, ended up annoying the hell out of me. The guitar work is the best part about it, but no other songs are quite on the level with that classic track. So I'm posting this for any of you curious about what Red London sounded like during "CND" era, and saving you the trouble of looking any further than right here, so you will know that they did, unfortunately, suck. I do dig the song "Red Alert," though. So get it HERE.

Simon and Garfunkel - Live 1969

1. Homeward Bound
2. At the Zoo
3. 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
4. Song For the Asking
5. For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her
6. Scarborough Fair
7. Mrs. Robinson
8. The Boxer
9. Why Don't You Write Me
10. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
11. That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine
12. Bridge Over Troubled Water
13. The Sound Of Silence
14. I Am A Rock
15. Old Friends/Bookends Theme
16. Leaves That Are Green
17. Kathy's Song

Recently released, I believe, through Starbucks. It may seem superfluous, especially if you've heard a live album of theirs before, but the performances on here are absolutely dynamic. This is the tour promoting their (at the time) not-yet-released "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album, so the crowds are hearing many of the songs for the first time. The audience reactions, especially to the title track, are priceless. They're exactly what you'd expect from hearing such amazing songs for the first time. Get it RIGHT HERE!

Dead Boys - We Have Come For Your Children

1. 3rd Generation Nation
2. I Won't Look Back
3. I Don't Wanna Be No Catholic Boy
4. Flame Thrower Love
5. Son Of Sam
6. Tell Me
7. Big City
8. Calling On You
9. Dead and Alive
10. Ain't It Fun

Unfortunately, this phenomenal album was overshadowed by its predecessor, even though this album is just as good. Also, it was soon after they recorded this album that they fizzled out and Stiv Bators would soon be no more. This has songs that should've become punk rock standards ended up being confined to an album that was given little attention and had almost no international distribution. This is one of my most-listened to punk rock albums, and I pass it on to you. Get it RIGHT HERE!

Barack Obama - Live in Muncie, IN (04/12/2008)

Okay, I'll admit this one is a bit unorthodox, but I'm a big fan of Obama, and I think he is the best hope for our country. Not necessarily that he's the best guy for the job, but he stands a damn good chance of getting in, and I think he will genuinely work to make this country better. He came and spoke a few times in Indiana, where I live, and I was at this particular event. It also happened to be a damn good speech. I was very pleased to be able to shake his hand. Give it a listen RIGHT HERE!

Where, oh where, has Nargo gone?

Does anyone have any idea what happened to Nargo The Bort's blogs. He had a bunch of them, with the most and some of the best bootlegs, including live concert footage, that you could find anywhere. I checked up on his blogs a couple of weeks ago and every single one of them are gone and he has yet to reply to my e-mail which I sent over a week ago.

Where is our beloved Bort?

In any case, I will re-post some or many of the bootlegs I found on his blog, as many of them are very good and/or rare. I downloaded somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 of them.

I hope he has not gone for good, he was one of the best. And if he is, well... another one bites the dust, I suppose. I guess it's up to people like me and my fellow bloggers to carry the torch. That is, if protesters in France don't go on a rampage and steal the torch from me.

Radiators From Space - "Television Screen" single & TV Tube Heart

"Television Screen" single
1. Television Screen
2. Love Detective

TV Tube Heart
1. Television Screen
2. Prison Bars
3. Great Expectations
4. Roxy Girl
5. Press Gang
6. Contact
7. Sunday World
8. Electric Shares
9. Enemies
10. Ripped and Torn
11. Not Too Late
12. Blitzin' At the Ritz
13. Party Line

From the original Irish punk scene came the band that would include a young Phillip Chevron who would later join the legendary Pogues. This is very good, underrated stuff. Enjoy! Get it HERE!

The Fall - The Unutterable

1. Cyber Insect
2. Two Librans
3. W.B
4. Sons Of Temperance
5. Dr. Buck's Letter
6. Hot Runes
7. Way Round
8. Octo Realm/Ketamine Sun
9. Serum
10. Unutterable
11. Pumpkin Soup and Mashed Potatoes
12. Hands Up Billy
13. Midwatch 1953
14. Devolute
15. Das Katerer

After a period went by in the 1990s where the quality of the work by Mr. Smith was not quite up to standard, people were saying that The Fall had lost their edge and had no more creative momentum. Some even predicted the end of The Fall entirely. Then this album came out and basically ripped to shreds all naysayers who said that the good days of the band were over with. This album, out as recently as 2000, just goes to show that Mr. Smith still has it in him to blow us away when we least expect it. Get this amazing piece of work RIGHT HERE!

George Carlin - Back In Town

1. Abortion
2. Sanctity of Life
3. Capital Punishment
4. State Prison Farms
5. Farting In Public
6. Familiar Expressions
7. Free-Floating Hostility

One of the best comedians of our time in top form here. I've listened to a lot of his stuff, and this is the album I keep coming back to, hands-down my very favorite. The "Abortion" bit is classic, the "Sanctity of Life" bit is absolute brilliance, and you'll laugh so hard you'll cry during his "Free-Floating Hostility." Enjoy! Get it HERE!

The Fall - Fall Heads Roll

1. Ride Away
2. Pacifying Joint
3. What About Us
4. Midnight Aspen
5. Assume
6. Assume Reprise
7. Blindness
8. I Can Hear the Grass Grow
9. Bo Demmick
10. Yawanner
11. Clasp Hands
12. Early Days of Channel Fuehrer
13. Breaking the Rules
14. Trust In Me

Another hotly-debated album as to how good it is. I can understand those who don't like it, it doesn't measure up in artistic virtuosity like The Unutterable... but then again, what does? This is not The Fall trying to blow anybody away with amazing lyrics or particularly amazing music, this is a pop album in its essence. Not your typical pop album, this is pop music done Fall style, which essentially makes it unplayable on mainstream radio, despite how catchy or wonderful it really is. I happen to be one that loves this album and makes no apology for it. I love The Fall when they blow me away like they do with Live At The Witch Trials or The Unutterable, but I also love The Fall just trying to have fun like with The Marshall Suite or this album. So get up and get into it, but first get it RIGHT HERE!

The Fall - Reformation Post-TLC

1. Over! Over!
2. Reformation!
3. Fall Sound
4. White Line Fever
5. Insult Song
6. My Door Is Never
7. Coaches and Horses
8. The Usher
9. The Wright Stuff
10. Scenario
11. Das Boat
12. The Bad Stuff
13. Systematic Abuse
14. Outro

The most recent album from one of the longest-running bands in the world. Not only a long-running band, but one constantly making new music and producing consistently good work. This band is impressive on so many levels. This is the line-up that was thrown together after the previous band (that made The Real New Fall LP and Fall Heads Roll) left Mark E. Smith in the middle of a U.S. tour. The tour I saw them on, to be exact. Regarding that, Mark E. Smith said in an interview that the title in full is "Reformation, Post Treacherous Lying Cunts." Don't know if he was joking of not, but probably not. This is, by far, not the band's best work, but not the worst either. It was an album somewhat rushed, which it sounds like, and the band had not really been together very long when they went into the studio. The musicians sound like a rockin' jam band experimenting with The Fall's trademarked style, which brings interesting results, some good and some bad. The mix is also interesting on this, the guitars turned down, the bass turned way up, the keyboards turned down, and the backing vocals becoming fairly prominent. Whether you love or hate this album, it really is a departure from the normal Fall Sound, pun intended, and I appreciate the mere fact that they were going for something new. Highlights include "Fall Sound," "White Line Fever," and "My Door Is Never." Get this album RIGHT HERE!

Blue Moon Boys - Live In New York

1. Howl At The Moon
2. Daylight
3. The Last Straw
4. Foolish Love Affair
5. poverty speech
6. Shoe Leather
7. Love
8. Shut Yer Mouth Baby
9. Get Rockin'
10. dominatrix rap
11. Spank Me
12. Pretty Baby
13. Red On The Line
14. Sooner Than Today
15. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
16. fornication sermon
17. Shake Rattle Medley
18. Voodoo Doll

Even better and more intense than the studio album, this live show really captures what the live shows were all about. The guitar on this album will blow your mind. Get it right now, right HERE!

Blue Moon Boys - Sticks and Stones

1. Let Me In
2. Hellfire!
3. Smashed Down Flat
4. Mandolina
5. Baby Bat Those Eyes (Of Blue)
6. Plain To See
7. I Should've Shut My Mouth Instead
8. I Got The Worst
9. I'm No Good For You
10. The Monkey Song
11. My Rocky Moon
12. Grumble
13. She's Mean As Hell

Straight from my hometown, one of the best modern day rockabilly groups. I'll let the album speak for itself. The man on guitar is Kenny Taylor, probably one of the most talented guitarists playing today. I've seen him play live nearly 40 times, and he's even better live. Get this HERE!

The Fall - Live in Oxford (03/17/2008)

1. intro
2. Is This New
3. Wings
4. Fall Sound
5. Pacifying Joint
6. 50-Year-Old Man
7. Wolf Kidult Man
8. I've Been Duped
9. Latch Key Kid
10. Reformation
11. Tommy Shooter
12. Systematic Abuse
13. White Lightning
14. off stage
15. Blindness

Another day, another Fall show. This satisfies two things: my obsession over this amazing band, and the laws of supply and demand. A good show and a good recording. I've been posting newer shows mainly, because I'm gearing up for the new album that comes out later this month. So this is to hold you and I off. Get it HERE!

Black Randy and The Metro Squad - "Pass The Dust, I Think I'm Bowie"

1. I Slept In An Arcade
2. Marlon Brando
3. I Tell Lies Everyday
4. Down At The Laundrymat
5. I Wanna Be A Nark
6. Give It Up Or Turnit Loose
7. Idi Amin
8. Sperm Bank Baby
9. Barfootin' On The Wicket Picket
10. San Francisco
11. Tellin' Lies
12. Say It Loud
13. Theme From Shaft
14. Last Stop On The Express
15. Trouble At The Cup
16. Loner With A Boner
17. Sperm Bank Baby
18. Green Frog Excerpts
19. Theme From Scorpio
20. Beershit Disco Loner

Not really a whole lot one can say about this album or this band. They had a sound of their own, a song writing style of their own, that has never been imitated. I don't really have any unique musings on this piece, so I will simply stop here and give you the link. This album is getting very expensive to buy, so for your listening pleasure: HERE IT IS.

The Velvet Underground - Gymnasium

1. I'm Not A Young Man Anymore
2. Guess I'm Falling In Love
3. I'm Waiting For The Man
4. Run Run Run
5. Sister Ray

I think I popped this one off of the Pop Apocalypse blog. It's a good-sounding bootleg, but that's not what makes this special. This has a Velvet Underground song that has not been released on anything else EVER. The opening track is a track only to be found here (as far as I know). So enjoy this, live at the Gymnasium in 1967. Get it RIGHT HERE!!!

"open the floodgates"

One of the reasons I haven't been posting more often is simply because I was going to keep this blog mainly down to things that were hard to find and all that junk, but now I'm going to open the floodgates and start uploading anything and everything. I only posted bootlegs that I've listened to in full and deem worthy of posting, and the albums I've posted have been at least somewhat rare. Well, I won't be so picky anymore. I've got somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000 CDs which I will start uploading and posting for you just because I want to give back to all of the blogs that have given to me.

A lot of them are disappearing, too. That's the worst part. So I want to focus on quantity while I still can. I don't know why so many have been closing down their blogs entirely. Stop posting, I understand that it's time-consuming, but why close them down entirely? I don't know if they're receiving threats or what, but in case you didn't notice, I am operating under a pseudonym for exactly that reason.

So you can start expecting more frequent posts, even if not as rare ones, from now on. I will try to do at least two postings tonight.