The End of the Beginning

I haven't been around here in a while. My apologies. I haven't had a lot of free time, and I access this blog through a separate e-mail address that I never use for anything else. It is simply out of my way more often than not.

Within the week I am going to be closing the blog down, but look for it to be re-opened either here under a different name or possibly through Word Press under the same name.

If you have trouble finding it, here are going to be some artists you can look for that I'll be posting in the future:

Alan Vega

The B-Sharps

The Boggs

David Ackles

Django Reinhardt

Hank Williams (the entire Mothers Best 15-CD collection)

Magic Michael

Rick Moranis (not a joke)

Roy Clark

And so many more!

Thank you all for the wonderful comments and for visiting here! Hopefully I'll see you sooner rather than later.

Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues

1. San Francisco Bay Blues

2. Jesse's New Midnight Special

3. Morning Blues

4. Little Black Track

5. Midnight Cold

6. Whoa Mule

7. Joe Henry

8. I Got A Mind To Ramble

9. Crazy About A Woman

10. Where Could I Go But To The Lord

11. Stealin' Back To My Old Time Used To Be

12. Brownskin Girl (I've Got My Eye On You)

A blues musician that far too many people have forgotten about. I barely stumbled upon several years ago when I bought Bob Dylan's first album. The first track of the first Bob Dylan album is a Jesse Fuller song. I loved it, so I looked up Fuller's stuff, and loved it. Now he has disappeared into almost complete obscurity, except for a few songs here and there that people have covered. Most notably is Eric Clapton's cover of "San Francisco Bay Blues," complete with kazoo. One of the things that impressed me most is that he is that his performances were usually solo, but could involve up to five different instruments. He would sing, play with a guitar, harmonica and kazoo around his neck, a hi-hat, and an instrument of his own invention called a footdella or a fotdella. The footdella was a foot-operated bass that was a big box set upright with six strings tied at the top and at the bottom, with foot pedals attached to hammers that would strike the strings like a piano. So any bass sounds you hear in his music, are all from him and his foot-hammers. I've got two other Fuller albums that will get posted here eventually. Until then, enjoy this by CLICKING HERE!

Joy Division - Substance

1. Warsaw
2. Leaders of Men
3. Digital
4. Autosuggestion
5. Transmission
6. She's Lost Control

7. Incubation
8. Dead Souls
9. Atmosphere
10. Love Will Tear Us Apart
11. No Love Lost
12. Failures
13. Glass
14. From Safety to Where?
15. Novelty
16. Komakino
17. These Days

This collection is worth having for "Warsaw" alone. It's more or less a greatest hits set, but with a few previously unreleased songs thrown in for good measure, and they're some good ones! Get it RIGHT HERE!

William Shatner - Has Been

1. Common People

2. It Hasn't Happened Yet

3. You'll Have Time

4. That's Me Trying

5. What Have You Done?

6. Together

7. Familiar Love

8. Ideal Woman

9. Has Been

10. I Can't Get Behind That (w/Henry Rollins)

11. Real

Did he seriously just post a William Shatner album?

Yes he did.

Marcy Playground - a few rare tracks

A lot of people stopped on their Marcy Playground collection with "Sex and Candy." Not me. I loved the band immediately. Even though I've gone through long periods of time with not listening to them at all or even considering them a "guilty pleasure" band, through and through, I love this band and I can't help it. Someone sent me a handful of rarities, that I am going to share with you. If you have more, please help a brotha out!

Mr. Fisher

Memphis

Sex and Candy live on MTV (video)

...Okay, so I guess some of the links he sent me don't work anymore. Help me out! I'd be so grateful!

Those Poor Bastards - Country Bullshit

1. Raw & Bleeding

2. The Accident

3. Black Dog Yodel

4. Pills I Took

5. Radio Country

A small one, but a good one (I know, I know, "That's what she said!"). Arguably the best active country band, they did some things that no one had ever really done before but naturally works, and that is merging country music with goth music. A lot of country music is naturally dark, and so this was a natural blend, and it's done brilliantly by this duo. This is an early release, possibly the earliest. There's some great stuff on here including "The Accident" and the song made more popular by Hank Williams III, "Pills I Took." Get down on this and find out how and why country music is still alive. Get it RIGHT HERE!!!

Tom Waits - Nighthawks At The Diner

1. Intro 

2. Emotional Weather Report

3. Intro

4. On A Foggy Night

5. Intro

6. Eggs and Sausage

7. Intro

8. Better Off Without A Wife

9. Nighthawk Postcards

10. Intro

11. Warm Beer and Cold Women

12. Intro

13. Putnam County

14. Spare Parts I

15. Nobody

16. Intro

17. Big Joe and Phantom 309

18. Spare Parts II and Closing

Man oh man it's been a long time since I last posted. It's easy to forget about this thing when you're as busy as I am; but I got a couple of comments after a very long time, and so I figured I may as well keep the customer satisfied (so to speak). So start off with a bang, one of the best live albums ever recorded. Recorded inside of a studio, but set up with a crowd and tons of props to make it sound like it was recorded inside of a jazz club. The sound is amazing, the songs are fantastic. Not to be missed. Get it HERE!!!!

Eccentric Soul Vol. 15: The Prix Label

1. Eddie Ray - Wait A Minute
2. OFS Unlimited - Mystic
3. Mitch Mitchell/Gene King - Never Walk Out On You
4. Joe King - Speak On Up
5. Royal Esquires - Ain't Gonna Run
6. Eddie Ray - You Got Me
7. Chip Willis & Double Exposre - I'm Gonna Gitcha
8. Mitch Mitchell - Can't Get A Nuff
9. Soul Ensemble - Melon Jelly
10. Eddie Ray - Glad I Found You
11. Marion Black - Listen Black Brother
12. Royal Esquires - Our Love Used To Be
13. OFS Unlimited - Mister Kidneys
14. Marion Black - Come On And Gettit
15. Joe King - You're My Everything
16. Harmonic Sounds Band - Untitled Studio Moves
17. Eddie Ray - You Got Me (Demo)
18. Penny & the Quarters - You And Me
19. Eddie Ray - You Are Mine

This was the first one of the series I bought and it served as my introduction to the Numero Group. Some amazing tracks here. Check it right by CLICKING HERE!

Eccentric Soul Vol. 1: The Capsoul Label

1. Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr - You're All I Need To Make It
2. Marion Black - Who Knows
3. Kool Blues - I'm Gonna Keep On Loving You
4. Bill Moss - Sock It To 'Em Soul Brother
5. Four Mints - Too Far Gone
6. Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr - You Can't Blame Me
7. Bill Moss - Number One (My Daddy Said, You Oughta Be A Man)
8. Four Mints - Row My Boat
9. Ronnie Taylor - Without Love
10. Kool Blues - I Want To Be Ready
11. Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr - Your Love Keeps Drawing Me Closer
12. Elijah & The Ebonites - Hot Grits!!!
13. Ronnie Taylor - I Can't Take It
14. Kool Blues - Can We Try Love Again
15. Four Mints - You're My Desire
16. Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr - A World Without You
17. Marion Black - Go On Fool
18. Eljah & The Ebonites - Hot Gritts!!! (Instrumental)
19. Bill Moss - Sock It To 'Em Soul Brother (Instrumental)

The Numero Group is a label not to be missed. Just like with any genre, you have the major players and you have the other artists and bands who come in behind the major players. Some of them find their place in the history books eventually, and so many others fall into the darkness of obscurity. This label has gone to great lengths to find many of the soul and funk artists of the 50s, 60s, and 70s and put them together into a compilation series called Eccentric Soul. This is definitely one of the best series I've ever run into, right up there with Ethiopiques and Nuggets. This is the first disc in the series, and I believe they are up to about 20 or more now. Every one I've heard is worth owning. So check this out, then go out and buy the series, you won't regret it! In the meantime, hear this one by CLICKING HERE!

Artists Choice: Bob Dyaln

1. Pee Wee Crayton - Do Unto Others
2. Clancy Eccles - Don't Brag, Don't Boast
3. Stanley Brothers with The Clinch Mountain Boys - The Fields Have Turned
Brown
4. Gus Viseur - Flambée Montalbanaise
5. Red Prysock - Hand Clappin'
6. Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Quartette - I Like You
7. Ray Price - I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)
8. Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys - I'se A Muggin' (part 1)
9. Charley Jordan - Keep It Clean
10. Junior Wells - Little By Little (I'm Losing You)
11. Patty & The Emblems - Mixed-Up, Shook-Up Girl
12. Gétatchéw Kassa - Tezeta
13. Flaco Jiménez with Toby Torres & José Morante - Victimas De Huracan
Beulah
14. Wanda Jackson - I Gotta Know
15. Billy Holiday & Her Orchestra - I Hear Music
16. Junior Parker - Pretty Baby

A very cool and unique compilation put together by the man himself, Mr. Bob Dylan. Enjoy! CLICK HERE!

Demonoid follow-up

I finally got a Demonoid account.

In case you're interested, I got it on a Saturday night and it's my understanding that that is the most likely time to find open registration. I'm hoping to get things from there soon and get them here soon after.

Good luck!

Demonoid?

So I've been trying for a long time, in vain, to get a Demonoid account.

Can anyone help me out?

Devo - This Is The Devo Box Set

Disc 1: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
1. Uncontrollable Urge
2. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
3. Praying Hands
4. Space Junk
5. Mongoloid
6. Jocko Homo
7. Too Much Paranoias
8. Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy
9. Come Back Jonee
10. Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin')
11. Shrivel Up

Disc 2: Duty Now For The Future
1. Devo Corporate Anthem
2. Clockout
3. Timing X
4. Wiggly World
5. Blockhead
6. Strange Pursuit
7. SIB (Swelling Itching Brain)
8. Triumph Of The Will
9. Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprise
10. Pink Pussycat
11. Secret Agent Man
12. Smart Patrol/Mr DNA
13. Red Eye

Disc 3: Freedom Of Choice
1. Girl U Want
2. It's Not Right
3. Whip It
4. Snowball
5. Ton O' Luv
6. Freedom of Choice
7. Gates of Steel
8. Cold War
9. Don't You Know
10. That's Pep
11. Mr. B's Ballroom
12. Planet Earth

Disc 4: New Traditionalists
1. Through Being Cool
2. Jerkin' Back 'n' Forth
3. Pity You
4. Soft Things
5. Going Under
6. Race Of Doom
7. Love Without Anger
8. Super Thing
9. Beautiful World
10. Enough Said

Disc 5: Oh, No! It's Devo
1. Time Out For Fun
2. Peek A Boo
3. Out Of Sync
4. Explosions
5. That's Good
6. Patterns
7. Big Mess
8. Speed Racer
9. What I Must Do
10. I Desire
11. Deep Sleep

Disc 6: Shout
1. Shout
2. Satisfied Mind
3. Don't Rescue Me
4. 4th Dimension
5. C'mon
6. Here to Go
7. Jurisdiction of Love
8. Puppet Boy
9. Please Please
10. Are You Experienced?

Disc 7: Dev-O Live
1. Freedom of Choice Theme Song
2. Whip It
3. Girl U Want
4. Gates of Steel
5. Be Stiff
6. Planet Earth
Bonus tracks:
7. Freedom of Choice Theme Song
8. Whip It
9. Snowball
10. It's Not Right
11. Girl U Want
12. Planet Earth
13. S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain)
14. Secret Agent Man
15. Blockhead
16. Uncontrollable Urge
17. Mongoloid
18. Be Stiff
19. Gates of Steel
20. Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
21. Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy)
22. Come Back Jonee

So I was going to wait a while to post this because it was way down on my list, but then I heard it and was totally blown away by the best remastering work I've ever heard. This is the best I've ever heard Devo, and I was lucky to find this. It's going for over $200 on Amazon, but believe me, I'll be paying that when I have that kind of money to spend on it. Until then, you can hear it RIGHT HERE!!!

Someone Up There Hates Me

I'm 23 years old now, and I've been a Mac user since I was at least six years old (if not younger).

Two days ago, for the first time in all those years, my Mac hard drive crashed. Big time. I lost everything. I lost some photos that I hadn't backed up. I lost some personal writings. And I lost a lot of music that I was going to upload here. About 200 albums to be precise. It's not a terribly big deal, though, because I uploaded most of the ones that I had wanted to.

The computer crashing thing does still suck, but it's hardly the worst thing in the world. My next post is going to be another big one and it's going to be a great one! Check back in two days to see what it is!

13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators

1. You're Gonna Miss Me
2. Roller Coaster
3. Splash 1
4. Reverberation
5. Don't Fall Down
6. Fire Engine
7. Thrue the Rhythm
8. You Don't Know
9. Kingdom Of Heaven
10. Monkey Island
11. Tried To Hide
12. Everybody Needs Somebody
13. You Really Got Me (live)
14. Gloria (live)
15. You're Gonna Miss Me (live)

A great blend of psychedelic rock mixed with good old fashioned rock and rock, one of the early documents of Roky Erikson showing how cool he really is. Get this badass album RIGHT HERE!

President Obama

When Barack Obama came to speak in the town that I live, I got to sit behind him during the speech. Then, as he walked by us and shook all of our hands, I said to him, "I'd be proud to call you my President!" He smiled, just like in that photo. And I am even more proud today than I thought I could ever be.

Thank you, Indiana.

Thank you, USA.

Better days are ahead.

Welcome, President Barack Obama!

1234: Punk and New Wave 1976-1979

Disc 1:
1. Complete Control - Clash
2. Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols
3. New Rose - Damned
4. Blitzkreig Bop - Ramones
5. Shadow - Lurkers
6. Thinking Of The USA - Eater
7. Ain't Bin To No Music School - Ed Banger
8. Borstal Breakout - Sham 69
9. I Hate School - Suburban Studs
10. GLC - Menace
11. One Chord Wonders - Adverts
12. Right To Work - Chelsea
13. Johnny Won't Go To Heaven - Killjoys
14. Bone Idle - Drones
15. Where Have All The Boot Boys Gone - Slaughter & The Dogs
16. CID - UK Subs
17. Can't Wait 'til '78 - Wasps
18. Ambition - Subway Sect
19. I'm Stranded - Saints
20. Orgasm Addict - Buzzcocks

Disc 2:
1. In The City - Jam
2. Your Generation - Generation X
3. First Time - Boys
4. Get A Grip (On Yourself) - Stranglers
5. Don't Dictate - Penetration
6. In A Rut - Ruts
7. Big Time - Rudi
8. Don't Ring Me Up - Protex
9. Just Another Teenage Rebel - Outcasts
10. Solitary Confinement - Members
11. Emergency - 999
12. 19 And Mad - Leyton Buzzards
13. I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher - Not Sensibles
14. Romford Girls - Riff Raff
15. Sick Of You - Users
16. Gabrielle - Nips
17. Where Were You - Mekons
18. Murder Of Liddle Towers - Angelic Upstarts
19. Oh Bondage Up Yours - Angelic Upstarts
20. Sweet Suburbia - Angelic Upstarts
21. Television Screen - Radiators
22. Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers
23. Teenage Kicks - Undertones

Disc 3:
1. Teenage Depression - Eddie & The Hot Rods
2. Rich Kids - Rich Kids
3. Baby Baby (I Know You're A Lady) - Vibrators
4. Suffice To Say - Yachts
5. Roadrunner - Richman, Jonathan & Modern Lovers
6. Don't Care - Klark Kent
7. Nervous Wreck - Radio Stars
8. Up Against The Wall - Robinson, Tom Band
9. So It Goes - Lowe, Nick
10. Police Car - Wallis, Larry
11. Hard Loving Man - Johnny Moped
12. Love And A Molotov Cocktail - Flys
13. Where's Captain Kirk - Spizz Energi
14. Sonic Reducer - Dead Boys
15. Search And Destroy - Dictators
16. Born To Lose - Heartbreakers
17. Modern Dance - Pere Ubu
18. If You Don't Want To F*** Me F*** Off - County, Wayne
19. California Uber Alles - Dead Kennedys

Disc 4:
1. I Belong To The Blank Generation - Hell, Richard
2. 10.15 Saturday Night - Cure
3. Rip Her To Shreds - Blondie
4. I Can't Stand My Baby - Rezillos
5. All I Want - Snatch
6. Looking After No 1 - Boomtown Rats
7. Take Me I'm Yours - Squeeze
8. Sex And Drugs And Rock 'n' Roll - Dury, Ian & The Blockheads
9. Spanish Stroll - Mink DeVille
10. Is She Really Going Out With Him - Jackson, Joe
11. Whole Wide World - Wreckless Eric
12. Part Time Punks - Television Personalities
13. Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart - Fitzgerald, Patrick
14. You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory - Thunders, Johnny
15. Psycle Sluts - Clarke, John Cooper
16. Jilted John - Jilted John
17. Kill - Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias
18. Paranoid - Dickies

Disc 5:
1. Public Image - Public Image Ltd.
2. Warsaw - Joy Division
3. Staircase Mystery - Siouxsie & The Banshees
4. Damaged Goods - Gang Of Four
5. You - Au Pairs
6. How Much Longer - Au Pairs
7. Read About Seymour - Swell Maps
8. Young Parisians - Adam & The Ants
9. Monochrome Set - Monochrome Set
10. We Are All Prostitutes - Pop Group
11. Typical Girls - Slits
12. Mannequin - Wire
13. Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
14. Science Fiction - XTC
15. Do The Standing Still - Table
16. Another Girl Another Planet - Only Ones
17. Young Savage - Ultravox
18. Puppet Life - Punishment Of Luxury
19. Jocko Homo - Devo
20. Marquee Moon - Television

This is my most listened-to era of music: underground music of the late 70s. I love it. And this is hands-down one of the best compilations of that scene. You have the typical classics like The Clash and Ramones, you have more underground classics like Wire and Pere Ubu, but then you have thorougly obscure (but just as wonderful) songs from Ultravox and Punishment of Luxury. This is an astounding box set. Get all five discs from one easy link RIGHT HERE!!!!!!!

VOTE!!!!!

If you live in America and you are registered, go vote today!

I don't care who you vote for, be it Ron Paul, Barack Obama, John McCain, Ralph Nader, or Ronald McDonald. I don't care. If you are registered, let your voice be heard. Vote for Obama or McCain if you want someone to have a fighting chance of making it. Vote for Nader or Paul or a third party if you want to send them a message; or do a write-in vote for Rocky & Bullwinkle if you want to give a big middle finger to the whole system. If you don't vote, no one will know what you think one way or the other. Silence is consent.

I have already voted, and I proudly voted for Obama. He's the first politician in my lifetime that has shown any real hope for America's future. Go OBAMA!!!!!!!

The 101ers - Elign Avenue Revisited

1. Letsagetabitarockin'
2. Silent Telephone
3. Keys To Your Heart (V1)
4. Rabies (From the Dogs Of Love)
5. Sweet Revenge
6. Motor Boys Motor
7. Steamgauge 99
8. 5 Star R'n'R
9. Surf City
10. Keys To Your Heart (V2)
11. Sweety of the St. Moritz
12. Hideaway
13. Shake Your Hips
14. Lonely Mother's Son
15. Don't Let It Go
16. Keep Taking The Tablets
17. Junco Partner
18. Out Of Time
19. Maybelline
20. Gloria

Maybe not essential to your rock 'n roll collection, but definitely essential to your Clash collection. This is Joe Strummer growing up, playing songs that were his stepping stones to The Clash. This band is how Mick Jones met him and the rest is history. There are some great songs on here, but a lot of it is just Joe Strummer just revving up to be in his creative explosion, only a few months away. I have one vinyl of theirs, repressed unfortunately, but I definitely recommend this CD over the vinyl, there's more here. Get it HERE!!!

Clearwater Ahead, Indeed

Some great news everyone!

For one, I got a new iPod for birthday, which can hold, like, a million times as much music as my last one. So I am quickly trying to fill it up, and it's fantastic!

Secondly, I got my CD drive fixed, so I have also been spending hours upon hours of the last month or so uploading albums, collections, and videos. I have an awful lot uploaded already that will be making its way onto the blog soon.

Spread the word of this blog, because I'm deliberately trying to get things out there that you won't find elsewhere. The Mark E. Smith documentary is a perfect example of that!

I am also currently trying to get the entire 15-CD set of Hank Williams' Mothers Best radio recordings downloaded through a torrent. It's been over a week and so far I'm at 58.5%, and right now it's in dead water. As soon as I have it up here, so then will you. They just released, this week as a matter of fact, a 3-CD set of select recordings from those, but that's only 3 CDs out of 15. I would happily buy the 15 CD set, quite frankly. However, they're not giving me the 15, so I'm getting it where I can.

Thank you all for the comments! Every comment is one more reason to keep doing this! Thanks again!