The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E. Smith

I figured if I'd be making a comeback after all this time, it'd better be something pretty fuckin' cool. Well, I have exactly that, thanks to a torrent floating around very recently. I have for you fans the BBC documentary made very recently on your favorite frontman and mine, Mark E. Smith. It's more about The Fall than anything and its various incarnations, but obviously there's only one way to really do that. It's damn good for being as short as it is. I wish I could claim credit for the above Lego likeness of Mr. Smith, but alas, I found it floating around on the internet. Pretty cool, huh? Enough of that, check out the documentary RIGHT HERE!!!

A Punk Tribute To The Clash

1. Gene October - White Riot
2. Knox - Train In Vain
3. Mike Peters - White Man In Hammersmith Palais
4. Mike Peters - London Calling
5. Gene October - I Fought The Law
6. Micky Fitz - Police On My Back
7. Duncan "Kid" Reid - Complete Control
8. Nick Cash - Tommy Gun
9. Peter B. - Rock the Casbah
10. RTZ Global - Guns Of Brixton
11. Knox - Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
12. Charlie Harper - Police and Thieves
13. Micky Fitz - Clash City Rockers

A decent tribute with kind of a silly, but different, idea. Instead of having bands turn in their own versions of songs, they used one backing band throughout almost the entire thing and then brought on singers from various punk bands such as Chelsea, The Boys, The Business, The Vibrators, UK Subs, and more. Unfortunately, the two best performances on here are done by guys who did only one track each. Those two being the tracks with Reid and Harper. It's a fun comp all around, worth checking out RIGHT HERE!

Chumbawamba - First Two

The covers to the two separate albums that made the above CD:


1. How To Get Your Band On Television
2. British Colonialism and the BBC
3. Commercial Break
4. Unilever
5. More Whitewashing
6. An Interlude: Beginning To Take It Back
7. Dutiful Servants and Political Masters
8. Coca-Colanisation
9. ...And In A Nutshell
10. Invasion
11. Always Tell the Voter What the Voter Wants To Hear
12. Come On Baby (Let's Do the Revolution)
13. The Wasteland
14. Today's Sermon
15. Ah-Men
16. Mr. Heseltine Meets His Public
17. The Candidates Find Common Ground
18. Here's the Rest Of Your Life

Okay, I am back! Very sorry for the long hiatus! Before you heard "Tubthumping" so often you wanted to puke, this band was making anarcho-punk records. And good ones, at that. Their sound would continue to evolve until we got the dance hit that we all know and are sick of. They have been actively involved in some very righteous political organizations. Check it out! And listen to their first two releases by CLICKING HERE.

WANTED: Hank Williams' "Mother's Best" shows

For those who don't know, there exists hours upon hours of unreleased Hank Williams material. He did a weekly spot on a radio show called "Mother's Best" that were all recorded and only turned up about ten years ago in the hands of Legacy Recordings. Jett and Hank Jr. sued them as the company was rearin' to release them even though Hank's heirs own the rights to all of his recordings. Luckily, they won eventually, but they have yet to be officially released.

It's floating around out there, but it's getting difficult to find for some reason. At Uncle Gil's Rockin' Archives, you can get three CDs worth of songs that he never released anywhere else, but then there's about another 12 CDs worth of more recorded material (of songs that were released some where else at some time).

All of the torrents I found for the 15-CD set were all dead, and I found one blog with all of it, but most of the links were dead and apparently he was missing some songs. I'd like the whole kittenkabootle (I've never written that word anywhere before, ever, so I have no idea how to spell it).

Please help me in my Hank endeavors! Oh, and go HERE!

The Clash - Rockin' The Red Point

1. London Calling
2. Safe European Home
3. White Man In Hammersmith Palais
4. Brand New Cadillac
5. Charlie Don't Surf
6. Clampdown
7. This Is Radio Clash
8. Armegideon
9. Jimmy Jazz
10. Tommy Gun
11. Police On My Back
12. White Riot

There are a lot of Clash live bootlegs out there, so I intend to be a bit selective with mine. This is a good quality bootleg from, what sounds like, the London Calling era. That is to say, the best era of the Clash. I'm not exactly sure where or when it was recorded, you can really only guess. This is a good live show, worth a listen. More to come later. Get this one HERE!

Andrew Bird - Soldier On EP

1. The Trees Were Mistaken
2. Sic of Elephants
3. The Water Jet Cilice
4. Plasticities remix
5. Heretics (early version)
6. Sectionate City excerpt
7. How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm
8. Oh Sister

I looked this up a second ago, thinking that it was going to be difficult to find. Uhhh... nope. This is very very easy to find on other blogs. Oh well, I already uploaded it, so whatever. It was originally an EP released only on his European tour dates. This is a very cool EP. Not his best work by far, but there are a few choice cuts. Get it HERE!

Dangerhouse Vol. 2

1. The Alleycats - Give Me A Little Pain
2. The Alleycats - Too Much Junk
3. The Eyes - Eniwetok
4. X - Adult Books
5. The Weirdos - Neutron Bomb
6. Black Randy and the Metro Squad - Idi Amin
7. Black Randy and the Metro Squad - I Slept In An Arcade
8. The Bags - Babylonian Gorgon
9. The Bags - We Will Bury You
10. Rhino 39 - Xerox 12
11. Rhino 39 - No Compromise
12. The Avengers - Car Crash
13. The Randoms - ABCD
14. The Dils - Mr. Big

I am a huge fan of Slash Records. They brought us some of the best punk bands of all time, probably the second best punk label after SST. This is just a slice of their punk rock pie, and a damn tasty one at that. Every one of these bands are worth seeking out full albums for, this is just to wet your whistle a bit before you go purging your wallets for these (some of them are awfully rare). The first dangerhouse is excellent as well, I just don't own that one yet, but it's definitely worth finding as well. Get it RIGHT HERE!!!

Over compensating

I'm going to be moving this week, then I have a wedding to go to, and I have work, and I have a summer immersion project meeting, and it's my girlfriend's birthday. So you will probably see neither hide nor hair of me all this week.

I've got a few hours before I go to work, so I'm trying to slam you with a few more albums that I've been sitting on for a while. Enjoy!

Mark E. Smith - The Post Nearly Man

1. Horror In Clay
2. Shad Segment
3. Caterer
4. I'm Bobby, Pt. 1
5. The CD In Your Hand
6. Enigrammatic Dreams
7. Visit Of An American Poet V. 1
8. Segment
9. Visitation Of An American Poet
10. Visit Of An American Poet V. 2
11. I'm Bobby, Pt. 2
12. Typewriter
13. Dissolute Singer
14. Lot In A Name

All right you Fall fans, I'm sure some of you have been hunting for this one. Well, search no more. Oh, and put your wallets down, this is going for over $50 on Amazon and... I hate to say it, but it's not worth it. That is, unless you are Super Ultimate Fall Collector Man. If I had more money I might be that, but I am very very poor. The words in this are even more out there than almost any Fall lyrics I've ever heard and it is odd hearing him speak at the speeds and tones that he does on this. It makes for a very odd listen. I can't exactly recommend it, though I do encourage you to give it a try. I would really like a transcript of the whole thing. Does one exist? I think I'd rather be able to read Mr. Smith's words in this instance than hear them, because I can't seem to get into this album no matter how hard I try. I love spoken word albums, but this one just went miles over my head. Well, here it is for you now. Get it HERE!

Dead Kennedys - Last Show at Freeborn Hall (02/21/1986)

Disc 1:
1. Goons of Hazzard
2. Hellnation
3. Terminal Preppie
4. When Ya Get Drafted
5. Rambozo the Clown
6. This Could Be Anywhere
7. Soup Is Good Food
8. Chemical Warfare
9. The Man With the Dogs
10. MTV Get Off the Air
11. Triumph of the Swill

Disc 2:
1. Kill the Poor
2. A Child and His Lawnmower
3. Jock-O-Rama
4. Chicken Farm
5. Holiday In Cambodia
6. Commercial/Bleed For Me
7. Too Drunk To Fuck
8. Moral Majority
9. We've Got A Bigger Problem

I'm not exactly sure what all was going down with the band at this point, but this show took place before the criminal prosecution of the Frankenchrist album and long before they broke up. I think person conflicts within the band pushed the band to see each other less and less, until their eventual destruction. They would even have one more album come out after this, and I suppose it's possible that they did another show as a benefit for the No More Censorship Defense Fund, but this was the last show as far as we know. The sound quality is bad, but the set list is pretty good, and it's another little piece of history. Listen to the spoken word album High Priest of the Harmful Matter and you'll get an idea of everything that was going on in their lives at this point. Get it HERE.