icelandic railways choir boys: anta odeli uta

do sheep dream of wooly androids?

big wind: fit

A series of variations on the children's poem, "Who Has Seen the Wind?"

the universe circus sugar band: famous album cover

asphalt jasper: metal sunshine

metal sunshine

when the rain turns
to bat and butterfly
bleating lamb and
monster in the moat

handed men: dirty tricks

Hey all you handed men fans, the long-awaited lyrics to "Mr. Diddle Do" are here. Get your chant on:

Mr. Diddle do no work for FBI,
But he on you like a spy.

Mr. Diddle do nothing good,
But still you shouldn't lie.

Mr. Diddle do your face,
And you prefer it soon erased.

Mr. Diddle do no acquital,
And you must go without.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
Mr. Diddle do Mr. Diddle do.

And there're also new versions of "pop kids pop" and "grinder monkey grinder," but you'll love "shoelace escape."

BIGFOOT MEETS INDUSTRIAL ORANGE

This album has so many urban legends associated with it that people forget that BIGFOOT is a rural legend. Mistakes abound. Too many mistakes. Time for some correcting.

This album does not have a version of the "Uga-Chuga" song on it. No one from Doctor Hook and the Medicine Show performed on this album. (Whether or not Slash of Guns N' Roses fame modeled his look on Dr. Hook isn't a question to be answered here.)There is a song on this album entitled "Run Away," but it's not to be confused "Runaway Sister" or "Sister Runaway"--if, indeed, there are actually songs with those titles.

When it first hit the market, this album was most famous for a hootenanny called "Shredded on the Trotline When Melvin Gunned the Boat Engine," a song that received a lot of radio play. Personally, the song grossed me out--"Give my liver to fish," yuck!

But critics have returned to this album for something called wavesonic present in such tracks as "Chainsaw Fiddler," "Clucked the Robot Chicken," and "Get the Dodge Out of Hell."

In other words, there's evidence on this album that rural thrash does exist "In a drainpipe with a tin awning."

But wait! If you think BIGFOOT is reason enough that you might risk your life by running away from the Walking Boss, you'll love the cover tune, "BIGFOOT MEETS INDUSTRIAL ORANGE":

Down the highway in your orange PJs, picking up trash,
When along comes BIGFOOT, holy shit! When along comes BIGFOOT!
Run now Industrial Orange, what are the bloodhounds going to do?
Don't stop for the Walking Boss, even if he threatens to shoot you.

Yes, BIGFOOT's nasty big. Get it running in your collection.

music for funeral homes: heaven's toilet

What could be more comforting to the deceased's loved ones than music from heaven? The sound of the lyre, the sound of the brook, the twitter of birds at sunrise? Look no further than heaven's toilet as my plumber friend, Ren Chimer, used to say. And here it is from music for funeral homes: heaven's toilet.

Anticipate the majesty of the final flush.

molotova: monstruomistress

"dollface celestially, autunite pratique" (barnaul tribune)

...from siberia weeth luv...

minty fresh zombie

When you're getting a bite taken out of your neck or out of your frontal lobe or out of your belly, do you really want to have to vomit in your mouth? I don't think so. You'd rather your zombie had minty fresh breath, not the usual maggot mucus stench that reeks unto death.

Well, be sure to buy this album, which comes with a lifetime/lifelesstime zombie bite guarantee of minty fresh breath. Even if you don't like tunes such as "that my tooth" and "aching tango," you'll at least be able to fend off a corpse-chomping zombie with the "no bad breath" sticker contained herein.

Just stay away from the zombie dentist office.

suicide clown

Get up, my hair like a dog,
Roll over,
I've slept through another job.

My mother was 123.

My father, 456.

They didn't expect me

To get away.

I've learned another trick.

Who owns the sofa?

Circle around the block.

the p.u.r.r.r.s. - hold the tiger

rymas quebbeman and his fiery combo are ready to sink their sonic jaws into your - so tasty - throbbing gristles... the avengers of rock'n'roll garage are back!

Hobnail Ballet: Spiked

After several solo escapades of the band members, Hobnail Ballet announced their long awaited new studio release. 'Spiked' explores an eclectic diversity of styles and genres ranging from quirky urban techno to voluptuous jazz to haunting covers of international megahits. The group's trademark - obscure ancient and ethnic instruments woven with silken vocals and irrestistable percussion - returns. Only now the group incorporates even more diverse instruments, including automobile parts, animal bones, recycled wine bottles, and the African Kora, an ancient form of instrument with 21 strings.

Infused with an infectious offbeat optimism, these tracks break new ground in fracturing urban rhythms, surpassing even the rhythmic diversity of their debut album, 'Graceless Angels' and compelling the listener to motion, to dance. How will the band translate these beats in their newly announced live performances? Fans and critics alike are 'spiked' with anticipation.

----
Steve Wing & Dorothee Lang

The Lucróticos: MINIMISMO

Wallace Franklin: Me and My Tribe

Best known for its ability to militarize nature, Wallace Franklin has returned to the music scene with Me and My Tribe. Wallace Franklin classics such as "Geese in Missing Man Formation," "Alpha Foxtrot Vector," "Mop Up with Sparrows," and "Log Moss for Breakfast" are here with all new versions. But if you are a Wallace Franklin fan, you will love new the new tunes, especially "Deer Disguise" and "Eagle Dawn Dawn." And yes, all the tunes have the patented Wallace Franklin owl hoot. You'll love this album.

Kill Granny: Medicate Me

Washington D.C. alternative rock band Kill Granny has just
released their latest album Medicate Me. Having recently been
fired by their label, U.S.A. Productions, the album was
self-produced on a very limited budget and recorded in a small
studio in the D.C. area.

Sadly, Kill Granny's limited resources are quite evident on this
album. The tracks are cliche and transparent. The music is
uninspired and seems to have been borrowed from previous
recordings.

It seems that Kill Granny's stock in trade of attempting to shock
their audience has become far too predictable. This is an album
that nobody is buying.

Whisker: Mister Bob

Don't tell the neighbors I'm home
Don't tell anyone

nicolette: Nicolette Unscrubbed

Featuring three smash hits--"Damn It, I Spilled Again," "That's My T-Shirt," and "You Jerk"--Nicolette Unscrubbed has more treasure in store for tune hunters than all of Treasure Island. There's "Who's Your Pretty Princess Now?", "Bend Over So I Can Kick Your Ass," and "What Warrant?" But there's more: there's "Take the Trash Out When You Leave" and "I Ain't Your Momma, Loser" and "Love Me Get Out." And more!

You can bet Nicolette gives "found art" a whole new musical meaning when she empties out her kitchen cabinets in "Looking." And she proves just as adroit with a set of kitchen silverware as she is with a guitar. It's music from murderer's row the likes of which we haven't heard in some time.

Roll over Janis Joplin. Rock and roll it out!

Fire Island Jam - The Last Boys of Summer '79

Recorded during the glory days of the Gay Liberation Movement,
Fire Island Jam's The Last Boys of Summer '79 is a forgotten disco
classic.

With covers of songs like Thelma Houston's "Saturday Night, Sunday
Morning," Sister Sledge's "He's the Greatest Dancer," and Earth,
Wind, and Fire's "September," Fire Island Jam were on their way to
becoming the hottest gay disco cover band in the United States.

Sadly, The Last Boys of Summer '79 was the last album recorded by
the group. Lead singer Dinah Cancer left to pursue a career in New
York City politics and they soon lost their contract with Camp
Records.

The remaining members were quickly resigned by K-Tel, but the
label wanted them to change their image in order to be more
marketable to mainstream consumers. The band refused to "go back
into the closet" and after a bitter contract dispute with K-Tel
they lost the right to use the band name.

blue spice: hot flash

I'm old, I'm young
My face is melting

There's a sweat line
Beading on my lip

Quick--I need a sip
Of your cold chiller

Careful cause that
Pepper can kill you

I'm old, I'm young
My face is melting

Careful cause that
Pepper can kill you

homemade candy: big sugar

homemade candy is back with big sugar, and it's sweet, too, too sweet. There's "bucket of sugar," "sugar box," "sugar shaker," and "sugar shift." There's "pure cane," "beet it," and "stirring molasses." There's "adrift in powder," "puckery," "sweet tea kisses," and "sour lip lemonade." "There's "candy thermometer," "hot formed," "molten sweetness," "sculpted syrup," and "stirring."

Rumor has it that the organ grinder died during studio production, but whatever the case, homemade candy has cooked up another carnival of delight.

sam i am

Is it Dr. Seuss or Son of Sam?
What's it like to be blind Sampson?
Whose sentence out of mouth
Lingers in its rough.

"I like green eggs and ham."
The neighbor's dog barks sometimes.
Wild at Heart.
"I like green eggs and ham."

Then, "Merry Christmas, Kitten,"
Joe Christmas toothpaste, Mary.
You talk too much, but--
See the pretty ornamaent.

Acai Berry: Spice Up Amorous Dish

Since the release of her eponymous debut album in 1995, Acai Berry
has established herself as one of the most accomplished performers
of the digital age.

The wife of a Nigerian prince, Acai has pioneered online marketing
in the music industry. She has sold over 40 million albums
worldwide strictly through email advertising.

Her 15th studio album, Spice Up Amorous Dish, is already the
best-selling album of 2009. It comes on the heels of 2008's "You've
Received a Greeting Card" that included the hit dance track "You Can
Wear Cartier Watch Now."

The track listing for Spice Up Amorous Dish is as follows:

1. Virtualization Webinar
2. Let Your Love Stick Grow (Radio Edit)
3. Career Advancement Opportunities
4. Winning Notification
5. Possible Friendship
6. Credibility by Maximizing Your Productivity
7. All-Night Love Cascade
8. Increase Your Member
9. Qualitative Drugs For The Cheap (Bonus Track)
10. Let Your Love Stick Grow (Junior Vasquez Remix) (Bonus Track)

Milk and Cookie: Plate of Glass

Songs for the children? Not hardly. This album was to be an Andy Kaufman tribute, but due to the popularity of "Elvis Impersonator" and "Along to Hum the Record," songs like "Everybody on the Bus (It's Time for a Milk and Cookies Road Trip)" and "Let's Wrestle" were cut from the album in favor of tunes like "Blue Hawaii" and "Hubba Hubba." How the current album cover and title fit into this marketing strategy is anyone's guess.

The Artichokes: choke on this

From the album cover, it's not hard to guess the theme of this band, but the intended audience is another story. Are The Artichokes a Nickelback re-do? Not to fear, your five-year-old will not get tossed out of kindergarten for repeating the lyrics on this album--at least not if the kindergarten wouldn't toss them out for Three Stooges material such as "just for the halibut" or "you artichoke."

Now, "choke on this" is a heady title, but the song of the same name is not on this album. But I take that previous statement back--"Eat Your Vegetables" does concern ritual zombie sacrifice. Perhaps your five-year-old shouldn't listen to this album after all.

There's also controversy on this album as two songs address the apparent lack of coherence in grocery store classifications of fruits and vegetables: "my tomato" and "gourds have seeds."

Except for three songs about trains and one about Seattle, this album keeps to theme. My favorites are "Mama's Pumpkins" and "The Neighbor's Zucchini."

Check it out.

yup: yup yup

On this album, the strong suit, at least for yup fans, is the "yup yup" song:

yup yup
yup yup yup

Tuesdays I get drunk, and I yup yup.

yup yup
yup yup yup

Fridays I don't feel nothing, but I yup yup.

yup yup
yup yup yup

When Sunday comes along, I'll need a new line for my song.

yup yup
yup yup yup

...

Critics have assailed the "yup yup" lyrics as an AfroMan rip-off, but most of the songs on this album remind me of Jimmy Buffet tunes.

However, there's the "Christmas in July" party tune that might get more airplay if it weren't "Christmas in July":

When Honey dresses up as Mrs. Claus, I get her a cool sangria
And rub her down in Coppertone so she smells like coconut

...

A nasty song, but it reminds me of The Eagles.

And for booze hounds who like calypso, there's also "inflatable doll" and "drool bucket."

And more.

flashing red ahead: incurable

The radio seems to be picking up something strange--
I'm coming down with the flu,
But you don't have your seatbelt buckled

The rain makes for a slick road

Do you recognize the dead?

There's a forgotten thought in my aching head
The police are waving, and the victim's dog is escaping
No more cartoons--I promise

dorisdey: wahwahrolizeme (live at the batgrave)

dorisdey is a postindustrial-garage-pop-core band from spanimure (zk) consisting of delores spivey (guitar/vocals), beverley medrano (guitar/vocals), edyth provino (guitar), eulalia stumpf (keyboards, programming), candace dixon (drums). this live was performed at the batgrave pub in burgess (tl) on july 23, 1986: electric violence in spicy boots!

track list:

01 - akimbo crude bowery

02 - stayer slayer

03 - thwack tact reach

04 - jerked micro choosy jerked

05 - wail appal record

06 - crude micro

07 - overly grease me

08 - tact choosy

09 - juror crude

10 - oozy priced

11 - fable beautiez

12 - withal clown

13 - twit me

14 - buffo plenty

15 - uproar stress shorn

16 - preliminary plague

17 - tocsin exile

18 - bora bora bang bang

19 - ear wig

20 - divided stomach and bellyaches

makes me happy: freedom

crazy vitamin

I didn't get a prescription for my condition
I didn't, and I won't
I'm happy as a two peckered billy goat

The White Squares: No Gigs Past 8

The White Squares topped the charts by going where no other band has gone - to bed, early at night, alone.

Band frontman Bereth 'Blacken' White jokes, "Some say White is the envy of the world". Pressed for an explanation in one of his rare interviews, he adds: "It's not that we're living in a magical square, just the usual suburban oasis no trains reach after 8pm, that's all."

---
Karyn Eisler & Dorothee Lang

window soul: glaze

The cleaners are coming,
Coming to smash the glass.

The cleaners are coming,
Coming to break the glaze.

Look this way, you'll see
The cleaners are coming.

math perv: senior skills

The studio group that put this album together wanted out of their contract so much that they were never heard from again. It's also uncertain whether the name of the group was "senior skills" or "math perv" (or "math pervs").

Whatever the case, this album features such tunes as "1 + 1 + 1," "differentiate this," "function," "I Like pi," and "group theory."

inland boatmen: living room

What happens when a band that plays cover tunes at weddings lands a boat salesman for a promoter?

The Starlite Bookstore: Richard Brautigan's Library

This album is a purely themtic set of lamentations. Based on the conept of the library in Richard Brautigan's The Abortion, the songs here chronicle the fate of unread books stored in a cave in the mountains.

Tracks include "Richard Brautigan's Library"(a tedious explanation of the concept), "My Dog, Rusty," "Working with Linoleum," "Thoughts About Movies," and, of course, the eponymous and often confusing track, "The Starlite Bookstore," which is, however contradictory (as a flip on the main theme developed in "Richard Brautigan's Library"), about readers looking for books that do not exist.

One critic even claims that this very concept--the one developed by Richard Brautigan, not by The Starlite Bookstore--is the very basis of The Eagles hit "Hotel California," but more skeptical critics say "roach motel," meaning "what you check in, no one checks out."

So, treat the playlist as the sign-in sheet to Richard Brautigan's Library.

scooter: autoped

The lyrics are all about biking, but they're in Dutch. The music is, however, big hair, hard rock.

beneficiary: scary

beneficiary was planning to issue an album called white shroud, but when lead guitarist Keith Trendoune died in a drinking contest, benficiary changed the working title of this album changed to back in white after the better known AC/DC album.

En route to the funeral, the surviving members of beneficiary were all killed (except for keyboardist Rodrick, who had forgotten the funeral) when their limousine was struck by a train, a miraculous feat given that beneficiary was not country and western.

beneficiary issued this album, now titled scary, posthumously.

Tunes on scary include "AM Radio," "Sitting by a Window and Staring," "Apologies to Your Husband," "Thrash Trailer," and "Forever Boredom."

Record company spokeswoman Jennifer X-Ray said, "Don't expect a tour any time soon."

Lacoste (Benita Bécquer)

Lonely Dream: the message

The band members never spoke. They were a concept and a coming-together. They were events in a lonely dream. Their collective sense of each other was a faint echo. They each made their own music, but their music fell together in a lonely dream. And the experience of that lonely dream is the message, pieces of which are entitled "lincoln" and "dirty dog."

our zoulz: wishing

One of the children of one of the band members believed that his favorite drive-thru restaurant was offering a fabulous new treat called the wishing. It wasn't, but the name gave Reggie Whittaker a great idea, an album entitled wishing. Here's to wishing!

Genesis, Skabacab

No too many know about prog-pop supergroup Genesis's all-ska project, Skabacab. Recorded at Dynamic Sounds Studio in Kingston, Jamaica, the summer 1981 after the sessions for their 11th album, Abacab, the sessions were all-reggae and ska takes on the tracks from the Abacab project. Dissent in the Genesis ranks prevented the tracks from being included on the 2007 reissue of the Abacab album, but hardcore fans, who have yet to hear the reggae version of "Man on the Corner" and "No Reply at All," hold out hope that the tracks will resurface some day.

THE SLEEVES: MAYA HEADS

THE SLEEVES perform and play their music with the[ir] clothes on backwards and their instruments behind them. The singer turns his back to the audience or microphone.

I would like to see this, wouldn't you?

Cosmic Zombietron: Space Brains for Breakfast

Cosmic Zombietron, North Hollywood's top-notch gothic-pop ensemble, is ready to relieve you of your oblongata. You'll swear you were out of your mind to buy this album while listening to tracks like, " Dead, Undead, then Dead Again":

(exerpt)

Blood red went the engine
then the engine went dead
then the head went southward sailing
sailing graveward -- stars unfed
cerebellum, cerebellum
bread and butter, gut her dead
underneath my car's umbrella
cerebellum, engine's red

Other brain numbing numbers include:

Spinal Fluid Groove at 0:200
Lobotomy with Lobster Sauce
Cortex Vortex
Full Frontal Lobe
Aurgh gurgh arrRRGGHgh

and of course, the title score:

Space Brains for Breakfast

which is pretty much the national anthem of slackers, marijuana addicts and self-proclaimed vampires worldwide.

Make up your own mind about this thalamus-axing musical blood-bath, or at the very least, die trying.

(*Not recommended for children under 12)

opera buffs

Dissing this and dissing that, warring with each other, warring with their fans, occasionally killing off their rivals, but for such art warriors as these, death, even a faked death, is the end of the struggle. But not so for opera buffs.

Opera buffs answer to the opera gods, and to cross an opera buff is to face a fate worse than death.

Think you know the best Carmen? Listen to these biddies battle it out.

Who is better, Maria Callas, Tarja Turunen, Dame Kiri te Kanawa, or Ann Sofie von Otter? Be prepared to die a million deaths if you answer wrong, or worse, lose your season tickets at the Met.

Yes, a full fifteen minutes of Wagner critiques--and don't dare to mention the name Nietzsche, not even as a joke.

Think you can get away with coughing twice at a Philip Glass opera? Listen to this true tale from an unsuspecting patron of the arts.

Finally, there's twenty minutes devoted to the need for castrati.

Think you don't like opera? Get this album and give an opera buff discussion a listen.

Ezra: The King of the Bingo Game by Ralph Ellison

Not sure of the exact title of the Ralph Ellison story, never quite sure if the first "The" was erronous, James Ezra named his first album The King of the Bingo Game by Ralph Ellison. Of course, he named his first band "Ezra."

Entralled with the "can't win" statement in the Ellison story, James Ezra then read Catch 22. And then he read Of Mice and Men. And then he read that more people lived in cities than in the country. And then he realized he could not get a simple job. And then he looked at the sky and he wept because he had no farm to work.

This album is a James Ezra delusion, a series of paranoid rants about the demise of the farmer and the end of the agarian lifestyle all over the world. Two of the tracks here, "Snake in the Garden" and "Pol Potted Plant," are the death metal tunes that comprise the soundtrack for Living Amnesia, the movie and the game.

Finally, "Kerosine Rooster in the Corn" is the current chart topper from the smash hit movie Burn Down.

Are you ready for your delusion?

Shadow Master Medicine Show: Numinous Brew

This album cover was originally shipped without the album, and the album still went platinum. Said Love Potion band member Cheryl Velvetpants, "That's the power of Numinous Brew."

The Richard Feynman Club Band: prankster

Here they are, songs dedicated to computing, nuclear physics, californication, and Richard Feynman. If you liked QED from The Richard Feynman Club Band, you will love prankster and the forthcoming Nerds in Topless Bars. As one band member asks, "What couldn't Richard Feynman do?", and the songs here reflect that admiration (mostly). The music has improved too--not everything sounds like the bar music from Star Wars on this album. Plus, there are experiments in bongos and American Indian drumming featured throughout the improvisational scores.

Here's the playlist:

1) Klaus Fuchs Car
2) 27-18-28
3) Dance and Chant
4) A Topless Bar Called "The Voyage of Discovery"
5) Ofey
6) O-Rings
7) Prankster ("Ha-ha, Nobel Prize Winner, I tricked you.")
8) My Maya
9) Los Alamos on the Weekend
10) QED
11) I Didn't Drop the Bomb (a song that threatned to split the Oxnard fan club)
12) Bongo Man
13) Neils Bohr and Friends
14) Safecracker ("1 left, 1 right, I don't have to be here all night.")

This album is a must-have for any Richard Feynman Fan Club. Personally (and we all know Richard turned away from alcohol so as not to dull his brain), I think 27-18-28 makes a great drinking song.

'Let It K.G. Be' - LENIN & McCARTHY

(1932) Phonograph Recording.

Take one conservative US senator who hates communism with a passion. Give him an acoustic guitar. Then give that senator access to the tomb of Russia's greatest communist. Put a harmonica in that communist's mouth and pay a Moscow baker to push up and down on his stomach. The result is the now long forgotten duo who influenced every folk star, from Joan Baez to Simon and Garfunkel.

The senator was Joe McCarthy; the communist was, of course, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, famously known as Lenin.

So why would an American who hated Reds with such a passion play music with a long dead communist? Well, this could be speculation but some pundits have theorized that Joe and Lenin went to university together. St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University to be precise. They were roomates and started their duo with Joe on guitar and Lenin on harmonica. Sounds feasible, doesn't it? Well it is true.

Lenin of course died in 1924 and this broke up the act. Joe was distraught that his college buddy was gone, telling a journalist, "Yeah, it's a drag." But McCarthy had other plans, to continue the partnership. The result became Lenin & McCarthy's greatest album, 'Let It K.G. Be'.

Highlights include: My Mule She Won't Move, Heave Ho, Stalin the Man of Steal, Middle of Nowhere Blues, Salt Mines, and I Wish I Was Back In Ole Kentucky. The song old folk remember most is one that Paul McCartney would adapt in 1970. The song was called 'Go Back'. Here is a snippet of that song with Joe McCarthy on guitar, Lenin on blues harp with a little bit of help from Sergei the baker operating Lenin's stomach bellows.

'Go Back' by Lenin & McCarthy

McCarthy of course went on to cause panic in the arts world of the 1950s with his anti-American witch trials turning friend against friend. Funny that all along, Senator Joe was just one fun loving pinko.

Ebay had a copy of this album last year. It's worth a cool thousand now if you can get it.

- Matthew Ward, reporting

Fashionetts: Disco Screams

Not like other girl rock bands...get ready for Fashionetts! They're stylish, smart, arty and the next best thing in music!Their album Disco Screams will make you enter different worlds, find your inner fashionista and of course dance all night long!
Biggest names in fashion and music love them so don't wait to find out why!

Disco Screams brings:

1. Coco
2. Broken Kisses
3. Little Gold Dress
4. Silver Tears On The Red Floor
5. His Voice
6. Stripes
7. Glittering Nightmares
8. Moonshine
9. Innovator
10. Raw Sugar

doll, a shadow doll: impromptu

Marcy Daphine told me she was looking out her living room window in 1968 when she saw the neighborhood kids grab trashcan lids and rocks and begin a street fight, a fight that cost Arnie White his eyesight and permenantly damaged the hearing of Reggie Willis.

Daphine said she didn't think to call the police at the time. Instead, she was enthralled by all the banging, and so she ran out on the street with her camera and captured some marvelous footage. Indeed, the soundtrack of her film, Camden Street, became grist for the instrumental compilations she put together for this album thirty years later after the fight.

The album title "impromptu" refers not so much to the pre-recorded track as it does to the craft of making music to fit the street fight, and Daphine has created an enchanting mix here with violins and steel guitar.

Finally, there's the wonderful but tragic ballad selection where Daphine sings the histories of the kids in the fight. Perhaps most memorable among these ballads are "They Are Bleeding, but I Don't Know Their Names" and "James Johnson for Governor." In all, the album is a masterpiece.

A n y t h i n g : paint on glass

Your guess is as good as mine as to how this collection of sounds became an album, but the collection here is all about flows, drips, splats, pourings, swirls, rubbings, scrapes, and brushes. "paint gun" and "water hose wash down" may actually be entertaining, but that's probably up to you.

cactus cathedral: neon desert disco salad

This band, comprised of musicians from Kermit, Texas to Flagstaff, Arizona, made its mark with such tunes as "prickly, sticky mess," "tequila won't mix, Honey," "burn down in a duster," "love your lizard lunch," and "she doesn't really have a headache." Indeed, the ironies related to this album abound: a band picture shot in No Trees, Texas, beneath the trees; a water moccasin hat wrap for the band member known as Rattlesnake; and a song titled "apricot" about a girl named "Peaches."