Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Whisker: Mister Bob

























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

Sunday, August 2, 2009

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!

Saturday, August 1, 2009

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.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

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.

Monday, July 27, 2009

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.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

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

Thursday, July 23, 2009

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


Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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

Monday, July 20, 2009

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

Saturday, July 18, 2009

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.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

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."

Saturday, July 11, 2009

inland boatmen: living room

























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

Friday, July 10, 2009

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.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

scooter: autoped

























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

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

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."

Sunday, July 5, 2009

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."

Saturday, July 4, 2009

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.

Friday, July 3, 2009

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?

Thursday, July 2, 2009

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?

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

'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

Monday, June 29, 2009

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.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

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."

pale blue: battery powered popsicle

























This album chronicles the use of tracking devies in the citizens of the island of popsicle. "The isle of popsicle is a harmonious community because we made it that way," says jazz legend Brook Massey.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Fluffy's Bloodlust: Human Scratching Post




Here's another hardcore punk band that simply rubbed critics the wrong way. Fluffy's Bloodlust (formed in 1979), was labeled by one such critic as, "the reason today's punk is yesterday's disco". But kids on the punk scene strongly disagreed. "Fluffy's Bloodlust is like, my fucking reason for living, man", offered one arguably inebriated fan. "Their music is true beauty halved by life's atmospheric chainsaw", chimed another (which we assumed to be a favorable remark). Personally, I've always been fond of the controversial track # 2, Shut Your Mousehole, which some have interpreted to be about the repercussions of reverse sodomy and its long-term negative affects on household pets and appliances. If you're looking for something a little left of the litter box, give Human Scratching Post a listen.

Slick Space: Futures in Trucking

























This album is a country and western / science fiction mash-up, and it classifies as freaking weird. Rumor has it that the tracks captured here were actually part of a movie (of the adult variety) whose media was destroyed for legal reasons, i.e., the participants wanted to stay out of jail.

The tunes here are hammer down loud and also squiggly (not sure what this term implies, but it's the term album producer Jules Johnson used), but there are also stories on this album.

Because Kicking Willie on Winged Dancer Gratitude is difficult to follow, espeically with all of its sound effects, we have included what we could discern as the text for this story here. We have your edification at heart.

_______________________________________________________

Kicking Willie on Winged Dancer Gratitude

Circa 2078.

Sour Mash was on a clandestine bender and had had his yell squawk stolen, or so he intimated—but if you ask me, to his crumbs, Sour Mash was just lacking proper gratitude.

On one long bender, two of his buddy air benders pulled into a lazy fuel, and Sour Mash, once again getting a free vomit slide out of the accounting procedure, wasn’t even so grateful as to offer to buy them a sugar sip. Or an itching eyebrow. Or a round in the coup. A bowl of vitamin-enriched yodels. A breakfast minute. A cotton fern. Hell, something.

Well, those two crumbs, Decorated Nut Job and The Hedgehog, played a bit of a trick on Sour Mash. Since they were minding wave traffic, Sour Mash not having a yell squawk, teach him a lesson, they would.

A few hours down the vomit slide, approaching a lazy fuel notorious for its goo sacks, The Hedgehog, the air hauler bringing up the reach back, got on his yell squawk, and describing Sour Mash and his winged dancer, put out the word that he was, indeed, Sour Mash and that he was more cloven than ten billy goats gruff and could take on twenty mollusk salads—three at once so long as they were fresh cut.

No one could miss Sour Mash’s rig, not after The Hedgehog described it. A flaming whamdoodle with a coma lounge the size of heaven and with a shiny silver macaroni emblazoned with the word Fandango—“Fandango calls glorious ninja Trappist painted sunshine,” The Hedgehog had said over the yell squawk, posing as Sour Mash.

“My dancer’s big and bright—red as chemical—, bald like an antique helmet, but clean as a whistle.”

Decorated Nut Job, the lead air bender, headed for the gut-of-the-earth churn up, knowing Sour Mash would follow. The Hedgehog angled in odd so Sour Mash was pretty much cut off between winged dancers and fills—but not that he needed to be cut off, because he wasn’t suspecting any non-sense.

Before Sour Mash could look over his shoulder to see if there was a spot open in the lot or nod to Decorated Nut Job, three goo sacks were in his sleeper squirting velvet squish on each other, one clam kitten was in his black hole flying reindeer, and two goo sacks were yanking wishbone.

Only thing Sour Mash could think about was some inspector from his company coming out in the midst of this fiasco and catching him with a wagon-load of goo sacks, and party incentives, and who knows what else.

I can hear Sour Mash cursing himself now: “Silly putty pegging insurance, silly putty pegging insurance.”

Kicking Willie said he was there for the whole thing, eating a bowl of peppercorn with ram finder in the lazy fuel, said Sour Mash let out the loudest “Whoa” he’d ever heard.

Could have stopped a parade of pterodactyls with that “Whoa.”

Kicking Willie said watching Sour Mash trying to get his winged dancer in order was about ten times funnier than watching a lizard chase a newborn tied to a poultry stick.

Sour Mash had to shell out twenty founding fathers each to ten ivy-league optometrists to get them out of his winged dancer. Something like that.

Watching Sour Mash try to figure out which sock and slicker, bootslide, and pocket had a stash of grey and green was just about ridiculous.

“Tightwad,” yelled Decorated Nut Job and The Hedgehog.

Then Sour Mash had to fish around in the dark to make sure none of the goo sacks dropped their accelerants. About that time, Decorated Nut Job and The Hedgehog came over to hurt him help.

Later, Sour Mash told me he was kind of disappointed he didn’t get to spend any time with the clam kitten with the big fluff fins bouncing in his perky. It would have been too much of that.

“Damn near poking my sockets out with her fishing gear,” blurted Sour Mash.

“But I can’t believe those goo sacks thought I had an Arkansas trout. Where’d they ever get that lightbulb?” guffawed Sour Mash.

There was laughter all about the vomit slide when Sour Mash asked that question.

“That’s pretty damn expensive,” I said to Sour Mash with everyone listening, “when you have to shell out that kind of underwater artifact for the treatment when you don’t even want any treatment. Teach a man to show proper gratitude to his crumbs.”

When I said that, Sour Mash got a yanking slit himself.

Course, it would have been funnier if Decorated Nut Job or The Hedgehog would have thought to have brought a Capture It to the crisis, but they were too busy laughing their glad-to-be-Americans off.

_______________________________________________________

A big 10-4 good buddy.

IMMENSE: counterbalance


























Following their albums such as Big As It Gets, XXL-XXL, Large--Nuff Said?, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL, X to the X of L, HUGE, King Kong On, Mountain Atop Mountain, this ginormous band either found religion (or a different one), a new pharmicist, a different metaphor for life (possibly due to the work of metonymist Keith Stacey), or some combination thereof, but whatever the change in lifestyle, life philosophy, or musical style, this album truly disappointed such die-hard IMMENSE fans as Hall of Fame-bound Derrick Culver of the Tulsa Tornadoes, who said, "I just can't get pumped up on tunes like, 'Fung Sung Shui' or 'rib'." Jason Ratliff, Trey Ander, and Josh Killibrew shared similar sentiments to those of Derrick Culver, but Potemkin's Eric Tweedy said, "I've changed my workout to meet the challenge of IMMENSE, and it's improved my game 115%."

Duggery: Unweeded Garden



























Inspired by The Who's Tommy, Duggery, a William Shakespeare
tribute band, rewrote Hamlet as a rock opera, and Unweeded
Garden
is that opera. This two disc set features:

1) Who's There?,
2) Upon a Ghost,
3) Wedding Feast, Wedding Beasts,
4) Father Pimp,
5) Polonius, Polonius, Polonius,
6) Be Me,
7) Piece of Work,
8) Paint a Face, Not One,
9) A Diet of Worms,
10) Country Matters,
11) Play Upon My Pipe,
12) The Best Actors in the World,
13) The Mouse Trapped,
14) Frighted by False Fire,
15) Water Bride Unwashing,
16) To England,
17) Two Heads for One,
18) Yorick,
19) Nine Year,
20) Errant Arrow,
21) Men of Straw,
22) Fortinbras.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Ape Shit: Raw Banana Brigade, 1972




This Canadian rock band, best known for their life-like gorilla suits and handmade "banana canon" (which they frequently unleashed on concert goers), never really caught on. One track, "Peel You a New One", an uptempo ditty about the unsavory effects of a cheese grater used on human flesh, did receive some air time on a local radio station, but the listener complaints were so plentiful, it was quickly pulled from the playlist. Basically, this album sucks, but I included it here because the cover art is so totally kick ass.


Fern Gaudagnino: Proof They Were Busy




Ex-Badminton Pro, Fern Gaudagnino, lights up the soundstage with this breakout performance collection, winning 10 M&M-TV awards. Ms. Gaudagnino, borrowing limber finesse from her sport, nets gold stars from music-hall-famed critic Pierce Orfus! “Like smashing elbows into guts,” says Orfus of the Gaudagnino “Blue Metal” sound. Her same courtside manners may be found in the lyrical witticisms racketed into every track on this fine album, such as Backcourt Hazard, It’s Not My Fault I Carried on the Drive, Kill-Kill-Shuttlecock, and Platinum single, Smash Match!

Thursday, June 25, 2009

the glory who who: concentrate


























Here it is, the album inspired by the concept of sneezeesthesia--the album that begs the question, "what color is your sneeze?"

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Toad Red: Tic Tac Toad


























This fraternity favorite only wanted to be a cover band so its members could party and get paid for it on the weekends, but the band members soon found themselves in the studio recording their standard, "Everybody Yell" song. It wasn't long until they had enough lyrics to record several different versions of this song, and from there, they had to come up with some tunes to fill up the rest of the album:

1) Everybody Yell, Grueber,
2) Everybody Yell, Smithsonian,
3) Everybody Yell, June,
4) Everybody Yell, Cast a Spell,
5) Everybody Yell, John Denver,
6) Yell Like Hell,
7) I Lost My Pants in the Last Dance,
8) Umph!,
9) Umph, Umph, Umph,
10) Seriously Seriously,
11) Microbiology,
12) Teething Ring,
13) Get Off the Couch,
14) Grab It and Run.

Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya!

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

larry's travel lies: the movie soundtrack


























You might have been tempted to utter that academic phrase, "I liked the book better than the movie," but after you watched larry's travel lies, you probably acknowledged why you like moviews as much as you do. Even more than that, you fell in love with the movie soundtrack with its racing guitar riffs, champion solos, drifting drums, and amusement park smörgåsbord of sound combos, of which "percolate" has to be a tune that most reminds you of deep-fried homemade cherry ice cream filled with espresso, lemon, and marshmallow.

Remember, no one pays you to use your imagination.

If you love that scene at an outdoor rock concert where Larry ambles back to his seat with a lady's wristwatch in hand and has to explain to Bill and Mark that he got it in exchange for a favor, you'll love the new Pinkerouous version of "faster faster faster" on the soundtrack.

Love the movie? Love the book, but think it would have been better with a soundtrack? Well, here it is.

Monday, June 22, 2009

meringue harido: j'adore votre perruque


























One of the only Texas-twang French bands to get airplay, this band from Del Mar is still good at getting lucky:

1) put some lipstick on and on and on,
2) I ain't been to Paris never, not even Paris, Texas,
3) when my ex says, "Watcha doing honey?", I,
4) votre chien,
5) test drive, Mister?
6) votre perruque,
7) poodle,
8) if Thelma and Louise were driving Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang,
9) beer for ladies,
10) dalmation salvation,
11) lady's night,
12) spent.

David Miles: Kind of Brown


On this classic record, David Miles' mainstream breakthrough that reached over sixteen fans, the musician found his voice through what he called "octavated breathing," producing a sludge-like tone that could only be termed "brown." This new shade of tonal color caused a slight depression in all who listened to it and has been the cause of several mishaps involving excessive alcohol consumption and one incident of self-inflicted eardrum stabbing. Kind of Brown pre-dates Miles' electric period, when he connected his trumpet to a microphone while in the bathtub, thus electrocuting himself. The recorded result, Bathtub Brew, is considered avant-garde by some and by at least one critic as the "aural equivalent of a sadistic colon cleansing."

Phallica: Hot Pink, 1984 (Collector's Edition)




Phallica's first album, Hot Pink, dropped like a pair of slut pants on a Bon Jovi tour bus and shot straight to the top of the charts. Both #1 singles, "Three Thrusts From Done", and, "Coming From Behind", are included in this overall rollicking good record. Dubbed "the best fucking music of all time" by Screw Magazine, this collector's item (which includes a zucchini keychain and nude band pictorial) is well worth the splurge.

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