The Rentals - Excellent Stocking Stuffer (bootleg)

i recently recovered this bootleg, which is pretty hard to find online.  about five years ago, matt sharp put it up for download.  i listened to it a lot more than their first LP.  some of the alternate or demo versions are better than the studio versions.

if you are a fan of the rentals, weezer (back when they were good) or moog-rock/power pop in general, this is an essential listen.

informations:

Excellent Stocking Stuffer

1. So Soon -- recorded live in Amsterdam. The last show on the Blur tour, the last concert with Cherielynn Westrich.
2. Mrs. Young -- Recorded originally as a b-side for a possible 7" single with Weezer. Matt wrote most of the song and collaborated with Rivers Matt: lead vox and bass / Rivers Cuomo: most instrumentation including harmonica, guitars and drums. Recorded on Cuomo's tascam 8 track cassette machine. (All about Mrs. Young in the Tour Diary)
3. Waiting -- Live Denver radio show "The Lounge"
Matt Sharp: vox / Rod: Nylon / Jim: moog source / Cherie and Maya: female harmonies / Mike: Drums
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That's Incredible! sessions.
Before the violins, before the moogs, Tom Grimley named the original group "That's Incredible!". Here are ten [in progress] recordings of what was to become their debut album. Recorded by Tom Grimley in April 1994 in Poop Alley.
Matt Sharp: vocals, lead guitar and bass / Rachel Haden: female vocals / Rod Cervera: rythm guitar / Pat Wilson: drums
4. Say Goodbye Forever [Brian Bell: main melody guitar]
5. Stupid Girl
6. Waiting
7. I Don't Want This, Babe
8. Crumblin'
9. Friends Of P.
10. Mrs. Young
11. California
12. These Days
13. The Love I'm Searching For
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14. Silent Night -- Original unedited versioin. Poor quality cassette recording.
Rod Cervera: voice over / Jim Richards: moog, korg and arp synthesizers / Matt Sharp: Drums
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Frisbee Days [home recordings] 1993
Before The Rentals, before That's Incredible! came the Frisbee Days 4 track home recordings in 1993. These were the original demos for the That's Incredible! album. Here are three songs that never made it all the way to Poop Alley.
15. She Looks At Me -- [written by Rachel Haden and That Dog]
16. The T.V. Is On
17. Frisbee Days
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18. Please Let That Be You -- More from the The Lounge on Denver radio.
19. The Love I'm Searching For -- acoustic version live on Boston radio station WBCN.
20. Friends of P. -- acoustic version live on Washington D.C. radio WHFS
21. Friends Of P. -- Live from Amsterdam, Last Show
22. Radio Promo

for a preview, here is my favorite track...  an early demo (featuring rivers cuomo) of Please Let That Be You, here titled, Mrs Young.

The Rentals - Mrs. Young


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He's A Whore

so the story goes...


Cheap Trick - He's A Whore

Big Black - He's A Whore

"Get ready for the new generation of music"

the hottest new avant-MIDI-karaoke-outsider-tronica netlabel going is here:

http://annelaplantine.free.fr/musiques1.htm

now featuring many recordings by the notorious Thomascow.  for a preview, listen to the "jingle of the label":

insane progressive rock fail

ladies and gentlemen, "Step On My Face" by P205

in case you are wondering, yes it does get more insane after the first chorus.

music links: Don't Bring Me Down

thanks to wiki for this connection.  it isn't only the bassline that is lifted but the bridge as well.


Atomic Rooster - I Can't Take No More (1970)


Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down (1979)



bonus excellent cover version:

Buzzov*en - Don't Bring Me Down (1998)

Raekwon vs Elton John

great sample out of goodbye yellow brick road.  isn't everyone going, "why didn't i think of this?"

music links: somebody ripping off led zep?! what?

this is a hilarious homage to Since I've Been Loving You.  hilarious because it is so brazen and specific.  this was done by the Japanese band Too Much and released a year after the Led Zeppelin song came out.


Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You (1970)

Too Much - Love That Binds Me (1971)

The Who - A Quick One While He's Away (video)

this performance by The Who on the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus is easily one of the best moments in rock music history. 

Best albums of 2009

only counting new, full-length albums released the past year...  and i'm not gonna narrow it down to 10 or rank them.  just in alphabetical order:

Boston Spaceships - Zero To 99
Converge - Axe To Fall
DOOM - Born Like This
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
Longmont Potion Castle - Volume 7
Liturgy - Renihilation
Luke Vibert - We Hear You
Luxe Ferre - Atrae Materiae Monumentum
Nargaroth - Jahreszeiten
New Boyz - Skinny Jeans & A Mic
Part Chimp - Thriller
Pelican - What We All Come To Need
Pestilence - Resurrection Macabre
Skaldic Curse - World Suicide Machine

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Kanye West, voice of a generation

get ready for seventeen minutes of hell.  here is this self-described-asshole on VH1 Storytellers rambling and free-associating all kinds of insane bullshit. 

some things you will hear one of the dumbest men ever to hold a microphone say while a computer auto-tunes his voice:

- he thinks he is an "artist" and he thinks he "sings" for some reason. but far more perplexing is that he thinks he is a "real person".
- a death threat, live from the stage.
- the "microscope" metaphor over and over.
- OJ Simpson is "amazing".  no really, think about it, wasn't he?
- monkey squeaks?  what was that?
- why you shouldn't be afraid of homosexuals (but you should use the word "gay" derisively).
- that Kanye West is simply a vessel for god to literally speak through, and that he is therefore not responsible for "half" of what he says.
- and more!

happy new year's drum and bass mix

wow, what a difference!

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Dubstep Rewind '09

highlights from this year in dubstep in one massive mix

1. 16 Bit - Swine Flu
2. DZ - The Fireman
3. Dean Rodell & Current Value - Fall Out
4. Rebel Sonix - Punishment Dub
5. Bar 9 - Shaolin Style (Nero Remix)
6. Marlow - Colossus (Original Mix)
7. Black Sun Empire - Hyper Sun
8. Benga - One million
9. Emalkay - Explicit
10. Torqux - Relentless
11. 501 - Special Request (Original Mix)
12. Rusko - Cockney Thug (Caspa Remix)
13. K1 - Badness
14. Skism - The Blank
15. Bonecrusher - Never Scared (Mrk1 Remix)
16. Virus Syndicate - Hijack (Instrumental)
17. Starkey - Gutter Music (VIP)
18. Cotti - Rise The Temperature
19. Radikal Guru - Kingston Town
20. 501 - Favourite Sin
21. Bar 9 - So Good
22. Caspa - Power Shower
23. Dom Hz & Synkro - Dub Discipline (Synkro Remix)
24. Appleblim & Gatekeeper - Tomb VIP
25. Rob Sparx - Sludge
26. The Others - King Pin
27. Subscape - Artificial Dreamer
28. Joker - Digidesign
29. DZ - Right About Now Sounds
30. Deadmau5 + Kaskade - I Remember (Caspa Remix)
31. Dub & Run (16 Bit) - Classical
32. Youthman - Requiem
33. Soul Sinners - Dibble
34. Nero - Bad Trip (Rob Sparx Remix)
35. Trolley Snatcha - The Future
36. Ed Solo - Watch Your Eyes
37. Distance - Night Vision (Skream Remix)
38. Chasing Shadows - Dr Sin

the party bout to pop

Led Zeppelin - Night Flight

nice deep cut off phys.graf

Blind Boy Fuller anthology

i made this selection of my favorite blind boy fuller songs.  he was great and you should like his music.

http://sharebee.com/98b0fa4c

i should say more about it though.  the casual listener may be curious to hear where Robert Plant got a few of his lyrics from...  but this music is great for what it is.   fuller did some extremely interesting things with rhythm changes and use of the 12 bar system in unexpected ways.  i focused on his more unique vocal melodies, which appeal to me more than standard blues riffing.  i included what i felt were the recordings that best emphasized his frequently-repeated themes.  but they are given equal weight to his less-visited themes for the sake of sparing you redundancy.  there are songs which i liked mostly for the lyrical novelty but none that i only liked the lyrics of (such as the previously-blogged Fish Smell).  but don't worry because fuller is absolutely filthy and that is one of the things i like the most about it: it's an unflinching look at life with no words spared.  there is no embarrassed political correction in this music. it is just honest, unpretentious fun.   i don't claim to be any kind of expert on blues music, but this particular singer speaks to me more than any other i've heard so far.  i'm still investigating but this really grabs me.  yeah!

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Show me a woman a man can trust
Ashes to ashes and sand to sand
Show me a woman who ain't got a backdoor man

Blind Boy Fuller - What's That Smells Like Fish?

i can't believe it's a real song either.

The Stranglers

this band is one of my new favorites.  i have prepared an intro to The Stranglers for you so that you can get into it too.

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Null And Void

i am here today to alert you to a glaring omission from your music collection.  an obscure, bizarre band called Null And Void.  i know very little about them except that they were active in the early 80's, combined a variety of different styles of music, and that experimental, lo-fi productions were often integral to the music.

"Christ, I love this!"

whatever you call this kind of music, it is one of my favorite kinds of music.  this band is one of my best musical discoveries of the year.  an album that ends with a drum stick count off? of course it is great.

two things here:  Montage Morte & Possibilities (Discoverable Thoughts) 
thanks to the blogs i found them on

and some favorites:


Revlina

The Motorcycle Song

The Philosophy Song

Uriah Heep - Dreamer

seriously

maluca via mad decent

cool bootleg to check out

http://maddecent.com/blog/2009/11/30/maluca-mala-live-in-d-r-the-bootleg-set/

mystery solved!

thanks to my dear friend pomme who has solved the mystery of the drunktalk

both of those samples were delivered by Spalding Grey in the 1995 film "Drunks".  a good thing to watch while you are completely trashed.


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