I’ve put together this online compilation of my favorite Punk and 80s Hardcore songs.
The thing that inspired me to finally do this was a show I did with my friend Jeff Kipilman on KBOO fairly recently. Many of the songs from this comp. were played on that show but we didnt have the time to play all of them. After the show ran, I collected all the songs and leftovers into this comp. (with lots to spare). These are literally my all-time favorite Punk and Hardcore songs.

I tried, where possible, to make it as obscure and eclectic as possible. I passed on bands or tracks that appear on virtually every Punk comp. or bands that really don’t need any introduction to anyone. I also made it so that almost nothing on it happened after 1984 or so because after that, I can almost count the ‘punk’ bands that I found interesting on one hand. The supposition of the comp. is that Punk happened between the mid-Seventies to the mid-Eighties. The rest was just about selling shoes and soft drinks.
In some instances, I played more than one contiguous track from some records because that’s how I remember them – either played on the radio back-in-the-day or from mix-tapes I either made or got from friends, collectors, etc..
It’s just the way I wanted to do it.

A few caveats about quality: The whole thing originated from mix-tapes I’ve had since the early-mid-eighties, sources on the web in the ensuing decades and from my own collection. Like lots of projects like this, the audio quality varies widely. Some rarer songs were actually sourced from my mix tapes from my collection and I’ve been too busy (or lazy – take your pick) to look for better ones. Please don’t bother whining about audio quality or bitrate. I put a lot of work into preparing this. If you don’t like it, go spend all your money on the Killed By Death series and leave me alone.

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Radio Lost and Found for November. My show was preempted – sort of – for the big 1968 show with Dr. Zomb and Alejandro C.

This month, I had quite a lot of new stuff – the brand-new soundtrack to Tartovsky’s Solaris, some found stuff and some crazy, frenzied fretwork by Sol Mogerman.

Here’s the show. Enjoy!

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Playlist:
11/08/2013 10:00PM to 12:00AM
10:00PM Leonard Pennario – March of the Lunatics – The Two Pianos of Leonard Pennario
10:02PM Dennis Duck – Intro – Dennis Duck Does Disco
10:03PM Accutrac – Owner’s Introduction – Accutrac 4000: Seeing Is Believing
10:05PM The Hawaiian Pups – Baby Judy (Extended Mix) – Split Second Precision
10:09PM The Fine Young Cannibals – Good Times and Bad – Johnny Come Home 7
10:12PM John Cooper Clarke – I Don’t Want To Be Nice – Disguise in Love
10:15PM James White And The Blacks – Contort Yourself – Off White
10:21PM Cabaret Voltaire – Walls of Jerico – Living Legends
10:29PM The Severed Heads – Estrogen – Cuisine With Piscatorial
>10:34PM Set break — Music behind DJ: Vampire Sound Incorporation – The Lions and the Cucumber
10:34PM Sol Mogerman – Intro/Wishbone Bridge – Wishbone Bridge
10:36PM Sol Mogerman – Secret Garden – Wishbone Bridge
10:45PM Sol Mogerman – Listen to the Wind – Wishbone Bridge
10:46PM Sol Mogerman – Fire Engines – Wishbone Bridge
10:48PM Sol Mogerman – Wishbone Bridge – Wishbone Bridge
10:52PM Set break — Music behind DJ: Vampire Sound Incorporation – The Lions and the Cucumber
10:52PM Eduard Artemiev – Solaris Movements I – V – Solaris
11:13PM Set break — Promo Spot – back-announcing
11:15PM Muslimgauze – Shadow Of The West – Rape of Palestine — Many songs mixed together past this point
11:21PM C.B. Anderson and Robert F. Woods – What Is Spirit? – Guess Who’s Here? God!
11:23PM Muslimgauze – The Muslim City – Rape of Palestine
11:26PM Roche Industries – Interpreting Heart Sounds – 7
11:29PM C.B. Anderson and Robert F. Woods – God Is More: True or False – Guess Who’s Here? God!
11:29PM Chris and Cosey – Re-Education Through Labour – Trance
11:35PM Flak Mask – These Landscaping Enhancements – These Landscaping Enhancements
11:36PM Wink Martindale – America, An Affirmation – 7
11:40PM Princess Ramona – Then I Start to Yodel – Yodeling Praises Unto The Lord
11:42PM Tammy Faye Bakker – Oops, There Comes A Smile – Oops, There Comes A Smile
11:44PM Dick Kent – Chewing Gum – 7
11:47PM Knife Lust – Shrivel Up – KROQ Presents: Devotees
11:49PM Set break — Music Behind DJ: Chris N’ Cosey: Cowboys In Cuba
11:51PM Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities – Giant Broom – Music Of Shinkoyo
11:56PM Carson Halegar – Hart Projections In 4D – Music Of Shinkoyo
11:57PM Shooby Taylor – Somewhere Over the Rainbow – The Human Horn

This was a pretty crazy show. Lots of people at the station, in the air room, a loud band jamming in the adjacent studio, lots of technical difficulties, it being Friday the 13th.
Some pretty crazy mixing from Jim Larrance and I in the second half. We had a lot of fun, even though it was a nightmare to document what we did.

Enjoy!

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I did a last minute substitution slot on KBOO Community Radio and here it is.

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The first in a series of three gargantuan Spoken-Word double-LP sets produced by Harvey Kubernik on his Freeway Records label.

Like the other two, this features bonafide Poets such as Wanda Coleman, Charles Bukowski, Dennis Cooper and others but also a smattering of the who’s who of the L.A. Punk scenesterati – Pleasant Gehman, Geza X, Chuck Dukowski (Black Flag, SWA) and some names and bands that might be familiar to more astute Angelino Punk watchers (The Marina Swingers, BPeople, among others).

There’s an extra-heavy emphasis on surfing, Valleys and other SoCal aspects of life, c. 1982. This one’s much more thematic about the whole L.A. lifestyle weltanschauung than the ensuing two albums to come (English As A Second Language and Neighborhood Rhythms – both of which I’ve posted before).  There’s also a lot less music than the other albums, with much more emphasis on poetry and prose.

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Here’s Radio Lost and Found for January, the first show of 2014.

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Playlist:
10:00pm KBOO Community Radio Promo Spots – Promo Spots
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10:02pm Deodato – Also Sprach Zarathrustra (2001: A Space Odyssey) – 7″
10:03pm Murray Saul – 6/11/76 – The Get Downs, Vol. I
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10:08PM Set break — Music Behind DJ: Leonard Pennario – March of the Lunatics
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10:08pm Gerty Molzen – Walk On The Wild Side – Von Flensburg nach New York (Lieder aus 60 Jahren Bühne) [Remastered]
10:13pm Camarata Contemporary Chamber Orchestra – The Woman Who Talks Too Much – The Electronic Spirit Of Erik Satie
10:15pm Camarata Contemporary Chamber Orchestra – Sketches And Exasperation Of A Big Boob Made Of Wood – The Electronic Spirit Of Erik Satie
10:20pm Andre Popp and His Orchestra -Perles De Cristal – Delirium In Hi-Fi
10:23pm Horace Silver -Acid, Pot or Pills – Total Response
10:28pm Richard Hayman & Walter Sear -Revolution / Where Have All the Flowers Gone – Electronic Evolutions
10:36pm Slow motion babys laughing, multiple instances, simultaneously playing – YouTube
10:37pm Unknown kid on YouTube Pizza Roll Challenge, multiple instances, simultaneously playing – YouTube
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10:39pm Chrome – Anything – Half Machine From the Sun, The Lost Tapes – 79-80
10:42pm Chrome – Salt – Half Machine From the Sun, The Lost Tapes – 79-80
10:46pm Chrome – Looking For Your Door – Half Machine From the Sun, The Lost Tapes – 79-80
10:54pm Chrome – Tomorrow Yesterday – Half Machine From the Sun, The Lost Tapes – 79-80
11:00pm Orchid – Spangiafora Dime Operation – Flee Past’s Ape Elf (Reissue)
11:09pm Orchid – Spangiafora Short Piece – Flee Past’s Ape Elf (Reissue)
11:09pm Orchid – Spangiafora Gulf – Flee Past’s Ape Elf (Reissue)
11:11pm Orchid – Spangiafora Distiller – Flee Past’s Ape Elf (Reissue)
11:12pm Orchid – Spangiafora Summertime – Flee Past’s Ape Elf (Reissue)
11:17pm Orson Welles – Paul Masson Wine Commercial Outtakes – Youtube
11:18pm Orson Welles – Jolly Green Giant Voice-Over Melt-down Tape – Youtube
11:22pm Cabaret Voltaire – Nag, Nag, Nag – The Original Sound of Sheffield – ’78/’82
11:26pm Fad Gadget – Ricky’s Hand – Machines Compilation
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11:30PM Set break — Music Behind DJ: Vampire Sound Incorporated – Countdown To Nowhere
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11:32pm Earl Long – Right Brain (Left Brain) – Term Two
11:35pm Earl Long – As Per Request – Term Two
11:37pm Earl Long – Bosun’s Mate – Term Two
11:39pm Earl Long – Tuk-Tuk – Term Two
11:44pm Sol Mogerman -Guitar Chimes – Wishbone Bridge
11:45pm Sol Mogerman – Softly Softness – Wishbone Bridge
11:47pm Sol Mogerman – Wind Chimes – Wishbone Bridge
11:52pm Sol Mogerman – Are You Lonely? – Wishbone Bridge
11:55pm Sol Mogerman – Turkey Roll – Wishbone Bridge
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11:58pm Shooby Taylor – SomeWhere Over the Rainbow – The Human Horn

I don’t post much stuff here outside of my radio programs and ocassional music projects but this is definitely worth your time.

It’s a SoundCloud collection from nbradio that was a cassette tape compiled by Avant-Folk guitarist John Fahey, given to the uploader’s wife when she was a record store clerk in Portland, OR in the 90s. Fahey would’ve been living at the time in nearby(ish) Salem OR, reportedly drying out his liver and trying to get himself straghtened out and creatively solvent again.

But the tape is freaking amazing! Some of it is obviously his own earlier work but the rest of it defies description, other than that there’s some serious Industrial Music crap going on here. Some of it sounds the same so I wonder if it’s the same artist? There’s at least on track that sounds either like early Severed Heads, Tape Beatles or something like Crawling With Tarts. I could definitely hear this stuff coming out of the 80s/90s cassette revolution. Pretty weird, somewhat numbing stuff.

Or are they Fahey’s own musical creations – him fiddling around with tapes, turntables and/or samplers? He was a record collector and – by account of one of my friends – who met him around that time – was getting into minimalism to the point where “..needless to say, the folk guitar crowd were baffled and dropped him cold” – in the words of my friend.

The WFMU music nerderati are also on this, so no doubt a playlist will emerge soon. Check it out and please comment on the Soundcloud page if you recognize anything. I’m intrigued and hope to find out who is ultimately responsible for the bulk of the music on these tapes.

Enjoy!
John Fahey Mix Tapes

Here’s Radio Lost and Found for February. Some fun stuff, after a rocky start.
Check out the creepy Witch Doctor LP I found at about the second hour mark. I just bought it a couple of hours before my show and played it without previewing it.

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Playlist:
10:00PM KBOO Community Radio “Promo Spots” from “Promo Spots”
10:02PM Leonard Pennario “March of the Lunatics” from “The Two Pianos of Leonard Pennario”
10:02PM Doopees “Love Songs (Love Is A Many Razor Bladed Thing)” from “Doppee Time”
10:03PM Buttress O’Kneel “Dexodus” from “Compop 14.6: Avant-Tarde: Tardcore”
10:05PM Buttress O’Kneel “A Piece Of Meat” from “Compop 14.6: Avant-Tarde: Tardcore”
10:06PM Buttress O’Kneel “GlitchGlop A” from “Compop 14.6: Avant-Tarde: Tardcore”
10:10PM Doopees “Love Songs (Reprise)” from “Doopee Time”
10:11PM Buttress O’Kneel “Grave-Kissed Army” from “Compop 14.6: Avant-Tarde: Tardcore”
10:14PM Scott Johnson “Involuntary Song” from “John Somebody”
10:21PM Maggie Estep “Hey Baby” from “Love Is a Dog from Hell”
10:23PM Maggie Estep “My Life of Gardening” from “Youtube”
10:25PM Lene Lovich “Lucky Number” from “Single Version”
10:28PM Nina Hagen “Wir Leben Noch” from “Nina Hagen Band”
10:32PM Silicon Teens “Memphis Tennessee” from “Music For Parties”
10:34PM Tuxedo Moon “No Tears” from “No Tears 12″”
10:40PM PIL “Pied Piper” from “Machines Compilation”
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10:42PM Set break — Music behind DJ: Matto Grosso – Marc 4
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10:44PM Pete Seeger “Ode to Joy” from “YouTube”
10:45PM David Noebel “Pete Seeger: Communist!” from “The Marxist Minstrels”
10:48PM Hanna-Barbera “Audio Effects from Hannah Barbera cartoons” from “YouTube video – X 3 offset, cascading”
10:52PM Happy Flowers “I Wanna Watch Cartoons” from “Oof!”
10:54PM MARK STEWART “As The Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade” from “As The Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade”
10:59PM MARK STEWART “Pay It All Back” from “As The Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade”
11:04PM Chrome “Something Rhythmic (I Can’t Wait)” from “Half Machine From the Sun, The Lost Tapes From 79 – 80″
11:08PM Voodoo Transmission “Voodoo Fire” from “Voodoo Fire 12″”
11:10PM Lester Summerall “Bitten By Devils” from “Witch Doctor”
11:15PM DDC Dictaphone Training “Complete Theory Review” from “Dictaphone Training (processed)”
11:20PM Noah Creshevsky “Great Performances” from “The Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky”
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11:27PM Set break — Music behind DJ: Terry Riley – Rainbow in Curved Air
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11:28PM Negativland “God Bull” from “No Business”
11:34PM Captain Sensible “It Would Be So Nice” from “A Day in the Life Of…”
11:37PM Magazine “A Song from Under the Floorboards” from “Cash Cow (Virgin Comp.)”
11:42PM Human League “Being Boiled” from “Machines Compilation”
11:46PM Kraftwerk “The Telephone Call (remix)” from “SoundCloud http://goo.gl/F7V8cl”
11:52PM Richard Christensen “Kingdom of Doom Collage/Spires” from “Muve”
11:59PM Pete Seeger “Ode to Joy” from “Miniatures”

You need the Duke of Madness Motors set!

I’m pleased to have presented The Firesign Theatre’s classic 70s radio programs (Radio Hour Hour, Dear Friends and Let’s Eat!) on KBOO Community Radio for the last two years.

After exhausting nearly every episode, other than the Radio Hour Hour shows – which, paradoxically, run nearly one and a half hours each – in an hourly slot on Monday evenings, we decided to terminate the run of the show.
While fun, it was sort of a burden to come all the way down to the station late into the evening on a work night and push play on a CD. If the shows ran under an hour, I might play an album cut or two. I would often purposely not listen to the show I was selecting so that I could listen to it while it aired. I never had to worry about the program quality, thanks in no small part to the beautiful job of restoring them by Taylor Jessen. In fact, the whole Duke of Madness Motors book and DVDR is worth its weight in gold. You not only get all those hilarious and relatively unheard shows but the book is fantastic. There are recollections by Peter Bergman
, Phil Proctor, Phil Austin and David Ossman, collages by Proctor, assorted articles, photos and ephemera and an amazingly accurate and detailed run-sheet for every single episode of the show. Want to know exactly where the Deputy Dan excerpt happened, or where the Chinchilla Show took place? It’s in the book. I recommend you snatch up a copy, now!

Anyway, I digress…

So, for the last episode, we had a real treat for Fireheads. KBOO volunteer and Firesign fan Ken Jones brought us an unheard in decades interview with Firesign, from November of 1970, recorded when he was a seventeen year old high school student. Ken joins me on the air and sets up the interview, shares his recollections of meeting them and we talk about Firesign.

Radio puppets!

We also have on as guests the folks who’ll be occupying the former Firesign slot, Radio Puppet Theatre and they tell us what we can expect from them in the future.

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I’ve got a lot of new (and newly-found old) sounds for you this month.

We  heard some of the recently-released Raymond Scott Rewired – archival Raymond Scott music remixed by The Evolution Control Committee, The Bran Flakes and Go Home Productions.

We also heard the incredible bootleg The Emotional, Cosmic & Occult World of Joe Meek , an amazing compilation of Meek’s production work. Thanks to Dr. Zomb of Dr. Zomb’s Stereo Obscura for turning me onto it.

We also learned how to prevent riots, Elvis impersonators and more!

(crazy mixing at the one hour, eight minutes mark. I tried to include everything in the playlist but Spinitron makes it hard to list simultaneous sources, so I used the 3 min. default times for most entries, but I think you get the drift).

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Playlist:
10:00PM Mickey Erbe “2001 Theme” – “A Sound Odyssey”
10:01PM Murray Saul “11/17/75″ – “The Get Downs, Vol. I”
10:04PM Leonard Pennario “March of the Lunatics” – “The Two Pianos of Leonard Pennario”
10:05PM Morgan Fisher “Green and Pleasant” – “Miniatures”
10:06PM Nina Hagen “Radio Glotzer” – “Nina Hagen Band”
10:12PM Nagy Feró “Ki Csinál Szódát pt.1 & 2″ – “Hova Lett”
10:15PM James White And The Blacks “Contort Yourself” – “Off White”
10:21PM Lovely Little Girls “Undulate” – “Cleaning the Filth from a Delicate Frame”
10:24PM Lovely Little Girls “Buttocks of Gloss” from “Cleaning the Filth from a Delicate Frame”
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10:27PM Set break — Music behind DJ: Sly & Robbie – Syncopation
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10:28PM The Evolution Control Committee “A Bigger, More Important Sound” – “Raymond Scott Rewired”
10:30PM The Bran Flakes “The Toy Penguin” – “Raymond Scott Rewired”
10:33PM Go Home Productions “Cindy Byrdsong” – “Raymond Scott Rewired”
10:37PM The Evolution Control Committee “Ripples On an Evaporated Lake” – “Raymond Scott Rewired”
10:42PM The Bran Flakes “Sleigh Ride To a Barn Dance In Sorrento” – “Raymond Scott Rewired”
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10:44PM Set break — Music behind DJ: Esquivel – Whatchamacallit?
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10:45PM Jason Eddie and the Centremen “Singing the Blues” – “The Emotional, Cosmic & Occult World of Joe Meek”
10:47PM The Moontrekkers “Night Of The Vampire” – “The Emotional, Cosmic & Occult World of Joe Meek”
10:50PM Mike Berry & The Outlaws “Tribute To Buddy Holly” – “The Emotional, Cosmic & Occult World of Joe Meek”
10:53PM The Sound Offs “The Angry Desert” – “The Emotional, Cosmic & Occult World of Joe Meek”
10:56PM Glenda Collins “It’s Hard to Believe It” – “The Emotional, Cosmic & Occult World of Joe Meek”
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10:59PM Set break
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11:01PM David Jesse Moore “Road To America, USA” – “Road To America, USA”
11:04PM MIJ “Two Stars” – “Yodeling Astrologer”
11:08PM James Harley “Spangled” – “Hendrix Uncovered”
11:09PM Avanti Productions Unlimited “Focus on LSD and Psychedelics” – “Found Film”
11:12PM City of Torrence Police Department “Riot Prevention” – “Found Film”
11:15PM Morton Subotnick “Until Spring – Side One” – “Until Spring”
11:18PM White Noise “An Electric Storm in Hell” – “An Electric Storm in Hell”
11:21PM Jack Shea “”The Monitors are your friends..”" – “The Monitors (1969 film)”
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11:03PM Set break — Music Behind DJ: Godley & Creme – Foreign Accents
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11:34PM Maggie Estep “Scab Maids On Speed” – “Love Is a Dog from Hell”
11:35PM David Kelsey “Theme from Star Trek/Fly Me to the Moon” – “Flights of Fancy”
11:38PM Tuxedo Moon “Nite & Day” – “No Tears 12″”
11:43PM Chrome “Fukushima (Nagasaki)” – “Half Machine From the Sun, The Lost Tapes From 79 – 80″
11:46PM Plastick “(I Feel Like) Batman” – “World Class Punk Cassette Comp.”
11:48PM Protest “Troubles” – “World Class Punk Cassette Comp.”
11:51PM What? “Campbell’s Sign” – “World Class Punk Cassette Comp.”
11:52PM Nagy Feró “Come of It” – “World Class Punk Cassette Comp.”
11:54PM The Evolution Control Committee “What Would You Think If I Sang Autotune” – “All Rights Reserved”
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11:56PM Set break
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11:56PM Matto Grosso “Marc 4″ – “Stroboscobopica”
11:56PM Noah Creshevsky “Great Performances” – “The Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky”

I keep forgetting to post audio experiments and ripped cassettes that I’ve been posting on SoundCloud and Mixcloud. Trust the cloud, but not my memory to tell y’all about it.

I ran Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birken’s Je T’aime,…Moi Non Plus through Paul’s Stretch software and set it so the time stretch time was on a gradient, slowly increasing as the song went on. At least that’s what I think I did. There’s all kinds of weird looping going on in the resulting file, too. It gets pretty surreal and ethereal sounding. 
It ended up being over four hours long. 

Let’s see who dares to listen to it!

Previously, Death Valley 6.9 – Sonic Youth’s classic song time-stretched 6.9X.

I’ll try to keep these posts up-to-date. I’m not only creating more stuff lately but also ripping lots of my vast cassette horde.

Ok. You’ve heard me gush on about a program I listened to obsessively in the early 80s – KBOO’s Stranger Than Fiction. Some of you might be sick of hearing me talk about it but if my stats are to be believed, lots of people land here searching for that show.

The awesome news for those of you that have been searching is that one of STF’s hosts –  Mr. B. – has been furiously uploading airchecks of programs to Mixcloud.

As I’ve stated before, the show was an amazing mix of New Wave, Prog, novelty music, Punk, Pop, Ambient (before it was called Ambient) and more – even a smattering of comedy from time-to-time.

If you were a fan of this show (which ran for over 14 years!) you’re in for a real treat. If you’ve never heard it and want to hear some pretty incredible 80s ‘underground’ radio, consider yourself similarly treated. He’s posting shows from random time period’s of the show’s run. 
He’s even got a large chunk of the final show.

Check it out!

Here’s Radio Lost and Found for April.

While we’ve got some beautiful spring weather, I’ve been ill, so it was sort of hard to schlep my sorry ass down to the station but I think it turned out fine. Some really silly mixing, utilizing the late Robert Ashley’s Automatic Writing with some tracks by Current 93 and Nurse With Wound that I thought had a similar, creepy vibe. I also mixed a rather disturbing YouTube video with stuff towards the latter half of the show.

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Playlist:
10:00PM KBOO Community Radio Promo Spots from Promo Spots
10:02PM Realistic – 2001 A Space Odyssey from A Sound Odyssey
10:02PM Murray Saul – It’s Friday! from Radio Oddities vol. 2
10:06PM Leonard Pennario – March of the Lunatics from The Two Pianos of Leonard Pennario
10:07PM Laurie Anderson – From the Air from Big Science
10:11PM Nagy Feró – Children’s Tale from Hova Lett
10:15PM Young Marble Giants – Searching for Mr Right from Colossal Youth
10:17PM Marc Okrand – Introduction from Star Trek: Conversational Klingon
10:22PM National Hardwood Floor Association – Trouble Concentrating When Praying (Only When I Masturbate) from Savage Vigilance For A Rug-Free America
10:23PM Brother Russell – Nightmare for the Dream Center from Bandcamp
10:24PM Ursula Bogner – Begleitung für Tuba from Recordings 1969-1988
10:27PM Ursula Bogner – Inversion/Proto from Recordings 1969-1988
10:31PM Robert Ashley – Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon from Automatic Writing
10:41PM Current 93 – I Have a Special Plan for This World from I Have a Special Plan for This World – EP
10:45PM Nurse With Wound – I Was No Longer His Dominant from Automating Vol. 1
11:04PM —Set break — Music Behind DJ: Lil’ Markie – Let the Sun Shine In
11:05PM Artur Zmijewski – Wir Eilen from Deaf Bach: Lekcja śpiewu
11:09PM Anja Fessel – I Love You from Deaf Bach: Lekcja śpiewu
11:12PM Portsmouth Sinfonia – From The Messiah, Pt. 2 – Hallelujah Chorus from Hallelujah
11:17PM John Oswald – Open (Bo No Ma) from Plexure
11:18PM John Oswald – Urge (Marianne Faith No Morissey) from Plexure
11:20PM John Oswald – Manifold (Bing Stingspreen) from Plexure
11:22PM John Oswald – Blur (Bolton Chili Overdire) from Plexure
11:23PM John Oswald – Zoom (Sinéad O’Connick Jr.) from Plexure
11:25PM John Oswald – Cypher (Depeche Mould) from Plexure
11:25PM Sir Richard Bishop – Event Horizons from Graviton Polarity Generator
11:26PM Maxwell Brecher – The ABC of Sex Education for Trainables (1975) from YouTube
11:34PM Eduard Artemiev – Movements I – V from Solaris OST
11:37PM Test Dept – Comrade Enver Hoxha from The Unacceptable Face of Freedon
11:42PM Laibach – Le Priviledge des Morts from Kapital
11:48PM Laibach – Kinderreich from Kapital
11:52PM Shane Carruth – Leaves Expanded May Be Prevailing (…) from Upstream Color OST
11:54PM Shane Carruth – I Used to Wonder at the Halo of Light Around My Shadow (…) from Upstream Color OST
11:56PM Shane Carruth – Fearing That They Would Be Light-headed (…) from Upstream Color
11:57PM —Set break –
11:57PM Shooby Taylor – Somewhere Over the Rainbow from The Human Horn

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I never would’ve looked at this record twice, normally. I am somewhat averse to accordion records and have this fear that if I buy one, I’ll soon have to start a whole partition for them in my collection. The thought of accordion versions of West Side Story seemed even more daft. Maybe it was the mood I was in. The back pictures and write up on the back sort of sold me on it.

That’s not Shelly on the cover. No, boy. It’s this guy. (sorry for the crappy pics. I’m too lazy to do it properly)

It sounded kind of weird from the copy. It says Mr. Taylor used a stereophonic accordion through effects and that he had ‘high-frequency microphones’ on his fingertips to record the ‘maraca-like’ sounds of his fingers on the keys and buttons.

I ended up buying it. Goodwill makes it really hard to want to take a chance on records, since they sell shit records that aren’t worth 25 cents for a ludicrous $2.99 now – but I did it anyway.

It’s hoot, let me tell ya. It seems Taylor is really enamored of his vibrato unit. It sounds like he’s playing accordion underwater in over half the tracks and I’m not sure what’s going on with the crazy panning. I had to stop listening more than once to assure myself that there wasn’t something wrong with my setup, as the audio creeps from side to side often. I suspect someone was going apeshit during mixing. Or maybe it was Mr. Taylor’s live rig, as I found references to him being a big dinner theatre draw in the 60s, with the ad copy referencing his ‘stereophonic’ sound. One one particularly spirited track, he beats on his squeezebox like a pair of bongos.

Shelly Taylor was (is?) a great player, no doubt. Was he nuts? Probably.
The bulk of the album is dedicated to West Side Story (What? No Officer Krupke?) and then there’s a few maniacally played standards and a few original tunes for good measure.

Get it here.

I picked up this record on the same visit to the East Vancouver, WA Goodwill that I bought the previously posted accordion record.

And, like that record, I seldom buy these church produced band/choir LPs. I do check them out from time to time to see if there’s anything funny, weird or inappropriate for that kind of music. You know what I mean. A way-too grown-up song sung by children – ala Langley School Music Project, etc. – Or maybe something schmaltzy and maudlin. But I think most of those kinds of records have really square music directors, not even letting the poor kids do one single rock and or roll song. It’s the devil’s music, don’t you know.

This one appealed to me though, as it’s all contemporary song hits, via 1972 and shortly before. There’s some Bacharach and David, some Carpenters and even a Leonard Cohen song, for Christ’s sake!

It’s from a Catholic girl’s school from Portland Oregon. I did a little searching for the album and school and – lo and behold – see that friend and WFMU radio host Tony Coulter covered this on WFMU’s Beware of the Blog in two thousand and eleven. You can read about it here (in fact, I snatched the scans from there, as I am presently unable to take acceptable LP photos at the moment).

It’s a fun album. Not quite as charming and kooky as the aforementioned Langly School album, but still lots of fun. There’s some tremulous but spirited solo performances and some fun but somewhat stiff multi-voiced takes on hit songs of the 70s. I don’t know where they got their drummer but he just goes apeshit in a few places. I like to imagine they borrowed some hot-stuff percussionist from the boy’s school and his hormones just went wild being around all the girls. His frantic drumming at the start of Put Your Hand In The Hand can’t be missed.

Come and get it.

FourMost Productions ‎– FM-6919CS – 196?

“Sketch Erickson finds himself a target on the taut, thin line between two generations. His programs, which examine trends in our so-called “pop culture”, pull no punches with either group. 
Sketch is a leading advertising artist who left that career to conduct his crusade for decency among teens. He’s the father of four children, three of whom are teens. As and artist he studied in Europe and Chicago and served as an art director for several leading publishers. He is also a musician who has directed both instrumental and choral groups.”

I’ve got tons of religious records. I’ve also got tons of spoken word religious records – so many, in fact, that I’ve had to break them into sections to separate the end-of-the-world prophecy LPs from the ‘what will happen when the godless commie liberals take over’ LPs from the ‘pastors talking to teens about sex, drugs and rock and roll’ LPs.
This one, from what I am guessing is the late 60s is one of the latter. I’ve got lots of these ones, too. There was something about the track listing on the back that drew me in. Sketch is more of the school of the ‘hep’ and ‘with it’ pastor who can ‘groove’ with today’s young generation. He doesn’t come across as openly judgemental about music, movies and pop trends but he is.

The main selling point for those of us with the constitution to listen to this hellfire and brimstone crap is the goofy skits and sketches (no pun intended) that serve to illustrate Erickson’s points about the slippery slope towards Satan. There are some hilarious attempts at approximating groovy hippy music done by a souless Christian folk group, complete with some awful guitar freakouts. It’s pretty funny.

Let’s have church

This oddball sci-fi satire used to pop up on late-night TV fairly frequently when I was a kid.

It’s based on a Keith Laumer novel of the same name (which I’ve never read) and deals with a group of benevolent bowler-wearing aliens who have conquered earth and imposed peace all over the world. They’ve also outlawed most earthling passions – you know – hate, greed, war, real love, etc. That doesn’t sit well with a growing rebel faction, which is where we come in.

It was a creation of Chicago’s legendary Second City troupe and was directed by Jack Shea, and was a joint effort of Second City and the Bell-Howell corporation. Many Second City alumni appear (Avery Schreiber, for one, at the same time that he was doing Frito commercials), as well as some actors who weren’t in it (Guy Stockwell, Susan Oliver, Ed Begley Sr., Alan, Adam and Matthew Arkin, Keenan Wynn and F-Troop’s Larry Storch) , some strange cameos by the likes of Xavier Cugat, Jackie Vernon and Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, playing himself in one of the numerous hilarious TV PSA segments. The cinematographer was future Oscar winner Vilmos Zsigmond.

There’s also songs by Odetta and loads and loads of quotable dialog and interesting soundbites.

This offering isn’t the movie’s soundtrack – I don’t think it’s ever been released. I simply recorded the audio when it was briefly available for streaming on that movie streaming service we love and loathe. I made it into a CD-length album, of sorts, mainly consisting of the theme, interesting dialog, those aforementioned PSA segments and more.

I hope you enjoy it!

The Monitors Are Your Friends.

A favorite weird found seven inch I’ve had for years.

It’s a one-sided, 33 1/3 RPM that apparently was a training aid for stereo salespeople.

There’s somewhat of an attempt at production value and it’s plenty humorous, with a sort of Gary Owens-like announcer/narrator and a cute female voice that responds to everything with a coo or interjection like ‘groovy‘ or ‘dynamite‘.

The narrative runs us through the various features of the 9235 (whatever that was) with music and the sounds of adjustments being made.

The opening narrator refers to the recording as ‘a tape’, so this may have also been on cassette, open reel or 8-track tape and the inclusion on 7 inch may have been an afterthought.

It was plenty hammered by the time I found it – without a cover in the bottom of some 50 cent bin at a thrift store. I made no attempts to clean it up or compress it. I exported it at 320kbps, so have at it. It could probably use some de-clicking and some de-essing, especially on the girl’s parts. But there’s plenty of cool dialog and one-liners for you DJs looking for cool retro soundbites. As far as I know, this isn’t anywhere on the web.

I’ve played this many times on my radio shows. I really like it.

Play:

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I included also one isolated sample in the zipfile because it’s both handy and I like it.

I Won’t Say I Love You/BW The Sheik of Araby

Low budget looking 7 inch 45 rpm I found in a christian thrift store.
I couldn’t pass it up; it had all the marks of a homemade record or at the very least a vanity recording of the type where some truck driver scraped up enough money to cut a record. Plus, it was from nearby Seaside Oregon, so my curiosity was doubly piqued.

How can I describe these recordings? On the a-side, one of the Lampien brothers (I’m assuming) croons a heartfelt love song while someone does a fair Helen Wiggins of The Shaggs impersonation, barely keeping time and switching the accent from snare to high-hat mid-song.

A-Side: I Won’t Say I Love You

On the flip, we have a swinging country song that incorporates the old standard The Sheik of Araby and while the drumming Lampien manages to keep time well enough this time around (I’m guessing the boys learned how studio playback worked by this point), the song incorporates a Donald Duck-like voice as counterpoint to the singing.

B-Side: The Sheik of Araby

Crazy!

I immediately rushed back to the store and bought every copy they had.

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Not the cover. I have no idea what the cover looked like.

A two-sided 7″ 33 1/3 RPM single put out by Norden Labs to promote a feline distemper vaccine, featuring TV’s Marlin Perkins.
Marlin, as you all know, was host of the long-running television program Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom from the 60′s and well into the 70′s
Here Marlin waxes scientifically about the existence of the Abominable Snowman and somehow – on side two – manages to relate it to the vaccine Felocine.

Side One:

Side Two: 

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