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"LAYLA" by 386 DX MP3	Another artist who makes up recording pseudonyms faster than we can keep track of them is Lassigue Bendthaus, aka LB, aka Senor Coconut, aka 386 DX. As 386 DX, he records cover versions of western and russian pop songs. Fans of Ken's new automated co-host Julio may enjoy this version of Erik Clapton's Layla.	July 2005
"DO YOU GOT SKILLS" by The 524 MP3	Equal parts Tang Dynasty and Wu Tang Clan, this Hong Kong crew drops rhymes in Cantonese, Teochiu, and Mandarin. English is also part of its arsenal. MC Chairman Plow explains his moniker: "The gun is my mouth and when I open it to rap, it goes plow! plow! plow!"	July 2005
"THE THEME" by Aboriginal Peoples Television Network WMV	Airing Thursday nights in Canada on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network or APTN, Inuit Mittatin's official description reads "This program sets out to find the funniest, quirkiest Inuit in the communities of Nunavut. What is so distinct about Inuit humour? What role does humour play in Inuit life?" We think the following description is more apt: "This program is a lunatic Inuit woman running all over the barren north making up songs and inviting us along as she sinks deeper and deeper into dementia."	April 2005
"TRIP TO HOTEL" by Aboriginal Peoples Television Network WMV	In this clip the Inuit woman travels to a hotel and visits the Queen Elizabeth Suite. The creep showing her around claims the queen stayed here, we're not so sure. The edit from an offer to see where the Queen drank tea to a shot of the toilet was how it actually aired.	April 2005
"STAND UP COMEDY" by Aboriginal Peoples Television Network WMV	Here we see the ultimate joke, it is both a lawyer joke AND a Newfie joke.	April 2005
"OH CANADA" by Aboriginal Peoples Television Network WMV	This lesser sung version of Oh Canada is followed by a brief God Bless America and then what might be a request for a new chair from the Canadian government.	April 2005
"CRACKING EGGS" by Aboriginal Peoples Television Network WMV	Cracking eggs in front of some kind of studio audience, Inuit-style.	April 2005
"DREAM SEQUENCE" by Aboriginal Peoples Television Network WMV	It's not all fun and games on Inuit Mittatin, they finish every episode with a short soap opera called "As Nunavut Turns For The Passionate and Devious." We see our host turn thespian in dream sequence featuring bingo and closing doors with feet.	April 2005
"KILL THE BEE GEES" by The Accident MP3	An angry song from The Accident (Bellingham, WA, also released in 1979 on No Three).	February 2005
"THE PEPPER YOUNG TRANSLATIONS" by Blaster Al Ackerman MP3	Ehse Records is offering up complete MP3s of assorted releases on its site (we've sung the praises of the great Little Howlin' Wolf in the past, his most recent LP is there); one in particular features the spoken recordings of Baltimore's Blaster Al Ackerman, a spoken-word artist who has been referenced by Throbbing Gristle. Says Ehse: "This listener's prediction: the muffled voice of Blaster Al Ackerman reading his "Pepper Young" translations with a presumed bar of soap in his mouth followed by tree frog belches will replace the sound of a passing steam locomotive as the poetic sounds of indescribable mystery and high lonesomeness. This audio icon of the 21st Century can be found on Ehse Records' LP release of Blaster Al Ackerman's "I Am Drunk". And indeed at times he does sound drunk, but not just on booze, also on language and human absurdity. Featuring live as well as "studio" recordings, "I Am Drunk" also has two Blaster classics that raise the humdrum world of the workplace to the giddy heights of Philip K. Dick in Munchkinland - "The John Eaton Recommendations" and "The Crab". Another prediction: copies of this album with its linguistic hijinks and squat and thrusts will be played far more times and enjoyed much more than any mothball enshrined Caedmon LP of T.S. Eliot or Robert Frost intoning.	September 2005
"SUITE USA RECORD COMPANY" by Akaten MP3	Atsushi Tsuyama (Acid Mothers Temple) and Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins) provide a muscial recitation of the major record labels.	November 2005
"GG ALLIN COMMERCIAL" MP3	What can anyone say about GG Allin that hasn't already been cringed about countless times? This radio spot for "The Mad Man of Rock and Roll's" first album gives several key clues as to the horror that awaited us all during the 80s, including a thinly-veiled reference to (shudder) "steaming up" controversy... Don't think about it too hard.	August 2004
"DU TALER OG SIR" by Alrune Rod MP3	Danish heavy psych band, ca. '69-'70 (and way above average for things fitting that description.)	August 2005
"WORST RECORD EVER MADE" by Althea and the Memories MP3	Kim Fowley pulled some pre-pubescent fans into the studio for the backing squeals.	November 2005
"GRANDPA PSA" by American Family Association MP3	The best public service announcement we ever received, which was mailed to every radio station in the country by Donald Wildmon's American Family Association, which apparently still harbors fantasies of liberal gestapo squads shoveling heaps o' Bibles into the secular humanist bonfire. No word on whether this magical piece of radio theater generated the million signatures they were aiming for.	April 2005
"JALOUSIE" by Amon Duul 2 MP3	The highly acclaimed Yeti from 1970, and the less-acclaimed (but still dear to me) Vive La Trance (1974).	August 2005
"WHERE HAVE ALL THE HEROES GONE" by Bill Anderson MP3	In a recent People Magazine profile, Bill Anderson was only able to name two astronauts. Mr Anderson also recorded (under a pseudonym) a stirring tribute (realaudio) to Lt. WIlliam Calley.	April 2005
"I'M TOO TOUGH FOR MR. BIG STUFF" by Vicki Anderson MP3	Answer to Jean Knight's Mr. Big Stuff. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"LENOX AVE." by Angela MP3	Tunes from this spirited 6-year-old were recorded back in the early 80's; check out Kenny G's blog post here for more Angela MP3s.	June 2005
"HOW TO PUT A BROAD DOWN PLUS ALL BROADS ARE COMMON" by Ringo Angel MP3	From Greenwich Village's Cafe Bizarre Presents Assorted Madness. Tons more MP3s and info can be found here.	September 2005
"K-ROCK BRINGS YOU PAVEMENT" by Annoying Concert MC MP3	Says our friend Bill W.: "I'd like to 'put my hands together', with his neck intervening."	July 2005
"MR. SNUGGLES" by Anonymous MP3	Learn the lyrics and sing 'em to your loved ones. Scare the bejeezus out of them! From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"A LITTLE SONG I WROTE" by Anonymous MP3	A track by an anonymous bored teenager, downloaded from Napster. On this track, he sings backup vocals on a previously recorded song about ice cream, becoming a wizard, and comfortable underwear. In retrospect, he might have done better to record the backing vocals first, so that the lead vocals would sound louder, but you can't think of everything when you're already a singer and a songwriter. 9 other tracks and more information are available here.	December 2005
"JANET RENO" by ANQUETTE MP3	Written when the future Attorney General was State Attorney of Florida; a booty-lishus celebration of Janet Reno's tough stance on deadbeat dads!	May 2005
"SYMBOLI" by Apollo MP3	From the album "Apollo" (1970). Apollo were a gutsy Finnish rock act very much of their time, formed by members of the popular 60s group Topmost. The album is evenly split between Beefheart-style screwy blues guitar numbers, and Aphrodite's Child-esque string-soaked prog ballads.	October 2005
"LAULU YSTAVALLE" by Apollo MP3	From the album "Apollo" (1970). Apollo were a gutsy Finnish rock act very much of their time, formed by members of the popular 60s group Topmost. The album is evenly split between Beefheart-style screwy blues guitar numbers, and Aphrodite's Child-esque string-soaked prog ballads.	October 2005
"ARBOGA TEENAGE RIOT" by - MP3	Two 14 year old Swedish girls are obvious fans of Atari Teenage Riot.	November 2004
"ABRICOT - SUIVI DE DANSERIE" by Arcane V MP3	French band released on Exit in 1979. Usually cited as a progressive rock album, but there's nothing "rock" about it to my ears; more of a free jazz small combo with dominant woodwinds and a strong klezmer element on several tracks. It's likely that ESP-DISK jazz was a major influence.	September 2005
"NAPHTALYS FREILACH" by Arcane V MP3	French band released on Exit in 1979. Usually cited as a progressive rock album, but there's nothing "rock" about it to my ears; more of a free jazz small combo with dominant woodwinds and a strong klezmer element on several tracks. It's likely that ESP-DISK jazz was a major influence.	September 2005
"LISTEN, MR. HAT" by Wm. H. Arpaia & The Jerrymanders MP3	William Howard Arpaia's motivational rant is not technically a song-poem, since writer and performer in this case are the same person. But Arpaia was forever blurring the boundaries between vanity and song-poem anyway, and this one is just too strong to contain any longer. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"ITANONG MO SA MGA BATA" by Asin MP3	Beautiful folk-psych from this Philippine unit's "Masdan Mo ang Kapaligiran" LP from early 1970s; fabulous belting female vocal, definitely leaning towards what was going on in the West Coast USA at the same time with definitive local traditional flavor.	April 2005
"ERNA MORENA (LIVE) (1973)" by Association P.C. MP3	Pan-European improvisational rock band, with similarities to early Soft Machine. Noodly psychedelic extrapolations, with some very rewarding emergent themes for the patient listener. A detailed information page about the band can be found here.	October 2005
"HAPPY LIVING" by Astro Age Steel Orchestra MP3	A Christmas tune, covered Caribbean-style by Japanese artists. Think you can top the novelty of this one? Yeah, just step off.	April 2005
"THEY MUST BE RUSSIANS" by Attilla the Stockbroker MP3	One of the 20th Century's greatest poets, Attila the Stockbroker, from his brilliant "Ranting at the Nation" LP.	April 2005
"RUSSIANS AT THE HENRY REGATTA" by Attilla the Stockbroker MP3	The clarity of Attilla's rants, his often-hilarious demeanor, and what remains a wholly unchallenged sense of smart assed-ness makes these tunes delectable.	April 2005
"RUSSIANS IN THE DHSS" by Attilla the Stockbroker MP3	Another track from the "Ranting at the Nation" LP.	April 2005
"RUSSIANS IN MACDONALDS" by Attilla the Stockbroker MP3	Attilla attacks the Russians. Again.	April 2005
"UNKNOWN" by Unknown Auctioneer MP3	A rural art of the motor-mouth at its finest.	October 2004
"PALINDROMES" by Baby Gramps MP3	Performed on WFMU in June of 1988, hosted by Nicholas Hill. Baby Gramps is a Seattle based performer who is best described as a cross between Popeye and a Tuvan Throat Singer. This track is his crowd-pleasing ode to palindromes, words, phrases (or in his case, entire books) that are spelled the same backwards and forwards. Not to be confused with the current Todd Solondz movie.	April 2005
"SORRY I'M A LADY" by Baccara MP3	A super-mega-hit on Ken Freedman's show. And in Israel.	April 2005
"KOOCHIE-KOO" by Baccara MP3	Saccharine Euro-disco from Spanish Flamenco artists, Mayte Mateus and Maria Mediolo. This song is from their self-titled 1977 release.	April 2005
" [CHARMANTE YEREVAN, EN LAT FRAN ARMENIEN" by Archimedes Badkar MP3	Swedish progressive rock with a wealth of Asian and Middle Eastern elements and instrumentation, comparable to Embryo or Between from the German camp. Their album Tre is readily available as a reissue, though this double album from 1976 seems to be generally acknowledged as their masterpiece.	September 2005
"TVA VARLDAR" by Archimedes Badkar MP3	Swedish progressive rock with a wealth of Asian and Middle Eastern elements and instrumentation, comparable to Embryo or Between from the German camp. Their album Tre is readily available as a reissue, though this double album from 1976 seems to be generally acknowledged as their masterpiece.	September 2005
"JAH LOVE" by Bad Brains MP3		August 2005
"MURRY WILSON: ROCK AND ROLL DAD" by Peter Bagge Flash	January 8, 1965: The Beach Boys enter the studio to record what will become their second number one hit, Help Me Rhonda. Well into the session, a drunken Murry Wilson (Brian, Carl and Dennis' Dad) arrives and proceeds to commandeer the session with psychodrama, scat singing and weepy, abusive melodrama. Peter Bagge created this four part animated series based on the session for Icebox in 2001. More information and full audio of the actual session tapes are available here on the WFMU blog.	October 2005
"BAGHDAD RADIO" by A Baghdad Radio DJ MP3	Lovely. Announcing the Baghdad radio hit parade, recorded off the air in the Sunni triangle, sometime between the two wars.	February 2005
"I WANT TO" by S.P. Balasubramaniyam MP3	This versatile playback crooner has made 36,000 recordings - singing in eight languages - for South Indian film soundtracks. This disco-tinged number, from the 1987 Tamil-language film "Aanand," features a chorus in smarmiest English.	July 2005
"BANG BANG OUTISHLY" by Amiri Baraka MP3	The former poet laureate of New Jersey covers Thelonius Monk.	June 2005
"CLARA CROCODILO" by Arrigo Barnabe MP3	From the 1980 LP of the same name; amazing Sao Paulo, Brazil-based artist who created a hybrid sound of Downtown NYC, Eurorock-in-Opposition, prog, and traditional Brazilian pop. Think Aksak Maboul meets Magma and Os Mutantes.	November 2004
"SON OF SHAFT" by The Bar Kays MP3	Answer to Isaac Hayes' Theme From Shaft. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"LAST WHITE CHRISTMAS" by Basement 5 MP3	UK post-dub-punk outfit, ca. 1981; produced by Martin Hannett.	August 2005
"PETITE PIECE DETACHEE" by Pierre Bastien MP3	Humans accompany machine-played six-stringed kora, which provides the tuning and tempo. From David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music".	September 2005
"BOLIA" by Gurmeet Bawa MP3	Another soul-stirring voice from another land is Gurmeet Bawa, a Punjabi vocalist with total power, emotion, and as you can here on this MP3 of "Bolia" from her 1988 album Love and Life in the Punjab, one hell of an ability to hold a note. I often think of Bawa everytime American Idol is on, wondering what it would be like to watch Simon, Randy and Paula dive under the table and render the whole contest nil, but perhaps she is somewhat of the Indian equivalent to Kelly Clarkson after all? Or so you might ascertain by reading this recent quote from a review of one of her homeland concerts: Rajni and Sandeep, third year engineering students said, �She is too good. She expressed deep feelings. Her songs were as soulful as those of Celine Dion in Titanic. She has bound us to our culture.�	July 2005
"GANZ ALLEIN (IN MY ROOM)" by Beach Boys MP3	The Beach Boys sing, in German.	February 2005
"PAUL REVERE (MOLDY TAPE VERSION)" by The Beastie Boys MP3	Here's another mold-enhanced track courtesy of Cameron Jones.	July 2005
"NO REMORSE" by Beattalica MP3	Sony has issued a cease and desist letter to Beatallica's Internet Service Provider to prevent the further dissemination of songs like this.	February 2005
"OB LA DI OB LA DA" by The Beatles MP3		August 2005
"ALL MY LOVING" by The Beatle Barkers MP3	n the shameless pantheon of novelty music, there is one sub-genre so unspeakable that it's practitioners almost never reveal their actual names. I speak of course of the Singing Animal Song. The Beatles Barkers are no exception. Nowhere on their album (released in the middle of the night in New Zealand) does an actual human being accept musical responsibility. It is credited only to "The Woofers and Tweeters Ensemble," but even this obfuscates the most important point about this deservedly unappreciated genre - the best Singing Animal Records are those in which there are in fact no animals at all. The Beatle Barkers success (if in fact there is any) is derived from the fact that, unlike other Singing Animal records, the animal noises are in fact samples made by human beings. Animal noises are too important to be trusted to the animals.	August 2005
"CAN'T BUY ME LOVE" by The Beatle Barkers MP3		August 2005
"DAY TRIPPER" by The Beatle Barkers MP3		August 2005
"HARD DAY'S NIGHT" by The Beatle Barkers MP3		August 2005
"I FEEL FINE" by The Beatle Barkers MP3		August 2005
"I SAW HER STANDING THERE" by The Beatle Barkers MP3		August 2005
"I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND" by The Beatle Barkers MP3		August 2005
"LOVE ME DO" by The Beatle Barkers MP3		August 2005
"PAPERBACK WRITER" by The Beatle Barkers MP3		August 2005
"SHE LOVES YOU" by The Beatle Barkers MP3		August 2005
"WE CAN WORK IT OUT" by The Beatle Barkers MP3		August 2005
"PYGMY DIVORCE" by Frances Bebey MP3	This sad tale of love and divorce amongst the Pygmy population will nail you right in the ticker... and have you contemplating whether that lovely bride was really worth swapping out those eight elephant tusks for.	March 2005
"A MILLION AND ONE DREAMS" by Bel Larks MP3		October 2005
"XTC" by H. Jon Benjamin MP3	A track from H. Jon Benjamin (friend of The Best Show) and is "like fucking perfectly fucking perfect and great and fucking great."	April 2005
"STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN" by Peter Bennett MP3	New Orleans street performer's rendition of the Led Zeppelin classic, on the glass harmonica.	June 2005
"TAKE 5/ B-SIDE" by Val Bennet MP3	A nice dubby take on the Brubeck classic 'Take 5' by lengendary reggae session man Val Bennet. While the A-side is nice, it gets a wee bit schmaltzy, so we flip it over and give you the version on the flip	July 2005
"GOING TO SPAIN" by Steve Bent MP3	Mark E. Smith has always had an ear for the perfect covers for the Fall to do, and since this breezy ditty got remade of 1993's Infotainment Scan LP, I've always wanted to hear the original. Lo and behold Irwin spun it last week and directed my attention to a Yuk/K-Tel compilation from 1978 title The World's Worst Record, compiled by UK DJ/comic Kenny Everett. This song was penned by Steve Bent, who performed it on a British TV show called New Faces in 1974, a sort of primitive precursor to American Idol where contestants did their own compositions. I love the whole naive tourist vibe, where the protaganist sings "Cousin Norman had a real fine time last year", being kept company by "tapes of Elton John" and says "I hope I can quickly learn the language", before the totally weird reverbed falsetto leap into the chorus. Makes a good segue to Three Dog Night's "I've Never Been To Spain", which coincidentally, I played on my last show before I, uh, went to Spain for the first time. I didn't quickly learn the language, but had a real fine time!	September 2005
"THE MONKEY SONG" by Robin and Crystal Bernard MP3	Reverand Jerry Falwell introduces The Bernard Sisters. Grunting away in the background is "Little Sins," who snuck into the recording session during halftime of the Game of Life. Despite this recording, Crystal Bernard went on to a successful TV and recording career.	April 2005
"201 TO 100" by Charles Bernstein MP3	A longtime staple on Kenny G's show, here's the infamous Charles Bernstein taking you to the top as only he can. Recorded in 1969.	November 2005
"MUTANT BRAIN MORD BAHNHOF (EXCERPT)" by MB (Maurizio Bianchi) MP3	From the album "Mectpyo" (1980), an early cassette release from this innovator of extreme, hypnotic noise; the first, in fact, to be released under his own name (he had recorded previously as Sacher-Pelz.) A brief but detailed bio/discography here.	October 2005
"DRAG RACING" by Big Stick MP3	Big Stick's summertime anthem, the greatest musical harbinger of the sweaty season.	June 2005
"THE FLINTSTONES" by Black Lodge Singers MP3	The Canyon label has been putting out a lot of contempo Native American sounds, lots of hip-hop variations especially. But this track from their Kids Pow Wow Songs CD from the late 90's has always dropped jaws whenever it got airplay on WFMU through the years.	March 2005
"SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS" by Black Lodge Singers MP3	More Kids Pow Wow Songs (Canyon Label) unfortunately falls way short of the Singers' jawdropping Kids Pow Wow Songs some years back, but this is a nice addition to your MP3 collection. If you can't get enough 'bob, check out Jonny Blaze's take on the tune as well (Real Audio), culled from the DJ Technics collection of Baltimore Club Tracks we blogged about here earlier this year.	September 2005
"HUMAN RADIO STATION" by The Black Pope MP3	Download your faith with another DJ Pope - Shelley Pope, aka The Black Pope.	April 2005
"IT TAKES A BLISS" by Bladder Flask MP3	From the album "One Day I Was So Sad That the Corners of My Mouth Met & Everybody Thought I Was Whistling" (1981) - Two sides of mind-warping sound collage created by the Rupenus brothers, aka The New Blockaders. The Rupenuses were also the masterminds behind the Mixed Band Philanthropist project and LP from 1986.	October 2005
"THE ANTICHRIST" by David Blair MP3	1991 Cassette recording falling somewhere between Current 93 and Abner Jay. Taken from the album "Sir Blair of Rothes"; Blair has a determination to point out in massive detail his roots to Scandinavian royalty in many letters in the past to WFMU. The only thing found on the internet about him is here: www.booklocker.com/books/1479.html.	March 2005
"WANG WANG BLUES" by Eubie Blake MP3	A 1921 piano roll doctored up with extra "fill-ins" (ie, "holes") to give the effect of hearing three hands playing at once, not two. From David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music".	September 2005
"GEEK SHOW PITCH" by Fred Bloodgood MP3	Recorded in the late 70's at the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife, but the pitch dates from Fred's days as a Geek show pitchman from 1929 to 1938. Following the main body of the pitch, a young boy would run up to Bloodgood and hand him a telegram requesting that Neola the Geek be returned to the Smithsonian Institution for "scientific research."	October 2005
"MEDICINE SHOW PITCH" by Fred Bloodgood MP3	Bloodgood never uses one word when four will suffice.	October 2005
"OSSIFIED MAN PITCH" by Fred Bloodgood MP3	Recorded in 1980 at the Festival of American Folklife.	October 2005
"GRYETS VINGER" by Blue Sun MP3	Danish hippie band who released several albums in the early 70s of ethno- and jazz-infused progressive rock, balanced by a tendency for piano ballads, reminiscent at times of British bands like Traffic and Procol Harum. Here's an article on the Danish progressive scene, which also references great bands like Ache and Alrune Rod.	October 2005
"BLUE SUN" by Blue Sun MP3	A second track from Danish hippie band Blue Sun.	October 2005
"DAS BLAUER SAMT" MP3	WFMU's obsession with The German Version continues with this film excerpt. Is it Kinski? Is it Hitler? No, it's Blue Velvet's own best fiend Frank Booth, in some defining scenes -- dubbed auf Deutsch.	August 2004
"THINGS THAT YOU DO" by BOB MP3	A tune from the SF new wave band BOB, extracted from a self-titled single released on Dumb Records in 1980. A decidedly lethargic version of this song also appears on their "Backwards" album that was released on the label 3 years later. Pons Maar, who played the Lead Wheeler in Return to Oz, the lizard-man in Masters of the Universe, the lead character in the TV show "Dinosaurs" AND the voice of the Noid(!) appears as the band's drummer on this single.	April 2005
"I DON'T LIKE IT LIKE THAT" by The Bobbettes MP3	Answer to Chris Kenner's I Like It Like That. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH SPOT" by Bob & Ray MP3		November 2005
"SIDE A" by Raymond Boni MP3	Pot-Pourri Pour Parce Que - 1977 hatHUT album by this French free jazz guitarist, whose style is a warm mix of traditional jazz, Gipsy guitar and the European splatter meisters. Two great sides with alto accompaniment by Claude Bernard.	September 2005
"MP3 #1" by The Most Boring Radio Station In the World MP3	"Hidden among the Maryland farms about 20 miles north of Washington, DC is a radio station that is on the air 24 hours a day - with some of the world's dullest-sounding programs. Yet to a lot of people all over the world, these monotonous sounds are more interesting than Jack Benny. It may be the world's most popular radio station, and it's certainly the longest-running: it predates Pittsburgh's legendary KDKA and remains on the air to this day. It has appeared everywhere from the Superman TV series to the pages of Esquire and the New Yorker. Yet the saga of NIST Radio Station WWVH has never been told to the fullest -- until now." Here is the first of two MP3s full of inexplicable metronome and mind-dulling from a forthcoming release (www.obscure-disk.com).	October 2004
"MP3 #2" by The Most Boring Radio Station In the World MP3	The second of two mp3's from The Most Boring Radio Station in the World.	October 2004
"STATION IDENT" by David Bowie MP3 \| MP3 \| MP3	Another variation on this theme were rock star "indents," in which a celebrity introduced his or her new single. Here are a few David Bowie idents we still had laying around.	August 2005
"BLOWOFF FOR PRISCILLA THE MONKEY WOMAN" by John Bradshow MP3	A "blowoff" is an extra added attraction that you have to pay extra for once you're inside the sideshow tent.	October 2005
"ALPHA BETA GAMMA DELTA EPSILON" by Brave New World - Impressions On Reading Aldous Huxley MP3	A real gem of obscure Krautrock from 1971, originally released on Vertigo. This was an unusual aggregation of Hamburg-based musicians (not all German) who made only this one LP. The record is largely instrumental (bands could actually get away with making wholly instrumental LPs in 1971, and for a major label no less!), similar to early Between, Annexus Quam and perhaps even the instrumental bits from the Moody Blues. Seemingly genuinely inspired by the Huxley book, the record has a strong, otherworldly soundtrack feel to it as well. Fuzz bass, distorted stylopohone, woodwinds, unusual percussion and occasional atmospheric vocals - what a cool record! Note the thematic similarity of "Lenina" to Bowie's "Warsawa," which would appear in 1977 on the Low album.	September 2005
"LENINA" by Brave New World - Impressions On Reading Aldous Huxley MP3	A real gem of obscure Krautrock from 1971, originally released on Vertigo. This was an unusual aggregation of Hamburg-based musicians (not all German) who made only this one LP. The record is largely instrumental (bands could actually get away with making wholly instrumental LPs in 1971, and for a major label no less!), similar to early Between, Annexus Quam and perhaps even the instrumental bits from the Moody Blues. Seemingly genuinely inspired by the Huxley book, the record has a strong, otherworldly soundtrack feel to it as well. Fuzz bass, distorted stylopohone, woodwinds, unusual percussion and occasional atmospheric vocals - what a cool record! Note the thematic similarity of "Lenina" to Bowie's "Warsawa," which would appear in 1977 on the Low album.	September 2005
"LA DONNA E MOBILE" by Bremond Bell Music Box MP3	From Verdi's Rigoletti, featured on David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium, "Machines vs. Music".	September 2005
"NAILING HONEY TO THE BEE" by Brian Jonestown Massacre MP3	Rarely-trotted-out track by the stars of the recently big rockumentary "Dig", performed live on WFMU on Pseu Braun's show October 23, 2003.	January 2005
"BEWARE" by Bill Buchanan MP3		October 2005
"HOLIDAY ROAD (LUPICA COEDINE MIX)" by LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM MP3	Have you ever wondered what it would be like to hear Fleetwood Mac's guitarist do his solo hit from the "Vacation 2" soundtrack, but from outside the door of a gymnasium, and the band was all on downers? We thought you might. Mike Lupica's remix lets your dream become reality.	December 2004
"ART CARLSON" by Bunnybrains MP3	5 more Bunnybrains MP3's and more info can be found here.	October 2005
"GRAB JOINT PITCH" by Dick Burnett MP3	A grab joint was a fast food operation on a carnival midway.	October 2005
"FAT GIRL PITCH" by Dick Burnett MP3	Recorded 1980 by Steven Zeitlin, who along with Amanda Durgan and Michael Schlesinger, produced the original cassette American Talkers: The Art of the Pitchman for Global Village Music.	October 2005
"TEN IN ONE GRIND" by Dick Burnett MP3	The "grind" is a faster, more rhythmic and repetitious version of the standard sideshow bally. Recorded 1980.	October 2005
"MILLIONS OF IMAGES" by William S Burroughs MP3		October 2005
"REFLECTIONS (DIRTY DUCK RE-MIX)" by Barbara Bush MP3	Dirty Duck has been absent from the FMU Blue page as of late, and has been reported to have been hanging out at Teanie with Moby. This MP3 makes it obvious as to why; he has been soaking in production skills from the Mobe, and has become somewhat of a remix auteur. So, bravo, and the DFA may contact him via this radio station for that Janet Jackson project if they need him.	October 2005
"THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS" by George W. Bush (by James Allenspach) MP3	"You can do that when you're the President."	December 2005
"MP3 EXCERPT" by Wayne Butane MP3	From his new "Imbalanced" CD. Thankfully, people like Wayne Butane exist and have a lot of time to take millions of audio snippets and assemble them into brain-altering rivers of sound gush, that will often leave you chuckling in a most Beavis-and-Butthead-like manner before it all ends. Pure genius for the short-attention span potty-humor loving gnomes in the audience. Discs available at Flaming Canine's site.	June 2005
"A VERY SPECIAL WAYNE BUTANE CHRISTMAS" by Wayne Butane MP3	Wayne is the master of milk-through-nose, zero-attention-span cut-up tomfoolery, with lots of his meticulously-crafted mayhem found at his site here. This is an except of an Xmas disc he sent WFMU last year.	December 2005
"UN GALANTUOMO" by Juri Camisasca MP3	Creepy, eccentric folk track from an amazing 1974 Italian LP sent to me by listener Jamie in the UK. Supposedly not a big seller, but nonetheless one of the more out-there singer-songwriter efforts from Italy in any decade; reminiscent of the dark folk of Comus or even some early Tyrannosaurus Rex, with the voice definitely used in an avant-garde sense as an instrument within itself. Famed experimentalist Franco Battiato also appears on here, adding some fractured electronics over the stoned vibe.	August 2005
"I'M THE GIRL ON WOLVERTON MOUNTAIN" by Jo Ann Campbell MP3	Answer to Claude King's Wolverton Mountain. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"LOCKING JAWS" by Caninus MP3	Hot on the heels of the parrot-fronted death metal act comes Caninus, fronted by a pitbull.	July 2004
"FIVE FEET HIGH AND RISING" by Johnny Cash MP3	German language version.	April 2005
"INTRO TO THE INCREDIBLE HULK" by Ted Cassidy MP3	Ted Cassidy (Lurch) narrates the intro to The Incredible Hulk.	April 2005
"NICE PEOPLE" by Charlie and His Orchestra MP3	Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, assembled a fairly competent swing band called Charlie and His Orchestra to perform Nazified versions of the jazz hits of the day. Led by an English speaking German, Karl Schwendler, Charlie and His Orchestra broadcast on the medium-wave and short-wave bands throughout the 1930s to Canada, the US and Britain. The idea was to lure the masses in with the irrestible tonic of swing music and then slyly work in the anti-Jewish, American and British lyrics after the second or third verse. The broadcasts of Charlie and His Orchestra were not available in the Fatherland proper, but that only enhanced their legend, and they picked up an underground following in Germany as well.	April 2005
"THANKS FOR THE MEMORY" by Charlie and His Orchestra MP3	Here's another song from Charlie and His Orchestra.	April 2005
"INDIAN LOVE CALL" by Charlie and His Orchestra MP3	Another song from Charlie and His Orchestra.	April 2005
"THE TEN COMMANDMENTS" by Charlie the Hamster MP3	Charlie the Hamster sings the 10 Commandments.	June 2005
"ANI-KUNI" by Madeleine Chartrand MP3	Total fuzz-drenched wedding of what sounds like Tenjo Sajiki scoring the Apple soundtrack. From the excellent Satan Balanger-compiled "Volume 3: Total Freakout", an assortment of great thirft-store finds in the acid-lounge-funk vein, on Montreal's great Mucho Gusto label.	January 2005
"SPEAK NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE" by Cheap Trick MP3	From Cheap Trick's eponymous 1977 album.	August 2005
"MY MIND" by Chubby Checker MP3	Chubby Checker may have told us to do the Twist, but while we were doing that, he went to Holland, smoked a lot of pot, and recorded a single called "Stoned In the Bathroom". The flip, "My Mind" (MP3) is found on the new Toytown compilation of obscuro psych, called Nightmares At Toby's Shop, findable via Forced Exposure.	July 2005
"GROWN-UP BABY (DRIVING PSYCHOLOGY)" by The Chevrolet Singers MP3	Courtesy of the Professor.	June 2004
"UNKNOWN" by Wong Chi-Wa MP3	China's "Boom Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room)"?	October 2004
"DAISY BELL AND OH MR. PORTER" by Chiappa Barrell Organ MP3	From David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music". Some organ grinders solicited money to make music, others solicited money to stop. In the long history of street music, the most mercenary of the organ grinders sought out the homes of the sick (often there was straw strewn on the street outside their houses, to dampen the sound of passing traffic), and the organ grinders would play outside their windows until being paid off to leave. The Chiappa Barrel Organ was produced by a London firm established by Giuseppe Chiappa and his three sons around the turn of the twentieth century. The instrument in this recording belongs to the collection of the fabulous and eccentric <a href="http://www.musicalmuseum.co.uk/">Musical Museum in London</a>.	September 2005
"I'M FROM NEW JERSEY" by Chordbenders MP3	The song that started it all - Bruce, The Pulaski Skyway, Sayreville - WFMU. The rest is history.	April 2005
"MR. TENOR MAN" by Lou Christie MP3	Answer to Johnny Cymbal's Mr. Bass Man. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"STAR WHORES" by Christ Child MP3	This was a major label release on Arista in 1977, they were from Malibu (!), and may have been that label's hope to follow Patti Smith who was then being marketed as both "punk" and "new wave" (in 1977 USA, it was kind of a blur as to what was what). I dunno, though, this thing kills as it whoodles in with weirdass minimal synth that goes into a total thuggy bug-out riff that burrows itself right into your head.	August 2005
"WHY CHUCK NORRIS IS #1" by Chuck Norris Appreciation Society MP3	If you ask Chuck Norris what time it is, he always says, "Two seconds till." After you ask, "Two seconds to what?" he roundhouse kicks you in the face.	December 2005
"DER HUND DER BASKERVILLE" by Cindy and Bert MP3	I am not saying Germans are Nazis, and I am not saying Sharon Osbourne is a Nazi for her terrible treatment and public abuse of Iron Maiden on her own concert stage, but here's a German take on Black Sabbath's "Paranoid", sort of.	September 2005
"DOWNTOWN" by Petula Clark MP3	Petula Clark's rendition in German of "Downtown".	February 2005
"SPOOKY MOVIES" by Roy Clark MP3		October 2005
"CATTLE AUCTION" by Stenson Clontz MP3	Cattle Auctioneer Champion from 1985.	June 2005
"NO, YOU CAN'T TAKE THEM" by The Clouds MP3	The Clouds don't exist. They were an "avant-gospel" project originating in the backwoods of Alabama, created as a one-off mini-album and art installation by artist-in-residence Stuart Hyatt, of Indianapolis. Stuart worked with local gospel choirs and amateur performers in late 2003, wrote all the songs, and played most instruments. He then privately pressed 300 copies, which were mostly given away to participants. The album is now slated for release on Innova [http://innovarecordings.com/], which will issue a limited edition CD in packaging hand-made by Hyatt. "No, You Can't Take Them" features Kinterbish School students grades 6-8 and the Union Chapel Male Chorus. Here's info & photos regarding the original project: www.teamrecords.org/ WFMU's Irwin Chusid produced the album for first commercial release.	September 2004
"HARLEMWORLD" by The Cold Crush Brothers and Kool Moe Dee MP3 \| MP3	Though it's not exactly a seasonal number, it's the Cold Crush Brothers (MP3) throwing down in a very early MC showdown at Xmas Time, up against Kool Moe Dee (MP3) and others, and actually lifting from Terry Jacks' "Seasons In the Sun". From the battle at Harlem World, intense!	December 2005
"KING COLEMAN ID" by Dave the Spazz MP3	Found on WFMU's Radio Archival Oddities Vol. 2, Dave the Spazz takes soul legend King Coleman down the path to a station ID. As you will hear, this is not always an easy task.	October 2004
"I'VE GOT NOTHING WORKING" by Ann Cole MP3	Answer to Muddy Waters' I Got My Mojo Working. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"COLLINS ON COLLINS" by Phil Collins MP3	Back in the days before Clear Channel owned every other station in the country, record labels were forced to do a little bit of legwork in order to promote their releases. Throughtout the 70's and 80's, one technique in their arsenal was to mail an "interview records" to every station in the country. Interview records were essentially spoken word karaoke interviews with rock stars, so that a local station could pretend that its own jocks had landed the big one. Stations received a record with the rock star giving answers to interview questions, which were supplied to the station on a script. An hour or so in the production room with reel to reel tape and a razor blade, and voila! even the lowliest station in the country could air that exclusive interview with Jimmy Page! We still have one such interview record in the mighty FMU record library, "Collins on Collins," in which Phil Collins knowingly chuckles to your insighttful questions, and waxes philosophical on "Philmania" and the difference between "pop fans" and "music fans." Here is an MP3 of the Collins on Collins record which came out in 1985. If you really want to play along at home and ask Phil the questions so he can knowingly chuckle and reply to you, here is a pdf document of the script that accompanied the record.	August 2005
"CACCIA ALLA VOLPE" by Roberto Colombo MP3	Milanese composer, arranger and producer who worked with some of the giants of Italian rock and pop, like PFM and Patty Pravo. Colombo recorded two solo albums in the latter 70s of this intense, tightly arranged Zappa-flavored progressive jazz rock. Here is a short biography in Italiano.	October 2005
"DER ALTE COWBOY" by Comedian Harmonists MP3	Called "Jewish-Marxist noise" by the Nazis in 1932, this German singing supergroup broke up two years later after it was prohibited from performing due to the non-Aryan heritage of half its members. This piece of fluff was recorded a month before the split.	July 2005
"FESOMIES URBANES" by Companyia El�ctrica Dharma MP3	From "Diumenge" (1975), the first album by this Catalonian progressive rock band, blending Catalan folk and a Mediterranean sensibilty with an undeniable RIO/Canterbury influence. A family project, started by the brothers Fortuny, Companyia El�ctrica Dharma is still working today.	October 2005
"EUFORIA" by Companyia El�ctrica Dharma MP3	From "Diumenge" (1975), the first album by this Catalonian progressive rock band, blending Catalan folk and a Mediterranean sensibilty with an undeniable RIO/Canterbury influence. A family project, started by the brothers Fortuny, Companyia El�ctrica Dharma is still working today.	October 2005
"WORKIN MAN" by Kookie Cook MP3	A while back Station Manager Ken waxed poetic about the insane Dean Carter disc out last year; a compilation of 1960's psychobilly I picked up for the station on the recommend of Major Stars/Twisted Village impresario Wayne Rogers (a man who knows a thing or two about overloaded distortion used tactfully himself). Carter's sound was what might have happened if Elvis hooked up with Chrome stepping off a time-travel machine, totally zonked and unlike anything else in the genre (with possible comparisons to the Michael Yonkers 60's stuff). Thanks to Alec Palao, the roots of Dean have been dug into a bit more on another Big Beat UK reissue called the Midnite Sound of the Milky Way, which compiles more crude and overdriven sounds from the same midwest studio Carter did his dirty work in. In fact, Carter is credited with writing lots of this material under his real name Arlie Neaville with partner Arlie Miller (the two also co-owned the studio). The acts that came through dabbled in both rocking roots and Brit Invasion sounds, but the limited technology the Arlies were able to offer (refrigerator cardboard boxes nailed to walls for soundproof, souped-up two track recording machines) made for some primitive, crusty sounds. The Cobras were kids around 12 years old almost eclipsed in view by their guitars, and Kookie Cook was almost as wild as Carter in many ways cutting solo sides as well as with his band the Satalites (sic).	October 2005
"LS BUMBLEBEE" by PETER COOK & DUDLEY MOORE MP3	When they're weren't being as foul as possible as Derek & Clive, these two were up to no good in other forums. Here's a generous helping of psych-sploitation that is at least as good as "Listen To What the Flower People Say".	December 2004
"TUAREG" by Gal Costa MP3	"Tuareg" is an inauthentic name for the various tribes of the Saharan region given by North African Muslim marauders. It's an insulting Arabic term meaning "the Godforsaken." It's also the name of this Jorge Ben tune, recorded in 1969 by the Queen of the Tropicalia scene, that mashes up Brazilian psychedelia with the trippy desert music familiar to the people the song is named for.	July 2005
"SATANIC MASS" by Coven MP3	A great Satanic Mass, as Satanic Masses go. It came out on Coven's 1970 LP Witchcraft: Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls. For years, I though that this was the same Coven who had the hit with One Tin Soldier, but apparently, that was the British Coven, and this is the American Coven. To make matters even more confusing, the American Coven included a member named Oz Ozbourne. No relation. Just Kiss The Goat and shut up.	October 2005
"PICKIN" by Tony Mason Cox MP3	WARNING: Contains some potentially offensive language, namely the 'N' word being spoken in the voice of a "channeled" slave owner. Receiving this in the mail with a blurred photograph on the cover of a man undergoing some kind of open-heart surgery made me immediately suspect it was some kind of Cold Wave/Industrial action, but then looking on the back of the CD I was startled to see headshots of what looks like a late 50s/early 60s bespectacled middle class suit-type. That coupled with song titles like "Milk", "Dads", "If I Hurt You", "If You Hurt Me", and "Alabamy Jail" made me totally confused. And the liner notes certainly didn't help things. Tony Mason-Cox is an Australian insurance salesman whose notes verify that indeed, he refused a triple-bypass in favor of being operated on by a Philippine spiritual surgeon, while awake, in 1995 and the bloody mess on the cover was real. A firm believer in reincarnation, the surgeon was believed to be a God-chosen medium to help heal. If that isn't enough, Mason-Cox believes that he was the medium himself for an 1800's Negro slave from Alabama, who spoke through him as he sang a capella into a tape recorder booming hymns of picking cotton and being locked in jail; the a capella recordings were then backed by a jazz band on this CD. Phew. Mason-Cox's "originals" also are totally surreal, almost like Ivor Cutler gone smooth jazz, though Cutler charms and this distresses. File under "real people" I guess.	April 2005
"DOG FACE" by Coyle and Sharp MP3	Previously-unreleased man-in-the-street pranksters in fine form.	April 2005
"TREES" by Jesse Crawford MP3	Recorded onto piano rolls in the US in the 1920s, Crawford's performance was played back in England on a WurliTzer Cinema Organ fitted with a rare WurliTzer R.J. Roll Player. From David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music".	September 2005
"WFMU" by Crazy Mary MP3	The band Crazy Mary recorded this song for us and the amazing thing about it is that it's historically accurate! WBCN references, FCC non-duplication alleghories, the works! These guys did their homework on us.	February 2005
"I'M CHEWIN' GUM" by CREME SODA MP3	We've been ignoring some of the rockabilly fans out there with our MP3 offerings(though really, are y'all collecting MP3s?) Here's a nice slice of primitive kidney-stone-passing vocal action courtesy a Milwaukee band who were pretty much not really a rockabilly band afterall. Still, this one makes some Jerry Lee moments look pale in comparsion.	May 2005
"ROCKIN' ZOMBIE" by Crewnecks MP3		October 2005
"THE ONLY ONE" by Crispy Lizards MP3	Late 80s Trenton band whose singer copped the best fake British snarl I've ever heard.	November 2005
"CRISWELL PREDICTS YOUR INCREDIBLE FUTURE (44 MINUTES)" by Criswell MP3	For your listening and sampling pleasure, here's a 44-minute-long MP3 of the legendary Criswell predicting what he predicts best - the future, which is where you and I will spend the rest of our lives. Some of you may write off Criswell as another Ed Wood boy toy, but listen to the predictions he makes here, and you will be astounded by his accuracy.	November 2005
"ULTIMATE RAP" by Frankie Crocker MP3	Frankie Crocker was one of the flashiest and most flamboyant radio personalities to ever rock a mic. This classic Frankie rap (thanks to Steinski for the vinyl-to-MP3 transfer) is part of WFMU's ongoing Aircheck program: an ever-expanding archive of radio ghosts recaptured. Aircheck preserves some of the more unusual and unpredictable moments and personalities in radio. The complete Frankie Crocker show can be heard here.	July 2005
"FLEXIDISC" by Ray Croc MP3	Part of the the kickoff for the May 7, 1979 "Nobody Can Do It Like McDonald's Can" ad campaign, with too many versions of said jingle. Ray Croc sounds crocked as he tries to rally his troops.	March 2005
"STAGE BANTER" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young MP3	Have a listen to some incredibly bad between-song comedy from a Crosby, Stills Nash and Young concert in 1970. Thanks to listener Bruce for this clip. It captures something quite odious about the stupid 60's.	April 2005
"DEPRESSED CHRISTMAS" by Culturcide MP3	Well, needless to say, we need to roll out a few Seasonal MP3's. Here's one hell of a downer Christmas single, a variation on "White Christmas" being mumbled incoherently over a maudlin instrumental bed by Culturcide, in the role of a fellow having just taken a razor and is leaving more for Santa than cookies. Blacks out during the instrumental break, which then just continues through the remainder of the song. Yeesh. Those of you not feeling the holiday spirit better, uh, refrain from downloading this one. Really.	December 2005
"TWO SEVENS CLASH" by Culture MP3	Classic 70s reggae.	August 2005
"ERROR SYSTEM BAGFGAB" by David Cunningham MP3	Irish-born composer and producer David Cunningham is perhaps most well known for being in The Flying Lizards, and for their string of new wave hit singles ("Money," etc). Cunningham is also a popular music producer in the UK, working with artists like This Heat and producing Peter Greenaway film scores with Michael Nyman. He's also worked on countless projects with his long-time collaborators David Toop and Steve Beresford. Grey Scale was Cunningham's first solo LP (released on Piano in 1977, predating the Flying Lizards by a few years), and remains a coveted collector's item. It's an album of homespun minimalist themes for small ensembles, and quite cleverly conceived (make sure to read the sleeve notes at the following link.) Detailed information on the album can be found here.	October 2005
"ERROR SYSTEM C PULSE SOLO RECORDING" by David Cunningham MP3	A second track from Irish-born composer and producer David Cunningham's 1976 album "Grey Scale".	October 2005
"I'M HAPPY" by Ivor Cutler MP3	This is one silly Scot belting out a gleeful tune in baritone. If this guy moved in next door, you'd be wheeled out in a straightjacket within 24 hours.	April 2005
"WOMEN OF THE WORLD" by Ivor Cutler & Linda Hirst MP3	This, a more understandable slab of Scotspeak has been a longtime WFMU listener fave, and extremely appropriate for this election season. Jim O'Rourke fans may remember this, which was covered on his "Eureka" LP some years ago.	November 2004
"ROUTINE" by John Daker Quicktime	Don't miss these tortured warblings.	April 2005
"DEATH METAL WARMUP" by Daniel MP3	Here is a wanna-be Cookie Monster Vocalist named Daniel warming up the old vocal cords. (This was a found recording from Napster's golden "mic-in-track" period.)	June 2005
"TITLE SONG" by Dan Dare MP3	From the Commodore 64 computer game, Dan Dare	February 2005
"DARK SHADOWS THEME" by Dark Shadows MP3		October 2005
"NOTHING TO DECLARE" by Wolfgang Dauner MP3	Out-of-print ECM album by the German jazz pianist who started out playing rhythm and blues, and progressively traversed the fringe as the 60s became the 70s. Though The Oimels album has been heavily sampled by Nurse With Wound and hailed elsewhere as a proto-Krautrock groove record, according to the Freeman brothers Output is Steve Stapleton's favorite Dauner recording.	September 2005
"DIZZY DITTONS" by Debain Antiphonal Mechanical Piano MP3	It is said that Napolean III's wife, Princess Eugenie, owned one of these early mechanical pianos. The one recorded here dates from circa 1851. From David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music".	September 2005
"SLOOPY'S GONNA HANG ON" by The Debs MP3	Answer to The McCoys' Hang On Sloopy. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"TORN BETWEEN TWO LOVERS" by Deep Shag Project MP3	Sincerity and overly ambitious vocals: the hallmarks of great incorrectainment. From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"ETAION SHRDLU WAX CYLINDER" by Paul DeMarinis MP3	The sound of a blank phonograph cylinder, recorded over twenty times in 1995. In one channel, the sounds of the record surface noise, in the other, rumblings from the machine's interior mechanisms. From David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music".	September 2005
"SLIP-IN MULES" by Sugar Pie DeSanto MP3	Answer to Tommy Tucker's High Heel Sneakers. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 <a href="http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/" target="_blank">Marathon premium</a>.	August 2005
"THE SIMPSONS - FOR BLIND PEOPLE" by Descriptive Video Services MP3	An episode of "The Simpsons" with "Descriptive Video Services" audio captioning for blind people. Read more about it here.	June 2005
"THE EMBERS OF YOUR CHURCH BURN SO BRIGHT" by Detsorgsekalf MP3	Grimness from the frostbitten land of...Canada. There was some spirited debate on a recent show of mine with Andee Connors and Allan Horrocks (both who work at Aquarius Records, the former here is putting out an album by this band on his tUMULt label) over whether this band should be considered "Joke Black Metal." While the in-your-face growling and subject matter going on here is ridiculous without doubt, there is still some real vision and an amazing, crusty lo-fi sound of guitar gristle and drum blast beats that could rank this band up with the likes of Striborg, Bathory, and Darkthrone at times. Then again, their EP is solely conceptualized about being a Black Metal band hated and threatened by other Black Metal bands. Wasn't the spirit of the genre to be truly outsiders living by their own musical blueprint in the first place? Is it not within reason for this step to be taken? Who can say for sure, I surely ain't the keeper of the Rule Book. But I can easily remain in awe of Detsorgsekalf. and you will too. See their brutal video here.	November 2005
"KEYBOARD SOLO" by Detsorgsekalf MP3	Grimness from the frostbitten land of...Canada. There was some spirited debate on a recent show of mine with Andee Connors and Allan Horrocks (both who work at Aquarius Records, the former here is putting out an album by this band on his tUMULt label) over whether this band should be considered "Joke Black Metal." While the in-your-face growling and subject matter going on here is ridiculous without doubt, there is still some real vision and an amazing, crusty lo-fi sound of guitar gristle and drum blast beats that could rank this band up with the likes of Striborg, Bathory, and Darkthrone at times. Then again, their EP is solely conceptualized about being a Black Metal band hated and threatened by other Black Metal bands. Wasn't the spirit of the genre to be truly outsiders living by their own musical blueprint in the first place? Is it not within reason for this step to be taken? Who can say for sure, I surely ain't the keeper of the Rule Book. But I can easily remain in awe of Detsorgsekalf. and you will too. See their brutal video here.	November 2005
"ALENTOUR" by Maxime de la Rochefoucauld MP3	Percussion performed by automates activated by low frequency noise; humans play along. From David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music".	September 2005
"ELUBE" by De Ndirande Pitch Crooners MP3	Recorded in Malawi in 1958, this head-scratcher tells the story of Elube, a gal with "beautiful curved legs, eyes white as rice, and a face shining like the moon." More interesting, though, is the appeal of sentimental Hawaiian pop in this tiny East African country where a generation of guitarists came up playing bottle-neck Hauyani ("Hawaiian") style.	July 2005
"SECONDO CORO DELLE LAVANDAIE" by Roberto De Simone MP3	La Gatta Cenerentola was a radical reinterpretation of the Cinderella tale, done in Neopolitan dialect in 1976 by De Simone, who, since the 1960's, organized groups like Italy's NCCP to reinterpret and reinvent enduring folk tales from his country's (and Europe's) culture and history. What De Simone uncovered in his deep anthropological studies was a Neopolitan equivalent to the Wicker Man of sorts; a pagan culture unaffected by the vast reaches of Catholicism that would consume Italy later; a matriarch-based shepherd/farming community with complex ritual-based relationships with pure and unqiue musical communication, brought to life in this stage performance excerpted here. By far "Secondo Coro Delle Lavandaie" made for one of the wildest moments of the mini-opera, almost taking on the skeleton of some downtown NYC No-Wave, or comparable to the Slits or Kleenex in some ways This track was also featured on a premium a few years ago courtesy Fabio's Strength Through Failure and recently a kind listener donated a copy of the entire album to the station's library.	October 2005
"ASAW FOFOR" by Ignace De Souza & The Melody Aces MP3	Souza was a trumpeter from Benin producing standard-issue highlife until he broke out as a leader of several bands playing tunes associated with American dance crazes. This twist, sung in Fanti, was recorded in 1962	July 2005
"THE FUTURE IS NOW" by Neil Dick MP3	Neil posits a chronological conundrum. From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"BO MEETS THE MONSTER" by Bo Diddley MP3		October 2005
"SUN IS SHINING (LIVE ON WFMU)" by The Dirtbombs MP3	The sockodelic sounds of Mick Collins and company have landed on Terre T's Cherry Blossom Clinic twice, once in 2003 and again in 2004. Detroit's finest purveyors of pure garage-punk soul have just released a long-awaited compilation of singles called If You Don't Have a Look (In the Red Records), and they cover ESG for crying out loud. In more exciting news, there's going to be a three-way love fest CD co-released by Birdman, In the Red, and WFMU in the near future to benefit musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina; it's a disc comprised of all the bands on those labels' rosters who have done airtime in the mighty Moose Room here, including the Cuts, Brother JT, the Hospitals, and many more. Stay tuned for more details soon.	October 2005
"TICO TICO" by Disney MP3	Tico Tico was written in 1917 by Zequinha de Abreu. The song's first title was actually Tico Tico no Farelo, and in the 40's it became Tico Tico no Fuba. The song was imported to the US by Disney via their animated piece of World War Two-era Happy Latinos propaganda, "Saludos Amigos," in which Donald Duck introduces the song. Here is that version. Do you want more versions? At least 60 other versions of Tico Tico available here.	November 2005
"MONORAIL" by Disneyland MP3	At least when that kid reached outside the car and put his hand into the grinding gears of his "It's a Small World" vessel he had this soothing voice to comfort.	February 2005
"MAIN STREET ELECTRICAL PARADE" by Walt Disney World MP3	From Mac's Big Seven Inch Compilation. Tons more MP3's and info about this compilation are available here.	October 2005
"WHISTLERS DELIGHT" by DJ Riko MP3	It's kind of a "Stars on 45" for the whistling set. DJ Riko has a ton of other MP3 remixes for download here along with the full track listing of Whistler's Delight.	April 2005
"ANNIE MAC MINI MIX" by DJ Yoda MP3	DJ Yoda's Annie Mac Mini Mix (mp3), which he did specially for Annie Mac's BBC radio program last month.	June 2005
"KELEYA" by Moussa Doumbia MP3	Massively driven funk-psychedelia from West Africa somewhere in the mid 70's.	January 2005
"FUCKING USA" by DPRK MP3	This is a song created by North Korea to express their dissatisfaction with the USA for, among other things, stealing a gold medal.	April 2005
"UNKNOWN (REALVIDEO)" by Dschinghis Khan Real	Dschinghis Khan and Cheesy Eurodisco completionists might want another video of the band in action, this time doing their society thing with an orchestra and everything.	July 2005
"DER FUEHRER'S FACE" by Dubya Project Dummy Down Players MP3	And what would a pre-election BoHA MP3 page be without some cut-up of Dubya. Here he finds a good home within Spike Jones "Der Fuehrer's Face".	October 2004
"SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY" by Dubya Project Dummy Down Players MP3	And a second Dubya cut-up featuring U2.	October 2004
"1 IN 5" by Michael Dukakis MP3	An audio wayback machine to some entertaining snippets of Election Fever Ghosts of the Past. Check out this great tactic: Dukakis warning that electing Bush could mean him croaking in office and putting Quayle in charge!	September 2004
"PLEASE HELP" by The Dukays MP3	Answer to The Tokens' The Lion Sleeps Tonight. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"DE VIJF BEELDEN" by Dutch Street Organ MP3	Beautifully ornate Dutch street organs, or "Draaiogels" populate Holland streets. Some beefy thick-neck turns a crank and the mechanical organ churns out a tune. More Draaiogel MP3's available here.	June 2005
"WE ARE THE WORLD" by Bob Dylan MP3	Bob Dylan's atrocious vocal cameo in USA For Africa's "We Are the World"	June 2005
"HOTEL CALIFORNIA (MOLDY TAPE VERSION)" by The Eagles MP3	Here's another mold-enhanced track courtesy of Cameron Jones.	July 2005
"COME INTO MY BEDROOM" by Delores Ealy and The Kenyaettes MP3	Answer to Chick WIllis' Stoop Down Baby. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"COMMUNIST RADIO" by The Eat MP3	Killed By Death classic, rare punk rock from the band's first single released in 1979.	April 2005
"TRACK 1" by Ellie Girl with Seven Beats Sulks MP3	From Greenwich Village's Cafe Bizarre Presents Assorted Madness. Tons more MP3s and info can be found here.	September 2005
"DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME" by Elton Ellen MP3	A found sound MP3 from a cassette found in a Brooklyn junk store. Tons of other MP3's of people singing along to karaoke tracks can be found here.	June 2005
"" by The Emeralds MP3	While record shopping in San Francisco last January, Station Manager Ken stumbled upon a Japan Night 2004 sampler with a few tracks from the Yokohama band The Emeralds. Within hours of playing this track on the air, a listener tracked down the band, who promptly tracked down Ken and gave permission to post this track.	April 2005
"I'LL TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOUR BABY" by Ralph Emery MP3	Answer to Bobby Vee's Take Good Care of My Baby. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"FOR JACK (A PHILLIPIC) - LIVE ON WFMU" by Enablers MP3	Back in September, this amazing San Francisco combo made a swing through WFMU's halls to record a live session for Mike Lupica's show. This track is definitely telling of the band's best moments; when they halt you dead in your tracks and command you to sober up and listen. Pete Simonelli's spoken soliloquies take on a stark realism and paint an unusually noir-like image of the left coast that nobody knows, especially when backed by the incredibly textured music of his bandmates, who've got connections to notable heavies like Nice Strong Arm, Tarnation, Swans, and more. "For Jack: A Philippic" will stand the hair on the back of your neck at attention, and whet your appetite for the rest of the archive, which can be heard in Real Audio by going here. Check out the Enablers home at Neurot Records here, and watch for their next album soon, tentatively titled "Output Negative Space".	November 2005
"DESPOTISM" by Encyclopedia Brittanica MP3	From the Prelinger Archives comes this audio edit of a 1946 film by the Encycolpedia Britannica, on recognizing the warning signs of despotism. How many can you identify?	June 2005
"PAW PAW NEGRO BLOWTORCH" by Brian Eno with the Winkies MP3	Rarely heard 1974 BBC session with Bri-Bri backed by a temporary rock band known as the Winkies. This song appeared in much different form on the "Here Come the Warm Jets" LP.	April 2005
"LADY GODIVA'S OPERATION" by Ergo Phizmiz MP3	From Ergo's internet-only covers album of the entire 2nd Velvet Underground LP (where WFMU's Dirty Duck does John Cale's spoken part on "The Gift"!) www.ergophizmiz.com for other recordings by this talented audio trickster.	September 2004
"AMERICA'S WAY" by Exxon Singers MP3	Pre-Reaganomic trickle-down theory, in song. The LP was titled "the Spirit of Achievement" and was distributed to Exxon employees at some point between the gas crisis of 1973 and the second one in 1979.	April 2005
"WE GOT EM" by Exxon Singers MP3	If screwing the consumer is so wrong, how come it feels sooo right?	April 2005
"EFFICIENCY" by Exxon Singers MP3	What rhymes with "Keynsian?"	April 2005
"I PUT THE BOMP" by The Fabulous Marcels MP3	Answer to Barry Mann's Who Put The Bomp. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"THE FCC SONG" by Family Guy MP3	November 10, 2005 - Last Sunday night's episode of The Family Guy was all about the FCC's (now dormant) language crackdown. It included a brief song and dance number about our favorite regulatory agency.	November 2005
"GOOSY GOOSY GANDER" by Amusement Park Field Recording MP3	Part of a collection of field recordings from theme park rides and attractions recorded and compiled by Melinda Simon and Mark Fay and released as "Songs for Little Ones" on Dish Recordings in 1997.	July 2005
"HAPPY DRAGON TONGUE" by Amusement Park Field Recording MP3	Part of a collection of field recordings from theme park rides and attractions recorded and compiled by Melinda Simon and Mark Fay and released as "Songs for Little Ones" on Dish Recordings in 1997.	July 2005
"WARM UP" by The Firebirds MP3	Actually a cover of "Light My Fire", this is a great psych-sploitation LP from the late 60s featuring unknown session cats (with one amazing, shouldn't-be-anonymous guitar player). This is a groovy intro to a heavy, and fuzzed out blues LP recently reissued on Radioactive.	September 2004
"MOTHER RAGE" by Kathy Fire MP3	Suit-wearing puppet-men---your hour of castration draws near! From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF LOVE" by Five Diamonds MP3		June 2005
"QUANTIFY" by Flocabulary MP3	An MP3 from the SAT vocabulary study site, Flocabulary. The idea is that you can fabricate a mo� better vocabulary by listening to �rap� songs that use capacious words. This is not a very advantageous idea, especially if you like 1) songs, or 2) words.	April 2005
"WALTZ FOR M.P.B." by Food Brain MP3	From the album "Bansan (Social Gathering)" (Polydor 1970) - Catchy, heavy instrumental psych record, fat with Hammond organ and heavy electric guitar, the latter courtesy of Shinki Chen of Speed, Glue and Shinki fame. The band also included bassist Masayoshi Kabe formerly of The Golden Cups, and other players from notable Japanese rock acts like Apryl Fool. This is Food Brain's only album, and the prevailing wisdom is that this was meant to be a one-off super session. Like a really tight instrumental Steppenwolf, Food Brain are infused with that playfulness which runs like a plague through the Japanese music underground; they're either dead serious, or lampooning the whole thing, albeit with deft execution.	October 2005
"CLOCK" by Food Brain MP3	A second track from Food Brain's 1970 album "Bansan (Social Gathering)".	October 2005
"NIGHTCLOTHES AND HEADPHONES" by Jason Forrest and Laura Cantrell MP3	In the tradition of Lindsey and Stevie, Elton & Kiki, Captain & Tennille, Mitch & Mickey, and Shields & Yarnell, a classic male/female artistic duo has collaborated once again to make lovely sounds (or in Shields and Yarnell's case, non-sounds). In possibly the first commercially-available musical team-up of two WFMU DJs, Jason Forrest AKA Donna Summer (of the Advanced D&D radio extravaganza) and Radio Thrift Shop Proprietess Laura Cantrell have released "Nightclothes and Headphones" as a track on Jason's "Shamelessly Exciting" CD (Sonig label).	September 2005
"LA VIE C'EST CHOUTTE" by Jodie Foster MP3	Serge Gainsbourg really missed his chance getting in on this one.	October 2004
"DEAD END KIDS" by Jeff Fox MP3	Runaways cover as performed by Mr. Fox and band, who somehow manage to twist an utterly tuneless solo into one of my alltime favorite guitar moments in history.	November 2005
"I ONLY PLAY FOR MONEY" by THE FROGS MP3	From a session on the Stork Club, 7/18/97. We haven't heard from the Brothers Flemion in quite some time, in fact the last bit of music we received was Sebastian Bach's CD where Jimmy was in the backing band. In the mid 1980's they released an album of Gay Supremist folk songs, put out a collection of songs examining the history of racial relations in America that no one would release for a decade despite the fact the songs rival some of Elvis Costello and Big Star's best moments, and did some other classic pop material with some questionable topics. This particular song conjures up the Bitter Rock Star. While they were here they put porno screensavers on the computers of staff members who were out of the office.	May 2005
"BEST INDIVIDUAL SONG ON THE CD" by Fucking Pigs MP3	Australia gave us not only Stu Spasm, but this tasteful little ensemble whose vocabulary may be rather limited, but heartfelt.	April 2005
"NOTHING" by The Fugs MP3	A track from WFMU fave band The Fugs. Read about their amazing 1967 Prom Gig here.	June 2005
"MISS YOU/ MIDNIGHT TRAIN" by The Fujii MP3	Kuichi Fujishima is half of the duo the Fujii (with Paul Shearsmith, who plays pocket trumpet and "tuned gain main.") Along with Andy Allan's harmonica, this 2001 tune features Fujishima on National Steel guitar channeling his hero, Mississippi Fred McDowell.	July 2005
"DEUTCHLAND UBER DISCO" by Funktionaries MP3	Goofy German disco. Ya.	April 2005
"UNTITLED" by FUNK NEUROTICO MP3	Killer slab of Brazilian hip-hop featuring the coolest kid rapper since Troy the Wonder Boy.	May 2005
"AVAIL THE AUTOCRAT OF EVIL" by Furze MP3	Idiosyncratic Norwegian Black Metal, with psych and experimental flavorings.	August 2005
"SENATE TESTIMONY" by George Galloway MP3	On May 17, 2005 British MP George Galloway traveled to Washington DC to respond to Senate allegations that he profited from the oil-for-food program in Iraq. Listen to this MP3 where he rips the Senate a well-deserved new a-hole, and read more about it here.	June 2005
"TWO TRACKS" by Gayamyan MP3 \| MP3	English information on this band is scarce, though I can tell you that they're a popular "indie" band, and their members appear all over the Chinese rock family tree in other projects and collaborations. These tracks are from the e.p. East Wing West Wing (2003), not the self-titled CD that comes up most often in Web searches.	November 2005
"CHEIKH ANTA DIOP" by Gelongal MP3	The eminent African historian Diop is paid homage here by young rappers Papi Baba, Bathie, Do and Balla from his native Senegal. This intriguing number from 1999 includes a stunning cameo from fellow countryman Baaba Maal.	July 2005
"MANDAMENTOS BLACK" by Gerson King Combo MP3	A native of Rio, Gerson Cortes, who took his stage name in homage to the King Curtis Combo, was enthralled with African-American music. And, like a legion of young black musicians around the world, he was inspired to imitate the Godfather of Soul. When this was released in 1977, it was for the Brazilian division of Polydor, the same label that recorded James Brown in the U.S. On his next record, Gerson chose to copy a different cat: Barry White.	July 2005
"MOSKOW" by Ghengis Khan MPEG	This is an mpeg video file of the huge-in-Israel band doing a fantastic cheesy cossack disco dance number!	April 2005
"BECAUSE WE CARE" by Ella Gibson MP3	We did enough to include Ella's plea to support our fighting forces. From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"DECIDE" by Go! MP3	A track from Go!'s 3rd single, "Why Suffer?" See Mike Lupica's article about Go! here.	April 2005
"ON THE NEED TO NEED" by Go! MP3	Another track from Go!'s 3rd single, "Why Suffer?" See Mike Lupica's article about Go! here.	April 2005
"GIRL JUST WANT TO SAY GOODBYE TO ROCK AND ROLL" by Go Home Productions MP3	Here is Go Home Productions' mashup of the Velvet Underground and Christna Agui!era: Girl Just Want to Say Goodbye to Rock and Roll (MP3). It's not new, but it sure is great.	July 2005
"GPS DIRECTIONS" by GPS Robot MP3	One day, Station Manager Ken and his friend Adam drove to Parsippany to visit one of the station's computers. As they headed back, Adam got off at the wrong exit, and they ended up on First Street in Newark. Ken tried telling Adam how to get back to Jersey City, but no. He wanted to listen to the British robot lady from his car's Global Positioning System. She calmly told them that they had taken a wrong turn, and where they should go to get back on track. She proceeded to direct them into the most crack infested neighborhood in North America. Ken can still remember her voice as Adam was pulled from the car and beaten within an inch of his life. This is what she said.	June 2005
"GLAUCOMA HYMN" by Melanie Greve MP3	The Association of International Glaucoma Societies presented an operatic hymn about glaucoma in June of 2005 at the Imperial Viennese Glaucoma Ball. Written and composed by Erik Greve and performed by the lovely soprano Melanie Greve	November 2005
"SCREEMIN' MEEMIES" by Merv Griffin MP3		October 2005
"STAND-UP" by Pearl Gross WMV	Check out the comic stylings of Aunt Pearl. If you've had plenty of coffee, that is. The worst stand-up. Ever.	April 2005
"AT THE GRASSROOTS" by Sri Dawn Gross MP3	The faith of Eckankar, besides advocating low-cost travel through the time-space continuum, has a long history of charismatic (albeit tonedeaf) leaders. Here, the then-reigning Echmaster belts out a melody of his own, uh, devising.	April 2005
"WOULDN'T IT BE SAD IF THERE WERE NO CONES?" by The GTO's MP3	Pamela Des Barres and her 60's uber-groupies supergroup The GTOs wax accapella on their love-hate relationship with cones.	June 2005
"MUY SABROSO BLUES" by Lalo Guerrero Y Sus Concos Lobos MP3	For a period in the fifties, Chicano R&B was all the rage in the dancehalls of the American Southwest, thanks, in part to this hipster who was best known, in some circles, as the author of the infamous "Marijuana Boogie."	July 2005
"NO. 1, MESOTERIC SERIES, JULY 22, 1949" by Gurdjieff MP3	Boy, there sure have been some real completist-friendly box sets over the last few years: Merzbow's 50CD's, Albert Ayler's 10CD's on unreleased material, giant Yahowa and Tomokawa boxes, etc. Basta's newly issued collection of Russian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff's complete improvisations is definitely catered to the enthusaist of long, extended drone pieces, and is beautifully packaged with 2CDs and a huge, intricately laid-out book with a disk of home movies. Add the MP3 disc that's also included, and you have nineteen, yes nineteen solid hours of material herein. It's all home-taped recordings of harmonium, a haunting instrument somewhat akin to a portable pump-organ, capable of creating long, sustained drones, and this featured outtake from 1949 (all the tracks here are recorded between 1948 and 1949) is just a sample of what one can become fully immersed in with this set.	August 2005
"LUOJA KUTSUU" by Haikara MP3	Another great discovery in early 70s Finnish rock, Haikara were more progressive and complex than Apollo, with inventive song structures that sometimes incorporated Scandinavian folk themes. Essential for fans of Arbete och Fritid and Panta Rei.	October 2005
"THERE'S A KIND OF NOTHING" by Hairy Chapter MP3	(1971) - German progressive hard rock with unusually inventive riffing and arrangements.	August 2005
"TWO HEADED BABY PITCH" by Ward Hall MP3	The two headed babies were often "gaffed" or rigged attractions consisting of rubber, sometime combined with deformed animal or human fetuses in formaldahyde.	October 2005
"GIRL SHOW PITCH" by Ward Hall MP3	A recreation of a girly show pitch, recorded in 1981.	October 2005
"SWORD SWALLOWER PITCH" by Ward Hall MP3	Recorded in an interview with Ward Hall in 1980.	October 2005
"HALF MAN HALF WOMAN PITCH" by Ward Hall MP3	Recorded in 1981.	October 2005
"DEAD CATS: THEY EXPLAIN FOSSILS" by Ken Ham MP3	Ham is director and co-founder of the Creation Science Foundation of Australia; this is from his radio series "Answers", which provides responses to questions you didn't ask.	November 2004
"ENLIGHTENMENT: DRUID II" by David M. Hanlon MP3	The infamous Swedish cracking group Fairlight would always use this song on their early intros. A spooky classic. Read more about hacking and cracking and teenage computer shenanigans here.	July 2005
"I WISH I WAS A SINGLE GIRL AGAIN" by Kelly Harrell MP3	One of the lovelier residents of WFMU's Cassette Library (we still keep 'em and play 'em from time to time) are tape collections called Victrola Favorites, put out by Seattle experimentalists and sometime WFMU guests the Climax Golden Twins. This amazing series of tapes floated around like a midway point between Yazoo's Secret Museum series and the Sun City Girls' recent Sublime Frequencies series; wedding old time jazz, pop, novelty tunes from the early 20th century with super 78s from exotic locales around the world (some of my favorite moments are taken from various comedy/theater 78s from the Far East). The Twins have posted a few MP3, one of my favorite being Kelly Harrell's "I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again" (MP3), a hillbilly gem from 1928. Kelly being a he is probably the key point in question here, and hence possibly also explains the 1927 song "My Wife Done and Left Me Again"?	August 2005
"TEN COMMANDMENTS OF LOVE" by Harvey and the Moonglows MP3		June 2005
"FUNNYBIRD SONG" by Paul Haines / Carla Bley / John Oswald MP3	Carla Bley wrote this music to accompany a poem by Paul Haines; John Oswald arranged it and constructed the music box on which it's performed here. From David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music".	September 2005
"DRIVE SHE SAID" by Health Hen MP3	If you ever wondered what Laverne DeFazio singing in a hybrid of Essential Logic and Mars might sound like, Health Hen might give you an idea. Oddly, this band gets left off your 80's Downtown/No New York-style compilations, which is too bad; not a whole lot of information except that their EP was on the Twist-O-Flex label, somewhat related to the East Village Rant imprint, another fine of some scratchy new wave sounds.	September 2005
"SALT TRAIN" by Matt Heckert MP3	Mechanical sounds scupltures, recorded in a former salt warehouse in Tirol, Austria. From David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music".	September 2005
"HERTER'S CROW CALLING RECORD, PART TWO" by Herter MP3	Just in time for the global avian bird flu pandemic, Herter will teach you how to create as much of a riotous bedlam as possible. Blam! Blam! Blam! From the Only in America comp on Arf Arf.	March 2005
"THE ELEPHANT IS DEAD" by Bill Hicks MP3	Bill Hicks' fond memories of the results of the 1992 Presidental election.	September 2004
"THICKER THAN A SMOKEY" by Gary Higgins MP3	Gary Higgins' Red Hash is one of the pinnacles in lost-soul beardo psych/folk records out there. One listen to "Thicker Than a Smokey" and you immediately are sucked into the world of someone who feels a last chance at getting his feelings down in his music, maybe forever. It's gorgeous, pure, ultra-personal stuff. Higgins' soulful acoustic opus Red Hash was born in 1973 after years of kicking around the NYC folk-rock club scene, backing up people like Gary U.S. Bonds, even playing with Simeon pre-his Silver Apples days. After an unfortunate pot bust, Higgins was sentenced to two and a half years in the pen, and as a direct result of that, a 40 hour recording session ensued in the time prior to his incarceration.	April 2005
"RROSE SELAVY" by Juan Hildago MP3	A wonderful piece of progressive minimalism by this leading figure of the Spanish avant-garde. This was his second LP, originally issued on the Cramps label around 1977.	September 2005
"GARY, PLEASE DON'T SELL YOUR DIAMOND RING" by Wendy Hill MP3	Answer to Gary Lewis and the Playboys' This Diamond Ring. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"YOU STILL BELIEVE IN ME" by Hippocamp MP3		June 2005
"OH LORD (PLEASE FORGIVE ME NOW)" by Bruce Hirdler MP3	Bruce, seeking a record deal or redemption, reconstructs where he went wrong. From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"CREEPED OUT" by Robyn Hitchcock MP3	Song from his excellent "Spooked" CD (Yep Roc), recorded live in a great afternoon performance on Irene Trudel's show, 11/15/04	February 2005
"CHICAGO, CHICAGO" by Abbie Hoffman MP3	Yippie hero Hoffman pays tribute to a little town in Illinois.	September 2004
"WE WILL RETAKE SAIGON" by Buddy Holocaust MP3	The late Buddy Holocaust (A.K.A. Bill Tate) had his one and only public performance in August of 1981, in the Collis student center at Dartmouth College. He delivered a litany of songs that were simultaneously stirring, hilarious, or as disquieting as a Francisco de Goya painting. A cassette recording of that set made the rounds to a number of college radio stations throughout the mid-80s, but remains otherwise unavailable.	January 2005
" L'�TRANGE MONSIEUR WHINSTER" by Horrific Child MP3	Part rock album, part experimental album, part imaginary horror soundtrack, L'�trange Monsieur Whinster is a psychedelic pop audio show, flowing naturally from one surprising sequence to the next. Horrific Child was the creation of one Jean-Pierre Massiera, also the composer behind the Les Maledictus Sound project from 1968. Les Maledictus Sound were an inventive, high-brow concoction of Easy Tempo-style instrumental mod big band music, with heavy brass, plucky bass and fuzzbeat guitar. Horrific Child is certainly the logical stylistic next step from that record, evidence of the composer's having survived several years beyond the psychedelic era. A section from side 2 of L'�trange Monsieur Whinster was released in 1999 as a bonus track on the CD reissue of the Les Maledictus Sound album. Originally released on the Eurodisc label in 1976.	October 2005
"HAPPY JACK" by The Hospitals MP3	The Hospitals are a duo originally from Portland, relocated to San Fran, pretty much consisting of Adam Stonehouse and a few rotating guitarists over the last couple of years. Cutting to the chase, they're aptly summed up on the In the Red Records site as the Sound of Passing Kidney Stones. and if you ever wondered what Greg Ginn and the Electric Eels joining forces to cover "Happy Jack" would sound like, well, here you go. It's from their latest Yakisakana label 12" The Rich People, and if your earholes can take more, there's a whole live session on WFMU from the Hospitals here.	June 2005
"SOUL DRACULA" by Hot Blood MP3		October 2005
"GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE" by the Howard University Marching Band MP3	EW&F classic gets the funky college marching band horn treatment.	June 2004
"MARCH OF THE PSYCHLO" by L. Ron Hubbard MP3	What's a crazed ex-CIA officer / cult leader without a good hit single behind him? From the album of the book of the incredibly horrible John Travolta movie Battlefield Earth, Scientology's own version of Flight F.I.N.A.L.	April 2005
"I'M NOT LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE" by Hubble Bubble MP3	In our never ending search for weird punk rock, listener Phil H. in LA has put into our hands at long last a full album's worth of music from Belgium's Hubble Bubble, which featured none other than Plastic Bertand of "Ca Plane Pour Moi" fame on drums. Damn, it's good, the perfect concoction of fried DIY weirdness and structured songs. It's not quite punk, it's not quite new wave or mininal synth, but all of those elements bubble up in the mix. Some have compared them to Germany's Pack (who existed as well around this time, 1978), but that band was a bit monochromatic compared to HB. Some of this could be the Screamers mixed with Raxola, or even the Damned at times, and there's an awesome dirt-shovel on the hippies with a cover of "If You're Going To San Francisco". Here's their take on the Kinks' "I'm Not Like Everybody Else."	September 2005
"LIFE KILLS" by The Human League MP3	Catchy, droll, minimalist electro-pop.	August 2005
"SQUIRREL MELTS" by The Huntress MP3	From the cringe-inducing When TV Attacks video comp; an audio excerpt of a late 80s/early 90s cooking show where the hostess (a somewhat Zolofted Martha Stewart-like hunter) gets her own food to cook up; in this case, Rocky the Squirrel gets blasted from a tree by her kid, and made into delicious after-school snax on an English Muffin with melted cheese on top. Obviously without the video, you don't get to see the skinned fella getting is "little butt" (as she says) coaxed into the pan, but the creepy tone in the creation of this delightful treat warrants an MP3	March 2005
"HIGH LIFE" by Ibliss MP3	Another Krautrock classic, still without a legitimate reissue. The group includes all original members of the group Organisation, minus of course Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider-Esleben, who had moved on to form Kraftwerk.	August 2005
"FCC SONG" by Eric Idle MP3	Monty Python's Eric Idle expresses exactly how he feels about his friends at the Federal Communications Commission. "Here's a little song I wrote the other day while I was out duck hunting with a judge. It's a new song, it's dedicated to the FCC and if they broadcast it, it will cost a quarter of a million dollars."	June 2004
"GUITAR BOOGIE" by Yoon Il-Loh MP3	No information is available on this Korean tune, though I have a theory: In 1953, Ernest Tubb and His Troubadours performed for troops stationed in Korea (at open-air concerts within range of enemy guns!). Was Tubbs's longtime lead guitarist Leon Rhodes, on that tour? Was "Leon's Guitar Boogie" in the band's songbook at that time? Was Mr. Yoon in the audience?	July 2005
"AUCTIONEER REMIX" by Ill Mannered MP3	Listener Michael from Germany, aka Ill-Mannered, re-mixed a cattle auctioneer MP3 we featured on this page, and would like to share it with all of you.	October 2005
"HIT EM IN THE FACE" by Improved Sound Ltd MP3	This Nuremberg band specialised in German TV and movie soundtracks, but on this wild track they either decided to exploit psychedelia, or someone spiked their Jagermeister with very pure LSD. From the comp "Electrick Loosers."	March 2005
"SKELETONS" by Inflatable Boy Clams MP3	Song number one from this proto art-punk female quartet from San Francisco, originally pressed onto two seven inch singles by Subterranean Records in 1981.	June 2005
"SNOTELEKS" by Inflatable Boy Clams MP3	Song number two from this proto art-punk female quartet from San Francisco, originally pressed onto two seven inch singles by Subterranean Records in 1981. The backwards version of "Skeletons."	June 2005
"MARIN" by Inflatable Boy Clams MP3	Song number three from this proto art-punk female quartet from San Francisco, originally pressed onto two seven inch singles by Subterranean Records in 1981.	June 2005
"I'M SORRY" by Inflatable Boy Clams MP3	Song number four from this proto art-punk female quartet from San Francisco, originally pressed onto two seven inch singles by Subterranean Records in 1981.	June 2005
"BOYSTOWN" by Inflatable Boy Clams MP3	Song number five from this proto art-punk female quartet from San Francisco, originally pressed onto two seven inch singles by Subterranean Records in 1981.	June 2005
"ANOTHER ROOM" by Dies Irae MP3	Originally released in 1971 on Pilz, a label known more for trippy folk-based artists like the great Witthuser and Westrupp, Dies Irae were a bit of an odd choice: indisputably the Black Sabbath of Krautrock, with heavy, gruff, bluesy electric guitar enveloping and guiding the arrangements al� Tony Iommi. Krautrock tomes and articles often cite "Trip" as the track of note here, for its obvious psychedelic flavor; the song voted most likely to be "Kosmische." But after many a listen, it's the Teuton-infused post-Sabbath rockers that I find to be the songs of enduring interest. Dies Irae's one and only album was reissued on CD by Ohrwaschl in the mid-90s, but good luck finding it now.	September 2005
"LUCIFER" by Dies Irae MP3	Originally released in 1971 on Pilz, a label known more for trippy folk-based artists like the great Witthuser and Westrupp, Dies Irae were a bit of an odd choice: indisputably the Black Sabbath of Krautrock, with heavy, gruff, bluesy electric guitar enveloping and guiding the arrangements al� Tony Iommi. Krautrock tomes and articles often cite "Trip" as the track of note here, for its obvious psychedelic flavor; the song voted most likely to be "Kosmische." But after many a listen, it's the Teuton-infused post-Sabbath rockers that I find to be the songs of enduring interest. Dies Irae's one and only album was reissued on CD by Ohrwaschl in the mid-90s, but good luck finding it now.	September 2005
"SHOWSTOPPER" by Iron Knowledge MP3	Taken from the incredible (and out-of-print) private-press funk comp "Chains and Black Exhaust" which WFMU was playing way before the rest of the crowd. Here is a total acid-proto-metal funk blast by a band I wish someone would track down and do a proper retrospective on immediately (two other bands on this comp, LA Carnival and Black Merda, have since gotten that treatment).	April 2005
"IMPROVISATION 5018" by Iskra 1903 MP3	Since the formation of this trio in 1970, the name Iskra (with an assortment of date-based suffixes) has been assumed for many different lineups, usually comprised of musicians from the Spontaneous Music Ensemble/Incus/Emanem extended family. Featured in the 1974 Deutsche Grammaphon triple-disc set mentioned above, Iskra 1903: Improvisations represents the original trio, with Derek Bailey (guitars), Barry Guy (bass) and Paul Rutherford (trombone).	September 2005
"I HAVE A DREAM" by IT Corporation MP3	What sounds like to have a Crystal Gayle singing about being a computer, pining in an inspirational mode about having various accessories added to her.	July 2004
"I WANNA KILL JAMES TAYLOR" by Ivan and the Executioners MP3	Another angry song, this one by Ivan and the Executioners (NYC band, song released in 1979 on Fine Taste).	February 2005
"BIG TEN INCH RECORDS" by Moose Jackson MP3		November 2005
"MIDNIGHT MONSTERS HOP" by Jack and Jim MP3		October 2005
"LIVE AT INSTAL 04 EXCERPT 10/04" by JANDEK MP3	So after 25 years, the elusive Texan, unseen live or anywhere for that matter, surprised a Glasgow audience (as well as performers Current 93, Vajra, William Basinski and others, who had no idea what was planned) by taking the stage and plugging in for an hour live set backed by pickup band Richard Youngs on bass and Alex Nielsen on drums. As the reverb-soaked stumbling blues began, words has it various audience members asked aloud who this guy was pretending to be Jandek and it was never even directly stated who was actually on stage except "a representative of Corwood Industries (Jandek's label)". No mistaking it by this excerpt.	December 2004
"MILLION" by Jawbreaker MP3		October 2005
"DER GEIER FLIEGT VORBEI" by Jazzi jazzi MP3	Tomorrow's Gift - Goodbye Future (1973) - Tomorrow's Gift's first self-titled album is currently in print on CD and fairly easy to get. It has some fine moments of arranged-prog-lunacy, and wonderful musical passages shaped around the reedy vocals of Ellen Meyer. Not bad at all, but taken as a whole the affair smacks of a less-than-great Amon D��l II session, especially when compared to their second album, Goodbye Future, wherein a whole new band identity had been forged under the considerable production guidance of Conny Plank, whose mixing desk rendered many a great German rock masterpiece, and whose achievements as a musician/producer/engineer/inspiration are too numerous to discuss in a blog post. By the time of Goodbye Future, Tomorrow's Gift had been reduced from a sextet to a keyboard-dominated trio, producing tightly arranged instrumentals recalling The Mothers of Invention (with the occasional loosely-wrapped improv thrown in for good measure.)	September 2005
"IT'S ME KNOCKING" by Jeanie and Her Boyfriends MP3	Answer to The Genies' Who's That Knocking? From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"WELCOME" by Jim MP3	Relax. Have a chicory.	November 2005
"BUSH READS" by Jima MP3	Of all the Dubya cut-up pieces of recent days, this might be the finest. "You can do that when you're the President!"	January 2005
"GOOD TIMES" by Jobraith MP3	Jobriath was Elektra's big attempt to replicate Ziggy Stardust, and was a financial disaster for everyone involved. Relegated to being a footnote in rock history, only recently has attention turned to this strange and charismatic artist who fell between the cracks; Morrissey even produced a retrospective compilation for Sanctuary in the UK last year. Here's a rare live excerpt of Jobraith in front of an audience of mostly industry cronies toasting their hopeful Future of Rock, his song "Good Time" live at the Bottom Line in NYC, 1974.	July 2005
"PABLO PICASSO" by Johnny & The Self Abusers MP3	Before they were John Hughes movie staples and inevitable stadium draws for a brief time in the '80s, before the singer fathered a kid to Chrissie Hynde, moved on to future Mrs. Liam Gallagher Patsy Kensit, and followed in the footsteps of messianic bretheren U2, Glasgow's Simple Minds had quite a few beercans lobbed at them as under the not-likely-to-be-endorsed-by-Greenpeace monicker Johnny and the Self Abusers. The band cut one 7" on the Pickwick label in 1977, "Saints and Sinners" b/w "Dead Vandals" and singer Jim Kerr dodged loogies while guitarist Charlie Burchill played in a pair of shoes covered with an erector set. The single was called by the NME "a drab parade of New Wave that jerks off aimlessly into the void" and the band was short-lived until Richard Branson signed them as Simple Minds to Virgin to follow a definitely more artrock/Roxy-inspired muse on their first album Life In a Day. Here's an MP3 of the never-released Self Abusers track "Pablo Picasso".	June 2005
"YOU ARE THE GENERATION THAT BOUGHT MORE SHOES AND YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE" by Johnny Boy MP3	Johnny Boy is actually the UK duo of Davo (guitars, loops, vocal) and Lolly (ditto) and this single succeeds everywhere that the Raveonettes, unfortunately, do not. From the reverb soaked Shangri-Las/Spector drum intro it's a pure bubblegum wedding of Northern Soul, Jesus and Mary Chain scumsurfing and pure pop bliss. Their full length is due later this year, and bands like them and the Long Blondes might be reason enough to start picking up the NME again. You gotta love that song title though; and check the very cool video on the site as well.	October 2005
"BUFFY, SEASON 1" by Chuck Jones MP3	BUFFY! Mr. Jones edited this down from the first season of BTVS while visiting his parents during a record breakingly hot summer in our nations capital. Found at his website: www.babygorilla.com.	August 2004
"LOVELINE QUESTIONS" by Chuck Jones MP3	From Jones' Four Isolation Studies collection, a sea of strung together questions. No answers.	June 2005
"XYLOPHONE (EDIT)" by Joe Jones MP3	An automatic xylophone, played by a mechanized cork-beater, from 1976. From David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music".	September 2005
"ALTERNATIVES TO THE PLAYBACK OF PRE-RECORDED MUSIC" by GX Jupitter-Larsen and the Haters Quicktime	Canada's own GX Jupitter-Larsen needs no introduction to noise aficionados. His project The Haters has been exploring decay and nihilism in sound for over 20 years. Some of his projects have included amplified staple guns, replacing the tone arm and cartridge of a record player with an amplified toy shovel and designing noisy and destructive items with Survival Research Labs.	April 2005
"BIZ MESSAGE" by J & H Productions MP3	Taken from the Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God label comp Industry Wannabes and Radio Anomalies a few years back (but heard for many many years on WFMU and elsewhere), there is little in the way of words to describe the J & H Productions guy. Except that many of you who work in the "recording industry" are familiar with messages "pertaining to" this kind of biz	July 2005
"REAGAN SPEAKS" by Doug Kahn MP3	Perhaps the first president to get the cut-up treatment showered so much upon Dubya these days (not that most of what he says needs to be cut up to reflect his ignorance.) Thanks to Kenny G for this one	November 2005
"PET SOUNDS" by kidgloves and autistici MP3	Perhaps inspired by the viral phenomenon of Dangermouse's The Grey Album and The Kleptones' Night At The Hip-Hopera, the net label Hippocamp released a bizarre, glitched-out remix of the entire Pet Sounds album. The title track defies description - kidgloves and autisitci turning Brian Wilson's bucolic instrumental into a house part. The whole LP is still up here.	June 2005
"OH COME ALL YE FAITHFUL" by Kids of CPH MP3	An excerpt from a 1978 Christmas LP self-released by the Children's Psychiatric Hospital at the University of Michigan. Definitely evokes the great Portsmouth Sinfonia Project of the 70's as well in terms of pure spirit bypassing actual prowess on one's instrument, plus a great moment where one of the musicians starts cheering halfway through and is chided by the director "we're not finished yet!" Thanks to Scott Williams for pointing this one out.	December 2005
"LIFE KEEPS GETTING LONGER" by Kingface MP3	With full permission of Mark Sullivan (vocals), Larry Colbert (drums), Andy Rapoport (bass), and Patrick Bobst (guitar), we are pleased and honored to offer the full performance of Kingface recorded live off-the-board at Washington DC's 9:30 Club, 1988. All thirteen MP3's and more information are available here.	September 2005
"OH! NEIL" by Carol King MP3	Answer to Neil Sedaka's Oh! Carol. Answer to Neil Sedaka's Oh! Carol. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"A MILLION MISTAKES" by Claude King MP3		October 2005
"EL FULO" by The King Elio Boom MP3	Identified as "highlife ragga" on the disc this comes from, "El Fulo" has more in common with Congolese soukous. It's a slice of funk typical of the champeta created by the African-music-crazed youth of Baranquilla and other port cities on Columbia's Caribbean coast.	July 2005
"BENZAITEN REPRIS" by Osamu Kitajima MP3	Debut rock/ethno/psych album released on Antilles in 1974, incorporating traditional Japanese instruments (koto, biwa, wood flute) into the standard rock mix. Largely instrumental and proto-new age, but definitely a rock record first and foremost, with heavy electric guitar passages.	September 2005
"HAPPY FUNERAL" by Kitchen and the Plastic Spoon MP3	Little to nothing known by this Euro-synthpunk outfit circa early 1980's. This song sounds like a very gothed-out assortment of Peanuts characters doing their bobble-headed, arms-to-their-side dance in a graveyard.	March 2005
"" by THE KLEPTONES MP3	Mash-up madness from their short-lived-online "Night At the Hip-Hopera"	December 2004
"ALWAYS WEAR A HELMET" by Evel Kneivel MP3	The legendary daredevil gets philosophical, in song format.	August 2005
"SHOW RESPECT TO MICHAEL JACKSON" by James Kochalka Superstar MP3	New York Post: June 14, 2005 - "Michael Jackson moonwalked off scot-free from a kiddie-sex rap and every other charge against him yesterday." And James Kochalka Superstar was always supporting him, as evidenced by this oughta-be classic pro-MJ song.	June 2005
"PARANOIA - CABARET INTRO" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3	Here are the mp3s of an album called Paranoia by the mysterious German band known as Kollektiv Rote Rube. The album was released in 1976, and was a collaboration between Kollektiv Rote Rube and the better known German band Ton Steine Scherben. Read more about them on the WFMU Blog here.	June 2005
"BEFORE WE RECOGNIZED THE STORM" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"WESTERN MELODY" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"NEVER AGAIN" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"I DON'T WANT TO, PAPPA" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"CUT THAT SHIT OUT" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"MEIN HERR" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"SELLING MYSELF" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"PHASED OUT" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"FUZZMARCH" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"DEATH ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"ILLUSION" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"TRUE STORY" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"THOSE WERE SOME DAYS" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"IT'S CALLED LOVE" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"FUCKING AGAIN AND AGAIN" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"NO MORE KINGS" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"I LOVE YOU" by Kollektiv Rote Rube MP3		June 2005
"BAL POUR UN RAT VIVANT" by Komintern MP3	French ensemble whose albeit wacky explorations include real psych/prog meat, reminiscent of prime era Gong. Released in 1971 on Harvest.	September 2005
"CHAR GA KURU" by Hori Kouichiro MP3	Daisuke Enomoto (aka Dice-K) will soon become the fourth space tourist of all time, paying $20 Million to the extra-terrestrial travel agency Space Adventures for the privilege of spending ten fun-filled days in the International Space Station. Enomoto dreams not only of gazing down at the earth from the heavens, but to do so decked out in the costume of Char Aznable, his favorite character from the popular anime series Gundam. Enomoto is already entertaining bids from Japanese companies to build him a working red space suit based on the blond-haired, blue-eyed Char Aznable, whose name is derived from Charles Aznavour, but who is better known in the anime universe as The Red Comet. Here is Char's Theme song.	November 2005
"COLLEGE GIRL I LOVE YOU" by Bappi Lahiri MP3	Odd bit of Bollywood from the so-so soundtrack of the 1978 film "College Girl" (worth seeking out on CD only because it comes with a much better bonus soundtrack, the R.D. Burman-scored "Shalimar."	January 2005
"THE MAN WITHIN (EDIT)" by Sean Landers MP3	From the Sonic Arts Network book/CD compilation "The Agents of Impurity" (curated by our own Kenny G), comes the monologue of an artist whom you should thank the stars above walks the Earth with you.	October 2004
"SPACE ODDITY" by Langley Schools Music Project MP3	Unforgettable passion---and idiosyncratic cymbal crashes---from these British Columbia farm kids, recorded in a gym in 1975. We love you, Hans Fenger. From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"PARDON AKA YANN TOMITA" by La Strada MP3	The Japanese artist known as Yann Tomita records under a lot of different names, including Pardon Kimura. Here's a track by Yann, aka Pardon, called La Strada, (MP3) not to be confused with the Fellini movie of the same name.	July 2005
"STICK FIGHT" by Bruce Lee MP3	Karate sound effects! From the Bruce Lee film, "Game of Death".	June 2005
"WHITE PUNKS ON DOPE" by Leland Stanford University Marching Band MP3	From Scott Soriano's great Crud Crud blog of vinyl lost treasures comes this stab at the Tubes from an 1979 self-released LP titled Starting Salary $22,275.00. These guys apparently were somewhat of the Animal House of marching bands, though as Scott eloquently explains, they were more or less a "scatter band": "A scatter band is different from a marching band in that it spells out words or makes shapes, instead of marching in formation. In the Stanford Band's case, that meant doing a tribute to the recently kidnapped, Cal student Patty Hearst at the Big Game against Cal (UC Berkeley) by making a formation of a hamburger bun which was missing a patty. During the 1971 Rose Bowl game half time show, the band first spelled out OHIO STATE and then quickly rearranged themselves to spell OH SHIT. This was broadcast on NBC to a national audience. They were banned from the next year's bowl game. In another spelling fiasco, the band first formed HI FOLKS and then shifted the top of the O to the top of the L to spell HI FUCKS. This, too, made it on TV and got them banned."	December 2005
"TOWER RECORDS AD" by John Lennon MP3	John does a great job as a guest DJ on Los Angeles station KHJ as he hawks Tower Records.	November 2005
"MPNCMOTPN AAHR MACTYLIOK" by Leonid Cizhik Trio MP3	Track two, side one from WFMU's Amazing Floating Record.	June 2005
"LES SAIGNEURS" by Opus 5 MP3	Intricate French-Canadian prog rock from 1976. A tight acoustic-electric combo with great ensemble vocalizations. Definitely not for the prog-a-phobic.	August 2005
"CRAZY" by Ann Lever MP3	Ann, seeking a record deal or session work, deconstructs Patsy. From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"THE TRUMPET" by Hank Levine and George Atkins MP3	Sarcastic musical agit-prop from the satiric 1962 LP Sing Along With JFK, which dared to poke reverential fun at the country's charismatic young King.	April 2005
"HISTORY OF PUNK ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE" by Jeffrey Lewis MP3	9 minute acoustic medley opus performed live by anti-folk sweetheart Jeffrey Lewis! Damn good job too, made sure he included the Godz! "If you enjoy this lecture please support Jeffrey Lewis and buy the comic book that it comes with, GUFF # 1, now available at Jigsaw on E 11th St, Jim Hanley's Universe on 33rd St., and Cosmic Comics on E 23rd St., among other places... or see www.TheJeffreyLewisSite.com for more info!	March 2005
"POEME SYMPHONIQUE" by Gyorgy Ligeti MP3	Ligeti's 1962 composition for 100 metronomes. From David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music".	September 2005
"DIARY OF AN UNBORN CHILD" by Lil Markie MP3	The pleadings of a certain helium induced duck-child named Lil' Markie, as he begs his mother not to abort him. More MP3s and info on this audio oddity can be found here on WFMU's Blog.	October 2005
"SOMETHINGS HAPPENED TO DADDY" by Lil Markie MP3	Lil Markie asks his drunken Daddy to not to feel so bad about killing him. As bizarre Christian Kiddy records go, the Lil' Markie material stands alone. More MP3s and info on this audio oddity can be found here on WFMU's Blog.	October 2005
"CAPTIVE LIL MARKIE" by Lil Markie Quicktime	Quicktime file of Large Happy Man (Mark Fox) holding Lil' Markie captive inside his body. More MP3s and info on this video oddity can be found here on WFMU's Blog.	October 2005
"LIONEL'S SHOW" by Lionel MP3	Not-a-liberal talk show host Lionel tackles the topic of the Iraq war. Read more about Lionel here.	June 2005
"WACKY CALLERS" by Lionel MP3	The twisted talk show host field two calls - one from a clueless Christian and one from a drunk and excited Lionel fan.	June 2005
"CATTLE AUCTION" by Steve Liptay MP3	Cattle Auctioneer Champion from 1976. More cattle auctioneer championship coverage can be found here.	June 2005
"MR. POWER SHAKER" by Little Howling Wolf MP3	Baltimore noise junk mavens Nautical Almanac are behind this CDR issue of some stark, raw 45s from James Pobiega, a 6'9" Polish man from Chicago, whom in the 70s and 80s recorded and performed under the moniker Little Howlin' Wolf. While the inspiration for his namesake can clearly be heard in his gravelly voice and rib-sticking electric raw guitar lines, this stuff is all home-recorded, whatever-goes stabs at genres of all kinds from calypso to New Orleans funereal marches, sometimes overlapped in the same track while overdubbed monotonous drums patter away. Comparisons are even made to Albert Ayler (whose "Ghosts" can be ascertained in the melody lines quite often), but the drifting time signatures and overlapping ideas are purely in line with other primitive geniuses like Abner Jay (if Abner had access to a 4-track I think he would have sounded more like this).	April 2005
"PRANK PHONE CALL" by The Locust MP3	As if being humiliated in an interview as sell-outs on video by Extreme Elvis wasn't enough, this prank phone call (MP3) to Gabe from costumed hardcore mutants the Locust comes courtesy of a Buddyhead compilation CD (the same disc with the Iggy Pop song where he inexplicably focuses on beating up Moby). Slipknot's "manager" offers a more-than-willing Gabe an opening slot on his client's upcoming South American stadium tour, prattling on about "mask rock" taking over.	July 2005
"IT'S GOT TO BE DONE" by Lonesome Valley Singers MP3	What real Americans were listening to during the Summer of Love. From the LP Country and Western War Songs, which was offered on late-night TV, from the looks of it.	April 2005
"AUTONOMY BOY" by The Long Blondes MP3	With all the 80's throwback going on in the world of indie pop/rock, here's a refreshing nod-of-sorts to the great Dolly Mixture and Kleenex/Lilliput from a current UK band called the Long Blondes who could teach a thing-or-two to the fashion circle popsters dipping into their own 80s well no deeper than say, Frankie Goes To Hollywood. This is out on the excellent up-and-coming NYC label What's Your Rupture, which has been batting a solid 1000 with recent singles by Love Is All and the Cause Co-Motion, whom you will surely hear more about in the future. For now, here's "Autonomy Boy" (MP3), a great song from a new 12" EP that hits the spot just right. Thanks to <a href="http://www.whatsyourrupture.com/">What'sYour Rupture</a> for letting us post this.	August 2005
"THANK YOU CANADA" by Shelly Looney MP3	1980's entry into the hyperpatriotic rap wars, released after Canada helped smuggle four US hostages out of Iran. Shelly turned the table on Canada in 1998, when she scored the winning goal for the US Olympic team in Nagano, Japan.	April 2005
"HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN" by Los Punkrockers MP3	If you recall the glory days of K-Tel hit compilations, there were always wanna-be K-Tel's out there (I want to say Ronco for one off the top of my head) that would also cram like 50 modern-day hits into the grooves of some cheaply-cut vinyl platter as thin as a potato chip. But since half of these fly-by-nights couldn't license the actual songs, you'd get some generic in-house band doing versions of them! I remember I had one with some definite Long Island accents buried within the Bay City Rollers' "Saturday Night." And of course such was the value of the commercials' catch-phrase "hits by the original artists". Well, someone in Spain seemed to think it was a good idea to have an entirely different band do the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks album in its entirety and slap some cheezy model in faux-punk garb on the cover. But I honestly have to say that this version of the record (titled Los Exitos De Sex Pistols) might be even better than anything the Barbarabush_2Pistols or McLaren could have produced! Thanks to Strange Reaction for posting.	October 2005
"PRETTY VACANT" by Los Punkrockers MP3	If you recall the glory days of K-Tel hit compilations, there were always wanna-be K-Tel's out there (I want to say Ronco for one off the top of my head) that would also cram like 50 modern-day hits into the grooves of some cheaply-cut vinyl platter as thin as a potato chip. But since half of these fly-by-nights couldn't license the actual songs, you'd get some generic in-house band doing versions of them! I remember I had one with some definite Long Island accents buried within the Bay City Rollers' "Saturday Night." And of course such was the value of the commercials' catch-phrase "hits by the original artists". Well, someone in Spain seemed to think it was a good idea to have an entirely different band do the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks album in its entirety and slap some cheezy model in faux-punk garb on the cover. But I honestly have to say that this version of the record (titled Los Exitos De Sex Pistols) might be even better than anything the Barbarabush_2Pistols or McLaren could have produced! Thanks to Strange Reaction for posting.	October 2005
"CUANDO YO LA CONOCI" by Los Zafiros MP3	Here's another number - a doo-wop/calypso - about libidinal cravings for an attractive female, done by Havana heartthrobs whose Motown-style choreography and impeccable voices kept the palms of Cuban girls moist for much of the sixties.	July 2005
"AN OPEN LETTER TO MY TEENAGE SON" by Victor Lundberg MP3	The hit single from a collection of 1960's Libertarian recitations. A seminal release in the field of hyperpatriotic white rap (see Byron Magregor).	April 2005
"IN THE MOOD FOR A PRAYER" by Glenn Miller/ Joe Frank (Mike Lupica collage) MP3	On a recent show, our own Mike Lupica did a nice collage of Glenn Miller's In The Mood along with a hilarious segment from an unidentified Joe Frank episode. So overwhelmed was Mike with inquiries over this fine radio moment that he has excerpted it in MP3 form for your downloading pleasure: In The Mood For A Prayer	July 2005
"THE BIG M" by Lust Control MP3	Christian punks definitely one-upping the str8-edge band Crucial Youth's album (where they are depicted on the cover running over Gene Simmons and kids with beer with a streamroller). I don't think I need to see the cover of this record, based on the subject matter.	August 2005
"GOOD THING" by Barbara Lynn MP3	Recorded live by Dave the Spazz at Ponderosa Stomp in 2002.	October 2005
"VO CHONG LAM BIENG" by Ly Ngua O MP3	There seems to be some confusion about the name of this busker recorded on the streets of Saigon, who, by the sound of it, is an appreciator of the spare, beatbox-driven hip-hop of the early eighties. (It's doubtful that the fellow's name really is "Ly Ngua O," since this just happens to be the title of the famous Vietnamese tune "Song of the Black Horse.")	July 2005
"BESS, YOU IS MY WOMAN NOW" by Babba Maal MP3	Conceived in 1998 for the Gershwin-themed "Red Hot + Rhapsody" compilation - released as part of the Red Hot Organization's series of AIDS fund raising projects - this may be the most exquisite version of this "Porgy and Bess" standard ever recorded. Not bad for a Senegalese megastar.	July 2005
"AMERICANS" by Byron MacGregor MP3	The work of a bored news anchorman from Windor, Ontario, just across the river from Detroit. The single reached number one in 1974, prompting an entire LP of such stuff and countless imitation records, but still no thanks or credit in sight for Victor Lundberg or Buddy Starcher.	April 2005
"WHAT THE FUCK (REMIXED)" by Madonna MP3	Madonna's people had planted fake Madonna MP3s on various file sharing networks, and when the unsuspecting downloaders opened the file, Madonna excoriated them with a "This is Madonna. What the fuck do you think you're doing?" Within hours, there were dozens upon dozens of remixes floating around the web. This was one of them.	April 2005
"EGGS" by Madonna WMV	Long before she had her way with David Mamet and Lina Wurtmuller, Madonna had her way with...eggs. As evidenced in this video clip from her student days at the University of Michigan, she downs raw yolks a la Sly Stallone and does her best imitation of a skillet.	April 2005
"STEAL AWAY" by Mad Bunny Sad Bunny MP3	MBSB is a gnome from Bayonne, New Jersey, whose fascination with the vocal timbre of He of Curly Locks and Exposed Navel has led to some obsessive sonic explorations, this one in particular tickling the fancy of many FMU DJs as of late.	March 2005
"GOD'S BEEN DEAD THESE FIFTY YEARS" by The Mad Monk MP3	From Greenwich Village's Cafe Bizarre Presents Assorted Madness. Tons more MP3s and info can be found here.	September 2005
"HOW TO WAX YOUR ASS" by Tod Maffin MP3	Podcast of a guy getting his butt waxed by an esthetician.	April 2005
"BELO SI CELEBRI" by Malignon Music Box MP3	From Rossini's "Semiramide", and David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music".	September 2005
"WAITING ROOM" by Mambo Kurt MP3	In honor of Nike ripping off Minor Threat and then apologizing over the incident, here is a cover version of Fugazi's Waiting Room by Germany's Mambo Kurt.	July 2005
"KANKAN BLUE" by Kante Manfila MP3	Searching for the roots of the blues in Africa is a bogus exercise. African blues players are more recipient than inspiration in this particular cultural cross-pollination. Mali's Ali Farka Toure may be called "the African John Lee Hooker," but he's never played anything remotely as gripping and beautiful as this. Recorded in Manfila's hometown of Kankan in 1987.	July 2005
"MARIE" by Manhattan Brothers MP3	Damned if Nathan Mdledle - lead singer with this Inkspots style South African quartet - doesn't sound a lot like Louis Prima on this 1953 version of Irving Berlin's chestnut. Around the same time, a young Miriam Makeba got her start singing with the Brothers.	July 2005
"HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL" by Marduk MP3	Marduk are the hardest-working band in Black Metal, and 14 years on and about as many CDs later, they still don't suck. Marduk deliver live, too, playing as tight and as fast as on their records, and aren't afraid to show that they're having a good time.	August 2005
"THE PRESIDENT'S PRAYER" by Freddie Martell MP3	Hands clasped, heads bowed---and no snickering! From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"THE CAPTIVE" by cheap Mastertronic game MP3	Voted one of the worst SID tunes ever.	July 2005
"MY PARENTS" by Dorothy Masuka and her Hot Music MP3	We've been enjoying a whole lot of recent South African female vocalists lately in the library, in particular Dorothy Masuka, with a great disc called Hamba Notsokolo donated by our own Doug Schulkind. Here's an MP3 of the track "My Parents", taken from another appearance of Masuka on a 1950's collection on the BB label of Hot Jazz and Dance from South Africa.	July 2005
"RECYCLING AD" by McCleod Landfill MP3	From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium. The hidden track from the original CD version of this sampler, and for good reason.	November 2005
"THE GAME OF LIFE EXCERPT" by Jarrel McCracken MP3	Forces of Evil won the game by default after Average Christian tested positive for performance-enhancing substances in post-game screening.	April 2005
"FLIGHT F-I-N-A-L EXCERPT 1" by Forrest McCullough MP3	The culture of death, for the culture-of-life set. From the introduction to an LP-length allegory that's sure to terrify Christians under the age of eight. If you're reading this website, you've already been bumped from this flight, so don't concern yourself.	April 2005
"FLIGHT F-I-N-A-L EXCERPT 2" by Forrest McCullough MP3	If only real airlines had in-flight entertainment as good as this.	April 2005
"FLIGHT F-I-N-A-L EXCERPT 3" by Forrest McCullough MP3	Featuring the actual, unaltered voice of The Almighty.	April 2005
"FLIGHT F-I-N-A-L EPILOGUE" by Forrest McCullough MP3	The visionary behind Flight F.I.N.A.L. reveals all.	April 2005
"MCDONALD'S THEME SONG" by Jose Feliciano MP3		November 2005
"MCDONALD'S THEME SONG" by Gladys Knight & the Pips MP3		November 2005
"MCDONALD'S THEME SONG" by Latin Rhythm Instrumental MP3		November 2005
"MCDONALDS THEME SONG" by Peggy Lee MP3		November 2005
"MCDONALD'S THEME SONG (FRIES VERSION)" by Main Street Singers MP3		November 2005
"MCDONALD'S THEME SONG" by Main Street Singers MP3		November 2005
"MCDONALD'S THEME SONG" by Stylistics MP3		November 2005
"PRANK PHONE CALL" by Kathy McGinty MP3	One of the most genius of the prank call CD's of all time, period. The premise is simple: horny guys meet "Kathy" on the internet, and are invited to call her up, but wind up unknowingly speaking to a sampler hooked up to the phone triggering some appropriate and not-so-appropriate responses to the dudes in question ranging from "you have a sexy voice" to "I'm a burn victim". Even as some guys figure out that they aren't speaking to a real live breathing gal (which often becomes evident when the sampler goes crazy "malfunctioning"), it doesn't seem to matter to them. Thanks to Derek of Hamburger for letting us put up this super XXX-rated MP3.	June 2005
"RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH" by Jimmy McMillan MP3	Official Campaign Song of the Rent is Too Damn High Party, who ran Jimmy McMillan as Candidate for Mayor in the NYC 2005 race.	October 2005
"LIVE ON WFMU" by MC Trachiotomy MP3	Reaching back into the vaults for this little gem performed on Mike Lupica's Hip Transistor back on 11/17/02.	September 2004
"CAUCASIAN GUILT" by Noh Mercy MP3	What sounds like a 14 year old girl is an obvious fan of ripping your head off.	November 2004
"INTRO MONSTRO CRESCENDO" by Messer Chups MP3		October 2005
"ULTRA VIOLENCE" by Metal Urbain MP3	From "Anarchy In Paris!", a US compilation of this late 70's French punk band (roughly '77 to '82). Their first single, "Paris Maquis," was also the first ever Rough Trade 7" (RT 001). Drum machines and buzzsaw guitars, with similarities to Chrome and 39 Clocks.	October 2005
"SNUFF MOVIE" by Metal Urbain MP3	From "Anarchy In Paris!", a US compilation of this late 70's French punk band (roughly '77 to '82). Their first single, "Paris Maquis," was also the first ever Rough Trade 7" (RT 001). Drum machines and buzzsaw guitars, with similarities to Chrome and 39 Clocks.	October 2005
"PRANK CALL" by RUSS MEYER MP3	An insight to some showbiz wheelings and dealings on the phone from the guy who invented breasts.	December 2004
"A - PARTE PRIMA" by Costin Miereanu MP3	Another release on the Cramps label (the list is rife with them) from 1975. "An account of musical science fiction," as one writer called it, the two sidelong pieces anticipate the style of layered sound collage that would be so prevalent in experimental/industrial music 5-10 years later. The subtle electronics, acoustic instrumentation and voices blend effortlessly, with a gentle, flowing quality not usually found in similar works by contemporaries like Bayle or Parmegiani.	September 2005
"DO IT LIKE A DOG" by Dean Milan MP3	The dog is the most intelligible voice on this track. From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN" by Chuck Miller MP3		October 2005
"QUEEN OF THE HOUSE" by Jody Miller MP3	Answer to Roger Miller's King of the Road. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"DISCO MEDLEY" by Mini-Pops MP3	An odd and severely grating children's record from the 80's. This is the "Disco Medley" which includes "YMCA" and "In the Navy". A creepy leering adult voice backs up the children on "Celebration". More mp3s from sweet young children available here.	June 2005
"L.A. PUBLIC ACCESS ACOUSTIC SET" by The Minutemen WMV	Sir Demon Brown has been kind enough to put up corndogs.org, a collection of interviews, live shows and other scraps from San Pedro's finest. Highlights include this video of a 30 minute acoustic set from L.A. public access	July 2005
"TELEMARKETER ELIMINATION STRATEGY" by Eugene Mirman MP3	Eugene Mirman negotiates a killer long distance rate, while simultaneously destroying the gay agenda.	June 2005
"HYBRID MOMENTS" by The Misfits MP3	Best lyric - "The maggots in the iron lung will copulate."	August 2005
"CHIMPANZEE RIDE" by Monkeypiece Theatre MP3	It's long been established that monkeys are capable of operating complex machinery such as space craft (as evidenced by this mp3 of a historical reenactment by Monkeypiece Theatre).	February 2005
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY (MR. PRESIDENT)" by Marilyn Monroe MP3	Marilyn Monroe's notoriouly scorching serenade to President John F. Kennedy during his televised 45th birthday gala celebration, May 19th, 1962.	July 2005
"MP3 #1" by MOOG SCHOOL MP3	These 5 mp3's all from a 7" put out by the Julia P. Masterman school; 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th graders exhibiting their own slices of electronic music, under the direction of teacher Virginia Hageman. MP3 #2 MP3 #3 MP3 #4 MP3 #5	May 2005
"CRYSTAL WATERS" by Moolah MP3	From Woe Ye Demon Possessed - Heavy experimental psych album, an American (NY) private press from 1974. Spooky piano and percussive studio layering have drawn fair comparisons to Faust, Ash Ra Tempel and early Pink Floyd.	September 2005
"PLEDGE YOUR MONEY" by R. Stevie Moore MP3	Another piece of WFMU history, R. Stevie Moore's song, "Pledge Your Money". The phone number is no longer in service, so don't call it!	February 2005
"COLLIDING CIRCLES" by R. Stevie Moore MP3	Former WFMU heavy rotation song!	February 2005
"OREMUS PRO PONTIFICE" by Allesandro Moreschi MP3	Back in the 17th Century, when women were barred from appearing on stage or singing in churches, the roles of sopranos were routinely filled by castrati; men who had been castrated during childhood so the pure high tones of their unbroken boyhood voices could be maintained indefinitely. This practice, banned in 1870, was too late for Alessandro Moreschi, captured here in 1902 on a wax cylinder recording of what may be the only known recorded performance of a Castrato.	October 2004
"BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY" by Moritz MP3	German karaoke version of the Queen hit.	June 2005
"RINGWORM / YOU SAY FRANCE AND I WHISPER / HAVE A DANISH" by Van Morrison MP3	Another perennial fave around here, the infamous contractual obligation sessions Van the Man gave to Bang Records in order to get out of his contract and go to Warner Brothers. Who'da thunk that the spirit behind "Astral Weeks" was only months earlier warbling about wanting a danish on tape. Apparently these have been floating around on oddball European Van Morrison reissues as bonus tracks, but the Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster label did up a full disc of these insane songs a while back.	April 2005
"WANT A DANISH" by Van Morrison MP3	In order to fulfill his obligation to his early solo label Bang Records,Van Morrison sat down in 1967 or so and cranked out 31 songs on the spot, on topics ranging from ringworm to wanting a danish, to hating his record label and a guy named George. All 31 tracks are available here..	September 2005
"MOTHERBANGER" by CHRIS MORRIS MP3	To celebrate the Pixies reunion tour, someone really shoulda booked British comedy genius Chris Morris to be the opener. This tribute/parody to the Pixies originally comes off a magazine flexi disc from the early 1990s and has the formula down pat.	December 2004
"SNOBOWS" by Stan Beard & the Swinging Strings MP3	Stan Beard is believed to be a nom de song-poem of Sandy Stanton, the founder of the Film City studio and label and one of the true characters of the song-poem game. The "hook" to this lovely number about the aurora borealis is when the rhythm of the Chamberlin's human manipulator inadvertently runs counter to the instrument's built-in beat box. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"I LIKE YELLOW THINGS" by Bobbi Blake MP3	Perhaps inspired by Tom T. Hall's "I Love," veteran song-poet Tiel Faulkner contributes our title tune, a sweet number that is the musical equivalent of springtime itself. From MSR Madness, Volume 5.	July 2005
"GOOD" by Bobbi Blake MP3	And the moral? "While pert, to always maintain the balance of dears," of course. Go, Guygax, go. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"TILL DEATH DO US PART" by Betty Bond MP3	Taken from the album Betty Bond Sings Pop, which, like "The Doing Of Our Thing," is from Bob Quimby's Tropical label. Not to cast aspersions on the song- poet, but an anonymous correspondent terms this harrowing depiction of heroin use "starkly accurate." From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"THE HELL WITH YOU" by Roger Bonnette MP3	A taut little kiss-off number sung by the unknown Roger Bonnette. This might be an example of a recording sent in by a song-poet and then given the MSR overdub treatment. The other side, the "radio version," sounds as if it uses the same basic tracks, but they seem to have been sped up, and the line "Find somebody else that you can screw" has been bowdlerized to "Find somebody else, do-doobie-do." From MSR Madness, Volume 5.	July 2005
"WOW WE WOW" by Norm Burns & Singers MP3	The flip to "Human Breakdown Of Absurdity." Love that Sterling Records guitar sound! Their reverb is nothing to sneeze at, either. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"STAY WHERE YOU ARE" by Norman Burns MP3	The aforementioned Norm Burns nails a delightfully orthogonal arrangement. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"I HAVE A NUMBER" by Nita Craig MP3	If you think you detect the uncredited hand of Rodd here, you are not mistaken. Nita Craig was his girlfriend and musical protege. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"IT'S A MYSTERY CALLED LOVE" by Ron Davis MP3	In the guise of "Ron Davis," Rodd Keith hauls up another bucket from his bottomless well of dazzling popcraft archetypes. This one is short on weirdness and long on what Rodd was best at: structure, melody and harmony singing. The drummer seems to be telegraphing his timing in (perhaps from Burma), but Rodd refuses to be thrown. From MSR Madness, Volume 5.	July 2005
"I LOVE LOVELY CHINESE GAL" by The Downtowners MP3	From Rodd Keith's personal collection of his own records, the same batch that gave rise to Ellery Eskelin's all-Rodd compilation I Died Today. This number is so atmospheric you can practically smell the opium wafting through the den. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"THE MESSER ROUND" by Bill Joy MP3	The year 1979, as represented in all its song-poem glory. The elastic-throated Bill Joy was MSR's resident disco crooner. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"BORED CAN'T COPE WANT OUT" by Bill Joy MP3	An excellent period piece, although evidence that Rodd, who was several years' dead by the time this one was cut, was song-poem music's one true keyboard genius. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"MY TWIN AND I" by Rodd Keith MP3	I get a sense of something very real in Phyllis Varisco's lyric, which happens far more often in song-poem music than it does with, say, Billy Joel. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"LET'S GO SAVAGE, YOU AND I" by Rodd Keith MP3	Gauguin went native in Tahiti. Rodd Keith goes native in the American West. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"MY PIPE YELLOW DREAM" by Rodd Keith MP3	Once again we find Rodd working within the confines of conventional pop structure, yet not contenting himself with a mere readymade. It's a cryin' shame he was never given a crack at the actual record charts - in a just popworld, he would've burned 'em up. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"TIMES ABOUT" by Dick Kent MP3	And the word is: Tiger! Another deliriously inscrutable entry from the House of Guygax. To attempt to parse the meaning of a Guygax song is to miss its meaning altogether. From MSR Madness, Volume 5.	July 2005
"OCTOPUS WOMAN PLEASE LET ME GO" by Dick Kent MP3	A tale that turns Humanoids From The Deep on its tentacles. With its flip "The Flying Horse Of Thunder," this discovery of WFMU's Irwin Chusid is another double A-side winner. Both were written by Randle R. Wilson. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"GRETCHEN'S NEW DISH" by Dick Kent MP3	Chester T. Finley apparently did not approve of the way Dick Kent, in his spirited, German-inflected delivery, got a little too spirited on the final words of the line "Gretchen full of doo-doo." Bobbi Blake was called in for the redo (do), which appears on a previous entry in the MSR Madness series, The Human Breakdown Of Absurdity. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"THE SAILOR'S ANTHEM" by Dick Kent MP3	Both this elegy to Davy Jones's locker and its also-excellent flip, "Elvis The King," were written by Wesley Earl Falterman. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"ONE SOUL LOVE" by Dick Kent MP3	One of the things song-poem music does best is freeze-frame a trendy moment in pop culture history. Dick Kent, one of the most reliably enthusiastic of the studio singers, is a perfect choice to take on a lyric of this sort. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"RAT A TAT TAT, AMERICA" by Dick Kent MP3	I seem to recall another song that used woodpeckers as a metaphor for America's Bicentennial. Oh, no - the song I'm thinking of used robins, and they were a metaphor for love. Never mind. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"FLYING INFORMATION" by Rick Kershaw MP3	The title is a clever pun on "flying in formation"; the lyric a rare example of a song-poem that was written with tongue knowingly in cheek. Robert J. Bales, Jr., is another in a long line of top-notch song-poets from the Chicago area. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"THE DOING OF OUR THING" by Jim Lea MP3	Gilbert Prescott's blissful vision of the hippie-led nation of Oilyville, a libertine and libertarian utopia run by a council of gurus. Their only mandate is to make sure "of love each has a share." Where do we sign up? From MSR Madness, Volume 5.	July 2005
"A HALL OF FAME AWARD" by William LeBlanc MP3	I'm too lazy to look up whether John J. Turk really did return his Ohio University Hall of Fame Award or not, but his explanation set to a hip-hop beat sure sounds believable. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"MY SILENT THOUGHTS" by Ralph Lowe MP3	Ubercrooner Ralph Lowe returns with a meditative number from the pen of first-timer Virginia Bailey. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"EVELYN CHRISTMAS" by Gene Marshall MP3	At long last, a chance to expose the secret of James Wilson, Jr., the Chicago-based rival to Thomas Guygax, Sr. as World's Greatest Song-Poet. Every bit as surreal yet far more prolific, we are thrilled to finally put Wilson on the map with this lovely number about "Pastels from Alaska / Imported as the igloo in review." At last report Wilson was still at it, submitting multipage song-poem manifestos on a weekly basis. From MSR Madness, Volume 5.	July 2005
"SHAKE YOUR GOOD STUFF" by Gene Marshall MP3	Gene Marshall delivers a typically authoritative reading of Herman Earl's once-fashionable lyric. This is the flip of "All You Need Is A Fertile Mind," which we visited in a previous installment. From MSR Madness, Volume 5.	July 2005
"GREEN FINGERNAILS" by Gene Marshall MP3	Your guess is as good as mine. This and our other color-themed song, "I Like Yellow Things," are finds of collector Brian Gordon. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"PRAYER FOR JAMEY" by Gene Marshall MP3	Just when you expect Havelyn Sing's lyric to zig, it zags. Based on a true story. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"SMOKE IT - THE POT" by Gene Marshall MP3	Wrapping up a song that stretches furiously to make its rhymes, Juanita Norberg stretches to avoid one. A nice find from the collection of Bob Purse. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"ROCK AND ROLL BOOGIE BEAT" by Sammy Marshall & The Party Crashers MP3	Like its flipside "Twist And Turn," which led off The Human Breakdown Of Absurdity (MSR Madness, volume 3), this upbeat party-styler from 1961 is practically begging to jump-start our little hoedown. Silver Records was the vanity label of Cleveland song-poet John Koproski, Jr., who sent his hot-rockin' and always-fine little babies off to be birthed at the Globe Recording Studio in Nashville. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"JERRY THE BUTCHER MAN" by Milford Perkins MP3	Only in the song-poem genre could you hear anything so incredible as a poignant song about a meat-cutter. Then again, vocalist Milford Perkins could make the phone book sound poignant. Don't hold me to this, but I'm pretty sure that's George Liberace himself bouncing the bum fiddle note. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"THE DUCK EGG WALK" by Milford Perkins MP3	This one goes out to all those who thought "Betsy And Her Goat" was the most ludicrous song they ever heard. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"AMTRAK EAGLE" by Milford Perkins MP3	With I Like Yellow Things, the predecessor to the present volume, we introduced to the song-poem-loving public both the writing of James Wilson, Jr, and the singing of Milford Perkins. "Amtrack Eagle" is where these talented fellas meet each other, resulting in a song that wraps several of its smooth, slippery tentacles around you while others give you a nice, relaxing massage. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"A MELLOW SWEET SIXTEEN" by Rave-Ons MP3	The Rave-Ons were the house band on Columbine's earliest few albums, but were soon canned due to customer complaints. It's hard to imagine what fault anyone could find with them, though. Who wouldn't thrill to have his or her song performed by a group that makes the first rehearsal of a junior-high garage band sound harmonious by comparison, sung by a laryngitic vocalist who laughs in the middle of it? From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"FEELING BESIDE MYSELF" by Buddy Raye MP3	Innumerable listens fail to reveal whether this first-person account of schizophrenia was written as an intellectual exercise, or from a more lived-in point of view. From MSR Madness, Volume 5.	July 2005
"IT'S YOU, CHEROKEE LOU" by The Real Pros MP3	Every record on L.A.'s Cinema label was credited to The Real Pros. Although Cinema and its cousin Command Performance were separate entities from Preview and MSR, all drew from the same talent pool. The lead Real Pro on this outing is unmistakably Dick Kent. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"RAIN ON THE ROOF" by The Real Pros MP3	The Real Pro this time is Bobbi Blake, with Rodd Keith on answer vocals. Rodd's sympathetic arrangement perfectly captures the atmosphere of Georgiana Vunk's delicate words. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"TEENAGE QUEEN" by The Real Pros MP3	This Cinema release harkens back to an early '60s sound, making its abrupt reference to pot that much more jarring. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"MINNI-HA-CHA" by Gary Roberts & The Five Stars MP3	You might think we put this on here only to show off Gary Roberts's funny mispronunciation of "Kawliga." But if you did, you'd be wrong � dead wrong. The flip to this is entitled "Oh Dear Daddy, Take My Hand And Hold It Tight." From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"DREAMS OF LOVE" by Rodd Rogers MP3	Nothing cute or weird going on here, just a perfect soul-pop ballad delivered with majestic grace and power. Rodd's slide upward into the final falsetto note is particularly sublime. This is song-poet Phil Carroll's fourth time out on MSR Madness. He previously checked in with "Watch Johnny Carson," "Yippee Hippee" and "I Take A Fancy To Nancy," and there are plenty more P.C. gems still to go around. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"HO, I GOT TO FIND YOU BABY" by Randy Rudolph MP3	I don't know who Randy Rudolph is, but he sure was one soul love. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"IF I COULD ONLY SEE YOUR FACE" by Stich Stampfel & The Singing Strings MP3	Gottscherisch is an obscure Germanic dialect spoken in the southeastern Slovenia district of Gottschee. Although this song is in English all the way, some of Hermann "Stich" Stampfel's other lyrics were originally written in Gottscherisch, then translated to English before being dumped into the song-poem gristmill. Stich recorded his own vocal for "If I Could Only See Your Face," then sent the tape to Sandy Stanton, who applied his patented "Singing Strings" overdub ("O.D.") treatment. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"SONG OF THE BURMESE LAND" by Cara Stewart MP3	The ultraslinky Cara Stewart, the lone distaff vocalist of Lee Hudson's reverb-laden Northridge, California hit factory, snakes her warm, inviting larynx around L. (not Lee) Hazlewood's enchanting protest lyric denoucing Burma's excessive afterhour noise. "Doon doon doon, dang dang dang" - I couldn't have said it better myself. From MSR Madness, Volume 5.	July 2005
"VAMPIRE HUSBAND" by Shelley Stuart & The Five Stars MP3	Sterling was a Boston-based label known primarily for its male vocalists Norm Burns and Gary Roberts. But Shelley Stuart, wife of Sterling's founder Lew Tobin, also checked in with a number of topliners, including this well-written tale of divine love borne of the crypt. That's most likely Tobin himself tinkling the catchy piano line. From MSR Madness, Volume 5.	July 2005
"SEASON'S GREETINGS" by Teri Summers & The Librettos MP3	The only known song-poem recorded in three different versions, all found on various MSR albums. MSR guaranteed customer satisfaction, and song-poet Raymond Moberly was apparently one hard-to-satisfy customer. For my money it's the sleigh bells that best draw out the song's latent virtues, and thus would have guessed that the version heard here, the only one on which they appear, would have been the one he finally approved of. In fact, though, it was the earliest of the three. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"THE EVENING IS APPROACHING" by Teri & The Librettos MP3	We end with our second consecutive vocal by the great Teri Summers. This mournful song always reminds me of Bobby Marchan's version of "There's Something On Your Mind (Pt. 2)," although in this one nobody dies. A discovery of the brilliant dream-artist Jim Shaw. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"I'VE FOUND MY TRUE LOVE" by Teri & the MSR Singers MP3	Teri Summers' taut, driving vocal presents a perfect complement to Del Casher's stinging guitar style. Song-poet John Kelly, also responsible for "City Hospital's Patients," "The Saddest Story" and "Cloud Nine," is one of the best. This is the sixth song compiled from MSR 210, Variety Songs For '69, clearly the greatest original song-poem album of 'em all. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"SOMETHING IN THE NIGHT" by Terry MP3	Maury S. Rosen - the MSR of MSR Records - hated having to rerecord a song for a dissatisfied customer, but a contract is a contract. There's nothing overtly wrong with the first version of this ghost song, found on MSR LP 206 (Terry & Rodd & The Librettos), but Rodd's remake, three albums later (Something For Everyone), is a triumph. Perhaps he was haunted by the mediocrity of the first version, and redid it of his own initiative. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"MY DADDY HE DIED IN 1969" by uncredited MP3	The overarching sincerity of many song-poem lyrics can sometimes come up and snap you right in the face. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"MY HAMBURGER BABY" by uncredited MP3	The Halmark label rarely bothered to credit their vocalists by name, substituting instead the song-poet's address. Halmark even had trouble spelling the name of their own company, sometimes adding an extra "l" for no apparent reason. From MSR Madness, volume 5.	July 2005
"PINCH ME" by uncredited MP3	Halmark's sound is cheap even by song-poem standards. They didn't even made their own recordings, instead simply adding new vocals to recycled music beds. It doesn't take long for the Halmark fan to become familiar with all their tracks, but the fun is in the surprise, as each new lyric careens headlong into the same old music. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"THIS WORLD IS IN A HELL OF A FIX" by uncredited MP3	Halmark favored an overwrought brand of light opera, which when contrasted with the relatively prosaic lyrics they usually handled could lead to some interesting effects. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"WOMANS LIBERATION" by Kay Weaver MP3	An ironic matching of material and performer. Kay Weaver, an award-winning feminist filmmaker in her life outside of song-poem music, is here forced to declare, "But one thing I don't understand / Is woman's liberation." It's refreshing to see the song-poem game for once backfiring upon one of its players. From MSR Madness, Volume 5.	July 2005
"ASTROUNIVERSE" by Kay Weaver MP3	James Wilson, Jr., Thomas Guygax's only rival as Song-Poet King, often comes up with words that sound like words yet aren't words. We find him here in the midst of his physics phase, an especially fertile era. Despite a slight fissure in the line about the Qualbyzmatrons, this is one of Kay Weaver's best vocal performances. From MSR Madness, volume 6.	July 2005
"THE HEROIC TRIO THEME" by Anita Mui MP3		November 2005
"THE MUPPET SHOW IN HEBREW" MP3	Like it says...	August 2004
"YOUTHQUAKE" by Mystic Zephyrs MP3	Solos, solos and---God help us!---more solos. Drummer auditioned for---and was rejected by---the Shaggs. From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"INTERVIEW WITH RAY NAGIN" by Ray Nagin MP3	Incredible interview with New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, aired on WWL 870 AM September 1, 2005.	September 2005
"NEW ORLEANS" by Namelosers MP3	Popular song made in 1964 by some Swedes who I'm guessing were never in the great city. They sure as hell aren't singing "Southern belle" either. Nonetheless, it rocks.	September 2005
"STUDY NUMBER 40B" by Conlon Nancarrow MP3	For modified Ampico reproducing player piano. From David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music".	September 2005
"THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE ME AWAY" by Napolean XIV MP3	The 1966 novelty hit. 21 answer songs to this song can be found here for download.	September 2005
"LAND A MILLION" by National Lampoon MP3		October 2005
"HAPPY HERO" by Negativland MP3	SF-based comedy-rock heroes, playing some honky-tonk.	April 2005
"SIMPHONIE IN X MAJOR, FIRST MOVEMENT" by The New Blockaders MP3	LP from 1991. The Rupenus brothers, Richard & Philip, doing what they do best, making extreme, confrontational noise music al� La Monte Young's "Poem for Tables, Chairs and Benches, etc." The Rupenus brothers have also recorded in collaboration with Organum, and under the names Bladder Flask (see above) and Alien Brains, among others. Richard Rupenus was also in Masstishaddhu.	October 2005
"PRIMITIVE NOTION (MOLDY TAPE VERSION)" by New Order MP3	Here's another mold-enhanced track courtesy of Cameron Jones.	July 2005
"IMPROVISATION NR. 2" by New Phonic Art 1973 MP3	One disc of a triple-set released on Deutsche Grammophon in 1974 aimed at showcasing the contemporary improvised music in Europe by way of three combos: one French (New Phonic Art), one German (Wired - with Conny Plank producing) and one from Great Britain (Iskra 1903, featuring Derek Bailey). Each group was given a full disc to do their thing with seemingly no restrictions. New Phonic Art 1973 was a quartet that assembled notable 20th century composers Michel Portal, Vinko Globokar, Carlos Roqu� Alsina (from Argentina), and Jean-Pierre Drouet.	September 2005
"GENTLE'S THE WORD FOR A HAPPY HERD" by New Zealand Dairy Ministries MP3	One of two FMU faves, culled from an actual record of booming, jovial voices advising farmers of New Zealand how to cope with the problem of crusty cow udders.	October 2004
"TREAT YOUR TEETS" by New Zealand Dairy Ministries MP3	The second of two audio gems from the New Zealand Dairy Ministry.	October 2004
"NICKELBACK TO BACK" by Nickelback MP3	Yes, it's true. Overlap two of their hits, and it is really IS the same song.	October 2004
"I'M A MEAT EATER (EXCERPT)" by Nihilist Spasm Band MP3	A snippet of London, Ontario's not-finest non-purveyors of weekly No Music. In memory of the recently departed Hugh McIntyre this past month. See Zev Asher's excellent documentary on the band, "What About Me" (which includes footage of their legendary WFMU visit).	January 2005
"WAX MUSEUM PITCH" by Ray Normandeau MP3	Recorded in Coney Island in 1986, but referring to Madam Lily's World in Wax, which was in Coney Island from the 1920's until 1984 on Stillwell Avenue.	October 2005
"CRAZY JANE" by Tom Northcott MP3	Do you remember a time before national media conglomeration and narrowcasting music to the masses? Here's an example of those bygone days with a regional radio hit by Vancouverian Tom Northcott. Enjoy this early 70s folk-inspired pop gem that may not have made it to your radio dial on initial release.	August 2004
"SCIENCE FICTION" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	The cult classic makes it over to Norway. More MP3s available here.	June 2005
"BRYLLUPSANGEN" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	"Damn It, Janet" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show... in Norwegian!	June 2005
"ALLTID LYS HOS FRANKENSTEIN" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	"There's a Light.." from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.. in Norwegian!	June 2005
"EN HIP TRANSVESTITT" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	"Sweet Transvestite" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show... in Norwegian!	June 2005
"TIDEN BLIR SKRUDD" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	"The Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show... in Norwegian!	June 2005
"DAMOKLESSVERDET" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	A song from The Rocky Horror Picture show... in Norwegian!	June 2005
"MUSKELMANN-SANGEN" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	"I Can Make You a Man" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.. in Norwegian!	June 2005
"EDDIE'S SANG" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	"Hot Patootie, Bless My Soul" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show... in Norwegian!	June 2005
"MUSKELMANN-SANGEN (REPRISE)" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	"I Can Make You a Man (Reprise)" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show... in Norwegian!	June 2005
"TA MEG, TA MEG" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	"Toucha Toucha Toucha Me" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.. in Norwegian!	June 2005
"DET HENDER IBLANT" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	Another song from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.. in Norwegian!	June 2005
"EDDIE'S TEDDY" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	"Eddie" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show... in Norwegian!	June 2005
"PLANET MANET" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	"Planet Manet" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show... in Norwegian!	June 2005
"FRA FORST AV KUNNE ALT GA AN" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	"Floor Show" from The Rocky Horrow Picture Show.. in Norwegian!	June 2005
"JEG VIL HJEM" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	"I'm Going Home" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show... in Norwegian!	June 2005
"SUPER HELTER" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	"Super Heroes" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show... in Norwegian!	June 2005
"SCIENCE FICTION (REPRISE)" by Rocky Horror - Norwegian version MP3	"Science Fiction (Reprise)" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show... in Norwegian!	June 2005
"I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU" by Jim Noste MP3	Jaunty Jersey home-improvement mogul invests profits in self-recording sideline. From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"JUST PLAYING (DREAMS)" by Notorious B.I.G. MP3	AKA "Dreams of Fucking and R&B; Bitch", featured in Liz Berg's Blog post celebrating songs about Bitches and Hoes.	June 2005
"REGULAN BLOOD WORM" by No Kill I MP3	Why shouldn't there be a Star Trek tribute punk band? With songs like "Starfleet Up My Butt," "Wearin' Red," and "Neutral Zone,"� even the nerds-that-be included them in the film, Trekkies 2.	April 2005
"THREE TRACKS" by NO / Zuoxiao Zuzhou MP3 \| MP3 \| MP3	Zuoxiao Zuzhou is a musician, poet, celebrated novelist and true giant of the Beijing scene. He formed the band NO in 1990, as singer, songwriter, guitarist and violinist. The NO albums are perhaps my favorite Chinese rock recordings, unique and experimental, bringing to mind (at times) vintage Pere Ubu. The album Trip to Temple Fair is nothing short of a masterpiece of post-punk art rock. With NO disbanded, Zuoxiao now has a very successful solo career.	November 2005
"ARCHIE AND EDITH IN THE 5TH DIMENSION" by Patrick Sean O'Brien MP3	The Bunkers get the turntablist treatment. Also check out the animated vid here.	September 2005
"PROMOTIONAL PLEA AND OLDE FROTHINGSLOSH NEWSCAST" by Olde Frothingslosh MP3 \| MP3	Olde Frothingslosh (MP3's) In the 1970's my brother was an avid collector of independently brewed beer, he belonged to a club that sent monthly samples of the stuff. Well, having read in a book about Olde Frothingslosh, the "Pale Stale Ale" and proudly-self-proclaimed worst beer in the world, 8-year old me was hopping up and down at the prospect of it arriving in the mail like Ralphie in A Christmas Story waiting for his Red Ryder BB Gun. And sure enough, a can of this stuff did arrive for my brother, and I set upon drinking it immediately. The company claimed the "foam was on the bottom", which I didn't quite see, but I was in awe of the picture on the can, a photo of an enormous woman in a bathing suit lying on top of a bear, who had clearly been crushed by her. Turns out the stuff was just really a joke repackaging of Iron City Beer for holidays/collectability, but still, was like Mad Magazine crossing over into real life. Here's a "plea" (MP3) from the company spokesman, and also an excerpt (MP3) from an "official" Olde Frothingslosh newscast, chronicled from a site dedicated to Pittsburgh DJ Rege Cordic who wrote this history of the beer and sort of was the point man of steamrolling the "foam on the bottom" myth.	December 2005
"SUSSUDIO" by OL' DIRTY BASTARD MP3	R.I.P ODB. Taken from an actual hip-hop tribute to Phil Collins out on a European label called "Urban Renewal" (inclduing Kelis and Li'l Kim!)	December 2004
"MR. ED AUDITION" by Ol' Dirty Bastard MP3	While we're on the subject, check out this MP3 of Ol' Dirty Bastard trying out for the role of Mr. Ed for a Fox TV remake of the program, shortly before his death. Is this legit? Did ODB really want to play the voice of a talking horse? We have yet to uncover any evidence nixing the theory.	June 2005
"BUTTONS AND BOWS" by Ronnie Ong MP3	We are pleased to present Ronnie Ong's blazin' cover of "Buttons and Bows" as heard on the Steam Kodak compilation re-issue of 60s Southeast Asian underground rock. According to the liner notes, the dashing Mr. Ong is remembered as Singapore's answer to Trini Lopez. Quite an accolade, huh?	February 2005
"SHEER MADNESS" by Orchid Spangiafora MP3	Orchid Spangiafora is Rob Carey sometimes aided by Byron Coley & Chris Osgood (of the Suicide Commandos)." This album came out in 1979, and has got to be the weirdest record ever released on Twin/Tone. Brilliant, obsessive, hilarious spoken word-tape-cut-up-hell of the highest order. For audio samples, or to purchase a "custom CD-R" from Twin/Tone, click here.	September 2005
"IKAWU" by Yasukatsu Ohshima & Orquesta Bore MP3	Dominated by the samba drumming of Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, leader of the brass quintet Orquesta Bore, this 1997 number is a Brazilified cover of the hit, by the hugely popular girl group Nenes, which virtuallylaunched the Okinawan Pop craze.	July 2005
"GIRL (LOVE ON WFMU)" by Oxbow MP3	Recording the Bay Area group Oxbow "unplugged" so to speak isn't as easy as one would think; under normal circumstances (i.e. electric), the band teeters in the mix with a delicate blend of tension, eerie ambient drones, explosions of math-rock mayhem, and stumbling-down-the-stairs blues, all dragged along by the rather unconventional vocal approach of frontman Eugene Robinson. Eugene, a bona-fide competitive bodybuilder, takes harrowing subject matter and creates high theater (in live situations especially) quite often physically dragging the audience into one psychodrama or another; you'd expect something like this from say, Darby Crash, but could Darby pull off an effective Nina Simone cover or duet with Marianne Faithfull? When Eugene and Oxbow guitarist Niko Wenner played an acoustic set on Brian's show back in November 2004, the dynamic of host-behind-the-glass-watching-performer took on a very new kind of vibe; engineer Gil Shuster needed to accomodate Eugene's most whispered moents and chaotic, slobbering outbursts into account in the mix, he could be in your ear quiet one second and pinning the meters running around the room the next. But it worked, and the particular mix in this session is one of the more fascinating excercises in live music recording here in recent memory. Hear for example, the Beatles' la-la ode "Girl" turned into what sounds like a person caged in confined quarters about to knock a hole in the wall, while Niko balanced the song's delicacy with downright disturbing tension you could cut with a knife.	October 2005
"TURN THE RECORD OVER" by Vernon Oxford MP3		November 2005
"VEHICLE" by O. Henry Intermediate School #70 Stage Band MP3	The frenetic pace of this rendition makes it about as safe as a Corvair. And yes, the lead singer is male! From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"TERRORIST" by Pack MP3	"My neighbor! He's a terrorist!" - some interesting foreshadowing from this German band in 1978. But besides that, Pack totally ruled and never got the attention they deserved. Simple three-chord flying-V/bass/primitive drum whomp that predated the Oblivians and Mummies, peeling paint unlike any other comtemporaries except maybe the Pagans.	June 2005
"PANTHERMAN" by Pantherman MP3	Junkshop Glam grunt from yet another great collection of DJ Ursula 1000's called "Glittering". When people in rock songs declare themselves to be animals, one should never argue. Hopefully Jocelyn Wildenstein will hear this MP3.	November 2004
"WAITING IN THE MUNSTERS GARDEN" by Pan y Regaliz MP3	Spanish psych from 1971.	August 2005
"UNAIRED WFMU SESSION" by The Partisans MP3	Diane Kamikaze sez: In 2002 I invited '79 brit angst punkers The Partisans to perform on Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine. They were unavailable for a live session, but came in for a taping. I was excited, as I had really adored their old material. I felt they defined the early waves of punk "back in the day" and hoped they still had their fury. As it ends up, none of the session was airable. Some band members were drunk, belligerent, or both; hooray! I have gotten over my initial embarrasment and now offer it to the WFMU listenership for better or worse.	February 2005
"MR. ED" by Ralf Paulsen MP3	The Mr. Ed theme, in German.	June 2005
"MOTHRA SONG" by The Peanuts MP3	Remember the miniature singing Japanese fairies from the Godzilla movie Mothra? They were The Peanuts, and their appearance in three Godzilla movies launched hugely successful singing careers. Here's an MP3 of The Peanuts serenading Mothra.	June 2005
"DUCHESS OF EARL" by The Pearlettes MP3	Answer to Gene Chandler's Duke of Earl. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"BROTHER-IN-LAW (HE'S A MOOCH)" by Paul Peek MP3	Answer to Ernie K-Doe's Mother-In-Law. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"INTRODUCTION" by John Peel MP3	In memory of another who has shared his sounds, countless sounds that have dug in and remained in pockets within our psyches. This is the intro to his compilation "Top Gear" which featured many of his favorite artists.	January 2005
"HOUR-LONG DO OR DIY MEGA-MIX" by People Like Us MP3	People Like Us, WFMU's sound collagier and host of the avant-audio montage program, Do or DIY, is taking a breather during our new schedule (which runs through June 12, 2006) to make time for extracurriculars. As a consolation to her many fans, PLU is offering up a special hour-long Do or DIY super-mix MP3 download (80 MB), complete with cover art and track listing.	September 2005
"I FEEL SO GOOD" by Margie Pet MP3	One of the most enthusiastic disyllabic interpretations of the word "good." From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"SEA OF LOVE" by Phil Phillips MP3	Recorded live by Dave the Spazz at Ponderosa Stomp in 2003.	October 2005
"LOVE AND DESPERATION" by Jeffrey Lee Pierce MP3	Thanks to Sympathy For the Record Industry for putting the magnifying class over the illustrious career of the Gun Club, yet another criminally underheralded band that has had to find its initial fans in Europe (who celebrated Sonic Youth, Giant Sand, the Feelies, Lorette Velvette etc. with more vigour at first than much of the American underground). Late frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce peeled off his solo Wildweed record for a French only release in 1985, and despite his rifle-toting pioneer-on-the-prairie cover shot and graphics, reflected an urban, gritty sound (he was especially enamoured of the Velvets at the time) with Pierce playing much more guitar than usual, and also being backed by members of Clock DVA and the Cure. If that all sounds like a very unlikely combination of influences, well, it shows on this odd and unique rock album, with its killer kickoff track here. There's also a cover of Flipper's "Get Away" tacked on as bonus, though I seem to recall Hendrix's "Fire" on the original LP which is missing on this reissue.	November 2005
"I KNOW THERE'S AN ANSWER" by Plasticfresh MP3	Perhaps inspired by the viral phenomenon of Dangermouse's The Grey Album and The Kleptones' Night At The Hip-Hopera, the net label Hippocamp released a bizarre, glitched-out remix of the entire Pet Sounds album. Plasticflesh manages to make I Know There's An Answer sound like it was recorded inside a Commodore 64. The whole LP is still up <a href="http://bannedmusic.org/">here</a>.	June 2005
"WHILE THE RECORD GOES AROUND" by Playmates MP3		November 2005
"HUSSEIN'S BUTT SONG" by Linda Polley MP3	Linda & Gerald Polley are Spiritists; they don't believe in God, John Lennon is their guru... and they've got one hell of an ultra-right wing agenda. They are in direct contact with Lennon, from the Afterlife, and they channel his new songs: songs about kicking Saddam's butt, songs about Ah-nold kicking Gray Davis's butt, songs about The Evil Homosexuality... you know, all that pinko "Imagine there's no Heaven" crap.	January 2005
"MONGOLOID" by POPCHOR BERLIN MP3	An a capella take on the Devo classic courtesy of a German vocal group who also include in their repertoire Mudhoney, the Cure, and International Noise Conspiracy.	December 2004
"CRISTO E LIBERAZIONE" by Pope John Paul II MP3	This pope wasn't a rock star, he was better than a rock star - he was a DJ! He had a night (author makes internationally accepted gesture of DJ'ing by holding cupped left hand to ear while making scratching motion with right hand) - the best night of any DJ in the whole sanctified world! Sure he was a laptopper, but that counts! Sony actually put out a legit CD of The Pope's mixes in 1999. It was called Abba Pater.	April 2005
"THIS IS YOUR LEADER" by POPE POL POT MP3	Three MP3s to commemorate this wild n' wooly month at the Vatican: #2 - PRATS "Disco Pope" #3 - PATERNOSTER "The Pope Is Wrong"	May 2005
"COMP-ELATION" by Pop Chop MP3	From their "Comp-Elation", the ultimate Frankenstein pop tune. You know you've tried this at least once in your head.	November 2004
"AMNESTY REPORT ON BRITISH ARMY TORTURE" by The Pop Group MP3	The actors revolve, the stage keeps moving, but the script is just as fresh today as in 1980!	August 2004
"RADIO SPOT" by Presidential Prayer Team MP3	Find out how God protected George Washington despite being shot four times! You could become immortal too, if you would only join the Presidential Prayer Team!	April 2005
"PREAMBLE" by Elizabeth Clare Prophet MP3	From the infamous "Sounds of the American Doomsday Cult" series; Prophet and her Church of the Universal Triumphant flocked holed up in the '80s in rural Montana waiting for Russian missiles to hit, and cultural signifiers of the day, of course, were reason enough to expect it. Most of the amazing recordings from the meetings were full of high-powered speaking-in-tongues (incredibly in unison), but this particular excerpt prays for the God of Hellfire to rain His wrath down on a list on modern-day MTV staples, including "David Boowie".	November 2004
"ONE MILLION BOTTLEBAGS" by Public Enemy MP3		October 2005
"YOU WANNA.. YOU KNOW?" by Public Service Announcement MP3	Anti-drug PSA. 6 others and more information are available here.	December 2005
"HAPPY" by Pussy Galore MP3	In honor of the Rolling Stones turning 75, and the Blues Explosion's recent live appearance on the Cherry Blossom Clinic, here's a cut from the legendary never-released full interpretation of "Exile On Main Street" by Pussy Galore.	February 2005
"A TALE FROM THE HAUNTED HOUSE" by Pyha MP3	Andee also kindly gives us this, an MP3 of a seventh grader living in South Korea, making the most tortured music I've heard in ages. It's certainly playing by the same game plan of such soul destroyers as Abruptum and Burzum (the latter especially in the complete blanket of home-made buzz that envelops this music), but whereas those artists drag you down into a dark place and infiltrate your very being, this kid is not content to just do that. He takes you there then smashes you to pieces by maximizing every single recording channel used to utterly destroy everything in sight. The idea of a mild-mannered person sitting in his bedroom on the computer (which is the likely scenario) to make music that sounds like it is a total upheavel in Hell itself is really an odd juxtaposition of images. I mean, at that age, I was upset if cartoons weren't on as scheduled. There is something far more nefarious than that at play. Or maybe not. Apparently this kid sent a demo to bible-of-metal mag Terrorizer in the UK and got a 10 out of 10.	November 2005
"SIT ON MY FACE" by Monty Python MP3	A few years back, this 45-second-long ditty by Monty Python (MP3 download) garnered a $25,000 fine from the FCC, despite the fact that that the worst language in it is the phrase "Sit On My Face."	February 2005
"ROBOT DANCE" by QRIO WMV	The Impress corporation (Japan) brings you choreographed robo-go-go dancers. Sublimely disturbing.	April 2005
"PROLOGO" by Quella Vecchia Locanda MP3	Ah, Italian prog, you either love it or hate it. Many of the Italian bands from the 70s embody all the lamented stereotypes of progressive rock: overblown lyrical concepts, virtuosic soloing, and all-around early-Genesis addiction. Not so with Quella Vecchia Locanda, who manage to keep things quite interesting, with creative arrangements, varied instrumentation (flute, violin), and more than enough "rock" to keep one grounded. Here's their page from progarchives.	October 2005
"DIALOGO" by Quella Vecchia Locanda MP3	Ah, Italian prog, you either love it or hate it. Many of the Italian bands from the 70s embody all the lamented stereotypes of progressive rock: overblown lyrical concepts, virtuosic soloing, and all-around early-Genesis addiction. Not so with Quella Vecchia Locanda, who manage to keep things quite interesting, with creative arrangements, varied instrumentation (flute, violin), and more than enough "rock" to keep one grounded. Here's their page from progarchives.	October 2005
"IYAGAALUIT" by Tumasi Quissa MP3	Tumasi and his brother performed a few songs live on Canadian national television as part of 1981's Canada Day celebration, and they were such a hit that CBC Northern Service Broadcast Recordings decided to issue a whole LP of their material. Here are three songs from Tumasi Quissa, all from the LP entitled Better Times (De Meilleurs Jours). Tumasi Quissa's trademark was singing in the voices of the characters in his songs. In this one he sings both parts of a conversation between an old man and an old woman, to the tune of Hank Williams' Jambalaya.	June 2005
"IRNGUTAPIGA QIAYUAPEOMAT" by Tumasi Quissa MP3	The title of this song translates as "Tears Are For Joy."	June 2005
"NIAQUVINIALUIT" by Tumasi Quissa MP3	Another one of Tumasi Quissa's comic songs. In this one, he sings in the role of a talking skull.	June 2005
"I'VE GOT A POCKETFUL OF DREAMS" by Radio Charlie MP3	Bonafide anti-semitic swing music under the directions of Joseph Goebbels, beamed from Nazi Germany to British, US and Canadian audiences via short and medium wave radio. More info and MP3 on Radio Charlie here.	April 2005
"YOU'VE STARTED SOMETHING" by Radio Charlie MP3	More anti-Churchill swing music from Radio Charlie's nightly broadcasts. More MP3s from Radio Charlie here.	April 2005
"PRO-BROADCAST-RADIO AD" by The Radio Industry MP3	This pro-broadcast-radio ad has been circulating the commercial radio industry. Nothing like yet another commercial to bring people back to a dying industry.	February 2005
"SOVIET PUTSCH" by Radio Moscow MP3	Vasily Strinikov, the Casey Kasem of Radio Moscow, discusses how he first learned of the August 1991 Soviet coup. Followed by Radio Moscow's first announcement of the takeover.	April 2005
"APOLOGY" by Radio Moscow MP3	After the putsch fails, Radio Moscow apologizes for their unprofessional journalistic activity of the previous three days. Not a word about the half-century before that, though.	April 2005
"START 'EM YOUNG" by Radio Pyongyang MP3	The latest batch of Sublime Frequencies' globetrotting audio documentations features not one but two releases from the Axis of Evil (as our President would have you believe). Radio Pyongyang: Commie Funk and Agit Pop From the Hermit Kingdom rawly captures, as they say, "a healthy dose of hagiography for Dear Leader Kim Jong-il", and also bills itself as the "Now Sound of North Korea". As with many SF releases, you're not getting a Nonesuch/Smithsonian Folkways-like exploration into the roots of music and culture framed in a National Geographic-like manner, but rather a snapshot in a dreamlike way of everyday sounds you would hear as someone passing through, the veil of mystery and wonder preserved. This particular volume is basically culled from a cassette recording Christiaan Virant made of intercepted broadcasts, samples of CDs he found along the way, demonstration field sounds, news reports between 1995 and 1998. This particular track brings up some images of kids dressed in revolutionary garb, singing under a 6-story tall Kim Jong-il, the accompanying music state-sanctioned and sterile.	October 2005
"SOCIETY GIRL" by The Rag Dolls MP3	Answer to The Four Season's Rag Doll. Answer to Bobby Vee's Take Good Care of My Baby. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"YOU'RE A MILLION" by The Raincoats MP3		October 2005
"CHUTZ" by Ambrosia Rasputin MP3	From a compilation of contemporary Sound-Poetry and Voice/Text/Phonetic-based Sound-Art called "Windpipe Moods." This sounds like the result of Groundskeeper Willie taking the BAD acid.	November 2004
"CHA CHA HEELS" by Razormaid MP3	Razormaid remixes Eartha Kitt's "Cha Cha Heels".	June 2005
"SPEECH MENTIONING ALIENS" by Ronald Reagan MP3	He mentioned aliens in a speech. He was the President of the United States. Really.	September 2005
"WHITE GLOVES" by Real Fish MP3	If only all muzak were half this intelligent. More MP3's and info about this Japanese band available here.	June 2005
"BATHTIME IN CLERKENWELL" by The Real Tuesday Weld MP3 \| WMV	From the soundtrack to the book I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan. Great soundtrack, as is this cool black and white animated video of the song (wmv video file), by Alex Budovsky, which apparently won the best animated short award at Sundance last year.	October 2005
"WEINER BLUT" by Regina Music Box MP3	The Regina Music Boxes played interchangeable musical discs, not cylinders. Here's a version of Johann Strauss' Vienna Blood. From David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music".	September 2005
"FLEA CIRCUS PITCH" by Bobby Reynolds MP3	A brief pitch for "Professor Huber's Trained Flea Circus," which Reynolds worked for on 42nd Street in New York, when he was 13 years old, in 1944. Recorded in 1979.	October 2005
"BUILDING A TIP AND SIDESHOW BALLY" by Bobby Reynolds MP3	A classic example of "building a tip," meaning not only attracting a crowd, but getting the people with the money at the front of it.	October 2005
"GIBTOWN" by Joe Richman MP3	From the audio scrapbook The Relay Project (www.therelayproject.com), a visit to the place where the carnival sideshow has come to retire.	October 2004
"NO FUN" by Ridiculous Trio MP3	Mike Hagedon on trombone, Rob Plesher on Tuba and Shannon Morrow on drums play the Stooges! More info and mp3s here.	June 2005
"WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO SLAP" by Carson Robison MP3	World War Two-era Japan-bashing by the author of the hit song, Life Gits Teejus, Dont It?	April 2005
"SOMEBODY GET ME A DOCTOR" by Rock Jack MP3	Rock Jack is Ezra Lux, the 3-year old son of Aesop, the drummer of Bay Area heavies Ludicra. Jack worships Andrew WK, has been compared in vocal styling to the Germs' Darby Crash, and sings about such important topics as Darth Vader, cannibalism, and the toilet. Impressive, considering some of the things Fred Durst has sung about, and he's all grown. Two of Jack's songs are up on his My Space page, and here's another MP3 of a cover of Van Halen's "Get Me a Doctor."	June 2005
"AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 SECONDS" by Rolling Scabs MP3	This tribute to the never-realized Rolling Scabs World Tour confuses various Asian cultures with one another in a classic, ignorant-twelve-year-old kind of way. See Mike Lupica's article about The Rolling Scabs here.	February 2005
"MY MOM SMOKES POT" by Rolling Scabs MP3	Consider the lyrical questions raised in the following passages: "My mom smokes pot! All she ever does is sitting on that bed (sic), coughing off her big fat head! Yeaoaaah! Looking at the mirror watching her warts!... Marijuana has a first name, it's W-E-E-D! Marijuana has a second name it's J-O-I-N-T! And we smoke it every day blaehehahea! Marijuana has a way of fucking up the U.S.A. Today!" See Mike Lupica's article about The Rolling Scabs here.	February 2005
"WE ARE THE SCABS" by Rolling Scabs MP3	The theme song of West coast kiddie-kore greats, The Rolling Scabs. See Mike Lupica's article about The Rolling Scabs here.	February 2005
"THE STRIPPER" by Roth Junior High School Stage Band MP3	If this won't inspire you to drop your panties, we dont know what will. But, then, it's performed by high-spirited pre-pubes! From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"I'M A MILLION" by The Runaways MP3		October 2005
"IMAGINE...WALK ON THE WILD SIDE" by Rx MP3	Imagine Dubya singing "Imagine" and "Walk on the Wild Side." On the remix album, The Party Party. More info here.	April 2005
"IMAGINE AND WALK ON THE WILD SIDE" by rx MP3	The commander-in-chief sings Imagine and Walk on the Wild Side, visit this site for even more of the best Dubya remixes these fruited plains have to offer.	June 2005
"HOT ROD HADES" by Charlie Ryan and The Timberline Riders MP3	Answer to Ramblin' Jimmy Dolan's Hot Rod Race. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"HIPPY VERSION OF THE 23RD PSALM" by Pastor John Rydgren MP3	In 1967, Rydgren was the crafty head of the TV, Radio and Film Department of the American Lutheran Church. Years before the words "Jesus" and "Freak" became joined at the rib, the straight-looking Rydgren created a daily radio show called Silhouette in which he became the reassuring, resonant-voiced Hippy for God. Rydgren wrote, announced and programmed Silhouette, taking his musical and cultural cues from The Electric Prunes, Herb Alpert and the cover of Time (Is God Dead?), with a vocal delivery that was straight out of the Tom Donahue / Scott Muni / Ken Nordine school of breathy baritone radio seduction. Silhouette dropped all the counter-cultural codewords of the day into a heady mix of Peace, Love, Sex, Drugs and Jesus. 18 more mp3's and more about Pastor John Rydgren can be found here.	July 2005
"RADIO SPOT" by Pastor John Rydgren MP3	Swingin' inspiration from WPLJ's own psychedelic preacher, circa 1966, when PLJ briefly sported a hip Christian format.	April 2005
"RADIO SPOT 2" by Pastor John Rydgren MP3	"Trust Me, Man." That's good enough for me!	April 2005
"A - DOCUMENT" by Martin Saint-Pierre MP3	From "Solo Cr�ation" (1978), one of several releases by this Argentinian percussionist "adventurer" for the Chant Du Monde label. Solo hand percussion with an almost classical flavor, though somehow oddly psychedelic in mood. Saint Pierre is also a believer in percussion as a means of liberation and expression for handicapped children, as this (very poorly translated) quote illustrates: "My step: to penetrate the world of silence, to allow the child, beyond his handicap, to express themselves individually and collectively, to wake up in him a creative listening."	October 2005
"FUERTE" by Salsa Celtica MP3	Combining rumba with reels, son montuno with ceilidh tunes, this Scottish conflagration has the hots for Latin music. And speaking of hot, check out the scorching bagpipes - doing the violin's charanga part no less - on this track from 2000.	July 2005
"SAVE THE CHILDREN" by Sam and Joe MP3	This track is originally from the excellent "Fear of Smell" compilation (1992, Vermiform Records) which is still available <a href="http://www.sammcpheeters.com/store/store.htm">here</a>. It's a rant that not only covers the general "war is bad, it would be groovy if everyone had enough food" ideologies, but also ventures into the largely unchartered "I demand the right to masturbate whenever I want to" sentiment.	June 2005
"I'M IN WITH THE OUT CROWD" by Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs MP3	Answer to Dobie Gray's The In Crowd. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"WAX MUSEUM PITCH" by Lillie Santangelo MP3	Recorded at Coney Island in 1983 about a year before Lillie Santangelo, then in her 80's, retired and sold Madam Lily's World In Wax.	October 2005
"PROMOTIONAL FILM (.MOV)" by Santa's Village WMV	Here is a promotional film for Santa's Village (mov. file) from Extinct Attractions, a site that preserves Disneyland's and Disney World's past through interactive DVD documentaries. They also archive information, pictures and sounds of theme park rides, attractions and brochures. Browse around a bit, they have a few more video clips.	July 2005
"EGYSZER" by Zalatnay Sarolta MP3	1973 funky breaks from a Hungarian singer (who apparently did a spread for Playboy later on), a much-sought after record for modern day crate-diggers, and on the Pepito record label LP Hadd Mondjam El. This track is great, and actually brings to mind the vibe of some of the scratchier/funkier 80's Yoko material (Sarolta's voice is a bit similar as well, without going into the trademark Ono freakouts as well.)	November 2005
"SATURN ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE" by The Planet Saturn MP3	Saturn Electrostatic Discharges is neither an STD nor the name of one of WFMU's 2-6 a.m. overnight radio programs. It is, from what I have crudely gathered a bunch of radio racket that occurs when lightning is in Saturn's atmosphere. Then there's those hot gases which seem to really stir shit up, allowing scientists from the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn to study just what the hell those 3 rings (conveniently called A, B and C) are doing there. Fascinating as that may be, we just like the creepy noise. Here's a recent recording from our most blingingest neighbor in the solar system.	August 2005
"DA YA THINK I'M SEXY" by Mark Savage MP3	First heard this on Otis Fodder's 365 Days MP3 Project, now immortalized further on the new Schoolhouse Funk Volume 2 CD on DJ Shadow's Cali-Tex label. It's heartbreaking that this cuts short after 1 minute 36 seconds, this might be the greatest thing ever.	September 2005
"A TRIAL IN OUR NATIVE TOWN" by Savage Rose MP3	A track from Julian Cope's "Danskrocksampler" of Danish psych that's been killing us lately. Lester Bangs called singer Annisette "Edith Piaf" at 78, they refused to play for troops in Vietnam, and totally kicked most of the US west-coast psych movement's ass.	October 2004
"BRING IN THE EXPERTS - FROM ALIEN AUTOPSY: FACT OR FICTION?" by John Schnall MP3	Long before the the great convergence of all media into one, John Schnall was remixing movies for the radio on his WFMU program The Midnight Matinee. The show combined dialogue from movies with music in various ways, and turning such cinematic classics as Jerry Lewis' feel-good Nazi flick The Day The Clown Cried into hour-long radio programs. In the process of remixing, songs were sometimes created out of the dialogue and musical snippets. Many of the the full shows are archived in realaudio on this page. All 26 of John's Midnight Matinee songs, along with the title of the episode each song came from, which often suggests the film that provided the original source material, are available here.	December 2005
"NEW HOPE FOR THE APE-EARED" by Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster MP3	Excerpted from Tom & Jon's "New Hope for the Ape-Eared" CD (Stereo-Laffs), an over-the- phone presentation of a decades-in-the-making future hit as presented by Tom's caller, the singer/songwriter of the Gas Station Dogs. It's sorta like "Jack and Diane" with a new character introduced every single line throughout the song.	June 2004
"SWEEP (EDIT)" by Remko Scha MP3	Sabre saws, ropes, metals rods, and electronic guitars - no humans. From David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music".	September 2005
"WIDE ASS WHUMPIN'" by Timothy Edwin Schreiber MP3	From a homemade CD chock-full of low-budget booty songs set to casio keyboard demo music. Pure heaven. Released on Cornish in a Turtleneck (CIAT). Other tracks on the CD have titles like "Girl, Yo' Ass Is So Fine," "Booty Coniption," "Crooked Ass Booty," and "Oh My God! (Iss A Booty In Ma Face)."	April 2005
"DAMN, YOUR BOOTY DON'T STOP" by Timothy Edwin Schreiber MP3	Another gem from "A Collection of 20 Songs About Booties", which was recorded on a 4-track in Mr. Schreibner's basement (or his mom's). Liner notes state the following: "We here at CIAT Incorporated believe that these 20 songs replicate the true feelings and desires of today's youth, and we hope your heart swells with warmth with every listen."	April 2005
"SAVE THE OVERTIME FOR ME" by Glady Knight and the Pips with Arnold Schwarzenegger MP3	All those tales of groping and "rowdy Hollywood parties" couldn't stop Arnold's inexorable march to the governorship. Secret salaries for promoting over-the-counter steroids in muscle magazines haven't brought him down. Even his oft-quoted admiration of Hitler was a non-issue. But Arnold Schwarzenegger's opponents have overlooked the most embarrasing episode in Arnold's pre-political carreer - the exercise record he recorded in 2000, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Body Workout. All 13 tracks available here.	August 2005
"MONSTER MAN" by Screaming Lord Sutch MP3		October 2005
"KING DIAMOND AND ANTON LAVEY, THEY WERE TIGHT BROS FROM WAY BACK (EXCERPT)" by Sean's Friends MP3	The band Tight Bros from Way Back apparently got their name from this legendary tape floating around of two buddies on the phone together, one of which goes on for 10 minutes about his need to beat up a guy who owes him $20, but then gets deeply into his favorite topic, R.O.C.K. After animatedly explaining the degrees of evil of various metal acts (it's decided that Deicide are pure evil, but King Diamond and Anton Lavey were, as we mentioned "tight bros"), he then amazingly sums up the greatest guitar moments ever, and clearly they are ranked meticulously as you will hear by the MP3 excerpt above. Tom Scharpling provided me a dub of the tape, which I edited out the obscenity from to play part of on the air, and lo and behold and email drops in my inbox from a guy named Sean, the one who recorded his pal's rants, happily having heard it blare out of an office co-worker's WFMU stream. Sean assured us that this thing will get released someday, but for now, put your guitar down, shake your head, bow, and walk off the stage in the presence of this greatness.	October 2005
"TWO TRACKS" by Second Hand Rose Band MP3 \| MP3	Second Hand Rose derive part of theirShrcover_1 sound from traditional "Northeastern" music, blending Chinese folk instruments into a standard rock format. Vocalist Liang Long always performs in drag, often in traditional garments. Musically, they bring to mind 70s glam pop, especially Roxy Music. Second Hand Rose have also made a splash in Switzerland for some reason, performing at several cultural festivals there. Here are some Web pages about the band, in German and English.	November 2005
"DAMEXPRESSEN" by Secret Oyster MP3	(1973) Danish progressive psych-jazz rock with a very organic feel. Like a good Yes album (minus Jon Anderson) through a RIO filter.	August 2005
"DEMONSTRATION OF KARGYRAA" by Aldyn Ool Sevek MP3	Kargyraa is one vocal style of khoomei. More info and MP3's here.	September 2005
"EL MONSTRUO" by Los Shains MP3	If, for some reason that certainly may be too personal to discuss, you've longed for a Spanish take on the ultra-primitive Nova's hit "The Crusher", well here's it's your lucky day. If you've never heard "The Crusher", it's simply one of the greatest songs ever featured in the whole Back From The Grave series of ultra-obscuro garage trash from the 60's, and also covered by the Cramps quite faithfully. I am not sure how faithful this version is, or if it even replicates the same lyrics; what's Spanish for "do the crusher you turkeynecks" anyway?	August 2005
"BIG BAD WOLF" by The Shamettes MP3	Answer to Sam The Sham and The Pharoahs' Little Red Riding Hood. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"THIGAHMAHJIGEE - STREET TAPE EXCERPT #1" by Sharkula MP3	Brian Wharton AKA Thigamahjigee AKA Thig AKA Sharkula is Chicago character you can usually find in the Wicker Park neighborhood or on an El platform selling his homemade hip hop tapes and CD-Rs. His odd MC persona has been compared to Kool Kieth and Busta Rhymes. Read more about Sharkula here.	June 2005
"HEEE BEEE BEEE BEEE SIDE" by Shemp Meditation Tape MP3	Back in the late 1980's as the New Age movement peaked, WFMU agonized over the fact that the station had absolutely nothing to offer the Windham Hill crowd, which was fleeing the station's membership rolls in droves. The solution was to place Dave the Spazz under house arrest until an appropriate audio solution could be assembled. The result was the Shemp Meditation Tape, which Dave described this way: Recommended for new age nitwits and chucklefucks alike....scientifically mixed in Shemp-A-Rama for your enlightened casaba-banging pleasure.... Soar the Horwitz heavens and become one with Shemp's karma on the Heee Beee Beee Beee side... transhempify your mind and cook your chakras on the life-infirming Ahh Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha side.	October 2005
"AH HA HA HA HA HA HA SIDE" by Shemp Meditation Tape MP3	Back in the late 1980's as the New Age movement peaked, WFMU agonized over the fact that the station had absolutely nothing to offer the Windham Hill crowd, which was fleeing the station's membership rolls in droves. The solution was to place Dave the Spazz under house arrest until an appropriate audio solution could be assembled. The result was the Shemp Meditation Tape, which Dave described this way: Recommended for new age nitwits and chucklefucks alike....scientifically mixed in Shemp-A-Rama for your enlightened casaba-banging pleasure.... Soar the Horwitz heavens and become one with Shemp's karma on the Heee Beee Beee Beee side... transhempify your mind and cook your chakras on the life-infirming Ahh Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha side.	October 2005
"AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI" by She Be She Strike MP3	Eskimo radio. The story and the tapes began circulating around the cassette underground in the early-eighties: an Inuit Radio station operated in Northern Canada by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) was vacated by its regular staff due to a CBC strike, and the station was temporarily programmed by its Eskimo janitor and his buddies. After some mixed Inuit-English shout-outs to "Barney, and uh, Rosey, And hello to you Bruce and Matt (more Inuit) I'm happy to you. OK, I'm singing to you Ayatollah Khomeini." This track dates the strike to 1979-1980, when Khomeini was all over the news because of the Iranian hostage crisis.	April 2005
"YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE" by She Be She Strike MP3	The definitive Inuit version of the state song of Louisiana, performed on harmonica, jews harp and vocal, sans guitar.	April 2005
"LABATT'S BEER AD" by She Be She Strike MP3	Eskimo radio beer commercial. At least, that's what it sounds like. Maybe the regular engineers took the commercials home with them, or the temporary staff set up a temporary sales office to hawk some ad time.	April 2005
"HEART OF STONE" by She Be She Strike MP3	Performed live on Inuit radio and soon to be released as a bonus track on the Canadian reissue of Hot Rocks.	April 2005
"MARIJUANA HUMOR" by She Be She Strike MP3	Testiment to the ubiquity of Cheech and Chong and marijuana jokes in general throughout the Seventies, or public service announcement? You decide. If you listen closely, you may hear the term "Lebanese Ragweed" and "Marijuana." One things for sure - there's at least one copy of Frank Zappa's Dynamo Hum north of the 60th parallel.	April 2005
"MICHAEL JACKSON VS. THE COOKIE MONSTER" by Ted Shred MP3	The Cookie Monster mixes it up with MJ on this hot track. More Cookie Monster related MP3's can be read about and downloaded here.	June 2005
"BEGIN ANEW FOR TWO" by Sing Along with JFK MP3	From George Atkins and Hank Levine's Sing Along With JFK LP. In 1961, Atkins and Levine took snippets of JFK's early presidential speeches, added an accordian player and a chorus, and set Camelot to music. JFK's pal Frank Sinatra was good enough to put out a small pressing of the LP on his Reprise label.	October 2005
"LET US BEGIN THE BEGUINE" by Sing Along with JFK MP3	From George Atkins and Hank Levine's Sing Along With JFK LP. In 1961, Atkins and Levine took snippets of JFK's early presidential speeches, added an accordian player and a chorus, and set Camelot to music. JFK's pal Frank Sinatra was good enough to put out a small pressing of the LP on his Reprise label.	October 2005
"ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS BOSSANOVA" by Sing Along with JFK MP3	From George Atkins and Hank Levine's Sing Along With JFK LP. In 1961, Atkins and Levine took snippets of JFK's early presidential speeches, added an accordian player and a chorus, and set Camelot to music. JFK's pal Frank Sinatra was good enough to put out a small pressing of the LP on his Reprise label.	October 2005
"ASK NOT WALTZ" by Sing Along with JFK MP3	From George Atkins and Hank Levine's Sing Along With JFK LP. In 1961, Atkins and Levine took snippets of JFK's early presidential speeches, added an accordian player and a chorus, and set Camelot to music. JFK's pal Frank Sinatra was good enough to put out a small pressing of the LP on his Reprise label.	October 2005
"THE TRUMPET" by Sing Along with JFK MP3	From George Atkins and Hank Levine's Sing Along With JFK LP. In 1961, Atkins and Levine took snippets of JFK's early presidential speeches, added an accordian player and a chorus, and set Camelot to music. JFK's pal Frank Sinatra was good enough to put out a small pressing of the LP on his Reprise label.	October 2005
"LET THE WORD GO FORTH" by Sing Along with JFK MP3	From George Atkins and Hank Levine's Sing Along With JFK LP. In 1961, Atkins and Levine took snippets of JFK's early presidential speeches, added an accordian player and a chorus, and set Camelot to music. JFK's pal Frank Sinatra was good enough to put out a small pressing of the LP on his Reprise label.	October 2005
"LET GOD'S MOON ALONE" by Sister Dora Alexander MP3	Listener Art Thompson's New Orleans-based Listener Hour program that aired recently yields this gem. Ah, for the time when the Russians were the Boogie Men of the world.	December 2005
"GOD WANTS TO HEAL YOU" by Apostle Arturo Skinner MP3	The editor says: I've gotten more emails about Apostle Arturo Skinner than any other artist I've ever played. And they're all from church folks for whom this guy is a legend. This never- before-posted MP3 is a fiery sermon delivered live at the Newark Deliverance Evangelistic Center in 1968.	June 2004
"LIVE" by Slint MP3	Slint is the band that all the kids love, but weren't old enough to see. Since WFMU has a long and glorious tradition of doin' it for the kids, and since the band has reunited for some NYC gigs, we present for your consideration a live track from a 1989 performance in Chicago.	March 2005
"A - PART ONE" by Sally Smmit and Her Musicians MP3	This is The Mekons' Sally Timms like you've never heard her, long before she became the belle of skewed new wave-country music fans everywhere. Released on the ridiculously short-lived Groovy label (Pete Shelley's label, which also released his now ultra-rare Sky Yen album), the album is two sidelong pieces of shambling post-Yoko Ono, post-Can jamitude. Undoubtedly an influence on Kraut-pranksters Damenbart.	September 2005
"IF YOU KNOW TIME" by The Soft Boys MP3	Unreleased song finds Robyn Hitchcock speaking directly to our own Commander in Chief; this is from a performance on Brian's show on WFMU in 2002 and on the recently released WFMU fundraiser live anthology "Tunes On Toxic Terrain: WFMU Live From New Jersey". Robyn Hitchcock, Kimberley Rew, Matthew Seligman, Morris Windsor, engineered by Irene Trudel.	July 2004
"TAINTED LOVE (MOLDY TAPE VERSION)" by Soft Cell MP3	For several years now, an Australian scientist named Cameron Jones (and a lot of other people) are applying fungus and molds to the playing surface of CD, specifically to play with the mold's audio properties. And you'd be surprised what it sounds like. Rather than muffling the audio, it adds echo, audio holes and glitching, all effects that people pay good money to achieve electronically. Jones and his fellow molecular remixers also use microscopically thin layers of plastics to effect audio, not to mention movies, photography and artwork.	July 2005
"DO THEY OWE US A LIVING" by SOFT PINK TRUTH MP3	Vicki Bennett's Crass (see review).	December 2004
"MAGIC MOUNTAIN JINGLE" by Sparks MP3	Guessing this is somewhere on LA radio in 1983, hyping a gig at Disneyland's Magic Mountain!	February 2005
"SPAZ" by Spaz MP3	Donna Summer/Jason Forrest solicited unsigned breakcore freaks to send him stuff for his last WFMU Marathom premium, and one MP3 from someone merely named "Spaz" made jaws drop. No info whatsoever, this is possibly the most retarded thing ever conceived by a laptop musician. We want more.	August 2005
"HEINASIRKAT" by The Sperm MP3	The Sperm were formed in 1967 by Pekka Airaksinen (who also features independently on the NWW List), J.O. Mallander and other giants of the Helsinki art/music scene, making them sort of an underground "supergroup." They organized happenings, and made outrageous music using electric guitar, tape manipulation and other noises, spiritual grandaddys to the likes of Throbbing Gristle, Merzbow, Matthew Bower and The Dead C.	September 2005
"THE DAWN OF CORRECTION" by The Spokesmen MP3	Answer to Barry McGuires's Eve Of Destruction. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"PRIVACY ANTHEM" by American Standard MP3	American Standard's pro-bathroom privacy anthem.	February 2005
"HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF" by Buddy Starcher MP3	The original conspiracy theory 45 rpm single, which reached number 39 on the pop charts in April of 1966. Buddy's basic format of patriotic background music with a self-righteous recitation laid the blueprint for dozens of white hyperpatriotic rappers for years to come.	April 2005
"ESCAPE FROM WITCH CANYON" by Starlite Desperation MP3	Live hot rock action on Mike Lupica's show, July 2004. These guys are the secret weapon, an amalgamation of primo-era Voidoids/Scientists power and hallucinogenic waves of psychedelic fuzz and out-of-nowhere sounds that burrow deep into your noggin.	February 2005
"SEVEN MINUTES IN DEADWOOD" by Station Manager Ken MP3	The TV show Deadwood has taken the art of cussin' to new heights. Fans of the show are even known as fucknuts. But despite what you may have heard, Deadwood is not all blowjobs, cocksuckers and titlickers. Specifically, in a sample 60 minute episode, 53 minutes of it were 100% curse-free! Station Manager Ken painstakingly edited out all the clean phrases and passages from one episode of Deadwood, distilling the show down to its brilliant essence. We now present to you "Seven Minutes In Deadwood" (not safe for shit - wall to wall cursing and ethnic slurs). (For fans of the show, this is episode ten of season one, the episode known as Mister Wu.)	June 2005
"SIMPSONS RE-MIX" by Steinski MP3	Steinski remixes the Simpsons for your listening pleasure.	February 2005
"THE JEWISH COWBOY" by Harold Stern MP3	From Mac's Big Seven Inch Compilation. Tons more MP3's and info about this compilation are available here.	October 2005
"WORK WORK WORK" by The Stiffs MP3	Later called the Stiffs Incorporated, here was a NYC band of true originals that split up long before (I think anyway) the world at large got a proper whiff. Boldly attired in post-Victorian garb (of which members may still be spotted tramping around the East Village in), singer Whitey Sterling leered at audiences through his antique wireframes on stage while the band clearly meant business with a savage guitar/bass/drum punk attack. Early singles (especially the 7" version of "Chelsea") pinned level meters with grotty and raw recording technique, though after they signed to Rick Rubin's American imprint label Onion a decidely cabaret and slightly electronic element surfaced tying in several different decades pre-and-post war influences in a fascinating way (adding a live keyboardist as well). Despite big-label pressures and demands with their 1995 album Nix Nought Nothing, the band stayed true to their musical (and cosmetic) visions, releasing a second album, Electric Chair Theater Presents on their own Gladglum label in 1997 that continued their penchant for punk sophistication and a liberal dose of humor (Philly suburbanites take note that one member's name was Bryn Mars) and of course, respect for a finer age in society. "Richard" pretty much laid a blueprint in some ways for the well-dressed 80's revivalists to follow (who clearly owe some serious debt to the Stiffs, though the Stiffs are clearly higher subtsance to match the style). After their final show in 1998 guitarist Paul Boering began work in the duo Coke (who allegedly then changed their name to "White Powder (Of Which We Do Not Partake) Which Brings To Mind the Cold Beauty of the Snow As Well As the Glamour and Sophistication of the 1920's, But Also Happens To Be the Name of a Brown Sugary Beverage"), while Whitey Sterling recently expanded his goth/electronic/industrial interests with the Umbrella Brigade. Boering also just put up a healthy chunk of Stiffs/Stiffs Inc. rarities, demos, early tracks, and unreleased music on this site. They are well worth checking out, especially if you dig the raw, early singles like I do.	November 2005
"KURZWELLEN, PART 4 EXCERPT" by Stockhausen MP3	tockhausen's recordings can have an opaque quality that demands real listening, whereafter the rewards can be great. The bus ride seemed almost the ideal setting to get into bed with "Kurzwellen," so I ripped my precious vinyl copy (Deutsche Grammophon 1969) to mp3. The double LP collects two performances of Kurzwellen, one from Radio Bremen (May 1968), the other from the WDR (April 1969), wherein "the players react, while they are actually performing, to completely unforeseeable events which they receive on short-wave radios." Stockhausen dictated when, how and how often the players would react to these "events." The resulting sound is not dissimilar from then contemporary ensembles AMM or MEV, though the execution is cleaner and more mannered. One of the coolest things about the Kurzwellen album is the packaging, placed firmly in rock aesthetics: the back cover is a wonderful modern art diorama by Mary Bauermeister; the front cover shows the composer and his accompanist friends, surly and unaffected, sitting on some public stairs behind a chained entrance sign. The shot reminds me of Gered Mankowitz's early Rolling Stones photos. Buy the official CD direct from the composer here.	October 2005
"GLOOMY SUNDAY" by Stonehenge MP3	Glorious proof---must we repeat ourselves?---that drugs, blues-based rock derivatives, and trust funds don't mix. From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"STOOGES RADIO SPOT" by The Stooges MP3	Mike Lupica says: "This is a radio spot for a Stooges concert circa 1970, I imagine. I have no idea where it originally came from, but I found it hiding in the nether regions of WFMU's very own MP3 library."	June 2004
"RAIDING THE 20TH CENTURY" by Strictly Kev MP3	Great hour-long celebration of sampling, mashups and general sonic tomfoolery available for 36 hours or so. It's called Raiding the 20th Century - Words and Music Expansion featuring Paul Morley, and it's by Strictly Kev, although DJ Food also figures in here somewhere also. download this sucker while it's available, if you got yourself one of them new-fangled broadband connections. It's over 70mb tall, so be patient.	February 2005
"THE MORE YOU SMILE" by Studio LaRoux In House Announcer MP3	The highlight of this collection for me, an actual in-store motivational recording from a Manhattan boutique, circa the late Eighties. This was intended for the store's own staff to motivate them before the store opened. Unopened vials of Eau Du Success are now fetching thousands of dollars on eBay.	April 2005
"MISTER NARROW SLACKS" by David Suisman MP3	We bid farewell to our own David Suisman, as he leaves us for another dirty American city. His name is David, he wears THE pants, and this is his collage.	August 2004
"NOT IN MY LEAGUE" by Sun City Girls MP3	A little snatch of Uncle Jim in full monologue flight, taken from the Carnival Folklore Radio 11/12 2CD set, just repressed, and originally created as a radio special for Brian Turner on WFMU back in 2002.	January 2005
"READ ABOUT SEYMOUR (LIVE)" by Swell Maps MP3	A rare glance at the chaotic live show of one of England's greatest art-punk exports. Recorded in Italy in 1980, here the band is found in a somewhat similar boat as their contemporaries like Wire and the Homosexuals: diving headfirst into a balls-out live assault as opposed to the subtle studio tricks and weirdness that went into their assorted recorded efforts. For what seems to be the fourth or fifth time, the Swell Maps' albums has seen yet another full reissue job, this time from the Secretly Canadian label, doing up A Trip To Marineville and Jane From Occupied Europe.	November 2005
"SUMMER WONDERLAND" by Barbara Taggart MP3	No vocalist credited, unless Barb's been taking hormones. From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"THE THEME OF TERRY" by Takeshi Terauchi and Bunnys MP3	One of the many Japanese guitarists inspired by The Ventures 1962 Japanese tour. Takeshi had a whammy bar, and boy, did he know how to use it. The '62 Ventures tour inspired an entire musical movement in Japan, the Eleki scene. (Eleki is short for Eleki Boom, or Electric Boom.) MP3s for an entire album of Takeshi Terauchi with his first band, Bunnys are available here.	June 2005
"CRUSH" by Tall Dwarfs MP3	Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate helped herald in their country's punk scene in groups like Toy Love and the Enemy, but with the 80's advent of the Flying Nun label and it's near-flawless roster (which informed a large chunk of the American and international underground; your Pavements, GBV's Yo La Tengos and Sonic Youths have bowed quite dramatically towards the Southern Hemisphere) the duo coalesced an amazing vision into a simple TEAC 4-track recorder and created a musical output unlike any other. Somewhere between T Rex, Pierre Schaeffer, Brian Wilson, Beefheart, and the kitchen sink came inventive, experimental pop with often dark undercurrents; they made their own videos, sleeves and commanded a musical universe unlike anyone else. Live, they remained a duo, utilizing live tape loops, drum machines, omnichord and guitar, buoyed by Knox's often-hilarious stage presence (his solo shows through the years have caused many an audience member to hide in the back for fear of molestation, though he kept his hands off everyone performing at a 1997 WFMU benefit). In honor of their return to New York (for the first time together since 1992), the above MP3 is "Crush" performed in the WFMU studios on David Newgarden's show, and found on the station's <a href="http://store.wfmustore.org/livemusiccds.html">They Came, They Played, They Blocked the Driveway</a> compilation from 1993.	August 2005
"STACK OF RECORDS" by Tom Tall MP3		November 2005
"MISS THE COWSILLS" by Jeffrey Tambor MP3	A line uttered by the brilliant actor Jeffrey Tambor as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show.	February 2005
"OBENG UNGU & ALAN BUNTU" by Rabu: Sakit Tangani, Sabtu: Sakit Pantat MP3	Electronica trickster Matt Wand, best known for his work as part of Stock, Hausen and Walkman, is purportedly behind this ersatz ethnic music. It was released as part of an extraordinary hoax recording titled "1951: Sumatran Ladies Wearing Hats as Outlawed by Government." (One website I found reveals that Obeng Ungu translates as "purple screwdriver.") Whatever its origins, this track is a prime example of that peculiar postmodern genre: smartass white boys making faux field recordings of faraway places.	July 2005
"HOW SOON IS NOW (STRETCHED REMIX)" by t.A.T.u MP3	A stretched out version of tAtu's cover of The Smiths "How Soon is Now".	April 2005
"TEATTERI MODERNI KANUUNA" by Le Fetin Sananvaihto MP3	Track from the amazing new Finnish CD "Oopeerse Le Feti Le Grande Anaale" (www.fonal.com). TMK is a freelance theatre company established in 2000 with writing and music by Mika R�tt� of the Finnish bands Circle and Kuusumun Profeetta. The story of the play revolves around a man (building contractor Le Feti) who, driven by his ambition, builds an engine of destruction: a giant ass in the middle of a forest) but cannot deal with the consequences. The village gets turned upside down, Feti loses his marbles, and gets punished by being cast inside a giant penis. The music is dramatic, stirring, and strange with a large ensemble involved.	July 2004
"I'M HUNGRY" by Teddy and Darrel MP3	From the LP, These are The Hits, You Silly Savage. The original album came out in 1966, and featured Teddy and Darrel lisping and swishing their way through the hits of the day.	November 2005
"WILD THING" by Teddy and Darrel MP3	From the LP, These are The Hits, You Silly Savage. The original album came out in 1966, and featured Teddy and Darrel lisping and swishing their way through the hits of the day.	November 2005
"GARY GHOUL BOY" by Teddy and Darrel MP3	From the LP, These are The Hits, You Silly Savage. The original album came out in 1966, and featured Teddy and Darrel lisping and swishing their way through the hits of the day.	November 2005
"LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD" by Teddy and Darrel MP3	From the LP, These are The Hits, You Silly Savage. The original album came out in 1966, and featured Teddy and Darrel lisping and swishing their way through the hits of the day.	November 2005
"THE HOLLYWOOD AGENT" by Teddy and Darrel MP3	From the LP, These are The Hits, You Silly Savage. The original album came out in 1966, and featured Teddy and Darrel lisping and swishing their way through the hits of the day.	November 2005
"THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING" by Teddy and Darrel MP3	From the LP, These are The Hits, You Silly Savage. The original album came out in 1966, and featured Teddy and Darrel lisping and swishing their way through the hits of the day.	November 2005
"STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT" by Teddy and Darrel MP3	From the LP, These are The Hits, You Silly Savage. The original album came out in 1966, and featured Teddy and Darrel lisping and swishing their way through the hits of the day.	November 2005
"SAY THERE" by Teddy and Darrel MP3	From the LP, These are The Hits, You Silly Savage. The original album came out in 1966, and featured Teddy and Darrel lisping and swishing their way through the hits of the day.	November 2005
"HANKY PANKY" by Teddy and Darrel MP3	From the LP, These are The Hits, You Silly Savage. The original album came out in 1966, and featured Teddy and Darrel lisping and swishing their way through the hits of the day.	November 2005
"HOLLYWOOD SWINGS" by Teddy and Darrel MP3	From the LP, These are The Hits, You Silly Savage. The original album came out in 1966, and featured Teddy and Darrel lisping and swishing their way through the hits of the day.	November 2005
"THEY TOOK YOU AWAY, I'M GLAD, I'M GLAD" by Teddy and Darrel MP3	From the LP, These are The Hits, You Silly Savage. The original album came out in 1966, and featured Teddy and Darrel lisping and swishing their way through the hits of the day.	November 2005
"HOLD ON, I'M COMING" by Teddy and Darrel MP3	From the LP, These are The Hits, You Silly Savage. The original album came out in 1966, and featured Teddy and Darrel lisping and swishing their way through the hits of the day.	November 2005
"I HOPE HE'S EVERYTHING YOU WANTED ME TO BE" by Television Personalities MP3	The story of Dan Treacy of the TVP's has been a sad one over the last few years; one of punk & post-punk's most beloved bards recently was released from incarceration in an offshore prison ship in the UK after numerous years of drug problems, and thankfully has landed back in the studio with a forthcoming record on Domino. Dan himself emailed WFMU this MP3 preview of things to come, and it's classic TVP beautiful angst.	March 2005
"DON'T TRY TO CURE YOURSELF" by They Must Be Russians MP3	Pause to reflect on the sexual-hygenically minded brilliance of early 80s po-punk-new-wavers They Must be Russians and their cautionary epic.	April 2005
"TEN COMMANDMENTS" by The Fugs MP3		June 2005
"I'LL BRING IT ON HOME TO YOU" by Carla Thomas MP3	Answer to Sam Cooke's Bring It On Home To Me. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"BOOGIE DANCING" by Gordon Thomas MP3	Finally a disco song with meaningful lyrics and a good beat. From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"MONKEY CHOW MEIN" by Wooden Thomas MP3	Lyrics that were never musically realized, penned for us by friend and genius painter/performer TJK Haywood aka Wooden Thomas. His work also adorns the cover of the second Uncle Wiggly LP, Across The Room and Into Your Lap. Here's a link to Wooden Thomas' web site, and a free mp3 from his milestone album, Age of Aquarium.	September 2005
"ALIEN WINDS DESCENT" by Titan Landing Audio MP3		February 2005
"ALIEN RADAR DESCENT" by Titan Landing Audio MP3	Listener Allan at the European Space Agency offered up these two Mp3s of recordings from the January landing on an explorer on Saturn's moon. One file features the microphone recording the rushing wind sounds during descent, the other translates the radar's interpretation of the moon's surface approaching into an escalating wave of electronic sound.	February 2005
"IGOR'S PARTY" by Tony's Monstrosities MP3		October 2005
"FAT GAL" by Merle Travis MP3	Click here to see the Comic created for WFMU's Comics Page based on this song.	November 2005
"AT THE PARTY" by Treacherous Three MP3	A Blackcrack Classic.	February 2005
"MURDOCH" by Trees MP3	70s Brit-folk.	August 2005
"REACTION" by Triggervision MP3	Vicious noise punk a la Action Swingers or �ss, but sloppier and on cheaper drugs.	November 2005
"MAGIC FLOWER" by Triode MP3	From the album On N'a Pas Fini D'avoir Tout Vu (France 1971) - Excellent proto-progressive instrumental album with guitars, drums and flute. Originally released on the legendary Futura label. Wonderful themes and great playing, recorded with a very live feel. CD available.	October 2005
"MOULOS GRIMPOS" by Triode MP3	From the album On N'a Pas Fini D'avoir Tout Vu (France 1971) - Excellent proto-progressive instrumental album with guitars, drums and flute. Originally released on the legendary Futura label. Wonderful themes and great playing, recorded with a very live feel. CD available.	October 2005
"DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT DAMES" by Ernest Tubb MP3	Answer to Cindy Walker's Don't Talk to Me About Men. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"BLUE DANUBE" by T.U.F. MP3	From a longtime fave at WFMU, a compilation of mutant takes on the Blue Danube called "An Der Schonen Blauen Donau." Warped.	April 2005
"QUINCY- PUNK ROCK EPISODE" by TV MP3	With Jack Webb dead and the new version of Dragnet not yet on the air, the task of demonizing punk rock fell to Jack Klugman. Network TV tackles west coast thrash circa 1981.	April 2005
"WORST AUDITION EVER" by Tyler & Perry MP3	Tyler and Perry-in-waiting going over their mutual repertoire. 25 goddamn minutes. Thanks to Listener Greg.	December 2005
"COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN" by Chris T MP3	... and here's the latest installment of Chris T's FCC-unfriendly and unsafe for work podcast.	June 2005
"PHANTOM PHONE HACKER" by Unknown MP3	Throughout the mid and late 80s, the APRC (Alternative Press & Radio Council) initiated a 24 hour concert info hotline (212-OPEC-SID) that would give bridge and tunnelers without easy access to resources like The Village Voice a pre-recorded rundown of all the punky rock shows going on for the week. Someone, whom history remembers only as the Phantom Phone Hacker, would sometimes dial into the system (really just a primitive cassette-based answering machine) and change the outgoing message to feature some pretty unlikely lineups...	July 2004
"FREEDOM" by Unknown MP3	A monologue on the history of the "f"word finds a new replacement for it.	July 2004
"THE EARTHY SIDE" by Unknown MP3	Web guru Henry says: "The album "The Earthy Side" from around 1971 featured spoken word poetry and songs that were pretty rude but funny and now are probably banned by latter day bluenoses. It also did up a lot of old limericks and ditties that one would hear in a barracks room or lying face down on a frat floor in a pool of vomit, possibly not your own. This short excerpt gave a professional production to "Gentlemen Will Please Refrain," based on signs that used to be in passenger trains."	June 2004
"PARADISE BY THE DASHBOARD LIGHT" by Unknown MP3	A Teutonic version of Paradise by the Dashboard Light (mp3 cuts off at the end, sorry!)	April 2005
"THE HAKA" by Unknown MP3	A recording of the 100-year-old Maori chant, now the official chant of the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team.	June 2005
"SUPER MARIO BROTHERS THEME" by Unknown Symphony MP3		June 2005
"SLIM FAST REVOLUTION" by unknown (found on thrift shop cassette) MP3	Apparently recorded as an "aural invite", this re-working of The Beatles Revolution is guaranteed to get John Lennon spinning in his grave.	July 2005
"RAPPER'S DELIGHT (GERMAN)" by Unknown German TV Personalities MP3	Supposedly this is three German TV personalities from back in the day caaashing in the 'gimmick' of rap music (you know, before the 'fad' died like disco). The early 80's were ripe for this stuff.	July 2005
"ROSWELL RADIO BROADCAST" by Unknown MP3	A Broadcast from 1947 from Roswell, New Mexico. These may or may not be the same aliens Ronald Reagan was refering to.	September 2005
"LIVE LONG, BE STRONG (DON'T DO DRUGS)" by unknown MP3	From a cassette dug out of the dusty record collection at Chicago's freeform radio station WZRD. More info and the lovely cover art can be found here on the WFMU Blog.	October 2005
"COUNT YORGA" by unknown MP3		October 2005
"WTC CRASH" by unknown MPEG \| MPEG	Slickly edited movie-trailer style videos of the 9-11 disasters.	June 2005
"LED SNOOPELIN" by unknown MP3	Mashup of Led Zeppelin and Snoop Dog.	June 2005
"CIRCUS SIDESHOW PITCH" by Unknown Barnum and Bailey Pitchman MP3	(1955) Recorded at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Combined Circus Sideshow, one year before the circus stopped travelling in a tent.	October 2005
"SHE BE SHE STRIKE (30 MINUTE VERSION)" by Unknown Eskimo Janitor MP3	This half-hour long version of She Be She Strike contains the Rolling Stones cover and the inexplicable Eskimo Marijuana segment. There's more talking and singing over records, live in-studio music on the jews harp and guitar, a cover of Oh Susannah, an Eskimo skiffle number, Christian sprituals (!), and an incredible audio collage (which starts at the 25:40 mark) mixing Inuit throat singing games with a male Anglo singer. More info and mp3s can be found on Ken's blog post here.	June 2005
"RING TOSS PITCH" by Unknown Ringwoman MP3	Recorded by Steven Zeitlin at the Montgomery County Fair in Maryland in 1980.	October 2005
"MOTORDROME PITCH" by Unknown Talker MP3	(1941) The motordrome was a circular wooden structure, constructed so that motorcyclists could ride on it's vertical walls. Recorded in 1941 by Charles Harrell for the Radio Research Project.	October 2005
"CLASSICAL MUSEE" by Stanley Unwin MP3	On a similar note, this British "professor" was a master of malpropisms and somewhat of a hippie icon (he appears as the spoken voice on the Small Faces' Ogden's Nut Gone Flake LP).	November 2004
"I STOPPED THE DUCK OF EARL" by The Upfronts MP3	Answer to Gene Chandler's Duke of Earl. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"URBAN SAX PART 3" by Urban Sax MP3	Urban Sax refers to the original project concept of creating sound environments in cityscapes via a large group of selectively positioned brass players. Urban Sax is the creation of progressive music icon Gilbert Artman, founder of Lard Free and member of the experimental trio Catalogue with Jac Berrocal. The band's discography up to and including the Spiral album in 1991 is varied and stellar, and perhaps most importantly, not what you might imagine. Their sound is low on skronk, high on drone and performer interplay, such that the expected saxophone sounds are often submerged in harmoniously unrecognizable waves of tone, color and percussion. Their self-titled 1977 album is a masterpiece, comprising four sidelong pieces of organic waft and shimmer.	September 2005
"OUR JOB IN JAPAN EXCERPTS" by U.S. Government Tape MP3	Excerpts from the soundtrack of an Army training film shown to the US forces occupying post-World War II Japan. Winner of the anti-propaganda-as-propaganda award.	April 2005
"DUCK AND COVER" by U.S. Government Training Film MP3	Soundtrack excerpts from more government "training films," this one aimed at the schoolchildren of a terrified Nation. Portions of this film were featured in the documentary film The Atomic Cafe.	April 2005
"MEMPHIS PHONE SEX" by Vanilla Bean MP3	One of the most inspired phone pranks I've ever heard was when WFMU's Frank Balesteri (aka The Vanilla Bean) called a phone sex outlet in Memphis, Tennessee and pretended to be a guy with an Elvis fetish. But Frank's real stroke of genius was turning the tables on the actress/operator and getting her to fantasize about Elvis - his guitar-shaped swimming pool, Elvis getting laid in heaven, the jism on his blue suede shoes. Frank even gets her singing "It's Alright, Mama," or at least all the lyrics she could remember. (NOT Safe for Work!)	June 2005
"THE COMING WAR WITH RUSSIA" by Jack Van Impe MP3	The good Reverand broadcast his creative Bible interpretations out of Detroit, and was syndicated nationally throughout the Sixties and Seventies. Van Impe samples also abound on records from the same era.	April 2005
"CELTIC PRINCESS" by Van Lange MP3	Oh man, if you need your goth-folk anthem fix, here you go. Anyone see the chorus? Oh, here it is, 800 times.	September 2004
"TOP 40 SWINGIN' SOFT DRINK SPOTS" by Various MP3	Excerpt from a very cool 2 CD set (volume 2 of a series of 2) put out by X-Static Productions (xstaticdirect@excite.com) depicting the USA advertising juggernaut at a pinnacle, flowing in a mind-numbing river of soda pop brainwashing. This obviously will appeal to nostalgia buffs as well.	April 2005
"THE HORROR" by Various MP3	Ken's 2001 Marathon premium. 70 minutes long and a whopping 97 MB. Artists on the mix include: Krzysztof Komeda, Wojciech Kilar, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jaap Blonk, Albanian Men's Choir, John Cale, Dick Jacobs Orchestra, Jerry Goldsmith, Theatre of Tragedy, Barnabas Collins, Endvra, Elend, Coven, Daniel Licht and others. For more info, go here.	October 2005
"I CAN'T STAND IT" by Velvet Underground MP3	Once when Lou Reed was on MTV in the 80's doing one of his patent freakout guitar solos (on a live version of "The Original Rapper" or something at Farm Aid), he got a snotty comment afterwards behind his back from vee-jay Dweezil Zappa, who demanded that someone must atone for the "worst guitar solo ever performed on MTV." No surprise, considering that Poppa Frank did some stinkbomb-lobbying himself when the Velvets hit the west coast in the late '60s on Mothers of Invention bills, but needless to say the glory of those kinds of solos is well encapsulated in this featured MP3, And Dweez will surely be aping that approach himself someday at the Viper Room, mark our words. Anyway, it's from the best Velvets boot by far I think called The Psychopath's Rolling Stones; besides featuring a haunting version of "Chelsea Girl" recorded with Lou on electric guitar and Nico on vox in her Chelsea hotel room, and a version of the "Star Spangled Banner"(!), it features some insanely great Lou guitar rampages at the height of the band's live power. "Run Run Run" goes beserk for ten minutes in a pure orgiastic feedback frenzy, and this live version of the great album outtake "I Can't Stand It" (which was eventually released in studio form on the legit odds-n-sods collection VU in the 80's) has one of the best Reed-invoking-Ornette on electric guitar moments in any of the band's live archives.	October 2005
"LIVE AT CITY GARDENS (EXCERPTS)" by Venom MP3	In 1986, Black Metal legends Venom played what some thought of as an unlikely bill with Rollins-era Black Flag at famed punk dump City Gardens, in scenic Trenton, New Jersey. The club was a magnet for all types of unsavory social elements -- skinheads, criminals, bikers, leather-studded punks, people who liked Meat Beat Manifeto, and so forth. Anyway, the punkers, metalheads, and general thugs who turned out for the show not only got to witness two of the more badass bands of the era sharing a stage, but were also treated to some of the most (unintentionally?) hilarious between-song stage banter ever, courtesy of Venom's knuckle-dragging vocalist Cronos. The story behind this recording is shrouded in mystery, but the local history texts claim that a Black Flag roadie recorded the entire show, cut out the middle sections of all the songs, and the subsequent stage banter and guitar intros/outros were released as an Ecstatic Peace single. The legacy of the recording is impressive, to say the least. It was sampled by the Beastie Boys on one of their records ("Because you're wild, man..... WIIIIILD!") and it's got more quotable one-liners than a Monty Python movie.	August 2005
"ET TERRE" by Verto MP3	Dark, hovering, French progressive psych released in 1976 on the Tapioca label. Tapioca was associated with the obscure P�le label, responsible for the original release of this and several other monumental French prog classics featured on the list, including the Besombes-Rizet double LP. Guitars, keyboards and ominous vocals.	September 2005
"TK 240 S 52" by Verto MP3	Dark, hovering, French progressive psych released in 1976 on the Tapioca label. Tapioca was associated with the obscure P�le label, responsible for the original release of this and several other monumental French prog classics featured on the list, including the Besombes-Rizet double LP. Guitars, keyboards and ominous vocals.	September 2005
"GROSSE NACHT MUSIK" by Patrick Vian MP3	Excellent moog-based rock album released in 1976 on the legendary Egg label. It's a wonder this hasn't been reissued, what with the intense interest in all things analog, to say nothing of the dozens of "sampleable" grooves herein. Similar to early Heldon, or mid-period Tangerine Dream, but really its own thing and a very enjoyable recording. Patrick Vian had previously led the group Red Noise (1970), also featured on the Nurse with Wound list.	September 2005
"TUNNEL 4 RED NOISE" by Patrick Vian MP3	Excellent moog-based rock album released in 1976 on the legendary Egg label. It's a wonder this hasn't been reissued, what with the intense interest in all things analog, to say nothing of the dozens of "sampleable" grooves herein. Similar to early Heldon, or mid-period Tangerine Dream, but really its own thing and a very enjoyable recording. Patrick Vian had previously led the group Red Noise (1970), also featured on the Nurse with Wound list.	September 2005
"WORLD TRADE CENTER CRASH" by video MPEG	Slickly edited movie-trailer style video of the 9-11 disasters on television.	June 2005
"NOISE GENERATOR DEMO" by Video Helper Production Library MP3	This fell into WFMU's hands, seemingly as a commentary that we are going to have to jump into gear production-wise and presentation sound-wise if we don't want to eat Little Steven's dirt. We're currently interviewing potential Sound Designers to mold a perfect audio attack to suit our format. We are also interviewing people who fit our Tookie Bird outfit to meet and greet people at malls with our WFMU Rokk Attakk SUV, and also loading a gun to shoot ourselves in the head.	February 2005
"HIGH SPEED" by Bob Vido MP3	Echoes of the Shaggs, "Dusty Roads" Rowe, Shooby Taylor and Luie Luie propel Vido into the pantheon of incorrectitude. From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"STEIN UM STEIN" by Vierzehn MP3	As if Rapper's Deutsch wasn't enough retarded kraut for ya, here's Another Brick in the Wall in German, aka Stein um Stein. This shit is totally evil, especially when the kid's chorus comes in. A fitting song for the current state of the world.	September 2005
"DREAMING OF A CASTLE IN THE AIR" by Mills Violano-Virtuoso MP3	These machines extended the player piano idea by adding to it a "player violin," which was played by four mechanical "fingers" (which, alas, did not really look like fingers) and "bowed" by four small celluloid wheels. From David Suisman's 2002 Marathon premium "Machines vs. Music".	September 2005
"FACE A" by Bernard Vitet MP3	Trumpeter Vitet played with Alan Silva, and would later form Un Drame Musical Instante (1976) with NWW List notables Jean-Jacques Birg� and Francis Gorg�. La Gu�pe was released on the Futura label in 1972, comprising two sides of avant-garde shenanigans with an assortment of acoustic instruments and voice.	September 2005
"A. DE BRUG GAAT OPEN B. BERLINER NEUSTADLAMENT C. STRADIVARIUS" by Michel Waisvisz MP3	Wow. Performer/composer/inventor Waisvisz built his first Crackle Box in the 70s and is still going strong; type his name into Google and you'll see that he's been busy. This incredible album, released on FMP in 1978, was created almost entirely with Crackle Synthesizer (that's 3 Crackle Boxes) and voice. He also invented something called The Hands. Earlier this year, the Sonig label released a CD of Michel Waisvisz material.	September 2005
"CATTLE AUCTION" by Cecil Ward MP3	Cattle Auctioneer Champion from 1964.	June 2005
"THINK ABOUT THE GOOD TIMES" by Baby Washington MP3	From a killer Stateside collection spanning 1963-69 that showcases Dusty Springfield's all-time fave vocalist. Baby (calling herself this after a stint as "Jeanette" though her real name was Justine) started out in 1956 with the Harlem group the Hearts but came into her own after signing to the Sue label in 1962. Her style varied from punchy soul to more tranquil jazz evocative of Dinah Washington, and her uniquely rich and earthy vocals seem a natural to inspire the likes of Dusty (who covered "Breakfast In Bed" and several other of Baby's tunes.) This track comes from her 1968 Veep LP With You In Mind, which comes its entirety on this CD I've Got a Feeling, which also includes her two Sue LPs.	September 2005
"RECORD BAN BLUES" by Dinah Washington MP3		November 2005
"STAGE BANTER" by Roger Waters MP3	Pink Floyd's legendary bleeding-heart misanthrope has long enjoyed a reputation for despising, even to the point of spitting upon, his fans. Here, a clip that suggests the unthinkable: he may have had good reason!	August 2004
"DEEP BOSOM WOMAN" by Wayne MP3	Poignant valentine from ex-hobo troubadour, now resident at the Incorrectional Facility. From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"GAYRAP PROMO" by WBAI MP3	Odd bit of radio history from the very different times of the 1970's; an actual promo for a talk show dedicated to the art of gay cruising, presented on WBAI.	July 2004
"HOW TO PICK UP GIRLS AT THE MUSEUM" by Eric Weber MP3	From the LP of the book based on the movie based on the magazine ads "How To Pick Up Girls."	April 2005
"REJECTED PIZZA HUT JINGLE" by Ween MP3	I've never been a big Ween fan, but I have to say that Pizza Hut would have gotten my respect if they had accepted this, the band's proposal to promote the company's then-recent "cheese hidden inside the crust" pizza.	November 2005
"HAULING CABLE" by WFMU AVI	March 29th, 2005. A day to ascend to the heavens - despite the fact that The Rapture wasn't scheduled for another six years, two months and three days. The last snow of the year was still on the ground and a light drizzle was falling as WFMU set out to replace it's 91.1 FM antenna. By the end of the day, the sun broke out and WFMU signed back on the air, pumping out a better signal than ever. The technology that made it happen spanned millenia, from ancient and medieval devices like axles, wheels, ropes and winches, to the old fashioned twentieth century art of tower climbing by eccentric tower guys, to the high tech back-seat-of-your-car computer analysis of the whole operation. Not to mention the laser guided hole cutter which carved out the precision entry system for the transmission cable. In this clip, Johnny pulls some rope to send the new cable to the top of the tower.	April 2005
"TOWER OF POWER" by WFMU AVI	WFMU Antennae switcheroo: Dave and Al hang out up top as the storm breaks up.	April 2005
"CUTTING CABLE" by WFMU AVI	WFMU Antennae switcheroo: Johnny uses precision guidance systems to cut the transmission cable.	April 2005
"TUNING TRANSMITTER" by WFMU AVI	WFMU Antennae switcheroo: WFMU Chief Engineer John Fog tunes up the new antenna.	April 2005
"CLIMAXATION" by Elton and Betty White MP3	Don't really know the story behind "Elton and Betty White" (an unmarked CDR came from a listener), and whether or not these are actually recordings of the famous Betty White. It sure sounds like her, and knowing the potty-mouthed possibilities she demonstrated in Lake Placid, who the heck knows. Here's a smattering of MP3s alternating between her vocals and Elton's.	August 2005
"GOD'S BASKETBALLS" by Elton and Betty White MP3	Don't really know the story behind "Elton and Betty White" (an unmarked CDR came from a listener), and whether or not these are actually recordings of the famous Betty White. It sure sounds like her, and knowing the potty-mouthed possibilities she demonstrated in Lake Placid, who the heck knows. Here's a smattering of MP3s alternating between her vocals and Elton's.	August 2005
"I'M IN LOVE WITH YOUR BEHIND" by Elton and Betty White MP3	Don't really know the story behind "Elton and Betty White" (an unmarked CDR came from a listener), and whether or not these are actually recordings of the famous Betty White. It sure sounds like her, and knowing the potty-mouthed possibilities she demonstrated in Lake Placid, who the heck knows. Here's a smattering of MP3s alternating between her vocals and Elton's.	August 2005
"MENOPAUSE" by Elton and Betty White MP3	Don't really know the story behind "Elton and Betty White" (an unmarked CDR came from a listener), and whether or not these are actually recordings of the famous Betty White. It sure sounds like her, and knowing the potty-mouthed possibilities she demonstrated in Lake Placid, who the heck knows. Here's a smattering of MP3s alternating between her vocals and Elton's.	August 2005
"WOMAN YOUR SMELL, IT MAKES ME WELL" by Elton and Betty White MP3	Don't really know the story behind "Elton and Betty White" (an unmarked CDR came from a listener), and whether or not these are actually recordings of the famous Betty White. It sure sounds like her, and knowing the potty-mouthed possibilities she demonstrated in Lake Placid, who the heck knows. Here's a smattering of MP3s alternating between her vocals and Elton's.	August 2005
"GWB - MY MESSAGE" by Scott Williams MP3	Scott Williams, who created this piece, says: "It's Dubya's entire press conference of 4/14/04, stripped away of all non-essential bits. It's the true heart of his press conference. Hope you like!"	June 2004
"FOR THAT I'LL NEED A GLUSENSHPIEGELBASTER" by Pearl Williams MP3	27 more snippets of racontuer and chanteuse Pearl Williams available here.	August 2005
"THE BEACH BOYS HELP ME RONDA SESSIONS (FULL VERSION, 40 MINUTES)" by Murry Wilson and the Beach Boys MP3	January 8, 1965: The Beach Boys enter the studio to record what will become their second number one hit, Help Me Rhonda. Well into the session, a drunken Murry Wilson (Brian, Carl and Dennis' Dad) arrives and proceeds to commandeer the session with psychodrama, scat singing and weepy, abusive melodrama. More information and links to Peter Bagge cartoon based on this session are available here on the WFMU Blog.	October 2005
"THE BEACH BOYS HELP ME RONDA SESSIONS (EDITED VERSION, 12 MINUTES)" by Murry Wilson and the Beach Boys MP3	January 8, 1965: The Beach Boys enter the studio to record what will become their second number one hit, Help Me Rhonda. Well into the session, a drunken Murry Wilson (Brian, Carl and Dennis' Dad) arrives and proceeds to commandeer the session with psychodrama, scat singing and weepy, abusive melodrama. More information and links to Peter Bagge cartoon based on this session are available here on the WFMU Blog.	October 2005
"WIRED 1 EDIT" by Wired MP3	Wired was the German third of the Free Improvisation boxed set (Deutsche Grammophon couldn't very well exclude their own countrymen) - a quartet comprising Harry Partch disciple Mike Ranta on percussion, guitarist Karl-Heinz B�ttner on saiteninstrumente (stringed instruments), Mike Lewis on Hammond organ, and the aforementioned Conny Plank on klangregie (sound direction; this indicates the importance of the mixing desk in the session.) The Wired disc (minus the other two from the set) appeared within the last year as a "grey-area" LP, which is available here.	September 2005
"TRACK 2" by Anthony Wong MP3	Anthony Wong / Anodize - Hong Kong cinema star Anthony Wong Chau-Sang has acted in over 130 films since 1985. He made a name for himself playing opposite Yun-Fat Chow in blockbusters like Hard Boiled and Full Contact, and won awards for his portrayal of Wong Chi Hang in the notorious Bunman film. I watch every Anthony Wong film I can get my hands on; he's a wonderful actor of great range and depth, bringing humanity and a dark, personal humor to even the seediest of roles. He's also a musician, having released several CDs of idiosyncratic punk/new wave-inspired rock, sometimes accompanied by the metalpunk band Anodize. His album of covers, Bad Taste-But I Smell Good (2002), is perhaps the most well recognized internationally.	November 2005
"TRACK 5" by Anthony Wong MP3	Anthony Wong / Anodize - Hong Kong cinema star Anthony Wong Chau-Sang has acted in over 130 films since 1985. He made a name for himself playing opposite Yun-Fat Chow in blockbusters like Hard Boiled and Full Contact, and won awards for his portrayal of Wong Chi Hang in the notorious Bunman film. I watch every Anthony Wong film I can get my hands on; he's a wonderful actor of great range and depth, bringing humanity and a dark, personal humor to even the seediest of roles. He's also a musician, having released several CDs of idiosyncratic punk/new wave-inspired rock, sometimes accompanied by the metalpunk band Anodize. His album of covers, Bad Taste-But I Smell Good (2002), is perhaps the most well recognized internationally.	November 2005
"I DON'T WANNA GROW UP" by Anthony Wong MP3	Anthony Wong / Anodize - Hong Kong cinema star Anthony Wong Chau-Sang has acted in over 130 films since 1985. He made a name for himself playing opposite Yun-Fat Chow in blockbusters like Hard Boiled and Full Contact, and won awards for his portrayal of Wong Chi Hang in the notorious Bunman film. I watch every Anthony Wong film I can get my hands on; he's a wonderful actor of great range and depth, bringing humanity and a dark, personal humor to even the seediest of roles. He's also a musician, having released several CDs of idiosyncratic punk/new wave-inspired rock, sometimes accompanied by the metalpunk band Anodize. His album of covers, Bad Taste-But I Smell Good (2002), is perhaps the most well recognized internationally.	November 2005
"ANODIZE" by Anodize/ Anthony Wong MP3	Anthony Wong / Anodize - Hong Kong cinema star Anthony Wong Chau-Sang has acted in over 130 films since 1985. He made a name for himself playing opposite Yun-Fat Chow in blockbusters like Hard Boiled and Full Contact, and won awards for his portrayal of Wong Chi Hang in the notorious Bunman film. I watch every Anthony Wong film I can get my hands on; he's a wonderful actor of great range and depth, bringing humanity and a dark, personal humor to even the seediest of roles. He's also a musician, having released several CDs of idiosyncratic punk/new wave-inspired rock, sometimes accompanied by the metalpunk band Anodize. His album of covers, Bad Taste-But I Smell Good (2002), is perhaps the most well recognized internationally.	November 2005
"COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN" by Woodstock Al MP3	Genius---or rubber-necking spectacle? We retained Al's abrupt ending (incorrectus interruptus). From the Incorrect Music 2001 marathon premium.	November 2005
"GIMME A LITTLE SIGN" by Brenton Wood MP3	Recorded live by Dave the Spazz at Ponderosa Stomp in 2005.	October 2005
"EARLY IN THE EVENING" by Worms MP3	From the album "Pelican Songs" (2002) - Finally, some of what Finland has to offer nowadays. Worms are a heavy guitar band with art-rock leanings, creating long, brutal tracks that leave you wobbly at the end of the horizon. Worthy descendants of This Heat, Pell Mell and bands like Neurosis and The Melvins.	October 2005
"I'LL COME HOME A-DRINKIN'" by Sonny Wright MP3	Answer to Loretta Lynn's Don't Come Home A-Drinkin'. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"DO DO DO" by Wu Ma MP3	From A Chinese Ghost Story.	November 2005
"MILLIONS" by XTC MP3	WFMU's Blog got its millionth hit October 7, 2005.	October 2005
"YAMASUKI" by Jean Kluger & Daniel Vangarde MP3	A track from the reissue of "Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki" (1971). It's a wild amalgam of psychedelic pop, fuzzed out guitars, children's choirs and karate chants, coming together to create a sort of multi-kulty rock opera. Read more about it here.	June 2005
"COMIC BOOK CRAZY" by Little Sammy Yates MP3	Answer to The Olympics' Western Movies. From "Spazzy Answer Songs", Dave the Spazz's 2003 Marathon premium.	August 2005
"ORGASMATRON AND LOVE WILL TEAR US APART" by Yat-Kha MP3 \| MP3	First heralded by Brian Eno after judging a 1990 musical festival in Kazakhstan, Yat-Kha have been enduring purveyors of traditional khoomei (throatsinging) sounds of its native land of Tuva in South Siberia, while being aware of the western worlds of rock and experimental rock (claiming Deep Purple and Sonic Youth as faves). Leader/bassist vocalist Albert Kuvezin has steered his group into much acclaim over the years and to much larger audience, thanks to hooking up with the Chieftains' management. Their new disc Re-Covers finds them taking on songs by Hank Williams, Kraftwerk, the Stones and more. Here are MP3s of their versions of Motorhead's "Orgasmatron" and Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart."	June 2005
"DINNER WITH DRAC" by John Zacherle MP3		October 2005
"COFFEE 2 GO" by Noah Zark MP3	The latest episodes of our two podcast-only shows. Thirteen other FMU shows are also podcast, but these two exist in the podcast realm exclusively. Coffee 2 Go features underground, unreleased hip-hop and is hosted by Noah Zark...	June 2005
"ONE'S YOUNG LIFE LIKE A FLOWER" by ZHOU HUAN MP3	Incredibly beautiful sounds from this collection of great 1940's performances for assorted Shanghai films. Xuan was a beloved, successful Chinese icon, considered one of the country's premiere golden voices over the course of more than 100 films. Some interesting English translations of song titles as well on the disc: "Servant Girl Hongniang Is Ender Interrogation With Torture", "Gather Area Nuts", and "A Flower Inserted In Garment's Button Whole".	May 2005
"THE MODEL" by ZHOU QISHENG MP3	Chinese version of Kraftwerk staple.	May 2005

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