Grown Up All Wrong - Volume 5

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Kanjincho - Takeshi Terauchi and Bunnys (Seichô Takeuchi-Bushi, 1967)
Me, You, One Means I Love You - Bob Pinado and His Soul Creators (Ghana Soundz: Funk And Fusion From 70's Ghana - Vol. 2, 2004)
Pop, Popcorn Children - Eldridge Holmes (What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves: 1967-1977, 2006)
Day and Night - The Drag Set (Perfumed Garden - Vol. 2, 1983)
Choque Que Queima - Luizinho e seus Dinamites (Selvagens: Brazilian 60's Punk Artyfacts - Vol. 1, 2009)
Pleasent Valley Wednesday - The Len Bright Combo (It's Combo Time, 1986)
Freedom Street - Ken Boothe (Tighten Up - Vol. 3, 1970)
Open Up Baby - George "Wild Child" Butler (Open Up Baby, 1966)
This Gun Don't Care (Who It Shoots) - Wanda Jackson (Country Fuzz Spectacular, 2007)
Whom I'm Gonna Talk To - Pop Music Team (Society is a Shit, 1969)
Follow The Leader - The Saints (Out in the Jungle..., 1982)
So Is The Sun - The World Column (The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter … Ever!, 2001)
Sheldon Church Yard - Larry Jon Wilson (Country Got Soul - Vol. 1, 2004)
Baby, Can I Wear Your Clothes - The Spike Drivers (Spike Drivers: 1965 - 1968, 2002)
Uruma Island - The Hoptones (Ryukyu Rare Groove: Shimauta Pops in 60's-70's, 2006)
Lasting Forever - Gruppo Sportivo (10 Mistakes, 1977)
French Connection - Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters (Lee Perry & Friends: 1968-1979, 2002)
Another Place - Champion Doug Veitch (Peel Session, 04-09-1984)
Only You Know - Dion (Born To Be With You, 1975)
The Old Curiosity Shop - The Direct Hits (Blow Up, 1984)
C'est La Mode - Annie Philippe ('C'est La Mode' 7", 1966)
Break Away - The Next Exit (My Mind Goes High: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets From The WEA Vaults, 2005)
Tantalize - Nick Gilder (You Know Who You Are, 1977)
Let Me Know - Blue (Blue, 1973)

think pink

Grown Up All Wrong - Volume 4

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I Travel - Simple Minds (Empires and Dance, 1980)
Gentleman Take Polaroids - Japan (Gentleman Take Polaroids, 1980)
Touch - Lori & The Chameleons (Zoo Records 7", 1979)
Framework - Berlin Blondes (Berlin Blondes, 1980)
VCL XI - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (Organisation, 1980)
Frightened In France - Kissing the Pink (Naked, 1983)
Shadazz - Suicide (Suicide, 1980)
Pretty Day - Mary Möör (AAAA Records 7", 1982)
Empire State Human - The Human League (Reproduction, 1979)
Trapped - Dalek I Love You (Compass Kum'pas, 1980)
Seconds Too Late - Cabaret Voltaire (Rough Trade 7", 1980)
The Girl With the Patent Leather Face - Soft Cell (Some Bizzare Album, 1981)
Burning Car - John Foxx (Metamatic, 1980)
Swing-Shift - Nash the Slash (Cut-Throat Records 7", 1980)
Fragment - Phew (Phew, 1980)
Keys of Life - Klaus Nomi (Klaus Nomi, 1981)
United - Throbbing Gristle (Industrial Records 7", 1978)
Coitus Interuptus - Fad Gadget (Fireside Favourites, 1980)
Holland Tunnel Drive - impLOG ('Holland Tunnel Drive' 12" EP, 1980)

Future Now

Grown Up All Wrong - Volume 3

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The Flamin’ Groovies – You Tore Me Down (1974)
Poppees – Love Of The Loved (1975)
Snatch – IRT (1977)
DMZ – Busy Man (1977)
Iggy & the Stooges – I Got A Right (1977)
Zeros – Don’t Push Me Around (1977)
Weirdos – Life Of Crime (1977)
Shoes – Okay (1977)
20/20 – Giving It All (1978)
Stiv Bators – The Last Year (1979)
Paul Collins – Walking Out Of Love (1979)
Nikki & the Corvettes – Just What I Need (1980)
The Last – She Don’t Know Why I’m Here (1980)
Crawdaddys - I Can Never Tell (1980)
Lipstick Killers – Hindu Gods Of Love (1980)
Romantics – Running Away (1980)
The Modern Lovers – She Cracked (1981)
Vertebrats – Left In The Dark (1981)
Barracudas – Surfers Are Back (1982)
Plimsouls – A Million Miles Away (1982)
Miracle Workers – Already Gone (1985)
Pandoras – Hot Generation (1985)
Tell-Tale Hearts – Just A Matter Of Time (1986)
Spacemen 3 – Honey (1989)
Green Pajamas – Walking In The Rain (1990)
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Evergreen (1993)

Who Put the Bomp?

Grown Up All Wrong - Volume 2

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Alice Cooper - Lay Down And Die Goodbye (Easy Action, 1969)
Jeff Simmons - I'm In the Music Business (Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, 1969)
Magma - Ki Ïahl Ö Lïahk (1001° Centigrades, 1971)
GTO's - The Captain's Fat Theresa Shoes (Permanent Damage, 1969)
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Pachuco Cadaver (Trout Mask Replica, 1970)
Plastic People Of The Universe - Zácpa (Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned, 1975)
Judy Henske/Jerry Yester - Raider (Farewell Aldebaran, 1969)
Wild Man Fischer - Merry-Go-Round (An Evening With Wild Man Fischer, 1968)
Mothers Of Invention - The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue (Weasels Ripped My Flesh, 1970)
Tim Buckley - I Must Have Been Blind (Blue Afternoon, 1969)
Xhol Caravan - Pop Games (Electrip, 1969)
Tim Dawe - Didn't We Love (Penrod, 1969)
Lord Buckley - Governor Slugwell (A Most Immaculately Hip Aristocrat, 1970)
Frank Zappa - Willie The Pimp (Hot Rats, 1969)

Happy 70th Birthday Frank!

Grown Up All Wrong - Volume 1

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Ann Margret - Thirteen Men (Let Me Entertain You, 1961)
Radio Stars - Dirty Pictures (Somewhere There's A Place For Us, 1978)
The Kinights Bridge - Make Me Some Love (Texas Flashback, Vol. 2, 1968)
Fingerprints - (Now I Want To Be A) Space Girl (Fingerprints EP, 1978)
The Shag - Stop And Listen (Trash Box, 1967)
Ray Dorset - I Need It (Cold Blue Excursion, 1972)
Nobunny - Give It To Me (HoZac Records 7", 2008)
Los Reactors - Laboratory Baby (Cynykyl Records 7", 1981)
Psycotic Pineapple - I Want Her So Bad (Where's The Party?, 1980)
The Headstones - When You're Down (Waterfront Records 7", 1986)
El Opio - Una Bruja En El Cuzco (Back To Perú, 1972)
Bo Diddley - Bo Meets the Monster (Rare & Well Done, 1958)
The Skins - LSD (Too Much Monkey Business, Vol. 4, 1966)
She - Like a Snake (She Wants A Piece of You, 1966)
Elvis Presley - Adam & Evil (Spinout OST, 1966)
The Starlites - I Can't See You (Psychedelic Disaster Whirl, Vol. 1, 1966)
New Salem Witch Hunters - New Curves In School (Hot Sauce & Happenings, 1996)
The Hall Monitors - Girls (Girls EP, 2007)
Zolar X - Jet Star 19 (Timeless, 1982)
Ike & Tina Turner - Contact High (Come Together, 1970)
The Game - It's Shocking What They Call Me (The Perfumed Garden, Vol. 1, 1967)
Link Wray - Hidden Charms (Rumble: Best of Link Wray, 1966)
Yochanan - Rocket Ship Rock (Rocket Ship Rock, 1958)
The Blue Rondos - Baby I Go For You (Joe Meek's Groups, 1964)
Fireworks - She's a Tornado (In the Red 7", 1993)
The Flower Children - Mini-Skirt Blues (High in the Mid Sixties, Vol. 3, 1968)
The Stooges - Ann (The Stooges, 1969)
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - Margaret (Rodeo Tandem Beat Specter, 2001)
The Ponys - I Wanna Fuck You (Another Wound EP, 2005)
The Fuzztones - Thirteen Women (Live in Europe, 1987)

Rip it up and start again

Grown Up All Wrong - Volume 0

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The Clash - (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais
Blondie - Dreaming
The Only Ones - Another Planet, Another Girl
Iggy Pop - Bored
The Boomtown Rats - Someone’s Looking at You
The Patti Smith Group - Dancing Barefoot
Graham Parker & the Rumor - Stupefaction
Cheap Trick - Lookout
Ramones - Don’t Come Close
Talking Heads - Artists Only
The B-52’s - Give Me Back My Man
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - (I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea
The Specials - Little Bitch
Lene Lovich - Angels
XTC - Instant Tunes
Devo - Gates of Steel
The Rolling Stones - Shattered
The Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You
Joe Jackson - Pretty Girls
The Psychedelic Furs - Pulse
The Pretenders - The Wait
Buzzcocks - I Believe

Super Special Secret Origin

Secret Twins (version)

Not my typical earfulla noise, but I thought I'd share anyways.
01 The Mad Professor - Ragga Doll [Macro Dub Infection, vol. 1, 1995]
02 Om - Gebel Barkal [Sub Pop 7", 2008]
03 Stephen O'Malley & Z'ev - 6m 7s from 36s from 6m 53s - 7m 27s (34 track submix) [Magistral, 2007]
04 Venetian Snares - Electric Funeral [Sabbath Dubs, 2007]
05 Melvins - Snow Rem Rem Ibvz (remixed by Merzbow) [Chicken Switch, 2009]
06 DJ BC (Philip Glass vs. Lyrics Born) - Leila Dies, Lyrics Born [Glassbreaks, 2005]
07 The Emperor Machine - Expanding in Reproduction [“Expanding in Reproduction” 12”, 2003]
08 Pram - Last Astronaut [Telemetric Melodies, 1999]
09 Indian Jewelry - Dirty Hands [Invasive Exotics, 2006]
10 Spires That In The Sunset Rise - Red Fall [Curse The Traced Bird, 2008]
11 6majik9 - Sacramental Illness [This Shit Is Fucked Up, 2008]
12 LSD March - Bud of Flesh [Suddenly, Like Flames, 2004]
13 Ignatz - The Dream [Ignatz II, 2007]
14 Sonic Youth - Rats (acoustic) [Sensational Fix 7”, 2009]

Pass No Past (Japanese Post-Punk)

Until recently, Japan’s 80’s underground scene was a big black hole in my quest to unearth every fucked-up noise ever spewed from the Far-East. I'd previously thought they were late entries to the punk scene, but thanks to the wonder of the internets, I’ve discovered that there were in fact plenty smoking ’77 era punk bands (check out the live footage from the psycho sci-fi flick Burst City) as well as angular post-punk on par with New York No-Wave. In fact, members of Friction pop up in that legendary scene's story, doing time in Teenage Jesus and the Contortions before returning home to cook up their own brand of six stringed havoc. I picked this up knowing only the Friction tracks, but was blissfully blown away by the rest of it. Did some digging to find some live Tsunematsu Masatoshi as well as his incredible first single. I also can’t believe that I missed this Gunjogacrayon EP until now. Recommendations on further listening would be most welcome.

1-1 Friction - Crazy Dream
1-2 Friction - Kagayaki
1-3 Friction - Big-S
1-4 Friction - Pistol
1-5 Tsunematsu Masatoshi - Grinning In Your Face
1-6 Tsunematsu Masatoshi - Gears
1-7 Tsunematsu Masatoshi - E.D.P.S.
1-8 Tsunematsu Masatoshi - にがした・はじまり
1-9 Tsunematsu Masatoshi - E.D.P.S. (Industrial Version)
2-1 Phew with Ryuichi Sakamoto - 終曲
2-2 Phew with Ryuichi Sakamoto - うらはら
2-3 Boys Boys- Monkey Monkey
2-4 Boys Boys- Control Tower
2-5 Totsuzen Danball - ホワイト・マン
2-6 Totsuzen Danball - 変なパーマネント
2-7 Totsuzen Danball - 感覚が記号なら
2-8 Totsuzen Danball - 思惟の提案
2-9 Totsuzen Danball - 走れ
2-10 Totsuzen Danball - 理想的な幼稚園
2-11 Totsuzen Danball - 走り幅とび
2-12 Gunjogacrayon - ムキ
2-13 Gunjogacrayon - L

Pass No Past

Need more convincing? Check out some live Friction.

Eno Rarities

Ian Cognito’s recent posting of the sole recorded output of 70’s weirdo supergroup 801 reminded me of just how good Brian Eno once rocked. Here’s another footnote in Eno history, his collaboration with The Winkies. In 1974, between Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) and Another Green World, Eno attempted an actual tour using glam/pub rockers The Winkies as his backing band. This disastrously ended after four gigs with Eno being rushed to the Hospital with a collapsed lung. The recordings from this period include a John Peel session featuring more rocking takes of ‘The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch’ and ‘I’ll Come Running’ (here titled ‘Totaled’) plus ‘Baby’s on Fire’ and a version of ‘Fever’. Additionally, there’s the ‘Seven Deadly Finns’ 7”, a perverse number about some Finnish men traveling to France to fulfill their unique sexual fantasies. The flip, ‘Later On’, is an edit of the two tracks from Eno’s collaboration with Robert Fripp, No Pussyfooting. In keeping with the theme, I’ve also included ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ and ‘King’s Lead Hat’ singles.

Hollins and Starr - Sidewalks Talking (US psych/folk 1970)

*Request for repost*
Here’s a quick one mostly due to the fact that I can’t really find much information on the duo of Chuck Hollins and Dave Starr. Chicago folk label Ovation put out their sole LP in 1970 and it’s an eccentric blend of lite-psych folk with occasional left-field outbursts. A Nick Drake gloominess prevails throughout but some cuts, like the title track, have a real groove that reminds me of downer hip-hop act Basehead’s first CD. Makes sense then that DJ Shadow used a loop from 'Twin City Prayer' for his epic track, 'What Does Your Soul Look Like'.

For your listening pleasure, choose between the side one/side two transfer (recommended for the full experience as the tunes tend to flow into each other) or edited into individual tracks for today's short attention span ipod listening youth.

Best of 2008

Hello! What’s this? It’s the most ear-expanding sounds from 2008.

01 Rhys Chatham & His Guitar Trio All-Stars • Guitar Trio Pt. 1, Minneapolis
from Guitar Trio Is My Life!
02 Keiji Haino and Tatsuya Yoshida • Zhuddiposshk
from Uhrfasudhasdd
03 No-Neck Blues Band • Again
from Clomeim
04 Paavoharju • Tyttö Tanssii
from Laulu Laakson Kukista
05 Hush Arbors • The Light
from Hush Arbors
06 Fanal • Ich Kenne Sie Nicht
from Fanal II
07 Indian Jewelry • Cutthroat
from We Are The Wild Beast
08 Rainbow Arabia • See No Hear No
from The Basta EP
09 Matthew Baldwin • Winter
from Paths of Ignition
10 Sic Alps • Everywhere, There
from U.S. EZ
11 Boris • Next Saturn
from Smile (Japanese version)
12 Plastic Crimewave Sound • Shockwave Rider
from Plastic Crimewave Sound
13 Gunslingers • Gigolo Albinos
from No More Invention
14 Bardo Pond • Slip Away
from Batholith
15 Earth • Miami Morning Coming Down II (Shine)
from The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull
16 Fursaxa • Leaves of Bryony
from Kobold Moon

D'oh! Number seven was supposed to be something offa Free Gold! Oh well, I dug 'em both and at least this one was reissued in 2008.

Harem Scarem - Dogman EP

Killer 1984 blooze-rock from Australia's Harem Scarem.

Robyn Hitchcock - K Records 7"

1995 single finds a post-Egyptians Robyn alone on Calvin's porch with his guitar and occasional harmonica.

Special Pillow - Tomorrow Night b/w Paranormal

1995 single from this Hoboken all-star psych-pop combo. The band's still going and have a website and a recent CD to prove it.

René Halkett & David Jay - Armour b/w Nothing

Truly creepy 1981 collaboration of Bauhaus bassist David J and artist/poet Rene Halkett of the original Weimar Bauhaus school of art and design.

Fruitcake - The Garden of Earthly Delights b/w Stan

Sub-garage mindblower on the b-side.

Crush - Squeaky b/w Taller Than Jesus

1989 single featuring Bob Weston of Volcano Suns, June of 44, Shellac, Mission of Burma fame.

The Sweet Things - Teen Guitars EP

Sure, the Velvets inspired a ton of bands. How many bands can claim they were influenced by The Beachnuts though? Probably just this one.

To Preserve Disorder - Chicago Punk & New Wave 1978 - 1984

"Gentlemen, get the thing straight once and for all - the policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder."
Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley defending police misconduct during the 1968 Democratic Convention riots.

The Cunts - Chemicals In The Mail The Luchs Brothers - Kill Me I'm Rotten The Mentally Ill - Gacy's Place Skafish - Disgracing The Family Name Immune System - Ambivalence and Spark Plugs Special Affects - Innocence The Exit - Out In The Street Meaty Buys - New Freedumb Epicycle - You're Not Gonna Get It Dadaistics - Paranoia Perception Wazmo Nariz - Checking Out The Checkout Girl Bohemia - American Life The Imports - Side One (Visions of Reality) Strike Under - Sunday Night Disorientation DV8 - Guns on the Right Subverts - Can’t Control Myself Effigies - Haunted Town Bonemen of Barumba - Government Money Da - Dark Rooms Big Black - Steelworker URBN DK - Future Primitive Silver Abuse - Cuban Homo Farm Toothpaste - Spy Guy Naked Raygun - Swingo Articles of Faith - What We Want Is Free Negative Element - Police Beat (On Me) Rights of the Accused - Hypocrite Urge Overkill - Lympdiccus Seismic Waves - Lip Synch To The Go-Go's Savage Beliefs - Shake Your Neighbor's Hand

Allen Ginsberg with The Gluons - Birdbrain

Released a year before appearing on The Clash’s "Ghetto Defendant”. Allen Ginsberg’s first shot at punk credibility, recording his poem "Birdbrain" with the Denver band, The Gluons. Terrible punk-by-numbers B-side.

Birdbrain