Rat Salad Radio • May 23, 2012

	Girl Germs by Bratmobile from the album (VA) Kill Rock Stars (Kill Rock Stars) 1991 comp, all that played at that summer's International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, or that are from Olympia ("the birthplace of rock").
	Loch Ness by Some Velvet Sidewalk from the album (VA) Kill Rock Stars (Kill Rock Stars)
	Don't Mix The Colors by Courtney Love from the album (VA) Kill Rock Stars (Kill Rock Stars) This is not HER. It's a band named AFTER her.
	N.O.U. Cooking With Gas! by The Nation of Ulysses from the album (VA) Kill Rock Stars (Kill Rock Stars)
	You Speak Jealosy by Unwound from the album (VA) Kill Rock Stars (Kill Rock Stars)
	Narrow by Mecca Normal from the album (VA) Kill Rock Stars (Kill Rock Stars)
	Beeswax by Nirvana from the album (VA) Kill Rock Stars (Kill Rock Stars)
	Prison Shanks by Heavy Cream from the album Super Treatment (Infinity Cat) New on JEFF The Brotherhood's label; on tour w/ them. Produced by Ty Segall.
	Mellow Out by JEFF The Brotherhood from the album We Are The Champions (Infinity Cat)
	(I Can't) Get Around You by Ty Segall/White Fence from the album Hair (Drag City) new
	Flying by The Beatles from the album Magical Mystery Tour (Apple) '67. Played one offa this a few weeks ago but it was still in my bin, and the last tune sounded pretty Beatles-y, so.....
	We'll Have A Great Funeral (When You Die) by Free Electric State from the album Monumental Life (Custom Made Music) new, local
	Get Get by Boykiller from the album Get Get (self-released) new, local
	Kill For Love by Chromatics from the album Kill For Love (Italians Do It Better) new
	Pigs by Black Dice from the album Mr. Impossible (Ribbon Music) new
	Alegria by Batida from the album Batida (Soundway) Electronic dance music from Angola called Kuduro. Sampling, beats, etc.
	Célu Mankan by Groupe de Jeunes Filles de Bamako from the album (VA) Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM (Dust-To-Digital) Amazing new compilation. This and next 3 tracks from disc 1 of 4, which is mostly north Africa. This one's from Mali, late '40s, featuring a (relatively uncommon) female vocal ensemble plus some massive cylindrical dunun drums
	Aishek Baba by Rshisha, Hlima and Cheikh Abdesalam from the album (VA) Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM (Dust-To-Digital) 1930, Morocco. "Life To You, Father." Features an upright fiddle called a kamanja.
	Mestakhbar Mezmoum by Mahieddine from the album (VA) Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM (Dust-To-Digital) Algeria, 1926. This guy was a famous voice back in the day, involved w/ the Opera of Algiers and performing abroad in Paris etc.
	Haragli Guelbi, Pt. 1 by Dalila Rochdi from the album (VA) Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM (Dust-To-Digital) Tunisia, late 1940s. "He Set My Heart On Fire, Mama!" Featuring a Tunisian bagpipe called the mizwad.
	New Track by Francis Bebey from the album African Electronic Music 1975-1982 (Born Bad) untitled track from 1982
	On The Green Tape by Musette from the album Drape Me In Velvet (Hapana) Musette, aka Joel Danell, started with a huge pile of reel-to-reel and cassette tapes, and over three years mistreated them with wrinkling, scratching, warping, recording new sound over old, and god knows what all -- creating sorta layers of sound that sounds not near as bad as you'd think. In fact, I like!
	Panama City Beach by The Two Man Gentlemen Band from the album Two At A Time (Bean-Tone) new but purposely retro
	Air Conditioned Man by Thursday's Children from the album (VA) Never Ever Land: 83 Texan Nuggets from International Artists Records 1965-1970 (Charly) A new purchase 'round here. Sweet. 1966 on this.
	Cotton Eyed Joe by Karen Dalton from the album 1966 (Delmore Recording Society) 1966 demos. KD at her most relaxed.
	For A Spanish Guitar by Gene Clark from the album White Light (Sundazed) 1971
	Heaven Help The Child by Bill Callahan from the album Heaven Help The Child 7" (Drag City) New arrangement of Mickey Newbury's song. Excellent.
	Riley by Hurray For The Riff Raff from the album Look Out Mama (Born To Win) New from New Orleans. Playing @ The Pinhook in Durham on June 3rd.
	Girasol by Lightships from the album Electric Cables (Domino) Lightships is bassist Gerard Love of Teenage Fanclub. New, relaxed, poppy, nice.
	Hey Baby! by Andre Williams & The Sadies from the album Night And Day (Yep Roc) new
	I Ain't Never by Webb Pierce from the album King Of The Honky-Tonk: From The Original Decca Masters, 1952-1959 (Country Music Foundation) 1959. Written by Webb and Mel Tillis. Strangely R&B, not honky tonk, but real fine!
	Pacifist Manifesto by Birthmark from the album Antibodies (Polyvinyl) moody electro-chamber-pop with pizzicato and strings and chopped-apart-resequenced bits.
	Reap What You Sow by Wendy Rene from the album After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volt Singles + Rarities 1964- 65 (Light in the Attic) WOW!
	Ain't That Peculiar by Bettye Swann from the album Bettye Swann (Honest Jons) c. 1968-70
	Free Bobby Now by The Lumpen from the album Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power, 1967-1974 (Light in the Attic) 1970
	I've Seen Footage by Death Grips from the album The Money Store (Epic) new experimental hip-hop from Sacramento - not your average samples here.
	All My Little Words by The Magnetic Fields from the album 69 Love Songs (Merge) 1999