Friday, January 25, 2013

Rat Salad Radio • January 16, 2013

 

(all of Side One) by Captain Beefheart
from the album
Doc At The Radar Station (4 Men With Beards)
Happy Birthday (yesterday) to Beefheart! 1980 album. Hot Head. Ashtray Heart. A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond. Run Paint Run Run. Sue Egypt. Brickbats.

 

Veronica Box Lunch by Branes
from the album
Perfection Condition (Burger)
new but sounds 25 yrs old

 

Les Rats by Teledetente 666
from the album
Les Rats b/w Panne Sexe 7" (Sweet Rot)
lovely warped noisy electropunk, new from Strasbourg, France

 

Clouds by Lamps
from the album
Under The Water Under The Ground (In The Red)
new art-punk from L.A. Nice n sloppy on this track anyway!

 

Gold Lyre by Hot Lunch
from the album
Hot Lunch (Who Can You Trust?)
New from SF. The promo materials namedrop Ace Frehley. Yeah man.

 

Windy Day by Greasy Bear
from the album
(VA) Man Chest Hair (B-Music)
Comp of 1970s "unissued studio demos and rare tracks of hard rock, hairy funk, heavy, prog from the toughest unknown rock groups of Greater Manchester, England MAN CHEST HAIR liberates 17 heroic outbursts of rare and unreleased Northern testosterone." !

 

How Do You Know? by Lyres
from the album
Lyres, Lyres (Munster/Ace of Hearts)
1986. FABULOUS album.

 

You Can Forget About That by Thursday's Children
from the album
Never Ever Land: 83 Texan Nuggets from International Artists Records, 1965-1970 (Charly)

 

The World Turns Around Her by The Byrds
from the album
Turn! Turn! Turn! (Columbia)
1965

 

Spoiled Sun by MMOSS
from the album
Only Children (Trouble In Mind)
new and all 60s trippy. Terrific stuff "from the damp and misty woods of New Hampshire" ! Their 2nd album.

 

She's A Fool, She Ain't Got No Sense by Emmett Murray
from the album
(VA) Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African-American Traditional Music 1977-1980 (Dust-to-Digital)
Couple tunes from a Georgia-born gentleman who moved to Fla. in the 1930s for work, in the vegetable-producing areas around Lake Okeechobee.

 

Mobile Blues by Emmett Murray
from the album
(VA) Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African-American Traditional Music 1977-1980 (Dust-to-Digital)
this song gives the set its name...

 

Wrenched My Ankle by Precious Bryant
from the album
(VA) Expressin' The Blues (Music Maker Recordings)
Here's another Ga. player. Precious Bryant passed away last weekend. R.I.P.

 

Tallahatchie River Blues by Mattie Delaney
from the album
(VA) Oxford American Southern Music CD#13: Mississippi (Oxford American)
1930. Nice one from last year's edition of this comp.

 

Black Soul by Bo Diddley
from the album
The Black Gladiator (Future Days Recordings)
1970, orig. on Checker Records (part of Chess).

 

Together pt. 2 by Elements of Peace
from the album
(VA) Eccentric Soul: Omnibus Vol. 1 (Numero Group)
45 45s for their 45th release! :)

 

Hermit by Anthroprophh
from the album
Anthroprophh (Rocket)
little guitar freakout for ya. New from Paul Allen (of The Heads).

 

Adidas Moon by Lace Curtains
from the album
The Garden of Joy and the Well of Loneliness (Female Fantasy)
new from Austin, sorta like the slower ballady VU songs

 

The River by Chromatics
from the album
Kill For Love (Italians Do It Better)
Love this one from last spring...

 

Kuoleman Tappajan Kuolema by Lau Nau
from the album
Valohiukkanen (Fonal)
New from Finland. I really enjoy Fonal's output. This us LAUra NAUkkarinan of Kiila and other groups. Song title = "The Death of the Killer of the Death"

 

Ndima Ndapedza by Oliver Mtukudzi
from the album
The Oliver Mtukudzi Collection (Putumayo)
Zimbabwean legend of many decades, playing at Duke on Friday night. Tomorrow night (Thurs) he'll be at Casbah for a free "listening session," playing and talking about music that's influenced him (7pm).

 

Your Lips by Olu Dara
from the album
(VA) Oxford American Southern Sampler 1998 (Oxford American)
Mississipian now based in NYC, far as I can tell... Orig. from his album In The World: From Natchez to New York (1998), a mix of blues, jazz, funk and African traditional sounds.

 

Sunny by Magic Trick
from the album
Ruler of the Night (Hardly Art)
nice one from last summer

 

Head On by The Jesus And Mary Chain
from the album
Automatic (Blanco y Negro)
1989

 

Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1) by Yo La Tengo
from the album
Electr-O-Pura (Matador)
1995. Playing @ Cat's Cradle a week from tonight.

 

Cabin IV by Stick Insect
from the album
Circular Scratch (Teenbeat)
new

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