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    • December 11, 2009 6:03 AM CST
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    • Robin Banks (Clash mate/roadie/hellraiser/minder). Can't bring the band he was in to mind right now...

    • December 10, 2009 12:00 PM CST
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    • It's legit as legit as ebay in the sense that some of the sellers are good and some are bad. I find that most of the pricing is on the high end.

      I used it as a seller before setting up the evil empire records website but found that it didn't get much traffic... I think I had one order over the course of a year. It did allow me to put a search box for my gemm catalog on my myspace page, which I thought was a nice piece even it was rarely used.

      Discogs.com is a site that just started recently and it has some nice features. Its geared towards record collectors as much as the sellers, which is kind of nice. I haven't placed any orders or tried to sell anything through discogs yet, though.

    • December 10, 2009 9:39 AM CST
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    • I've stumbled upon GEMM many times in my Google searches for hard to find records. What's the story? Is it good, legit, etc.? Does anyone recommend any alternatives?

    • December 10, 2009 2:13 AM CST
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    • Sounds cool...I'm hedging my bets that this is better than Last.fm which in reality, really sucks, especailly after five listens. Your play list is really cool. I'll definetly check it out some more.

    • December 9, 2009 1:58 PM CST
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    • Those lucky Yanks!

    • December 9, 2009 10:45 AM CST
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    • "Available only to listeners in the US"

      Shiiiieeeeet.

    • December 9, 2009 9:16 AM CST
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    • This site has been around for a couple of years but I just finally got around to joining. It's actually pretty cool... it's kinda like a web-based iTunes with music sharing and social features like blip.fm. If you're on there, let's hook up. ;) This is me.

    • December 9, 2009 12:25 PM CST
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    • Horror-Primary Colours

      Don't really listen to all that much new stuff to be honest,loved the easyness that the new billy childish compx2 lp gave mt though

    • December 8, 2009 9:24 PM CST
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    • Shannon and the Clams 'I Wanna Go Home'

    • December 7, 2009 8:32 PM CST
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    • and girls club is album of the fucking year.
      Fake Surfer - Intelligence
      200 Million Thousand - black Lips
      Invisible girl rocks
      Help - Thee oh sees

    • December 5, 2009 12:11 AM CST
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    • Hex Dispensers "Winchester Mystery House" (love it)

    • December 8, 2009 7:30 AM CST
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    • Cool!

    • December 8, 2009 1:52 AM CST
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    • Got a promo copy today. Haven't heard the whole thing yet but so far pretty good.

    • December 7, 2009 6:16 AM CST
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    • Merry Christmas Weirdos Mr A the Barber here bringing you vol. sixteen of YOU GOT GOOD TASTE and it's a special yule tide present just for you! 'The story of the man who didn't believe in SANTA' Inspired by 'Christmas Dragnet' by Stan Freberg I've put together a seasonal tale of a man who was an unbeliever, yes an unbeliever in the man we all know as SANTA CLAUS. This shows a Christmas story for all the family packed with the best rockin' n rollin' xmas tunes this side of Lapland, mixed up with a genorous slice of seasonal humour from Mr A the Barber and you've got a Christmas present you won't forget! Have a rockin' an rollin' Christmas and don't forget to listen out for more shows next year, now F**k Off and listen to the show. Pour yourself a large one, put another log on the fire and settle down cos the story's about to start.......................

      Don't believe in Christmas - The Sonics The night before Christmas song - Cactus Jim and the Wranglers To heck with ole Santa Claus - Loretta Lynn You're a mean one , Mr Grinch - The Brian Setzer Orchestra What is Santa Claus - Stan Kenton I hate Christmas - Cast of Sesame Street Dancin' with Santa - The Trashmen Christmas twist - Charlie Starr Give me a kiss for Christmas - Johnny Houston Marshmallow world - Darlene Love Rockin' on a riendeer - Henry Lee I want the South to win the war for Christmas - Spike Jones Country Christmas - Loretta Lynn Run Rudolph run - The Outlaws Rudolph the red nosed riendeer - Billy May (We wanna see) Santa do the Mambo - Bill Darnel and the Smith Brothers Mambo Santa mambo - Enchanters Nuttin' for Christmas - Stan Freberg Santa Claus boogie - Paul Bain Rockin' Santa Claus - Moods Zat you santa Claus? - Louis Armstrong Boogie woogie Santa Claus - Patty Page Hooray for Santa Claus - TV soundtrack http://mrathebarber.blogspot.com/ http://yougotgoodtaste.podOmatic.com/ http://www.myspace.com/yougotgoodtaste

    • December 7, 2009 2:45 AM CST
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    • Really sad news!! The Fiends and The Worst were two really great and fave garage-bands!

    • December 6, 2009 12:47 PM CST
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    • cant believe it :-(

    • December 6, 2009 9:09 AM CST
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    • The Fiends and The Worst were 2 of my fave Vancouver garage punk bands....RIP Greg!!!

    • December 6, 2009 8:40 AM CST
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    • ..........
      really bad news.
      I was a big fan...

    • December 5, 2009 1:49 AM CST
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    • It wasn't the aneurism that took him? Either way, that really sucks.

    • December 5, 2009 12:23 AM CST
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    • Greg Johnson, vocalist for The Fiends (Vancouver BC band, active from the mid-90's onwards) has died this evening, due to complications from an infected heart valve.

    • December 6, 2009 9:55 AM CST
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    • omg, new g n' r? say it ain't so.

      i vote for sea shanties in general and Ewan MacColl and AL Lloyd's Blow Boys Blow (1960) record in particular. Even Zappa and Beefheart loved that record. My dad turned me on to it 10 years before punkrock changed everything. now it's back in fairly heavy rotation here. I think it's on what or waffles too.

    • December 4, 2009 9:43 PM CST
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    • My daughter gave me this one. I think Beat-Man should cover this one Buddha's on the main line Tell him what you want. Call him up and tell him what you want

    • December 5, 2009 12:26 PM CST
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    • * Johnny Cash Sings The Ballads Of The American Indian: Bitter Tears. I had this on LP when I was a kid and I've been meaning to buy a CD for years. But I was inspired to download the album after reading this article in Salon about Cash, Ira Hayes, Peter LaFarge, Bitter Tears, a clueless music industry (thank God that's all been cleared up by 2009) and Tricky Dick.

      It's a sad album. It's one of the angriest albums released on a major label in the '60s -- especially the early '60s. It's all about broken promises, broken lives, damned rivers and damned peoples and Goddamn you, Great White Father, anyway.
      And yet, there's a sweet ray in humor -- albeit black humor in one song: Cash's "tribute" to General George Armstrong Whazisname. "I can tell you, Buster, I ain't a fan of Custer/And the general he don't ride well any more."
      And hey, isn't the melody of "Drums" a lot like that of "Running Bear"? * The Whole Fam Damnily by The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band. This trio from Indiana is a damn family -- The Rev plays slide guitar, the Mrs. plays washboard and the brother plays drums.
      And hey, they got Jon Langford to do the album cover!
      It's a hopped-up homage to raw country blues, a pig sloppin;, snake-stompin' romp. You might hear a little Scott H. Biram in here, maybe some Legendary Shack Shakers, definitely some Southern Culture on the Skids influence.
      But the lyrics, at least in several songs, are modern. True, the message of "Wal-mart Killed the Country Store" has been spouted by many a coffee house whiner. But "Your Cousin's on Cops" -- reportedly based on true Peyton family history -- is one of a kind.
      And here's some good news, especially for those of us who missed them when they first played Santa Fe several months ago: Rev. Peyton and the family is playing the Santa Fe Brewing Company on Sunday, Jan. 31. I missed him last time he was here so I'm hoping to make it this time.
      * Fall Be Kind by Animal Collective. Sometimes I have these weird time-travel fantasies about going back to the late 50s or early '60s and playing some of my favorite music for the folks. In some, my better angels prevail. I want to play stuff like, say, Rev. Peyton to assure people that good American roots music will survive in the 21st Century.
      But sometimes my darker angels have the upper hand and I want to fuck with them. I'd play them Animal Collective and tell them that the aliens had invaded the Earth. And that they'd won.
      Of course, the befuddled earthlings of the past probably would think I was talking about aliens who worshiped Brian Wilson. Just a few months after releasing their album Merriweather Post Pavilion comes this 5-song EP. There's nothing as sweet and euphoric as "My Girls" from MPP. But just when you're floating along the cosmic plane on the opening song "Graze" and think you might you have it figured out ... ZAP! Of of the sudden you're in the middle of a weird Teutonic, cartoonic flute solo. For some reason it brings back strange memories of this coin-operated puppet show they used to have in arcades. The aliens have lost, and, at least for a few moments, the puppets have won. * My Shit Is Perfect by Bob Log III Here's one of the most fun one-man bands out there. This is just good down-home stomping blues with Log’s trademark distorted vocals (he performs in a motorcycle helmet making him look like some demented Power Ranger) and some scattered electronic embellishments. I reviewed this album in a recent Terrell's Tune-up. If you missed my words of wisdom, check it HERE * Invisible Girl by The King Khan & BBQ Show. What distinguishes this dynamic duo from all the other punk/blues bashing two-man outfits out there is its anchor in raw doo-wop. Your basic punk-rock roar is colored by some Ruben & The Jets/Sha Na Na/rama-lama-ding-dong silliness, but the music is based on some seriously pretty melodies and occasional sweet harmonies. My favorites are the ones where Mark "BBQ" Sultan’s high voice soars, such as “I’ll Be Loving You” and “Tryin’.” Sometimes he sounds like a more ragged Sam Cooke. I also reviewed this album in that recent Terrell's Tune-up. You can see the whole shebang HERE. Plus
      * 6 tracks I didn't already have from Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful by The Waitresses. Recently discovering Tin Huey, which included Chris Butler, the songwriter and guitarist who conceived of The Waitresses re-sparked my interest in this long defunct Ohio band.
      I was fortunate enough to get to see The Waitresses in Pasadena in May 1982. (I was out in California promoting Picnic Time for Potatoheads with my pals Alec and Rich, who owned the Potatohead van. Besides seeing The Waitresses, the most we got accomplished in the L.A. area was getting kicked out of the Capitol Records Building and getting propositioned by hookers at a Malibu sushi joint.)
      I'd never heard of The Waitresses until a few days before, but KROQ was playing "No Guilt" continuously -- and "I Know What Boys Like" slightly less frequently. And unlike most songs played continuously on the radio, I didn't start hating it. In fact I still like it more every time I hear it. And I still grin every time Patty Donahue says "Sucker!" near the end of "I Know What Boys Like."
      (We dropped a copy of Potatoheads by KROQ, but I don't think they ever played it.)
      About the songs off this, The Waitress' 1982 debut, are on the CD The Best of The Waitresses, which I've had for years. Nice to see the full album available.
      * Nine tracks from The Kids Are All Square - This Is Hip|Girlsville by Thee Headcoats and Thee Headcoatees. Billy Childish can get more use from basic Kingsmen/Kinks/Bo Diddley riffs than George Washington Carver could for the peanut. Thee Headcoats, his band from the late '80s until the early part of this century perhaps was his best.
      The songs here include, not one, not two, not three, but four songs dealing with the American frontier -- an irreverent yang to the righteous ying of Johnny Cash's "Bitter Tears," though Cash's "Custer" would fit in with these songs.
      There's Thee Headcoatees' "Davy Crockett," (which I didn't download because I already had it from another compilation) set to the tune of "Farmer John." In "Cowboys Are Square" Wild Billy takes the side of the Indians. "Pocahontas Was Her Name" is far cooler than any song used in the Disney movie. Then, heading up to frozen north, "Nanook of the North" is yet another fantasy about falling in love with a Native girl. ("I killed a pack of wolves with my frost-bitten hands/Just to prove to her I was a mighty mighty man.") It would be a good companion with Hank Thompson's "Squaws Along the Yukon."
      But not all the songs are hysterically historical. One of my favorites is "Ballad of the Fogbound Pinhead." It's just a simple put-down song. "He never ever knew right from wrong/Never knew the words to a Headcoats song."
      This basically is a two-album combo. I didn't have enough credits this period to get Girlsville, the second album, which is by Thee Headcoatees (Thee Headcoats' ladies auxiliary). I'll pick that up next week when my account recharges.

    • December 5, 2009 12:20 AM CST
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    • I hung with Bob on several occasions, back when he was photographing The Makers. He'd been to my place a few times too. Quite the character, and a great photographer.
      R.I.P.

    • December 3, 2009 7:35 PM CST
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    • I like mono, except for certain songs that really play with the 2 Speakers alot ... i.e. there's little fun to listen "the gift" by the Velvet Underground (from the record "White Light/White Heat") in mono, because actually on one speaker there is basically just the voice narrating a story, while on the other one there's the beautiful bass-line blubbering along ... well it works in mono, but loses a certain "feel". Same thing happens with some early Jimmy Hendrix Experience recordings (third stone from the moon, all that stuff) ... but hey: Lo-Fi kicks ass (as long as the MP3s are above 192 kbps, because if they're less you can't listen to it ALOUD). like here's an example on how NOT to compress music into unhearability: this youtube-thing is recorded just way below the level of cozyness