The Entroporium

Yeah, I’ll guess I’ll be trolling Soulseek for the next few days to hunt this down. And you should, too. 1981 Track listing and discussion Thanks to The Tofu Hut for pointing out the location after Pitchfork previewed it last week.

If you’ve been wondering what Tuxedomoon, Depeche Mode, The Cure, PiL, The Dead Kennedys, XTC and The Undertones would sound like as Brazilian music, boy have I got the album for you. And you’re a very strange person to be wondering about that. Two guys get together and decide to do bossa-nova covers of 80s [...]

Robert sent me a copy of Bobby Darin Sings Ray Charles. Since I posted on Brother Ray earlier this week, the kismet screamed out me: “Post It!” So here it is. I knew almost nothing about Bobby Darin until Kevin Spacey’s recent publicity caravan came careening through town to support his movie bio, Beyond The [...]

One of the best things you’ll ever read about any band, but caution! may be totally incomprehensible if you know squat about Sonic. EVOL” href=”http://vinyljourney.blogspot.com/2005/01/evol.html” target=”blank”>Vinyl Mine on Sonic Youth’s EVOL As for me, the first time I listened to this record — it was my roommate’s very favorite album, I thought I’d give it [...]

Hey y’all! Merry Christmas! Let’s be careful out there! [Soundtrack] The Youngsters – Christmas In Jail.mp3

Seriously, though, doesn’t seem a bit like discovering the Rosetta Stone? Rare Velvet Underground acetate turns up in Portland

[Download] Excerpts from The First Family.mp3 Just in time for the election and Halloween, a reason to talk about imitations of politicians. Vaughn Meader is dead. Who? In 1962, 27-year old comic Vaughn Meader was hired by a couple of veteran comedy writers to imitate President Kennedy for a record called “The First Family.” This [...]

[Soundtrack] Tuxedomoon – James Whale.mp3 I’m sure I’ll be posting again before Halloween, but I wanted to give all you Monday-Friday folks a chance to hear the scariest song in my whole collection. This is from San Francisco art-punks Tuxedomoon’s debut album in 1979 and is long out of print in the United States. Turn [...]

[Download] Nick Lowe – Let’s Stay In and Make Love.mp3 More tracks from this excellent record available from Nick Lowe’s site. After posting yesterday’s sad, sad M. Ward track, I started humming it to myself and found myself naturally “medleying” into this warm inviting track from Nick Lowe. It’s got virtually the same chord progression [...]