Cold Highlights

This 1995 release contains Lowry\s own transcriptions.

01. Overture (3:51)

02. Comfort Ye My People (3:11)

03. Every Valley Shall be Exalted (4:09)

04. And the Glory of the Lord (3:12)

05. O Thou that Tellest Good Tidings to Zion (4:37)

06. For Unto Us a Child Is Born (4:25)

07. Pastoral Symphony (3:08)

08. Glory to God (2:06)

09. He Shall Feed His Flock (5:26)

10. Hallelujah (4:12)

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See what you think.  The performance is super-competent, but it seems somehow bloodless to me.  How might you provide emotion through guitar strings?

  

See you Monday.

  

Are We Not Live?

This here is a bootleg that's got a lot of fun presentations of DEVO songs.

01. Opening Theme (1:43)

02. Going Under (3:31)

03. Through Being Cool (3:08)

04. Jerkin' Back 'n' Forth (3:05)

05. Soft Things (3:03)

06. Pity You (2:36)

07. Girl U Want (2:57)

08. Planet Earth (2:34)

09. Whip It (2:44)

10. Race of Doom (3:47)

11. Set Change Countdown (1:21)

12. Super Thing (4:04)

13. Uncontrollable Urge (3:25)

14. Mongoloid (3:37)

15. Jocko Homo (5:05)

16. Smart Patrol + Mr. DNA (7:07)

17. Gut Feeling (3:08)

18. Gates of Steel (3:49)

19. Beautiful World (8:00)

20. Working in a Coalmine (3:21)

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If you\re through being cool, I'll see you on Thursday!

Tasty Scrapings with MA-173

Have fun with this hotch-potch of songs from the 1980s!

01 - Roach Motel - Bound & Gagged - 1980  (3:16)

02 - Livin' in the 80s - Zero Boys - 1980  (2:18)

03 - Looking Sidewise - The Young Professionals - 1981  (3:56)

04 - Cold as the Rain - The Signals - 1984  (3:03)

05 - Napalm Springs - Vivabeat - 1982  (4:30)

06 - Advertising Girl - Phil 'n' the Blanks - 1981  (2:33)

07 - Boyfriends/Girlfriends - The Silencers - 1981  (2:06)

08 - Body Buildings - Transport - 1982  (3:51)

09 - Garden of Sin - Eyes of God - 1985  (4:26)

10 - Dream of Sand - Smog - 1986  (3:08)

11 - Hate the Girl - Marine Girls - 1981  (1:30)

12 - Trendies Everywhere - The Finishing Touch - 1981  (1:55)

13 - Sometimes Memories Return - Primary Colours - 1985  (3:29)

14 - Unable - Suburban Lawns - 1981   (1:24)

15 - The New Age Elite Corps - Home Service - 1980  (2:51)

16 - The Twin - Tru Fax and the Insomniacs - 1982  (2:51)

17 - Disposable Girl - Young Moderns - 1981  (1:41)

18 - Sunshine Anytime - These Are Houseplants - 1987  (4:03)

19 - Don't Reduce My Heart (to Beating Meat) - Bikini Atoll - 1981   (2:49)

20 - There's Something in the Air - Susan Rhee and the Orientals - 1983  (4:33)

21 - Cool World - Karla Devito - 1981  (2:57)

22 - Is There Life After Breakfast? - Los Microwaves - 1981   (3:42)

23 - Run with You Tonight - Defectors - 1984  (3:33)

24 - Born to Be Sold - Transvision Vamp - 1989  (3:44)

25 - I Can't Find You - Prodigy - 1985  (3:18)

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These may have been left on the cutting-room floor of pop-music history.  But they’re definitely NOT the bottom of the barrel!

See you Monday!
  

Why Wait?

Last week I wrapped up my latest fun compilation of songs from all over.

And I figured, why save things up?  Let's have some auditory fun NOW.

01 - Don't Push Me - Flirt - 1978  (3:13)

02 - Record Burnin' Party - Eighth Route Army - 1985  (2:42)

03 - One in Ten Words - The Spoons - 1982  (4:09)

04 - Any Old Time - Artie Shaw (vocal Helen Forrest) - 1939  (3:06)

05 - Condition Red - The Goodees - 1968  (2:52)

06 - Kill Kill Kill (live) - Painters and Dockers - 1985  (4:02)

07 - Three Chord City - The Cold - 1980  (2:12)

08 - The Damned Don't Cry (In Hollywood) - PVC - 1984  (4:07)

09 - Shame - The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black - 1993  (2:37)

10 - Fuchsia Rayon - Westside Lockers - 1980    (2:04)

11 - Raggedy Ann - Finders Keepers - 1966  (2:59)

12 - Patience - Mannequin Pussy - 2019  (2:14)

13 - Dream of the West - Yip Yip Coyote - 1984  (3:05)

14 - Middle Age Hippie Blues - Moe Averick - 1987  (3:21)

15 - Captain Kangaroo - Suburban 9 to 5 - 1967  (1:57)

16 - Shoot for the Heart - Karen Lawrence - 1986  (4:03)

17 - Is She Your Girlfriend Now? - Rosie Future - 1980  (3:04)

18 - Space Invaders - Player (1) - 1979  (3:32)

19 - It's Been a Long, Long Time - Keely Smith - 1959  (2:04)

20 - Abbey Road Medley (edit) - The Beatles - BRG - Mark A - 2024  (16:10)

This Silver Anniversary Anthology (number 25, doncha know) has a super-broad spectrum of songs I love.  Comments on a few tracks:

Track 5:  When “Condition Red” talks about the girl’s parents not liking that scraggly long hair, that’s probably the way my own parents (and Joyce’s) felt about me!

Track 6:  “Kill Kill Kill” is a song from a 1968 Get Smart episode, recorded in 1985 by Painters & Dockers.  Don’t try it at home, or anywhere else!

Track 7:  I been to Three Chord City, but I can’t live there forever!

Track 11:  A real-life “Raggedy Ann” was the one for me, too!  Though she was much spiffier than me, kind of opposite from the gal in this song.

Track 13:  “The Dream of the West” tickles me as only a wannabe Western song can!  (Yip Yip Coyote’s from the UK.)

Track 15:  Why can’t we all be like Captain Kangaroo? Always kind, never too hurried!

Track 17:  Man, I love the insouciance of Rosie Future’s singing!

Track 19:  Even if the swaggering orchestra is a little too too, Keely Smith’s strong, sultry voice can make me wait as long as she wants!

Track 20:  I edited the last track from several resources, including from the Beatles Remixers Group.  I always wondered what the medley would sound like with “Her Majesty” in its intended place, between "Mean Mr. Mustard" and "Polythene Pam."  I mean, When Mean Mr Mustard shouts at the Queen, he must be yelling “Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl,” right?

THIS LINK GOOD FOR THREE DAYS.

PERMANENT LINK.

Hope you find a little ear candy!  Let me know if the medley is crunchy enough.

See you Thursday, fellow pop fans!