Bad People Get Your Attention

 

Yes, it's another listen to man's inhumanity to man.

01 - Stranglers - The Pin-Ups - 1981  (2:31)

02 - Jack the Ripper - The One Way Streets - 1967  (2:19)

03 - Meat House - Rik L Rik - 1979  (2:44)

04 - The Lakeview Man - The Rainmakers - 1987  (2:59)

05 - Price of Meat - Corpse Grinders - 1982  (2:02)

06 - Kidnapper - Blondie - 1978  (2:35)

07 - Don't Take the Candy - Wolf & Wolf - 1983  (3:52)

08 - Dance with the Führer (Adolf's Last Dance) - Skunks - 1982  (2:38)

09 - Black Widow - Junior Achievement - 1984  (2:18)

10 - Dead Girls - Romford Stompers - 1981  (2:40)

11 - Violent Days - Screaming Sneakers - 1982  (2:08)

12 - Gary Gilmore's Eyes - The Adverts - 1977  (2:20)

13 - Human Meat - Poppi UK - 1989  (4:25)

14 - Mad Jack - The Undead - 2002  (2:00)

15 - The Body Bank - The Little Legends - 1987  (2:46)

16 - Evil Man - The Wasps - 1977  (3:54)

17 - Murder - The Panik - 1977  (3:03)

18 - Berkowitz Hop - Capital Punishment - 1978  (3:23)

19 - Guyana Punch - The Judy's - 1981  (2:43)

20 - Living Target - PVC - 1984  (2:57)

21 - NY Ripper - Violators - 1980  (1:55)

22 - Norman Bates - Landscape - 1981  (5:09)

23 - How to Serve Man - Creature Feature - 2007  (3:26)

24 - Where Are the Bodies - The Outsiders - 1981  (4:42)

25 - Strychnine - The Sonics - 1965  (2:12)

26 - Do the Ripper - The Incredible Staggers - 2006  (2:24)

Don't ask me why naughtiness is so fascinatin' to artistic types, but there it is.

https://www.filefactory.com/file/4owo5jptycqs/MA-191.rar

See you on Monday with some more evidence of Beatlology!
  

Don't THAT Beat-All!

 

Well, I couldn't beat 'em alone.

This hyar is one of several compilations of songs ABOUT the Flub Floor.  So of course I had to make up my OWN versions of a certain album cover.  Can YOU name all the culprits on the cover?  Of course, they have nothing to do with the artists inside.

01 - Eine Kleine Beatlemusic - The Barock and Roll Ensemble - 1965  (6:45)

02 - My Ringo - The Rainbows - 1964  (2:06)

03 - We Love You Beatles - The Carefrees - 1964  (2:24)

04 - I Want a Beatle for Christmas - The Fans - 1964  (1:52)

05 - A Long Day's Fight - Vic Mendolia and Frankie Lehmann - 1964  (2:26)

06 - I Had a Dream I Was a Beatle - Donna Lynn - 1964  (2:19)

07 - Beatlemania (Parts 1 and 2) - Professor Bug - 1965  (5:01)

08 - No Beatles Reunion - The Forgotten Rebels - 1980  (2:40)

09 - Ode to Four - Jessica Bell - 1977  (3:44)

10 - Ringo's Doctor - Rex Miller - 1964  (2:21)

11 - The Guy with the Long Liverpool Hair - The Outsiders - 1965  (2:17)

12 - A Beatle I Want to Be - Sonny Curtis - 1964   (2:33)

13 - Go Go Go with Ringo - The Whippets - 1964  (2:02)

14 - Stamp Out the Beatles - The Hi-Riders - 1964  (1:49)

15 - I Ain't No Beatle - Moon Mullican - 1966  (2:35)

16 - (I Want) A Beatle for Christmas - Patty Surbey & the Canadian VIPs - 1964  (2:16)

17 - You Can't Go Far Without a Guitar (Unless You're Ringo Starr) - Neil Sheppard - 1964  (2:16)

18 - Look How It Snowed on Yesterday - Nostalgy - 1977  (3:08)

19 - The Beatle Flying Saucer - Ed Solomon - 1964  (2:04)

20 - Ringo - The Starlettes - 1964  (2:17)

21 - Bring Me a Beatle for Christmas - Cindy Rella - 1964  (2:11)

22 - I Wanna Hold Your Hair - The Bagels - 1964   (2:51)

23 - Ringo, I Love You - Bonni Jo Mason (Cher) - 1964  (1:46)

24 - The Boy with the Beatle Hair - The Swans - 1964  (2:28)

25 - Beatle Wig Party - Exterminators - 1964  (2:09)

26 - Since I've Been Wearin' My Hair Like a Beatle - Bobby Wilding - 1964  (1:51)

27 - Beatle Rap - The Qworymen - 1982  (3:55)

https://www.filefactory.com/file/4xydw3eluky4/MA-200_-%20ALOPFB.rar

Did YOU ever write a pseudo-Beatles song?  See you Thursday.

  

The Flow, She Go!

Don't worry, I strained out the chunks!

01 - Sticky Lips - Mood of Defiance - 1982  (2:33)

02 - Long Distance from Singapore - Jenson Interceptor - 1983  (3:15)

03 - Cobra - X-Ray Pop - 1984  (1:55)

04 - The Birdman of Alcohol - The Scarecrows - 1984  (3:15)

05 - Ejected Rejected - Elektraflesh - 1980  (4:37)

06 - There Ain't No Satisfaction - Marilyn - 1980  (2:17)

07 - What's on Your Mind - YOU - 1983  (2:47)

08 - Reason - Three Lines - 1985  (4:09)

09 - I Left My Heart But I Don't Know Where - Jeri Rossi - 1983  (3:23)

10 - Split - LiLiPUT - 1980  (2:00)

11 - Living (in the World Today) - Noise Annoys - 1981  (1:30)

12 - Strange Feeling - D-Day - 1983  (3:14)

13 - Flesh and Steel - SPK - 1984  (5:22)

14 - The Price of a Secret - The Big Store - 1983  (2:56)

15 - Your Phone's off the Hook, But You're Not - X - 1983  (2:24)

16 - Humans Beware - The Limp - 1981  (2:03)

17 - The Confessions - Xiro - 1980  (2:55)

18 - Won't Play Bumpum Cars - Hugo Smooth - 1980  (4:23)

19 - It Hurts Me to Remember - Product One - 1981  (3:10)

20 - Clear Vision - L-Seven - 1982  (2:46)

21 - Nothing - Vice Squad - 1981  (1:56)

22 - Science Fiction - Divinyls - 1982  (3:49)

23 - Landslide of Love - Transvision Vamp - 1989  (3:49)

24 - Lose Some Weight - Foreign Objects - 1985  (2:03)

25 - Video Girl - Q - 1981  (2:55)

26 - You Pulled the Plug - As Anova - 1989  (3:12)

https://www.filefactory.com/file/3xz3mieco4hm/MA-178.rar

... And what's left is pretty tasty! See you on Monday.

 

Way, Way Out There!

That's this comp about music and space and aliens and man's space programs.

01 - Into the Void - Black Sabbath - 1971  (6:01)

02 - Alien Landing - Catch 22 - 1979  (2:08)

03 - Skylab (Son of Telstar) - XL Capris - 1979  (2:41)

04 - (Now I Wanna Be A) Space Girl - Fingerprints - 1978  (2:46)

05 - Take Me to Your Leader - The Lancers - 1959  (1:58)

06 - UFO Part Two - Eddie Fiction - 1979  (3:52)

07 - UFO Part One - Eddie Fiction - 1979  (4:07)

08 - Flying Saucers - Moronics - 1979  (5:04)

09 - Space Age Laser - The Spiffs - 1980  (1:47)

10 - Theme from Star Trek - Cy Payne and His Orchestra - 1972  

11 - I Wanna Be a Cosmonaut - Riff Raff - 1978  (1:27)

12 - Flying Attack - Surprise - 1979  (3:45)

13 - Taking the City by Storm - The Haskels - 1980  (2:11)

14 - Science Friction - XTC - 1977  (3:13)

15 - UFO - Caution - 1981  (5:30)

16 - Zippy, Hippy, Dippy - Coye Wilcox - 1959  (1:56)

17 - My House Is a Satellite - The Shapes - 1980  (3:43)

18 - Spaceman - Bushbaby - 1988  (4:58)

19 - Baby Brother - Bill Carter - 1959  (2:17)

20 - Do the Orbit - The Skoings - 1977  (3:25)

21 - Theme from Star Trek - Andy Ross and His Orchestra - 1972  (2:43)

22 - Skylab Is Falling - The Astronuts - 1979  (2:31)

23 - A Night at the Space Opera - That Hideous Strength - 1977  (2:21)

24 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind - SST - 1978  (2:59)

25 - Jet Star 19 - Zolar X - 1982  (2:42)

Some of you folks might wonder about Tracks 6 and 7.  Why does "UFO Part Two" come before "UFO Part One"?  That's because "Part Two" is the A side, according to the record label.

In our musical survey from the Fifties to the Eighties, one thing remains:  the human capacity to throw some creativity at an old topic to generate some new moolah!

https://www.filefactory.com/file/37w8ikda34ok/MA-169.rar

No fears, friends, this comp is FREE of charge to you!  Come back Thursday for more!

  

Salute to Walpurgisnacht

Welcome to this year's MUSICAL MONTH OF MAY!

To celebrate April 30, Walpurgisnacht, our first comp for this month is a conglomeration of the creepy and venerable Dies Irae theme.

The Screaming Skull (Ernest Gold) - 1958 

01 - Main Title   (1:06)

Demolition Man (Elliot Goldenthal) - 1993  

02 - Dies Irae  (1:53)

Salem's Lot (Harry Sukman) - 1979  

03 - Ximico, Guatemala  (0:25)

04 - We Must Keep Going and Main Titles  (2:10)

05 - The Marsden House and Straker  (1:01)

06 - Ben at the Window  (0:20)

07 - Glick Funeral Begins  (0:23)

08 - Open the Window, Mark  (3:06)

09 - End Credits  (0:52)

The Shining (Wendy Carlos) - 1980 

10 - Dark Winds and Rusties  (1:48)

11 - Paraphrase for 'Cello  (3:23)

12 - A Ghost Piano  (1:58)

13 - Paraphrase for Brass  (1:34)

14 - Day of Wrath  (1:04)

15 - Title Music Dies Irae  (3:42)

16 - Dies Irae (The Shining Theme)  (3:29)

17 - Title Music “Dies”  (3:49)

Metropolis (Gottfried Huppertz) - 1927   

18 - Death Descends Upon the City  (1:04)

19 - In the Cathedral  (2:40)

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (Nora Orlandi) - 1971 

20 - Dies Irae 2  (2:12)

A Clockwork Orange (Wendy Carlos) - 1971

21 - Title Music  (2:19)

The Car (Leonard Rosenman) - 1977  

22 - Main Title  (2:25)

23 - Apparition  (0:35)

24 - Apparition Revised 1-2-3  (1:17)

25 - End Credits  (1:42)

Jason and the Argonauts (Bernard Herrmann) - 1963  

26 - Hydra's Teeth  (0:41)

It's a Wonderful Life (Dimitri Tiomkin) - 1946 

27 - Pottersville Cemetery /Wrong Ma Bailey /Wrong Mary Hatch / The Prayer  (5:49)

Escalation (Ennio Morricone) - 1968 

28 - Dies Irae Psichedelico  (1:57)

The Mephisto Waltz (Jerry Goldsmith) - 1971 

29 - Main Title  (2:27)

30 - The Funeral  (3:26)

31 - Part of the Bargain  (3:41)

32 - Roxanne's Demise  (1:37)

33 - End Title  (3:46)

The Return of Dracula (Gerald Fried) - 1958

34 - Dracula Fugue / Main Title  (2:29)

35 - Dracula Pad  (2:08)

36 - The End  (4:09)

Also included is an insert of notes.  

https://www.filefactory.com/file/1hltf8o2ofjc/MA-177.rar

Hope you're suitably creeped out, but not too much to come back Monday!

 

Fun for Some, Goodies for Others

You gotta admire someone with more chutzpah than me. I mean, this guy has some talent, but I'd never call ANY collection of my stuff "goodies," it would only invite disdain from my betters.

01. Squeeze Me Baby (2:44)

02. Don't It Feel Good (2:48)

03. I'm Missing Kissing You Tonight (3:54)

04. The Best Big Mistake (2:25)

05. The Cricket Song (2:24)

06. What's Good for the Goose (3:03)

07. Cool Wine, a Warm Woman (2:51)

08. Life Won't Always Be Ha Ha (2:56)

09. That's What I Need (3:19)

10. The Frog Song (2:36)

It's a 1991 cassette.

Woodies' Goodies 

And with this post we wind up this year's edition of APRIL FUN.  But never fear!  We'll see you right back here on Thursday for the commencement of this year's MUSICAL MONTH OF MAY, with a new comp every Monday and Thursday!

  

An Enchanting Spiral

This 1991 release is one of the first four or five CDs I ever bought.

01. Heaven on Earth (6:45)

02. Land of Oz (6:12)

03. Before Time (3:39)

04. Spirit Dancers (5:46)

05. Island Sweets (5:58)

06. Drifting Towards a Dream (3:19)

07. Dream Spiral (5:07)

08. Sunlight Returns (8:04)

Dream Spiral

It's really dreamy, in a good way.  See you on Monday for our big April Fun wrap-up.

  

She's Wild! She's Cool! She's a Spy! She's a Girl!

And she looks spiffy in go-go boots, especially the white-vinyl kind.

This 1966 album swings a bit in the same campy, wants-to-be-hep style as the show did.

01. Jerry Goldsmith - The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1:33)

02. Dave Grusin - Shall We Gather at the Boat Dock (2:14)

03. Dave Grusin - Out of the Frying Pan (2:07)

04. Dave Grusin - April (2:22)

05. Dave Grusin - Mother Muffin (2:07)

06. Teddy Randazzo - Movin' On (2:15)

07. Dave Grusin - The GirlfFrom U.N.C.L.E. (2:38)

08. Richard Shores - Sneaky Search (2:54)

09. Dave Grusin - Somewhere in Greece (2:07)

10. Teddy Randazzo - The Countess (2:58)

11. Richard Shores - Bomb Scare (2:23)

12. Dave Grusin - Follow the T.H.R.U.S.H. (2:26)

It's still rots o' fun.

The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. 

See you Thursday!
  

Salute to Cousin Frank

Actually, Frank was my cousin-in-law.

This is his 1990 release.

01. White Pontiac (6:09)

02. Mean to Me (4:41)

03. Slow Dancin' (6:14)

04. People (6:48)

05. Fly Me to the Moon (5:25)

06. Darn that Dream (5:47)

07. Soon It's Gonna Rain (5:09)

08. Persevere (5:22)

Frank passed in 2004.  Here's a photo of him at a 2001 family gathering.

Per-se-vere 

See you Monday.  Don't quit on me!