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Thursday, August 20, 2026

Stalk or Defy?

Two comps of Seventies relics.  Pretty active relics, I say!
01 - Don't Dictate - Penetration   1977  (2:54)
02 - (They Long to Be) Close to You (album version) - Carpenters   1970  (4:32)
03 - Computer Games - Mi-Sex   1979  (4:01)
04 - Gidget Goes to Hell - Suburban Lawns   1979  (2:03)
05 - Clap Your Hands - Bonnie St Clair and Unit Gloria   1972  (3:58)
06 - The Man Who Sold the World - Lulu   1974  (3:46)
07 - Convention '72 - The Delegates   1972  (5:07)
08 - Then Came You - Dionne Warwick and The Spinners   1974  (3:57)
09 - I Hate School - Suburban Studs   1978  (2:38)
10 - I Gotta Get a Fake ID - Barnes & Barnes with Friends   1979  (3:07)
11 - Overture from “Tommy” - The Assembled Multitude   1970  (2:30)
12 - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John   1975  (5:42)
13 - I Only Want to Be with You - Bay City Rollers   1976  (3:33)
14 - Ain't Gonna Bump No More - Joe Tex   1977  (3:32)
15 - 2000 AD - The Rezillos   1978  (3:00)
16 - Heartbreaker - Jenny Darren   1978  (3:05)
17 - The Wild One - Suzi Quatro   1974  (2:51)
18 - Baby Don't Go - Karla Bonoff   1979  (3:16)
19 - They Don't Know - Kirsty MacColl   1979  (3:02)
20 - Waldorf - Edith Nylon   1979  (2:28)
21 - Too Young to Date - D-Day   1979  (2:35)
22 - Teenarama - The Records   1979  (4:00)
23 - Part-Time Punks - Television Personalities   1979  (2:39)

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01 - The Mel Brewer Show (edit) - National Lampoon - 1975  (0:07)
02 - Impossibilities - The Bastards - 1979  (2:55)
03 - Disco Fever - Monroe - 1978  (3:17)
04 - Rock and Roll Housewife - The Vinny Band - 1978  (3:15)
05 - TVOD - The Normal - 1978  (2:53)
06 - Don't Bother Me - Simpletones - 1979  (2:15)
07 - Hello, I Love You - Novak - 1979  (2:28)
08 - Do You Have a Job for a Girl Like Me - The Delinquents - 1979  (2:07)
09 - Disco Love - The Molesters - 1979  (2:32)
10 - Who Needs Wildlife Anyway - The Grackles - 1979  (1:56)
11 - Pogo Dancing - Chris Spedding and the Vibrators - 1976  (3:05)
12 - What Happened to the Moon - The Late Show - 1977  (2:05)
13 - Irrelevant Battles - Patrick Fitzgerald - 1978  (1:54)
14 - They Saved Hitler's Brain - Unnatural Axe - 1978  (2:49)
15 - TV Adverts - The Nerves - 1978  (2:48)
16 - One Chord Wonders - The Adverts - 1977  (2:34)
17 - I've Got a Crush on You - The Rentals - 1979  (3:06)
18 - Magazine Girl - The Rousers - 1979  (2:53)
19 - Stuck on You - The Toasters - 1979  (2:55)
20 - TV Pox - No Way - 1978  (1:46)
21 - We Are the One - The Avengers - 1977  (2:40)
22 - I Can't Stand My Baby - The Rezillos - 1977  (2:36)
23 - Life's a Gamble - Penetration - 1978   (2:57)
24 - Hedi's Head - Kleenex - 1978  (2:11)
25 - The Day the World Turned Day-Glo - X-Ray Spex - 1978  (2:50)
26 - Everybody's Happy Nowadays - Buzzcocks - 1979  (3:11)
27 - Shout Above the Noise - Penetration - 1979  (4:02)
28 - Quality Crayon Wax OK - Essential Logic - 1979  (3:06)
29 - Living in the Eighties - Blue Peter - 1979  (2:08)
30 - Faerytale in the Supermarket - The Raincoats - 1979  (2:58)

They's a lotta good music in hyar.  I used to be in the "Disco sucks" club.  Now IMO it's just a trope usually wasted on groove and not ideas.

See you on Monday, fellow refugees from the Seventies!
  

Monday, August 17, 2026

Two Spaced-Out Comps

 Both of these comps contains songs about outer-space topics.

1 - (When You) See Those Flying Saucers The Buchanan Brothers 1947
2 -  Rocket Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones  1957
3 - Tiny Space Man Bill Carlisle 1957
4 - The Flying Saucer Goes West    Buchanan and Goodman 1958
5 - Outer Space Santa The Lennon Sisters  1958
6 - Mope-itty Mope Boss-Tones 1959
7 - Asteroid Hop Jimmie Haskell And His Orchestra   1959
8 - Beep Beep Loiuis Prima 1959
9 - Beep, Beep Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans  1959
10 - UFOs  Soul, Inc  1967
11 - Have You Seen The Saucers Jefferson Airplane 1970
12 - Supersonic Rocket Ship The Kinks 1972
13 - UFOs Undisputed Truth 1975
14 - Waiting For The UFOs Graham Parker 1979
15 - Flying Saucer Safari Suburban Lawns 1981
16 - The Alien song (for those who listen) Milla Jovovich 1994
17 - Subterranean Homesick Alien Radiohead 1997
18 - Fell In Love With An Alien The Kelly Family 1997
19 - Space Robot Five   Brave Saint Saturn 2000
20 - Outer Space Song Pinky and Perky 2002
21 - UFOs, Big Rigs And BBQ Mojo Nixon 2005
22 - Devil Woman From Outer Space Rezurex 2006
23 - Space Craze Rick McGuire 2006
24 - Pluto Clare and The Reasons 2007
25 - The Planet Mars The Corillions 2007
26 - Robot Monster Damon Alexander & the Ten Cent Rentals 2008
27 - The Ballad of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space)   They Might Be Giants  2009

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01 - Friction Heat - Bonnie Lou with Lew Douglas, His Orchestra and Chorus - 1958  (2:12)
02 - Science Friction - XTC - 1977  (3:12)
03 - Zoom, Zoom, Zoom - The Mask - 1967  (2:29)
04 - Our Spaceman Did Come Back - Jeff Hughes - 1963  (2:37)
05 - U.F.O. - Gene McKown - 1968  (2:19)
06 - Something Going On - The Unknown Band - 1979  (3:38)
07 - Florida Rocket (Number Ninety-Nine) - Charlie Hines - 1959  (2:00)
08 - Space Shuttle Stowaway - X-Dreams - 1984  (1:43)
09 - Journey to Mars - The Perfectors - 1979  (1:58)
10 - Satellite No 2 (unissued) - Carl Mann and the Kool Kats - 1957  (2:15)
11 - Space Ship Blues - Billy Lane - 1962  (2:26)
12 - Rockin' in the Rocket Room - Frances Langford - 1956  (2:33)
13 - Space Rock - Danny Valentine - 1960  (2:06)
14 - Man on the Moon - Shelly Stuart - 1976  (3:07)
15 - Strangers from the Sky - Kim Fowley - 1967  (2:55)
16 - The Last Astronaut - Slick Slavin - 1962  (3:43)
17 - Twisting on the Moon - Sammy Marshall - 1966  (1:55)
18 - A Surprise Visitor from Outer Space - The Five Crowns - 1959  (1:54)
19 - Monkey on the Moon - Gene Hall - 1962  (2:32)
20 - Gonna Build a Rocket - Galen Denny - 1958  (2:08)
21 - Rocket Ship - Vernon Green & the Medallions - 1960  (3:00)
22 - U.F.O. - The Monos! - 1979  (3:42)
23 - Moon Doll - Ralph Young - 1961  (2:30)
24 - Energy in Northampton - Linda Jardim - 1980  (3:23)
25 - Sirius - United Balls - 1980  (2:49)
26 - Girl from Mars - Rudy Gaddis and His Lone Star Rangers - 1954  (2:08)
27 - A Menacing Glow in the Sky - Player (1) - 1979  (3:06)
28 - Secret Saucer Man - Barry McGuire - 1968  (2:45)

Be aware that since these sources are physical media, surface noise is present in places!

Track 4, “Our Spaceman Did Come Back” is a riff on “My Boomerang Won’t come Back.”

Albert van Strongheart, “The Last Astronaut”  of Track 16, seems an impersonation of Jack Benny’s voice.

When you make it back from orbit, come back on Thursday for more music from the Excellent Eighties.
  
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