MA-82 - Joy and Noise, Disc 5

Here's another collection of songs that inspire me to laugh, pray, and be thankful.  Many from the 1990s, a few from earlier.  You'd be happier if you looked up the performers and invested in more of their work!

01. Here We Go - Grits (3:20)

02. You're Not Alone - Marie Miller (3:21)

03. Press On - Building 429 (2:49)

04. Endure - Plumb (3:50)

05. No Restricted Signs (Up in Heaven) - Golden Gate Quartet (2:59)

06. Solid Rock - Daniel's Window (3:38)

07. Good Morning - Mandisa (featuring TobyMac) (3:25)

08. You Carry Me - Moriah Peters (3:03)

09. 12 Round Knockout - KJ-52 (3:58)

10. The Kirby Man - Layton Howerton (4:22)

11. Because You Loved Me - Say-So (5:06)

12. Alive - P O D (3:24)

13. Beautiful Day - Jamie Grace (3:12)

14. Keep on Rhymin' - Emcee One (3:50)

15. Princes and Frogs (Underdog Mix) - Superchick (3:05)

16. Unveiled Faces - Sarah Masen (4:19)

17. Speak to the Hand - Lakita (3:48)

18. What If I Stumble? - dc Talk (5:05)

19. The Way That You Are - Miranda (4:03)

20. Here Comes the Sun - Mayfair Laundry (2:48)

21. Skip to the End - Mukala (3:44)

https://www.filefactory.com/file/5ae7d6ne1702/MA-82.rar

 

See you Monday for a new page-by-page through a wonderful DC title from the 1960s.

 

I've got a New PARD -- First Hand

Thanks to my work for Jacobs/Brown Press, I'm now the owner of a laptop to use in editing.

His name is PARD, for Pretty Awesome 'Ritin' Device.  As I (typically) wondered how to scar PARD forever with an imprint of my own personality, I decided to personalize the desktop background image as a deck of 52 cards. 

The image on each card would be of something I like, from childhood to today.

Here is Hand 1.

Surely you can name them all!

See you Thursday.

MA-50 - 45s & Favorites, Disc 7 -- More Pop Music Miscellany

More proof in the wonderful cornucopia that USE TO BE pop music, before rhythms replaced melody and thought, not focus groups, produced lyrics.

Not that dreck wasn't marketed in the days of AM radio -- Sturgeon's Law is a reality of the universe -- but "way back then," even dreck was conceived and produced through a system that allowed more human fingers on every step of the process.  The human touch sometimes ennobles the basest products of work-for-hire:  Sistine Chapel, anyone?

1 -       Birthday      The Beatles / Beatles Remixers Group   (4:17)

2 -      A Song for You      Leon Russell   (4:04)

3 -      Mother Freedom      Bread   (2:33)

4 -      Wake Up Sunshine     Chicago       (2:34)

5 -      Up on Cripple Creek (live)     The Band   (4:39)

6 -       Superstar    Bette Midler (5:09)

7 - Goodbye to Love Carpenters (3:50)

8 - Smoke on the Water    Deep Purple (3:44)

9 - Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters   Elton John (4:57)

10 - How Do You Do Mouth & MacNeal (3:12)

11 - Deteriorata National Lampoon (4:25)

12 - I Love Every Little Thing About You Stevie Wonder (3:53)

13 - The Circle Game (live) Joni Mitchell (6:24)

14 - Pinball Wizard Elton John (5:12)

15 - Dog & Butterfly Heart (5:05)

16 - We Belong Together Rickie Lee Jones    (4:58)

17 - A Life of Illusion   Joe Walsh (3:28)

18 - Come Together The Beatles / Beatles Remixers Group (4:02)

The first and last tracks are wonderful alternate mashup/rearrangements of Beatles standards, making them (in the words of Dickens) "Recalled to Life."

Track 11 was conceived by the National Lampoon guys in response to the cheesy success of "The Desiderata" as a an example of the shallow public seeking non-condemnatory "deep thoughts."  Lyrics to both are given here.

You are a fluke of the universe.

See you Monday, fellow fluke!

Star Trek Models, Instalment One Hundred or So

My friend Ed had even more Star Trek models than I did, and this is the instruction sheet from the space station used in "The Trouble with Tribbles."

 Yu can tell thjat the studio knew it had struck a (non-gravitic) gold mine when It was able to sell a model of a pie plate with arms, seen only in one episode, to those crazy kids.

This site will sell you one.  This site will give you some info and commentary.

See you Thursday!

MA-38 - To Men of Earth

The cover art is adapted from a book of the same name by contactee Daniel W Fry.

1 -    Count Down     Casey Grams      1958

2 - Venus Rock     The Rollettes       1958

3 -    Take Me to Your Leader  The Vi-Counts   1959

4 -   Land Beyond the Moon  The Motions       1962

5 -   The Beatle Flying Saucer Ed Solomon 1964

6 - Just Beyond the Moon Tex Ritter 1967

7 - Moon Flight Vic Venus 1969

8 - Flying Saucer's Daughter Alex Harvey 1972

9 - Unfunky UFO Parliament 1975

10 - Rocket Ride   KISS 1977

11 - Another Girl Another Planet The Only Ones 1978

12 - Hangar 18 Megadeth   1990

13 - UFO Rosie Weeping Tile 1995

14 - Sky Babies The Wildhearts 1996

15 - Talkin' Alien Abduction Blues   * Dan Bern 1997

16 - The Grand Deception (Channel Zero)  * Canibus 1998

17 - Unmarked Helicopters Soul Coughing 1998

18 - Spaceship Sean Lennon 1998

19 - Poor Man's Shangri-La Ry Cooder    2005

20 - Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland Sufjan Stevens 2005

Here we have another planetary potpourri of attitudes towas space life, from angry to whimsical.  Have fun!

https://www.filefactory.com/file/1nrfxrb34ifa/MA-38.rar

 See you Monday.