Totally Self-Conscious

Yep, all of these songs are about modern media, including themselves!

Whether it's spy TV, the Bee Gees, American Bandstand, Elvis, or what-have-you, these songs are what happens when pop music looks into a funhouse mirror.

01 - Rock Show - Excel - 1980  (3:30)

02 - I Slept in an Arcade - Black Randy & the Metrosquad - 1979  (2:28)

03 - Caught on Tape - Zom Zom - 1985  (1:49)

04 - I'm in the Charts - The Radio Rhythm Boys - 1980  (2:36)

05 - Townshend Nose - Mikes House - 1987  (2:29)

06 - Kill the Bee Gees - The Accidents - 1979  (2:52)

07 - James Bond - Ralph and the Ponytails - 1980  (2:22)

08 - Television Screen Heroes - MI5 - 1980  (4:06)

09 - Late Show - The Dark - 1981  (3:46)

10 - Disneyland (live) - Come On - 1980  (1:53)

11 - Parasites - The Tyros - 1980  (3:15)

12 - Adventures in Modern Recording - The Buggles - 1981  (3:39)

13 - Sorry About That, Chief - Spiny Norman's Mind Games - 1981  (2:16)

14 - The TV Made Me Do It (Blame It on the Quasar) - Lip Service - 1982  (3:59)

15 - TerrorVision - The Fibonaccis - 1986  (3:42)

16 - American Bandstand - The Seat Belts - 1981  (2:06)

17 - (Let's Get Let's Get) Tammy Wynette - The Maggots - 1980  (1:33)

18 - New Heroes - Noise Annoys - 1981  (1:28)

19 - November 22, 1963 - Destroy All Monsters - 1989  (4:18)

20 - Dead Rock n' Rollers - Detention - 1983  (1:37)

21 - I'm in Love with the Girl on the Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk - The Freshies - 1980  (2:49)

22 - Beautiful Pictures - Fatal Microbes - 1979  (1:49)

23 - I Wanna Kill James Tailor - Ivan and the Executioners - 1979  (2:49)

24 - (I Work for) K.A.O.S. - The Spliffs - 1987  (2:57)

25 - Disco Pop Stars - Altered Images - 1982  (2:35)

26 - Jackie Onassis - Human Sexual Response - 1980  (3:45)

27 - Modern Time's Pop - Mad Tea-Party - 1980  (2:10)

28 - Elvis Impersonator Blues - Beasts of Bourbon - 1988  (2:54)

Now, I ain't advocatin' violence against a Tailor, nor a Wynette! But I do hope you have a hoot, as I do when listening.

https://www.filefactory.com/file/5s7hsgulq9dm/MA-155.rar

See you Thursday!

  

They's a Lot to Scavenge Out There!

 And I ain't got it all yet!

And the culprits are:

01 - No Sympathy - The Rub - 1987  (1:59)

02 - Roadcrash - Ulterior Motives - 1980  (2:13)

03 - Wild Humans - Non Credo - 1988  (3:05)

04 - If Only It Wasn't - Testcard F - 1984  (2:19)

05 - Straight Line - Volumatrix - 1982  (3:04)

06 - Troubled Minds - Shock Treatment - 1981  (2:59)

07 - Die Laughing - Tiger Lily - 1985  (3:41)

08 - Love Attack - Lelu/Lu's - 1986  (3:28)

09 - My Spine - Radio Novena - 1982  (4:23)

10 - Body and Soul - Siam - 1987  (5:13)

11 - It's Hard to be a Rebel - The Reactors - 1980  (2:34)

12 - Video Games - The Toons - 1983  (2:44)

13 - Stray People - Raszebrae - 1984  (3:08)

14 - Gathering the Forces - Living Links - 1985  (4:40)

15 - Nobody Can Know - Bene Gesserit - 1983  (2:44)

16 - Playback - Q - 1982  (3:04)

17 - Tuning in to Your Frequency Tonight - Girl Friday - 1984  (3:30)

18 - Game - Sensible Shoes - 1984  (3:38)

19 - Tell Me Why - Berlin - 1982  (4:09)

20 - Cool - Pylon - 1980  (3:17)

21 - Dark Rooms - DA! - 1981  (4:44)

22 - Stupid for Your Love - Che Blammo - 1982  (3:07)

23 - One Born Every Minute - Big Chief - 1983  (4:24)

https://www.filefactory.com/file/579y8qcnc7hc/MA-172.rar

Now get out there and dig!  See you Monday.

  

Welcome to 2022's MUSICAL MONTH OF MAY!

 Yes, like it or not ... a new music comp every Monday and Thursday in this loverly month o' May.  First up:  

And here are the tracks:

1)  Movie Theme - Walter Murphy

2)  Superboy TV Theme

3)  Superman - Herbie Mann

4)  The Adventures of Superman TV Theme

5)  Sound from Krypto / Movie Theme - Let's All Dance with Super Friends cassette

6)  Superman the Animated Series TV Theme (extended)

7)  The Batman / Superman Adventures TV Theme

8)  Movie Theme - Gotham's Greatest

9)  Comic Book Heroes / I'm Your Superman - Rick Springfield

10)  The New Adventures of Superman TV Theme

11)  The New Adventures of Superman Episode Title Music

12)  The New Adventures of Superman TV End Credits

13)  Movie Theme - Super Hero Music cassette

14)  It's Superman - The Supermen

15)  You've Got Possibilities - The Supermen

16)  TV Theme - Ruby-Spears

17)  Movie Theme - Cinema Sound Orchestra

18)  The Superman / Batman Adventures TV Theme

19)  Superboy TV Theme (Filmation cartoon)

20)  SuperPup TV Theme

21)  Movie Theme - Fleischer cartoons

22)  Theme from Superman (original) - Wonderland Space Shuttle

23)  Movie Serial Theme

Can your nerves stand THIS MUCH super excitement?

https://www.filefactory.com/file/34ns3rt3rms0/MA-05_-%202022.rar

 See you Thursday!
  

Trouble a Foot

In July 2019, I was making outside rounds at the ODOT building and noticed these sock lying against the curb.

TWO MONTHS LATER, in September, the socks were still there.  So I took them home.  I shook the loose grass clippings and dirt out, and washed 'em.

What do you think?

PS they lasted a couple of months of once-a-week wearings before going threadbare.  Goodbye to these free-range argyle socks, and goodbye to this year's APRIL FOOLISHNESS!

See you Monday, May 2nd, for the commencement of this year's MUSICAL MONTH OF MAY!

More Typos I Have Known

            On page 308 of Gavriel D Rosenfeld’s 2005 The World Hitler Never Made:  Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism, we have an interesting word division.

Don’t you agree that the correct division of “rightwing” should be “right” + “wing”? 

Not “rightw” + “ing.”

Macmillan’s 2013 New Critical Essays on HP Lovecraft is full of distressing mistakes.  In all but one mention, Poe’s middle name is misspelled as “Allen"—including the index! 

In fact, the very last word of the book is wrong.  The name of HPL’s mad musician Erich Zann is misspelled “Eric.”

            It’s furthermore pretty depressing to see the pathetic word division found on page 180.  I don’t think “cowritten” is supposed to be hyphenated at the “cow”!

While anybody who's read our books from Jacobs/Brown knows that errors are inevitable, we avoid most of these types of errors by the simple cheat of NOT HYPHENATING.  Sneaky, huh?

See you Thursday for the last entry in this year's APRIL FOLLISHNESS.  You'll agree that something's a foot!

  

Butts and Buildings

Or, "Torsos and Traffic," maybe?  "Skin and Subways"?  Do they go together?  You tell me!

Above is Yes’s otherwise very good album Going for the One, from 1977.

Here is the 1978 album Cords by Synergy (Larry Fast).  Central Oklahomans might recognize one of its tracks as the title music for KOKH-25’s Million Dollar Movie in the late 1970s-to-early 1980s.

Here’s the album cover for Aerial’s album Maneuvers.  At least this butt is covered (sort of) by a skimpy swimsuit!

See ya Monday.  Keep your clothes on until then!

  

Spell It or Eat It

Sometimes typos appear in comic strips.

Above is the Garfield of February 13, 2019, as it appeared in the Oklahoman.  Since I never before ate a "hamburer," I decided to check online.

Do you suppose somebody at the local paper re-lettered the comic incorrectly?  Alternately, was the misspelled version the "original," distributed version?  How could that be so -- I mean, don't bigshot cartoonists have proofreaders?

'Tis a mystery.  See you Thursday!