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Monday, May 13, 2024

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)



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

Thursday, May 09, 2024

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

Monday, May 06, 2024

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!

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

Thursday, May 02, 2024

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.  

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

Monday, April 29, 2024

Out with a BLITZ!

I really enjoy the books of Daniel O'Malley, about YET ANOTHER shadow history we didn't know about until now.

The Rook and Stiletto were the first two books, which I gobbled soon upon discovery.  Blitz, from 2022, followed into my brain's voracious appetite.  But ... wow ... what a challenge to read!
Here's a shot of the library copy I read.
Take a gander at a view of the bottom edge of the closed book.  Hmmm ... interesting, huh?
Look what came after page 440!
What I had to do was flip ahead to page 473, turn the book upside down, and read the upside-down pages 441-472.  Then when I finished the upside-down section, it was back to forward reading.
The funny patterns visible in the first photo's bottom view are explained when you see the pages which look a little nibbled-on.

The entire book is there, just rearranged a bit.  I'm sure this whole thing would be viewed as accidental, but I LOVE this sort of happenstance, don't you?

And with this post we wind up this year's edition of APRIL FOOLISHNESS. 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!
  
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