How Many Marriages Do Ya Need?

Those of us who grew up reading the Silver Age of DC Comics (roughly 1960-1970) knew that these were some of the ground rules of Superman's super life:

• Since he was himself invulnerable, baddies might try to inflict emotional pain by hurting Superman's friends
• Therefore, by simple proximity, Supes was endangering any female he kept time with
• These rules may be ignored at any time for the sake of a story

However, after the 1992 death and return of Superman, someone at DC decided to stop dicking us around when it came to the ole on-again, off-again romance between Supes-Clark and Lois.

Superman: The Wedding Album came out in 1996, and was mirrored at *nearly* the same time on ABC's Lois & Clark.

Of course, comic-book nerds (like me) remembered all the OTHER times that Superman had gotten hitched, or seemed to, in lots of comics stories over the years.  So, in the October 12, 2001 issue of the Comics Buyers Guide, a fine fellow named Jack Abramotitz decided to list some of them.

I am happy to report that in my case, only ONE marriage is sufficient for fulfilment and joy.

See you Monday.  Hope your quest for love takes a good turn!

  

Sharing More Favorites

From long ago and far away, here are some of my faves from mostly pop-culture closets.

MA-57 - 45s & Favorites, Disc 8:

1 - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young with Crazy Horse (2:29) 1969

1970
2 - Let It Be Beatles/BRG/Veech (3:59)
3 - Your Song (live) Elton John (3:48)
4 - Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) Melanie (3:49)
5 - (I Know) I'm Losing You Rare Earth (3:36)
6 - Everything Is Beautiful Ray Stevens (3:33)
7 - We Can Work It Out Stevie Wonder (3:11)
8 - Moondance Van Morrison (4:31)

1971
9 - Let Your Love Go (album version) Bread (2:22)
10 - What Is Life? George Harrison (4:15)
11 - Footstompin' Music Grand Funk Railroad (3:46)
12 - Here Comes the Sun Richie Havens (3:43)

1972
13 - Immigration Man Crosby & Nash (2:57)
14 - The Sage (live) Emerson, Lake & Palmer (4:01)
15 - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (live) Rick Wakeman (6:29)

16 - Thomas The Rhymer Steeleye Span (3:12) 1974
17 - Life's Been Good Joe Walsh (8:03) 1978
18 - Juke Box Fury Rickie Lee Jones (4:12) 1990
19 - Pity Jude Beatles/BRG/SB (7:41) 2005

Don't take Track One personally.  But take Track 19 to the bank as a great mashup of two suspiciously similar songs!

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MA-239 - 45s & Favorites, Disc 27:

01 - Be What You Is - The Flys - 1966  (2:02)

02 - Hook in Your Heart - The Shades - 1980  (2:28)

03 - Norwogian Weed - The Beatles - Sacred Cowboy - 2014  (2:06)

04 - I'm Alive - The Hollies - 1964  (2:25)

05 - Contact In Red Square - Blondie - 1978  (1:59)

06 - Creeps - Q4U - 1982  (1:49)

07 - Love in a Vacuum - 'Til Tuesday - 1985  (3:36)

08 - Run Home to Your Mama - Evie Sands - 1965  (2:31)

09 - Every Kiddie Gets A Prize (live) - Xiro - 1988  (2:27)

10 - Hey! Puppet Man - Bob Morrison - 1965  (2:27)

11 - It's So Difficult - Dislocation Dance - 1980  (2:58)

12 - Tell Me in the Sunlight - Margie Day - 1963  (1:54)

13 - Mind - Kas Product - 1990  (2:42)

14 - Grin and Bear - Screaming Sneakers - 1982  (4:37)

15 - Magnetic Heart - VS. - 1980  (2:16)

16 - It Was a Happening - Unknown Detroit Artist - 1966  (2:05)

17 - Too Much to Take - Stark Raving - 1987  (3:40)

18 - No One Listens - Legal Weapon - 1981  (2:49)

19 - Allergy - The Petticoats - 1997  (2:18)

20 - (Drowning Out the) Big Jets - Action Pact - 1983  (2:01)

21 - It's a Groovy World! - The Unifics - 1968  (3:20)

22 - I Hate Myself for Loving You - Joan Jett - 2014  (4:10)

23 - (Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All - The Fifth Dimension - 1972  (3:12)

24 - Can't Take It - Barb Wire and the Fences - 1982  (2:28)

25 - Maybe Tomorrow - Angel Pavement - 1969  (4:07)

26 - Wrong Yo Yo - Carl Perkins - 1957  (2:35)

27 - Keep Your Hands Off My Baby - Gore Gore Girls - 2002  (3:02)

You can't beat the advice of Track One!  Track 12 is a song which references another classic, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?"  Track 25 is notable in that it's a cover of a Badfinger song, but its intro is straight of a Chicao cover band's version of "25 or 6 to 4"!  And keep your hands off my baby, she's not your yo-yo.  See you Thursday! 

 

Exporting Eighties Erosion

 Two comps of musical glory and oddities.

MA-93 - It Exported from the 1980s:

01 - Start from the Start - Nervus Rex   1980  (3:01)

02 - Pretty Boys - Jimmy and the Boys   1981  (2:44)

03 - Wings Over America - David Reilly   1982  (3:59)

04 - Neighborhood Kids - The Lads   1983  (3:32)

05 - The Raft - Pink Industry   1983  (1:36)

06 - Get My Message - Shoes   1984  (3:41)

07 - The Gang on Fortune Hill - The Nobodys   1984  (4:02)

08 - Eldorado - March Violets   1985  (4:14)

09 - Too Hot to Stop - Benjamin Orr   1986  (4:14)

10 - Ghosts Can´t Run Away - Foreign Affair   1989  (4:04)

11 - (Don't Talk to Me) I'm Shy - The Passions   1981  (2:16)

12 - Drowning in Berlin - Mobiles   1981  (3:26)

13 - Play This Song (on the Radio) - Sorrows   1981  (2:54)

14 - The Late Mistake - Comateens   1983  (2:30)

15 - What's There Left - Nine Circles   1982  (5:19)

16 - Black Mirror - Get Smart!   1984  (2:15)

17 - She Went Pop - Iam Siam   1984  (4:45)

18 - Innocent, Not Guilty - Garland Jeffries   1980  (2:14)

19 - Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime) - The Flirts   1982  (3:39)

20 - Boys Will Be Boys - One to One   1985  (3:27)

21 - Lies to Live By - The Del-Byzantines   1982  (3:59)

22 - Memory Lane - The Sinceros   1981  (2:47)

If you start from the start, you'll get my message, and hope it's not lies to live by!

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MA-124 - It Eroded the 1980s:

01 - Catch a New Wave - The Metropolitans   1986   (3:59)

02 - Boys Can Cry - Catholic Girls   1982   (2:43)

03 - Mad Heat - The Popular Sex   1984   (3:22)

04 - Paralyze - Drama   1985   (3:41)

05 - The Serpent - Fantasia   1989   (3:16)

06 - First to Know - Doubledare   1986   (3:25)

07 - E102 - BMX Bandits   1986   (3:41)

08 - Cubismo - Data   1985   (3:47)

09 - Lies - Frame by Frame   1985   (4:04)

10 - Pretty Day - Mary Möör   1982   (2:58)

11 - I'm a User - Donnie Iris   1983   (2:27)

12 - Nobody Told Me - The Monitors   1981   (3:36)

13 - Been Teen - Dolly Mixture   1981   (2:25)

14 - Practical Girl - The Clique   1983   (3:09)

15 - City of Fame - Hillary Laddin   1980   (2:19)

16 - Johnny Quest - Pack Nine   1982   (2:54)

17 - Not Goin to Work - Boy Girl   1986   (3:00)

18 - Television Satellite (extended version) - Sophie & Peter Johnston   1987   (3:45)

19 - Waiting for Tomorrow - Shadowboys   1983   (3:34)

20 - Living in a Movie World - In Fear of Roses   1988   (2:17)

21 - Power of TV - Sandglow Marinas   1982   (3:22)

22 - Running Past - Strike   1980   (3:05)

23 - Keep Going - Fou Gorki   1984   (3:38)

24 - On Your Video - TV Smith   1983   (3:07)

If only it were this easy to catch a new wave!  Don't worry, it will keep going on your video!

See you Monday for the last installment in this catching-up month of comps!

  

You're All Aglow

We got here a couple of Neutronical, Atomical, Positronical collections of pop music, one early and one latter.

MA-20 - The Fallout Follies:

1 - Talking Atom Pete Seeger 1947 

2 - The Fall of the Planet Earth The Moonbillies 1960

3 - Talkin' World War III Blues Bob Dylan 1963

4 - Mushroom Clouds Love 1966

5 - Handsome Johnny Richie Havens 1967

6 - Thank Christ For The Bomb (edit) Groundhogs 1970

7 - King Of The World Steely Dan 1973

8 - Atom Satillite Del Byzanteens 1979

9 - Face The Fire Dan Fogelberg 1979

10 - Uh-Oh Plutonium Anne Waldman 1982

11 - Two Suns In The Sunset Pink Floyd 1983

12 - I Hate You (from STAR TREK IV) Edge of Ettiquette 1986

13 - After the War Gary Moore 1989

14 - The Bomb Song Corey Dwyer 1990

15 - Enola Gay Utah Phillips 1991

16 - Hot Frogs on the Loose Frank Small 1993

17 - Duct Tape John McCutcheon 2004

18 - Feed the Bomb Project Bluebird 2009

19 - Whistling in the Nuclear Wind Karl W Mahlmann 2011

20 - Time Enough at Last The Twilight Zone 1959

While waiting for time enough at last, beware of hot frogs on the loose!

*****

MA-106 - Uppin' Atom!:

01 - Got My Call Card - LB Lawson and James Scott Jr   1951  (3:27)

02 - Uranium Miner’s Boogie - Riley Walker and His Rockin-R-Rangers   1954   (2:53)

03 - Atomic Bounce - Johnny Latorre and the Rhythm Rockets   1955  (2:31)

04 - The Merry Minuet - Bud & Travis   1960  (1:53)

05 - Overseas Blues - Memphis Willie Borum   1961  (3:10)

06 - It's Good News Week - Hedgehoppers Anonymous   1965  (2:04)

07 - Thirteen Women - The Renegades   1966  (3:28)

08 - The World Beyond - Bobby Goldsboro   1968  (2:17)

09 - Fireside Favourite - Fad Gadget   1980  (4:22)

10 - Man at C&A - The Specials   1980  (3:35)

11 - Yes to the Neutron Bomb - The Moderates   1980  (4:15)

12 - Final Day - Young Marble Giants   1980  (1:40)

13 - Last Rockers - Vice Squad   1981  (4:16)

14 - Our Condition - FK9   1981  (2:38)

15 - Back in 1984 - Cerebral Hemorrhage   1984  (4:58)

16 - Pictures - Atoms for Peace   1985  (3:44)

17 - Atom Drum Bop - The Three Johns   1986  (4:10)

18 - Yellow, Black and Rectangular - Negativland   1987  (2:14)

19 - Discussing Missile Size - Dada   1988  (2:51)

20 - Symbols of Our Fear - Rage   1988  (3:31)

21 - We're So Small - The Epoxies   2002  (2:41)

22 - Nuclear War (On the Dance Floor) - Electric Six   2003  (1:16)

23 - Safe - M83   2004   (4:12)

You can take an Atomic Bounce into the World Beyond and be thankful that it's only fiction.  See you Thursday!

  

Stalk or Defy?

Two comps of Seventies relics.  Pretty active relics, I say!

MA-98 - Defying Disco in the 70s:

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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MA-148 - Stalking the Seventies:

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!

  

Two Spaced-Out Comps

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

MA-22 - A Star to Steer By: Music from the Great Beyond:

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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MA-220 - Cosmic Thoughts:

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.

  

Lucky for You

Who says Thursday the 13th is always bad? Here are two comics-related comps that make ME feel fortunate, at least!

MA-152 - Four Color Fantasies - Volume 2 !!!:

01 - Meet Clark Kent - The Fans - 1984  (3:58)

02 - Spiderman - Grinder - 1979  (3:41)

03 - Popeye the Sailor Man - Jack Mercer and Sammy Lerner - 1960  (1:26)

04 - (Zap Pow) Do the Batman - Gate Wesley & Band - 1966   (2:32)

05 - The Fantastic Four Song - Ray Wall Band - 2005  (2:51)

06 - Big Batman - The Pacers - 1966  (2:55)

07 - Spiderman - Katrina and the Waves - 1983  (3:12)

08 - Felix the Cat - Warsaw Poland Brothers - 2002  (1:54)

09 - Captain America - Alexis Korner - 1974  (3:55)

10 - Batman Theme - The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale - 1966  (2:11)

11 - Captain Marvel Jones - The Super Dupers - 1966  (3:34)

12 - Black Superman (Muhammad Ali) - Johnny Wakelin & the Kinshasa Band - 1975  (3:35)

13 - Batman Rides Again - The Invisible Burgundy Bullfrog - 1967  (3:50)

14 - Jungle Superman - The Individuals - 1959  (2:36)

15 - Batman Theme - Sheena and the Rokkets - 1979  (0:58)

16 - Lois Lane - Holly Long - 2003  (3:38)

17 - Batman - Skeletal Family - 1984  (4:41)

18 - Superman - Celi Bee and the Buzzy Bunch - 1977  (3:47)

19 - Batman - The Plunderers - 1966  (2:48)

20 - I'm Your Superman - The All Sports Band - 1981  (4:04)

21 - Color Cartoons - The Goldenrods - 1958  (2:23)

22 - Never Pick a Fight with Popeye - Jack Mercer - 1957  (1:43)

23 - Captain Gorgeous - Jimmy Bowen - 1966  (2:30)

24 - Superman - Ides of March - 1970  (2:55)

25 - Comic Strip Rock N Roll - Robert Ashley - 1959  (2:08)

26 - I'm a Superman for You Baby - The Cliff Dwellers - 1966  (2:10)

27 - Excelsior - The Adventurers - 1960  (2:05)

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MA-228 - Four-Color Fantasies - Volume 3!!!:

01 - Batusi - The Cartoons - 1965  (2:53)

02 - Even Batman - Jenny Clay - 1966  (1:56)

03 - Betty Boop Theme Song - Jack Hylton & His Orchestra - 1932  (2:30)

04 - Robin - Robin the Boy Wonder - 1966  (2:41)

05 - Fly Superman Fly - Randy Johnson - 1967  (2:40)

06 - Bat Beat - The Perfectors - 1980  (2:17)

07 - Automatic Man - Bad Religion - 1989  (1:40)

08 - That Man Batman - Mike & Bernie Winters - 1966  (2:45)

09 - Superman - The Clique - 1969  (2:31)

10 - Batmobile - The Squires - 1966  (2:12)

11 - Batman - The Who - 1966  (1:25)

12 - The Lean Hornet - Rudy Wesley & the Palace Aides - 1966  (1:45)

13 - Batman Theme - Joel McNeely / Royal Scottish National Orchestra - 1997  (2:28)

14 - Felix the Cat - Fernand Gravey - 1930  (2:36)

15 - Superman - Pete the Meat and the Boys - 1978  (2:38)

16 - Batman & Robin - Adam West - 1976  (3:15)

17 - Nobody Loves the Hulk - The Traits - 1969  (2:59)

18 - I Bizarro - The Bizarros - 1978  (1:54)

19 - Batman Theme - Baltimore Marching Band - 2003  (2:12)

20 - Comic Book Hero - Scandal - 1979  (4:20)

21 - Batman to the Rescue - Lavern Baker - 1966  (2:17)

22 - Kryptonite (live) - Judies Fixation - 1978  (4:00)

23 - Green Hornet - Mr Unique & the Leisure Class - 1979  (2:43)

24 - Batman - Sam Chaplin - 1966  (1:47)

25 - Popguns and Green Lanterns - The Accelerators - 1979  (2:22)

26 - So All the Superheroes - The Thought Criminals - 1979  (3:00)

27 - Batskinner - Robin and the Batmen - 1966  (2:19)

28 - Cartoon Network - KJ-52 - 2003  (3:57)

Yippee Haw and up, up, and away, fellow fantasizers!  See you Monday.

  

Listen to the Mirror

 ... And you might be looking ... instead of listening ... to Recursive Rock!

That's the core of these two compilations.  The songs all reflect a bit of media awareness.  They're about toys, or rock music itself, or TV or magazines ...

MA-155 - Recursive Rock:

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 - Beatiful 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)

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MA-223 - Recursive Rock 2:

01 - Please Stand By - The Shivvers - 1980  (3:13)

02 - Pornography - The Revenge - 1978  (2:33)

03 - Amplitude Modulation - The Modulators - 1980  (2:54)

04 - Scratched Blue Vinyl - Juveniles - 1980  (2:21)

05 - Stuck on the Grid - Martha and the Muffins - 1986  (4:12)

06 - Stop the Presses (from Tabloid) - The Signal - 1989  (2:46)

07 - Sound of the 80s - Peer Pressure - 1978  (2:19)

08 - Media Junkie - 63 Monroe - 1982  (3:14)

09 - On the Phone - Stryker - 1980  (2:50)

10 - TV Commercial - Johnny Parker and the Zirkons - 1962  (2:29)

11 - Waiting for Stardom - The Shy Tots - 1980  (2:10)

12 - Neil Young - John Bartles - 1992  (1:35)

13 - Record Man - The Ferrets - 1987  (3:08)

14 - Just a Camera - The Keys - 1980  (3:56)

15 - Recorded in England - Rod Bernard - 1986  (2:21)

16 - Disco's Dead - Sgab from the Planet Zed - 1980  (2:11)

17 - TV Patrol - Art Kritics - 1987  (3:09)

18 - Gimme Mick (live) - Candy Slice & the Slicers - 1979  (4:11)

19 - When the Phone Stops Ringing - Eighth Wonder - 1987  (3:58)

20 - Songs Like These - The Crew - 1981  (2:15)

21 - Raggedy Ann - Margaret Lewis - 1964  (2:15)

22 - Child Star - The Diodes - 1977  (1:57)

23 - Sitting in a Disco - Kirsty and the Husbands - 1980  (1:49)

24 - Shakespeare Rock - The Eligibles - 1958  (1:49)

25 - TV on Tap - The Limps - 1980  (3:10)

26 - One More Record - The Relations - 1980  (3:08)

27 - I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape - The Teenage Filmstars - 1980  (2:58) 

Maybe these songs can help YOU escape for awhile -- at least until Thursday.  See you then!

  

Words from the Eighties

Something about the song titles and words, be be a little more accurate.

MA-145 - Two Word 80s:

01 - Radio Teeth - Scissor Fits - 1981  (2:16)

02 - Idiot Dancers - Industrials - 1980  (1:53)

03 - Twinkling Stars - Nine Circles - 1982  (4:09)

04 - Girlfriend's Girlfriend - The Elevators - 1980  (2:48)

05 - Another World - Scarlet Party - 1983  (3:12)

06 - Pretty Girl - The Liggers - 1980  (2:57)

07 - Running Scared - The Fools - 1981  (2:23)

08 - Lullaby Cheat - Ludus - 1980  (4:38)

09 - The Girls - Famous Five - 1982  (3:07)

10 - Macho Man - Fladge 200 - 1981  (2:41)

11 - Video Kids - Prototype - 1983  (3:31)

12 - Games Up - Rank Amateurs - 1981  (3:54)

13 - Top Secret - The Last Words - 1980  (1:53)

14 - Kanal Banal - Gina X - 1984  (3:15)

15 - TV Eyes - The Voices - 1981  (3:30)

16 - Girl Games - Manchester Mekon - 1982  (2:32)

17 - Monkey Monkey - Boys Boys - 1980  (1:53)

18 - American Cheez - Nice Lawns - 1982  (2:11)

19 - Midnight Rain - Die Hausfrauen - 1981  (4:22)

20 - TV Talks - Mo - 1980  (2:50)

21 - Air Attack (live) - Kujira - 1983  (4:14)

22 - Blood Vessel - Details at Eleven - 1986  (3:29)

23 - Throw Away - Helicopters - 1982  (2:54)

24 - Lost Fight - Locusts - 1981  (2:37)

25 - Insect lounge - The Mutants - 1980  (2:56)

26 - Psychic Magic - G I Orange - 1985  (3:04)

Yup, all of the above songs have two-word titles.  So many fun songs!  BTW, Track 25 was the source of the title of KCSC's student-run radio show back in the early Eighties.  A little more about "The Insect Lounge" from an outdated blog post here.  Have no fear, MA-119 will be reposted!

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MA-146 - One Word 80s Too:

01 - Popstar - Afraid of Mice - 1981  (2:31)

02 - Paradise - Sophie and Peter Johnston - 1983  (3:52)

03 - Alive - Sandii and the Sunsetz - 1981  (4:29)

04 - Meaningless - Gary Myrick & the Figures - 1980  (3:07)

05 - Shuffle - Fictions - 1980  (2:42)

06 - Fool - The Tearjerkers - 1982  (3:07)

07 - Savage - The Nuns - 1981  (2:16)

08 - Vertigo - Standing Waves - 1981  (3:56)

09 - Photoplay - Tahnee Cain and Tryanglz - 1984  (3:31)

10 - Media - The Verdix - 1981  (3:02)

11 - Warm - Family Fodder - 1980  (3:46)

12 - Subliminal - Drinking Electricity - 1981  (4:07)

13 - Time - Pauline Murray - 1989  (4:38)

14 - Unwind - UK Decay - 1981  (3:27)

15 - Darkness - This Eternal Waiting - 1987  (4:10)

16 - Opposite - Chandra - 1980  (3:51)

17 - Prams - Vital Disorders - 1981  (2:16)

18 - Danceability - National Euphoria - 1983  (2:53)

19 - Shame - Trigger and the Thrill Kings - 1984  (4:09)

20 - Fire - Occult Chemistry - 1980  (2:09)

21 - BOYS - Unit 3 with Venus - 1981  (2:25)

22 - Monotone - Les Anglaises - 1985  (3:15)

23 - Video - Jeff Lynne - 1984  (3:24)

See you on Monday for more recovered music!

  

Welcome to ANTHOLOGY AUGUST 2026!

First off is a spacey one.

MA-31 - Eye in the Sky:

1 - Rockin' Chair on the Moon Bill Haley 1952

2 - My Satellite Jesse Belvin 1956

3 - Red Planet Rock Don Lang and His Frantic Five 1957

4 - Planetary Run Joe Montgomery 1957

5 - Rocket To The Moon   Tony Perkins 1957

6 - Rock It To The Moon Jackie Góetroe and The Scamps 1958

7 - Satellite Rock Joe Tate and the Hi Fives 1958

8 - Rocket To The Moon    Lenny Welch 1958

9 - Light My Rockets Neil Alan 1958

10 - Sputnik Dance The Equadors 1958

11 - Rockin' On The Moon Deacon and The Rock & Rollers 1959

12 - Like Out Of This World Rockin' Charlie 1959

13 - Satellite City Earl Wrightson 1960

14 - People From Another World Jive Five 1961

15 - Signals From Saturn Rose DuBats 1962

16 - First Man To Stand On The Moon Buck Griffin 1963

17 - Countdown The Crescendos 1963

18 - Rocket Ship Don Drummond 1964

19 - Space Race Gene and The Esquires 1965

20 - I'll Send You to the Moon Les Baroques 1966

21 - Hippy, Skippy Moon Strut (Opus #1) The Moon People 1969

22 - Santa's Rocket Tim Dinkins 1969

23 - I’m a Stranger Here Five Man Electrical Band   1973

24 - Galaxy War 1977

25 - Eye In The Sky Alan Parsons Project 1987

26 - Books about UFOs Husker Du 1987

27 - Interplanet Janet Man or Astro-Man 1996

28 - Return of the Attack of the Curse of the Son of the Astro Squid Part XIV Chapter 6   The Amino Acids    2004

29 - Hot Rod Ride to the Moon Hi-Fly Rangers 2006

30 - Martian Rendezvous Alu 2008

By the way, Track Five's performer is that Tony Perkins, the guy who a few years later worked for Mr Hitchcock on a little black-and-white exploitation film.

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MA-151 - Four-Color Fantasies - Volume 1!!!:

01 - George of the Jungle - Scott Shaw - 1989  (2:24)

02 - Peter Parker - The Great Luke Ski - 2002  (3:23)

03 - Official Suburban Superman - Suzy Quatro - 1973  (3:06)

04 - Look Out for the Batman - Tony Eira - 1966  (2:39)

05 - Super Heroes - The Model - 1981  (3:11)

06 - Aquaman - Grandpa Griffith - 2006  (3:36)

07 - Barney Google - The Mellomen with Thurl Ravenscroft - 1949  (1:56)

08 - Superman - Allison McCallum - 1972  (2:29)

09 - Green Hornet - Mr Unique and the Leisure Class - 1984  (2:43)

10 - Parker - Victor Banana - 1989  (2:10)

11 - Lois Lois - Superman's Girlfriend - 1979  (4:53)

12 - Comic Strip Wobble - Joe Capp and the Starfires - 1962  (2:24)

13 - Dick Tracy - The Chants - 1961  (2:16)

14 - Magilla Gorilla - The Family Goat - 1969  (2:37)

15 - Up Up and Away - Jivin' Jean & the Jokers - 1959  (2:36)

16 - Dr Strange - Paul Roland - 1982  (2:56)

17 - Captain America - Jimmy Buffett - 1970  (3:20)

18 - Spiderman - Stikky - 1988  (0:54)

19 - Superman - Joyce Davis - 1962  (2:31)

20 - L'Invincible Batman - Batman - 1966  (2:30)

21 - The Phantom - The Super Dupers - 1966  (3:35)

22 - Iron Man - Vitamin Lounge - 2002  (3:55)

23 - Superman Love - Chet Bolins - 1981  (2:37)

24 - Deputy Dog - Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs - 1966  (2:49)

25 - Help Help! and I Had a Hamburger Dream - Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, and Jimmy Carroll - 1964  (2:16)

26 - (I Saw) Batman (In the Launderette) - The Shapes - 1979  (2:38)

27 - Supergirl - Readymades - 1977  (1:46)

28 - Stop Talkin' About Comic Books or I'll Kill You - Ookla the Mok - 2006  (1:46)

29 - Capt Kangaroo - Suburban 9 to 5 - 1968  (1:57)

Pay no attention to Track 28.  Keep talkin'!  See you Thursday.

  

I Onthe Thaw a Flyin' Thock-e-thur

That is a Bobby Goldsboro song I heard once on the Tonight Show. This time it applies to dee Kelley.

This is from the January 13, 1987 National Enquirer.

And above is from the June 16, 1987 Weekly World News.  I'd say the News simply lifted into from the Enquirer, wouldn't you?  It even l;ooks like the same photo!

See you on Monday for a month of compilations.  It's a date!

  

Merch Trek, Part 2

This article from the February 13, 1983 Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise acts all surprised that sci-fi fans will spend money.

This blurb is from Video magazine's April 1984 issue.  From back before everything got all conglomerated, yes?

This insert from the June 17, 1984 Sunday Oklahoman proves that Trek is just good clean fun!

Above is from a trade publication to which I was privy, Convenience Store News.  It's from October 1991.

That's all the merch for now!  See you on Thursday.  Until then, BUY SOMETHING!

 

Whose Buns Are We Shooting Off?

 Here are three flashes of TREK references from the Eighties.

From the July 1981 MAD.

From the June 21, 1982 Oklahoman.

Finally, from the July 25, 1982 Sunday Oklahoman.

ANTS GOT TVS! -- to paraphrase another classic B.C. phrase.  See you Monday.

  

That Captain Guy in TV GUIDE

Fooled ya! I bet you thought I meant Shatner!

This generous spread is from the TV Guide cover-dated July 31, 1993.  If only we could all live up to Stewart's final words about facing life with curiosity!

See you Thursday.  Stay intrigued!

  

STAR TREK III on the Horizon!

By this time -- 1984 -- you could SELL stock in Mister Spock!

The above is from the February 22, 1984 USA Today.

This note, from the March 23, 1984 Tulsa World, is just a tease ... 

... As is this one, from the May 6, 1984 Oklahoman.

This is from the May 19, 1984 TV Guide.  I had no clue who Sikking was, or is.  But he certainly played the self-satisfied schmuck Captain Styles as if born to it.

See you on Monday, space campers!

  

Two Views on STAR TREK V

Both are from OKC's Oklahoman.  The first is from the June 2, 1989 issue.  I don't know where the headline is.

From a week later, the June 9 issue, we have a semi-gentle letdown review.  We must all admit that STV ain't the best.

And I agree with Davis's final statements.  I'll keep going to 'em, even if I have to grit my teeth!  How about you?

  

Spock's Alive, and We've Got Him!

Here are some articles from 1985.

Above, from January.

From the February 24, 1985 TV Guide, a mention of that week's airing on ABC of Star Trek II.

And the two-page half-height ad in the program listings.

Those of us who had watched ABC's airing of STTMP in 1983 were ready!  I had my VCR a-tapin', so I was a proud camper to see footage on my TV that waren't on the movie screen.

You can read my elucidations of footage added or removed for both films' ABC showings in this 2009 Super Blog post.

See you Monday.
  

Deep Space 9 in 1993

As you might have deduced, both of these articles are from 1993 and concern Deep Space 9.

This is from the January 3, 1993 TV News included in the OKC Oklahoman.

This cheesecake shot is from the June 19, 1993 TV Guide,

See you on Thursday, fellow stargazers!
  

Welcome Back to TREKKING WITH CLIPPINGS!

Yup, this month we'll view more of the hundred-plus articles I clipped and scanned from the Seventies to the Nineties. First off are four reviews of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, all contemporaneous with its first release. WARNING: Some ain't very nice.

This is from the December 8, 1979 Tulsa World.  When Vern Stefanic calls the ending "ridiculously hilarious," I wonder if he understood it, plotwise.

This one, from the December 11, 1979 Oklahoma City Journal, at least has an accurate headline!  Note that the reviewer refers to Roddenberry's novelization ... although I do not think that the Great Bird described Ilia and Decker as "involved in psychic phenomena."  Even though they definitely share that kind of emotional connection!

This one was printed in February 1980 in some periodical available in OKC, but "Films in Review" is the name of the column, not the rag that printed it.  Oops!  PS It's interesting that the reviewer, Tom Rogers, says he "read the script beforehand" and was disappointed with the finished flick.

Since the script wasn't even finished when it was filmed, I wonder what Rogers read?  No wonder he was disappointed!  Although calling the movie "garbage" is fightin' words, bub!

This is from a magazine called New York, dated February 11, 1980.  Accuracy aside, you gotta love the mention of Spock's drag-queen-satanic eyebrows!

See you Monday for more TREKKING WITH CLIPPINGS!