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McDog Music Trading List: Oddball, Spoken, Comedy, Psychedelic (And Worse) If Dogs Run Free, Why Can't We? SEE ALSO MY NUTTY DVDS ODDBALL: • The Adventures of Dave and Bubba Louie - The Lost Episodes studio A (1cd) Apparently this is a "found" recording of two early 80s stoner dudes, doing what a lot of us tried to do with our first tape recorders -- make their own funny record. In this case they try to do Cheech & Chong with a 4-track, and it is C&Cish enough to have made it this far...plus some there's anonymous 4-track collages. • Arcesia: Reachin' The very rare outsider psych classic . A+ (1cd) Legend has it, Johnny Arcesia was a middle aged, east coast lounge lizard who moved to Haight Ashbury in 1968, dropped one hit too many, and reinvented himself as an "enlightened" acid rock star. He produced this lone, privately pressed LP, featuring a competent, uncredited psychedelic rock backing band. What makes this album a psych cult classic is Johnny's incredible vocal delivery (once described as "constipated" -- but I prefer "overwrought") and outrageously bizarre lyrics. • Are Parasites In Your Food? An hour-long promo tape for a holistic "parasite cleansing" product, featuring testimonials regarding worm-laden bowel movements, statistics about tapeworm infection, et cetera. A very strange listen. Really. • Batman A-Go-Go aka Batman Please Deliver Us From Evil studio compilation A (1cd) Holy auditory assault, Batman! If you were a big fan of the 60s camp TV workout, you'll love this: 34 tracks of the Batman theme, Batvillan themes, batsoundtracks, and much more batdrivel, performed by the likes of Nelson Riddle, Jan & Dean, The Ventures, Standells, Link Wray, and a menagerie of studio types... • Maurizio Bianchi: Triumph Of The Will originally released in 1981 on LP, this freaky audio landscape features nazi speeches underscored with electronics. • Big Daddy: Sgt Pepper's Rhino Records A+ (1cd) Big Daddy reinterprets the entire Beatles album in the style of various 1950s dowop & rockabilly artists. Some songs work better than others. A lot better. • Bombay The Hard Way - Guns, Cars & Sitars various studio A+ (1cd) This is actually not as bad as it sounds, ahhh... appears. Once you get past the bad song titles it's pretty funky. But, oh, those songs: The Good, The Bad And The Chutney, Ganges a Go-Go, Fists Of Curry, Swami Safari, to name a few... sort of spaghetti western meets James Bond in Balwalpur. • The Droplift Project various A (1cd) The Droplift Project is a collection of audio collage pieces made largely from appropriated sources. That means stolen. This wacky cd features 29 tracks from various artists, all containing uncleared samples. Copies of this cd are "reverse-shoplifted" - snuck into stores and left for others to buy. Doncha love concept art?  • Hayseed Dixie Mercy Lounge, Nashville 7/11/03 sbd A (2cd) a wild country group, named as a tribute to AC/DC (say Hayseed Dixie over & over real fast), covering AC/DC classics, with a little Kiss tossed in for good measure... thing is, they're playing banjoes, mandolins, fiddles & acoustic guitars • Abbie Hoffman: Wake Up, America! This OOP LP from 1969 is all Hoffman: irreverent, blasphemous and very funny. (1cd) • Incredibly Strange Music, Volumes I and II various (2cd). Wow. Strange, indeed, as this mostly-1940s collection of early electronic and experimental music takes you places that, if they aren't incredible, are at least irritating. • Jim Jones: Jonestown, Guyana, November 18, 1978 Chilling collection from various sources, culminating in all of Jones' exhortations to his followers to committ mass suicide. Sound quality sucks, but that just adds to the creepy realism. (1cd) • Ken Kesey - The Acid Tests Discs #1, #2 and #3 of Volume I San Francisco 1965-66 A (3cd) RIP, Ken • Ken Kesey & Ken Babbs - The Merry Pranksters Acid Tests Vol #1 San Francisco 1965-66 A (1cd) King Mob KMOB3 • Dr. Timothy Leary: You Can Be Anyone This Time Around Recorded in 1969, this OOP LP includes a groovy cut called Live And Let Live, which features Steve Stills and John Sebastian on guitar, Jimi Hendrix on bass and Buddy Miles on drums. A (1cd) • Mad Magazine: "Fink Along With Mad" and "Mad Twists Rock 'N' Roll" LP>CDR A (1cd) As the trader who sent this said: Both Big Top LPs, plus the rare "What, Me Worry?"/ "Potrezebie" single on ABC/Paramount. Taken from VG copies, so there's still surface noise here. I like these records, but not enough to spend 50 bucks for a click-free copy of "When My Pimples Turned To Dimples". • Charles Manson - Lie recorded at The Beach Boys studio in Van Nuys, California, 8/68 A (1cd) I've seen a copy of this freaky OOP LP -- in 1969 before the Tate murders. They say Charlie went over the edge when this album was rejected by Warner Bros. • Joe Meek: I Hear A New World This eccentric English record producer today enjoys a cult following. This LP was produced 1960, but it was never released. Joe shoulda checked out Howie Menger (below) but he committed suicide in 1967. It's a concept album about life on the moon. It was intended as a showcase for Meek's production talents, and uses a strange mixture of effects, found sounds, varispeeded voices and Hawaiian guitar to produce a set of ambient songs. All instrumental except for the title track, which shockingly uses tape speed to create little "chipmunk" voices... yeah, a very strange trip. • Howard Menger: "Authentic Music From Another Planet" B+/A- (1cd) slightly hissy from old tape transfer, but who cares? Two rare pieces of 1950s UFO audio: "I have been instructed by a person from another planet to bring this music to the attention of the people on this earth..." These are the words of former sign-painter Howard Menger, who, throughout his life, was in alleged contact with beings from other planets. In this performance Howie raps about UFOs and aliens and how he can hear music from other planets. Menger actually plays his own composition, The Song From Saturn. The bonus is Albert K. Bender's address to the 7th annual conference of Scientific Ufologists. No, not the Bender on Futurama. This Alfred K. Bender wrote a book entitled Flying Saucers and the Three Men. It described astral projection to a secret base in Antarctica inhabited by male, female and bisexual creatures. Oh yeah... • Mondo Scratcho A special compilation by Brazen Brian Belovarac (1cd). As he explains: A personal compilation of thrift store finds - 29 tracks, 80 minutes. No de-noising, hence the title. Lots of cash-in/ real people/ lounge/ religious weirdness. Look up understated in your dictionary. A truly wacky collection of outsider/naive/folk errors of judgement, with a special emphasis on high school marching bands and christian choruses. • Naked Microphone Various authentic radio "bloopers" from the 1930s to the 1960s. Funny, but also a fascinating time capsule, with vintage local news broadcasts, DJ patter, etc. A (1cd) • OHM, Early Gurus Of Electronic Music, Volumes I, II and III various (3cd). They say Gurus, and they mean it: digitize out with classics from such masters as Clara Rockmore, John Cage, Edgar Varèse, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Klaus Schutze, Brian Eno and many, many more. • Only In America, Vol I and II Compilation of the odd, odder and oddest (2cd). Basically, it's 57 tracks of stuff only a recording studio owner could love. I see The Shaggs have a token cut -- that should tell you all you need to know. • Pissed-Off Geezers From The Pre-Love Generation Wacky collection of mean guys doing their thing. Check it out as Buddy Rich rants, raves, and mercilessly fires musicians; Frank Sinatra does it his way (or the highway); Murray Wilson mercilessly berates Brian in a studio while they work on Help Me, Rhonda; Martin & Lewis get ugly; and a very interesting bonus: takes one to 11 of Elvis doing Little Sister. Sound quality: hardly matters. • The Prisoner File #3 Obviously, there are two previous ones, but this is still cool, cause it covers the music & dialogue from the last episodes of this fascinating TV show. Still, it's a tad wacky tolisten to, cause it's disjointed from the visuals... but still, if you're a Prisoner fan, this'll take ya back. A (1cd) • Product Music Japanese boot of 60s/70s "industrial show tunes of the products we trust"... listen in on muzak that sells the virtues of American Standard, 7-11, Westinghouse, Ford, Borden's, Exxon, etc. A nice balance of intense irony and sublime melodicism. OK, form over content. • Reefer Madness: A Collection Of Vintage Drug Songs, 1927-1945 Various (1cd). You think Baby Boomers discovered drugs? Ha. Your parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were snorting and rolling, shooting and rockin to some great stuff. Check out the lowdown from the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Fats Waller, Benny Goodman and all those other old dopers. • Mary Stewart Relfe: "The 666 System" date & location unknown aud B+/A- (1cd). Relfe is an apocalyptic fundamentalist convinced that credit cards and UPC bar codes are a sign of iminent parousia. You can probably still dig up the book that made her in/famous, "The New Money System", but why? This cd features MSR laying out the fine details of the second coming, which is closely linked to credit cards, retailers, and grocery stores. What? Sadly, the ultimate villians are the international jewish banking conspiracy, so MSR ends up being just another christian nazi. Most disturbing of all, this rant appears to be an audience recording (i.e., not produced and distributed by Relfe herself) so it's one of a kind. Creepy, strangely compelling, and thankfully rare. • San Lucas Band: Music Of Guatemala ABC-Command COMS-9001 1975 OOP LP A (1cd) The cat who sent me this claims: Indescribably strange LP on the ABC/Command label from the mid-70s featuring a ceremonial Guatemalan ensemble that sounds EXACTLY like the Guckenheimer Sauerkraut Band. Either a sly, elaborate spoof of Nonesuch-style world music albums (complete with academic insert) or a really bizarre world music album. I don't agree -- I think it's real, but not the kind of music you'd expect -- the first three songs are marches, but the kind of super slow, disjointed, chaotic, funny sad funeral marches you'd hear in a melodramatic mexican movie. The rest of the songs seem trad spanish arrangements... but the band, admittedly, is fairly loose, is oom-pah-pah... and the mixing is atrocious. • The Shaggs Rounder Records A+ (1cd) Painfully untalented, these three girls were harassed into the studio by their crazy father, who was convinced they could cut an album, sell a million of 'em, and pay for daddy's retirement. Sounds a lot like Murray Wilson, but these girls certainly aren't the Beach Boys... Still, they're ironically famous today, as quotes on the cd testify: "The Shaggs. Better than The Beatles -- even today" - Frank Zappa... "They bring my mind to a complete halt" - Carla Bley... • Better Than The Beatles: A Tribute To The Shaggs Unknown source A+ (1cd) Now we're reaching the outer limits: outsider musicians playing homage to the idiot songs of one of the zanier outsider groups. This cd should be registered as a musical weapon of mass destruction. • William Shatner: The Hofstra Lecture sbd A+ (1cd). The very-spaced Captain Kirk mind-melds wacky monologues, Q&A, and relentless promotion for the first Star Trek movie in this 75 minute 1977 session. Classic examples of his overwrought, breathy delivery. Tough to sit thru in one go, which is part of the thrill, as this cd is one loooong track. • The Inessential William Shatner various sources sbd A (1cd). A great collection of Captain Kirk's zanier moments, including his hysterical version of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", Star Trek outtakes, radio interviews, beer commercials -- hey, the whole inessential oeuvre! • William Shatner: The Transformed Man studio A (1cd). The album that started it all for Captain Kirk back in 1968, when he wasn't doing cheesy TV ads for Safeway. According to the original album's liner notes, the heart of this collection is a concept that reads, thankfully, like the overblown pretentious nonsense we've come to cherish here in oddball-land. The concept? The tracks are all arranged in pairs, in order to show the contradictions inherent in the human condition. Wow. Heavy. • Shooby Taylor: The Human Horn WFMU Radio 1983 A- (1cd) Shooby was a postal employee who recorded 18 "songs" in New York in 1983. Basically he sings scat over familiar traditional pop songs and hymns. But what singing! His scat phrases are, well, like singing in tongues, and you can actually hear it when he shifts into the unknown and lets go completely and unselfconsciously. This set was compiled by WFMU radio and sold as a fundraising cassette. This is a dub off one of those cassettes. • Sin Alley, Volumes I and II various (1cd) It sounds worse than it is... which is a monster collection of 50s pre-rock nuttiness of the hillbilly/country variety. White trash dance music. • Songs In The Key Of Z Gammon Records A+ (1cd) In this cd, longtime wacky New York DJ Irwin Chusid finally cashes in on all the zany drek he plays on his outsider music radio show. Arcesia (see above) is represented, alng with a buncha other oddballs, but then there's tracks by Tiny Tim (OK, I can see that) and (oops) Captain Beefheart! If I was Don I'd be suing over that... • The Sun City Girls - Horse Cock Phepner OOP 1987 LP. Absolutely amazing collection of funny/profane songs done with some surprising professionalism. I have no idea who these girls/guys are... however, their dirty ditty about Nancy Reagan really should be heard by everyone at least once in their lifetime. • Touch Tone Terrorists I thought this was an artsy jazz ensemble til I played it... in reality, this is a collection of 20 crank telephone calls. Like what Bart does to Moe, but more plot-oriented. Some are funny in spite of themselves -- but dramatic irony this heavy can only be taken in small doses. OK, lemme put it another way -- it's 20 Cheech & Chong sketches. (1cd) • Tuba Tuba Nijmwegen, The Netherlands 11/02 FM A (1cd) yes, it really is what is says: two tuba players, plus accordion and drums... what else do you need? • Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War Of The Worlds A wacko scifi musical classic from Columbia Records A+ (2cd). Here's a great idea if you were very, very stuck for concepts in 1978: make a musical of HG Well's alien invasion classic. And just to make it interesting, let's cast this unlikely production with the likes of Richard Burton, Julie Covington (from Godspell), David Essex, Phil Lynott (from Thin Lizzy), and Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues. Actually, it's pretty funky, and I digitized this from an unplayed vinyl copy. • "We'll Be Right Back" A Solo Production by Don Joyce of Negativland sbd A (1cd). A chilling collage of actual radio broadcasts. Not much info on this -- as the cover says, "All source material for this recording originated during World War II. Only FX have been added". Made in The Netherlands in an original limited edition of 1000. • Whistles For The Birds Basic Hip's compilation of whistling and whistling-related recordings. Mostly the songa are sung by humans, but there's a lotta tracks in which our feathered friends star. studio A (1cd) • White Panthers - Music Is Revolution Selections from the White Panther Party & The Rainbow People's Party Central Planning Committee meetings and archive 1967-1971. John Sinclair lives! A- (1cd) • Women Of The SS This self-titled exercise in madness is another OOP, or barely legit, fusion of electronics and spoken, panted, murbled and generally nasty nazi stuff. • Richard Serling's Wigan Sounds isn't really wigan, and Richard might be Rod. Crazy collection of mindlessly uptempo pop non-hits that all sound suspiciously like hits. THE THEREMIN ON CD • "Art Of The Theremin" studio A (1cd) yes, here's a disc featuring Theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore on that sci-fi-sounding instrument, playing classical compositions, accompanied by piano... wacky, eerie human-sounding • "The Theremin, Volume I" BBC Radio3 A (1cd) interviews and playing from 6/11/96 and 6/5/97 • "The Theremin, Volume II" Radio Scotland A (1cd) interviews and playing from two shows in 1999 • "The Theremin, Volume III" BBC Radio3 A (1cd) interviews and playing from 1996... includes information & examples of the early mellotron, featuring Rick Wakeman SPOKEN WORD JG BALLARD • BBC Interviews #1 2001/2003 FM A- (1cd) three interviews: one on The Complete Short Stories, the other two on Millennium People • BBC Interviews #2 2002 FM A- (1cd) one interview on Empire Of The Sun JG BALLARD VARIOUS • Seven 30-minute radio dramas based on the short stories of JG Ballard, commissioned & broadcast on the CBC FM show, "The Vanishing Point" 1988 A+ (4cd or 7cd) Stories chosen include: The Dead Astronaut, Escapement, Having A Wonderful Time, The Cloud Sculptors Of Coral-D, News From The Sun, Low Flying Aircraft and A Question Of Re-entry. JGB's comments on my jewelcase designs can be read here. RICHARD BRAUTIGAN • "Listening To Richard Brautigan" studio A (1cd) ripped from OOP 60s lp LENNY BRUCE • Gate of Horn, Chicago 04/12/62 sbd A- (1cd) the night he got busted WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS • "Nothing Here Now But The Recordings" Various 1960s sources (1cd) • "Uncommon Quotes" Various sources (1cd) • "You're The Guy I Want To Share My Money" 1981 A (1cd) with Laurie Anderson and John Giorno FUTURISM & DADA REVIEWED • Various 1913-59 (1cd) Original avant garde, spoken, poetry recordings with Duchamp, Tzara, Schwitters, Russalo, etc. KEN KESEY • New York & Company radio broadcast 7/25/91 A (1cd) only 13 minutes MARSHALL McLUHAN • "The Medium is the Message" 1994 sbd A (1cd) Limited Edition sound collage cd SURREALISM REVIEWED • 1928-63 (1cd) Original Recordings with Duchamp, Tzara, Man Ray, Breton, Ernst, Cocteau etc. HUNTER S. THOMPSON • University of Colorado Ballroom, Boulder, CO 11/1/77 A- (1cd) JEAN SHEPHERD • "Shepherd's Pie, Slices 1-7" studio A+ (8cd) Shepherd's seven-tape audio book series; transfers from factory copies. COMEDY BUSKIN & BATTEAU • Sanders Theater, Cambridge 11/4/90 aud A- (1cd) pretty entertaining CREDIBILITY GAP • "Woodschtick" sbd A (1cd) OOP classic. • "A Great Gift Idea" sbd A (1cd) brilliant 1970s sketch comedy, with great cultural satire of icons such as Rod McKuen, Johnny Carson, Jackson Five, etc. Vinyl transfer. FIRESIGN THEATRE • Radio Free Oz KRLA AM 1110 9/67 studio A (1cd) earliest known broadcast • "Firesign Radio" LA 6/7/70 FM A-/B+ (1cd) wacky Pacifica Radio stuff • "Firesign Radio" LA 6/14/70 FM A-/B+ (1cd) even more wacky Pacifica Radio stuff • "Let's Eat - A Radio Banquet" KPFK FM LA 11/11/71 to 3/30/72 studio A (6cd) 11 episodes -- nine of which are loosely woven around a central theme, one is a collection of short bursts of insanity, and Volume 11 is the last show -- Martian Space Party • "Radio Rarities" 1968-1979 studio A (2cd) FT does their impromptu thing on various alternate radio shows, including Airlie 2, Radio Free Oz, Son Of Radio Free Oz, Hour Hour, and Let's Eat • "Dear Friends" studio 9/70-3/71 A (12cd) The Firesign Theatre created twenty-one shows of Dear Friends, which ran on KPFK from September 1970 to March 1971. FT came up with the idea of trying to syndicate some of these shows by editing together 12 one hour length LPs and offering them to subscribers. Only about 200 copies were pressed up and self released, and contained hours of Firesign material not available anywhere else, including such classics as: Live At The Ash Grove, Power Is Trouble & Trouble’s Not Funny, I Could Always Shoot Him With The Camera, Somebody Put A Mickey In The Ground Zero, All We Have To Fear Is Me, Deputy Dan Will Find Us No Matter Where We Go, Was There A Cow On The Moon, Being On Radio Is More Fun Than Watching TV, Dr Memory’s Laff-A-While News, (Hope You’re Enjoying The) All Nite Images, Welcome To Microorganism State Park, and Is This The Machine That Answers No ‘n’ Yes. • "Firesign World" Live at the Westbury Music Fair 5/20/74 aud A- (1cd) • "Questions And Answers" UCLA Santa Cruz 5/9/75 sbd A (1cd) • David Suskind Show, New York 5/74 FM A (1cd) interview plus a condensed version of Nick Danger, Third Eye • "George L. Tirebiter presents the Big Broadcast of 1976" KTYD FM, Santa Barbara 2/29/76 FM A (1cd) Austin & Ossman star, with Proctor and Richard Ward. Music by "Cocktail" • Proctor & Bergman: Clark Wintergreen Denver 1/7/77 sbd A (1cd) • "A Firesign Thanksgiving, or Pass The Indian, Please" San Francisco 1978 FM A (1cd) • "The Fighting Clowns - Ronald Reagan Assassination Show" University of Maryland 3/30/81 sbd A (2cd) • "Nick Danger, Third Eye: The Daily Feed Tapes" 1988 FM A+ (2cd) a zillion zany episodes • "The Pink Hotel Burns Down" studio 1998 A (1cd) • "Nick Danger, The Lost Episodes" 1981-1999 FM A+ (1cd) even more lost zany episodes • "Hallowe'en Special" 10/31/91 FM A (1cd) • "The Commercials Album" various years radio A (1cd) 58 commercials in 55 minutes • "In The Firezone" Bagley Wright Theatre, Seattle 5/2/99 sbd A (2cd) mono madness • "Alternative Rose Parade" Pacifica Radio, San Francisco 1/1/00 FM A (2cd) SPIKE JONES • "Dinner Music...for people who aren't very hungry!" one of his early LPs from 1957 A (1cd) very silly MARTIN MULL • "Martin Mull and His Fabulous Furniture in Your Living Room" OOP LP A (1cd) Martin plays & sings & tells stories • "Mulling It Over - A Musical Oeuvre-View of Martin Mull" studio A+ (1cd) compilation of great stuff NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS • "Hedgehog Sandwich" British comedy from the late 1970s. Taken from cassette, broken into tracks A (1cd) Features a classic Kate Bush parody. With Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean, Blackadder) THE RUTLES • "Archeology" sbd A (1cd) • "Hard Days Rut" studio A (1cd) • "Rehearsals" sbd A (1cd) JERRY SEINFELD • Ft Worth, Texas 9/25/01 aud (1cd) laugh along with the taper... THE VESTIBULES • "Caspar Haboot Sings Songs of Tarpaulin" studio A (1cd) An early cassette-only release from the Canadian comedy troupe. JAY WARD • "The Jay Ward Music CD" studio A (1cd) It says it was tansferred from a cassette purchased at the Dudley Do-Right Emporium, and what you get from the Dudster is 52 themes and incidential music from Jay Ward cartoons, known to you as Rocky & Bullwinkle, George of the Jungle, Fractured Flickers, etc. It's surprising how visual it all is... funny cornball vocals & lyrics -- like Firesign Theatre. JONATHAN WINTERS • "Is Terminator 3" studio A (1cd) One of Winters's early-90s audiobooks consisting of answering machine messages he left to a friend. Transfer from factory copy. VARIOUS COMPILATIONS: • See/Hear I studio 1967 or 1968 A- (1cd) I recorded this from my copy of this ultra-rare OOP LP. It's a "recordmagazine" edited by Wayne Carr and Jim Brown of Vancouver, BC, featuring poems and avante-garde music by hip Canadian artists like bp nichol, Lionel Kearns, Bruce Clarke, Lloyd Burritt, Ross Barrett, Roy Cooper, Al Neil Trio. Tad scratchy in places. • All This And World War II A (2cd) From a 1976 out-of-print soundtrack LP. This movie showed WWII scenes to the music of Beatles covers. Performed by Ambrosia, Bee Gees, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Keith Moon, Ron Wood, Tina Turner, Jeff Lynne. Frankie Valli, David Essex and others. 28 tracks in all. • Elvis Espanol studio A (1cd) Compilation of Mexican artists doing Elvis songs. Hopefully, you'll know enough spanish to tell if their interpretations of English lyrics are cool or crazed, and the rest of us can just enjoy some interesting semi-garage Presley covers by groups like Los Teen Tops, Los Crazy Boys, Los Rebeldes del Rock, etc. • The N.M.E. Poll Winners' Concert 1965 (2cd) • The Apple Singles Collection The complete 7" discography on CD (10cd) • BBC Sessions Vol I - IV (4cd) Volume I is "Blues Boomers 1968", Volume II is "Donovan", Volume III is"Folk To Rock", Volume IV is "Males and Other Arty Types" • 60s On The Beeb - Volumes 1 Thru 8 1965-1969 Radio A (8cd) BBC host Andy Peebles had just about everyone on his show... these 8 discs feature great stuff from The Beatles, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, Jerry and the Pacemakers, The Searchers, Herman’s Hermits, The Animals, The Yardbirds, Them, The Moody Blues, Donovan, The Kinks • Sweet Soul Music Volume I 1967-1969 (1cd) Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Booker T & The MGs, The Del-Mars • Nights of the Living Icons A (1cd) Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison and Bob Dylan • Desperately Seeking Susan compilation A (1cd) If you felt cheated by the "soundtrack" released for this 1985 classic, then this for you: a compilation which includes the instrumental music along with all of the film's other music... for the ultimate '80s flashback! If you can stand it. • Satisfaction! A (1cd) The Stones classic as interpreted by 23 other acts, from Bjork to The Ventures. • SAR Records Story 1959-1965 OOP box set A (2cd) Sam Cooke, Soul Stirrers, Womack Brothers, Johnnie Taylor, Billy Preston, Johnnie Morisette, The Valentinos, etc • The Very Best & Rarest of Shindig TV B+/A (1cd) Featuring The Who, Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, Kinks, Byrds, Donovan, McCoys, Turtles, Gerry & The Pacemakers, etc. • Nightmare From The Underground: Canadian Garage Punk From the 60s (1cd) A lot of completely unknown Toronto bands, with a token Vancouver group. Recorded from 45s. • Rock: The Train Kept A Rollin' studio 1999 A+ (2cd) Columbia Records' compilation of their artist's biggest hits, including Bob Dylan, Byrds, Jeff Beck & Rod Stewart, Yardbirds, Fleetwood Mac, Janis Joplin, Santana, The Remains, Mott the Hoople, Bruce Springsteen, Moby Grape, Spirit, Pink Floyd, Chambers Bros, Edgar Winter Group, Sly Stone, Elvis Costello, Clash, Meatloaf, Pearl Jam, Blue Oyster Cult, Iggy & Stooges, Cheap Trick, Midnight Oil, Oasis, Rage Against The Machine, Ozzy Osbourne, Living Colour, Soul Asylum, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Alice In Chains, Korn, Boston, Kansas, Psychedelic Furs, Journey, Heart and Judas Priest. • Philadelphia Folk Festival, 40th Anniversary sbd A (4cd) Live performances by David Bromberg Band, Bonnie Raitt, Nanci Griffith, John Prine, Richard Thompson, Steve Forbert, Taj Mahal, Arlo Guthrie, Patty Larkin, Phil Ochs, Fairport Convention, Rev Gary Davis, Doc & Merle Watson, Steve Goodman, John Hartford, Loudon Wainwright III, Ricky Scaggs Band, Mississippi John Hurt, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Janis Ian, Odetta, Gamble Rogers, Judy Collins, Natalie MacMaster Band, Stacey Earle, Tom Paxton, Chris Smither, John Gorka, Christine Lavin, Great Big Sea, Dave Van Ronk, Mary Gauthier. Sliced Bread Records 2001 • The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Seasons One and Two Season One is 2 cds; Season Two is 3 cds. Live performances by pretty well all the hot acts of the late 60s, including The Who doing their famous blow-up version of I Can See For Miles. Sound quality varies, but is generally good. Includes a lot of the SmoBro schtick. • Tribute To The Beatles: Abbey Road 2001 Fukuoka Sun Palace, Japan 11/13/01 sbd A (2cd) Cats like Alan Parsons, Todd Rundgren, Ann Wilson, John Entwhistle, and many more gather to sing their hits and few classics from The Fab Four. • Beatle Songs: Rainforest Benefit, Carnegie Hall 4/27/98 (1cd) Sting's Thing in New York goes retro with the likes of Billy Joel, Elton John, James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Joe Cocker, and, of course, the Stinger... all doing covers of 19 Beatles songs. The sound could be better, but it's not bad. • A TV Christmas Dinner Laserlight Records, various studio A+ (1cd) This is as bad as it sounds, sort of a salisbury steak of xmas blather. The awful point was to get 60s TV stars to sing seasonal favourites, so here you have xmas cliches sung by the likes of Gene Autrey, Jim Nabors, The Cartwrights, the Partridge Family, the Brady Kids, the Chipmunks... get the picture? Think of this as the stupid sitcom of cds. Or a Greatest Twits collection... • Christmas Cocktails Capital Records, various studio A+ (1cd) Not quite cool in the daddy-oh sense, but cool in the upscale 1950s downtown chrome & naugahyde bar sense. Billy May, Peggy Lee, Ray Anthony, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole -- those whitebread warblers that drove our parents drunk crazy with seasonal cheer. • Christmas Cocktails, Part Two Capital Records, various studio A+ (1cd) More of the same, except a few of these songs slip into the early 1960s. The Ventures play Frosty The Snowman, for example. And that may be as good as it gets. • Hipster's Holiday Rhino Records, various studio A+ (1cd) As you might expect, Rhino doesn't mess around. This baby's got songs from 1946 to 1989, with an emphasis on the 1950s and 60s. A fairly esoteric lineup of singers offers up a selection of xmas songs I bet you've never heard of before... unless you & your family sit around and harmonize on something like We Wanna See Santa Do The Mambo, or Zat You, Santa Claus. PSYCHEDELIC MAYHEM: • Arcesia: Reachin' - A nice transfer from a mint copy of this very rare outsider psych classic. A+ (1cd) • Bill Plummer & The Cosmic Brotherhood - Vinyl transfer of this rare psych-sitar-jazz LP from 1968 A- (1cd) • Turds On A Bum Ride - A rare Italian import of undiscovered 1960s rock, psychedelic, and garage bands (Habla Label) includes Doors doing "Go Insane", MC5, Id, Music Machine, Blues Magoos, Macabre, Von Ruden, The Monks, Sparkles, Jelly Bean Bandits, Orphan Egg, Zodiac, Galaxies, Orient Express, NW Co., Sons of Adam, and many, many more. A (4cd) • 1966-67 High Times in Frisco (Big Sur Records) Jefferson Airplane 10/14/67 Fillmore West; Quicksilver Messenger Service 11/6/66 Fillmore West; Moby Grape 12/31/66 S.F. Avalon; Country Joe & The Fish 1967 Fillmore West; Big Brother & Joplin 1967 Matrix; Daily Flash 1966 Matrix; Steve Miller Blues Band 1/67 Matrix (1cd) • The Psychedelic Years 1966-1969 Rare French compilation on Knight Records includes Byrds, Airplane, Springfield, Turtles, Lemon Pipers, The Count 5, Vanilla Fudge, Electric Prunes, Captain Beefheart, 13th Floor Elevators, Velvet Underground, Quicksilver, Yardbirds, Procol Harum, Cream, Moby Grape, The Leaves, the United States of America, H.P. Lovecraft, Spirit, Chambers Bros., Beach Boys, Animals, The Move, July, The Pretty Things, Tomorrow, Iron Butterfly, Canned Heat, Love, more. A (3cd) • Best of San Francisco Blues Live Carlton Sounds UK label features John Lee Hooker, Jefferson Airplane, John Hammond, Elvin Bishop, Taj Mahal, Commander Cody, Chambers Brothers, Doc Watson studio A (1cd) • The Golden Age of Underground Radio KMET LA Radio dj B. Mitchel Reed plays Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Spirit, Canned Heat, Dave Mason, Nilsson, Donovan with Jeff Beck, Electric Flag, Love, Ike & Tina Turner, Steppenwolf, Mark-Almond Band, Brewer & Shipley. Includes commercials. A (1cd) • Psychedelia UK: I Want To Take You Higher Psychedelic Era 1965-1969 Top 50 Psychedelic Songs. This can't be legit, and it's a great compilation of Brit mayhem, including The Beatles, Stones, Donovan, Yardbirds, Cream, Pink Floyd, Small Faces, The Move, Jimi Hendrix, Troggs, Traffic, Pretty Things, Hollies, Animals, Fairport Convention, Arthur Brown, Blind Faith, The Nice... and loads more. A+ (3cd) • Psychedelia US: I Want To Take You Higher Psychedelic Era 1965-1969 Top 50 Psychedelic Songs. An American version of the British collection. Includes Byrds, Charlatans, Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe, Captain Beefheart, Count Five, Beach Boys, Sopwith Camel, Doors, The Seeds, Electric Prunes, Moby Grape, Tim Buckley, Big Brother, Beau Brummels, Buffalo Springfield, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Love, Otis Redding, Sly & The Family Stone, Qucksilver, Grateful Dead, Iron Butterfly, Steppenwolf, Steve Miller, Tommy James, Spirit, Youngbloods, and yes, more. A+ (3cd) • Psychedlic Archaeology. An incredible 6-cd collection of rare, really rare, and incomprehensibly rare psychedelic records from bands you've probably never heard of: West Coast Natural Gas, Rochelle Rosenthal and the Kickball Queen, The Sandals, Aorta, Neal Ford & the Fanatics, The David, The Chosen Few, The Mass, Hot Water, Sound Sandwich, Groundspeed, Aphrodite's Child, Gregorians, Chapter VI, Stone Hedge, Mind Garage, The Raik's Progress, Layne Martine Jr, Whatt Four, She Trinity -- and on and on and on... all studio stuff of A+ quality. (6cd) • Psychedelic Promos. Another zany 3-cd collection of your favourite 60s bands and stars doing radio commercials for concerts, music equipment and consumer goods... like coca cola. Freaky in one way, fascinating in another, there's nothing like hearing a bunch of rock stars sell out by shilling for The Man. This collection was culled from radio broadcast tapes of the era, and the sound quality ranges from B+ to A+ (3cd) • Vancouver Psychedelia, (VHS Tape). Two hours of Vancouver bands on the CBC's teen music shows, Let's Go and Where It's At. Featuring The Collectors, The Poppy Family, My Indole Ring, Papa Bear's Medicine Show, Tomorrow's Eyes, Seeds of Time, Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck and The Shockers. Much was shot at the famous Retinal Circus, with ultra-rare commentary by Circus owner (the late) Roger Schiffer. The Collectors play songs they wrote for George Ryga's play, Grass and Wild Strawberries. Pretty good quality. • It Crawled Out Of The Vaults of KSAN. Spectacular 6-cd set of psychedelia from 1966 to 1968. Includes the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver, Country Joe & The Fish, Bo Diddley, The Byrds, Moby Grape, Captain Beefheart, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Initial Shock, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Santana, Steve Miller Band, The Sparrow, The Doors, The Final Solution, The Kaliedoscope, and Terry Reid. Comes complete with great art. A (6cd) • Other Nights, Other Vaults. This is a takeoff on the "It Crawled Out Of The Vaults Of KSAN" set -- recordings from San Francisco's Fillmore West and the Matrix Ballroom. Volume I is The Blues Project (9/7/66), Volume II is The Doors (3/7-10/67), Volume III is The Doors (3/7-10/67) and Traffic 3/14/68), Volume IV is Cream (8/67), Volume V is Van Morrison (4/26/70), Volume VI is Ten Years After (6/28/68), Volume VII is Pink Floyd (4/29/70) and Volume VIII is Pink Floyd (4/29/70) (8cd) all are in stereo and were acquired from Reel source • The Rubble Collection Vols. 1-11. Rare british collection series featuring UK psychotic freakbeat, pop-psych and full-blown psychedelia from the 1960s. I doubt if you've even heard of half the groups on this endless compilation, unless groovies like Human Instinct, The Buzz, The Peep Show, Felius Andromeda, The Zipps, The Flies, or any of a zillion other zany bands ring some acid bells. With an average of 25 songs per cd, this set delivers an impressive 275 ultra-rare songs. Like you care. (11cd) • Mynd The Gap, Vol. 1. Obscure british psychedelia... like, what else is new? (1cd) or so I thot, until I received this interesting email: "Hi Rick... My name is Iain Clark and many years ago I was the drummer in an obscure British band called Cressida, before I moved on to play with Uriah Heep. Yesterday I was browsing through one of an increasing number of sites that refer to Cressida (good example of early prog rock etc.!) and I suddenly saw a reference to a bootleg called Mynd the Gap and to my amazement it has 2 tracks by Cressida that I have not heard for 30 odd years. They were the original demos recorded before we got our recording contract. I then searched on this title and saw a link to your site where I see you have the Mynd the Gap cd. Is there any chance you'd be interested in making a copy for me?... I would be so interested to hear it again. If you could let me know if this is possible and I could then give you my address here in the Highlands of Scotland. Look forward to hearing from you. rgds, Iain Clark" ... Of course I sent him a copy! And he responded: "Many thanks. It had been 30 odd years since I last heard it. Recorded in the old Regent Sound Studio in Denmark Street in Soho, London (where the Stones recorded their first single!). It took me back instantly! Iain" • The Great British Psychedelic Trip. Yet another compilation of trippy bands. (2cd) • Paisley Pop. Subtitled Pye Psych 1966-1969. More obscure stuff. (1cd) • Hen's Teeth Vol. 1. Yet even more rare psychedelic treats from the golden age. (1cd) • A Heavy Dose Of Light Psych. The best of the wacky stuff that Arf! Arf! records could compile (1cd) • An Overdose Of Heavy Psych. You just want to sink to the floor and blow bubbles out your nose (1cd) • Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers. Six volumes of whacked-out psychedelia featuring copious amounts of heavy sitar shagging. Some of it is a lot better than you'd expect. (6cd) • "Electric Storm" White Noise 1968 UK (1cd) electronic, psych - early important artifact. • Liquid Sound Company. "Inside The Acid Temple" 1995 legit CD (Psych Out Records) Arlington, Texas (1cd). Limited collector’s edition of only 1000 copies. Apparently The Liquid Sound Company was formed by psychedelic fanatic John Perez in 1995 as a side project from his metal band, Solitude Aeturnus. nus. • Liquid Sound Company. "Exploring the Psychedelic" 1996 legit CD (Psych Out Records) Arlington, Texas (1cd). This cd tries to fuse Satanic Majesties Rolling Stones with Hendrix, Pink Floyd, 13th Floor Elevators, Dead, Airplane, Electric Prunes, Strawberry Alarm Clock. A+ 50m (1cd) has to be heard to be believed • Legit Vancouver Psychedelia. These cds have been released on private labels, and include the United Empire Loyalists - Notes From Underground, Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck - Home Grown Stuff (cd signed by Donnie McDougall), My Indole Ring - Live At The Retinal Circus, Seeds of Time - Immortal, Melodic Energy Commission - Moon Phase Compendium. You can buy these thru Neptoon Records in Vancouver. • Then And Now. A clever idea: same performers singing in the 1960s and, well... much later. Includes Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, It's A Beautiful Day, Fraternity of Man, Indian Puddin And Pipe, Tim Hardin, Tripsichord, Little Eva and Marty Balin. Studio stuff A (2cd) RECORD COMPANY "SAMPLERS" These "sampler" albums were specially (and often flambouyantly) produced for radio stations and rock critics in the late 1960s, and were a clever marketing ploy by record companies who wanted to get a "sample" of their artistic stable's current work out to those who could flack or flog it... the best were by Warner/Reprise, who had a lot of the great acts, lots of money, and a kickass promo department... they started the phenomenon in 1969 with The Big Ball, followed by Schlagers, Songbook, Record Show, Zapped, Loony Tunes...and more. I was a rock critic in those days, and I got lots of them laid on me my by record execs... today they're super-rare, and their track listings are unbelievable... I'm currently digitizing all I can find in my vinyl collection, so this list will grow... • The 1969 Warner/Reprise Songbook studio>vinyl>cd A (1cd) tracks are as follows: 1. Wild Man Fischer: Songs For Sale 2. Jethro Tull: My Sunday Feeling 3. The Pentangle: Sweet Child 4. Van Morrison: Slim Slow Slider 5. Family: Second Generation Woman 6. Neil Young: I've Been Waiting For You 7. Tom Nortcott: Sunny Goodge Street 8. Wild Man Fischer: Songs For Sale 9. The Everly Brothers: Lord Of The Manor 10. Van Dyke Parks: The All Golden 11. Van Dyke Parks: Music for a Datsun TV Commercial 12. Sal Valentino: Alligator Man 13. The Beau Brummels: Deep Water 14. Randy Newman: Davy The Fat Boy 15. Tiny Tim: Mr. Tim Laughs 16. The Mothers Of Invention: The Voice of Cheese/Louie, Louie/Our Bizarre Relationship 17. The Mothers Of Invention: The Air 18. The Fugs: The Divine Toe (Part I)/Grope Need (Part I)/Tuli, Visited By The Ghost Of Polonius/More Grope Need (Part II)/Robinson Crusoe/The National Haiku Contest/The Divine Toe (Part II) 19. The Fugs: Wide, Wide River 20. Arlo Guthrie: The Pause Of Mr. Claus 21. Sweetwater: Why Oh Why 22. Joni Mitchell: Nathan La Franeer 23. Eric Andersen: So Good To Be With You 24. The Electric Prunes: Finders Keepers 25. The Kinks: Picture Book 26. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Red House 27. Miriam Makeba: I Shall Be Released 28. Wild Man Fischer: Songs For Sale • The 1969 Warner/Reprise Record Show studio>vinyl>cd A (1cd) tracks are as follows: 1. Neil Young: Cinnamon Girl 2. Grateful Dead: Doin' That Rag 3. Geoff & Maria Muldaur: All Bowed Down 4. The Everly Brothers: Empty Boxes 5. Doug Kershaw: Son Of A Louisiana Man 6. David Blue: Atlanta Farewell 7. Arlo Guthrie: Every Hand In The Land 8. The Blue Velvet Band: Weary Blues From The Waitin' 9. Theo Bikel: Piggies 10. Joni Mitchell: My American Skirt 11. Joni Mitchell: The Fiddle & The Drum 12. John Renbourne: Transfusion 13. The Pentangle: Once I Had A Sweetheart 14. Joni Mitchell: Spoony's Wonderful Adventure 15. Peter, Paul & Mary: Going To The Zoo 16. Sweetwater: Day Song 17. Louie Shelton: A Walk In The Country 18. Lorraine Ellison: Stay With Me 19. Van Dyke Parks: Music For Ice Capades TV Commercials 20. Randy Newman: Yellow Man 21. Pearls Before Swine: These Things Too 22. Hamilton Camp: Star Spangled Bus 23. Ella Fitzgerald: The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game 24. The Fugs: Yodellin' Yippie 25. The Mothers Of Invention: Electric Aunt Jemima 26. Jethro Tull: Fat Man 27. Mephistopheles: Take A Jet 28. Jimi Hendrix Experience: Stone Free 29. The Kinks: Nothing To Say (Mono) 30: Fats Domino: Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except For Me And My Monkey) • Loony Tunes Merrie Melodies Warner Bros 1970 studio>vinyl>cd A (2cd) tracks are as follows: SIDE ONE: 5.5 RICHTER & ABOVE 1. "It's The Plastic" -- 60 Second Radio Spot 2. Faces: Real Good Time 3. Black Sabbath: Paranoid 4. Little Feat: Strawberry Flats 5. Hard Meat: Smile As You Go Under 6. Fleetwood Mac: Tell Me All The Things You See 7. Jimi Hendrix: Stepping Stone SIDE TWO: RESIDENT WRITERS AND REAPERS OF WRY KUDOS 8. John Simon: The Elves' Song 9. Ry Cooder: Alimony 10. Randy Newman: Let's Burn Down The Cornfield 11. Gordon Lightfoot: Me And Bobby McGee 12. Jimmy L. Webb: P. F. Sloan 13. "Performance" Soundtrack: Harry Flowers SIDE THREE: BREADWINNERS AND OTHER STAPLES 14. "Chip Dip" -- 60 Second Radio Spot 15. Little Richard: I Saw Her Standing There 16. The Grateful Dead: Sugar Magnolia 17. Van Morrison: Call Me Up In Dreamland 18. The Kinks: Apeman 19. Arlo Guthrie: Valley To Pray 20. The Beach Boys: It's About Time SIDE FOUR: CALIFORNIA ACID ROCK 1. The Youngbloods: It's a Lovely Day 2. Jeffrey Cain: Houndog Turkey 3. Lovecraft: Love Has Come To Me 4. Sweetwater: Just For You SIDE FIVE: AVANT AND NATIONAL GUARD 5. Captain Beefheart: Lick My Decals Off, Baby 6. Mothers Of Invention: Directly From My Heart To You 7. Alice Cooper: Return Of The Spiders 8. Frank Zappa: Would You Go All The Way? 9. Beaver And Krause: Spaced 10. Pearls Before Swine: The Jeweler SIDE SIX: ELECTRIC JESUS 11. Beaver And Krause: Sanctuary 12. James Taylor: Lo And Behold 13. Harpers Bizarre: If We Ever Needed The Lord Before 14. Van Dyke Parks: On The Rolling Sea When Jesus Speak To Me 15. The Persuasions: It's All Right 16. Turley Richards: I Heard The Voice Of Jesus McDOG MUSIC HOME PAGE McDOG MUSIC 1 ABBA to MARY CUTRUFELLO McDOG MUSIC 2 DICK DALE to JOY OF COOKING McDOG MUSIC 3 KANSAS to BETH ORTON McDOG MUSIC 4 JIMMY PAGE to ZZ TOP McDOG MASTERS My Master Recordings: McDOG DVD & VIDEO Always looking for more of these... ODDBALL, VARIOUS, PSYCHEDELIC, SPOKEN WORD (And Worse) Enter At Your Own Risk