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I’m gonna haul ass to Lollapalooza!

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

It is that time of the year again, Lollapalooza beacons me! I’m stoked for The Killers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio, Arctic Monkeys, Dan Deacon, Passion Pit and oh yeah, who’s that other group?

Oh that’s right, motherfucking Depeche Mode!

I’m so excited I might shit. I should pack extra shorts.

Sorry for that unneeded comment. Long time visitors of this site know that my blog kind of shuts down for Lollapalooza, so don’t expect another update until the end of next week, since I’ll be busy writing about Lollapalooza. If you can’t wait for my amazing recap you can check out last year’s at Bullz-Eye.com to wet you appetite and you can follow me on Twitter that weekend, where I will occasionally be posting worthless comments. Yes, I know I’ve bashed Twitter, but it is a convenient way for me to take notes, I sure as hell am not going to take my laptop to that place. It’s certainly a better use for the site than what I’ve used it for in the past, which is to engage in meaningless Twitter fights with idiotic manic-depressing Trent Reznor stalkers who never go outside and find joy in the death of heart patients.

Long story. Anyways, enjoy the tunes. Sorry I haven’t gotten around to the second half of that Janet Jackson post, I will soon I promise.

Die Krupps with Nitzer Ebb
The Machineries of Joy (Wahre–Arbett Mix)
The Machineries of Joy (Die Krupps Mix)
The Machineries of Joy (True Work Mix)
Join the Rhythm of Machines
I know very little about Die Krupps, and I only know slightly more about Nitzer Ebb. I do know that this song kicks ass though, makes me want to punch someone, which admittedly isn’t that difficult right now. These are from a 12” single.

The Jungle Brothers
I’ll House You ’98 (Anthony & Skribble Vocal Club Mix)
I’ll House You ’98 (Anthony & Skribble Feel da Drum Mix)
I’ll House You ’98 (Peter Presta’s Vocal Mix)
I’ll House You ’98 (Original Girl I’ll House You)
Jungle Brother (True Blue) [Urban Takeover Remix]
We Got It Goin‘ On (Urban Takeover Mix)
I don’t know what “I’ll house you” means, but it sounds dirty, so I support it. I guess it makes sense, you can “rock” someone after all. I think we should start making other musical genres verbs. This weekend I plan will “electro” someone, then if anyone gives me grief about it I will “new wave” them. It’s the only way they’ll learn. They just better hope I don’t “tech-house” them, they might never walk again.

And on that retarded note wish me luck in my trip to Chicago. See you all next week.

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Add on a Beat to the Standard Song

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Those Michael Jackson posts attracted all kinds of people to my dark little corner of the internet and I got far more hits over the past few days than I ever had before.That must account for some of the more….interesting comments I’ve been receiving over the past few days. Thanks for them guys, I love you all.

But enough of that popular shit, here’s a bunch of obscure hip-hop. I’m sure this will attract a whole other group of d-bags. Whatever, just keep it real.

Word.

Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
Made In America (Whoopi’s Mix)
Made In America (Del’s Mix)
I was trying to find the Del album that this song was originally on and I couldn’t. Turns out it originally appeared on the soundtrack to Made In America, the comedic opus about interracial artificial insemination starring Ted Danson, Whoopi Goldberg and Will Smith. Yeah, that’s the weirdest sentence I’ve typed in a while. That at least explains why one of these remixes is titled “Whoopi’s Mix.” I got these versions from a 12”.

De La Soul
Say No Go (Say No Dope Mix)
Say No Go (New Keys Vocal)
If I was a writer when De La Soul broke through I would have tried to dub their unique laid-back style of rap “Hippie-Hop.” Good thing I wasn’t a writer at the time. These are from a 12” single as well.

DJ Shadow
Dark Days (Main Theme)
Dark Days (Spoken For Mix)
High Noon
Devil’s Advocate (Heaven v. Hell – Bonus Beats)
The first two tracks are from an excellent documentary called Dark Days, which is about homeless people in NYC who elect to live underground. It’s a fascinating film and I highly recommend it. The soundtrack of the movie was comprised mostly of tracks from DJ Shadow’s groundbreaking Endtroducing, but he also contributed a few original tunes and remixes for the movie. Dark Days has no official soundtrack release, but the main theme has shown up on a couple compilations, including a 12” single that I got yesterday. The other two tracks are from an EP, also released around the same time as Endtroducing. Strangely they weren’t including on the Deluxe Edition of that album though.

Posted in B-sides, De La Soul, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, DJ Shadow, remixes | 3 Comments »

Willkommen auf der Drehscheibe Verloren

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

I saw Nine Inch Nails last week. Good shit. Want to know how to make me go nuts? Perform a cover of a Gary Numan song. Trent did, rocking out an epic version of “Metal” that had everyone but me bored to tears. I want to start a Gary Numan tribute band. I bet I could get Gary Numan to join.

Anyways, I recorded some of the opening act, which is the Street Sweeper Social Club. It’s Tom Morello’s new band and they were much fun live. I’m reviewing their CD right now and I’m sad to report that the fun didn’t make it to the studio. I’ll give a link to that review in a few days. If you want to check their cover of MIA’s “Paper Planes” go here. The camera work is less-than-good I know.

Speaking of links to reviews…

Hell – Teufelswerk: I very rarely give 5 star reviews (I think) and I don’t toss around phrases like “best album ever” a lot, so take my word for it when I say that Teufelswerk just might be the best electronic album of the decade. This record blew my mind 8 times over, it’s just fucking amazing. This is the best electronic album I’ve heard in a decade, and probably the best since The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, Aphex Twin’s Richard D. James album or The KLF’s White Room. Yes it is that damn good. I don’t know why more people aren’t talking about this album, it will change what you think house music can do.

Now for some stupid b-sides and remixes

The Pretenders
In The Sticks
This is an instrumental jam, recorded I don’t know when and written by I don’t know who. I grabbed it off of a compilation called “Attack of the Killer B’s” which features B-sides by a ton of popular artists, the next four songs are also from this same compilation. If anyone can give me any information about this tune I would greatly appreciate it.

The Blasters
What Will Lucy Do?
I know this is a cover of a Frankie Lee Sims song because I looked this one up. I knew it wasn’t a Blasters original because it sounds nothing like them. This song is older than your parents. It’s fairly awesome. A live version appears on a Blasters greatest hits compilation, but I think this is a studio cut.

John Hiatt
Take Time To Know Her
John Hiatt is most famous for writing songs that made other people famous, such as “Thing Called Love,” which Bonnie Raitt covered to massive success in 1989. This is uber-80s adult contemporary pop/blues. Dated but fun.

Peter Gabriel
Shock Den Affen
German version of Shock the Monkey. That’s the only way this song could be made weirder. Peter Gabriel actually released several of his albums in German, sadly they are all out of print in America. I wanna hear “Games Without Frontiers” in German.

The Time
Grace
Morris Day has a female reporter stroke his…ego in this silly skit. I think Morris Day is the only Prince protege that has a bigger ego than Prince. It’s kind of sad considering that The Time is best known nowadays for their cameo in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back

Thomas Dolby
The Devil is an Englishman (Extended Version)
An extended remix of the theme song to Gothic, a horrible movie that no one has ever seen. I’ve already written more than anyone else ever has about that soundtrack, which you can read (and download) here.

Jesus & The Mary Chain
Surfin’ USA (Summer Mix)
How the fuck did this happen? They did a lot of drugs right? That’s the only explanation. From a 12” single I think, it’s been a while since I recorded this one.

Posted in B-sides, Jesus and The Mary Chain, John Hiatt, Peter Gabriel, remixes, The Blasters, The Pretenders, The Time, Thomas Dolby | 8 Comments »

Only Happy When I’m Whining

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Rant contained within.

Pearl Jam
U
Angel
Happy When I’m Crying
Santa Cruz
Golden State
Pearl Jam’s been in the news a lot recently. First Jeff Amet got the snot kicked out of him outside a recording studio in Atlanta, then they helped usher in The Conan Era of The Tonight Show by being their first musical guest (and playing this awesome song).

However, what everyone is talking about now is how Pearl Jam has “sold out” because of some deal they made with Target. A quick snippet of comments from across the web:

“Looks like those thugs in Atlanta stole their cred too.”

“I just can’t stop laughing. The unwavering antiestablishment band has finally sold its soul to the corporate machine.”

“I’m still laughing – SELL OUT’s”

If there’s one thing about me that people who read this blog know it’s that I fucking love Pearl Jam. If there’s another thing people who read this blog know about me is that I fucking hate stupid people. So you can imagine the backlash to this non-story is annoying me.

Here’s the article that caused all the ruckus. Now, if you actually read the fucking article you’ll see that it says nothing about Target being the ONLY place where you can buy the album. From the sound of things it will most likely be the only “big box” retail store where you can pick up the album, meaning places like Best Buy and Wal-Mart won’t be carrying it. From the sound of things you can still go to your local independent store and buy it, and you can definitely still get it at Pearl Jam’s website, which is where you should buy all Pearl Jam stuff since you get it sooner and usually with bonus stuff.

I’m having a hard time understanding why signing with a multi-billion dollar corporation like Sony is okay in the eyes of some people, while working with a retail store like Target is not. In a perfect world an artist wouldn’t have to jeopardize their artistic integrity in order to sell records, but that’s not the case. Even a group like Radiohead or NIN has to work with “the man” to get their records out there.

Most importantly, I don’t think any of this really goes against the Pearl Jam code of ethics (that others have seem to supplanted onto them). They aren’t supporting some right wing organization, they’re not working with any major label and they aren’t changing their sound to accomidate a corporation’s desire. People need to shut up and learn to read before bashing someone or something for no good fucking reason.

And by the way, if you want to call Pearl Jam a Sell Out, you can just site when they let Friends use “Yellow Ledbetter” for the series finale.

Enough of my complaining (yeah, right) lets get to the music. “U” was the b-side “Wushlist” Angel was on the 1993 fan club single, “Happy When I’m Crying” is from the 1997 fan club single and the last two are from the newest fan club single that just came out a few weeks ago. I didn’t rip any of the fan club singles personally so if the quality is sub-par for once it’s not my fault. “U” is from a CD single so I don’t want to hear any complaining about that one, especially since the song is great

Posted in B-sides, Pearl Jam, rant | 6 Comments »

Industrial Power-Pop Madness

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Okay, Industrial Power-Pop doesn’t exist. If it did I think it would be the greatest thing ever though. I might have a massive rant or two in the coming days, so consider this the calm before the fuckstorm.

Cheap Trick
Anytime
Baby Talk
Brontosaurus
New Cheap Trick motherfucker! No, not here, here. Check it out because it’s totally awesome because Cheap Trick is one of the best bands of all time and if you don’t think so you suck. That’s my critical analysis for the night.

Anyways, like I said before, the songs I am posting tonight are not new Cheap Trick songs, they are in fact old Cheap Trick songs. “Anytime” is from their 1997 self-titled release, an album that I believe is woefully out of print. It’s a sleazy song about boning, in other words classic Cheap Trick. “Baby Talk” and “Brontosaurus” (which is a cover of a song by The Move) were only available on a two-track EP that came with some copies of the 1997 album. You can thank my mom for these tracks, since she was one of five people that bought this album when it came out, handing it off to me several years later.

KMFDM
These Boots Are Made For Walkin‘
These Boots Are Made For Walkin‘ (Bombs Remix)
These Boots Are Made For Walkin‘ (Candy Remix)
Back In The USSA
Why would KMFDM cover “These Boots Are Made For Walkin‘?” I got a better question for you, why wouldn’t they? All of these tracks are from a 4-track EP called Boots which came out in 2002.

Posted in B-sides, Cheap Trick, KMFDM, remixes | 5 Comments »

Gratuitous Mandolins and Medleys

Monday, June 1st, 2009

No stupid rants about assholes on Twitter, retarded music trends, idiots on TV or what-have-you tonight. I am very tired and in a surprisingly good mood. Oh well. Don’t worry, I’m sure something will piss me off soon enough.

Soul Asylum
James AT 16 (Heavy Medley)
Soul Asylum may be an also-ran of the grunge-era but I always dug them. I remember seeing the video for “Just Like Anyone” as an ultra-geeky teenager and falling in love with the Angelic Claire Danes. I owned all their popular albums but over the years have managed to misplace most of them. I should give Grave Dancers Union another spin sometime.

Soul Asylum was always straddling the line between pure pop and college-rock/punk and this medley shows their wide variety influences that most likely led to their signature sound. Recorded live at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go in 1988, this 11-minute epic is a medley of heroic proportions, covering 13 songs from various genres and periods. The madness knows no bounds and it includes “The Cross” by Prince; “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield; “I’m Waiting For The Man” by Velvet Underground; “Birth, School, Work, Death” by The Godfathers; “Damaged Goods” by Gang of Four; “Play that Funky Music” by Wild Cherry; “Free For All” Ted Nugent; “Oops Upside Your Head (aka “I Don’t Believe You Want To Get Up and Dance”) by The Gap Band; “Body Slam” by Bootsy’s Rubber Band; “Staying Alive” by The Bee Gees; “Wishing Well” by Terrence Trent D’Arby; “Get Down Tonight” by KC And The Sunshine Band and finally “Peaceful Easy Feeling” by The Eagles.

Wow. That has to be the only time anyone every combined Gang of Four and The Eagles.

R.E.M.
Mandolin Strum
Belong (Live)
Orange Crush (Live)
Star Me Kitten (Demo)
Losing My Religion (Live)
Organ Song
I have a love/have relationship with R.E.M., with every album of theirs I love there is at least one other I hate. And they were partially responsible for “Shiny Happy People” which is something I still have not forgiven them for. I’d have to be some sort of emotionless monster not to like “Everybody Hurts” however, which is the single from which these B-sides are culled from.

One of my best high school memories was caused by “Everybody Hurts” and allow me to indulge.

My senior year was pretty awesome schedule-wise. I had an art class second period, an independent study that was also an art class third period, lunch fourth period and then a study hall fifth period. Basically the middle of my day was made up of art and doing nothing. Good times. Anyways, for that study hall I volunteered to be a teacher’s aide in the science library, which was a great gig because no one ever used the science library as it was at the far end of school (and it was a science library). So most of the time I got to sit on an ultra-comfy couch, read comics and listen to the radio while the librarian went out to smoke.

One day some amazingly hot girls came into the library to “study” and in a rare instance of clique-crossover, decided to talk to me. Using their womanly ways they convinced me to change the radio from the oldies station (the librarian’s choice) to the local alternative station. Right then “Everybody Hurts” came on and all three of us just layed on the couch and listened to the song in silence. Very John Hughes of us I know but at the time that moment seemed to mean something.

But enough about my overly dramatic high school days, as I said before, these songs are from two different singles of “Everybody Hurts.” Some of them are kind of scratchy though, and I apologize for the sub-par quality.

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Critically Critical Of Critical Critics

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Okay, time for another rant against Pitchfork.

So 21st Century Breakdown came out a few weeks ago. I bought it and while I’ve only listened to the whole thing all the way through once, I enjoy it. It’s no American Idiot to be sure but it has its high points and is still better than Nimrod and Warning.

Still, if you don’t like the album that’s fine, that’s your opinion and you are more than welcome to it. Jess Harvell at Pitchfork did not like it, and he wants you to know right off the bat that he didn’t like American Idiot either, starting his review with “I wanted to like American Idiot. Really.”

Okay, Jess didn’t like American Idiot, big deal, but as the review continues he acts like that was the popular opinion, adding, “Two listens in, though, and it was clear: American Idiot was musically dodgy and politically empty. Political pop has its place, at least when didacticism doesn’t drain the wit and life from a band’s songwriting. But American Idiot failed utterly as coherent propaganda and as rock invigorating enough to agitate the pleasure centers.”

If he wants to think that fine, but considering that nearly every other critic in the world said the exact opposite, including the critic who reviewed the album for Pitchfork back when it first came out, maybe Jess should’ve realized that he’s in the minority with that opinion and state as such. If your only information about American Idiot came from this review you’d think that the album was an undeniable critical bomb (when it was, y’know, the opposite of that).

Harvell has no business reviewing this album. Not because he didn’t like American Idiot, but because he is obviously not suited to give the readers the information they want to know about the album, i.e. is it as good as American Idiot.

Partially-hypothetical example: I really really really do not like The Joshua Tree. I think it’s a bloated, indulgent piece of shit and there are only two things I hate in this world more than “With Or Without You,” and those things are “Where The Streets Have No Name” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”

My opinion of The Joshua Tree isn’t any more right or wrong as the next guy, however, I understand that I am in the minority viewpoint when it comes to that album. So, if I was a critic in 1991 tasked with writing a review to Achtung Baby (another album I’m not a fan of) I would not begin it with, “Joshua Tree was a failure of a record,” because that’s not really fair. In fact, me reviewing that album at all wouldn’t be fair, I would be ill-suited. Everyone reading a review of Achtung Baby would want to know if it sounded in comparison to The Joshua Tree, and me saying “it sucks less than that other album that I thought sucked” is not a valid answer to that question.

Can a critic review an album by a band he doesn’t like? Sure, but he has to be honest about it, say something like, “I’m not a fan of this band, but if you are and want more of the same by them then you should enjoy this record.” Instead of doing that Harvell retconned reality and turned American Idiot into a critical flop just because the truth didn’t fit his fucking lead.

And if anyone can tell me how a 4.8 album is worse than a 4.9 album I’ll give them a cookie.

They Might Be Giants
Cabbagetown
Siftin’
Larger Than Life (Joshua Fried’s remake of She’s Actual Size)
Holy shit TMBG b-sides! You have any idea how hard it is to find these? For a band as fan-friendly as TMBG it’s pretty amazing that they haven’t yet released a rarities compilation (that I’m aware of). Sure, there was Then: The Earlier Years but that only encompassed their first two LPs, we need more dammit! These b-sides are from the maxi-single of “I Palindrome I.”

The Sugarcubes
Vitamin (Babylon’s Burning)
Vitamin (E Mix)
Walkabout (Remix)
After buying that massive box set I was surprised to find out that there were singles by The Sugarcubes that I somehow didn’t own. “Vitamin” is not one of my favorite Sugarcubes tunes, so I’m not that into these remixes. I will say though that the “Vitamin (E Mix)” is one of the most cleverly named remixes I’ve seen that isn’t an Eraser remix, and the remix of “Walkabout” is pretty good.

Siouxsie And the Banshees
Fear (Of The Unknown) (Vertigo Mix)
Cities In Dust (Remix)
The Passenger (LLLLLoco-Motion Mix)
I’ve had that Vertigo Mix of “Fear (Of The Unknown)” for years, but it was a rip from a vinyl that looked like two cats had sex on it then died, so it sounded like shit. Thank god for random maxi-single finds are sub-par record shows! Strangely, the remix isn’t posted on the tracklisting of the single, but only on the CD itself, which makes me believe it was a last minute addition. It’s a hardcore house re-imagining of the track, and is pretty damned good, which is not that surprising since it was remixed by everyone’s favorite gay formerly meth-addicted DJ from PA, Junior Vasquez. The other two mixes are from 12” promo singles. I don’t know what makes the “Cities In Dust” mix that different than the LP version, but the remix of “The Passenger” is about 5 minutes longer than the album cut. Awesome cover.

Posted in B-sides, rant, remixes, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Sugarcubes, TMBG | 7 Comments »

Kirk Doesn’t Believe In Situation No Win

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Sorry for the unannounced week off. Shit happens.

On an entirely unrelated note, I saw Star Trek last week and must say that IT WAS THE BEST MOVIE IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE. Totally. Like, it’s total fucking godhead good. It’s mind-blowing, pants-creaming extraordinary awesomeness that will make you forget about the war, the shitty economy, The Black-Eyed Peas and everything else that’s wrong with our world today. I’m planning at least two more trips to the theater to see it, and if you haven’t seen it yet then you’re fucking up. It’s awesome. Go now.

Actually, read my blog first, then go.

The Clash
Return To Brixton
Return To Brixton [Extended Mix]
Return To Brixton [SW2 Dub]
Now here’s something I never knew existed, dance remixes of Clash songs. “Return To Brixton” is, not surprisingly, a remix of “The Guns of Brixton,” which originally appeared on The Clash’s seminal 1979 album London Calling. These remixes popped up some 11 years later on a maxi-single that also included the original version. I have no idea what the reason was behind the creation or release of these mixes, as they don’t seem to be promoting anything – they don’t appear on any proper Clash album or compilation and they weren’t the beginning of some grand Clash remix campaign. On the back of the CD it mentions that the original version of the song is available on The Story Of The Clash Volume 1, but that came out in 1988 and this single came out in 1990. Regardless of the origins, the remixes aren’t bad, if entirely unnecessary.

Big Audio Dynamite II
Rush Dance
City Lights
Rush [Live]
The Globe (12″ Mix)
The Globe (Dub Version)
The Globe (By The Orb)
The Globe (Instrumental)
My B.A.D./B.A.D./Big Audio obsession is well documented, so you can imagine my joy when I found not one, but two maxi-singles (sealed!) for sale for three bucks a pop. “Rush” is probably one of my favorite songs in the history of the universe, and both the dance and live versions don’t disappoint. In fact, the live version ranks up there with the live version of “Fucking in Rhythm and Sorrow” as one of my all-time favorite live B-sides. “The Globe” is less awesome by comparison, but one of the remixes is by The Orb, and that’s pretty damned awesome.

More maxi-single goodness later this week.

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Better Living Through Orgone

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Not much to say tonight. Actually, I have a bit to say about various non-inportatant things, but I am very tired. Quick review notices:

Julien-K – Death To Analog: My original review for this was just going to be “Fuck these guys.” but my editor said that lacked impartial critisism.

The Future Sound Of London Presents The Pulse EPs: If you like Acid House and you do not own this CD collecting some of FSOL’s most essential (and woefully out of print) tracks then you are fucking up.

Now some tunes.

Kate Bush
Cloudbusting (The Organon Remix)
I was torn on putting this one up because the quality of the recording isn’t that great. There are quite a few pops and crackles and such, but I decided to post it because I’m sure the people who really want to hear it don’t give a shit. Besides, it’s a totally awesome song. How many other songs have you heard about machines that can disrupt the weather using the unseen forces that are created from orgasms? I thought not. This remix is from a 12” single.

Mental Note: I need to buy more Kate Bush 12” singles.

OMD
If You Leave (Extended Version)
La Femme Accident (Remixed Version)
Speaking of shitty recordings…I put this song up a very long time ago, back when I had a retarded turntable that spun too damn fast. I meant to repost this one in March, but I couldn’t find the damn thing in my horribly unorganized record collection. I finally did, so enjoy and spend the weekend waxing poetic about Molly Ringwald.

Todd Terry
Let It Ride (12” Edit)
Let It Ride (Tee’s Mix)
Blackout (Tee’s Out Mix)
And now for the drum ‘n’ bass portion of tonight’s program. Todd Terry is a house legend whose remixes you’ve probably heard before (on this blog most likely) having done remixes for artists as diverse as Garbage and Yes. I didn’t know he was into DnB as well, so these tracks were a pleasant surprise. They are all from the same 12” single.

Bedrock
Set In Stone
Forbidden Zone
Ah those wacky House DJs and their stupid-ass pseudonyms. Bedrock is John Digweed and Nick Muir, and while they aren’t as successful as Digweed’s other collaborative project (Sasha & Digweed) they do alright for themselves. “Set The Stone” is just alright, but “Forbidden Zone” is great, peaking wonderflully near the end. Pure house brilliance. These two trance/house tracks are from a 12” single. Immature sidenote: Having a name like “Digweed” must have sucked in junior high.

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A Monstrous Psychedelic Blog Experience through the candy-coated center of your third eye (or something).

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Record Store Day was last Saturday, and between my hunting in Pittsburgh, my friend’s hunting in Toledo and my mom’s hunting in Colorado I was able to get a lot of the super-neato-keen exclusives that were available that day. The biggest (and most difficult) find was the 12” single of Oasis’ “Falling Down” which you’ll find more information about below, but I also got some other nifty swag. I’ll try to post more of this stuff later in the week, here’s the best of the best right now.

Regina Spektor
Better (Piano and Voice)
Better (Radio Recut)
Hero
Bartender
I already owned this album but I had to get this vinyl, so I can frame it and have Regina’s cute face look over me in my bedroom. Wait, that sounded creepy didn’t it? Um…nevermind. The vinyl version came with these extras special bonus cuts, which were previously only available on iTunes and on singles. The piano only version of “Better” is super-awesome, and the rest aren’t half bad either. Hey Regina, call me.

Oasis
Falling Down (A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Remix)
Just putting this one up on a blog doesn’t really do the complete package justice. I have it labeled as “A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Remix” but the front cover goes all out, calling it “A 20 minute cosmic dozescape psychedelicized by the Amorphous Androgynous. A monstrous psychedelic bubble exploding in your MIND.” Hyperbolic? Not at all, because this mix is fucking insane, and absolutely incredible. A must have for fans of anything that doesn’t suck. Important side-note, Amorphous Androgynous is the psychedelic pseudonym of The Future Sound Of London, one of the top five electronic acts of all time. So yeah, it’s a must have. On the vinyl version of this it was split in half, with parts 1 and 2 on one side and 3 through 5 on the other. I did you the pleasure of mixing them together, so you can have one 20 minute freakout session. Don’t take the brown acid.

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