I’m totally addicted to NBC.com’s Olympic video site. Late night handball marathons motherfucker!

Beastie Boys
Rock Hard
This was one of the Beastie Boys’ first singles and it’s kind of (in)famous since it can never be re-released because AC/DC won’t clear the very obvious sample of “Back In Black.” What a bunch of dicks. I guess they are too busy signing exclusive deals with Wal-Mart to do anything cool. I found this online years ago, I forgot were.

Saul Williams
Pedagogue Of Young Gods
World On Wheels
Can’t Hide Love
As I said before, Saul was one of the highlights of Lollapalooza for me and he totally blew me away. I’ve been a fan of his since I saw him at Lollapalooza back in 05 and I’m happy to see that he’s finally starting to take off (even if it is mostly because of a Nike commercial). These four tracks are on the CD/vinyl version of Niggy Tardust, but they aren’t on the original digital-only release, so if you only have that you should get these tracks too. “Pedagogue Of Young Gods” is the easy stand-out of the bunch, it’s a spoken word piece over the music to “No One Ever Does” and reminds you that Saul started out as a poet. The other two tracks are great, but fucking crazy, and are heavy with the old-school electro beats. The physical version of Niggy Tardust also has “Gunshots By Computer” and the suddenly popular “List Of Demands” and those are also available on the Year Zero Remixed album and Saul’s self-titled sophomore release, respectively.

Plastic Little
The Jump Off (King Krash Mix)
Now I Hollar
I know three things about Plastic Little: 1. They’re in Diplo’s crew, 2. They’re probably named after a sex-filled anime, and 3. When it comes to sampling they got balls because “Now I Hollar” takes PJ Harvey’s “Down By The Water” and transforms the original song (about a dead baby) into a song about fucking. That song is on one of their albums, but I couldn’t help but put it on here – it’s so wrong it’s right.

Portishead
The Rip (Live At Mr. Wolf’s) (Stupid Fucking File Fucking Works Now…FUCK)
This is audio grabbed from the USB stick that comes with the ultra-awesome edition of Third that I mentioned last night (of course you can find it on YouTube too). There are supposed to be more videos on the USB-enabled website soon, and if any of them have anything exclusive on them I’ll put them up too. This is the most beautiful song I’ve ever put on this site.

As I promised, the Lollapalooza recapping continues, but instead of focusing on the bands I’m going to focus on the idiots who damn near ruined everything. Oh, and I actually have some music tonight, such a quaint concept for an MP3 blog I know!

There was a lot of idiocy at this year’s Lollapalooza, more than ever before. And it didn’t just come from the fans. No, security, the police, the promoters and even the performers themselves were all guilty of douchebaggery the likes of which this world has rarely seen. All the idiocy I witnessed made me seriously doubt the validity of mankind as a whole and by the end of Sunday I was chanting the “fuck all” riff from Tool’s AEnima. It was bad. People just don’t know how to behave anymore! Which leads me to this:

The NEW AND IMPROVED Lost Turntable Guide To Festivals

Part 1: The Fans

1. Security & Cops Can Be Your Friend
I’ve never made it much of a secret that I’m not a big fan of authority and the police; but I’m not an idiot – everyone else is. And since so much of the populace is mentally retarded someone needs to help the fuckers. So, when the cops/security are carrying hurt people to an ambulance GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY. Don’t stand there like a slack-jawed fucktwat with your thumb up your butt going “damn that sucks for them.” Every time I see someone do this I want to shove my boot up so far up their ass that they suffer severe internal bleeding and then stand back and gawk at their pain so the paramedics can’t help them.

2. Stage Rushing: Not Cool
I’ve never been one to head to the front of the stage during a show, especially one where there will be moshing and crowd-surfing. I have nothing against either of those two activities, they just aren’t for me (and in the case of crowd-surfing, not for everyone around me, since I’m one big fucker). What I do hate, however, is when hordes of idiots decide that they need to be in front of the stage right now and slam their retarded fucking faces into the backs of the poor people in front of them, who in turn are forced to move forward into the people in front of them and so on, until the people in front get their bodies crushed between a sweaty mass of douchebaggery and a steel fence. If you want to get close to the stage get there early like a decent person or be a dick like everyone else and shove your way to the front five minutes before the band comes on. Don’t hurt and/or potentially kill people just so you can see Rage. They weren’t that good anyways (and their soundsystem was shit). The people who do this should get kicked to the ground so elephants with diarrhea can walk over them until they are shit-covered bloodstains.

3. There are more than two porta-pottys at Lollapalooza
This one blows my mind. there are literally hundreds of shitters at Lollapalooza, all lined up in pretty little rows ready to be defiled. They’re all in plain sight, one lined up after another. However, this doesn’t stop people from lining up to use the first two or three and completely ignoring the dozens that are unoccupied and ready to be used for pissing! What the fuck is wrong with these people? Are they so bred to be followers that they can’t even lead themselves into a shitter? They have to take the lead of someone else? These people are the stupidist people on Earth. Their names should be taken and they shouldn’t be allowed to vote or breed.

4. Surprisngly enough you can have two legs, be flammable block a fire exit.
Let me set the stage: Saturday night, Rage Against The Machine is playing. It’s intense and they keep having to stop the show for safety reasons. Not wanting to die at a rock concert (that is s00000 The Who 1979) I decide to get the hell out of there. The closest exit for me is the media one, which is located to the left of the stage, right past a series of stairs – I’m only about 50 feet from it so I figure it won’t be a big deal. I walk to the stairs and notice that it’s pretty crowded, but I keep going. When I get closer I realize why it’s so dense here, people are just standing on the stairs, using them as a keen vantage point to see Rage. But it’s dark out, people aren’t paying attention, and the assume (rightfully) that the path to the exit will be clear, so they keep walking to the stairs. The result is a violent mass of humanity getting poked, prodded and nearly trampled all because some worthless ‘bros and stupid bitches can get a good view of a band that hans’t released new material in close to a decade (seriously guys, it’s just Rage, get over it). These idiots could have fucking killed someone. I seriously, no joke, hope everyone that was blocking an exit or putting other people’s lives in danger just to get a good view of the band gets their reproductive mauled by a rapid squirrel. Don’t fucking block an exit! I’m not even joking here! It’s stupid and someone could have gotten fucking killed!

Part 2: Performers

1. Artsy Bullshit Doesn’t Work In Front of 75,000 People
Look, I like Radiohead. I’m one of those idiots who owns a shitload of their EPs, import singles and 12” records just so I can get one song that I didn’t have before. I even shelled out the extra bucks for the “discbox” of In Rainbows that had a bonus disc of exclusive material. But these fuckers pissed me the fuck off on Friday with their shitty ass stage show. Okay, Thom, I get it, you guys are “artists'” so pyrotechnics, jumping around and acting like you might actually be having fun are all out of the question, but could you at least take into consideration the throngs of fans that have been standing in the heat all day to see you? My main beef with their show was the moronic use of the monitors to the right and left of the stage. Usually, these monitors are used to display closeups of the band for those of us unfortunate enough to get a good luck on our own. Radiohead however, in all their art-rock dickery, decided to take each of these monitors and split them six ways. Not only that, the six-way split was used to show various extreme closeups of the band. So instead of seeing Thom sing “There There” I saw his chin. Thanks a lot you cocked-eyed bastard.

2. Your Fans Are Probably Assholes
Hey Rage, you do know that 90% of your fans don’t even give a shit about “the revolution,” social injustice, political reform or the vanishing working class right? They just want to hear “Killing In The Name Of” and start some shit. Nice message you got, too bad it’s falling on deaf ears. Time to call it a day.

Part 3: Promoters

1. Security is money well spent
As I mentioned at Bullz-eye.com, the Girl Talk show was a complete disaster, with braindead cunnies and retarded fratboys rushing the stage with delusions that they would be allowed to party with Gregg. This wouldn’t have been that much of a problem if there was ample security to deal with the situation, but they were severely understaffed, and opening for dumb girls to hop the fence and get on stage soon appeared. $145 a ticket + 75,000 people = enough money for security guards.

2. There can be too much of a good thing
Just because the fire marhsall will let you cram 75,000 people in Grant Park doesn’t mean you should! I enjoy music but I enjoy walking across the park without getting stepped on by a gaggle of douchebags even more.

And this one is for everyone:

You’re not the only person in the motherfucking world!
You like the band on stage and want to show your love? Excellent, don’t do it by screaming in the ear of the person next to them. You want to try something different with your live shows? I respect that, but try it at a smaller venue with a more respective audience. Want to make a shitload of money before our broken capitalist society fails? Go for it, but try to make a good concert too.

In case you didn’t notice there’s a central theme to all of my rules and regulations; don’t be so damn selfish. Lollapalooza (or any concert for that matter) only works if we all work together to make it a killer weekend. If you decide to show up shitfaced, cheat your fans out of a good show, or rip off everyone around you then you’ll bring everyone else down and in turn bring yourself down eventually. I want Lollapalooza to stick around for a long time, but if there are any more years like this I don’t think it will – at least it won’t for me.

And that’s it. I’m sure as always I’ll get people who calling me a tight ass or asshole for my views on how people should behave at concerts. And as always I say that these people should go fuck themselves while listening to the following awesome music.

Godhead
Eleanor Rigby (Lords Of Acid Mix)
Eleanor Rigby (Chaotica Mix)
Eleanor Rigby (Sonic State Mix)
You got to hand it to Godhead. Not only did they decide that the world needed another NIN-lite band after Stabbing Westward and Gravity Kills, but they decided that they would be the NIN-lite band to cover one of The Beatles most acclaimed songs. And then The Lords Of Acid liked it long enough to stop fucking half of Belgium to remix it. These are off a 12” single.

Portishead
Numbed In Moscow
A Tribute To Monk & Canatella
Lot More (An awesome remix of “Sour Times”)
Theme From “To Kill A Dead Man”
Airbus Reconstruction (A weird-as-hell remix of “Sour Times”)
These are all the B-sides to “Sour Times.” They are all cool and you should download them. Now that I got that out of the way allow me to gush about the super-cool neato-keen awesome Ultra-Limited Edition version of Third that I picked up while in Chicago. It has the entire album on vinyl, which is cool, the “Machine Gun” single (which is extra-cool because one side of the vinyl is etched) and it also comes with an odd piece of art by Nick Uff (which is less cool but still awesome). However, all those pieces of coolness pale in comparison to the super-neato cool P-shaped USB stick that includes the entire album and a bunch of exclusive live videos and other goodies. I’m going to try and rip the audio from those videos later this week and put them here if I can.

Sneaker Pimps
Spin Spin Sugar (Armand’s Dark Garage Mix)
Spin Spin Sugar (Farley & Heller’s Fire Island Vocal Mix)
Spin Spin Sugar (Phluide’s Creeping Vine Mix)
Everyone’s favorite also-rans in the world of female-led trip-hop groups! Okay, that’s a little harsh, but seriously can anyone who doesn’t own a Sneaker Pimps album name another song of theirs off the top of their head? These remixes are from a 12” single.

I know I promised some killer shit but that’s all I got for now. I’m super-backed up because of Lollapalooza and the flu. Hopefully I’ll have some better stuff later on this week.

I’m not longer violently…expelling fluids and my head is no longer boiling so let’s do this thing. My computer is acting a little funky right now and I can’t upload any tunes, so if you’re hear just for the music come back later. If not, and you want to know what my angry ass thought of Lollapalooza this year, then read on…

Things were a little different this year for me as I was there as part of “the media.” And let me tell you, being part of the fifth estate totally rocks because I got free tickets AND free water (until they ran out)!

As The Man, my “official” recap/synopsis/review of Lollapalooza isn’t going to be here, it’s at Bullz-eye.com. Read it and marvel in it’s awesomeness.

However, I still want to have a little something something for you all, so here’s a few added thoughts on the bands that I couldn’t fit into my “professional” review of Lollapalooza. Each link goes to the photos I took of the band. If you want to browse all the photos click here.

Holy Fuck
Boring to watch for sure, but their songs are rockin’ and their bass was so heavy that it knocked my pubes off. And what is that weird film thingy? Someone help me out.

The Kills
Killer. Holy shit though that chick looks like a more fucked up version of Patti Smith.

Gogol Bordello
These guys are completely and totally amazing and worth seeing live no matter what the cost. Not only is their music (gypsy-punk/polka/rap) unlike anything you’ve ever heard before, they are the most fun band I’ve ever seen. The lead singer is my hero – if I could grow a mustache I would totally grow his.

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Old people rock. A little boring though.

CSS
Does CSS buy their wardrobe from Bjork’s yard sale? Seriously. It’s like Lovefoxxx (the lead singer’s name) saw Bjork’s swan suit and said, “nah, that’s too subtle for me – ooh, floral patterns!”

Radiohead
Fuck Thom Yorke and his fucked up eye. Next time stop trying to be arty and try to make your fans happy by letting us see you on the fucking monitors. And Lollapalooza people? Turn up the damn speakers. They were the only band playing, you didn’t need to worry about sound bleed!

De Novo Dahl
Where can I get one of those suits? Are they on their official website? Do they come in 2XLT? Also, what is the weird keyboard that chick is playing? Anyone want to help me with that one too?

Does It Offend You, Yeah?
The band with the worst name in the world delivered one of the best sets of the show. I was in the front row from them and I was almost close enough to snag their cowbell. Almost.

Innerpartysystem
Allow me to elaborate on my Bullz-eye comments about this band. They suck. They suck it hardcore. They suck like a porno star in the vacuum of space. Suffice to say, I didn’t like them that much. On a side note, how come almost all the bands on the BMI stage sucked this year? It’s totally the best stage! It’s entirely in the shade and is usually 10-20 degrees cooler than the rest of the festival. And why was Perry’s stupid little DJ tent next to it? The noise bleed (and random Lindsay Lohan) was annoying.

Foals
The strangest thing about this band is that when I txt F-O-A my phone automatically filled in the rest of their name. Nokia must be a fan. I sure as hell am not.

MGMT
I gave them a glowing review at Bullz-eye but I have to admit that they disappointed me a little bit with an incredibly boring opening that really brought the whole place down. They have to kick up the tempo, dance around more or somethings. These dudes obviously do acid, you think they could come up with some good visuals.

Spank Rock
My original synopsis of this act was simply: “They gave Lollapalooza a huge boner.” But I figured I’d have to elaborate. These guys are now my new favorite rappers. I recently got the instrumental version of YoYoYoYo and I’ll be putting it up in a view days.

Toadies
“DooooOOOOOoooo YooooooOOOOoooouuuuuu waaaannnaaa dIIIIIeeee!!” I fucking love this band and in a few days I’ll havce some Toadies-related surprises for this blog. This was the band I waited the longest for (over an hour) and actually the most pumped to see live. I damn near lost my mind during “Possum Kingdom” and actually did lose it during “Mister Love.” I wish they’d leave Texas more often.

Rage Against The Machine
Fuck them and fuck their stupid fucking fans. More on this in a day or so.

The Octopus Project
New Life Goal – Marry a theremin player.

Brazilian Girls
They have to ditch the crazy pirate with a parasol and go instrumental, or just bite the bullet and hire Beth from Portishead, you know they want to. The chick they have now drove me nuts.

The Black Kids
Stupid? Sure. But Pitchfork was high for dissing these kids, I had a blast. And the babes in this group are totally two tons of fun. The white one really needs to work on her wardrobe though – yikes.

Saul Williams
Counting down to the inevitable Saul/Bowie collaboration that will cause my head to explode due to the sheer awesome it will cause.

Nine Inch Nails
Little known fact: When you buy tickets to see NIN you also get free tickets to the gun show! I wonder if Trent Reznor spends more money on protein shakes than he did on heroin.

I have a little more to say about Lollapalooza (mostly about the retard cockstains who call themselves “fans”) but I’ve gabbed on enough for tonight. Sorry again for the lack of tunes tonight (or all last week) I shall make it up to you soon.

Lollapalooza Recap and photos coming soon. I went to Lollapalooza and all I got was a 103 degree fever and a violent stomach virus. So I’m not writing shit right now.

This will be my last post for at least a week. Tomorrow I am heading for the lovely Toledo, Ohio and from there Chicago for three days of motherfucking rocking at Lollapalooza. So in the mean time here are a bunch of tracks that you 80s fans (i.e. 80% of my readers) should enjoy.

When I come back I’ll be doing my usual Lolla recap, but if you can’t wait till then I’ll be Twittering throughout the weekend during the downtime between acts (I don’t use my phone during a performance, remember my rules). So bookmark this link if you want to be in the know. Hopefully my posts will consist of more than “that asshole in front of me is a prick” and “it’s too damn hot.”

Erasure
Oh L’Amour (LMC Extended Remix)
Oh L’Amour (Kenny Hayes Remix)
Oh L’Amour (Shanghai Surprize Remix)
Oh L’Amour (LMC Instrumental Remix)
Breath Of Life (Aire Clarke Mix)
Sometimes (12” Mix)
Sexuality (12” Mix)
I have to be running out of Erasure remixes to post by now. I just picked up these in that massive record-trade binge that also saw me blindly buying far too much Genesis and Tina Turner. That remix of Sexuality is different than the other 12” remix of that song I put up several months ago, and much better as well.

Depeche Mode
Christmas Island (Extended)
People Are People (Live)
It Doesn’t Matter Two (Instrumental)
A Question Of Lust (Minimal)
I was originally going to post all my Depeche Mode tracks tonight, but I realize that was insane considering A: That’s over 80 tracks and B: Most them are pretty damn obscure. However, when I was planning that I was considering sick/stupid pun titles tonight including “Mother Mode” “Modeus Operendi” and my favorite/worst “I Just Blew My Mode.” I’m going to file that one for later.

Pet Shop Boys
Can You Forgive Her? (Rollo Remix)
Can You Forgive Her? (MK Remix)
Domino Dancing (Disco Mix)
Don Juan (Disco Mix)
Domino Dancing (Alternative Mix)
Next to Depeche Mode The Pet Shop Boys are probably the artist that is currently backlogged the most in my to-be-posted que. I got to take care of that because between all the Erasure, Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys MP3s my “songs to post” playlist is turning into one huge gay disco (albiet one incredibly awesome huge gay disco.)

New Order
World (Perfecto Mix)
World (The Sexy Disco Dub Mix)
World (World In Action Mix)
World (Brothers In Rhythm Mix)
Ruined In A Day (Reunited In A Day Remix)
Ruined In A Day (Bogle Mix)
There are next to no New Order songs in my que though, as I usually record, edit and upload these fuckers as soon as possible. I do have one more 12” that I haven’t uploaded yet, and I’ll be doing that when I get back from Lolla.

Ian Dury
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (Disco Version)
Four synthpop legends and a pub-rocker with Polio. Someone doesn’t blend in here. This remix came from a 12” single. Little know fact: “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick” is the best song ever recorded. Yes, that is a fact, I looked it up…in my mind.

Later this week I’m leaving the wonderful oasis of Pittsburgh for Chicago and the non-stop rocking that is Lollapalooza. Because of other commitments in the days preceeded and following the concert I’ll be away for nearly a week. Don’t fret though, I’m working on a massive post to tide all you over and make the week without me as close as it can be to livable. Until then here is some unapologetic 80s pop music.

Genesis
Land Of Confusion (Extended Mix)
Invisible Touch (Special Remix Version)
Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (Remix)
Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (12” Remix)
So I’m at the record store. I just traded in a bunch of shitty 12” singles for store credit and got a $160 to burn. Browsing through the rock 12” section I find the single to “Land Of Confusion” and grab it immediately. A great song, one of Collins-era Genesis best and one of the few meaningful protest songs of the 80s. With my interest in Genesis slightly piqued I dig through the crate and find the 12” single for “Tonight, Tonight, Tonight.” Another amazing tune, and this single has two remixes of that classic. It’s a great song that’s dark and twisted (most people don’t realize it’s about a junkie). Now I’m in full-on Genesis revisionist mode. “Invisible Touch!” Well shit I gotta buy that! I’ve never really given post-Peter Gabriel Genesis a chance past a few choice cuts. Maybe I should give them a second chance. Maybe I was wrong to…

Oh wait, there’s a twelve inch for “Sussudio”….nevermind.

Quick technical note: The audio on the regular remix of “Tonight…” is a little weird, at about 2:40 it cuts down for a second and then shoots back up. But it’s not my turntable’s vault – it’s just an odd mix.

Tina Turner
Better Be Good To Me (Extended Version)
Goldeneye (Morales Club Mix)
I Can’t Stand The Rain (Extended Remix)
Let’s Pretend We’re Married (Live)
One Of The Living (Special Club Mix)
One of my all-time favorite female vocalists. For some reason Tina reminds me of the 80s more than most of the “80s” artists I put up here. That’s probably because, unlike Depeche Mode and Yaz, I actually listened to Tina Turner when I was a kid. While I’m not likely to put on a Tina record that much anymore, there are few songs of hers that I love to this day, and thankfully I was able to get all of them this weekend! I was also happy to discover that the b-side to “I Can’t Stand The Rain” was a cover of Prince’s “Let’s Pretend We’re Married.”

Another quick technical note: The previously mentioned cover of “Let’s Pretend We’re Married” ends very suddenly. But once again, it’s not my fault – that’ s how it is on the record.

The only thing that pisses me off more than sub-human radio DJs is shitty writing.

Anyone else loving the shit that Pitchfork is getting for their bullshit review of The Black Kids’ debut LP? I sure as hell am. I’ve previously slammed the elitist music site for their pretentious “writing” and it’s great to see that others are beginning to take notice of their douchebag ways.

Like I said before, I don’t care if they, or anybody else for that matter, hates an album. Hate all you want! We all know I’m a hateful asshole! But if you’re going to call yourself a music critic then you should have the balls to back up your opinion. That’s what being a critic means! Way to be a bunch of lazy assholes. If you don’t want to put forth the effort to actually write and back up your opinion then you don’t deserve to be a music critic. I know dozens of people that would kill for the chance to get paid to write about music.

This “review” is also insulting because it implies that without Pitchfork The Black Kids wouldn’t exist in the first place. I know Pitchfork is a powerful force in the world of online music magazines, but get over yourself already. And if you’re really solely responsible for the rise of The Black Kids and you feel as if you’ve made a grievous error in doing so then we deserve a better apology than a dog version of LOLcats.

And while I’m on that topic, ever notice that Pitchfork’s “joke” reviews seem to draw from internet fads that hae already come and gone 10 times over? As I said before that video of the monkey drinking it’s own piss that they used for the Jet review is only about five minutes older than the internet itself.

I highly doubt anyone at Pitchfork reads my dinky little blog, but just in case they do I’ve also prepared a criticial analysis of their site specially for them, “written” in their language:

(Image stolen from Hugpug.com)

Men Without Hats
Moonbeam (Extended Vocal Version)
Dub Beam
Moonbeam (House Is A Home Mix)
Moonbeam (Bacc-A-Apella/Vocal)
I wonder what Pitchfork would say about Men Without Hats? They’d probably love them becuase they’re from Montreal. Think about it, you can totally hear the Men Without Hats influences in Arcade Fire. These tracks are from a 12” single. And this song kicks total ass by the way.

Art Of Noise
Yebo! (Club Mix)
Yebo! (Underground Mix)
Yebo! (Mbaganga Mix)
I’m surprised at myself for not featuring more Art Of Noise tracks. All I’ve put up so far was been their more gimmicky work including that song with Max Headroom and their awful remake of the theme to Dragnet. I got some more Art Of Noise but I’m going to have to re-record them because they sound like shit. “Yebo!” isn’t one of the group’s more well-known singles, but I like it. I think it’s one of the better world music/electronica combinations.

Depeche Mode
Master And Servant (U.S. Black & Blue Version)
(Set Me Free) Remotivate Me
Are People People?
The Meaning Of Love (Fairly Odd Mix)
Oberkorn (It’s A Small Town) (Development Mix)
Only about 60 or so more Depeche Mode remixes/b-sides and then I’m done. It’s going to be a long couple of months. These are from some 12” singles. You can find out which ones by downloading them.

Offfensive Political Rant

Michael Savage is a horrible c-nt. I hope his dick gets ripped off and shoved up his own asshole, two horses in heat try to copulate with his ears and an angry ice scream server scoops out his eyes with one of those heated spoon things so someone pour kerosene down his eye sockets and light the stupid motherfucker on fire.

Sure, I could have just called the idiot an asshole, but when I insult someone I do it creatively.

On a related note, Michael Savage’s son owns Rockstar. I think it’s time we stopped drinking that energy drink.

End Of Offensive Political Rant

The real sad part is that this isn’t the most disgusting thing I heard all weekend? I mean, did you hear the new Chris Cornell song?!?!? It’s just…I mean…..damn.

Okay, now onto the music for tonight.

Moby
Everytime You Touch Me (12” Beatmasters Mix)
Everytime You Touch Me (Freestyle Mix)
Everytime You Touch Me (Uplifting Edit)
Everytime You Touch Me (Progressive Edit)
Everytime You Touch Me (Na Feel Mix)
Everytime You Touch Me (Organic Mix)
Everytime You Touch Me (NYC Jungle Mix)
Everytime You Touch Me (Pure Joy Mix)
What is the reggae dude yelling in this song? “Every masse is real from the scene?” Huh? Can someone please translate for me? I don’t speak “awesome MC dude.” In case your wondering that’s nearly 50 minutes of “Everytime You Touch Me.” Excessive? Yeah probably, but Moby once released an entire CD of “Go” remixes. So this is light by comparison. And it’s a great song. I got all of these from a 2-LP 12” promo single set. Some of them were never put on CD as far as I know.

Depeche Mode
Home (Jedi Knights Remix Drowning In Time)
Home (Air “Around The Golf” Remix)
Home (Meant To Be)
Home (Grantby Mix)
It looks like Depeche Mode hired whomever does the remix naming for Erasure when it came to the first two “Home” remixes. But while “Jedi Knights Remix Drowning In Time” is a pretty sweet remix title, it still doesn’t hold a candle to “Orbital Southsea Isle Of Holy Beats Mix” or “Truly In Love With The Marx Bros. Mix” (actual Erasure remix titles). These remixes are from a 12” single.

This is the most 80s my blog has been in a very long while. Get out your day-glo.

Aztec Camera
Somewhere In My Heart (Remix)
Somewhere In My Heart (Alternate Mix)
I know very little about this band. In fact the only reason I own this 12” single is because a friend asked me to record it for them. I heard they did a duet with Mick Jones though, I’ll have to track that single down. Awesome band name though.

Underworld
Stand Up (Extended Dance Mix)
Stand Up (Ya House Mix)
Outskirts
Underneath The Radar (12” Remix)
Did you know that Underworld used to be a synthpop dance band? I sure as hell didn’t when I picked up these singles so imagine my surprise. Not only was I surprised by the songs’ decidedly Top 40-ness, I was also surprised by just how damn amazingly great they were. These tracks were from before Emerson joined the group and ever since he left they haven’t really been the same. Maybe they should go back to the synthpop, it’s kind of popular again. Have any of these songs been played live since 1990? I love it when a band has the guts to totally transform themselves like these guys did, it’s like when Pantera ditched the glam or when Alanis ditched the…Canada.

Anways, the first three tracks are from the single to “Stand Up” and the mix of “Underneath The Radar” (which is HOLY SHIT good btw) is from a promo 12”. And although I love all of these songs, they all just remind that I love “Born Slippy .NUXX” so I end up cutting them off halfway through and putting that song on – so they ain’t that great.

Wang Chung
Everybody Have Fun Tonight (12 Inches Of Fun)
Fun Tonight: The Early Years
I got shit to say about Wang Chung dammit. I like Wang Chung! That’s right, I said it. I’ve always thought the band got a shit rap for this song, which is actually a pretty damn good pop song that holds up. And I mentioned this before, but I want to say it again – their soundtrack for To Live And Die In L.A. is a great underrated piece of 80s goodness (much like the movie itself) and you should check it out. This single is great because of the later track, which as the title suggest, is from the band’s early years when they were more experimental.

Holy Shit.

It’s been said that arguing on the internet is like the Special Olypmics. Even if you win you’re still retarded.

So, if you’re a Tokio Hotel/Jonas Brothers fan and you’re arguing about who is better what is that? Is that like winning the “most vegitative” contest at a hospice? Look, if you like Tokio Hotel or The Jonas Brothers enough to argue about them over the internet do the world a favor and kill your-okay that’s a bit harsh (but just barely), suicide probably ins’t the answer, but jesus…buy a damn Nirvana album. You obviously have some learning to do.

The Pogues
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah (Extended Version)
The Limerick Rate
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
I love Shane MacGowan, he’s such a drunk that he was kicked out of an Irish punk band. He should start a new band with Slash, Michael Anthony from Van Halen and Iron Maiden’s Clive Burr. They could be called R.U.I. (Rocking Under the Influence). Of course, they’d only get one song in before they all collapsed on stage, but it would be awesome. The extended version of “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” and “The Limerick Rate” are from a 12” single. Their version of the Morricone classic “The Good The Bad And The Ugly” is from my vinyl copy of Straight To Hell Soundtrack. This Alex Cox western is a fucked up classic and it has a killer soundtrack. For some reason the CD re-issue of it doesn’t have this killer tune by everyone’s favorite drunen Irishmen.

Pray For Rain
The Killers (Main Title Theme)
Money, Guns And Coffee
Speaking of the soundtrack to Straight To Hell…These two tracks were also on the original vinyl release but “The Killers” was chopped down by about a minute for the CD release for some reason, and “Money, Guns And Coffee” was taken off completely. If you watch Alex Cox films then you’ve heard Pray For Rain before, they seem to be his in-house band and have done the soundtracks for most of his movies.

Duck You Sucker – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
I’m feeling Westerny tonight so let’s keep it up. Duck, You Sucker was the last western directed by Sergio Leone, who previously did the Man With No Name trilogy and the uber-epic Once Upon A Time In The West. It’s his least known western, probably because of it’s b-level cast and the admittiedly pretty stupid title. Like every other Leone film the score was provided by the ultra-prolific Ennio Morricone, who has done something like 80 bagillion film scores. It’s one of his odder pieces and while it doesn’t have the instantly recognizable hooks of his more famous work from The Good The Bad And The Ugly, it’s still a must have for western fans. It’s been out of print in the US for a while now. If you really like it though I recommend picking up the import version which includes an entirely alternate performance of the score. It also probably sounds a hell of a lot better than my recording of the vinyl, which is kind of scratchy.