Tonight’s the first night I try my new webhosting service, let’s see how it holds up. A quick tip for all you aspiring MP3 bloggers out there, never use a .mac account to host your files, it’s a total fucking rip-off. I am literally getting 10 times the bandwidth and features at one-fourth the price with my new service (I’m not plugging them until I am sure they don’t suck).

Taking a Bowie Break for now, just some random stuff tonight. I have a big post planned for Friday night since I’ll be busy next week with Christmas (oh joy) those hoping for a big holiday themed post are probably going to be horribly disappointed. However, if you like to kick it old-school you’ll be in heaven…

Madonna
Express Yourself (Non-Stop Express Mix)
Express Yourself (Local Mix)
Open Your Heart (Extended Version)
Okay, so “Express Yourself” is a great song about female empowerment (portrayed in the video via crotch-grabbing in a Fritz Lang-like future) and we all get that. “Open Your Heart” is supposedly a cutesy love song right? Wrong, it’s a song about a psychotic stalker who’s tale of obsession and demented love can only end in murder! Check the lyrics:

Watch out!

Boom, right off the bat, a warning.

I see you on the street and you walk on by
You make me wanna hang my head down and cry

So it starts out tame, she loves a dude who doesn’t know about her (the one guy that didn’t know about Madonna in 1986)

But….he doesn’t even know you, how can he give you a chance? Have you tried introducing yourself to him? Maybe getting a cup of coffee?

Ive had to work much harder than this
For something I want don’t try to resist me

Okay, now we’re into stalker territory. Imagine a guy saying this to a chick, can you say restraining order? I’ve managed to creep out girls with things nowhere near as creepy as this.

I think that you’re afraid to look in my eyes
You look a little sad boy, I wonder why

A. He doesn’t walk to look in your eyes because you’re obviously batshit crazy.
B. He’s sad because he can’t sleep at night and is constantly looking over his shoulder, afraid that a crazy broad in a corset and a traffic-cone bra will kill him!

I follow you around but you cant see
Youre too wrapped up in yourself to notice
So you choose to look the other way
Well, Ive got something to say

Still think I’m reading too much into it? This dude is the victim of an obsessive stalker, an obsessive stalker who doesn’t think that much of her victim, considering that she sees him as self-centered.

Don’t try to run I can keep up with you
Nothing can stop me from trying, you’ve got to

Ack! Dude get in your car and just keep driving, there’s an obsessive marathon runner after you.

Now with that interpretation of the lyrics in mind think about the chorus:

Open your heart to me, baby
I hold the lock and you hold the key
Open your heart to me, darlin
Ill give you love if you, you turn the key

She obviously wants to catch the dude and cut his heart out with a knife (her “key”). This is a fucking episode of CSI just waiting to happen man! Someone should tell Guy Ritchie to watch the fuck out.

Roni Size/Reprazent
Brown Paper Bag (Roni Size Sound Is The Music Remix)
Brown Paper Bag (Photek Remix)
This is one of my all-time favorite tracks. Sometimes I’ll be walking down the street and out of nowhere just start saying “Step to the rhythm made out of brown paper”. People stare at me a lot.

Talking Heads
Houses In Motion (Special Remix)
Houses In Motion (Live)
These two versions of this tragically underheard Talking Heads song came off of a strange import 12” I picked up last week. On it there’s a sticker that says “Expect To Pay around £1.05.” That’s an odd disclaimer to make don’t you think? They couldn’t have been exact? I paid five bucks for it. Man, the U.S. dollar really is worth shit nowadays.

Raven
Gimme Some Lovin’ (Extended Dance Version)
Raven was a mediocre British heavy metal band. “Gimme Some Lovin'” is Steve Winwood’s magnum opus (sorry Traffic fans but it’s true) combine the two and you get…this. Seriously, this is one of the worst songs I’ve ever uploaded, but I had to because it’s just so amazingly awesomely awful that it has to be heard.

Everything is back to normal for now. That response to that last post was huge and I got more hits in 24 hours then I ever have before. What pushed it over the top was a link from an Italian David Bowie fansite. Who knew?

Anyways, I just purchased some web hosting space tonight and I’ll by trying it out with my next post. The amount of transfer space I get is vast improvement, well just see how reliable they are.

Until then here’s some more Bowie.

In the late 80s Rykodisc got the rights to Bowie’s catalog and re-released nearly everything he had put out at that point in new editions with bonus tracks. When EMI (I think that’s who it is now) got the rights to release Bowie’s CDs they took out all those special tracks, so if you have a Rykodisc release of a Bowie album consider yourself lucky. Aside from checking for the Rykodisc label on the case, you can tell if it is a Rykodisc release if the case itself is tinged green, that’s their thing. Here are the bonus tracks from the few Rykodisc releases I have, separated by the album they appeared on.

Lodger
I Pray Ole
Look Back In Anger (1988 Version)

Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
Space Oddity (Acoustic Version)
Panic In Detroit (this is the same version that’s on the bonus disc of Heathen – I used the file from that album for complex technical reasons, but it’s the same song I promise).
Alabama Song (yes, it’s the “whiskey bar” song)
Crystal Japan

Station To Station
Word On A Wing (Live)
Stay (Live)

I had a feeling this would happen. I broke my bandwidth and as such everything is down right now. Thankfully it renews on the 16th, so it should be back in a few hours. Until then everyone hold tight!

Anyone out there like these Bowie posts? I’m surprised that neither of them got any comments. Anyways, here’s the last of the stuff from the Bowie Box Set, I should be putting up more random Bowie stuff tomorrow and Saturday though.

Reality
Waterloo Sunset
Fly
Rebel Never Gets Old
Love Missle F1 Eleven
The latest album in Bowie’s massive overture was Reality, and it proved that Heathen was no one-off return to form. Reality is Bowie at his best, incorporating much of what’s made him great over the past 40 or so years and tweaking it ever so slightly to sound new and fresh. When I finally got to see Bowie live it was during the Reality tour and he blew me (and everyone else in the audience) away, playing at a near-manic energy for close to three hours. Between this amazing album and that incredible show I cannot wait for his next release. Bowie is God.

These tracks from the bonus disc for Reality off of the box set are a little random. First there’s a cover of The Kinks’ “Waterloo Sunset.” Good tune, good cover, although I strangely think that Def Leppard did a better job with the song on their cover album. Next is the b-side Fly. Many of the B-sides from Heathen and Reality were reworked tracks from Bowie’s unreleased album Toy, I don’t know if “Fly” is one of those – good song though. “Rebel Never Gets Old” is a mash-up mix that combines the classic “Rebel Rebel” with the should-have-been-hit-single “Never Get Old” from Reality. They’re two great tastes that go great together. Finally there is a cover of Sigue Sigue Sputnik’s “Love Missle F1 Eleven.” If I ever get a chance to interview David Bowie the first question I’m going to ask him is why the hell he chose to cover this song. I don’t know if I care to know the answer though, because all I need to know is that the original kicks ass and so does his take on it.

I planned on posting even more Bowie goodies tonight but I’m getting close to my bandwidth limit so I need to spread things out a bit. I’m still looking for a good solution to my bandwidth woes. Right now I get 300GB a month and I usually use about 275-290 of that – so it won’t be long until I have to start cutting back on the amount of files I post. I really don’t want to do that! If anyone knows of a good cheap provider let me know. And if someone recommends a service like Rapidshare or Megaupload I will hunt you down and smite you.

Hours
The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell (Stigmata Film Only Version)
1917
We Shall Go To Town
We All Go Through
No-One Calls
This album is kind of “meh” to me. For every song I love on it there’s another I can’t stand. “Thursday’s Child” is one of Bowie’s worst to me, and I’m also not a real big fan of “Survive” and “Seven”. However, I can never get enough of “The Dreamers”, “New Angels Of Promise” and “The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell” which I think was Bowie’s best rocker since “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps).” This version of “Pretty Things…” is not the one that’s on the soundtrack to Stigmata, its the one that is in the actual movie. Very fast-paced, very-jungle, probably was a version left over from the Earthling sessions. The rest of the tracks I’m including are B-sides. There’s some stuff from Omikron on the disc as well, and I might put that up later.

Heathen
Wood Jackson
When The Boys Come Marching Home
Baby Loves That Way
You’ve Got A Habit Of Leaving
Safe
Shadow Man
Of all the albums featured in the box set this one is my favorite. The dark, somber tone of the album works great and creates a great mood never comes off as boring (something that much of Bowie’s latter-day ballads have sadly done). “Sunday”, “Slow Burn” and “A Better Future” are all stand-out cuts. The covers of “I’ve Been Waiting For You” and The Pixies’ “Cactus” are good too.

The bonus disc for Heathen is the best of the box too if you’re looking for original recordings. Only three of the ten tracks are remixes and the rest are entirely new (or newly recorded) tracks. I put up all of the B-sides, the remixes are kind of bland. Most of the B-sides are good, and “Safe” is so good that I can’t figure out why it was cut off the album.

So there’s a new David Bowie box set out, with the rather ingenious title of “David Bowie Box Set.” Surprisingly enough this is the first David Bowie album to include several complete albums. This best-of box sets were just extended Greatest Hits compilations, and Sound + Vision was a disastrous combination of rarities and album-cuts that made no sense.

So for his first box set does he focus on his 70s Glam Rock heyday? No. Does he re-visit the fabled Berlin Trilogy with bonus tracks and B-sides? Nope. What about his superstar high-profile/low-talent period in the 80s? That area is skipped too.

No, for Bowie’s first true box set he chose to re-release his work from 1995-2003, including several remixes, B-sides and previously unreleased and hard-to-find tracks from that time period.

That’s five complete albums, each of which include their own bonus disc of remixes, b-sides and other assorted goodies. Today I’ll be talking about and posting tracks from the first two albums and I’ll finish up later this week with the last three.

Experts From Outside: The Nathan Adler Diaries – A Hyper Cycle
Hallo Spaceboy (12″ Remix)
I’m Deranged (Jungle Mix)
Get Real
Nothing To Be Desired
First of all check out that name. When this album first came out in 1995 it was just called 1. Outside. The #1 implied that a sequel was coming. But I guess disappointing album sales and a less-than-outstanding critical reception nicked those plans in the butt. Despite the rather lengthy new title the original album remains in-tact, nothing has been cut or removed to justify the “Experts” part of the title. I still enjoy Outside, even with all it’s flaws (it’s way to damn long and the segues are just stupid).

The bonus disc includes 14 tracks and I’m putting up four. I’m not including any of the various remixes of “The Hearts Filthy Lesson” because I already put them up a few months ago. The 12” Remix of “Hallo Spaceboy” is a variation of the version with the Pet Shop Boys. The “I’m Deranged” mix should be a real treat for hardcore Bowie fans since it was so damn hard to find before this.

The two other tracks are B-sides. “Get Real” is good and “Nothing To Be Desired” is amazing.

Earthling
Dead Man Walking (Moby Mix 1)
Telling Lies (Paradox Mix)
I’m Afraid of Americans (Show Girls OST Version)
David Bowie followed up Outside with this jungle-infused experiment that really proved to be a hit-or-miss affair. On one had it featured awesome tunes like “Dead Man Walking”, “Seven Years In Tibet” and the hit “I’m Afraid Of Americans” but on the other it included “Little Wonder” and “The Last Thing You Should Do” – two of my all-time most-hated David Bowie tracks.

Unfortunately the former is represented three times over on the bonus disc, but the two Moby mixes of “Dead Man Walking” almost make up for that. Several remixes of “Seven Years In Tibet”, “I’m Afraid Of Americans” and “Telling Lies” make up most of the disc. A lot of the stuff on this disc is also on an EP I’m posting later this week so if you like Earthling then keep tuned because you’ll be in heaven later. The remix of “I’m Afraid Of Americans” is vastly different than the album version and kind of sounds like a demo – it’s bitchin’.

I’m done with school for the semester! Thank Jeebus! These are the songs I’m happy-dancing to. Expect a return to more frequent updates until the hell of college comes creeping back into my life.

Information Society
Something In The Air (Extended Club Edit)
Walking Away (Space Age Mix)
Walking Away (SMD Mix)
Make It Funkier (Boot It Up Vocal)
Think (Blueboy 2600 Mix)
Think (Virtual Reality Mix)
When I was young I used to Rock out to the video for “Pure Energy” on the CD+G disc that came with my Sega CD. For those who have no clue as to what the hell I’m talking about I’ll explain. For about 5 minutes in the 90s somebody got the bright idea to pack CDs with graphic information so that when you hooked up your stereo to your TV you were treated to the latest in 16-bit slideshow graphics. It was retarded. The only CD I had that had this “amazing” feature was a promo disc that came with my Sega CD (I guess shit technology travels together). In addition to two videos by InSoc I recall it having videos by Little Feet and Jimi Hendrix, the rest is kind of a blur. These various remixes came from various 12” singles.

Sidenote: InSoc was on an episode of that VH1 show Bands Reunited. If you want an insider take on “Reality” TV be sure to read this great read by Kurt Larson from the group.

Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Success! (12” Dance Mix)
Success! (Funky Mix)
Success! (Balaeracidic Mix)
Success! (Metal Hammer Mix)
How come “Bands Reunited” never tried to get Sigue Sigue Sputnik back together? These dudes were created for the sole purpose of selling out, so it wouldn’t been a match made in heaven! I’ve been accumulating SSS releases recently and they are quickly becoming my new favorite non-guilty pleasure (no pleasures should be guilty). My obsession with the band was recently encouraged by the new David Bowie box set, which includes his cover of their immortal “Love Missile F-11”.

I didn’t update last week because I was in lovely Toledo Ohio with my family gorging myself on turkey and family-induced guilt and hatred. I didn’t update most of this week because I’m a lazy prick. I respect my readers (wow, that shocked even me) so I’m won’t bullshit you. With Christmas break coming very soon I hope the respite from schoolwork will allow me to post some of the crap that’s been backing up next to my computer desk. I’m neck-high in 12” import singles right now and it’s driving me nutty!

Fun Boy Three
Our Lips Are Sealed (Special Remix Version)
Our Lips Are Sealed (Urdu Version)
Yeah so The Go-Go’s released this song in 1981 and MTV picked up the video and everyone went ga-ga for The Go-Go’s for about three years. But did you know that just two years after The Go-Go’s released it a band by the name of Fun Boy Three did as well? It’s not just an example of some band riding the coattails of another to success, Fun Boy Three’s Terry Hall co-wrote the ditty with The Go-Go’s Jane Wiedlin (I believe they were secretly doing it at the time and that inspired the song). This version is a radical departure from the original. It’s much slower and probably is closer to how the couple was actually feeling when they wrote the song. This cool remix and the odd-as-all-fuck Urdu version are from a 12” single.

The Cure
Hot Hot Hot!!! (Extended Remix)
Hey You (Extended Remix)
Never Enough (Big Mix)
Harold And Joe
Let’s Go To Bed (Milk Mix)
Close To Me (Extended Remix)
People still like The Cure right? And by “like The Cure” I don’t mean “like ‘Just Like Heaven’ and ‘Love Song'”. I mean, people still buy new albums buy The Cure don’t they? And they still tour pretty big venues. So I’m asking those people this; is Robert Smith’s hair still look like he stuck his finger inside 20 different outlets at once whilst covered in water? Just kind of wondering.

Real Life
Send Me An Angel (Heaven No. 7 Mix)
Send Me An Angel (Cloud Nine Mix)
If Duran Duran, Flock Of Seagulls and Alphaville had a baby in Australia the result would’ve been Real Life and this song. There are 80 bagillion remixes of this song (that’s not hyperbole okay, I counted the fuckers) and these are two of the best. I grabbed these off of a West German import from 1988 (must’ve come out just before the Cold War cut-off date) and I think the first one is also known as the “89 Mix” but I could be mistaken…I do now I’m not going to try and find that one to listen to as well, one man can only handle so much of this song.

Wang Chung
Dance Hall Days (Extended Remix)
Don’t Let Go (Extended Remix)
Behind a lot of over-produced, super-polished, slickly-made 80s pop tunes are intelligent lyrics or interesting melodies that allow them to rise above their pop music label. The songs of Wang Chung are not included with any of those songs. I still have a soft spot for the band though. I remember thinking “Everybody Wang Chung Tonight” was the greatest song of all-tme when I was eight. While that song’s novelty has kind of waned on me, I still love “Dance Hall Days” and this remix is more of a good thing. I’m kind of impartial to “Don’t Let Go” but it was the B-side so what the heck.

The KLF
Okay, so I got a request for sopme KLF post by someone who has proven in the past that he cannot read my blog properly. He reiterated my suspicions by asking for a KLF post because I’ve posted about The KLF several times already! Luckily for him I’m feeling generous. I also bought two more KLF 12” singles last week, so it all works out. Here’s all the KLF stuff I’ve posted with those two new singles as well something special. I’m separating The KLF stuff by single because it’s just easier that way. These motherfuckers remixed their shit like it was going out of style. Stuff I posted previously is marked as such.

3 A.M. Eternal
Live At The S.S.L. (Extended version different from album cut)
Guns Of Mu Mu (Previously Posted)
Klonk Blip Every Trip (Previously Posted)
Wayward Dub (Previously Posted)

Last Train To Trancentral
The Iron Horse Mix
Live From The Lost Continent
Vari-Speed Version

What Time Is Love?
America: What Time Is Love? (Previously Posted)
Moody Boys vs. The KLF
Live At Trancentral
Techno Gate Mix

Justified & Ancient
All Bound For Mu Mu Land (Previously Posted)
Make Mine A “99” (Previously Posted)
Stand By The Jams- Featuring Miss Tammy Wynette (Previously Posted)
Let Them Eat Ice Cream (Previously Posted)

Bonus Tracks:
The JAMs
The Queen And I
All You Need Is Love
Before The KLF was The KLF they were The Jams (aka The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu). Their first album was 1987 (What The Fuck Is Going On?) and contained more illegal samples then you can shake a cease-and-desist letter at so it is long out of print. If you manage to find a copy prepare yourself to be severely disappointed. While the samples of questionable legality are fun and work pretty well, the rapping by the two white English blokes does not. These two are the best tracks from that record. “The Queen And I” is based off of a sample of Abba’s “Dancing Queen” (with some “God Save The Queen” thrown in) and All You Need Is Love pulls from Samantha Fox’s “Touch Me” among other things.

This’ll be it for me until after Thanksgiving, to everyone that recognizes it I wish a good Thanksgiving and to everyone else I wish a happy Thursday. Oh, and George I haven’t forgot about you, I’ll send you some stuff next week.

Everyone can stop sending me emails for help in regards to the Radiohead thing. I only needed one response for my article and I got it. So everyone thank George for making sure I don’t fail my reporting class. Everyone who didn’t make the cut I think as well.

On a slightly more angry note, everyone go look at the sidebar to the right. You see where it says “Disclaim This”? Under that is my email address. I don’t spell it out or have a link to it because spambots search out that shit. Anyone who comments that they can’t find my email will be mocked and mocked again once more – except the person that just did because at least he was trying to be helpful, he just needs to brush up on his reading skills I guess.

I might not get to update next week. Thanksgiving is coming up and that means I get to travel back to my wondrous homeland of Toledo, Ohio and get all friendly and shit with my family. That takes a lot out of me. I hope to get some more goodies up here before then though.

David Bowie vs. 808 State
Sound + Vision (808 GiftMix)
Sound + Vision (808 ‘Lectric Blue Remix Instrumental)
Sound + Vision (David Richards Remix 1991)
The whole vs. mix idea is fucking retarded. It’s not like 808 State and David Bowie got in a room with dueling mixing equipment and went at it. That would be totally awesome though, it would be like a breakdance battle with synthesizers. I can totally get behind that. These remixes are off of a weird CD single I picked up at a record convention last month. I don’t know why 808 State (or Bowie) chose this song to remix, there’ s not much to it.

The Smashing Pumpkins
The End Is the Beginning Is the End (Stuck in the Middle with Fluke Vox Mix)
The End Is the Beginning Is the End (Stuck in the Middle with Fluke Alternative Mix)
The End Is the Beginning Is the End (Rabbit in the Moon’s Melancholy & the Infinite Madness Mix)
The End Is the Beginning Is the End (Hallucination’s Gotham Ghetto Beats)
I love this song but I guess it can never be put on any compilation by The Smashing Pumpkins because Warner Bros. totally owns it forever since it was in the soundtrack to that shitty third Batman movie (the one with Val Kilmer). Don’t you just love how corporate pissing contests fuck over fans? And they wonder why illegal downloading is so big. I’m not going to buy the soundtrack to Batman Forever just because I like this song and the U2 one – I’m going to steal them online. I think Batman would have my back in this case.

Faithless
God Is A DJ (Anthony Acid Full Mix)
God Is A DJ (Rollo & Sister Bliss Deep Mix)
God Is A DJ (Serious Danger Mix)
Flashback for everyone. It’s 1998 and I’m a college student desperate for some play. Using cutting-edge internet technology for the time (AOL) I start chatting with some chick. She seems funny, nice and has respectable taste in electronic music, which is the kind of music I’m really into at the time. It just so happened that at that same time I was reviewing a copy of Faithless’ Saturday 8PM (with the bonus remix CD) and I tell her that if we ever hang out sometime she can borrow it. We meet in the cafeteria a few weeks later, she’s a hot red-head punky broad and I’m super-stocked. We have a decent conversation and I let her borrow the CD, at which point I never hear from her again. Sigh. I’m used to getting burned by chicks, but losing that CD in the process was a real kick in the taint. Anyways, these remixes of “God Is A DJ” is off of a 2-LP promo set.

Fischerspooner
Emerge (Junkie XL Version)
Emerge (DFA Version)
Emerge (Naughty’s Chiefrocker Remix)
Emerge (Selway’s Memory Boy Superstarmix)
“You don’t need to emerge from nothing, you don’t need to tear away.” Okay, someone needs to explain to me what the hell that means. Don’t get me wrong, I love this damn song and it’s totally one of my biggest guilty pleasures of all-time, but does it mean anything? Did they just think it sounded like a cool thing to say? Because it’s not. Another question this song makes me ask; is the “hey hey hey” the same “hey hey hey” that’s in Prodigy’s “Firestarter” or is it just an amazing facsimile? These are the questions a music geek asks himself whilst sitting alone in his dark room rocking out to The KLF. I got these remixes off of a 2-LP remix set. When I picked it up at Jerry’s Records he looked it over with a quizzical look on his face before saying, “Well, I’m glad someone knows what the fuck this is.”