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Shit in my Angry Chair

Monday, October 5th, 2009

So on Friday I went to a local theater to see a double-feature of Nightmare On Elm Street and Candyman. I’m cool like that. My friend that was supposed to go with me couldn’t escape a work engagement so I went on my own, knowing I would meet a couple of friends when I got there. Nightmare On Elm Street starts and for some reason I go from zero to pissy in about six seconds. Hand nothing to do with the movie (which I love) it had to do with some people in the audience, who would not stop giggling. I get that the movie is old and a little dated, but it’s not FUNNY (okay, Johnny Depp getting blended to death is, but that’s really about it).

Still, while their non-stop giggling was annoying, I was far more annoyed with it than I should have been. This was on me not them. The movie ends and it’s time for intermission. I go out to talk to my friends about next week’s double-feature which is the Italian horror classic Zombi and the amazing 1987 Kathyrn Bigelow vampire flick Near Dark. I’m trying to sell Near Dark to my skeptic friends who haven’t seen it, playing up the awesomeness of Bill Paxton using a decapitated head to go bowling. One of them says “I loved him in Independence Day!”

“That’s Bill Pullman,” I say, correcting them. I’ve never understood the confusion between the two and it’s a big pet peeve. Bill Paxton; True Lies, Aliens, Apollo 13, Fragile. Bill Pullman: Independence Day, Lost Highway…and that’s about it. I’m a fan of the Paxton. Another friend, a very very good friend of mine, then says, “Does he eat fruit with the skin still on it in this one?” I’m confused and ask for some elaboration. She says, “You know, like he did in K-Pax.”

“That was Kevin Spacey you fucking retard!” I yell at her. Judging from the reactions to those around me I realize that was a bit harsh. I then realize that I am not being very good company that night and I take off early, skipping Candyman because I’m afraid any inappropriate giggling may end with me hurting someone.

The point of this story is that when you have your own blog you can talk about whatever the fuck you want even if it doesn’t have any relevance to anything else, or even a conclusion.

David Bowie
I’m Afraid Of Americans (V2)
I’m Afraid Of Americans (V3)
I’m Afraid Of Americans (V4)
I’m Afraid Of Americans (V5)
I’m Afraid Of Americans (V6)
My brother’s name is Johnny, ergo I find this song funny. These remixes are from a CD single. V3 features Ice Cube. V5 was remixed by Photek. v6 sucks. But don’t take my word for it, find out yourselves.

Alice In Chains
It Ain’t Like That (Live)
Hate To Feel (Live)
The new Alice In Chains album is actually fucking incredible. William Duvall is a great vocalist, reminiscent of Layne without sounding like a cheap imitation. Buy it. While you do that listen to these classic live Alice In Chains cuts taken from the CD single to Angry Chair.

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Emergency David Bowie Post

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Sometimes a David Bowie emergency arises, and his music must be posted. It happens.

David Bowie
Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (Australian Promo Extended Version)
This remix is not from me. It is from Dreamtimemix, the coolest MP3 blog on the motherfucking internet. I’ve been looking for this track for far too long, and it turned out that the guy behind this blog posted it a while ago. Becoming a total hypocrite, I begged him to repost it and he did. I’m putting it up to help give his servers a break. If you like it, go tell him how awesome he is.

There are a lot of different versions of this track, and this one is the rarest by far, only released in Australia, it’s almost a full three minutes longer than the soundtrack version and over four minutes longer than the vastly inferior version that appears on Let’s Dance. This amazing, truly classic track is getting a well-deserved second life now that Quentin Tarantino decided to put it in his latest flick, Inglourious Basterds. Describing how it’s used would be a huge spoiler, but it fits the scene so well that it’s almost like Tarantino wrote the script around its use, which actually would not surprise me. This song is a bloody masterpiece, download it. It’s probably the best song that Bowie released in the 80s.

Bonus Bowie!
Sound + Vision (808 GiftMix)
Sound + Vision (808 ‘Lectric Blue Remix Instrumental)
Sound + Vision (David Richards Remix 1991)
Since I hate doing one song posts, here’s a little bonus treat. In 1991 a four-track EP was released, credited to David Bowie vs. 808 State. It featured three remixes of the classic Bowie track (and the original version, which I am not posting), all presumably done by the legendary electronica group 808 State. These are great remixes and well worth the download.

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Dropping The Needle

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

Introductions suck so I’ll keep this brief. Vinyl rules, and this MP3 blog will serve as proof. The majority of what I post here will be music that is largely unavailable on CD, recorded straight from the groove and onto your hard drive. (If you want to know how to record vinyl this is a good starting point). Not all of it will be old, not all of it will be good, but I promise all of it will be interesting.

Enough talking let’s get rocking. Since this is my first post I figured I’d start things off with a bang, a nuclear bang to be exact. When The Wind Blows (1986) was a British animated drama based on the book of the same name, and tells the story of a cute elderly couple living contently in the countryside – until WWIII breaks out and they both die of radiation poisoning.

Cheery flick.

Anyways, as one of the few Western animated films from the period that was not made for kids (no shit), When The Wind Blows has remained a curiosity for many animation fans since its all-too-brief release in 1986. And it has becoming increasingly hard to track down over the years, receiving only a limited VHS release in America and has yet to be released anywhere on DVD.

Equally hard-to-find is its soundtrack, featuring a title track by the one-and-only David Bowie. I’ll be the first to admit that Bowie’s output in the 80s wasn’t perfect, but this gem of a single has unfairly been neglected since its original release. It finally saw a CD release in America this year, on Bowie’s newest greatest hits package, The Platinum Collection, but that’s really a needless purchase for the die-hard Bowie fans out there who already have every other song on that three-disc set. Also, the version on CD, and even the version on the original soundtrack, is shortened to only three minutes. The extended cut was released (wait for it…) on Japanese import only – and that’s the version I’m sharing with your today (along with the instrumental version). Enjoy the extended Bowie goodness and welcome to The Lost Turntable.

When The Wind Blows (ExtendedMix)
When The Wind Blows (Instrumental)


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