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Scroll down to check out everything listed, or click on one of the following to jump down to that list: Don't forget to check out the DeCeased Records label stuff! NEW SOUNDTRACKS A to Z NOTE: While we try to keep everything in stock, because of our huge selection we do sometimes run out! So when ordering, please, if possible, list alternate choices and format if you have any! Feel free to call before ordering to check on a particular title! All of the CD titles on this page are real honest-to-God bonifide CDs and NOT CD-Rs! Across 110th Street LP REISSUE to the 1972 United Artists record. Instrumental music by J.J.Johnson with vocals by Bobby Womack make this one of the best scores ever to a classic piece of 70's Black cinema! The amazing title track (which was reused by Quentin Tarantino in 'Jackie Brown') is worth the price of admission! LP ONLY! $11.98 L'Arcidiavolo soundtrack ITALIAN IMPORT CD (EMI / Vivi Musica)- Aramando Trovaioli's score to the 1966 sexy comedy film also known as 'The Devil In Love'! A Renaissance-pop score of sorts performed by The I Marc 4 with vocal appearances by Edda Dell'Orso! The original '66 LP was pressed in a limited run of only 500 copies! $14.98
Baby Doll LP (Columbia / reissue)-Kenyon Hopkins great score to the Tenessee William's adaptation starring Carroll Baker! $11.98
Batman - Nelson Riddle Original T.V. Soundtrack UK IMPORT CASSETTE TAPE-The original t.v. show music with hip dialogue snippets! Holy Bat-bargain! It's only $1.99
The Devil In Miss Jones CD (Oglio Records, cut-out) - CD reissue of Alden Shuman's elegant score to the US XXX film. $9.98
The Insatiables('Femmine Insaziabili') original soundtrack by Bruno Nicolai ITALIAN IMPORT DOUBLE LP (Right Tempo)- Exciting music score to Alberto De Martino's dramatic 1969 epic of sleaze and mystery! Includes many previously unreleased tracks! DOUBLE LP (in gatefold cover) is $29.98 The Mack CD (Motown)-CD reissue of the Willie Hutch soul soundtrack. $10.98
Ran (Fantasy)-Akira Kurosawa NEW CASSETTE TAPE ONLY $1.99
Rock All Night REISSUE IMPORT LP-New reissue of the rare 1958 Mercury Records release! Music by The Platters, The Blockbusters & Nora Hayes! LP $17.98
Satan In High Heels CD (Collectables)-Mundell Lowe’s jazz score to this ‘62 screen scorcher. $9.98 Savage! IMPORT LP (Southbound Groovin')- Vinyl reissue of the impossible-to-find 1973 super soul score by Don Julian! The original soundtrack to the Blaxploitation movie starring James Iglehardt with Lada Edmund, Carol Speed and Sally Jordan and directed by Cirio Santiago. Available on import LP only for $18.98
Shaft CD (Fantasy)-Isaac Hayes’ awesome score! 2 LP’s on 1 CD! A MUST HAVE! Can you dig it? $16.98
Sky Full Of Stars For A Roof (see below)
Superfly 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION DOUBLE ITALIAN IMPORT CD (Sunspots / Charly) -Curtis Mayfield’s classic score in standard fold-out digipak cover. $11.98
Truck Turner REISSUE DOUBLE LP (Enterprise)- Excellent funky score composed and performed by Isaac Hayes for the 1974 Blaxploitation film! If you dig the soundtrack to 'Shaft', you'll also love this one because it's just as bad! I mean good! I mean... well, you get the idea! $24.98
SOUNDTRACK COMPILATIONS
Easy Tempo Experience - Are You Experienced? CD (Right Tempo)- 11 DJ dance remixes to tracks from the Easy Tempo series of Italian soundtrack music from the '60s and '70s! Original tracks by composers Berto Pisano ('Kill Them All!'), Piero Umiliani and others remixed by modern DJ's! CD is $17.98
Gert Wilden & Orchestra-'I Told You Not To Cry' GERMAN IMPORT CD (Crippled Dick)-Wilden’s jazz music for 60's German thrillers such as Bryan Edgar Wallace’s “Secret Of The Black Trunk” and “Phantom Of Soho”, Jess Franco’s “Castle Of Fu Manchu” and others! $19.98 (Italian Girls Like) Ear-Catching Melodies ITALIAN IMPORT LP (Dago Red)-More rare tracks from the Beat cinema archives circa late 60's to early 70's! Includes Alberto De Martino's 'Blazing Magnum', Lucio Fulci's 'One On Top Of The Other', Silvio Amadio's 'Smile Before Death', E.G. Girolami's 'La Polizia Incimina, La Legge Assolve' and more from composers including Piero Piccioni, Francesco DeMasi, Riz Ortolani and others! With gatefold cover! $17.98
Siegfried Franz - Deutsche Filmkomponisten GERMAN IMPORT CD WITH BOOKLET (Bear Family) - 35 tracks in digipak cover with thick booklet! Music from German cinema mostly circa 1956 to 1962, including 'The Happy Years of the Thorwalds' (1962), 'The Liar' (1961), 'The Angel of St. Pauli' (1969) and 'Dr. Crippen Lives'. $16.98 STRANGE AND COOL MUSIC!
Mo’plen 3000-Space Killer Tracks From The Past ITALIAN IMPORT CD (Irma)-With The Beats & Franco De Gemini, Eddie Caruso & The Five, Mirageman, and other obscure Italian artists! $19.98 Mo’plen 2000-Acid Hip Tracks From Italian Cocktails ITALIAN IMPORT CD (Irma)-Rare Italian easy listening music with Goblin, Bruno Nicolai, Roberto Pregadio and others! $19.98 Rudy Ray Moore - Greatest Hits LP, PROMO ONLY VINYL (‘96-Right Stuff)- w/ great photo cover! $15.98
Elvis Presley-Elvis Sings The Wonderful World Of Christmas REISSUE LP (RCA)-ONLY $4.99 Elvis Presley-Memories Of Christmas REISSUE LP (‘82, RCA)-ONLY $4.99 Sissy Man Blues IMPORT CD- 25 vintage homosexual themed blues and jazz vocal cuts featuring Tampa Red, Josh White, Victoria Spivey, Louis Armstrong and others. With tunes like “It’s Tight Like That”, “Two Old Maids In A Folding Bed” and “Fairy Blues”! 1 copy left! $13.98
Stereo Cocktail GERMAN IMPORT DOUBLE LP- An anonymous collection of shmaltzy pop musick for your next cocktail party! Includes upbeat instrumental versions of “Summertime”, Music To Watch Girls By” and “These Boots Are Made For Walking”! Breaks the ice at funerals! $14.98 Universe Rocketin’ GERMAN IMPORT LP- 22 1950's rockabilly & rock-n-roll songs all about outer space, satellites and Martians! 45 minutes including “Rock It On Mars”, “Moon Twist” and “Orbit With Me”! Vinyl only! $17.98
USED & RARE RECORDS WE ONLY HAVE 1 OF EACH OF THESE NEW AND USED ITEMS. THE USED LP's ARE GRADED AS FOLLOWS: M= MINT; perfect condition NM= NEAR MINT; mint minus one or two minor abrasions VG= VERY GOOD; possibly some minor scuffs resulting in occasional surface-noise. G= GOOD; light scratches, slight surface-noise. Still quite listenable. F= FAIR; scratches that result in noticeable noise P= POOR; playable, but just barely SET SALE USED MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS: Africa Addio LP, VG-, ball-point writing on cover, mono (‘67, UA)-Riz Ortolani’s excellent score to notorious mondo film aka 'Africa - Blood and Guts'! $10.00 Book Of Numbers SEALED LP, gatefold / die-cut cover (‘73, Buddah / Brut)-Featuring Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee $18.00 Book Of Numbers SEALED LP, as above, but w/ a small bit of marker writing at right corner $16.00 Colortone Studio Orchestra-'Themes From Hollywood' LP, VG- (‘5?, Colortone)-Songs from “Rock Pretty Baby”, others $3.00 Damien-Omen II LP, NM, small cut corner of cover (‘78, 20th Century Fox)-Jerry Goldsmith $12.00 Don’t Play Us Cheap DOUBLE LP, NM, gatefold (‘72, Stax)-Melvin Van Peebles orig. Cast & soundtrack $20.00 Ferry Cross The Mersey LP, F, has noise but plays ok, mono (‘65, UA)-Gerry & The Pacemakers $4.00 The Godfather LP, VG, gatefold cover (‘72, Paramount)-Nino Rota’s classic score $8.00 Good Times LP, VG, gatefold cover, stereo (‘67, Atco)-Sonny & Cher soundtrack to wacky movie $10.00 Good Times LP, NM, gatefold cover, mono (‘67, Atco)-as above $9.00 Haunted LP, VG, slight cover wear (‘77 RCA / Midsong)-Music by Lor Crane $3.00 Hootenanny Hoot LP, VG, tiny promo hole in corner of cover, mono (‘6?, MGM)-Sheb Wooley, Gateway Trio, others $10.00 Jaws LP, VG (‘75, MCA)-John Williams classic shark-attack music $9.00 Lawrence Of Arabia LP, G, a little writing on cover, mono (Colpix)-Maurice Jarre $2.00 London Philharmonic Orch.-”Chariots Of Fire” and others SEALED LP (‘8?, Audio Award)-”2001', “Fantasia”, others $3.00 Mayfair All-Star Orchestra-”Music From The Movies” LP, F (‘6?, Golden Tone)-Rita Hayworth on cover $4.00 Mondo Cane LP, G, stereo (‘62, UA)-Award winning score by Riz Ortoloni $5.00 Mondo Cane LP, G, mono (‘62, UA)-Award winning score by Riz Ortoloni $5.00 Quiet Days In Clichy SEALED LP/cut corner,stereo(‘70,Vanguard)-Country Joe McDonald & others, based / Henry Miller $20.00 The Red Tent-Ennio Morricone LP, VG (‘69, Paramount)-Morricone’s score to film w/ Sean Connery & Claudia Cardinale $8.00 Rocky Horror Show-Original London Cast NEW UK IMPORT LP REISSUE (‘87, Dojo)-Tim Curry, Richard O’Brien $15.00 Rocky Horror Show-Original Roxy Cast LP, NM, gatefold w/ die-cut lyric insert! (‘74, Ode)-Tim Curry, Meat Loaf $12.00 Rocky Horror Show Original Australian cast LP (‘75, Elephant)- VG-, 1 small scratch / plays fine. Rare! $20.00 Roller Boogie DOUBLE LP signed by Linda Blair! (‘79, Casablanca)-VG; The score to the roller-skating / disco film signed “Love, Linda Blair” on the front cover!! Wow!! $40.00 7th Voyage Of Sinbad LP, VG (‘80 REISSUE, Varese Saraband)-Reissue of Bernard Herrmann’s 1957 score! $10.00 The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad UK LP (UA)-Mint mono pressing signed by Ray Harryhausen!! Without a doubt the rarest LP we have in stock! Call for details!! $175.00 The Silencers-Dean Martin As Matt Helm Sings Songs From LP, NM (‘66, Reprise)- $15.00 Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off LP by James Brown (‘73, Polydor)- VG-; gatefold cover w/ cut corner $20.00 Sorcerer UK IMPORT LP, NM, price stickers on cover (‘77, MCA)-Original UK pressing. Tangerine Dream score. $15.00 Star Wars-Rebel Mission To Ord Mantell SEALED LP, a few cover wrinkles (‘83, Buena Vista)-by author of radio series $12.00 A Swingin’ Summer LP, NM, mono (‘65, HBR)-Raquel Welch, Rip Chords, Righteous Bros., Carol conners, Donnie Brooks $20.00 Up Tight LP, M (‘7?, Stax)-by Booker T & The MG’s $20.00 V/A-4 Channel Screen Music Deluxe Encore KOREAN IMPORT LP, M, slightly noisy pressing (early 70's, Philips)-with “Diamonds Are Forever”, “Enter The Dragon” & other covers by Paul Mariot & others. Big pic of Bruce Lee on back! $8.00 When The Boys Meet The Girls SEALED LP, hole punch in corner of cover, mono (‘65, Reprise)-Connie Francis, Sam The Sham, Herman’s Hermits,... $20.00 Wild, Wild Winter LP, M, stereo (‘66, Decca)-Astronauts, Beau Brummels, Jay & Americans, Frank Wilson $15.00 Youngblood LP, VG (‘78, Far Out / UA)-by War $10.00 SET SALE STRANGE RECORDS: MUSICK--SINGING CELEBS--POP--SPOKEN WORD--EXOTIC--COMEDY Milton Berle-Songs My Mother Loved PROMO LP, G-, scotch tape at bottom of cover (‘5?, Roulette) $10.00 Victor Borge-Comedy In Music LP (5?, Col.)-G, cover wear $4.00 Johnny Cash-Holy Land LP W/ 3-D COVER! VG, stereo (‘69, Columbia)-Color plastic 3-D shot of Cash w/ church! $15.00 Divine-Hey You! B/w Hey What! UK IMPORT PROMO ONLY 12' SINGLE, VG, generic cover & label- $8.00 Dominic Frontiere and his orch. - Pagan Festival LP, VG-, mono (early 60's?,Columbia)-“An exotic love ritual for orchestra” $8.00 Spike Jones-Dinner Music For People Who Aren’t Very Hungry LP, VG, some surface noise (‘56, Verve)-very wacky! $15.00 Spike Jones-Thank You Music Lovers GERMAN IMPORT REISSUE, M, mono (‘83, RCA)-Jack Davis cover! $9.00 Keep Fit, Be Happy vol. 2 with Bonnie Prudden LP, G (‘5?, Warner)-Nice shots of Bonnie bendin’ all around! $2.00 Tom Lehrer, Songs By 10' EP, F- (‘53?, Lehrer Records)- $2.00 Arthur Lyman-Taboo LP, VG, name written on back, mono (Hi Fi Records)-His most famous slice of exotica! $16.00 Henry Mancini-Plays The Great Academy Award Songs LP, NM (‘64, RCA)-”Moon River”, “Zip A Dee Doo Dah”, others $5.00 Eddie Murphy: Comedian PICTURE DISC LP, NM (‘83, CBS)-Murphy’s 2nd smutty record! ADULTS ONLY $15.00 Pan Is Beautiful-Trinidad & Tobago Steelband Music Festival DOUBLE LP, VG, gatefold (‘84, BWIA) $4.00 Perez Prado-La Chunga LP, VG-, mono (‘61, RCA)-The new dance by the Arthur Murrays! $5.00 Edmundo Ros-On Broadway LP, F (London)-Showtune covers with a Latin flavor $3.00 Treasure Island RECORD PUZZLE, VG (‘64, Storytime)-Cover has extra indented frame w/ punch out b&w puzzle intact! $10.00 Robin Williams-Reality... What A Concept LP, NM (‘79, Casablanca)-His debut record $3.00 Zither Magic by Ruth Welcome LP, VG-, wear at bottom spine, mono (‘6?, Cap.)-Strange witch w/ zither, cauldron & skull $6.00 V/A-British Go-Go, Mickie Most Presents LP, VG, stereo (‘64, MGM)-w/ Cherokees, Symbols, Moquettes, Animals $10.00 V/A-Shutdown LP, G-, bad scratch on last cut, mono (‘63, Capitol)-Hot Rod rockers w/ Super Stocks, The Cheers... $4.00 V/A-Shutdown LP, F-, duophonic (‘63, Capitol)-as above $4.00 SET SALE TELEVISION LP's: Dark Shadows SEALED LP WITH POSTER , stereo (‘69, Philips)- t.v. score w/ narration by Jonathan Frid & David Selby $30.00 Frank Fontaine - Songs I Sing on the Jackie Gleason Show LP, G, stereo (‘6?, ABC)- $4.00 John Gregory Orch. - T.V.’s Great Detective Hits LP,VG-,1 scuff on “Rockford Files”(‘76, Merc)-w/SWAT, Columbo, more $5.00 Cheryl Ladd LP, M, promo hole in corner of cover (‘78, Capitol)-Charlie’s hottest Angel sings! Great cover shot! $12.00 Buddy Morrow Orchestra - Impact LP, VG, mono (‘59, RCA)-themes from Peter Gunn, Mike Hammer, Naked City... $10.00 Leonard Nimoy, Two Sides Of LP, NM, stereo (‘68,Dot) - w/ Nimoy as himself & Spock on cover! Includes “Highly Illogical”$29.00 The Six Million Dollar Man-volume 2 SEALED LP (‘76, Peter Pan / Power) - Bionic adventures, Nice cartoon art cover. $10.00 CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE |
The finest in italian 60s soundtracks course Vol. 1 a sensual homage to to the most raunchy, erotic fimmusic from the vaults of italian 60s & 70s cinema The first volume in a series dedicated to the most raunchy, erotic beat film music from the vaults of Italian 60s & 70s cinema. Piccioni's 'Vedo Nudo (Shake)' and 'Playgirl 70 (Party Music 1)' are both excellent with their main rival being the slinky guitar and organ groove of 'Crazy' by Armando Trovaioli. The album is a bit of a strange beast but there should be enough here to satisfy the majority of rare groove fans. Volumes 1 and 2 will be posted in the coming days. Track 14 - Supercolpo Shake (Nico Fidenco)From the film Supercolpo Da 7 Millardi 1967Crippled dick hot wax!www.crippled.de. Beat at cinecitta erotic italian film music 60's & 70's rare cd! This cd is in excellent condition.
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WEIRDO RECORDS
Part 10 by Angela Sawyer
(August 2017)
'Weirdo was a record shop that I started in my bedroom in 2006. It moved into a storefront for a while in Cambridge Mass., and closed after I got tired of never ever sleeping. While it was around, I wrote reviews of every new title that I sold, and by the end there were more than eighteen thousand reviews. There's only so many times you can call a guitar tone 'crunchy’ or say something disparaging about a singer's hair. So I repeated things, a lot. When compiling this best of, I looked for records that stuck with me, and also for reviews where I thought the writing stood out.'
Here we present part 1 of Weirdo selections from compilations.Everybody likes to pretend that they know everything already, but to find out about old records, you do have to get advice. And I say old records specifically, because the bands aren't playing anywhere. There's no publicists, no Bandcamp's, etc.. Some people read magazines to get their scoops. Some just hang out in stores endlessly. And some, especially those who like single-song formats like 45's or 78's, listen to compilations. There are a shitbucket full of famous comps. Some are part of a series: Pebbles, Back From The Grave, Girls In the Garage, Killed By Death, Dream Babes, Ethiopiques, Rubble, Las Vegas Grind, Secret Museum of Mankind, etc. And there are whole labels like Ace, Numero, Kent, Mississippi, etc. that specialize in them. And then there's the ones that changed how people thought about music itself, like NY Eye & Ear Control, Harry Smith's Anthology or No New York. It goes on FOREVER. This is just a note to let you know that, as it happens, these comps are not any of those. But they are great.
Beat At Cinecitta Vol 1 Rarest Movie
Various 100 Moons LP
2014/1930-55
If you're planning to be more than just a hippie tourist, then never mind Ravi or even the sitar. The raga system is glued together by voices, ones that ruffle & crest through the placeholders of the just intonation scale like Julie Andrews flinging her apron around the Himalayas. Ian Nagoski collects 78's from the first half of the 20th century with his characteristic eye on emotional overload. There are a ton of personalities here- Faiyaz Khan with his robust gargles, Nissar Hussain Khan who quavers like a jello mold in an earthquake, the daughter of Abdul Karim Khan & more. The record skips across schools & substyles, but each singer faced difficulties as the courts by which musicians made their livelihood disintegrated. Each also spent most of their lives in quest of a tone so precise that your ear can split it in two. There's the fine edge that sharkfins past the background musicians, but also a pitched underbubble, that sticks as a dewdrop would to the edge of a leaf.
Various A Orillas Del Magdalena LP
2009/195x-7x
Radiant cumbias from Colombia in the '50's & '60's. Soft accordions with snaking melodies, an inistent rhythm said to sound like the bouncing shackles on the ankles of slaves, and also horns, chants and tons of unusual percussion accents. If you travel to Colombia today, this would be the equivalent of listening to 'Sitting on the Dock of the Bay' (that is to say, trashy parent music), but with such a slinky sound, you can easily hear why it spread hastily through the rest of Latin America. Compiled by the fine New Orleans store Domino Sound Record Shack.
Various Afro Beat Airways 2 LP
2010/1972-78
Follow Samy Ben Redjeb's adventures collecting records in Africa as he misses flights, enjoys the hospitality of one-time producers, rescues boxes of master tapes from back porches, and gets high while listening to blazing organ licks & palm wine guitar lines. Obscure army bands, Otis Redding fanatics, label hustlers who snagged contracts from large European labels, every stripe of undulating funk from Accra & even neighboring port Lome in Togo.
Various An Apple A Day CD
2006/1967-69
The Beatles' tax shelter scheme Apple records had a publishing arm which resulted in loads of unreleased recordings. And many of those collected here are featherweight bits of misty whimsy that make Sir Paul seem like the leather-clad rocker he once was at Hamburg's Star Club. Effervescent psych & soft pop by pre-Badfinger, side projects of Grapefruit, staff songwriters Gallagher & Lyle, demos worked up for Mary Hopkin & more.
Various Arktinen Hysteria CD
2001/1961-73
Avant garde madness hits Helsinki. Really, the only thing you need to know about this excellent disc is that it has a song made out of burps on it. And if that's not enough to convince you, you should really be shopping someplace else anyhow. But so as not to give short shrift to the rest of the tracks, there's also: mechanical orchestras made out of oscillators & photo-resistors, chicken squawking over piano, plunderphonics, retarded Cream ripoffs, early electronic studio mishaps, nests of commie free jazzers, performance pranksters who like nudity & coffins, dada protests of Finnish presidents or Spiro Agnew, much more. Notes in both English & Finnish, and they basically tell you that Erkki Kurenniemi & Pekka Airaksinen were the hometown champs.
Various Bachata Roja CD
2007/1962-84
Dazzling & skittering acoustic guitar diamonds that were party songs in the cardboard box shantytowns created during the 12 year Balaguer presidency in Santo Domingo. Instruments made from fence parts, played in bars so crappy that the patrons all shared the same glass. My favorite track is a merengue by Augustus Santos about being careful while you're drunk and leaving the club so that you don't trip over the whores on the front steps.
Various Back to Peru 2 LP
2013/1964-74
Peruvian psych & freakbeat! Imagine the carnival when you mix Incan temples, McCartney worship, cocaine fields, masked wrestling, and dubbed Annette Funicello movies. An excellent introduction to the scene at large that will make you want for tons of rare albums. From raging teens like Los Saicos to shiny Beatlepop from the St Thomas Pepper Smelter to the smouldering fuzz of Traffic Sound & even some chicha from Los Mirlos.
Various Banned in Czechoslovakia LP
2012/1975-90
To play music in public in Iron Curtain Prague, you had to submit what you did to a board & get a license. Anyone who bucked the system had to build their own equipment, jerry rig recording themselves on hand-copied cassettes & if they were good enough to get people to come see them play in a kitchen, risk being arrested and/or deported. If they could've, these bands probably would have been playing some sort of awful Zappa-Steely Dan-Coltrane hybrid. Instead their clawed guitars are so cruddy, their elation so bitter, that the result couldn't be more scratched-up & nasty. Also, turns out the Czech government was right: arrests of these same musicians is what inspired the writing of the Charta 77 that eventually broke open protests in the late '80's (though everybody here was still recording on shitty boomboxes). The Plastic People & related splinter bands DG 307 & Pulnoc all appear.
Various Beat at Cinecitta Vol. 3 CD
2005/1966-71
Slip into the cool pool of Italian film composers with this set that introduces you to the bewitching Armando Trovajoli. Whether it's bouncy sex comedies or equally bouncy fantasies about Satan showing up to your door with a cape & a machine gun. Only amid the great musical wealth of Italy would Trovajoli be considered a minor figure. He scored over 300 movies, wrote a slew of musicals & was also in charge his own orchestra running back to the early 1950's. Some tidbits from his colleagues too, like Piccioni or Berto Pisano.
Various Beatlemaniacs CD
2006/1963-69
Nothing I love better than seeing the Beatles skewered like a shish-kabob. Whether it's blatant ripoffs, songs about cultural waste products, satire, or plain old opportunism, the world of Beatles novelties offers a window into the human heart that you'll get nowhere else. One of the major jawdroppers of this genre is included here; Dick Lord's 'Ringo.' Oh YouTube, where oh where is the student film/porn video to go with this song? Most of these were made before Beatlelore was entirely set in stone, and the liners make sure you understand every wrinkle of the fad that allowed people to write lyrics this twisted.
Various Bippp LP
2012/1979-85
Some people prefer to call it 'icy minimal electro-pop.' But I'm a bit on the old side, so I prefer the original (non-PC) moniker used back in the early '80's: 'faggy new wave.' Whatever you like to call it, it's from France & features plenty of affectedly disaffected chirping about polaroids & video games over quirky casio keyboards & tiny, tinny drums with lots of trebly echo.
Various The Black Mirror CD
2007/1918-55
See your humanity reflected in wails of grief & prayer from long lost lands. Blessed with an ear that could charm the sand into leaving Arabia, Ian Nagoski digs up bejeweled 78's from around the globe that have never been on CD or LP . And did you know that the shellac which coats 78's comes out of the butts of beetles found in Southeast Asia? Hopped up Polish fiddlers, swaying & aching odes to Serbian nationalism, early hits of Bollywood, rembetika hash house stars, and the early tourist attractions found along lush archipelagos.
Various Bollywood Bloodbath 2 LP
2011/1949-85
Bollywood doesn't have a horror genre so much as it sweeps elements of every style into it's colossal tornado and spits out a few wild, kook-packed thrillers as it spins. Nonetheless, here are the ghost stories, the spiderwebs of intrigue borrowed from Italian giallos, the chilling keyboard drum machines used to keep from having to pay off a roomful of studio musicians. Monster growls, Abbaesque disco nightclubs, stabs of arp synths in totally inappropriate places. Great composers like Burman & Bappi are well represented, but obscure B-level experiments are also given plenty of room- even heavy collectors will find plenty they don't own. The swirling, speedy electric drums (that nonetheless always imitate the tabla) never sit still for a second, and songs happily veer from cheery to tense to WTF and back again within half a phrase. A real rollercoaster, but definitely worth the extra effort to digest it.
Various Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas 2 LP
2010/1967-76
Not just another round of Gal & Caetano cuts, but deeply crippling fuzz and catawamptious echo effects from super-obscure Brazilian '60's bands. Compiled by Joel Oliviera who runs the NYC store Tropicalia in Furs, is originally from Sao Paulo & has been making trips back & forth to Brazil looking for singles. In Brazil as everywhere, bands that weren't big enough to make a full LP tried to get a deal or radio attention by pressing just a single instead. And so the freakiest, trendiest, zero-info cuts are found there. Rocket ship trips with Batman, surf bands trying to keep up with Hendrix, there's even a possible pair of star-crossed lovers. Comes with a pair of 3D glasses, likely because these songs will make your eyes stop working properly.
Various Chicas 2 LP
2011/1962-74
Sassy Spanish yeye brimming with cutsey hair flips, twist tunes, tamborines & even a couple of grinding R&B gals who can outsex Lulu/Tom Jones. Under Franco's Spain it would have been illegal for a woman to have a separate bank account, testify in court, get a divorce, etc.. And yet here are the girls in miniskirts (or even more salaciously, playboy spreads), getting away with whatever they want. They demand that their boys be bad boys, jump around to fuzz bass & tease cute hippies just like they do everywhere. Alfonso Santisteban's wife makes an appearance (he's sort of the Spanish Sergio Mendes), and there's a pre-prog cut from the ladies of Vainica Doble. Covers of everybody from Three Dog Night to Dalida to the Stones to the Four Tops.
Various Chinese Rocks LP
2010/196x
Technicolor pop tunes, flamin' fuzz breaks & completely wacky covers from the way out world of SE Asian '60's singles. So many mysteries! Just how many backasswards Stones songs can the Stylers cram into a single medley? Where did 4 Biol get those horrid wigs? Did Midnight Express always play chicken with taxidermied birds on their off days? Well chosen, and it doesn't cost forty-seven dollars either.
Various Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up 2 LP
2006/1960s-70s
Late '60's to mid-'70's recordings from Belize (it's under Mexico & next to Guatemala, for you Americanos). Reggae, gospel, calypso, southern soul, and Miami proto-funk all mixed up together. Great covers of the O'Jays 'Backstabbers' and the theme from The Godfather that nobody should be without.
Various Cumbia Beat Vol. 1 2 LP
2010/1966-76
In 1965, cumbia was such a popular style (among the wild proliferation of rhythms that had been imported from Cuba in the wake of the mambo) that it began to be claimed & refashioned by the populations of migrant Amerindians, living in the shantytowns outside Lima. While waiting for work that wasn't coming, they tossed in a bit of the psychedelic rock that they heard on the radio wafting over from the States, and named it after the local corn brew: Chicha. The first hit of the genre was even dedicated to a local liquor store. Staggering & demented electric guitar instrumentals (Los Destellos were the first to plug in) soon ushered in a rising tide of matching paisley shirts, girls in bathing suits lying on cars and grass roots populism. Besides all that wah, there's plenty of complex hand percussion & quite a lot of cackling interjections from band members. This is music so thick with hash haze that there ought to be cartoon stink lines coming off of it.
Various Dirty French Psychedelics CD
2009/1970-79
Decadent, humid, drugged to the gills psychedelia from France. Electric flutes rubbing shoulders with overdub choirs & acoustic guitars, brains mottled by downers swallowed at discotheques, zapping keyboards, faux africanism, sound effects. Mostly made by studio fools trying to out-hip, out-sex, out-smoke & out-intellectualize each other. My fave's Nino Ferrer's ode to cruising rainy Paris streets looking for nymphettes, 'Looking for You.'
Various Don't Trust Your Neighbors LP
2011/192x-3x
A huge chunk of the '78's that have been reissued on CD in the last several years have been transferred/mastered by one guy, Christopher King. He's responsible for the sound of the Charley Patton box, collections on Tompkins Square and Old Hat, reissues by the Stanley Brothers, Charlie Poole, Amede Ardoin, etc.. Now, King takes on the gurgling, knotted, decidedly un-metric music of 1930s Albania. Unearthly harmonized vocal drones, taksims that seem to have gotten tangled on mountain rocks & rivers, and Greek-influenced clarinet songs that push the limits of the instrument to the breaking point. There's Robert Crumb album art too.
Various Fading Yellow Vol. 1 2 LP
2012/1965-69
1st volume of this series that has claimed the twinkling tiara of UK melancholy pop collecting for over 10 years. Intensely catchy songs soaring with disconsolate melodies, endlessly embellished vocal harmonies, intricate arrangements, & ornate lyrics about cozy, cloistered, insecure Englishness. The real secret to Fading Yellow's eminence is the ear of its gentleman Swedish compiler. The artists here are sometimes better known for their beat singles or for their releases in another country, but every cut is an earworm that will plaster itself along the inside of your head.
Various Give Me Love Songs of the Brokenhearted Baghdad 2 LP
2008/1925-29
More amazing 78's dug out of the EMI archive, this time documenting the rich, fluid, urban kaleidescope of '20's Baghdad. Arabic folk singers, professional Jewish oud players, dabka dance songs, Kurdish violinists, double reed zurna players & forbidden women singers all rub shoulders like calligraphy curlicues in book margins. Effervescent frission and haunting calls to God just explode from the grooves. Incredible notes that include translations of lyrics, analysis of styles & a story from of the city once bedecked by coffeeshops & victrolas by a man who knew most of the musicians on the recordings when he was a boy.
Various God Less America LP
1995/1955-66
Brilliant set of down & out country songs that take the down & out just a little too far. Nominally country music, these are tales of drunkards, strippers, inbreeding & other low class losers that're just too real to be anything but, well, real. Troy Hess, in particular, delivers a vocal with the power to repel hearing humans instantly, and when you realize he's also singing about his mom's knockers, well...
Beat At Cinecitta Vol 1 Rarest Music
Also see Angela Sawyer's album on Feeding Tube records