OH BOY

[spatch]

If you only visit one website devoted to ephemeral recordings now only found in thrift shops, let it be this one. You'll need some kind of RealPlayer-like software to listen. Turn that frown upside down.

Some album highlights:

• Laverne & Shirley Sing! You really don't need the exclamation point for that one.
  
• Parakeet Training Record. Nothin but repeated phrases. Some of these are begging to be sampled. "Hel-lo! Hel-lo ba-by! Hel-lo! Hel-lo ba-by!" Toss a slow grinding beat underneath and oh you got yourself one heck of a sex bomb, baby.
  
• The Love Generation. The curator of the site says: If you were writing an episode of The Simpsons that called for a stereotypical 1960's hippie band singing about peace and love, you might easily come up with a group called the "Love Generation" singing a hit song called "Groovy Summertime", and laugh about it all day. You might even think about putting out a fake "Love Generation" album in the tradition of the Ruttles and Spinal Tap, ripping off chords from early Beatles records or the Mamas and the Pappas along the way. He's right. This album is a Christopher Guest movie just waiting to happen. Even if Spinal Tap did start out as a flower power group.
  
• The Ballad of Jim & Tammy. Tammy Faye Bakker tells it -- er, sings it like she thinks it was. Oh my.
  
• The Monsters Go Disco. Count Chocula, Boo-Berry and FrankenBerry all go disco. YOUR EARS WILL BLEED.
  
• HOLY CRAP. TONY BENNETT GOES SHATNER.

Oh, and some song highlights:

• Roll out the barrel... OF DISCO! Yes.
  
• Muhammad Ali's always gettin' blamed for things he didn't do!
  
• Quite possibly the worst thing I've ever heard.
  
• THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DRINK TOO MUCH COUGH SYRUP.
  
• and THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS YOU CHASE DOWN THAT COUGH SYRUP WITH SOME JACK DANIELS.
  
• This Melanie cover is in desperate search of a Wes Anderson film.
  
• And this one is waiting for John Waters.

Oh we love music. We do. And we hope you love music, too.

Comments

[stopword.livejournal.com]

Bless you.

Oh how I wish my laptop had sound.

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE, and WHY DID THEY HATE "PROUD MARY?"

[heliopsis.livejournal.com]

"I never lost the MANNER OF SPEAKING?"
"big wheel keep on ROLLING?"
"seen a lot of PLAYS in Memphis?"
"pumped a lot of GRAIN in New Orleans?"

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

[muse0fire.livejournal.com]

This reminds me - the other day I had an LP flashback.... my sisters are much older than me, and I inherited their records when I was a kid. At some point I actually had a record that consisted of the entire soundtrack to Star Wars done in DISCO form.

*shudder*

Some memories are repressed for a reason.....

Re: WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE, and WHY DID THEY HATE "PROUD MARY?"

[spatch]

I think the lyrics were transcribed by Gladys in Accounting, and you know she doesn't hear so good in the first place. Also, some of those words sounded kinda smutty to her, so she changed 'em around to something nicer.