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the wfmu old bin is an album repository updated periodically. click on the artist links for playlists featuring them since 2002. recently added items are highlighted in green.

1. Abbey Lincoln - A Turtle's Dream (Verve)
   • Doug Schulkind: An absolutely exquisite document enhanced in fact by thecontributions of Pat Metheny on four tracks. Frankly, I don't think KennyG could have fucked up this album, one of my all-time favorites.
2. Abdel Aziz - El Mubarak (Global Style)
   • Rob sez: "Sudanese pop with mid-sized orchestra. 3 upbeat 'crutch' rhythms and 2 'reggae songs.' If you like this, also see "Sounds of Sudan" CD compilation (under Middle East) and CD's by Nubian singer Ali Hassan Kuban."
3. Africa - Music From Li'l Brown (Ode)
   • David S says: They're from LA. Not a lot of info circulating on who these guys were(*), but this is a fine hot & heavy soul-funk record. Check the covers of "Paint It Black", and "Louie Louie/Ode to Billy Joe". Originals are more in vein of sweet 60's soul and are solid too. Writing team of originals include Billy Storm or "Billy Storm & the Valiants", a 60's doo-wop outfit. (*) someone adds: Coefield & the Pipkin Brothers were stalwarts on the 60's LA soul scene, lotsa 45's.
4. Albert Ayler - New Grass (Impulse!)
   • Andy Waltzer: A blissful funk/jazz hybrid. Sweet soul vocals joined withAlbert's beautiful and skronky sax. Enjoy!
5. Aleister Willis aka Vitamin B12
   • Tony Coulter and Kenny G. say: Lives in London and has put out a million cassettes. This, to our knowledge, is the only vinyl available. No CDs to date, no info. inside. Distributed by Recommended and is chock full of styles: everything from New Wave to pre-Ambient/Techno to pop to long humourous passages.
6. Alexander Vertinsky (Chant du Monde)
   • Maryann: A true bohemian, Vertinsky immersed himself in the depths anddecadence of Russian literary circles. He wrote poetry, beautiful cabaretsongs, and even worked as a nurse. This collection is a treasure,enjoy!
7. Alicia de Larrocha - Twelve Spanish Dances for Piano by Granados (Epic)
   • Rix sez: just one of my all time favorite piano records, oozes duende.
8. Amina Claudine Myers - Songs For Mother E (Leo)
   • Rex writes: Duet performances, Larry Young-influenced, terrificpercussion.
9. An Der Schonen Blauen Blue Danube - Various Artists (Home Products)
   • Ken sez: 30 cover versions of "The Blue Danube Waltz" by European weirdos. Great fun!
10. Andrei Tarkovsky - Solaris Original Soundtrack
    • A great, spooky electronic soundtrack to an equally great film- (Fabio)
11. Annette Peacock - I'm The One (RCA)
    • Donna sez "I like it."
12. Anthony Moore - Flying Doesn't Help (Quango)
    • Brian sez: Slapp Happy guitarist, Dagmar Krausse hubby--this LP from 1979 is quirky art-pop, and much cheaper to find these days over those $30 import CDs.
13. Aphrodite Love Poetry dramatized by Cerise (Collectors Records)
    • Ken sez: "All spoken word. Hot lesbian poetry."
14. Aphrodite's Child - 666 (Harmonia Mundi)
    • Kenny G. sez: Don't puke. This was Vangelis's first band (he goes under the name Vangelis Papathanassiou, a real mouthful). This is crazy Greek psychedelia with a heavy dose of Experimentation. Check out "Infinity." Very slutty.
15. Arnold Schoenberg - Integrale de l'oueve pour piano
    • Rix sez: Just a reminder that these lovely brief piano pieces exist. Re-dig them.
16. Ashley Hutchings & John Kirkpatrick - The Compleat Dancing Master (Antilles)
    • Rob Weisberg: I had no idea we had this...filed right between Roland Kirkand Kiss, reason enough to play.
17. Ass Baboons of Venus - Naked LadyWrestler vs. Mango Man (Epic Japan)
    • Brian: The Japanophile WFMU never quite got on the Ass Baboons tip. Here'sanother chance.
18. August Sons - Sonnets and Parables (Eyes in the Woods)
    • Dan Mackta: It's the American New Order? And they're from Mississippi? The middle of nowhere, Mississppi to be exact. Very serious but earnest, honest and slightly experimental fuzzed-out tunes that these guys insisted were pop music. Also every record they made consisted of songs thematically linked - this album consists of "sonnets and parables". Cute!
19. Avant-Derniers Pensees - Radiante Porvenir
    • Bryce sez: I'm freaking out.
20. Basement 5 - 1965-80 (Island)
    • Douglas Wolk: Frequently confused with PiL back in the day,apparently. Grinds! Grooves!
21. Beach Boys - Love You (Warner Brothers)
    • Douglas W writes: 7 years after the Beach Boys stopped making goodrecords, they abruptly made a very good, totally weird record. "Honkin' Down the Highway." Rob Lim adds: On the weird tip, don't miss Brian's ode to fatherhood (B5) inexplicably sung by Dennis.
22. Beak - Beak (Insignificant Records)
    • Drop-dead amazing San-Fran noise punk from 1994, very much a LA Flipper. Both trax clean Repeat! Killer sax! (Mike)
23. Bene Gesserit - Fashion is a Dirty Word (Dead Man's Curve)
    • Probably many of you already know, if not... great 80's Belgian creepy but playful cheap electronic weirdness. Check : A1, 3, 11, B5, 10 (Scott)
24. Bermuda Triangle - Bermuda Triangle (Winter Solstice Records)
    • 77 super-late hippie psych-folk L.I. trio, no guitars, weird drums, flanged autoharp, Wicker Man fiddle. Cover Moody Blues, Aerosmith, and Circus Maximus. The missing link between Comus & Rotary Connection? (Scott)
25. Beth B & Scott B - Vortex Sdtk (Neutral)
    • Monica: Great early 80s No-wave noir soundtrack featuring many of theusual suspects from the Lower East Side art/film/music scene. Some greatgrooves.
26. Bid3iliba - Bid3iliba (FMN SoundFactory)
    • Charlie Lewis: Great Japanese pop, some arty, some jazzy, some hard rockwith odd time signatures, marimba, female singer. One of my faves.
27. Big Boy Pete - Homage to Catatonia (Dionysus)
    • Charlie: One of four collections of obscure but prolific late 60's Brit"Big Boy" Pete (Miller). Lo fi psychfolk-pop. Great hooks, riffs. Check4,5,11,2.
28. Bill Wyman - Monkey Grip (RollingStone)
    • John Allen: Low end groove with Danny K from the Section, Dr. John, etc.Backing vocals from Betty Wright, George & Gwen McRae. Get over thenakedness and he'll pull you through.Anonymous: Ouch! Send this one to the basement!
29. Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billy Joe (Capitol)
    • Trouble sez: Not as stunning as her Delta Sweet (Suite) but BOBBY's voice can melt steel girders.
30. Bobby Conn and The Glass Gypsies - The Homeland (Thrill Jockey)
    • Neo-glam concept album that guzzles and snorts through the post - 9/11 pscyhe (track 1). Check especially "We Come in Peace" ("We bought our guns to set you free") and the dead-on W imitation in teh discofied wonder of celebratory paranoia, "Relax" (track 6). (Dan B.)
31. Bolder Dam - Morning (Void)
    • Mosurock: Super-stupe regional rokk ca. 1971 or so. This came and went outta the new bin unjustly, please reconsider for it is righteously heavy (ala Bang, Pentagram, Sir Lord Baltimore). "Dead Meat" izza choice 15+ minutes.
32. Bound & Gagged - EP (Modern Method)
    • DJ Orange Julius: Found this quiyte by accident. Cool herky-jerk no-waveplunk by a six-pack of Boston ladies. More info, please!
33. Bruce and Terry - Best Of (Sundazed)
    • Now the late Terry Melcher (unknown reviewer)
34. Bruce Haack - The Electric Lucifer (Columbia)
    • Brian sez: Between this and the Freak Scene, Columbia had a pretty good track record for psych records... It's a shame Mariah Carey didn't follow through with that music concrete project.
35. Camille Yarborough - The Iron Pot Cooker (Vanguard)
    • David S. writes: Her "Take Yo' Praise" was the key sample for Fatboy Slim's monster hit "Praise You". But it's the funk-soul-spoken word on this record that makes it worth a listen on its own terms. Since dropping out of the music biz (this LP tanked commercially), she's been a political activist and organizer plus lots of other stuff. By the way, Fatboy Slim cut here in for 75% (maybe 50%, but I think it was 75%) on his "Praise You" royalties.
36. Cannonball Adderly - Presents Soul Zodiac (EMI)
    • Jeffrey Cobn says: What can I say that a perusal of the album cover doesn't spell out! Acid funk jazz circa 72 with comicly serious soul rapping about signs of the Zodiac. Produced by Adderly and David Axelrod.
37. Carlos Garnett - Black Love (Muse)
    • Brian: Jammin' funk meltdown from Panamanian-born tenorist. Garnett sidelined for Pharoah and Miles before this LP.
38. Centipede - Septober Energy (RCA)
    • Scott sez: English Prog who's who and it admittedly gets a bit wanky in places, but some these cuts are amazing! Esp. check side B, track 3 and imagine these White English kids auditioning for the first Funkadelic (Rawk!) line-up, aided by Mingus or some other mad genius. Doug adds: this features some of the greatest South African (exiled) and Jazz players.
39. Charles Amirkhanian - Lexical Music (1750 Arch)
    • Douglas W: Fabulous, deranged late-70's sound-poetry. Start with "DutifulDucks" the dive in with "Seatbelt Seatbelt". Take some Advil first.
40. Chico Freeman - Kings of Mali (IndiaNavigation)
    • Doug Schulkind: You'll come for the saxophone, but you'll stay for thebailophone. It's a soaring, majestic mix.
41. Chico Hamilton Quintet - Drumfusion (Columbia)
    • Brian: w/Gabor Szabo.
42. Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Brotherhood (RCA)
    • I replaced the burn I did of a scratchy old record with a high-quality CDR. This now also has the original vinyl cover art. (Doug S.)
43. Chuck Vrtacek - Victory Through Grace (Leisure Time Records)
    • Very unusal, eccentric record by this member of Forever Einstein. Vrtacek's worked with Chris Cutler, Biota and others in the R&R orbit. This little solo venture is a blend of very timely-for-the-time no-wave sensibilies, low-fi expermientation, and vaguely RIO-inspired globetrotting. A nice surprize. (Acapulo Rodriguez)
44. Clark & Hutchinson - A=MH2 (Sire)
    • Same highly inventive "urban sprawl". A great throw-down psych LP (Old-skoll) with elements of Raga, Jazz, Spanish, Soundtrack, Classical, Celtic, etc. (Jeff D)
45. Colin Newman - A-Z
    • By far my fave Wire-related side release (1981).
46. Conrad Schnitzler - Rot (Plate Lunch)
    • Brian: Not a huge fan of Connie S., but this is a most satisfying latenight electronic grinder.
47. Contrastate - A Thousand Badgers In Labour (Black Rose)
    • Scott says: Beautiful drone/collage out of the UK - fans of Popul Vuh & Gavin Bryars oughta check. Oddly enough, they've collaborated with the Tiger Lillies.
48. Cortex - Spinal Injuries (Heartwork)
    • Terre T: Not punk, but totally captures the dark, no-one-loves-an-alienalienation. Check out "The Freaks", piano and synths, emotive andsad.
49. Cortijo Y Su Combo - Time Machine
    • $mall Change: Dope funk/salsa/Nuyorican session from the mid-70s. Excuse the cheesy/sessy cover art, obviously not the original sleeve.
50. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Royal Albert Hall Concert
    • Johan sez: Starters: CCR are BETTER than The Stooges. Second Course: In the late60s and early 70s when douche-music was prevaling, CCR were into 50s/60s R&B. rockabilly, soul, etc. Main Course: They are white guys worthy of mention in the samebreath as Little Richard, Bo Diddley or Ike/Joe Turner. Desert: listen to "Keep on Chooglin'"
51. Crust Brothers - Marquee Mark
    • Sloppy live takes on Dylan/Band w/ the odd Skynard cover.
52. Dadisi Komolafe - Hassan's Walk (Nimbus)
    • John Allen: Very beautiful West Coast outsider record from members ofTapscott's Pan-arkestra.
53. Das Yahoos - Sturm und Drang (Skyclad)
    • Joe Belock sez: in my all-time top 5 Cramps rip-offs. Produced by Ben Vaughn.
54. Data-Bank-A - Access Denied (K.O. City Studio)
    • Industrial wave dark dance project of Andrew Sava-Kovats with help from some friends. Sounds like Eastern European contemporaries, but is out of Lowell, Mass, where Andrew still lives (and sells D.B.A CDRs on Ebay). Check A2, A3, B3, and the rest. (OCDJ)
55. Dave Holland - Emerald Tears (ECM)
    • Mike Goodstein: Great mid 70s solo bass LP by a guy who left Miles Davisand Chick Corea's groups to play Anthony Braxton compositions and hang outwith Evan Parker. He goes from nearly trad stuff to bizarre cutups withease and a rare fluidity on this record.
56. DeathGrooveLoveParty - George Bush Lies 7" (SOL)
    • Rob Weisberg writes: Out of political necessity..again!
57. Deja Voodoo - Too cool to live, Too smart to die (Midnight)
    • "sludge-a-billy" from Montreal - brilliantly combining the groove of rockabilly w/ the decrepit filth of punk - (Dan Bodah)
58. Delmore Brothers - Lonesome Yodel Blues (Old Homestead)
    • Dave the Spazz: These guys sing and strum like separated Siamese twins.Haunting, incredible stuff.
59. Demarnia Lloyd - Trace (Arc)
    • Brian: One of New Zealand's bright lights right now, Demarnia (akaCloudboy)'s gorgeous, ethereal voices and lilting melodies workorganically with sampladelic/electronic strustures in a way akin to Solex(but I dig this a lot more).
60. Deniece Williams - Gonna Need A Miracle: The Best of Deniece Williams (Columbia/Legacy)
    • Track 1 - "Free" - Ultimate end of the night jam... (Small Change) (Hatch)
61. Depth Charge - Goal (Vinyl Solution)
    • Bart sez: "Barmy Army meets Coldcut meets Bomb The Bars. Spun often."
62. Dirty Poodle (Put It On a Cracker)
    • Brian: Great Florida band provides woozy soundtracks for late-night driving. Allegedly guitarist from bizarro sado-masochistic goth band the Genitorturers is involved here, though the music certainly doesn't lead one to believe it.
63. Dolly Parton - The Bargain Store
    • Doug sez: Amazing Amazing Amazing! Dolly may even be a better songwriter than she is a singer.
64. Drachir Ztiworoh [Richard Horowitz] (Ethnotech Records)
    • Doug sez: "Nice early example of that techno/ambient (before the crowning of the genre) stuff that leaned heavily toward gamelan sensibilities. Track B-4 kills me. This might be Soussan Deihm's first appearance on (U.S.) vinyl.
65. Dukes of Hamburg - Star Club Show 1 (Dionysus)
    • Dave the Spazz: This is completely great! Nobody has any business rockin'out like this!
66. Dyke and the Blazers - The Funky Broadway (Collectibles)
    • Incredible funk pioneer from Buffalo, NY. He checked out at the wrong end of a gun when he was only 28. This is everything he did and there ain't a stinker in the bunch. (Spazz)
67. Earth - Phase 3 Thrones & Dominions (Sub Pop)
    • Cobain's heroin-fetcher served up some of the heaviest and evilestMarshall walls of sound, sometimes making the Melvins look like the Mamasand Papas.
68. Eddie Hazel - Games, Dames and Guitar Thangs (Warner Brothers)
    • Fabio: The man who gave us the great Maggot Brain guitar solo on the LP of the same name by Funkadelic. Rix: It could've been better but it's all we got.
69. Eddie Palmieri - Unfinished Masterpiece (Coco Records)
    • Stork sez: Sorta like, well Monk meets Salsa. Check out cuts: A-2 "Kinkamache"A-3 Oyelo Quete ConvieneB-1 Cobarde (my fave)B-2 Random Thoughts
70. Electric Company - Exitos (Tigerbeat 6)
    • Donna Summer says: Not really "old" but here it is anyway. Brilliant composition using digital noise and misused programs. Even funky inparts! Used to be in Medicine.
71. Elly Stone - s/t (Columbia)
    • Tamar: I can't gentrify this. Elly Stone was the original female lead in"Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" and she directed the25th anniversary revival. So there's this Brel/Mort Shuman/Eric Blau thinggoing on. But I like this (much) better than Brel. "Alexander" ends likeprimal therapy; "Port of NY" has 14th Century chant overtones,"Carousels" whips into a frenzy, and well, I've been singing "Mea CulpaBaby" in my head for weeks.
72. Eric Burdon & the Animals - Love Is (MGM)
    • DJ Orange Julius: Fat Bobby from Oneida's favorite.."the sounds of a mantrying as hard as he can to make functional rock music under the effectsof a dozen tabs of LSD."
73. Erica Pomerance - You Used To Think (ESP)
    • Brian sez: I hear this on some shows a lot, but folks who haven't heard--Pomerantz was a Canadian singer-songwriter on ESP--Tracks toward the end especially whacked as erica had the flu.
74. Ernst Reijseger - Colla Voce (Edel)
    • Brilliant Dutch Cellist meets purveyors of ancient Sardinian vocal tradition. A deep, deep, deep and deeply beautiful record. (Doug S.)
75. Experimental Products - Prototype (Self-released)
    • Mike Goodstein writes: Awesome Delaware (huh?)minimal synth.
76. Exuma - Exuma (Mercury)
    • Bohemian - via NYC musician who started out in folk hootenannies, but melded many genres and was a marketer's nightmare. Solid- acoustic - based psychadelia - maybe as if Dr. John did GrisGris for ESP. (Brian)
77. Fanfare Van de Eeuwigdurende Bijstand (Stemra)
    • Charlie writes: Enthusiastic Dutch marching band covers Mingus, Weill,"Peter Gunn", "Also Sprach Zarathustra", "Swinging on a Star". "theInternationale" and more. Loads o' fun, and look at thosoe sweaters!
78. Fat Day - Fat Day (100% Breakfast! Records)
    • Brian sez: Not that old but maybe overlooked? Craziest hardcore band since Void! These guys. Gerty Farish and the Pissed Officers come from the same school of thought. Make it too fast and unschooled! "Punk!"
79. Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On (Reprise)
    • Douglas W: Exceptionally great Brit blues-rock from way before the Stevie & Lindsey period, right around the time two of the threesinger/songwriters were losing their marbles. Much of the album reportedlyedited from insane all-night jams. But try "Showbiz Blues" which clearlywasn't.
80. Florence Foster Jenkins - The Glory (????) of the Human Voice (RCA)
    • Doug sez: Crackpot or visionary?? Personally, I think that Thomas Burns is the real genius here!!!
81. Foetus Inc. - Butterfly Potion (Waxtrax)
    • Dan Bodah: The best album Foetus ever did, only three songs, but all arepreciously brilliant. "Butterfly Potion" is equally psyche and sludge,"Your Salvation" in the same veinm and "Free James Brown" a topicallyhysterical song (JB in prison at the time for PCP possession/car chase/gunbattle with cops).
82. Frank Lowe & Philip Wilson - Out of Nowhere (Ecstatic Peace)
    • Bethany writes: One sided 12" is a soft, soulful counterpose for the fire that Lowe & Ali blew on Duo Exchange in 1973. Here simple tunes and light brushes suggest something nostalgic-but never give away the whole story. "TC Cheyenne" stands for "tragically charming" Cheyenne Brando, that is. Frank says he named it after her before she died.
83. Frank Pahl - Remove the Cork (Demosaurus)
    • Serious fun from multi- instrumentalist artist, automatic instrument fabricator (inspired by Pierre Bastien) Frank Pahl (also of Only a Mother, Immigrant Suns, Scavenger Quartet..) (and he's from Michigan) One of my faves. (Charlie)
84. Frank, Gillespie, Cohn - Sea Chanteys & Forecastle Songs at Mystic Seaport (Folkways)
    • Scott: I know, nearly no one here plays sea chanteys...well goddam, it's time you started (and I'm so excited this record returned to the library)! Anyway, "Handsome Cabin Boy" is one of my favorite songs. Make it one of yours.
85. Frankie Armstrong - I Heard a Woman Singing (Flying Fish)
    • Jeff Davison: A great vocalist, primarily a folk singer, but check out theMeredith Monk-style stuff on A1 (contrary to rumors, the divine Ms. Monkdid not spring fully formed from the head of Zeus).
86. Fred Astaire - Starring (CBS)
    • Doug Schulkind: Props to Charlie for donating this! Astaire is rightly exalted for his hoofing, but his mouthing has always been sadly overlooked. Don't make the same mistake. Mr. Fred is an all-time great interpreter of the American songbook.
87. Fred Gerlach - Songs My Mother NeverSang (Takoma)
    • Jeff Davison: American primitive guitar.John Allen: 2nd LP, 1st was on Folkways. Not so primate overdubs andvibes, sounds out there to Kottke fans.
88. Fred Wesley & the JBs - Damn Right I Am Somebody.
    • Small Change sez: Our only JBs album on vinyl, and one of the sickest. Will Blow Yr. Head or yer money back.
89. Freddie Fender - Canciones de Mi Barrio (Arhoolie)
    • DJ Orange Julius: Excellent Collection of early sides from the MexicanElvis Presley! He rocks out Spanish-language versions of R&B Classics like"Ain't That a Shame" along with a mess of originals. My fave is "The BandIs Drunk".
90. Friend Sound - Joyride (RCA)
    • Brian sez: Members of Paul Revere's Raiders do music concrete? Well, in some parts of this record they do. Kids, prepared piano, weird psych jams. Doug adds: I bought this for a buck at the Princeton Record Excahange for the station to resell it at the record fair. I guess it was worth keeping! Oops!
91. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (Westbound)
    • Brian sez: What is better than Eddie Hazel? Fabio adds: Title track is awesome! Check out the wacked text from the Process Church on back!
92. Furious Pig - Furious Pig (Rough Trade, 1981)
    • Pseu Braun sez: First heard this around '82 at WRPR in Mahwah NJ. Ultra-non informative liner notes, but basically an any-speed friendly primalgrunt crass campfire sing-a-long picking up the soap-on-a-rope Duchamp dropped singing in the shower with Kurt Schwitters.
93. Garrett List - A-1 Band (Lovely)
    • Doug Schulkind: I've been madly in love with vocalist Genie Sherman eversince I bought this LP in 1982. Her vocal on "You Are So Beautiful" is thehighlight for me (along with Shannon Jackson's amazing New Orlean-styleparade drumming on the same tune). Youseff Yancy plays a lovely theremintoo.
94. George Jones - Live at Dancetown USA (Del Rio)
    • DA the DJ sez: The best live record--EVER!
95. Geto Boys - Feels Good to be a Gansta 12" (Rap-a-lot)
    • Doug Schulkind: How 'bout all them muthafuckers who find gangsta rap a"bad element", then sit back and groove with the Sopranos every Sundaynight! Well fuck them. For the rest of this comes this (ha!). Sweet, yes,sweet existential idyll from Houston's notorious musical hustlers. Putthat in your HBO and smoke it.Brian: Used to great effect in the movie "Office Space."
96. Geza X - You Goddam Kids! (Final Gear)
    • Pseu sez: Another guilty Catholic boy raised by insane Hungarians and molested by the neighbor. Geza has produced some pretty seminal punk rock records but here he gets to while his way through his own personal apocalypse.
97. Gianni Gebbia - H Portraits (Rastascan)
    • Brian: Gebbia's extended sax/clarinet technique is amazing. Circular, drone and cluttered improvisations come near some of the busier Reich stuff, though this music is powered by one man's lungs. Wowsa!
98. Goldie - Timeless (FFRR)
    • CDClay sez: "Not all that old but months are like years in dance music. Anyway I rescued this from the basement so you cld take another look at it. Cause it's a bonza example of modern dance music. Suggested viewing: start at 'Sea of Tears', 'Saint Angel', 'State of Mind', ... then anywhere.
99. Goobers Vol.1 - A Collection of Kid's Songs (Elemental Music)
    • KBC sez: Unbelievable collectionTiny Tim steals the show. Quite possibly the greatest recording of the twentieth century (ok, so I'm stretching the truth...)
100. Gordon Monahan - This Piano Thing (Swerve Editions)
     • Fabio sez: The second piece on this CD is for prepared piano but it's not like any prepared piano you've ever heard before. Cage said that Gordon's playing reminded him of a plane taking off.
101. Hackamore Brick - One Kiss Leads to Another (Kama Sutra)
     • DJ Orange Julius: This came in with the record fair stuff, had heard theirname mentioned in a song by Thee Hydrogen Terrors and thought nothing ofit. Well, as it turns out, R. Meltzer was a big fan, and so am I. Verywell crafter pop outta Brooklyn circa 1970-71, with heavy nods to theVelvets and Raspberries in mature, non-obvious ways. Check out their firstthree songs. Vanished into obscurity. Also, Mike Rep's favorite LP ever.
102. Hammers of Misfortune - The Bastard (Tumult)
     • Stefan says: Cheezy 80s metal guitar by Weird Slough Feg guy plus celtic folk moments plus black metal all in one concept album. Oh also sweet female vocals and pretentious male ones. It was the worst music I'd ever heard until it became one of my favorite CDs of all time.
103. Harumi - Harumi (Verve)
     • Brian: Flowery n' pastoral psych-pop. "Fire by the River" is a killer.Love the liners: "Movement! Butterfly! And what is that crawling frombeneath the cabbage leaf? Harumi, with a carrot in his teeth. Andgrinning. And now a kiss from Miss Butterfly and he's off, singing in thefield."
104. Hawkwind - Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music (Charisma)
     • Brian: An underrated mid 70s one, Robert Calvert was onboard fulltime,Lemmy was out after a drugbust on the 74 tour. Not the space-woosh theyare most lauded for, but tasty hot licks abound and "Steppenwolf" isinsanely great.
105. Henry Threadgill - Easily Slip into Another World (Novus)
     • Ken sez: Great jazz record from ten years ago.
106. Henry Sweitzer - Te Deum: An Electronic Realization
     • Check out Side 2 of this LP by unknown Henry Sweitzer (the only Google hit I get for this 1979 record is a Bryce-playlist from 4 years ago). Side 2 has 2 excellent non-new-agey electronic instrumentals and the back cover features 34 Christian prayers you may quietly recite while listening.
107. Honeymoon Killers - Les Teures de la Lune de Miel (Crammed Disc)
     • Dave Mandl wites: Supreme 80's jazz-punk from Aqsak Maboul spinoff(Belgian band singing inFrench) "Route Nationale 7" remake is too good for words.
108. Howard Finster - Man of Many Voices (Folkways)
     • Kenny G. sez: Folk artist, preacher, musician, businessman, nut, marketing genius still sounds pure in 1985 when he was making more money than god himself. Citizen Kafka has worked on a new Finster record available now.
109. Hugh Masekela - Introucing Hedzoleh Soundz (Blue Thumb)
     • Doug sez: Don't be put off by the Hugh Masekela connection--if indeed, that puts you off--he has produced some crap. This band is made up of muysicians from Ghana (not South Africa) and they peroduced an amazing hybrid of traditional Hi-Life and Hypno-Trance Grooviness. Small Change sez: Mucho previoso. One of my faves. Think I played this when filling for Doug once.
110. Hurdy Gurdy In France - La Ville in France, (Silex/Memoire)
     • J sez: Do yourself a favor on this one, or most anything on the label. Sounds like the best guitar-psych you ever heard.
111. Ike Yard - A Fact A Second (Fact)
     • Brian writes; Excellent minimal synth/cold wavish weirdness that has Death Comet Crew connections though spiritually sounds at home with 81-era Neubauten and DAF. NYC No Wave meets 81 Berlin. Yeah!
112. J.P. Video - Given it all back 7" (Correspondence)
     • Now that Xex and experimental projects are so played out, what will be the next undiscovered mid atlantic 80s piece of genius. I think it's this. More poppy than gut still completely bizarre + homemade + different. (Michael Goodstein)
113. Jaar Jostiband - 10 (Josti-Band)
     • Monica writes: Beautiful and passionate. "The largest music group of mentally handicapped in the world." From the Netherlands, have been in business for 35 years. This is their 10th anniversary LP from 1976.
114. Jac Berrocal, Jean Francois Pauvros & Gilbert Artman - Catalogue Penetration (Hat ART)
     • Donna sez: Not sure if the Bin's seen this before, here goes...
115. Jack Owens and Bud Spires - It Must Have Been the Devil (Testament)
     • David Suisman writes: For fans of Skip James: Owens was a contemporary of his also hailing from Bentonia, Mississippi. Hauntings, sparse guitar playing, crying vocals with harmonica accompaniment by his longtime partner Bud Spires. Owens died in 1997.
116. Jeanne Lee & Ran Blake - Legendary Duets (RCA)
     • Doug S. says: One of the greatest vocalists ever. Second to Billie Holliday in my pantheon.
117. Jim Connolly and The Gove County Philharmonic - Time Stops To Visit
     • Doug Schulkind - This gem went straight from the New Bin to the basement. Worth another listen (or ten).
118. Jessie Mae Hemphill - Feelin' Good (High Water)
     • Nicholas Hill sez: Highly Recommended!
119. Joe Goldmark - All Hat-No Cattle (HMG)
     • Brian: Overlooked new bin gem from 99, Joe looks thewestern/cowboy/pedal-steeler role, but whips out some great AfricanHighlife, Byrds, Bob Seger and Fastball numbers, Oh-so-fmu, no?
120. John Cale - Fragments of a Rainy Season (Hannibal)
     • David S.: This is one of Cale's finest hours, even though it's oftenoverlooked, even by Cale fans. Recorded live with only a piano (and guitaron a couple tracks), the stripped-down versions of these songs show offJohn Cale's talent as a songwriter and pianist, in lieu of the heavy production on the better know album versions. The Dylan Thomasm poems setto music are nice too.
121. John Coltrane - Om (Impulse)
     • Fabio: All time monster! Let it blow your mind! Everyone knows it, right?
122. John Coltrane - Infinity (Impulse)
     • Placed by Donna.
123. John Holt - Police in Helicopter (Grel)
     • Mosurock writes: Hey, John, what's in the bag. Um, a great soundtrack for the next time cops swooop over in a chopper while you flee with like 60 lbs. of nug-ass ganj on your person. If you're like John Holt, you've obviously made it to a place (where no police helicopters could ever apprehend you), you rolled up a J the size of a small cucumber, and have has the time to write a song about obesity in women. Or not.
124. John Lewis - P.O.W. (Columbia)
     • Selected by Crowe.
125. John Otway - Deep Thought (Stiff)
     • Charlie writes: Slightly unhinged power-pop Brit looney. Great cover of "Man Who Shot Liberty Valence". Great originals...beware of the flowers.
126. Johnnie Ray - High Drama (Legacy)
     • Doug S. says: Crazy, twisted, virtuoso, genius.
127. Johnny Pineapple and his Orchestra - Hawaiian Holiday (Pickwick)
     • Mr. Boyd sez: Unlike almost every Hawaiian record at WFMU, Johnny Pineapple gets the privilege of "Alpha" filling rather than the good life. Is it the log lettering or merely the presence of his last name? Try side one, cuts 2 & 4, side 2 cut 2 "Maui Chant."
128. Jorge Dalto - Chevere (UA)
     • John Allen: Arp String Ensemble/Clavinet/Minimoog satellite synth withBernard Purdie and Jerry Jemmott rhythm section. Just steers clear ofdisaster for the year '76.
129. Jowe Head - Strawberry Deutsche Mark (Con Records)
     • Brian sez: an excellent, loopy pop/psych record. I'd say more, but I'm very sleepy right now.
130. Julius Hemphill - Blue Boye (Screwgun)
     • Doug Schulkind writes: Originally self-released by Hemphill in 77, reissued by Tim Berne and a student of Hemphill in 98. Amazing solo effort by the late great member of the World Saxophone Quartet.
131. Kakashi - Mountain Love (Captain Trip)
     • Brian writes: 97 Japanese band does great 71 Alice Cooper Group impersonation.
132. Kali Bahlu - Kali Bahlu Takes the Forest Children on a Journey of Cosmic Remembrance (World Pacific Records)
     • Kenny G. sez: No, folks, it doesn't get stranger than this. Cosmic rants, drug-soaked tirades, washed-up sitars, out of tune congas, and the whiniest, most annoying high-pitched voice to ever grace a slab 'o vinyl. Rumor has it that Balu is living in NJ and is currently a reborn Christian. There is NOTHING like it (thankfully).
133. Kangaroo Kourt - Instellar Static from the Kangaroo Kourt (Castle Records)
     • Brian Turner sez: creaky n' squeaky experimental collage stuff/very organic sounding.
134. Karen Dalton - In My Own Time (Paramount Records)
     • Nick Hill sez: "A blues singer from the early '60s Bleecker St. Scene. This is her 2nd record." Karen died in 1993. Every single time I play this record, someone calls up to find out who it is. *"Katie Cruel" and "Same Old Man" are the quieter songs. *Lucy J. Dalton named herself after Karen. *Her grandfather was one of the Dalton gang. *This came out in 1970 or so.
135. Keiji Haino - Keiji Haino
     • Fabio sez: Early Haino solo record dontated to FMU by Fred Frith (I think) sometime in the early 80s! This is the shit! (Go ahead all you naysayers and make your jokes!) This is one of Haino's most sublime recordings. Brian adds: Yeah, Frith went over to Japan in the early 80s and brought back probably to the first Haino Records the stateside folks had access to. This is super rare on LP. It was issued on CD a few years ago.
136. Ken McIntyre - Home (Inner City)
     • Doug Schulkind: Makanda Ken McIntyre died recently and his is very sorrowfully missed by the dozens of NYC area saxophonists who studied with him over the years. I played something off this record a few years back and a listener called up, this fellow had been a student of Makanda's, and he kept me on the phone for 15 minutes describing what a beautiful cat Makanda was. He was also a genius imporviser on all woodwind axes, as this LP reveals.
137. Kensington Market - Aardvark (Warner Bros/Seven Arts Records)
     • Excellent Canadian pop/rock from '69. Kinda psychedelic. (Hatch)
138. Kicking Giant - Alien ID (K)
     • DJ Orange Julius: Late 94 saw the release of this, arguably the best thingever on K Records, and one of the top 3 Northwest rock records of the past20 years (up there with Bleach and Youth of America). In a time where thescene was heavily indoctrinated with pity-core andlet's-not-talk-to-anyone-we-can-see rock, Kicking Giant levelled theplaying field with agiant sound embodying all the angst, grit, soul andsex that their contemporaries could never muster. They even weather anoratory by the dreaded Sue P. Fox! Rachel is now in the Need, Taecontinues KG in a very stunted form. It never got better than this. Track2 is a testament.
139. Kieth and Julie Tippett - Couple in Spirit (EG Records)
     • Rich Hazelton sez: Some great songs to sing along with on here. I always find myself tapping my toes (but my foot is usually in my mouth). Andy adds: beautiful record!
140. Kim Fowley - Outlaw Superman (Baccus Archives)
     • Early, but typically warped productions and songs from Mr. Outrageous. Post-Doo-Wop, pop, psych, proto-punk, all quite sick. (Chaz)
141. King Bennie Nawahi - Hawaiian String Virtuoso (Yazoo)
     • Marc G: "King", "Virtuoso", accurate descriptions. At his best even better than Sol Hoopii.
142. King Face - s/t (King Face)
     • Mike Lupica: One of my most beloved artifacts from the Mid-80s DC Underground; the debut EP from King Face. Totally merged the gap between Dischord hardcore and Van Halen, resulting in completely exhilarating rock n' swagger that you can dance to. Woo!
143. Kremlin Korps - Moscow's Revenge (Speed of Sound Records)
     • Great Philly "punk" from '84. Killer hardcore stylee "culture shock" w/ fem vox. Drummer attened U-Penn at the time and is now VP sales/marketing of Discmakers. Dope sleeve too! (OCDJ)
144. KRS-One - MC's Act Like They Don't Know (Jive Records)
     • From the basement...One of Primo's (DJ Primier) best productions IMHO. Clean for the fucking FCC. (Small Change)
145. Les Thugs - As Happy As Possible (Sub Pop)
     • Mosurock: 6th or 7th album by this French punk rock band. Here's wherethey got everything perfect - massive churning guitars, hooks to spare,rhythmic propulsion, and repetition in spades. Kurt Bloch of the YoungFresh Fellows/Fastbacks made this sound big. Rocks like no other
146. Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th US Infantry "Hell Fighters" Band - Complete Recordings (Memphis Archives)
     • Amazing tunes - some with war-time sound effects - from the first great black society band superstar. Led an all-black regiment in WWI. Came back to the states and was stabbed to death by a drummer who thought Europe was screwing his wife. (Doug S.)
147. Lightnin' Rod - Hustlers' Convention (Celluloid)
     • Small Change: Long before "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka" (though "HustlersConvention" was never finished). Big influence on Ol' skool MC's like theCold Crush Brothers. Features Julius Hemphill, Kool & the Gangm andLightnin' Rod (one of the Last Poets).
148. Liquor Ball - Fucks the Sky (Blackjack)
     • Brian writes: Besides having the best album title ever, these west coasters specialized in total garbage guitar and drugged out attempts to get into outerspace worthy of your complete worship.
149. Little Beaver - Party Down (Cat)
     • Small Change: The real shit...crack the 40, roll that ish and "partydown."
150. Loos - Armstrong
     • Kurt, et.al.- This record is SO GOOD, strange ambient with jazzy somethings. Sounds like David Lee Roth fronting an FMP Orchestra.
151. Los Microwaves - Life After Breakfast (Posh Boy Records)
     • Dark yet palatable new wave from S.F., played with Gang of Four, XTC, etc. Great keyboard tone and indiffernt female vox (though not lethargic like Nico). I like A2, A4, A5, A6, B2, B3, B4, B5, & B7. Reunion on the way? (Liz)
152. Lothar and the Hand People - Presenting (Capitol)
     • Irwin: Early rock experiments w/synthesizers, electronic efx and thereminca. 1968. Great songs too!
153. MacDonald and Giles (Cotillion)
     • Small Change writes: nice rock/folk/jazz ditty with some sick breaks. "Tomorrow's People" is one of my favorites. Don't see this LP around much.
154. Machine Drum - Urban Biology (Merck) Machine Dru)
     • OCDJ writes: His release came out just before, and I think was overshadowed by Prefuse 73. Really great hip-hop beats with chopped vox, and can also be very light in an ambient tonal way. Don't think these albums got as much attention as they should have, seeing as I pulled them up from the WFMU basement!
155. Macunias Ensemble - Music For Everyman (Apollo)
     • Rob Lim writes: Brilliant LP from Paul Panhuysen's group. A-side features some mucking about in the rock vein (think funkier dirtier Rhys Chatham). B-side is drool-inducing drone manna.
156. Magic Muscle - The Pipe the Roar the Grid (5 Hours Back)
     • Brian writes: 70's festival circuit bretheren to Hawkwind/Pink Fairies (described as the "soggy roach to Hawkwind's spliff".) Never released these recordings til the 80s (member Adrian Shaw is now currently in the Bevis Frond).
157. Magma - Kohntarkosz (A&M)
     • Brian: You don't need to speak the Kobaian language to dig the grandeur,majesty and sheer what-the-fuck? of Magma. Inspiration to everyone fromthe Ruins to Spinal Tap, this is my fave of theirs (and Lester Bangs too,we would go nuts over "Ork Alarm". So cue her up for the next bathroombreak. Note Stella Vander is the same "Stella" of 60s French-popfame.
158. Manu Chao - Clandestine (Ark 21)
     • Dan Bodah: Incredible multi-lingual (French, Spanish, English) pop, this stuff is all over with the casio sound and the brilliant lyrics. So, so fun!
159. Marble Sheep & The Run Down Sun's Children - Whirl Live
     • Brian - Really stunner for rich, grand GTR Psychedelos - before they descended into a more Deadhead-focused, less interesting direction.
160. Marc Moulin - Placebo Sessions 1971-74
     • $mall Change Top notch Euro space jazz funk. Moulin is a great player/arranger.
161. Marc Tremblay - Bruit-Graffiti (Emprientes Digitales)
     • Brian: A second go-around for this disc as it got almost zero attentionand really should. One of the most visual and coloful electroacousticdiscs I've heard and "very FMU". Dig the demonic baby on 2!
162. Marcos - Garra (Odeon)
     • Amazingly orchestrated, poppy yet soundtracky at times, one of my favorite records by a long shot. I think this is an out of print boot now, seems like cds are going for a lot now. (Brian)
163. Marianne Faithful - Faithfull Forever... (London)
     • Trouble sez: beautiful Marianne, before she was sullied when laying in the grass got her high.
164. Marion Williams - Standing Here Wondering Which Way To Go (Atlantic)
     • Douglas Wolk: Of all the songs you might expect her to sing, "HareKrishna" is not one of them.
165. Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage (Columbia)
     • Kenny G. sez: The master himself belting out his "massage" in a 360 degree full-on mix of intellect, sound bytes, and psychedelia with James Joyce and John Cage hovering close by a guardian angels.
166. Masters of the Obvious - This Corpse Is A Warning (Resonance Records)
     • Robin sez: "Masters of the Obvious or 'MOTO' as they're known, hailed from Mass. and then Chicago. Paul Caporino writes STUPID STUPID Lo-Fi pop songs that spit the entire 70's decade back at you. So sick, so unfortunate, so wonderful. (They're still around, but not quite the same form). And some of the best songs you can't play on the air. Wah!
167. Max Neuhaus - Electronics and Percussion (Columbia)
     • Dan Bodah: Amazing interpretations of avant classical compositions thatgive the performer input, realized here in percussion. The biggest faultof heady avant-classical is probably that it tends towards soullessness -but Neuhaus puts that back in with spot-on performances. Neuhaus lives inNYC and still does sound installations and visual art.
168. McDonald and Giles - McDonald and Giles (Cotillion)
     • Nice rock/folk/jazz ditty with some sick breaks. "Tomorrow's People" is one of my favorites. Don't see this LP around much. (Small Change)
169. Melvin Jackson - Funky Soul (Limelight)
     • Tom Crowe turned me on to this one. Rras mid part is cool. Saw this one for big bucks at the swap. Our first returning disc to the old bin!!!
170. Memphis Minnie - Hoodoo Lady (1933-37) (Legacy)
     • Marc G says: According to Rolling Stone, Memphis Minnie wasn't one of the top 100 guitarists but she was still fairly good, as were her lyrics and singing.
171. Michael Mantler, Robert Wyatt, CarlaBley et al? - The Hapless Child (Watt Works)
     • Scott: Lovely readings of the late Edward Gorey's stories.
172. Michel Polnareff - Lipstick (Atlantic)
     • Brian sez: Electronic folks take a listenBizarre flick with the late Margaux Hemingway who plays a model who is attacked by an electronic music composer (he rapes her sister Mariel too in the movie), but later gets his from Margaux... Anyway, he plays his music for her (side 2) and cites his influence as being "John Gage."Kenny G. adds: Polnareff was huge in France in the 70s as a pop star/bisexual star. After a scandal (I can't remember what), he disappeared to Hollywood where he composed film scores. He made a French comeback a year or two ago. His 70s pop is well worth seeking out.
173. Midnight Sun - Midnight Sun (MCA)
     • John Allen: Is this the Swedish Chicago?
174. Mij - Color By The Number (ESP)
     • Kenny G sez: "Far out psychedelic acoustic ESP that will probably never see the re-issue light of day." (was re-issued this month, ed.)
175. Missing Brazilians - Warzone (On U)
     • Douglas W: Gruesomely insense dub-pop with all the pop boiled out of it.One of Adrian Sherwoods's most amazing mixes. Check out "Gentle Killers"with Little Annie Anxiety.
176. Mit - Knoten (Hat Hut)
     • Maryann: Don't know anything about these guys, but the music is great.Free jazz made in Switzerland. Check out the xylophone tracks!
177. Monk Montgomery - Bass Odyssey (Chisa)
     • John Allen: This guy is the secret weapon.
178. Morgen - Morgen (GMG)
     • Brian writes: Simply, heavy jams from 1969.
179. Motelli Skronkle - Collection
     • Dan Bodah: Motelli Skronkle is a total mystery a Finnish band playing punky crappy dirty rock w/precise turns, horns and guttural vocals in the Tibetan Buddhist register. All the info online is in Finnish. Over the years this has held up as one of my fave rock albums of all time.
180. Mrs. Miller - Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing
     • Scott sez: Mrs. Miller stuffs you with green brownies and shakes a meaner vibrato than Mae West! Makes you wish more people would "do their own thing." (Check out "Renaissance of Smut")
181. Nas - Life's a Bitch (Columbia)
     • More hiop hop from the basement - quite sought after promo only Nas 12" with rare remix. Listed in Wax Poetics in their most expensive hip hop 12" article (Small Change) / Son of the great trumpeter Olv Dara (?) (Dave M)
182. Nervous Gender/Beelzebub Youth Split LP - Music From Hell (Subterranean)
     • Brian: The sounds of screaming electrogoth youth of suburban Calif. beforeKROQ pummelled Depeche Mode and Erasure into their heads. Nervous Genderwas fronted by a Tim Curry-Rocky Horroresque nightmare and they had anangry 9 year old kid on drums. Think punkier Chrome, unskilled andcool.
183. Nervous Norvus - Transfusion (Dot)
     • Small Change: Props to el Spazzo for this. Beautifully retarded R & R.
184. Nesrin Sipahi - Sharki (CMP)
     • Dan Bodah writes: Grab a warm, loving friend (or two or three) and curl up in a pile of pillows with this slab o' hotness! Wow! The cover photo is seriously misrepresentative of how compelling this music really sounds.
185. New Rotary Connection - Hey, Love (Cadet)
     • Small Change: Psych-soul supergroup with Phil Upchurch, Minnie Riperton and Charles Stephey (who also arranged a bunch of other dope Cadet LPs). "Blackgold of the Sun" was a huge hit when it was remade by Masters At Work for the NuYorican Soul Project a few years back. Great album.
186. Nomeansno - 0 + 2 = 1 (Alternative Tentacles)
     • Brian: A beloved, uncategorizable 1991 rocker, "The Fall" dances circles around the whole aggro-angular-pop revival, and these dudes are Canadian!
187. Nudge Squidfish - Nashville, In Nashville (NS)
     • Rob Lim: Second solo LP from this Columbus, Ohio associate of Mike Rep, Jim Shepard (and one-time V3 member ne Al Martin). Once hypothesized as a demonstration of his commercial songwriting skills for potential industry chanteurs/chanteuses, this album reads as a slightly warped history of pop music genre styles, beginning with early 60's vocal harmony groups (1/2) and continuing through 70's power ballads (2/4). What makes it (and other Squidfish records) memorable is his distinctly buoyant left-field sensibilities, on display throughout but most prominently featured in 2/5 and 2/6.
188. Ocho featuring Chico Mendoza - Tornado
     • Rob Weisberg An Ocho LP in the wall who knew? Give it a spin.
189. Octupus - Octupus (ESP)
     • Doug sez: "All hail Dr. Tom for donating this gem. Does anyone know who these folks are/were? My ESP discography leaves this LP out. I've loved this ever since it entered the library 5 years ago.
190. Oil Can God - Total Dogaction 7" (DMX)
     • Brian says: No friggin' idea what/what this is. Total Dogaction is a meltdown, though.
191. Orchestra Super Mazembe - Kaivaska (Virgin)
     • Rob sez: Zairean bands based in East Africa (in this case Kenya) are known for their comparatively 'earthy' style compared to Zairean-style bands elsewhere. This band, whose name means "Earth Movers" had one massive hit that was popular throughout Africa "Sharui Yako." It's on the CD collection "Guitar Paradise of East Africa" (filed with the African collections). By the way, 2/3 is a version of "Words of Love."
192. Owanda - Nothing (Piano)
     • The greatest rock LP by a Scottish band about absolutely nothing - (Brian)
193. PAR - Silence
     • Fabio sez: Early release by PAR (aka Kim Cascone, founder and head of Silent Records.) A great collage of concrete Ambient. Arranged and composed and found sounds. Like a dark and scary soundtrack, it goes in and out of moods with the shift of every new idea... Great! Side A is my favorite and never ceases to amaze me... Unfortunately, this copy is a bit noisy, but not terrible.
194. Paul Hindemith - Piano Works 1 (Marco Polo)
     • Rix: Der meister anticipates (creates?) a sort of teutonic bop, precise where the French (Milhaud & Les Six) attempted to "swing". Both approaches avoided the schlock of Gerwshwin's "classical" works. Need to say, duh Nazis consigned this to the bonfire. But look out, here come John Lewis and Lennie Tristano.
195. Persons - Attack the Scene (Blackbean & Placentra)
     • Brian says: Takes the influences that, well, dominated coll-rock today (Beefheart espeically) but come up with inventive, you've-heard-it-but-you-haven't-really-heard-this-way smart, unusual rock. Feelies, Talking Heads, Savage Republic all pop in but blow out before you can say 'I Got that one'> This album came out, totally disappeared.
196. Peter Zummo - Zummo with an X (Loris)
     • John Allen writes: More Arthur Russell!
197. Pharoah Sanders with the Latin JazzQuartet - Spotlight on (Upfront)
     • Small Change: Unusually straight but dope Pharoah session, complete withraw production. My copy is on Trip, another "Hi-Fi" label.
198. Phil Keaggy Band - Emerging (New Song)
     • Dan Bodah says: Groovy, uplifting Christian rock - Phil Keaggy is the Jerry Garcia of Christian 70s rock music (and is also missing a finger). Those two dudes pictured in the middle totally got married in SF last week. Mike Lupica adds: Oog.
199. Phil Ochs with the Pan African Ngembo Rumba Band - Bwatue bw Niko Mchumba Ngombe (Sparkle Records 7")
     • Brian sez: Originally super-rare fan club single recorded in 1973 during Och's Keyan visit.
200. Pierre Akendengue - Nandipo/Afrika Obota
     • Rob Weisberg: Two beautiful LPs by the singer/songwriter from Gabon. One of West Africas most distinctive artists yet. Little known in the US.
201. Pierre Henry - Variations for a Door and a Sigh (Limelight)
     • Fabio sez: This is a thing of beauty. Staff heartily agrees.
202. Pitchblende - Kill Atom Smasher (Fistpuppet)
     • Mosurock: 1993 and in Washington DC twas a band who did love Magazine, andJoy Division and applied it to the arty post-hardcore sound of bands likeIgnition. Of course, nobody gave a shit, still don't. But this firstPitchblende album remains a testament to great ideas and turning up asloud as you can.
203. Public Enemy - There's a Poison Goin' On (Atomic Pop)
     • Brian: Not much is playable, but wow, probably PE's most amazing work!Sonically impressive (2), angrier than ever (7) and cloaked in a reallyfucked up vibe a bit akin to Sensational. Check it out.
204. Real Fish - When the World Was Young (Victor)
     • Ken writes: Fascinating, mysterious, odd Japanese instrumentals.
205. Reider - Manoevres D'Automne (Les Disques De L'art Gue)
     • Selected by Donna.
206. Rein Sanction - Broc's Cabin (Sub Pop)
     • Mosurock: Believe this album to be Sub Pop's shining moment. Ten songs ofsomewhat dirgey, yet blown wide open, psychedelic pop from a bunch oflonghairs in goddamn Florida. They sound lost and lonely, yet driventowards some kinda unknown place. More like the first Dinosaur LP than anyrecord I can think of. Ace guitar playin', solid rhythm and superproduction by Kramer.
207. Remo Capra - Tawkwondo (R Records)
     • Two and a half minutes of digi-drum and synth/guitar power that can only be matched by the sacred martial art he sings about. Great trading lyric lines with guitar rips like trading jabs in a fight. He also wrote a matrial arts musical called "In God We Trust" (WHAT!? - YES!!) and in the 90's put out 2 albums of love song and did an album with Gato Barbieri. DAH SUT!! YUHSUT!!! (OCDJ)
208. Rev. Gary David - The Sun Of Our Life
     • Kurt Gottschalk: Some great Fahey-esque improv tracks. Check it!
209. Rev. Louis Overstreet - s/t (Arhoolie)
     • Brian: Heavier than Lightning Bolt, Brainbombs, Melvins, Slayer.Gaylord Fields: This CD is the devil's music in service of thelord!
210. Richard Maxfield - Electronic Music (Advance Recordings)
     • Stork sez: Electronic composer, wrote and staged/performed his stuff in the early '60s (performed at Fluxus concerts in Paris). This album was released in 1967. Tape collages using treated instruments dropping tiddlywinds onto piano wires, spinning gyroscopes, chopped-up voices. Fun! Awfully! esp. check out A2: Bacchannale. B1: Piano Concert for David Tudor.
211. Robert Fripp - Exposure (Polydor)
     • Frippertronics. Blistering post-Crimson metal, Peter Hammill screaming, Daryl Hall rocking out. What more could you ask for? (Dave M.)
212. Robert Rutman - 1931 (Pogus)
     • Fabio sez: "Builds his own instruments (steel cellos, etc.) and scores music specifically for these.
213. Ron Geesin & Roger Waters - Music from The Body (Jem Records)
     • Robin sez: Record with an exceptional amount of "listening" going on--quiet, paced oddly, uses lots of body sounds, obviously and lots of strings. Oh just listen to it.
214. Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound Ensemble - Snurdy McGurdy & her Dancin'Shoes (Nessa)
     • Doug Schulkind: A phenomenal stewpot, overflowing and gunking up thekitchen floor with layers of sweat, joyful romanticism, slow-burnfunkadelica, stilletto-sharp precision post-bop; and masterful arrangementof sounds in silence, a baroque chiaviascuro where light is sound andsound is heavy, if you know what I mean.
215. Roxy Gordon - Smaller Circles (Bug Music)
     • Native-American poet, outlaw compatriot of Townes Van Zandt and Richard Brautigan. This disc was sent to me by Roxy's widow but it went straight to the basement. Roxy is a real-deal mother-fucker storyteller. (Doug S.)
216. Roy Harper - Flat, Baroque, and Berserk (Harvest/EMI)
     • Placed by Donna.
217. Rune Lindblad - Death of the Moon and Other Early Works (Pogus Productions)
     • Fabio sez: Totally absorbing, minimalist recordings. Early experiments in musique concrete from Sweden...These date from the mid and late '50s. Liner notes on back sums it up neatly.
218. Salvatore Martirano - L'sGA (Polydor)
     • Brian: A bit beaten, but quite a bomb. Creator of the "Sal Mar CompositionMachine", a great piece of mixed-media presentation.
219. Sam Rivers - Waves (Tomato)
     • Jason Das writes: Swings, rocks, bubbles, shocks, this record is so well done. Nothing careless about it. I love it. Great bass/tuba interplay,great tunes and arrangements, technical but not stuff. Free but not blowhardy. Focused. Yum.
220. Sarah Ogan Gunning - Girl of Constant Sorrow (Folk Legacy Recordings)
     • Brian sez: A healthy dose of a capella misery. Just in time for xmas.
221. Sergio Mendes & Brasil 77 - PrimalRoots (A&M)
     • Robin: The anomaly in the Mendes catalog! Mendes took traditionalBrazilian songs & rhythms into pretty pop and big rythmic jams. Moretropicalia than tropical.
222. Seth Josel - Go Guitars (OO Discs)
     • Brian: A Year before Sonic Youth's Goodbye 20th Century, guitarist Josel took on 20th Century compositions with pure, raw 6-string burn. The Vierk piece burrows straight into your head with multi-overlay Branca couldn't-a thunk up himself.
223. Seventh - Day Adventists (Sunspot)
     • Scott sez: "You should be nice to the old people down here!" Resist if you can...I cannot. PS--That's my grampa!
224. Shoes - Shoes Best (Black Vinyl Records)
     • Sick power pop. One of the tunes is on that great yellow pills comp. - (Hatch)
225. Silverhead - 16 and Savaged (MCA)
     • Stork sez: Silverhead opened my eyes more than Coltrane, Braxton, and Buckley combined.
226. Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet - s/t (Rope-a-Dope)
     • Brian writes: This went through the new bin last summer with little hoopla, but I love this. It swings and funks out like some of the better Horvitz projects at times, great west coast sax/Hammond workouts especially on the lengthier cuts.
227. Skulls - Dress Up and Die! (Buy Our Records)
     • Mike L. writes: Local sleaze from the mid-80s. "Jesus Put a Bullet Through My Soul" = a personal anthem for my catholic upbringing.
228. Slam Steward and Major Holley - Shut Yo' Mouth! (PM Records)
     • Stork sez: Slam bows and sings an octive above the note--Major bows and sings on the note! Makes for coolness. ESP: B-1 Close Your Eyes. B-4 Misty.
229. Sleep - Jerusalem (TMC)
     • Brian: The ultimate Sabbath slow stoner chord sludge. A tree sloth takes16 hours to climb down from a tree to take a poo, and Sleep provide thesoundtrack.
230. Sloan - Twice Removed (David Geffen)
     • CDBrian Turner sez: If you liked the last Sloan CD check this one, it's ultra poppy and very good. Was banished to the basement. Quite the metaphor for how DGC label dealt with this Halifax band.
231. Smashing Orange - My Deranged Heart 7" (Ringers Lactate)
     • DJ Orange Julius: A testament to the quality of drugs in Delaware. Myfriend Jen always drives down there for mushrooms. Absolute peak for thesekids, right at the gate - wonderfully lapsed fuzz-wah haze-pop ritualclamor. They graduated toless satisfying single, 12" and CD appearance,ultimately collapsing into an abominable major label disc deemed too lousyfor even the cutout bins. Remember them fondly today.
232. Sneaky Feelings - Sentimental Education (Flying Nun Records)
     • Meredith sez: "Bright and bouncy New Zealand pop circa 1986. InfectiousStand Back!
233. Souls of Mischief - Spark (Chocolate Industries)
     • Still mo' basement hip hop. Recent Souls of Mischief 12" with pretty decent RJD2 mix and a really dope Edon remix. Nice and raw. On my last premium. (Small Change)
234. Soundtrack - Crumb (Rykodisc)
     • Charlie: Classics rags played on piano and geetar with great feeling.Loose, moody, real.
235. Spooner Oldham - Pot Luck
     • Hatch - Good early 70s solo album by one of the great Memphis soul songwriters.
236. Spooner Oldham - Pot Luck
     • Hatch - Good early 70s solo album by one of the great Memphis soul songwriters.
237. Stardrive featuring Robert Mason (Columbia)
     • Brian: Rock with the unicorns, insane and blinding. Out of controlsynthesizers and godlike Liners: "No tediousblooze guitar. No lisping vocals. Just Mason and hisextra-special, extraterrestrial machine, zipping through funkafide spacelike greased lightning. Taking you to a rock realm where the only glitteryou can see is in the stars." Jim O'Rourke: you should be reissuing thisinstead of Ray Russell records!
238. Steaming Coils - Never Creak (Rotary Totem)
     • Brian: A seeming 1/2 way point between the LA Free Music Society'sfreeform approach and the Residents' electro-weirdness. Indeed, notableLAFMS-ers Rick Potts & Brad Laner are herein.
239. Stump - A Fierce Pancake (Chrysalis)
     • Somebody anonymous sez: Weird, weird, weird! "Charton Heston" is a great track with frogs for percussion. Band claims that *all* strange sounds are made by guitar. Next to last track is a creepy instrumental and flows into manic final track.
240. Super Rail Band - New Dimensions in Rail Culture (Globe Style)
     • Rob Weisberg writes: Legendary Malian band, fantastic (and longoverdue) US tour last summer, This is the only LP that really captures their live, robust, rollicking-style, not watered down. If you liked Orchestra Baobab, check this.
241. Supersilent: 1-3 (Rune Gramofon)
     • Brian: The press called em "Swedish Death Jazz: - nice electronic-ladenoverload though easily disseminable. A jazzier Dead C maybe?
242. Tamia & Pierre Favre - De La Nuit Le Jour
     • Jeff Davison: One of several collaborations between vocalist Tamia (French) and master percussionist Favre (Swiss). She gets to places that most singers cant go. May remind you of Diamanda Galas, Meredith Monk, Patty Waters. If you like this, seek out Blues For Pedro Arcanjo (also with Favre), a harrowingly beautiful records, or her early LPs on Tapicoa.
243. Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation (Ohr)
     • Fabio sez: The first Tangerine Dream LP with Konrad Schnitzler and Klaus Schultze. Totally different from their later electronic noodlings. This is PSYCHEDELIC! Put it on and Blow Your Mind!
244. Telegraph Avenue - Telegraph Avenue
     • Hatch: San Francisco style psychedelic rock, by way of Peru
245. Ten in the Swear Jar - My Very Private Map (Acrobot)
     • Jamie and Cory's pre Xiu Xiu project. Some very beautiful moments and sounds (8, 11) with the trademark gushes of emotion. "Sad girl" (#3) was something I caught on tape from FMU years ago and searched for those years to track down (and which is redone on Xiu Xiu's 'A Promise') Check out 3, 5, 11, + all. (OCDJ)
246. Texas Instruments - Sun Tunnels (Rabid Cat)
     • Robin: I always had the weird feeling when listening to this album that it was eerily familiar- like they had performed all VU and Dylan covers intheir stripped down way, in a Texas drawl, except that all these songs (save one, actually a Dylan cover), are actually theirs. How does a band's songs actually eclipse their performance of them? Addendum: I saw them play in a bar once (the kind that has TV scattered about for sports fans). I still remember singer Ron Mark's line at the time: "Hey, can you guys turn that one off over there? It's not that you have to pay attention to us, it's just that I'm an American, and if there's a TV in the room I have to watch it."
247. The Calamities (Posh Boy)
     • Charlie: Great French garage gal-pop, Troggs cover (B3) Who cover (A3)etc.Gaylord Fields: One of my all time faves.
248. The Cats and The Fiddle - I Miss You So (Bluebird)
     • Doug sez: Brillian black string band coming out of the minstrel tradition. This a is exceedingly rare record. This band featured the great "Tiny" Grimes for a spell in 1941.
249. The Coach with the Six Insides - Original Cast Album (ESP)
     • Charlie: 1963, adaptation of "Finnegan's Wake", music by Teiji Ito.
250. The Count - I'm a Star (Flamingo Records)
     • Fabio sez: This guy is really whacked. Check out the track "Guitar Master." Your mind will be chemically altered.
251. The Count - I'm a Star (Flamingo Records)
     • Fabio sez: This guy is really whacked. Check out the track "Guitar Master." Your mind will be chemically altered.
252. The Deep - Psychedelic Moods (Cicadelic Records)
     • Brian Turner sez: Psychosploitation fans! Rusty Evans later went on to put out the whacked freak scene "Psychedelic Psoul" on LP on Columbia. This was his circa 1966 band. Some neat stuff including "Psychedelic Moon."
253. The Deviants - Ptoff (Alive Records)
     • Brian sez: The most psych and wacked.
254. The Dukes of Hamburg - Star Club Show 1 (Dionysus)
     • Dave the Spazz: This is completely great! Nobody has any business rockin'out like this!
255. The Edgar Broughton Band - A Bunch of 45s (EMI)
     • More stoned Beefheart-isms. Some of these songs on "Sing Brother Sing", currently in new bin. But many not! Check A7 if'n you digs Sing Brother Sing. (Scott)
256. The Fieldstones - Memphis Blues Today (High Water Records)
     • Michael Shelley sez: "While driving across the USA in 1993, I saw this band in Memphis, Tennessee. They were amazing. The bar only sold 40 oz. beers. A sign by the door said 'No Guns.' They played all night. I danced with strangers. (If you want to hear the whole story, just ask.) When I returned home, I almost shit when I found this in the library. My favorite tracks are A1 & B5 (which is instrumental)."
257. The Flashing Lights - Where the Change Is (Spinart)
     • Brian says: Nova Scotia rock from ex-Super Freindz guy with high pop guitar quotient akin to fellow Canucks Sloan & the New Pornographers (minus the Sparks fixation). Good!
258. The Gosdin Brothers - Sounds of Goodbye
     • Michael Shelley: Prepare for an ass kicking country/pop w/ great harmony. Alabama by way of late 60s LA.
259. The Gories - House Rockin (EFA)
     • Mr. Fine Wine sez: "Raw and especially 'Sister Ann' and check out Mick's Howlin' Wolf impression on 'You'll Be Mine.'
260. The Honeybus - The Honeybus Story (Repertoire)
     • For fans of melodic and harmonious songwriting. One of my faves. Just well crafted pop spanning baroque, laid back folk, Beatles, etc. This collection has most of their classics. Be sure to check out: 1,9!,11,13,14,19,20 + more.
261. The Horseflies - Human Fly (Rounder)
     • Dan Bodah: Out of one of the worst eras for music, the 80s, comes this gem. Wearing their punk roots on their sleeve by covering the Cramps on the title track, the Horseflies created a totally unique amalagam of 80s synthpop and hillbilly jams that is still jawdroppingly good.
262. The Illusion - Together (As a Way of Life) (Steed)
     • DJ Orange Julius: Not hard enough to be psych but almost too heavy forpop. 1970 was a strange year. Dude 2nd from the left on the cover has theworst hair I've ever seen. Try this curious LP, it may scratch that itchyou don't even have.
263. The Inside of the Outside or the Outside of the Inside - Who Are They? Where Do They Come From? Why Are They Here? (Serenus Records)
     • Nick M. sez: "Utterly astounding oscillations combined with other commensurably great instrumentation. Nice liner notes too."
264. The James Taylor Quartet - The Money Spyder (Kennedy)
     • Small Change sez: One of the greatest punk-rock-jazz albums ever (maybe the only), James Taylor (not the fuckin' hippie) graduates from the Garage Legends "The Prisoners" and forms a Jazz Quartet. Check 1/2. 1/6, 2/6 the whole thing. Rocks!
265. The Mice - For ALmost Ever (Herb Jackson Records)
     • Joe Belock says: Cleveland power-pop combo. Big influence on Robert Pollard/GBC. Guitarist Bill Fox recently had a CD in the new bin "Transit Byzantium" on Spinart records.
266. The Moles - Untune the Sky (Seaside)
     • Brian sez: Well not too old or obsure for those who were at FMU circa '92 (not me). This is the 1st LP from Richard Davies' Aussie band when they were a solid unit, before Richard came to the U.S. A great pop psych masterpiece, more driving and less fractured than his later stuff. Hints of Wire, Go-Betweens, Teardrops, Velvets, & everything else. Outta print for now.
267. The Muffins at Psychedelly March 3, 1979
     • Nick M sez: A truly fine record that I've not seen elsewhere. Imagine Henry Cow's "Legend" performed with a sense of humor.
268. The Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra - Blu Blu Blu (Black Saint)
     • Placed by Donna.
269. The Nuns - s/t (Posh Boy)
     • Terre T writes: Early 8T's Cali punk led by the amazing Jennifer Miro with Alejandro Escovedo on drums. Great 2 chord punkers within but the alb is most memorable for "Suicide Child" - a dramatic, riveting, nasty, sad. angry epic lamenting a girl who killed herself.
270. The Residents - Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen (Ralph Records)
     • The best Residents album - straddling the bizzaro synth pop of the earlist days with just a hint of the weird caricature-songs to come. This was a true revelation to my 14-year-old self - and still is. (Dan B.)
271. The Scene Is Now - The Oily Years
     • Acapulco Rodriguez - Great junkyard/parlour-pop-noise-wave band from NYC, mostly forgotten, apparently. Not by you, buy you know what I'm saying. Play it!
272. The Serpent Power - Serpent Power - Tina and David Meltzer - Poet Song (Comet)
     • Great San Francisco Psych/Folk-Rock band fronted by poet David Meltzer and his wife Tina. Denny Ellis and David Stenson were in the first incarnation of The Grass Roots, as heard on the recent Rev-Ola reissue. Track 10 features Jean-Paul Pickens, whose split LP with Gene Estribou was pressed by Locust. (Hatch)
273. The Sonics - Full Force! (Etiquette Records)
     • Brian sez: Yeah, a lot of people know about 'em but I have to say that I don't hear them on nearly enough rock-geared shows. Vocals, guitars, mix, everything about this band peels the paint! Makes the Seattle scenesters today look like they're dancin' around in tutus. DA the DJ adds: Sonics Rule. All other bands suck. These no-mannered guys recorded for the Etiquette(!) label.Gaylord adds: Gerry Roslie is my vocal model.
274. The Toms - The Toms (Black Sheep Records)
     • Hova sez: Actually, there's only ONE Tom on here: Tommy Marolda, who put the colection of pop nuggets together at hs home in Southern New Jersey. Sugar-coated Indie-Pop before it was fasionable--100% irony free.
275. The Triumph of Man 7" (Travelers Insurance Company)
     • Bethany writes: Roughly 20 years before EPCOT, this little gem from the 1964 Worlds Fair charts our triumphs as a civilization. Notice the way the narrators skips 3 centuries from when Columbus sailed the seas to where America was in full tilt. I played this in contrast to Varese's Peome Electroniques written/constructed for the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair with Lecourbusier & Xenakis.
276. The Vile Cherubs - The Man Who Has No Eats Has No Sweats (White Heap Records)
     • Orginally a tape trader only affair. This collection of mid 80s psychey/garage songs chugs with the best of them. Think maybe Vertebrats meets the Mirrors? Na...They were just H.S. kids who made a great racket. "Man with a photograph" is my fave. Read the liners- Check! - (Mike Lupica)
277. The Wayfarers - The Wayfarers (Lolita)
     • Charlie Lewis: Good tunes (Originals and covers), good feel, goodwarbling, good golly. Buzzcocks, Love covers, enjoy!
278. Theater For Your Mother - Two Radio Plays by Samuel Beckett (Other Room Music)
     • Ken sez: Great whacked out radio plays (spoken word). Guaranteed more irritating than EITHER Kenny G.
279. Thee Speaking Canaries - Life-Like Homes (Scat)
     • DJ Orange Julius: Possibly the finest slab of unfiltered rock to ever beshat from my hometown. It sits at the altar of Van Halen, proudly as theman who wears the mullet. Soulful tomahawk charge if "the Last Side ofTown" needs two sides of an LP to rock to completion, traversing throughsome acid-scarred post-industrial Twisted Village creek on side A. Side Bis the "pop edit" finale, with Damon's big voice and intense show fromNoah Leger. "Like-Like Holmes(sic)" is THE pop-rock blast to be reckonedwith...listen to it and you'll understand why Damon Che never got rich andshould've gotten famous by now. It Pittsburgh were music it'd be thisrecord.
280. Toshi Tsuchitori - Breath (DYM)
     • Rich Hazelton: Great adam's apple! And sing along to(o) "The Fifth Breath"though the first a turkey possible may be.
281. Toshi Tsuchitori - Total Life
     • Total burn black hole. Sound like Growing & High Rise.
282. Tuba Mirum Unlimited, Inc - Tuba Mirum Unlimited, Inc
     • Kurt Gottschalk: Abstract hardcore ambient pounding tuba solos.
283. Turtles - Turtle Soup (White Whale)
     • Dave Mandl: 1969 - Great great pop record produced by Ray Davies.
284. Twink (Pink Fairies) - Think Pink (SPM)
     • Brian sez: Pink Fairies Twink psych classic, 1970.
285. Unholy Swill - Live in Dallas (Nawpost)
     • Brian: No one told them "don't mess with Texas". Excellent cover of Ice-T's "Colors".
286. Units - Digital Stimulation (415 Records)
     • Chris B. sez: Unearthed from the depths by Chris B. Great forgotten S.F. synth/pop band--no guitars! Found in the basement--shame!! (Their 2nd album was produced by Bill Nelson).
287. Various - Deep Into Jungle Territory
     • DJ/Rupture - Exuberant, hi-energy London bhangra-jungle fusion. Multiculturalism on fast-forward!! Track 7 a personal favorite (from 1994!!!)
288. Various - Dis-Jointed
     • Comp of much overlooked West Coast labels 12"s. Great/varied dub/electronic selections.
289. Various - Wanna Buy A Bridge (Rough Trade)
     • Brian sez: I think everyone knows about this but if you don't, play it, damnit!
290. Various - Punk and Disorderly (Posh Boy)
     • Brian: Distorder, Vice Squad, the Adicts: HC needed now more than ever.
291. Various - Asperando A Go-Go (Styrophon)
     • Brian: Germans who crawled outta a black pool of goop. If you dug the "IHate the Pop Group" comp you'll like this too.
292. Various - Red Spot (Subterranean)
     • Brian: Like the Nervous Gender LP, another great document of pre-KROQDepeche/Erasure elctro-goth underground of California sun-hatingyouth. Fried Abortions, Minimal Man, more. Pseu Braun: One-a my all-timefave comps, BT, a staple for years.
293. Various - Balkans Without Borders (Omnium)
     • Dan Bodah writes: Very rocking compilation of Balkan music played by the musicians from the area and beyond (Garmarna from Scandinavia and Mike Watt well y'know...) Lots of different styles and takes on Balkan music, it's a total blast.
294. Various - Start Swimming (Stiff)
     • Dan Mackta: Yessss...Throbbing Gristle members sitting in with the Bongos, what's not to love. All these bands, you've heard 'em a million times,they all sound great on this album, recorded live in London in early 81. (inc. Bongos, Bush Tetras, dB's)
295. Various - West Coast Hot (Novus)
     • Doug Schulkind: Cuts 5-8 constitute the original release of HoraceTapscott's searing, gorgeous "The Giant Is Awakened" (Cuts 1-4 aren'tchopped liver).
296. Various - Mirage: Avant-Garde & Third Stream Jazz (NewWorld)
     • Doug Schulkind: It's hard to pick amongst the consitently amazing set ofNew World anthologies, but this has long been a favorite. Check out thebreath-defyingly gorgeous cover of the standard "Laura" by the great andnow late Jeannie Lee.
297. Various - Mute Beat (ROIR)
     • Douglas Wolk says: Super-entertaining Japanese dub. Check out the dubversion of "Take Five!"
298. Various - Mariachi Coculense de Cirilo Marmolejo 1933-36 (Folklyric)
     • Marc G writes: A-side has more accessible stuff; a good simple beatpre-dating disco by 40 years w/the exception of A6 which has a ska beat!
299. Various - Run Rhythm Run: Rock Steady and Raggae From the Treasure Isle (Heartbeat)
     • Michael Shelley writes: I love this nutty record. Organs, fuzz guitars,harmonicas. Loose yet tight.
300. Various - House Hallucinates: Pump Up the World Volume 1 (A&M)
     • Mike Goodstein writes: Ignore the band type fonts, this is 808 insanity and Chicago acid at its best. Most of these 12"s came out on trax and appaer here in slightly less illustrious form but still can sound quite evil.
301. Various - Year of the Rats (label?)
     • Mike L. writes: Stellar comp in the vein of "Killed By Death", which is to say, a bunch of bands who don't have anything to do with each others aside from being obscure and causing record kgeeks to sweat and drool. Side one is probably old news to most of us, the the flipside is nonstop brilliance. Dig the Aussie-like sound of Satan's Rats, the Welsh (!!) punk sounds of Llygod Fyrning and the total Iggy/Stooges wannabe godheadness of the Matt Gimmick tracks. Totally hot & rockin'!
302. Various - Music of the Alaskan Kutchin Indians (Folkways)
     • Monica: Funky fiddlin galore on the B-side. Must be Charlie Peter, but sadly, the liners are AWOL.
303. Various - Crazy Jungle Volume 1 (Mutant)
     • OCDJ says: Hands down the best jungle/drum & bass comp we have. All tracks are super hot!! Some have lame intros- ignore those-30 seconds in and it's a great tune. Also ignore that the comp is "mixed". Though comp is from 1998, tracks are as early as 94. Ahead of its time.
304. Various - Mississippi Delta Blues Vol. 2 (Arhoolie)
     • OCDJ says: Here is where George Mitchell's recordings originally appeared in 1967 (reissued in 1994). Original 67 vintl (coincidentally my first WFMU record fair purchase at age 14) was a split with RL Burnside. He's gone to do some stuff more popular with the masses, but listen to track 12. That is the reason I got into blues music.
305. Various - The Modern Art of Jazz (Biograph)
     • Rix: Compilation notable for the 1956 NYC Julius Watrkins/Mat Matthews French horn/Accordion sessions. Not "great" jazz but novel textures that presaged later NYC scene.
306. Various - Frolic Diner Vol 3 (Romulan)
     • Small Change says: Nice twisted comp that features one of the best laughing records of all time, "It's Delicious" originally by Gilligan's Islander Jim Backus and covered by Monica dand Bill W. during the WFMU Hoof N Mouth Sinfonia.
307. Various - Leather Donut (Black Eye)
     • Terre says: Jawdroppingly odd, wacked 'rock' from Australia. From the thorazine-drenched country of Bobby Qual through the metal machine music of Justin Stink to other bands that may call to mind Whitehouse, Throbbing Gristle, Syd Barrett to animals yelping to people farting this comp's got it all. My favorites are Minced Meat, Eggs n' Burger, & Salamader Jim.
308. Various - Rodney on the ROQ Vol. 2 (Posh Boy)
     • Terre writes: Volume 2 of this California punk series. Stand out track: Minutemen "Search", Red Cross "Burn Out", Geza X "We Need More Power" and the Unit 3 w/ Venus (Unit 3 = punk rock parents, Venus = their 9-year old daughter) with electro synth!
309. Various - Rodney on the ROQ Vol. 1 (Posh Boy)
     • Terre writes: Klassic Kalifornia punk rock! From the opening intro of a 13 year old Brooke Shields saying she listens to Rodney on the ROQ going right into Agtent Orange "Bloodstains" to Adolescents' "Amoeba", damn it's good! U need to hear the Klans version of "Pushing Too Hard".
310. Verlaines - Junevilia (Homestead)
     • Terre T writes: Early stuff from this great New Zealand guitar pop band from 1982-86. My fave track is "Pyromaniac". Mental problems never sounded so good.
311. Vershki Da Koreshki - Roots and Leaves (Shanachie)
     • Brian: Not that old (97) but lovely, flowing stuff from group comprised ofTuvan and Senegalese musicians.
312. Vladimir Ussachevsky - Film Music
     • Rich - If, at some point in the future, you were to hold my trephinated skull up to your ears like a conch shell, it is conceivable that some of the sounds found herein might be heard (then again you might just hear the ocean)
313. Wakda Beomri - Koullou Habetak
     • DJ/Rupture - Lovely performance by Algerian singer Warda. For fans of Oum Kaulsoum. Voice & orchestra in the Egyptian style, complete with darbouka rhythm section.
314. Was (Not Was) - Born to Laugh at Tornados (Geffen)
     • Marc G writes: "The Party Broke Up" neatly combines hip hop & old school (1960's-ish) fuzz guitar. "Zaz Turned Blue" features the always-great Mel Torme doing much-more somber material than usual. Of interest, but not as musically interesting - guest vocalists Mitch Ryder, Ozzy Osbourne, Doug Fieger.
315. Was (Not Was) - Tell Me That I'm Dreaming (Warner Brothers)
     • Marg G writes: Cool predecessor to the current wave of Bush cut-ins, washups, remixes, and cut-ups. These elegant 1982 pieces feature then-prez Ronald Reagan.
316. West Street Mob - Break Dance Electric Boogie
     • Small Change sez: Seminal, seminal old Skool Break, with Apache Riff. Guaranteed to rock the dance floor.
317. White Witch - s/t (Capricorn)
     • Brian: Wicca glam from Tampa, Florida.
318. Willie Colon - Cosa Nuestra (Fania)
     • Rob Weisberg writes: A classic of 70's salsa, esp. Track A-1. Sublime, great vocals by the late Hector Lavoe.
319. Wishmountain - Wishmountain Is Dead (Antiphon)
     • Brian: Very cool organic manipulations of variou sobjects (chip bags,cheese graters etc) into electronic sounds and textures. Quitenice!
320. Wolfman Jack - s/t (Wooden Nickel)
     • David S. writes: This is one of a handful of records put out by Brooklyn-born Bob Smith, aka Wolfman Jack. Overall this record's not as good (or bad) as one might desire, but a few tracks are dy-no-mite. Really, check "Sweet Caroline" and "Diggin On Mrs. Jones."
321. Yabby You - Dub It From The Top 1976-1979
     • $mall change - Blood and fire, always 100 prod tough dubs.
322. Yann Tomita - Music For Living Sound box (Yann Tomita)
     • Brian: Who the hell is Yann Tomita? Aside from seeing his name on aBoredoms remix, I dunno. But there are plenty of claims to academicimportance on his part and it's a mystery as to whether it's"real" electronic egghead action in effect or it's all a joke. Regardless,there are some wild and weird moments herein.
323. Young Snakes - Bark Along with (Abiguous)
     • Anon: Aimee Man (Til Tuesday I think?) with local percussion maniacMichael Evans (ESP Ensemble, Soultronix, etc.) who has played here manytimes. Their first record from way back before fame, fortune & drugs.
324. Yukiko Ohtsuki - Laemonz (Cafe Deisc)
     • Brian sez: No idea--found it. Dug it. She's from the band "Laemonz" and this CD was donated by the cartoonist Mark Beyer.
325. Zampogne en Italie - Italian Bag-Pipes (Silex/Memoire)
     • Placed by Donna.
326. Zani Diabate & the Super Djata Band - s/t (Mango)
     • Rob Weisberg: Seminal Malian pentatonic electric guitar band LP.
327. Zeljko Kerleta - Space Runner (Cosmic Sounds)
     • Charlie writes: Nice hybrid electroacoustic/techno/ethno jazzy grooves from Yugoslav to London transplant architect and musician.
328. ZNR - Barricade 3
     • Kenny G. sez: ZNR stands for Hector Zazou and Joseph Racaille. 1975 gorgeous Satie-esque electronic treatements of vocal, keyboards, and winds. Very mellow, very trippy, tres French. They only did one other record also in the 1970s.
329. Zoviet France - Gris 10" (No Man's Land)
     • Fabio writes: Early Zoviet France, crude instrumentation/beautiful sounds, amazing artwork.