Charlie Lewis | On WFMU | Thursday mornings | 9 am to Noon | Grate. Chop. Mix. Puree.
May 27, 1999 | Civilization? Feh! *

The name of the piece | The people who did it | Where it comes from
(VA = various artists) (*** = new & recommended)

Feelings | The Bran Flakes | Hey, Won't Somebody Come and Play?
I Found a Love | Wilson Pickett (The Falcons) | A Man and a Half (best of)
Natural Blues | Moby | Play
Locoman | Latin Playboys | Dose
Killing "Time" | mista cholly remix | Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of the Moon
excerpts | Ryoji Ikeda | O degrees C
Circular Flexing | Squarepusher | Music Is Rotted One Note
3 futurist poems | Giacomo Balla | Dada For Now (VA)
Yo! I Killed Your God | Marc Ribot | Yo! I Killed Your God ***

Electric Lady Land | Fantastic Plastic Machine | Luxury ***
Macon | Ill Ease | Circle Line Tours
Sloop John B. | Joseph Spence | Bahamian Guitarist
There Will Be a Happy Meeting | Tom Cora | Hallelujah, Anyway: Remembering Tom Cora (VA) ***
Ragtime Waltz | Mauricio Kagel | Solowerke
Walter and Conny | Four Piece Suit | Ready To Where?
Count 0 Number 1 | Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her | 17
Stealing My Love From Me | Lulu | To Sir With Love (soundtrack)

Baiao | Luiz Gonzaga & Humberto Teixeira | Musique du Nordeste (VA) ***
Unclean Waters | The Dirty Dozen Brass Band | Buck Jump
Vo Chong Lam Bieng | Ly Ngua O | Ho! # 1
Grow Fins | Captain Beefheart | The Spotlight Kid
Tail Dragger | Howlin' Wolf | Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog (best of)
Every Little Bit | Patty Griffin | Living With Ghosts
Stayin' Put | Moe Tucker | I Spent a Week There the Other Night

Curley Shirley | Otto Sieben | Music For TV Dinners (VA)
Piano Objective 3 | DJ Matsuoka | 12-inch single
Bum Steer | Death Praxis | Mystery
Spill the Wine | War with Eric Burdon | (anthology)
Psyche II | These Trails | These Trails
Amity Gardens | Fountains Of Wayne | Utopia Parkway ***

Drei Mann Im Doppelbett | Trio | Trio and Error
Herr Rossi Sucht das Gluck | Die Moulinettes | 20 Blumen
Bu Bu Buana Bu | Signor Rossi | soundtrack ***
Bongo Bongo Bongo | Louis Prima | Say It With a Slap
She Hangs Out | The Sea Monkeys | Secret Sign
The Only One Who Loves You | Dan Emery Mystery Band | Dan Emery Mystery Band

Di Sengi | Francis Bebey | Akwaaba
Odovinil | Pierre Bastien | Musiques Paralloidres
Outa My Head | DJ Wally | The Stoned Ranger Rydes Again
Dillu | Ernst Reijseger & Tenore e Cuncordu de Orosei | Colla Voche
The little sandwich that got a guilt complex because he was the sole survivor of a horrible bus crash | King Missile | Failure
Zap! Carnivorous | Eddie Jefferson | Groove Jammy 2 (VA)
Spark Plug | Stereolab | Emperor Tomato Ketchup

* Feh (Yiddish): An expressive exclamation of disbelief or disgust.

Tzadik records rides again:
Another fine 2-CD tribute album, this time to improvisor cellist Tom Cora (who had played with Skeleton Crew, The Ex, Curlew, John Zorn, Eugene Chadbourne, etc), who died last year.
And Marc Ribot: raw, concert (CBGB, etc) recordings, from 1992 and 1994.
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