WAIT, WE'VE GOT TOO MANY BUTTONS.

Just diggin' on instrumentals tonight, and these just hit the spot. The first one, probably too slow to even be called a slow jam, is Booker T and the MGs' version of "Summertime". The sucker is either for the slow dance of the century or some serious heavy petting in slo mo. Break out the Courvoisier, or light a big fatty, I don't care.

After that, pick things up with the Mar-Keys' "Philly Dog" (the B-side to "Last Night") and then onto the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band and "Spreadin' Honey" with hand claps so prominent that when the handclap solo comes (yes, there is one), you feel like the laughs on you.

As you exit, do take a second to revisit The Midniters' "Whittier Blvd". Love the song, could definitely do without the intro, but, man, it's a solid jam.

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Listen:
Booker T. & The MGs - Summertime mp3 at Internet Archive
The Mar-Keys - Philly Dog mp3 at Internet Archive
The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Spreadin Honey mp3 at Internet Archive
The Midniters - Whittier Blvd mp3 at Internet Archive

BURNING SPEAR SAVES THE DAY

I had the jazz station on today. I'm cautious, During the day it an be hit and miss. From noon until one they played an hour of Charlie Parker, so I left it on. An hour later came the miss, a too breezy, too light, reggae-jazz tune. I was about to turn it off, then I caught myself humming along to it. What the fuck? They're playing Burning Spear?!? "Marcus Garvey"? After checking the playlist I found out it was Monty Alexander and Ernest Ranglin who I know are capable of heavier shit. Yeesh! As soon as I got home I cleared my head with the original.

Here's Alexander and Ranglin's version, and the original. Burning Spear's was released in 1975. which is mindblowing when you consider that it was just a year after "Rocking Time" and "Call On You", both from his second LP. His first two albums were on Studio One, both are insanely barren, in a good no-frills way. But, man, compared to them "Marcus Garvey" is some sort of thick, heavy roots bomb.

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Listen:
Monty Alexander and Ernest Ranglin - Marcus Garvey (streaming) at YouTube 2004
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey mp3 at Online Nigeria 1975
Burning Spear - Rocking Time mp3 at Pixie Radio 1974
Burning Spear - Call On You mp3 at Brobots 1974
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey (Entire LP) (streaming) at YouTube 1975
Burning Spear - Garvey Ghost (Dub version, entire LP) (streaming) at YouTube 1976

DUDE, THOSE PANTS DON'T MATCH.

Never thought I'd see the day when Fela would be comfort music, but somehow he got in there, on that list of artists that I can always return to, the ones with so much recorded output that as much as I like them, I know full well that there will always be stuff of theirs that I haven't heard. James Brown, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Aretha, all the jazz guys, surf, garage,...shit, the list just goes on and on.

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Listen:
Fela Kuti - Water No Get Enemy mp3 at Miss Trade
Fela Kuti - Shakara mp3 at Essentially Eclectic
Fela Kuti - Mistake mp3 at Soul Donuts
Fela Kuti - Lady mp3 at ATumblr (?)
More Fela in past posts (scroll down)

BLUE SHIRT DIDN'T GET THE MEMO

I don't know much about Primal Scream, so I'm withholding judgement. Sort of. I do remember having one of their CDs at one point, so I must have thought that they were all right, but I guess not enough to keep it because I don't have it now. But remembering that I had it, when I saw a cover of John Lennon's "Gimme Some Truth", I bit. Dang me if it ain't a cover of Generation X's cover of Lennon's song. Check it. Listen to Lennon's, then Generation X's, then Primal Scream's. You tell me. Were they trying to pass it off as their own interpretation of the song, or did the acknowledge the debt to Generation X's version? Shit, I don't know, I don't follow these things. Check the video too, from the same year. Seems to me they really want to be the Exile-era Stones in that. What, are they some sort of 70s K-Tel record?

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Listen:
John Lennon - Gimme Some Truth (streaming) at YouTube
Generation X - Gimme Some Truth (streaming) at YouTube
Primal Scream - Gimme Some Truth mp3 at Cover Me
Video:
Primal Scream - Country Girl at YouTube

EVERY SCENE HAS IT'S DORKS

I've been reading a bit lately, mostly books that I'd forgotten I owned, some never read. Nothing too brainy, just rock stuff. Most of unread ones were picked up more for reference at a later date then a burning desire to read. Really, how many books do you need to read about punk rock before you start reading the same shit over and over. I've been saturated over the years and really had enough of the looking back. But, what the hell, after uncovering some of these in a recent move, I was in the mood for some light reading. One book The England's Dreaming Tapes, is a book of interviews that Jon Savage used for his history of punk book, England's Dreaming. Haven't read the latter, but this interview book is pretty interesting. Even though there's tons of repeated mentions of events, bands, records, cubs, etc., it's interesting to read different players' versions of the same events. How they differ in retrospect depending on the person's station in the punk hierarchy back in the day. 

I never much cared for the Damned, but I thought I was getting a bit more objective about them as the years have gone by. I still haven't ever bought anything by them. When reading Savage's book, I started with a random interview with Mary Harron, a friend of the Punk magazine crew who did time in New York and London in the mid-late seventies. After reading her interview, I remembered what initially turned me off about the Damned. "I thought the The Damned were so dreadful - some ludicrous pre-gothic thing. Music to me was about being minimalist - fast stage act, driving rhythm - or Television's guitar thing. Black, ironic lyrics. It certainly wasn't some nineteen-year-old painted up as Dracula." Ooh, sting like a bee!

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Listen:
The Damned - Neat, Neat, Neat mp3 at Jorge Farah (?)
The Damned - New Rose mp3 at Midwestern Housewives
The Damned - Help (streaming) at YouTube
The Damned - Stab Your Back mp3 at Killed By Death Go there to get it.

I CRY BULLSHIT ON THAT ONE

This is a weak cash in if there ever was one, this tie-in with surf. I've only heard a few songs on this album, and while they are good ol' fashioned throwaway instrumentals, they are Bo Diddly throwaways so they're better then most. But they are not surf.  "Aztec" down there is much closer, but it's not on that album. It all just goes to show you how big the surf music market was back in the day, when the Beatmeister himself turned surf slut.

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Listen:
Bo Diddley - Aztec mp3 at Internet Archive
From Surfin' With Bo Diddley:
Bo Diddley - Piggy Back Surfers (streaming) at YouTube
Bo Diddley - Surf, Sink or Swim (streaming) at YouTube
Bo Diddley - Fiery Eyes (streaming) at YouTube
More Bo in the old links (Scroll down)

SINGS, PLAYS HARP, EATS CHICKEN.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's eating chicken, but just look at her. Is that not the cutest photo of Big Mama Thornton you've ever seen? Tonight was her night, and I've been all over the place. Here's just a few of what I came across. It was all over after I saw the video below. I started thinking about how easy it is to find cool shit online nowadays, and how much of it there is. Before the internet, you would never get the opportunity see the clip. Now there's a million of them, and you'll never see them all. But you can start with this one. Big Mama Thornton, 1965, doing "Hound Dog" with Buddy Guy on guitar, and then "Down Home Shakedown", a blues harp battle with her, John Lee Hooker, Big Walter "Shakey" Horton and Dr. Ross. It's exhausting.

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Listen:
Big Mama Thornton - I Smell a Rat mp3 at Internet Archive
Big Mama Thornton - All Right Baby mp3 at Internet Archive
Big Mama Thornton - Stop Hoppin' On Me mp3 at Internet Archive
Big Mama Thornton - Twenty more at Internet Archive

WINNER OF TONIGHTS ROUND

Poor Throbbing Gristle. Ever time I get close to revisiting their stuff, something distracts me and they get put off, again and again. This time it was a Throbbing Gristle vs ESG mash up or something like that. It made me want to hear ESG by themselves, "Erase You" to be exact. I love that song. See you later Throbbing Gristle. Catch you on the flip flop.

Just for the heck of it, JJ Fad's "Supersonic" is down there. I love that song too. Big time. Listen to the whole thing, it builds.

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Listen:
ESG - Erase You mp3 at ATumblr
JJ Fad - Supersonic mp3 at ATumblr The good stuff starts at :25
ESG - Moody mp3 at Loft and Lost
Throbbing Gristle United vs ESG Moody (streaming) at Avant-Avant

DUDE'S STILL CRUISING

A Quantic thing with Alice Russell and U Roy? Hell yeah, I'll bite. It's good to hear U Roy's voice, and to know that he's still active, though under-utilized on this cut, It's almost too chill. I started dozing off when I was listening to it. Really.

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Listen:
Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno – A Life Worth Living mp3 at KEXP Featuring U Roy and Alice Russell

EL PARCHE, EL BADASS

I went to a comedy thing last night, my sister competing against a handful of other comics in a competition where the best four move on to the next round. She made it to the next round, thank you very much, but not before some objectionable material was presented. Objectionable to me and about zero others in the room. It wasn't a particular word, or anything lewd or disgusting. That stuff doesn't offend me much. In her hilarious bit about taco shops, she mentioned that she could only tolerate the accordion in norteño music because it came with tacos attached. It didn't bother me that my sister has an aversion to norteño music. Like I said, it was likely just me that was bothered by the statement. What bothers me is that norteño music, including the variant Tex-Mex, is unappreciated in general by music lovers that consider themselves open to all sorts of other types of music. Why this is, I'm not certain. But I thought I might try to change my sister's mind, and perhaps others, by posting some stuff I liked. Flaco Jimenez was to be Exhibit A. To further my case, I went for a handy Exhibit B, and that's when the wheels came off. Fucking Esteban "Steve" Jordan. That guy was so damn nuts. It's not often that you think of Hendrix, Coltrane or even King Tubby, when you're thinking about the accordion, but, man, Jordan liked to fuck with things. He might not convince my sister to reevaluate norteño music, Tex-Mex or the accordion, but I think we can all appreciate his style; his, I don't know, undefinable weirdness. Surely my sister digs weird.

First thing you notice is his appearance. Is he an overly groomed ladies man, or will he rip your head off? I'm not going into that, I don't want to ruin it for anyone unfamiliar with him. He just looks like that. Before you start digging for his backstory, check these. "Las Coronelas" is a pretty straight up, with a couple tweaked parts. I could do without the chorus. It gets better. "Squeeze Box Man" is more my speed, accordion funk as far as I'm concerned. "Polkaplex" was written for his beloved Echoplex. Really. Ode to a tape delay. But wait, don't skip the videos. Start with the early one, "Ela Casabel". So fucking good. The cowbell, or whatever it is, is really prominent in the mix which kinda adds to it. Stick around for the flute solo by another member of the band. It smokes, even in that context. No, especially in that context. It's early Jordan too, but you can tell that he already knows he's badass. Next check "Fly Robin Fly". Dude goes effects crazy. Disco Tejano dub. Kraftwerk meets King Tubby in Texas. Something like that. "Clockwise" is insane. Stick around until at least :49 seconds into it. That's where he really takes off. If you have any doubts about whether this is jazz, replace the accordion with a sax. What didn't he do with that thing?

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Listen:
Esteban Jordan - Las Coronelas mp3 at Let's Polka
Esteban Jordan - Squeeze Box Man mp3 at Super Sonido
Esteban Jordan - You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling mp3 at To the Sublime
Esteban Jordan - Polkaplex (streaming) at YouTube
Video:
Esteban Jordan - El Casabel at YouTube From Austin City Limits
Esteban Jordon - Fly Robin Fly at YouTube
Esteban Jordan - Clockwise at YouTube

THIRTEEN WOMEN AND THIS GUY

Back when we were kids, before our record buying started to eat up every cent of our paper route and lawn mowing money, my brothers and I listened to the radio, a lot. We listened to top forty like every other kid, but we also listened to the oldies station, back when there were oldies stations. They played early rock 'n' roll and soul, doo wop, shit like that. To this day I can't remember what drew us to oldies, but in the overall scheme of things, it was incredible fortuitous. We didn't have to figure out where "Johnny B. Goode" came from when we eventually heard a cover, we already knew. Ditto "Summertime Blues", "Whole Lotta Shakin'" and other early rockers. But why we listened, I'm not sure. We weren't discerning, that much I know. It might be the Coasters one minute, and then with a flip of the dial, Neil Diamond or Mountain. Jerry Reed's "Amos Moses" might as well have been "Tutti Frutti" for all we cared. We just ate it up, all of it.

When we finally did start buying records, we just bought anything and everything. Among my younger brother's early LP purchases, right about the time he bought Black Sabbath Vol 4, and Who's Next, were a couple two record sets of greatest hits, one of Bill Haley and his Comets, and one by Eddie Cochran. Not bad for a twelve year old. Having only heard "Summertime Blues" by Cochran, and "Rock Around the Clock" by Haley, there was a lot of unfamiliar rock 'n' roll to be heard, and it was. Over and over and over. Here are two that were in constant rotation in the boys room, particularly "Thirteen Women". Imagine wrapping your young brain around that.

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Listen:
Eddie Cochran - Nervous Breakdown mp3 at Internet Archive
Bill Halley and His Comets - Thirteen Women mp3 at Internet Archive

ROLL IN IT

I'm not even going to mess around with this one, Let's just say that Groove Addict just fucking did it again. The singles discography of Blue Beat Records, from number 001 to 400. Yeah. That's a whole lot of ska. Here's just a few. If you dig ska, go there. I'll see you in a couple weeks. There's four posts, each with multiple zips averaging 25 cuts each, and a few mp3 samples thrown in. Let me know how far you get.

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Listen:
Don Drummond - Ska Town mp3 at Groove Addict
Roland Alphonso - Jericho Chain mp3 at Groove Addict
Prince Buster - Dance Cleopatra mp3 at Groove Addict
The orgy:
Blue Beat Records Singles Discography 001-099 at Groove Addict
Blue Beat Records Singles Discography 100-199 at Groove Addict
Blue Beat Records Singles Discography 200-299 at Groove Addict
Blue Beat Records Singles Discography 300-425 at Groove Addict

LLOYD NOLEN? NEVER HEARD OF HIM.

Back in the good ol' days, you didn't sample stuff or copy riffs. You just stole whole songs and changed the lyrics. That's what it sounds like here, the Sonics' "Witch" being the later of the two 45s. I think they did a bang up job.

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Listen:
Lloyd Nolen - Fun Fun mp3 at Diddy Wah
The Sonics - The Witch mp3 at Tinyvices

NEVER MIND THE PROGENY

His music got me through a few tough nights when I was younger. Come to think of it, he may be the only singer I've ever listened to when I really was actually crying in my beer. Forlorn? Really want to sink into it? No one does the job like Hank Williams. This multi-talented son of a gun did the happy shit too. Cry in it, or spill it. Whatever.

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Listen:
Hank Williams - Your Cheatin' Heart mp3 at Rocky 52
Hank Williams - Last Night I Heard You Crying In Your Sleep mp3 at The Look Back
Hank Williams - Hey Good Lookin' mp3 at Rocky 52
Hank Williams - Move It On Over mp3 at Rocky 52
Hank Williams - Kaw-Liga mp3 at Internet Archive

A SHITLOAD OF STUDIO ONE

Because I've posted Studio One stuff here about a thousand times, I haven't bothered to look for anything else for a while, not because there isn't a lot out there but because there's so much of it that you have to give it a rest at some point. Or not. Tonight I was in the mood, and I ran into a page with over a hundred Studio One cuts. If you're familiar with the label, you already know that a second wasted here reading any crap I'm writing is a second you could be spending listening to good music. You are excused.

If you aren't familiar with Studio One, get with it, man. Just consider them one of the most important reggae labels of all time and you're off to a good start. From the late fifties, through the seventies and beyond, from R & B, through ska, rocksteady, reggae, DJ stuff, and all sub-genres in between, label owner Coxsone Dodd churned out quality shit, and when he was done with that he churned out more quality shit. Studio One was like Jamaica's Stax, Motown, Chess or Sun. And there's a lot of it. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who's heard all of it. Although by now someone must have put together a complete Studio One discography, the last time I checked, not one person knew of all of Dodd's releases, not even Dodd himself when he was still alive.

Part 2 can be seen here.

The songs at Internet Archive are almost all early, some from vinyl copies with audible surface noise. If you're expecting some sanitized remastered stuff, you're in the wrong place. That's kind of missing the point. Jamaican studios were rather funky in comparison to the fancy shit in the states, and their record pressing operations were even funkier. I'll take a loss in fidelity any day if it reminds me of the less than perfect conditions that something was recorded in.

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Listen:
Sound Dimension - Time Is Tight mp3 at Interne1 Archive
Roy Richards - Another Thing mp3 at Interne1 Archive
The Skatalites - Exodus mp3 at Internet Archive
Dennis Alcapone - Power Version mp3 at Internet Archive
Visit:
Reggae From Studio One at Internet Archive NOTE: Scroll down to where it says "Download options" below that click on "VBR MP3". 105 cuts.

ALL TOGETHER NOW

I just read a really good couple of lines in a book. "Everyone talked loud, smoked and drank, and made outrageous claims about what might happen and what they might do. And somehow, through shitty jobs and asshole bosses, we found time to rehearse and places to perform those half baked songs." That's John Doe of X, talking about the late seventies punk scene in L.A. circa '77-'79, It sounds like the beginning of every scene ever, but there is a difference. The beginning of most early punk scenes were considerably more DIY than other scenes, both before and after. In an era when word of mouth literally meant word of mouth. Shows, parties, records stores, and fanzines. That was the internet.

Doe just put out a book, Under the Big Black Sun, written partly by him, with chapters by others who were around at that time, including Exene Cervenka, Chris D, Pleasant Gehman, Mike Watt, Dave Alvin, a couple Go-Gos, and others, It's a good read. Some of them can write, some can't, and a couple seem a little self-absorbed, but it's all held together in purpose. Thirty some odd years ago the purpose was getting heard, now it's making sure everyone knows how it happened. Two miles uphill in the snow, bitches.

Here's a link to the first X 45, an appearance on Letterman a couple years later, and a link to the page for the book. You can even get an audio book version, voiced by the contributors themselves. That'd be kind of novel. I don't know. It might be kind of wrong.

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Listen:
X - We're Desperate mp3 at Killed By Death Go there to get it.
X - Adult Books mp3 at Killed By Death Ditto.
Video:
X - Breathless at YouTube Song starts at 2:33. David Letterman 1983
The book:
Under the Big Black Sun

THE HIRED GUN

I'd heard it once and dug it, so I went back tonight to Anderson .Paak's "Come On" with the intention of listening to more of his stuff afterwards. You know, give the guy a fair shake. I got through less than a minute of it. There was a sample or something buried in the intro that sounded like Harvey Mandel's "Peruvian Flake". So of course I had to go check that one out again. It ended up a total Mandel detour. 

Mandel was a guitarist who had played with Charlie Musselwhite, John Mayall and Canned Heat before going off on his own. Though that would seem to indicate a blues style, but listen to "The Snake" and "Peruvian Flake" and try to describe his style. Other than saying it's highly technical, it's tough to peg.

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Listen:
Anderson .Paak - Come On (streaming) at YouTube
Harvey Mandel - Peruvian Flake mp3 at DK Presents
Harvey Mandel - The Snake mp3 at DK Presents
Harvey Mandel - You Can't Tell Me (streaming) at The Rising Storm
Charlie Musslewhite - Cha Cha the Blues mp3 at Groove Addict With Harvey Mandel and Barry Goldberg.

YACHT ROCK? YEAH, SURE.

This is just the type of stuff that you need to spice up that boring mix of yours, when the other stuff starts getting way too familiar. Or you can just heap them into that "I forgot how good this was" folder and forget about them for a while. Whatever, they sound good tonight. They've all been posted before. So what.

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Listen:
The Jay Jays - Shake It Some More mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Flash and the Mephis Casuals - Uptight Tonight mp3 at Beware of the Blog
The Other Half - Mr. Pharmacist mp3 at Beware of the Blog
The Zakary Thaks - Bad Girl mp3 at Garage Rock Radio

A COUPLE MORE STUDIO ONE ODDBALLS

This first one starts out sounding like another excellent Sound Dimension instrumental. Even if you've heard a lot of their stuff, do check this one. When Cedric IM Brooks's solo comes in, it becomes a whole different monster.

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Listen:
Cedric IM Brooks and The Sound Dimension - Mun-Dun-Gu mp3 at Cocoringo's Circadian Sounds
Bunnie and Skitter - Lumumbo mp3 at Cocoringo's Circadian Sounds Go there to get it. Unrelated but equally cool.

BOSTIC BINGE

The local jazz station recently changed their line-up and came close to fucking things up entirely. Gone was my favorite show, Jazz West Coast, and gone were the late night jazz freak out shows. One plus is that they now have a three hour show, Saturday Night Fish Fry, that's all vintage R & B, forties and fifties. Yeah baby, the good shit, just before rock 'n' roll was hatched. Maybe it's just me, but there's nothing quite like walking around your neighborhood listening to Big Mama Thornton, or Jackie Brenston on a tinny transistor radio. Knowing that you can do it for three hours every Saturday night is worth planning things around. Or not. Since it's on broadcast radio, anyone in my neck of the woods can listen to it anywhere as long as they have access to an FM radio. (Anyone not in the vicinity of San Diego can listen to it streaming online, but that isn't quite as cool.)

Tonight, because he was the featured artist, they played a ton of Earl Bostic. You know him; you should at least know "Harlem Nocturne". Great as that song is, he's got a whole lot more. When the show was done, I wasn't. I was just getting started, so I went looking. Bam! Right out of the gate, 140 songs at Internet Archive. 

Bostic was no slouch. This is what Art Blakey had to say about him "Nobody knew more about the saxophone than Bostic. I mean technically, and that includes Bird [Charlie Parker]. Bostic could take any make of saxophone and tell you its faults and its best points. Working with Earl Bostic is like attending a university of the saxophone." And Blakey should know.

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Listen:
Earl Bostic - Harlem Nocturne mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Earl Bostic - Rockin' and Reelin' mp3 at Internet Archive
Earl Bostic - Jungle Drums mp3 at Internet Archive
The whole shooting match:
Earl Bostic - 140 songs at Internet Archive  NOTE: At Internet Archive scroll down to "Download Options" in the right hand column. Click on "VBR MP3" for individual mp3s.
Visit:
Earl Bostic at Wikipedia

QUESTION, FOR PAT AND DAN

I don't think they suck. Maybe there is, deep down, still something redeeming about them. They might not be my bag, not anymore, but after a debut album as good as theirs was, you know they knew how to do it at one time. As things happen, budgets get bigger, aspirations higher, and music further and further away from the struggle. It's just a matter how much it's resisted or embraced. That's what determines how fast it happens.

Never has my interest spiked as high, and waned so fast as it did with the Black Keys. I loved their first LP, and I still do. But I haven't bought anything past their second album, because what I liked about them was all but gone by their third. Check these, all from their their first.

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Listen:
The Black Keys - Heavy Soul mp3 at SB Dave
The Black Keys - She Said, She Said mp3 at Hear Ya Beatles cover.
The Black Keys - Brooklyn Bound mp3 at Hey Lisa
The Black Keys - I'll Be Your Man mp3 at Susie Bright

BLAME IT ON RIO

I had been planning on doing one good Brazilian music post before the Olympics started. All of a sudden it's "Holy shit, the Olympics are starting tomorrow", so there goes that plan right out the window. I'm just too lazy tonight. It's kind of editing by procrastination. You put it off until it's do or die, and then you realize it's just a fucking blog.

So here's a few last Brazilian music things to keep you busy.

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Listen:
Gal Costa - Vou Recomecar mp3 at Super Sonido
Gal Costa - Relance mp3 at Super Sonido
Gal Costa - Acauã mp3 at Super Sonido Wait for the freakout.
Gal Costa - Pontos de Luz mp3 at Super Sonido
Gal Costa & Gilberto Gil - Sebastiania mp3 at Super Sonido Freakout endings seem to be a trend.
Gal Costa -10 more cuts, 15 in all and great copy at Super Sonido
Jorge Ben - Mais Que Nada mp3 ('65) at Guizzz Orleans
Jorge Ben - Lalari-Olala ('65) mp3 at Guizzz Orleans
Mixes:
Clifton’s Corner: Volume 20 – Brazilian Favorites at Aquarium Drnnkard 10 songs
España Hits No 1: Spanish Bossa at Estudio el Sonido Esnob
Video:
Brazil - The Tropicalist Revolution Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 at YouTube
Tropicalia Collection at Network Awesome
Visit: 
Troplicália at Wikipedia
The Best Troplicália Albums at Sounds and Colors

BOSS RECORD POSTED ELSEWHERE

Before Del Fi Records was bought out by Warners in 2003, this thing used to be everywhere. Maybe not everywhere, but Tower Records always had it. It was one of those "It's always here, I'll get it some other time" records. And if I remember correctly it was cheap. I always put it off. Now it's out of print, or at least I think it is. Good news: Surfadelic just posted it, bless their reverb drenched souls. Click on the three red asterisks at the bottom of the song list, or if you don't give a shit about liner notes, take a short cut. Go ahead, walk around like that.

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Listen:

KFWB’s Battle Of The Surfing Bands (via Zippyshare) at Surfadelic LP download, twelve songs in a zip and a handful of samples streaming. Dave Myers and the Surf Tones, the Lively Ones, the Sentinals, the Rhythm Kings (!) and others. NOTE: Once at Zippyshare, click on the orange "Download Now" button.

FILLIN' IN THE BLANKS

I don't know if this guy is clueless, though I doubt it. Maybe he's trying to be Mr. Deep Cut, or maybe he's just trying to piss me off. A collection, "imaginary compilation" if you will, of the Faces. Some interesting choices, with one big fat glaring omission. It doesn't include "Stay With Me". Maybe he thinks everybody's heard it enough. I haven't.

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Listen:
The Faces - Stay With Me mp3 at Juke Box Junior
The Faces - An Imaginary Compilation Album at Vinyl Villain Ten songs
Video:
The Faces - Stay With Me at YouTube
The Faces - BBC Crown Jewels (complete set) at YouTube 43 minutes