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Echo And The Bootleg

Wednesday, August 21st, 2013

When this goes up, I’ll be in (not so) lovely NYC. Remember all the smack I was talking about Toronto and Canada? That was mostly facetious. Toronto is actually a pretty alright town. It might not be for me, but I can see why so many people dig it. And it has some pretty great record stores.

But New York City? Man, fuck that place. An overcrowded, overrated, overpriced and oversantized nightmare amalgamation of everything horrible that America has to offer. Sure, it’s the “city that never sleeps” and you can always find an amazing restaurant, bar or whatever, but damn, between the racist cops, smelly subways, mean people, crowded streets and every other disgusting and evil thing the city has to offer, why the hell would you want to leave your home in the first place?

If the above rant offended anyone who lives in the greater New York City area, I’m sorry…that you’re stuck in New York City.

Echo And The Bunnymen
New Horizon – Live in Tokyo January 1984
Two of my favorite things, Tokyo and post-punk/new wave music from Liverpool!

This is a bootleg. As the title suggests, it was recorded in Tokyo, sometime in January of 1984. I really don’t know much about it aside from that. There are no linear notes on the release, just a poorly made photocoppied piece of paper taped to the front cover. Judging from the setlists at this Echo And The Bunnymen fansite, however, it would appear that this an abridged recording of their January 17th show at the Nakano Sun Plaza Hall, with the encore of “All My Colours (Zimbo)” and “Do It Clean” absent.

I’ve posted bootlegs here before, and unfortunately most have sounded like hot garbage. Not the case with this one! Judging from the snippet of Japanese audio that plays at the beginning of the first track, I suspect this is a rip taken from a Japanese radio broadcast. While that means its definitely a cut above your typical audience recording, it still does have its fair share of flaws. The stereo cuts out from time to time on the first track, and the overall fidelity of the recording (and the vinyl I ripped it from) are less than perfect. That being said, it’s completely listenable, with clear vocals and instruments on all the tracks.

It’s also a pretty great performance from the band during their peak. Ian’s voice is incredible throughout the performance, and the band as a whole sounds damn near perfect. A must-listen for Echo fans who want a glance of the band during their prime, no doubt.

Click on the link above for a complete zip of the concert. But if you’re curious, here’s the entire tracklist:

  • Over The Wall
  • Stars are Stars
  • The Killing Moon
  • The Cutter
  • All That Jazz
  • Never Stop
  • Thorn of Crowns
  • Crocodiles

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Echoes of Romance – An Ultravox(!) Bootleg

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Echoes Of Romance
Part 1
Part 2
I’ve been accumulating quite a few bootlegs lately so I think I’m going to have to go bootleg crazy for the next few weeks to clear them out of my queue. Don’t worry, I’m sure most of you will like what I have to offer (even those of you who whine about “decent music).” So let’s just jump right in with one of my favorite recent bootleg finds, Echoes Of Romance by Ultravox.

This is an awesome album because it’s basically two great bootlegs in one, 30 songs pulled from two completely different shows. The first 15 tracks are taken from a December 26th, 1978 concert at the Marquee in England. This is the original(ish) line-up that includes Robin Simon on guitars and, more importantly, John Foxx on vocals. It’s classic early Ultravox, a bizarre combination of punk rock, synthpop and glam rock that still sounds unique and fresh some 32 years later. The quality is also excellent, with very clear vocals and almost no audience chatter. Classics like “Young Savage” and “Hiroshima Mon Amour” are performed, as well as awesome unheralded tunes like “Walk Away” and the supremely odd “Someone Else’s Clothes.” It’s a great show and worth a listen to even the most casual fans of the group’s early work.

The second half of this three-LP bootleg is comprised of songs from a December 13th, 1980 concert at the Odeon Hammersmith. This is of the “classic” line-up that features Midge Ure on vocals. The quality of this recording is a little more sketchy, with the vocals coming off a little more muddled at times and audience noises sometimes making their way into the mix. But even with its lesser fidelity it’s still well worth a listen for fans of the group as the band plays favorites like “New Europeans,” “All Stood Still,” and “Vienna.” Even Foxx-era tracks like “Hiroshima Mon Amour” and “Quiet Man” make an appearance. Great stuff all around.

I’m curious, which Ultravox do you all like the most? The punkier, harsher John Foxx stuff, or the classier, new romantic-influenced Midge Ure albums?

I love them both, although I still don’t have all of the Ure-era stuff. I think my favorite Ultravox song overall is the Ure-fronted “Hymm,” but I also have a soft spot for the crazier Foxx tracks like “Young Savage” and “Saturday Night In the City of the Dead.” Ask me which iteration of the band I prefer one day and you might get a different answer the next. I can’t decide.

Just don’t bring up the Billy Currie-led era. That never happened.

NEVER HAPPENED.

Posted in bootlegs, Complete Albums, live, Ultravox | 6 Comments »

Smashing Pumpkins Week Day 1: If I Were Dead Would This Record Sell

Monday, November 28th, 2011

It’s a big week for the Smashing Pumpkins, and I mean the actual Smashing Pumpkins, not that group that Billy Corgan has with him now.

This Tuesday we get new Deluxe Editions of both Gish and Siamese Dream. For many children of the 90s (myself included) these records hold just as much weight, if not more, as Nirvana’s Nevermind and Pearl Jam’s Ten. While those albums showed that rock could work when it was stripped down and bare, the best stuff by The Smashing Pumpkins proved that sometimes bigger (and bigger) was still sometimes the way to go. I love the bombast, guitar wankery and batshit self-indulgent grandiosity of the classic Pumpkins tracks. Nothings sounds like them, even to this day.

The extras on these Deluxe Editions look to be pretty stellar, let’s just hope they don’t fuck it up this time (Bob Ludwig is mastering it…). Expect a full review by yours truly later this week. Until then, here are a couple Smashing Pumpkins bootlegs that are absolutely smashing (see what I did there)?

Smashing Pumpkins: Live at the Axis Nightclub – September 23rd, 1991
Intro
Rocket
Tristessa
Window Paine
Bury Me
Siva
If that date above looks familiar, that’s because it’s the same date as this Nirvana show. That’s right, The Smashing Pumpkins were the opening act for that night. That’s a lot of awesome for one night.

This recording is a little muddy, but it definitely sounds better than the Nirvana recording that was made the same night. The nine-minute version of “Siva” is fucking awesome too.

Like the Nirvana bootlegs I’ve hosted, this is yet another gift from the awesome Duane Bruce. I thank him for hooking me up with the files.

Smashing Pumpkins: Live at the Cabaret Metro – October 5th, 1988
There It Goes
She
My Eternity
Under Your Spell
Bleed
Spiteface
Nothing And Everything
The last (real) Smashing Pumpkins concert was at the Chicago Metro in 2000. Attendees of that legendary show got this CD, which is a bootleg recording of the group’s very first concert as a complete band (before this show they played with a drum machine). It’s not unlistenable, but it’s definitely more of note for its historical relevance than its actual quality: there’s a reason why you probably never heard of any of these songs.

Still jonesing for more Pumpkins bootlegs? Head over to the Internet Archive, they have an amazing selection of high-quality Smashing Pumpkin bootlegs from the 80s to today. If you don’t know where to start I highly (highly) recommend their second-to-last show from November 29th, 2000.

I was at that concert, I’m certain my ears never completely recovered from it (wear earplugs kids) and it was totally worth it. And it’s a high-quality FM rip, so it sounds amazing.

Posted in bootlegs, The Smashing Pumpkins | 1 Comment »

Nirvana Live at the Axis Nightclub – September 23rd, 1991

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

A couple weeks ago former WFNX DJ Duane Bruce was kind enough to share a recording of a rarely heard Nirvana concert from 1990. He put it up on Soundcloud, but it hit its download limit there within minutes. I contacted him about sharing it through my site, and he was kind enough to oblige me.

He also shared with me this tease:

I’ll have something else just as rare coming around thanksgiving. Not saying anything else right now, but you will be very happy.

He wasn’t kidding. This is…awesome.

Nirvana: Live at the Axis Nightclub – September 23rd, 1991 (Complete concert download)
Intro
Aneurysm
Drain You
School
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Come As You Are
Sliver
Jesus Don’t Want Me For A Sunbeam
Floyd The Barber
Polly
About A Girl
Breed
Rape Me
Blew
Been A Son (Excerpt)
Negative Creep

I’ll let Duane share the details:

Well my friends…here it is. Nirvana’s full length set from the now legendary WFNX 8th Birthday Bash at Axis on Sept. 23rd 1991.

But, you must take the bad with the good. I did not record the show . However, the party that did was in the pit for the first 4-5 songs, so it is historical but muffled at times. Axis was packed to the gills. Think ‘Green line on a Friday rush hour with a Sox game at home’ packed. By the time “Come As You Are” starts, the sound quality improves to about as good a bootleg as you could hope for (thanks to Mike Zeigler at nirvanaguide.com for the assistance).

The concrete walls and floor of Axis provided the perfect acoustics for the raw energy. Dave Grohl’s first Boston gig with the band. This is also the first time that they ever played “Jesus Don’t Want Me For A Sunbeam” by the Vaselines. Both Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic comment that “We just learned this one today”. It was a rare night that only a small number (1200+) saw.

I remember that the WFNX staff was pumped for this show more than any other in its history and deservedly so. The Axis staff was also ready to go. MTV was on hand as well as a number of other local, national and international journalists. The show was later written about in NME. By the time that you get to “Rape Me” you will be transfixed and may even start to tear up a bit. It was only the fourth time that they had performed it live. WFNX had an early copy of ‘Nevermind’ and we played some tracks for the great Lenny Kaye, guitarist for Patti Smith, about a week before the show. He had never heard of Nirvana, but upon hearing them declared “that somebody has to protect them”.

I have had this recording as well as the previously released Nirvana show at ManRay for the past 20 years and realized that it was time to share with everyone. One day, I will be gone and they will wind up on the curb. They deserve better than that. It’s rock and roll history. Thank you Maxell for making a quality product that lasted.

I remember that right before the set, both Krist and Dave were on stage and ready to go, but no sign of Mr. Cobain. I had to dash upstairs through the thick crowd and met Kurt on the stairwell as his bandmates cat-called him from the stage. I can still hear Krist in his falsetto voice…”Oh Kuurrtt” coming through the speakers.
30 seconds later, then WFNX Music Director Kurt St. Thomas introduced them……..enjoy!

Some technical disclaimers: I made no effort to clean this up, and the only edit I made while cutting the concert into individual tracks was to decrease the volume at the very beginning of “About A Girl” because it was way louder than the rest of the recording. Part of “Been A Son” is missing, but that is also the fault of the source material and not me.

Like Duane says, it’s a rough recording, but it’s not unlistenable – I’ve heard (and posted) way worse boots. The power of this performance pushes its way past the technical limitations of the recording. If you consider yourself even the slightest of Nirvana fan then you must download this now.

And thanks again Duane! You are a Golden God for sharing this.

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The Smiths: So This Is America – A Bootleg That is Criminally Vulgar

Monday, November 14th, 2011

The Smiths – So This Is America (Complete Album Download)
Intro
How Soon Is Now
Hand In Glove
I Want The One I Can’t Have
Still Ill
Frankly Mr. Shankley
Panic
Never Had No-One Ever
Stretch Out And Wait
The Boy With A Thorn In His Side
Cemetery Gates
What She Said
Is It Really So Strange?
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
That Joke Isn’t Funny Any More
The Queen Is Dead
The Draize Train
I Know It’s Over
Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
Big Mouth Strikes Again
What She Said (Encore)

Vinyl bootlegs have always fascinated me. Anyone can record a concert and put it online today, and in the 90s it wasn’t too terribly difficult to press a small run of bootleg CDs (or just burn them to cheap CD-Rs), but going through the effort of pressing an illegal album to vinyl is rather impressive.

As I’ve read it, many bootleggers were able to get their albums pressed thanks to down-on-their-luck pressing plants looking for any source of income. The bootlegs would usually be pressed “after hours” when the major work of the day was done. Then the bootleggers would take their stash and the major labels would be none the wiser. That’s a lot of cloak and dagger work for muddy audience recordings, but hey, some people are dedicated.

I’ve also always found the outrage of labels towards bootleggers to be idiotic, and the idea that concert bootlegging somehow hurts legit album sales is a stupid one without any basis in reality. No one is going to pick up an audience-recording of a concert in lieu of a legitimate release. The person who buys a concert bootleg is the kind of person who has already seen the band on tour; owns the band’s entire discography; and most likely has many of the artist’s import releases and singles. They’re fanatics.

I don’t know about you, but when I think of bands that have fanatical fans, The Smiths are usually one of the first groups that come to mind. So it makes sense that there are tons of Smiths bootlegs out there. I don’t proclaim to be a huge Smiths fan (I’m just not that miserable anymore) but when I saw this one at Jerry’s Records for $15, I knew that price was most likely a steal and I snatched it immediately. Considering I’ve only seen one copy for sale online, for close to $100, turns out that I may have been right about this one.

This sounds like it was recorded by a fan in the audience, so it’s not the clearest bootleg you’ll hear. Still, since The Smiths never released official live versions of many of their best tracks, including “How Soon Is Now,” it’s worth at least one listen if you’re a fan of The Smiths.

Additional note: If you download this and wonder why the ID3 tags list 22 tracks and you only have 21, it’s because the bootleg had a “bonus” track: U2’s “Wire (Celtic Dub Mix).” While oddly fascinating (and kind of random), that track is on the deluxe edition of The Unforgettable Fire, so I’m not featuring it here.

I’m 50% certain my next post won’t be a bootleg. But I’m not making any promises.

Posted in bootlegs, Complete Albums, The Smiths | 1 Comment »

Nirvana Live at the Man Ray – 4.18.90

Monday, November 7th, 2011

I don’t know if you all knew this, but I kind of like Nirvana.

So when word spread last week that a previously unreleased Nirvana concert had made its way online, I had to have it. Unfortunately the only place you could get it was on Soundcloud, and they have a 100 download limit cap. Also, the Soundcloud copy of the concert cut out early, leaving four tracks unheard.

Undeterred, I reached out the Duane Bruce, the former Boston DJ who recorded the concert and uploaded it to Soundcloud, and he agreed to send me a copy of the concert to distribute here. Everyone thank Duane!

“Thank you Duane!”

Okay, you can all download it now, since you’ve been so nice. The first link is a zip with the entire show, the others are the individual tracks (and in case you’re wondering, I’m posting links to the MP3 files directly so the post gets picked up by various MP3 aggregators).

Nirvana – 4.18.90 – Live At The Man Ray Nightclub, Cambridge, MA
Intro
School
Floyd The Barber
Love Buzz
Dive
Scoff
About A Girl
Spank Thru
Breed
Some tuning and rambling
In Bloom
Big Cheese
Molly’s Lips
Been A Son
Stain
Negative Creep
More tuning and rambling
Blew
Pay To Play
Quick disclaimer: for a bootleg recording this sounds great, but it’s still a bootleg. There’s a lot of line noise and hum, and a few odd clips and cuts near the end, but none of that should affect your enjoyment of what sounded like a totally kick ass show! Highlights include  a great version of “About A Girl” (which I always thought sounded better “plugged”) and blistering early versions of “Breed” and “Stay Away” (the latter of which is presented in its early “Pay To Play” incarnation).

Thanks again to Duane Bruce!

Posted in bootlegs, live, Nirvana | 6 Comments »

Flock of Bootlegs

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

If any of you follow me on Twitter, then you may already know that I might have to go on another grunge-related rant next week. For that I apologize.

Until then, let’s keep the happy synthpop train rolling!

Depeche Mode
Only When I Lose Myself (Lexicon Avenue Remix) 
It’s come to this, I have so many Depeche Mode singles (over 80 if you count the box sets) that I have to resort to white label bootlegs to get my remix fix. I’m willing to accept that if it means I can get more awesome mixes like this one, however. I’m digging this mix a lot at the moment. It’s very chill and minimal, and it really takes its time to develop. And since “Only When I Lose Myself” is one of those Mode tracks where all you need is Gahan’s haunting vocals, the sparse, bare-bones treatment fits the track perfectly. A quality mix that’s better than a lot of the official remixes that were on the last Depeche Mode remix compilation, it’s definitely worth a listen or twenty.

Flock of Seagulls
I Ran (Flatline Remix)
So one time I went to this weird hipster party in Pittsburgh and a band called Tehran Iran was playing. They came out dressed as sheikhs and played punk rock covers of Duran Duran songs. It was pretty awesome. For their encore they played “I Ran,” changing the chorus to “But Iran/Iran is so far away.”  Good times.

Anyways, this is another bootleg remix, bought in the same batch as that previously mentioned Depeche Mode remix. I never thought I’d find a trance remix of a Flock of Seagulls track, let alone like it a lot. Will the wonders never cease?

Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Trevor Horn Remix)
Get It On (Bang a Gong)
Relax International (Live)
Speaking of bootlegs, has anyone ever done a mash-up of “Welcome To The Pleasuredome” with Public Enemy’s “Welcome To the Terrordome?” It seems like the kind of thing that just should create itself into existence, it’s so obvious.

These tracks are not bootlegs, they are taken from one of the 86 zillion Frankie Goes to Hollywood 12″ singles that came out between the years 1983-85.  Because, y’know, the world needed as many remixes of “Relax” as possible! It’s how we survived the Reagan years. That’s a fact. You can look it up.

And that “Get It On” cover is ridiculous and I love every minute of it!

Posted in bootlegs, covers, Depeche Mode, Flock Of Seagulls, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, live, remixes | 2 Comments »

The Nevermind 20th Anniversary Release: Anatomy of a Disaster

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Yesterday marked the release of the 20th Anniversary Editions of Nevermind. It should have been a joyous occasion for aging grunge rockers like myself, but leave it to corporate greed, shitty marketing, and bad audio engineering to fuck it all up.

First of all, instead of just releasing one great edition they opted to release three different ones, creating needless confusion. Here are the differences between them:

Standard Edition
One disc, no thrills. You can get this everywhere.

Deluxe Edition
Available in both 2CD and 4LP flavors. Includes the original album, B-sides, BBC recordings, rehearsal tapes and the alternate “Devonshire” mix of the album. You can…kind of get this everywhere (more on that in a bit). You can also get a 4 LP picture disc edition at Nirvana’s website, which is limited to 500 copies in America and 1991 copies worldwide.

Super Deluxe Edition
Everything in the Deluxe Edition, plus a CD and DVD of the Live At Paramount show. No Blu-ray though, that’s separate (and also a Best Buy exclusive).

 

Okay, got all that? Good. The Super Deluxe Edition has the most content, so that was the version I was intent on buying. But I had my doubts. I had read this morning that the new remaster was a victim of “The Loudness War.” I borrowed a copy from a friend online *cough* *cough* and had a look for myself.

Here’s a before and after comparison of “Stay Away.” The top is from the original CD release, the bottom from the new remaster:

Yup, it’s too fucking loud. The defining album of my generation has been shat upon by lazy audio engineers and brain-dead studio execes. No thank you.

I wasn’t going to pay $100+ for that. So instead I opted for the vinyl release.

It is physically impossible for vinyl to be loud enough to create clipping. The grooves can’t be cut that deep. Although this doesn’t mean that the vinyl version sounds better. Labels will often just use the shit digital master for their vinyl release;  it still has the same problems, even if it looks quieter. But sometimes we get lucky and the vinyl version gets its own master, so with my fingers crossed for a miracle  I headed to Best Buy to pick it up. I figured since they were the exclusive retailer for the Super Deluxe and Blu-ray releases, then they might have the vinyl version as well.

Nope. As it turns out it’s not in stock at any Best Buy. That’s because it doesn’t come out until next week, even though Best Buy’s website lists the release date for the vinyl version as 9/26. In fact, they’re even using the vinyl edition artwork to advertise the Super Deluxe package:

Good job guys!

The record industry loves to blame illegal downloading for their plummeting sales. And while I’m sure that’s a part of it, let’s just take a look at this situation here.

I was prepared to spend $110 bucks on an album, but I didn’t because they mastered it wrong and it sounds like shit. Then I was prepared to spend $79.98 on the LP version just on the chance that it might sound good, but I can’t even do that until next week. And when I do, I’ll buy it from Amazon (the 4LP version is NOT a Best Buy exclusive, despite what that lying graphic says) for ten bucks less. DGC screwed themselves out of an additional $40, and Best Buy screwed themselves out of all my money.

Fuck Best Buy. Most specifically, fuck their “exclusive” lies. It’s bullshit in more ways than one.

First of all, any exclusive release is a crock. They screw over independent retailers and help drive up prices by eliminating competition. Secondly, making Nevermind a store exclusive pretty much goes against everything that band stood for.

Thirdly, it’s not even a real exclusive. It’s just a “timed” exclusive. After a certain number of weeks the Super Deluxe version and the Paramount Blu-ray will be available at all retail outlets, big and small. Of course, no one at Best Buy is going to tell you that.

I’ll let you know how the 4LP version sounds when I buy it, and until we all find out how that one sounds I would highly recommend NOT buying the Super Deluxe edition if you value audio quality and artistic integrity. If the 4LP version does sound just as shitty as the CD version, then I can only recommend you steal the album online. Because if DGC is willing to fuck up a classic that bad, then we should fuck them right back.

You know who showed real respect to Nirvana and their legacy? The bootleggers. In the mid-90s, a girth of rare Nirvana recordings made their way onto a bootleg series called Outcesticide (a play on the Nirvana compilation Incesticide). The five Outcesticide releases feature a stellar collection of rare tracks and live recordings. They’re so comprehensive that many suspect that members of Nirvana or Kurt’s friends must have somehow been involved in their creation.

Here are some highlights from the Outcesticide albums that have yet to see an official release.

Nirvana
Sappy (1988 Home Recording)
There are countless versions of “Sappy.” Different recordings appear on With the Lights Out; the  Bleach 20th Anniversary Edition; Sliver: Best Of The Box; and on the new Nevermind re-issue. It was a song that Kurt tinkered with for years, going back before even the release of Bleach. Here’s one of the earliest known recordings of the tune, with just Kurt and a guitar. It’s rough around the edges and it sounds like shit, but it has an intensity and power that he never re-created on any of the other versions.

Radio Friendly Unit Shifter/My Sharona
My Best Friend’s Girl
Kurt may be remembered for his addiction and depression, but he had a wicked sense of humor, something that occasionally manifested itself on stage. These two bootleg recordings show that Kurt was willing to have fun sometimes, even when he probably felt that his world was collapsing around him (the “Best Friend’s Girl” cover is taken from the last Nirvana concert – he would be dead two months later).

Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live with Flea on Trumpet)
Flea on trumpet! I think that description says it all!

Scentless Apprentice (Live)
A lot of people like to hypothesize about what would have happened if Kurt hadn’t killed himself, and what direction Nirvana would have gone in. I like to think that they would have gotten really weird. The group had already thrown away most of the shackles of grunge rock by the time they got around to recording Nevermind, and with In Utero Kurt seemed intent on taking things even further. Who knows how crazy things would have gotten. Maybe this extended, feedback-heavy live version of Scentless Apprentice gives us a taste what might have been.

Excerpts Of Band / Audience Bulls*!##ing & Rantings Available
Let’s end on a happy note. This collection of random concert banter by the band is from the vinyl edition of The Muddy Banks of the Wishkah. Listen to it and learn what Krist thinks of white boy funk.

Update 9/30/11
To those who have emailed me and asked, I will be getting both the 4LP version and the picture disc versions of the Deluxe Edition (because I’m an idiot). I will report on their sound quality when I get them. The 4LP version is due on the  4th, and I should be getting the picture disc version near the end of the month.

Update 10/02/11
Think I’m full of shit? Read this first. 

Update 10/06/11
The vinyl is in! Guess what? It sucks!  Also, Bob Ludwig wants you to know you don’t count.

Posted in bootlegs, live, Nirvana, rant | 19 Comments »

Holy Hypnotic Light Show of Hate! Also, Aerosmith

Monday, July 4th, 2011

Two people who know more about music and audio quality than I have said in recent weeks that the quality of my recordings could be better. Thoughts?

After being told, even I’ve noticed the lack of treble in them as of late, and I think I’ve managed to fix that problem via some EQ adjustment, bu I’m always open to new ideas on how to improve my setup. In the coming week or so I should be getting an Ortofon Arkiv cartridge. I’ve read numerous reviews on that one, and the general consensus seems to be that it’s the perfect cartridge for recording vinyl, I’ll let you all know if that’s PR bullshit or if it’s the real deal when I get it and test it out.

In the coming months I plan on getting an honest-to-goodness high-end pre-amp if need be as well as an internal M-audio soundcard (as well as a whole new computer, but that’s another topic entirely). After I do that, then it’s time for the final step, a Technics 1200.

Then if anyone tells me that my recordings sound like shit they can piss off.

Aerosmith – Look Homeward Angel (Bootleg)
S.O.S. (Too Bad)
Somebody
Dream On
Write Me A Letter
Walk This Way
Train Kept a Rollin’
Toys In The Attic
Okay, these songs sound kind of like shit, but it’s not my fault! They are all from a bootleg after all. While the quality might not be top-notch, as bootleg LPs go, this record sounds fucking amazing. According to this fan site, it was taken from a 1975 FM radio broadcast, which would explain the better-than-average sound quality. The fact that it’s an Aerosmith recording from the mid-70s (before the drugs stopped working) is the reason why the performance is fucking mind-blowing. How mind-blowing is it? Well, it has a version of “Train Kept a Rollin'” that’s  nine-minutes long, complete with a brief detour into the 1960s Batman TV show theme! Did you know that Aerosmith also covered the Spider-Man theme song? DC, Marvel, it doesn’t matter. Aerosmith breaks down barriers, man.

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Raise Your Hand if you Like the Vuvuzela!

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Update 7/22/10
To the dickless fucker who keeps reporting this post as a DMCA violation. I want you to look at this post carefully. Do you see any fucking song links? No. You know why? Because I fucking took them down. You don’ t own the rights to broken links you fucker.

Furthermore, whoever the fuck you are, MR. IFPI, you don’t fucking own ANY OF THESE SONGS. They are fan-made mash-ups, unavailable to purchase legally. These mash-ups aren’t costing you any money, and since I’m not charging for them, some would argue that they qualify as a perfect example of Fair Use.

So go fuck yourself, fuck your law, and fuck your mother. She puts out from what I’ve been told.

Fucker.

We now return to you to an non-existent post.

So I can punch you in the face. Ban that fucking thing. It’s ruining the World Cup.

Anyways, hey it’s a bunch of stupid mash-ups! Let’s party like its 2001!

Hollertronix
Kopa Hombre
Staring At The Sun
Tippin Toxic
Snoop Vs. Cure
It’s a Pity
Golddigger (Diplo Mix)
Golddigger (Tugboat Edit)
Can I Have It Like That? (DJ Gold Face Crazy Frog Remix)
Stay Fly (Mad Decent Remix)
I’m With The Girls (DJ ABCDEFG Remix)
Don’t You Wish You Had A Caparihna (Grizzly Bounce / Chapaquente / Mad Decent Mix)
Okay, so I’m crediting these to “Hollertronix” but I have no idea how accurate that is. These are all basically remixes/mash-ups by Diplo from what I gather. At the very least he organized/produced them, so he wins. The remixes so drastically rework the original tracks that just calling them “remixes” and crediting them to the original artists seems silly. These are from volumes two and three of the Hollertronix series, which came out back in 2005. The track names are complete guesses for tracks from volume 2, I stole them from Discogs.

DJ Booty von Dralle
Don’t Start Me Down (Pink vs. ELO)
Deeper Like Blood (Madonna vs. Killing Joke)
Oops, My Bubbles (Tweet vs Ellis, Beggs & Howard)
Sharona’s Music (The Knack vs. Madonna)
I have no idea who “DJ Booty von Dralle” is. These mash-ups are from an entirely unofficial, completely-illegal white label 12” I picked up a few months ago. Stupid but quite good. If anyone out there does know who this guy is let me know. He needs to be thanked/beaten for combining “My Sharona” with Madonna’s “Music”.

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