The weird shit that you can find on soundtracks to obscure movies never ceases to amaze me. Most recently I found the soundtrack to Party Party, a forgotten 80s teen flick about (surprise) a party. I can find absolutely no information about it online so if anyone knows anything about it please comment. It certainly had a decent soundtrack though, with some odd ska-tinged covers of classic tunes,and some appearances by some very noteworthy 80s artists that you might not expect.

Time for a track-by-track rundown.

Elvis Costello – Party Party
I wonder how they convinced Elvis to contribute a title track to this flick? They obviously didn’t try very hard because as early-80s Elvis Costello tracks go this is pretty weak. This is on a couple of compilations but probably not any endorsed by Costello.

Dave Edmunds – Run Rudolph Run
Don’t know much about Dave Edmunds, other than the fact that he was in Rockpile. This cover of the Christmas classic is on about 80 billion Christmas compilations.

Altered Images – Little Town Flirt
Another band I don’t know shit about, although they sound kind of like a Siouxsie & The Banshees lite, so I might check them out sometime. This is a cover of a song made famous by Del Shannon and I don’t think it was ever released on any other album.

Bad Manners – Yakety Yak
I know Yakety Yak, but I’m not very familiar with Bad Manners and other than their contributions to the soundtracks of Dance Crazy and this movie I know nothing about them. Not really my style of music for the most part, but this is a fun cover and it’s never been released on anything else to my knowledge.

Sting – Tutti Frutti
Okay, this is just retarded. In the 90s a compilation album of Sting’s contributions to soundtracks was released (more on that in a bit) and this song was one of the only ones that wasn’t put on it. Listen to it, there’s a good reason why.

Bananarama – No Feelings
This is a cover of The Sex Pistols’ classic. Let me say that again, this is Bananarama covering the motherfucking Sex Pistols. It’s pretty much ‘Cruel Summer’ with the lyrics of ‘No Feelings’ put in. Rhino tacked this lovely little number on the deluxe edition of their first album, Deep Sea Skiving.

Madness -Driving In My Car
An odd song (even as Madness songs go), but there’s nothing really spectacular about it. It’s also on a quite a few Madness compilations so it’s not rare either.

Modern Romance – Band Of Gold
I’ll be honest, I never heard of Modern Romance until about five minutes before I began typing this sentence. Thanks to the glory of the interwebs, I can tell you that they were fairly big in the UK for a few years in the 80s and that Morrissey really hated them. After searching on Youtube for a bit I’ve discovered that I did know one of their songs ‘The Best Years Of Our Lives’. I didn’t like it then and I’m not a fan still. And anytime I hear the song title I think of the horribly depressing movie of the same name, which doesn’t make the song any more enjoyable. ‘Band Of Gold’ has always been one of my biggest guilty pleasures though, and they do it justice.

Bad Manners – Elizabethan Reggae
More Bad Manners, this track is on one of their rarities compilations. Why does this song make me want to smoke pot?

Pauline Black – No Woman, No Cry
Pauline Black was the lead singer of The Selecter, another ska band that’s on the soundtrack to Dance Crazy. This is a cover of the Bob Marley classic and isn’t available elsewhere.

Sting – Need Your Love So Bad
This one I have heard before, because in addition to being on the soundtrack to Party Party, it’s on that compilation of soundtrack tunes that I mentioned before. I don’t own that album, but for some strange reason my mom does and I’m assuming that’s why it sounds familar to me. It’s a good bluesy tune but it is pretty out of place considering what else is on this record.

Midge Ure – The Man Who Sold The World
Even more out of place is this spaced-out cover of the David Bowie classic by the lead singer of Ultravox. I think there are more synthesizer and vocal effects on this track than every other song on the album combined. Midge’s released this song a few times on various greatest hits compilations, but it appeared on this soundtrack first.

Chas And Dave – Auld Lang Syne
Another act I know nothing about. It is strange though that this is the second cover of Auld Lang Syne I’ve put up in less than a year. To my knowledge this track isn’t on any other album either.

So I pathetically caved in and picked up the new Smashing Pumpkns album yesterday. Shockingly it’s not that bad, but it still pales in comparison to great Pumpkins classics like ‘Siamese Dream’ and of course ‘Melon Chollie’. It does sound like Smashing Pumpkins though, which isn’t to surprising since the band was pretty much a Billy Corgan solo project from the get go. Supposedly Corgan is one of the great control freak assholes of rock music. Spin magazine described him best when they compared him to John Fogerty, saying that he was a real rarity in pop music, a control freak that knew what the fuck he was doing. This post is dedicated to two of the biggest self-centered pricks in music, Corgan and the granddaddy of asshole bass players Roger Waters. And before anyone asks, the only reason there isn’t a CCR track here is because I don’t have any.

Smashing Pumpkins
Zeitgeist
Death From Above
Terrapin
I have previously voiced my disdain for Billy Corgan “reuniting” the Smashing Pumpkins without half of the original line-up and I’ve also frequently posted on how much store exclusive tracks piss me off. So when it was announced that The Smashing Pumpkins’ newest album would have not one, not two, but three different bonus tracks depending on where you bought it, I was a little miffed. Moves like this completely confuse me. Do record labels really think that their customers are going to shell out the money to buy the same album two or three times? It’s not like the exclusive tracks aren’t going to end up on Limewire. Especially when one is an iTunes version that sounds shitty and is crapped-out with DRM? This trend also pisses me off because it serves as a complete “fuck you” to independent record stores, who almost always get screwed out of deals like this. It’s like they’re daring us to to play fair and buy the album legally. Here are two of the three bonus tracks from various versions of the Pumpkins’ latest, as well as a live cover of the Syd Barrett track ‘Terrapin’ thrown in because I couldn’t find the iTunes exclusive track.

Pink Floyd
Pigs On The Wing (8-Track Version)
The Hero’s Return (Parts 1 & 2)
Roger Waters’ reputation of being a complete and total prick to all those around him is well documented so I’m not going to go into it. These two tracks come from latter-day Waters-era Pink Floyd, when the band was much less a band and more of a way for Waters to release his solo material. The first track is a version of ‘Pigs On The Wing’ that combines both parts 1 and 2 into one track. Supposedly this is because the technical limitations of 8-track players wouldn’t allow for them to be separate. The two tracks are bridged together with an awesome solo by Snowy White, the ridiculously-named guitar player from Thin Lizzy who toured with Pink Floyd during the late 70s. The extended version of ‘The Hero’s Return’ is from the single for that song. The song itself is off of The Final Cut, a Pink Floyd album in name only, as Roger Waters had complete control by then. It was the last album with Waters and if you ask me its for good reason, to date its the only Pink Floyd album I’ve sold back to the record store (and I own the fucking soundtrack to More).

This will be my last all-remix post for a while. I got some weird/cool/rare shit that actually isn’t remixes! These are the last of my Erasure mixes (until I find more) and I have nothing to say about them, so enjoy! I might have another post later tonight if I feel motivated for a change.

Erasure
Don’t Say Your Love Is Killing Me (Jon Pleased Wimmin’ Flash Vocal)
Don’t Say Your Love Is Killing Me (Tall Paul Mix)
Don’t Say Your Love Is Killing Me (RH Factor Vocal Club Mix)
I Love Saturday (Beatmasters Club Mix)
In My Arms (Love To Inifinity Stratomaster Mix)
In My Arms (Love To Infinity Gyrator Club MIx)
In My Arms (Crumbling Down Mix)

I’m a huge fan of Best Week Ever, both the TV and the blog and I was made an even bigger fan of them when they linked to me earlier this year. That being said, this post at their site by Dan Hopper really pissed me off.

I do agree that needless reunions by classic bands can do nothing but taint (hehe, I said taint) their musical legacy. I also agree with most of the bands on their list. What really bugs me about the list is that Hopper obviously didn’t know shit about the bands he was mentioning.

For example, he says this about The Sex Pistols’ 1996 reunion:

…what the hell were they going to play live anyway? All the songs off Never Mind the Bollocks in a different order, with “My Way” thrown in?

First of all, it’s hard to accuse a band’s reunion of being cheap and meaningless after they already admitted the same. Secondly, why would The Sex Pistols cover ‘My Way’? Sid Vicious covered that song, not The Pistols. At least the writer was correct in saying that the original line-up was the one that toured (a lot of people assume Sid was part of the original line-up).

He said this about The Eagles’ ‘Hell Froze Over’ tour:

Can you really say “Hell has frozen over” if it’s something no one gives a sh*t about?

I really hate The Eagles and I always will (ironically I love Joe Walsh and can tolerate Glenn Frey, but that’s besides the point). However, to say that no one gives a shit about them is just ignorant, they do have the best-selling album in history after all.

They also knocked Flock Of Seagulls for getting back together, which would’ve been fine if they didn’t help facilitate their reunion on VH1’s shitty ‘reality’ show Bands Reunited! (And by the way, if you want an idea of how bullshit that show was, check out this first-hand account of it by Information Society’s Kurt Harland).

But the comment that really sent me off was the one he made about The Doors:

Here’s a great idea – take a band whose only bit of intrigue is their lead singer’s tumultuous, unpredictable stage presence and reunite them thirty-one years after his death (also thirty-one years after the band broke up, coincidentally).

I’m not a big fan of The Doors, I’ve always thought they were a little bit pretentious and way overrated but even I knew that wasn’t true. The Doors released two albums after Jim Morrison’s death. Of course, they aren’t the world’s most well-known records, but that’s what the internet is for.

Google, motherfucker! can you use it?!

Sigh, anyways this glaring error has forced me to temporarily delay my next post of remixes in order bring light to post-Morrison Doors. Released the same year as Morrison’s death, 1971’s Other Voices was Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore’s attempt to continue The Doors’ legacy minus their legendary frontman. Probably knowing that no one could replace Jim Morrison, they instead continued as a threesome with both Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek share vocal duties on the album to varying degrees of success. While the record isn’t a masterpiece it does deserve to be given a second chance and be released on CD, something which still hasn’t happened in America. In fact The Doors seemed to have disowned the album (and the one that came after it, 1972’s Full Circle) even failing to include it on the deceptively titled box set The Complete Studio Recordings.

Here is the complete album so you can decide for yourself. If you only want a sample I suggest downloading Ship W/ Sails (which has a bitchin’ organ solo) the groovy ‘Tightrope Ride’ and ‘I’m Horny, I’m Stoned’ simply because it’s called ‘I’m Horny, I’m Stoned.’

The Doors – Other Voices
In The Eye Of The Sun
Variety Is The Spice Of Life
Ship w/ Sails
Tightrope Ride
Down On The Farm
I’m Horny, I’m Stoned
Wandering Musician
Hang On To Your Life

Who likes depression, heroin and synthpop? I do!

These 20-plus songs put the number of Depeche Mode songs I’ve featured here well over 50! What’s really crazy is that before I started this blog I wasn’t the world’s biggest Depeche Mode fan. It’s really amazing what a dozen or so 12” singles will do to your taste in music. Now I can’t go a day without feeling a need to ‘Shake The Disease’.

Below is every single Depeche Mode song in my collection or rarities and remixes that I had not yet posted. To make things a little easier I have separated them by single and they are in chronological order.

My Monday post is going to be a slight detour away from the recent remix purge, but I should have the long-promised Erasure remixes up very soon.

The Meaning Of Love 12” Single (West German Version)
The Meaning Of Love (Fairly Odd Mix)
Oberkorn (It’s A Small Town) (Development Mix)

Love, In Itself 12” Single
Love, In Itself 3
Fools (Bigger)
Love, In Itself 4

Shake The Disease 12” Single
Shake The Disease (Remixed Extended Version)
Flexible (Remixed Extended Edition)

It’s Called A Heart 12” Single
It’s Called A Heart (Extended Mix)
Fly On The Windscreen (Extended Mix)

I Feel You 12” Single
I Feel You (Helmet At The Helm Mix)
I Feel You (Afghan Surgery Mix)
I Feel You (Throb Mix)
I Feel You (Babylon Mix)
I Feel You (Life’s Too Short Mix)

Goodnight Lovers 12” Single
When The Body Speaks (Acoustic Version)
The Dead Of Night (Electronicat Remix) – This is totally the best remix of anything ever.
Goodnight Lovers (Isan Falling Leaf Mix)

Precious 12” Single
Precious (Full Vocal Mix)
Precious (Michael Mayer Balearic Mix)
Precious (Motor Mix)
Precious (Misc. Crunch Mix)

The great remix purge of Summer 2007 continues! When I originally started this blog it was my intention to focus on B-sides and songs by bands that have tragically fallen under the radar (like Polyrock). I don’t know when The Lost Turntable became an “80s remix blog” but I find myself constantly defying or embracing that label. The past two weeks I’ve been doing both by posting as many remixes as possible so I can get them the hell out of the way. Don’t worry, there will always be plenty of remixes at The Lost Turntable, but I have a ton of other great stuff I’ve been holding that I’d much rather talk about (one can only rant and rave about 12” extended versions of Big Country songs so many times). I also imagine that as my collection of 12” singles of the bands I like becomes more and more complete that I’ll have to start posting about other stuff, simply because I won’t be buying them as much. That being said, here are a bunch of remixes by two bands I’ve already posted about countless times over and then some.

New Order
Spooky (Stadium Mix)
Spooky (Night Tripper Mix)
Spooky (New Order In Heaven)
Spooky (Magimix)
Spooky (Moulimix)
Spooky (Boo! Dub Mix)
I hope my local record store gets some more New Order soon, my collection of 12” singles is way too top-heavy with good-but-not-great latter-day material from the group. I need more ‘Blue Monday’ and less ‘Waiting For The Siren’s Call’.

Pet Shop Boys
I Don’t Know What You Want But I Can’t Give It Anymore (The Young Collective Remix)
I Don’t Know What You Want But I Can’t Give It Anymore (Felix Da Housecat’s Thee Drum Drum Mix Re-Edit)
I Don’t Know What You Want But I Can’t Give It Anymore (Peter Rauhofer’s Roxy Anthem)
I Don’t Know What You Want But I Can’t Give It Anymore (Peter Rauhofer’s Roxy Dub)
Psychological (Ewan Pearson Remix)
Psychological (Ewan Pearson Dub)
Minimal (Radioslave Remix)
I Must Be Obvious (UFO Mix)
Okay, a few things about these mixes. I have two 12” promo singles of ‘I Don’t Know…” one has a back label and one has a white one. I didn’t know what else to call them so the ID3 tags simply state ‘Black Label Promo’ and ‘White Label Promo’ even though I’m fairly certain the term ‘Black Label Promo’ doesn’t exist. The other remixes came from your standard promos and maxi-singles. The UFO Mix of ‘I Must Be Obvious’ is a little…um….sucky. It’s not really a song, it’s like Aphex Twin took the original and fucked with it for 20 minutes (and not in the typically awesome Aphex Twin kind of way).

Off-topic tip for everyone out there: Don’t buy Monster’s new “Java Monster” energy drink unless you think gas station coffee has too much flavor to it and not enough B12. That stuff tastes like shit and made me piss for about 20 minutes (and I got no buzz off of it either). If you dig coffee and like energy drinks I highly recommend Shock Coffee, that shit makes me fly (and I’m a big dude).

This has been The Lost Turntable’s Consumer Report for June 25th, 2007. Now enjoy the (remixed) music.

Moby
Southside (Hybrid Dishing Pump Remix)
Southside (Pete Heller Park Lane Vocal)
We Are All Made Of Stars (Timo Maas Vocal Remix)
We Are All Made Of Stars (Bob Sinclar Main Vocal Mix)
We Are All Made Of Stars (Downtempo Remix Edit)
Does anyone out there still like Moby? I was almost going to say “I do!”, but then I realized that even I thought his last album was a big steaming pile of donkey shit. I always give the little bald guy the benefit of the doubt though, I saw him live three times and each time he didn’t fail to deliver a high energy blast of bass-thumping dance music (with the occasional Ramones cover thrown in to spice things up). I also can’t hate on anyone that helped started a fued between Eminem and Triumph The Insult Dog Comic. I hope his next album is a good return to form. These remixes are off assorted 12” singles.

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Fight Life A Brave (Not Our Mix)
Fight Life A Brave (Mofo Mix)
Speaking of acts that used to be good…nah, I won’t bad mouth RHCP, I’m too tired to form a cohesive argument about their gradual selling out. I’ll just let these bitchin’ remixes off the first track from The Uplift Mofo Party (holy shit is that a great name for an album) speak for themselves. Listen to them and Dani California back-to-back and you tell me which is better.

Luscious Jackson
Nervous Breakthrough (Discoteque Electronique Remix)
Nervous Breakthrough (Buffalo Daughter’s Electric Dummy Mix)
Nervous Breakthrough (The Lush Mix)
Nervous Breakthrough (H2O Club Mix)
Nervous Breakthrough (Anxious Mix)
Nervous Breakthrough (Thievery Corporation Remix)
Okay, so that’s a lot of Luscious Jackson but hear me out. I wasn’t going to post all of these, I was only going to select the highlights and move on. However, since every single one of these remixes is excellent and entirely unique I just had no choice but to put them all up. I’m sure you understand. I got these off of 2 LP 12” promo . For some reason I own two Luscious Jackson 2 LP 12” promos (and two other 12” singles of their’s) but I don’t own any of their proper albums. My insatiable need for vinyl is creating some very odd paradoxes in my record collection that I must resolve.

I vow to clear out all my fucking remixes, because they’re half the backlog I got right now. Expect more from some Lost Turntable favorites (New Order, Depeche Mode, etc.,) in a few days.

The Smashing Pumpkins
Perfect (Perfecto Mix)
Perfect (Electro Breakbeat Mix)
I was a die-hard Pumpkins fan back in the day (the day being the mid-to-late 90s). I saw them live in Toledo in 1996 and they fucking blew my mind away. It seemed like they played forever and didn’t leave until everyone in the arena got off on their amazing performance. I still remember Billy’s insane solo during ‘Tales Of A Scorched Earth’. I declared them to be my favorite band of all-time and thought the good times would never end.

Of course they did, but before they called it quits I got to see their second-to-last show on November 29th, 2000 at the United Center in Chicago. They played for nearly three hours and by the end of the night some people were nearly in tears. Then they played on more show at The Metro (the recording of which still has not seen the light of day) and then they broke up. They went out with a bang, it was awesome.

Of course, now Billy says The Pumpkins have gotten back together. Of course, by “getting back together” I mean “bring back The Smashing Pumpkins name because his solo album bombed”. The new line-up is him and Jimmy with two other people who have nothing to do with the original band. That last concert I saw them at was a magical experience, and now it’s cheapened by this “reunion.” I remember Billy saying in interviews how The Pumpkins were over for good and that we shouldn’t ever expect a reunion tour – what happened Billy? I guess the bald little whore misses the spotlight.

Remember the better times with these remixes off of Adore (unless you hated that album like everyone else seemed to, then nevermind – If I had B-sides to Mellon Collie I’d post them but I don’t).

Keane
We Might As Well Be Strangers (DJ Shadow vs. Keane Remix)
The whole “vs” thing confuses the heck out of me. Did DJ Shadow meet Keane in a studio and fucking duel it out? Wouldn’t Keane win just by manpower? Unless Shadow uses vinyl like Shaun in Shaun Of The Dead or something….the mind boggles.

Basement Jaxx
Red Alert (Jaxx Club Mix)
Red Alert (Steve Gurley Mix)
My third favorite Basement Jaxx single (behind ‘Where’s Your Head At’ and ‘Romeo’). These were taken off of a 12” single.

Sting
Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing) (Dave Aude’ Extended Vocal)
Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing) (Richard Vission Big Floor Funk Mix)
Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing) (Richard Vission Acidic Groove)
These remixes of a mediocre Sting song have are way better then they have any fucking right to be. If you only download one check out the ‘Acidic Groove’ one, because it really lives up to the the ‘groove’ in the title.

Up today I got some B-sides by a bunch of Brits. The first few are by a guy with amazing hair, the middle tracks are from a supposedly overrated band I never heard of, and the last set are from a guy with amazingly awful hair.

Morrissey
Such A Little Thing Makes A Big Difference (Live)
Sweet And Tender Hooligan (Live)
Journalists Who Lie
Tony The Pony
I wish I would have had these tracks back when I was posting my big rant about the douchebags at the Morrissey concert, that sure would have been convenient. Anyways, these tracks are off of two 12” singles. The live songs are B-sides to ‘Interesting Drug’ and the other songs are the B-sides to ‘Our Frank.’ I think all of these are in that huge singles box set that Morrissey put out a few years back.

The Wonder Stuff
Unbearable (Live)
No For The 13th Time (Live)
Ten Trenches Deep (Live)
I had never heard of this band before last week, which is when I bought the 12” single I grabbed these tracks off of on a whim. I’m told by people on the internets that they have a very devoted and vocal following, but I guess I never ran into any of them. Anyways, these live tracks are on the B-side to ‘It’s Yer Money I’m After Baby’ (great name for a song).

Howard Jones
Like To Get To Know You Well (International Mix)
New Song (New Version)
Pearl In The Shell (Extended Mix)
What Is Love (Extended Mix)
Always Asking Questions
Total Conditioning
A few things random thoughts on Howard Jones. Firstly, no matter how many times I hear or say his name I want to call him “Howard Johnson”. (For my non-American readers Howard Johnson is a line of hotels here in the states.) If you ask someone if they “like that one Howard Johnson song” they give you a really weird look.

Secondly, I find it hysterical that he shares a name with the lead singer of Metalcore/crap outfit Killswitch Engage – there’s a joke there somewhere but it’s after 2AM and that part of my brain has shut down.

Thirdly, I cannot stand his two biggest hit singles. I really really really hate ‘No One Is To Blame’. It’s like the synthpop version of Bruce Hornsby’s ‘The Way It Is’. Please don’t ask for an extended mix of that because I will never own one. If I can ever find an extended mix of ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ I’ll pick it up, only because I really like the “Woah oh oh oh” part a lot and I’m assuming that would be exploited in a remix.

These remixes and rarities are from The 12” Album, an EP he released in 1984. Most of them are probably on CD somewhere if you really want to hunt them down. A quick sidenote: The only thing more ridiculous than calling a song ‘New Song’ is calling a remix of it ‘New Version.’ There some sort of brilliance in that laziness.

Sorry about the long time between updates, I was trapped in Toledo for the weekend and didn’t have access to a computer that wasn’t butt. Bigger update coming tonight or tomorrow.

Placebo
Every You Every Me (Brothers In Rhythm Glam Club Mix)
Every You Every Me (Sneaker Pimps Version)
Every You Every Me (Infected By The Scourge Of The Earth)
The dude from Placebo sounds like he is literally singing out of his nose. Yet he somehow pulls it off. That’s some skill. These remixes are off of a promo 12”.

Duran Duran
Too Much Information (12” Trance Mix)
Too Much Information (Deptford Dub)
Too Much Information (Club 2 Mix)
These remixes aren’t on that massive Singles Box Set they released a few years back which is kind of surprising. Only slightly more surprising is the fact that I know that because I own the previously-mentioned box set…shut up it was on clearance! These are also off of a promo single I picked up a few weeks back.