If the forecasts for my area are to be believed I’m not going anywhere tomorrow and for most of Wednesday, so I might be posting a bit more than usual to past the time between attempts at getting work done and playing Prey for the Xbox360.

Prince
Let’s Go Crazy (Special Dance Re-Mix)
Erotic City (Make Love Not War Erotic City Come Alive)
If you happened to watch the Super Bowl this year and didn’t run off to get food or use the can during the halftime show then you got to see Prince perform the bet halftime show of all-time. People forget that for all his insane name-changing, sexual ambiguity, and challenging creative detours – Prince still FUCKING ROCKS. This extended version of ‘Let’s Go Crazy’ is a good one, but the real gem here is the B-side. Erotic City is most likely the greatest B-side of all-time by anyone ever. Featuring backup vocals by Shelia E., this isn’t a song as much as it is an erection with a bass line. This version of ‘Erotic City’ is the full seven and half minute version and will blow your damn mind if you haven’t heard it before. If it sounds vaguely familiar but are certain you haven’t heard it before then you’ve probably seen PCU, George Clinton covers it during the concert scene.

Bruce Springsteen
Tougher Than The Rest (Live)
Be True (Live)
Roulette
Incident On 57th Street (Live)
People my age (late 20s/early 30s) and younger often don’t give Bruce the credit nor the attention that he so richly deserves. Like me, many of them grew up hearing ‘Dancing In The Dark’ and ‘Born In The USA’, slowly getting sick of them as the 80s progressed. By the time they were getting into music, their early teens, Bruce was entering his quiet, introspective, not-so-good phase and they passed him over. Of course, Bruce has really had a second coming as of late, delivering three great albums in a row and touring like a man on a mission. The golden age of Bruce will always be the late 70s to early 80s though, when he was with the E Street Band and performing some of the most energetic and exciting concerts of the decade. These live versions, taken from various EPs, showcase his amazing energy and musical skill during this time, and the B-side ‘Roulette’ proves that when Bruce is at his prime even his rejected tracks are great.

Cheap Trick
Saturday At Midnight (Super New Dance Re-Mix)
Saturday At Midnight (Super Dub Mix)
Another band unjustly left behind and forgotten over time, Cheap Trick is responsible for some of the best power pop ever unleashed unto this planet. Their first four studio albums are undeniable classics, and their seminal Live At Budokan still stands to this day as one of the greatest live records ever made. While they admittedly sunk pretty damn low in the 80s, they are still putting out some great records and still touring across the country. I saw them live once in the mid-90s opening for STP and they really blew me away. These guys play every show like their lives depend on it. These remixes of ‘Saturday At Midnight’ were taken off a 12” promo single. The song originally appeared on their 1982 LP One By One, which spawned the hit ‘She’s Tight.’

Here’s the second half of the soundtrack to Athens, Georgia – Inside/Out. Later tonight/early Tuesday morning I’ll have a large update that will include on of the greatest B-sides of all time, so stay tuned!

Pylon – Stop It
Time Toy – Hi
Bar-B-Q Killers – His And Hearse
Dreams so Real – Golden
REM – Swan Swan H
Flat Duo Jets – Jet Tone Boogie
The Squalls – Elephant Radio

I haven’t updated in nearly week, want to know why? Because Verizon DSL is a giant pile of shit that can’t get their heads out of their asses and fix a shitty connection. I planned a bigger post for today but I don’t want to press my luck with uploading files tonight. Hopefully I’ll have more this weekend. Argh.

Music From The Movie, “Athens, GA – Inside/Out”
The Squalls – Na, Na, Na, Na
Flat Duo Jets – Crazy Hazy Kisses
R.E.M. – (All I’ve Got To Do Is) Dream)
Love Tractor – Pretty
Kilkenny Cats – Nightfall
Time Toy – Window Sill
Athens, GA – Inside/Out was a concert movie about the music scene in Athens circa 1986. I’ve never seen it but the soundtrack sure is killer. While you can get the movie on DVD, the soundtrack has yet to be released on CD. This is the first half of the album, I’ll post side two later in the week. I’m not posting this is a zip file because a lot of people out there may only want the REM songs and why make their lives harder?

Talking Heads
Love For Sale (Extended Version)
Love For Sale (Special ‘New’ Version)
The extended version of this song is my new favorite Talking Heads song. David Byrne’s vocals on this song are about one step away from just non-stop maniacal screaming. I’m totally digging it.

…..meh, I got nothing to say tonight, enjoy the tunage.

New Order
Everything’s Gone Green (Cicada Remix)
The first obligatory New Order single on The Lost Turntable for 2007. This was a b-side to ‘Waiting For The Siren’s Call’.

Michael Damian
Rock On (12” Power Re-mix)
Rock On (Extended Dance Mix)
Michael Damian is one of three people I can think of that doubled as pop stars and soap opera actors in the 1980s. Rick Springfield is the most obvious one, but don’t forget about Jack Wagner (also of General Hospital) who scored a big hit will ‘All I Need’. Unlike those two Michael Damian was on Young And The Restless and according to some stuff I read online he had a few hits but I’ve never heard of any of them, including this cover of David Essex’s ‘Rock On’. These remixes are off of a promo single. Posting these remixes of a remake reminds me (wow that’s some alliteration) that you guys should probably check out Mixed Up In Glitter, it’s a nice blog that’s dedicated to remixes.

The Plasmatics
Living Dead (Live)
Sometimes I…(Live)
There’s nothing I can say about the awesome fuckedness that was Wendy O. Williams. This bitch made Joan Jett and Lita Ford look like members of the PTA. These two live tracks were off of an EP for ‘Butcher Baby’. They might be on a greatest hits or something too, I really don’t know.

Danny Elfman
Gratitude (Tornado Version)
Gratitude (Extended Dance Version)
I didn’t even know that Danny Elfman made a solo album until I found this single. It’s a lot like Oingo Boingo (obviously) and came out about a year before Dead Man’s Party.

I’m so excited over the mass-stupidity that this Aqua Teen Hunger Force hubbub has caused that I want to contribute. I’m thinking of making graffitti tags that say “this is a BOMB” and tagging billboards just to see how stupid people can be. I’m a stinker like that. Now onto the tunage.

Depeche Mode
Behind The Wheel (Extended Remix)
Behind The Wheel (Beatmasters Mix)
Behind The Wheel/Route 66 (Megamix)
Behind The Wheel/Route 66 (Megadub)
Enjoy The Silence (The Quad: Final Mix)
Enjoy The Silence (Ecstatic Dub)
Enjoy The Silence (Bass Line Mix)
Enjoy The Silence (Hands And Feet Mix)
Memphisto
Holy crap that’s a lot of Depeche Mode. All of these are off of two promo singles I picked up last week. Enjoy The Silence is my second favorite Depeche Mode song (right behind ‘Never Let Me Down Again’) and some of these remixes are amazing. A couple of these suckers are LONG though and if you listen to all of them in one sitting you might want to slit your wrists. Memphisto (that’s how they spelled it) is the B-side. I’m not a big fan of ‘Behind The Wheel’ but the remixes that include the band’s amazingly odd take of ‘Route 66’ are radical (yes, I said radical – suck it).

Oingo Boingo
Weird Science (Extended Remix)
Yeah, it’s not a Depeche Mode song but I don’t think any of you will care right?

Okay, this post is kind of random and odd. And unless you are die-hard BH Surfers fan or Tears For Fears fanatic it’s probably not your thing. School’s a mother, so I didn’t have time to finish up some big finds I scored last weekend. You’ll see them soon.

Butthole Surfers
The Hurdy Gurdy Man (Jim Melly Re-Mix)
I don’t think I ever have to do acid now, this song has to be the equivalent. I never knew this was a cover until about a year ago, how sad is that? I’ve been a longtime fan of the Butthole Surfers though, I dig their crazy old shit and even their more mainstream stuff like ‘Dracula From Houston.’ Word is they’re working on a new album, can’t wait to hear what that’ll sound like. I just know I won’t listen to it while driving, that’s probably illegal. This is the B-side to a 12” single.

ZZ Top
Legs (Special Dance Remix)
When I was a kid I wanted the ZZ Top car to come and save me from Gym class, never happened.

Dead Or Alive
Spin Me Round (Murder Mix)
If this guy would’ve showed up to take me from gym class I probably would never leave the gymnasium.

Tears For Fears
Mothers Talk (Beat Of The Drum Mix)
Mothers Talk (Long Version)
The ‘Beat Of The Drum Mix’ is mighty odd. ‘Mothers Talk’ always kind of struck me as a serious song, not one that required a break-down that featured a random James Brown sample. To each his own I guess.

Blame the lack of updates on the snow that is currently covering Pittsburgh. I know I am.

Art Of Noise
Paranoimia ’89 (Dance Mix)
Dragnet ’89
That’s not a typo, the name of the song is ‘Paranoimia.’ It’s a remix of ‘Paranoia,’ minus the Max Headroom. The Dragnet theme is silly but fun in a retarded kind of way.

Public Image Ltd.
Seattle (12” Mix)
Body (12” Mix)
These are two of PiL’s most easy-to-listen songs. So if you’ve hated all the other post Sex Pistols John Lydon material I’ve put up on this site check these out. These were taken off of the 12” single for ‘Seattle.’

Eddie Vedder
Goodbye
It might come as a surprise to some of you, but I am an obsessive fan of all things Pearl Jam. I’ve seen them live half-a-dozen times, have an unhealthy collection of concert memorabilia and also have more CDs, LPs and 45s then I wish to count. This song by Eddie is off of the soundtrack to A Brokedown Melody, which is a groovy littler surfer doc.

They Might Be Giants
One More Parade
I forgot where I found this one. It’s off of an album called Rubaiyat, which was a two-CD collection compiled for Elektra’s 40th Anniversary but I don’t have that. It featured a bunch of Elektra artists covering songs by other Elektra artists – self-congragulatory label masturbation at its best. This is a cover of a Phil Ochs anti-war song and is sadly just as relevant today as it was when he first recorded it.

The Pixies
Born In Chicago
Another track off the Elektra collection. This one is a cover of a very old blues song I believe.

I had more to say about the last couple tracks but Blogger keeps crashing and I want to update this fucker so I can go to bed already. Argh.

Jerry Goldsmith
Gremlins Original Motion Picture Score
I can’t think of a movie that was a bigger part of my childhood than Gremlins was. Unlike a lot of other childhood favorites (Star Wars, The Goonies, Monster Squad) I can still remember the first time I saw it very clearly (I hid under the sheets when Stripe began melting). Not only that I remember my Gremlins-themed birthday party and the Gremlins backpack I took with me for my first day of Kindergarten. Some people’s Chirstmas movie is A Christmas Carol or A Christmas Story. Mine has always been Gremlins. I’m sick like that I guess. I even love the sequel. The score to Gremlins was one of Goldsmith’s best in my opinion and it’s a shame that it’s never gotten a proper release. The original LP soundtrack to the film was only a 7-track “mini album” that only featured about half of the film’s score. There are bootlegs out there that have more but they sound like shit from what I’ve been told, which is a bummer. Here I have all of the score that was originally released on that mini-LP.

Joe Strummer
Filibustero (Freestyle Mix)
In 1987 Joe Strummer released his first post-Clash album, the soundtrack to Alex Cox’s western Walker. The movie was a massive flop but the soundtrack is pretty damn good. It doesn’t sound like anything Strummer ever recorded before (or since) and is mostly instrumental music, the kind of stuff you’d expect to hear in an 1850s period piece. This is a remixed version of the main theme from the film, of which the Sex & The City theme sounds AMAZINGLY similar to.

Karen Finley
Party Animal
More from Like A Girl, I Want You To Keep Coming. Karen Finley was a performance artist whose material so offended Jesse Helms that he fought to have her funding from the NEA revoked – so you know she’s amazing. This bit is really intense and a little grating, you’ve been warned.

John Giorno Band
It’s A Mistake To Think You’re Special
Giorno was a poet who founded Giorno Poetry Systems, which was the label that released Like A Girl… Probably not a coincidence that he’s on the album then huh? This is more like poetry with a backing track than an actual song.

Some quick non-music rambling, I saw Pan’s Labyrinth yesterday night and I have to say that it’s one of the most magnificent, beautiful and awe-inspiring movies I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. I can’t remember the last time I left a theater so happy that I saw a movie. Before you start reading this blog posting you need to go see Pan’s Labyrinth!

Turn off your computer.

Steal a car.

(But I have a car)

I said STEAL A CAR!

(okay)

And drive until you find a movie theater that is showing Pan’s Labyrinth. Get out of the car and pick a fight…no wait, just go in and see the movie, it’s really good.

Tom Tom Club
Call Of The Wild (12” Remix)
Call Of The Wild (12” Club Mix)
Genius Of Love (Live)
Wordy Rappinghood (Live)
I’ve posted David Byrne before and some Talking Heads so it only makes sense that I would eventually get to Tom Tom Club. Actually, in compliance with the New Wave Break-Up Fairness Act of 1989 I am legally required to counter a David Byrne post with a Tom Tom Club one. All of these tracks are great and if you haven’t heard ‘Wordy Rappinghood’ before I highly recommend it.

New Order
Sister Ray (Live)
This is a live cover of the classic Velvet Underground tune. I got it off of a stellar compilation entitled Like A Girl, I Want You To Keep Coming.” I’ll be posting stuff from that one over the course of the next week or so. It was a pretty good collection. This live version was recorded on December 1, 1988.

PMS (Pre Metal Syndrome)
Living On The Outside (Fucked Up World)
This track is also from that same compilation. This band was some hardcore metal/punk chick-rock band from NYC. Sounds pretty good, wonder why I never heard of them before.

Cyndi Lauper
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Extended Version)
Fun With V. Knutsn (Instrumental)
Xtra Fun
By popular demand! I know some girls that don’t just wanna have fun, they wanna make my life a living hell on earth. Oh well, maybe that’s fun for them. The second two tracks from this promo single are really just dub remixes and nothing all that special, the extended version of the song is great.

The cool kids like me!

Yay me. I rock. Hard.

It’s kind of sad that I’m this pumped about this.

Depeche Mode
A Question Of Time (New Town Remix)
A Question Of Time (Live)
Black Celebration (Black Tulip Remix)
More Than A Party (Live)
Yes more Depeche Mode remixes. I was going to save these for later but I figured I’d throw in some MP3s to keep the MP3 aggregator sites happy. These are all from the 12” single for ‘A Question Of Time.’

Macross Song Collection
Okay, I don’t know jack about Macross. Part of it was edited into Robotech in America right? That’s the beginning and end of my Macross knowledge. I also don’t like J-pop that much, especially 80s J-pop. That being said, I’m so happy I own a Macross Soundtrack LP – I’m just weird like that. Anyways, I don’t know how to type kanji on my keyboard, and even if I did I wouldn’t know how to type the track titles for this soundtrack, so they are just labeled “track 1”, “track 2” and so on. This album originally came out in 1984 – I don’t know what it is the soundtrack to specifically but I’m assuming it’s for the TV show. I also don’t know who was the composer of this or any of the performers. I’m sure there are people that know more about this than I do and I hope they like it.

Explorers: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack
Now this is some shit I’m experienced with! When I was a little kid Explorers was totally one of my favorite movies, it was right up their with The Goonies and Monster Squad in terms of complete awesomeness. If you haven’t seen it (you suck), it’s about three kids who make contact with aliens and travel to their spaceship. It’s a really silly movie and totally unrealistic, but great for little kids. It’s also an interesting piece of Hollywood history because it stars a very young Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix. The score was done by Jerry Goldsmith (although the soundtrack also features some random 80s tunes) and the movie was directed by Joe Dante. Of course Dante and Goldsmith also collaborated on Gremlins and if you like that score I suggest you come back later in the week.