I’m trying to post as much as possible this week because I’ll probably be unable to post much of anything for the two weeks surrounding Christmas. I’m planning on something big for the holiday though, so hopefully I’ll get that’ll be ready soon. Until then enjoy some more misc. remixes and random 80s tunes!

Luscious Jackson
Deep Shag (Sunny Ray Mix)
Deep Shag (Aqua Magic Remix)
Daddy
Last month I put up some remixes of ‘Naked Eye’ and briefly mentioned LJ’s connection to The Beastie Boys in my post. A week later I was looking over my statcounter info for my site, seeing where I’m linked from and stuff, and I found out that someone got to that post because they did a search for ‘naked boys.’ That’s icky. I don’t wanna know what weird search results I’ll show up in now that I have a post with the words ‘daddy’ and ‘shag’ in it. Vagina.

NOFX
Iron Man
I found this off of some weird comp from Mystic Records. I hadn’t heard of any of the bands on it until NOFX showed up. This cover of the Sabbath classic is….well…um….words don’t do it justice. As far as I know this isn’t on CD.

A-Ha
Take On Me (Extended Version)
When I was a kid I wanted to get sucked into the magical comic book world from this video. But maybe that wouldn’t be that cool after all…

Someone found a Velvet Underground record for 75 cents and sold it on eBay for over $155,000…and I thought I got a good deal when I paid five bucks for that Halloween III soundtrack. Anyways here’s a boatload of music for those of you who have yet to discover the rarest album in the world while searching through record crates at a flea market.

David Bowie

The Hearts Filthy Lesson (Rubber Mix)
The Hearts Filthy Lesson (Simple Text Mix)
The Hearts Filthy Lesson (Filthy Mix)
This was the first song Bowie released as a single that came even close to being a hit in the US after the horrible experience that was Never Let Me Down. I first heard it over the end credits to the mindfuck that is the movie Seven, and being 15 at the time, served as my introduction to ‘modern’ Bowie. I was hooked and have been ever since. I think Outside is another one of Bowie’s overlooked great albums. It has its weak spots to be sure, but tracks like this and ‘Hallo Spaceboy’ are just unbelievable. These remixes came off of a picture disc I found last weekend. The ‘Alt Mix’ was remixed by Trent Reznor.

Ministry
Over The Shoulder (12” Mix)
Isle Of Men (Version II)
Twitch (Version II)
In my mind there are three incarnations of Ministry: The early synth-based stuff, The Golden Era, and all the shit they’ve forced us to listen to since. Al, what the fuck happened? was such an amazing album – how does the person behind that end up recording Psalm 69Rio Grande Blood? If you haven’t listened to Rio Grande Blood consider yourself lucky, it sounds like a collection of discarded loops and guitar riffs from better Ministry albums fit together with shitty lyrics about bullshit 9/11 conspiracies. I hate that so many great left-wing musicians and political speakers have been lost to the nonsensical world of “Loose Change” (by the way, keep the comment section clear of 9/11 BS, I’ll just delete it so go peddle your silly little theories elsewhere if you think I’m wrong – because I don’t care). Anyways, these songs are from the ‘Over The Shoulder’ 12 Inch.

Siouxsie & The Banshees
An Execution
Quarterdrawing Of The Dog
Cities In Dust (Extended Eruption Mix)
I want my next girlfriend to have her hair. These are off a 12” single.

Berlin
Sex (I’m A…) (Extended Version)
Sex (I’m A…) (Instrumental)
These two songs are the last ones in my Berlin collection. They’re off a promo single called ’12 Inches Of Sex.” That’s the second tackiest thing I ever heard.

Aerosmith
Lord Of The Thighs (Live)
This is the tackiest thing I ever heard. This is off a promo album that was named after Aerosmith’s infamous song ‘Big 10 Inch Record.”. This is a live track that was recorded back in 1978.

All 80s tonight. More soundtracks later.

OMD
If You Leave (Extended Mix)
La Femme Accident (Remixed Version)
I still think that these guys should have sued 90s one-hit-wonder OMC for defamation of character. Not fair that they are forever side-by-side in CD racks at Best Buys worldwide.

Men Without Hats
Pop Goes The World (Dance Mix)
Pop Goes The World (Dub Mix)
Whenever I would talk about one-hit-wonders with this girlfriend I had and I mentioned Men Without Hats and she god all mad, yelling “They had two hits!!! ‘Pop Goes The World!’ Hello?!?!?” That must have been the reason why we broke up. She was right though, this song does totally kick ass. These mixes are off of a promo single.

Love & Rockets
Ball Of Confusion (USA Mix)
Ball Of Confusion (12” Mix)
Ball Of Confusion (7” Mix)
I totally thought this was Duran Duran until about 1998. Oh well. These are also from a promo single.

IMPORTANT READ THIS:
Something is stupid with my .mac account right now. If you use Internet Explorer and try to download any of the zip files I recently uploaded on my site their showing up as Tar files. To fix this RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS and then rename it as a zip file. If you use Firefox then just ignore this. Firefox’s awesomeness isn’t affected by this at all.

The Black Cauldron Original Soundtrack
One of the weirdest movies in the Disney canon, The Black Cauldron is unique footnote in Disney’s past. This 1985 flick was their attempt to tap into the teen market and it was a MAJOR bomb. It came out in 1985 but they didn’t put it on video until the late 90s. I personally don’t like the flick that much, but this score by Elmer Bernstein is pretty decent. Of course it was never released on CD and is now only available on iTunes. I picked the vinyl up last week along with all the other insanely rare soundtracks I’ve been posting lately. A great record for Disney completists.

Berlin – Information
What the fuck? I didn’t even know this album existed until I stumbled upon it last week. Aside from John Crawford this incarnation of Berlin has nothing in common with the classic line-up that recorded songs like ‘The Metro’ and ‘No More Words.’ Terri Nunn isn’t even here, some chick named Virginia Macolino is! Apparently Nunn had left the band for a while to try her hand at acting (didn’t work out I guess). When she came back two years later the entire line-up was different, except for John Crawford. This record isn’t as good as the stuff they did later, but tracks like ‘City Lights’ and ‘Overload’ show the potential that later came to fruition. This album has never been released on CD and should be of interest to Berlin fans and anyone into early synthpop and post-punk music.

Many of the large downloads I post end up as Tar files for some reason. This is an odd problem, since I am uploading these files as zips!! I don’t know what the fuck is going on with them. If any of you out there know what’s up with this let me know. In the meantime I have a quick fix for anyone that can’t read tars – if you simply rename the extension from .tar to .zip it should recognize it as a zip file and work fine. Sorry about the confusion!

EDIT: This only seems to happen to people using IE, strange…

art two in my John Carpenter series. Some of these fuckers are a bitch to find, so enjoy! Oh, and just to disappoint some of you right now instead of later, I don’t have Assault On Precinct 13 or Dark Star.

Halloween I
I think it can be scientifically proven that Halloween is the best slasher movie of all time. A large part of its effect has to be contributed to the amazing score provided by the film’s director John Carpenter. It may sound like it was recorded on a Casio keyboard, but the stark and slightly unearthly feeling of it really helps create the mood of the movie. Carpenter has done the score to nearly all of his films (The Thing being a notable exception, but he was able to get Ennio Morricone for that one so who can blame him for passing) but this is still probably his best. It’s in print but you can usually only find the 20th Anniversary Edition for sale, which is pretty much just a CD version of the movie. This is just the music, the way it should be.

Halloween II
Carpenter was surprisingly involved in the sequel to Halloween. He wrote and produced with the Debra Hill, and once again contributed the score. Helping him on the score was Alan Howarth, who also worked on the score to another cult classic, The Final Countdown. Most of this album is just reworked versions of the original score, but it still sounds damn good. This one is a little harder to come by, if you want a CD of it you’ll have to shell out anywhere from 30-60 bucks on eBay.

Halloween III
I’ll be honest, I’ve never seen Halloween III but I’ve heard good things about it and this score is pretty good. John Carpenter worked on this score too, and I’m pretty sure it’s the last one he was directly involved with (the rest of them just recycled the stuff he already did.) I do know one thing though, this thing is a bitch to find. Want it on vinyl? That’ll set you back about $125. How about CD? Hope you got $200 to blow. Unless you’re as insane lucky as I am, and you can pick it up for five bucks.

They Live Original Soundtrack Recording
It don’t get much rarer than this shit.
They Live is a great movie and the soundtrack is just as good. Of course, it being an in-demand soundtrack to a cult classic sci-fi film , it’s out of print (way to go record label, way to go). If you want an actual CD of the soundtrack and not a CDR you’ll probably have to fork over close to a hundred bucks. I see that and I’m all like ‘fuck that shit.’ I found the vinyl today for five bucks. Enjoy. A little hint for you guys too, if you like John Carpenter’s scores then you might want to bookmark this site for the next few weeks…I scored some major finds this week.

I got a Wii today the fact that I can even use my hands is downright amazing. Enjoy the 80s-ness.

Roger Waters
Radio Waves (Remix)
Radio Waves (7 Inch Mix)
Going To Live In L.A.
Ah, Roger Waters, everyone’s favorite asshole bass player. Did anyone out there check out his latest album, that opera or whatever? Didn’t think so. I saw him live about eight years ago. It was an alright show, but he played way too much of Amused To Death (boring album) and his resident David Gilmour replacement sucked. From what I remember he pretty much avoided Radio KAOS all together, which is probably for the best considering just how damned depressing the thing is (of course you could say that about everything the man’s ever written I guess.) The album did have ‘Radio Waves’ though, a fairly upbeat and catchy tune. These mixes of that song, as well as the rare (and surprisingly good) B-side ‘Going To Live In L.A.’ are off of the ‘Radio Waves’ 12-inch single.

Leftfield
Song Of Life (Club Mix)
Who’s up for some early 90s progressive trance music? Well I am, so shove it.

Yaz (AKA Yazoo)
Situation (Dub Version)
I swear to God this is the last remix of this song I’ll post.

New Order
Fine Time (7 Inch Edit)
Fine Line
Fine Time (Silk Mix)
Fine Time (Messed Around Mix)
Don’t Do It
I cannot make the same promise for New Order mixes though, I will post them until I can’t find no more. I don’t suppose anyone has a problem with that though.

Erasure
I’m very tired and I’ve already said a lot about Erasure, so I’m going to shut up and let y’all get yo’ groove on. These are all off the 12-inch single for ‘Drama!’
Drama (Krucial Mix)
Sweet Sweet Baby (Medi-Mix)
Paradise (Lost & Found Mix)
Drama! (Act 2)
Sweet, Sweet Baby (Moo Moo Mix)
Paradise

A few days ago someone named Kristen posted a comment about my Urgh! files. Kristen, if you are out there, send me an email, I may have something that can help you and your station more than those files.

I have a few more Erasure B-sides I wanted to post tonight, but my connection is being ass so I’m not able to. Those should be up within 24 hours or so. Until then enjoy some lovely Depeche Mode songs about being a junkie, and a song by The Beat.

Depeche Mode
Never Let Me Down Again (Split Mix)
Never Let Me Down Again (Aggro Mix)
Never Let Me Down Again (Tsangarides Mix)
Pleasure, Little Treasure (Glitter Mix)
Pleasure, Little Treasure (Join mix)
There are a lot of Depeche Mode compilations and greatest hits sets out there. The newest one (The Best Of Depeche Mode, Volume 1) is a pretty good single-disc collection if you are just getting into the group. As great as that disc is, I think the band should release a themed collection featuring all of their songs about heroin. Between ‘Never Let Me Down Again’, ‘Shake The Disease’, Clean’, ‘Painkiller’ and the countless other tunes Martin Gore wrote while sticking a needle into his arm there’ s the makings of a great CD! These mixes are off of the ‘Never Let Me Down Again’ Maxi-Single.

The (English) Beat
What’s Your Best Thing (Dub Version)
The English Beat’s (or The Beat if you live in any country other than America) best thing was ‘Save If For Later.’ My best thing is my AMAZING ass.