I scored a massively massive crate of 12” singles, rare soundtracks and all-around awesomeness this week. Many favorites of Lost Turntable will be making return appearances in the coming weeks, so keep checking in. Hopefully I’ll get most of them recorded before I have to make a week long trip to the wasteland that is Toledo, Ohio.

Luscious Jackson
Under Your Skin (Under Your Skank)
Naked Eye (Muscle Shock Remix Instrumental)
These are the last two remixes off of that promo single I’ve been posting tracks off of all week. I think ‘Under Your Skank’ wins my vote as the best remix title of all time that isn’t an Erasure song. No one can compete with remix titles like ‘No Panties Mix’, ‘Orbital Southsea Isle Of Holy Beats Mix’ and ‘Truly In Love With The Marx. Bros Mix.’

Soul Hooligan
Algebra (Dan The Automator Remix)
Algebra (Mr. Breaker & The Technician’s Remix)
I have no idea who Soul Hooligan is, but I buy anything with Dan The Automator’s name on it. These two remixes are off of a 12” promo are great indie-rap tunes.

Goldie (feat. KRS One)
Digital (V.I.P Mix)
Digital (Boymerang Mix)
Digital (Armand Van Helden’s Speed Garage Mix)
10-year-old Garage/drum-n-bass remixes about digital technology. Sounds like something the kids in the movie Hackers would ‘hack the planet’ to. Still good though. ‘Boymerang Mix’ gets my vote for one of the worst remix names of all time, sounds like some strange gay porno involving Aborigine hunting tools.

Let’s get into it. Tonight I got some alt-rock girl band dance music, gay British synthpop and pseudo-gay British synthpop! If anyone out there is looking for some tracks for a totally radical dance mixtape then they came to the right blog tonight.

Luscious Jackson
Under Your Skin (Aquatic Mix)
Naked Eye (Muscle Shock Remix)
More remixes from that 12” promo that I started putting stuff up from last week. I have two more that I’ll get to next time.

Pet Shop Boys
Love Comes Quickly (Dance Mix)
That’s My Impression (Disco Mix)
Calling a remix of a Pet Shop Boys song a ‘dance mix’ or a ‘disco mix’ is pretty damn redundant. It’s not like the original versions of either of these songs were hardcore techno or heavy metal. These are off of the 12” single for ‘Love Comes Quickly’.

Ministry
Cold Life
I’m Falling
Primental
Al Jourgensen (the frontman of Ministry) would like you to believe that he’s a hardcore motherfucker. That’s probably why he doesn’t like it when people bring up his first few records. While the majority of his work is hardcore, guitar-laden industrial bad-ass shit, his first few records have more in common with Soft Cell and Pet Shop Boys than anything by Nitzer Ebb or Skinny Puppy. He blames his record label for pressuring him into releasing a more pop-friendly album and I might be willing to believe that if he hadn’t have adopted a fake British accent for many of these songs! Anyways, Jourgenson probably wishes these tracks from his very first single didn’t ever see the light of day, but I feel the same way about Rio Grande Blood so let’s just call it even.

Thank Jeebus that I’m done with classes…for a whole week before the summer semester starts. Oh well. Since I’ve been locked up in my room studying all week I’ve recorded a hell of a lot of vinyl and am finally making a serious dent in the impressive pile of 12” singles, soundtracks and various other oddities that has been quietly mocking me for the past few months. With my week off I hope to finally get the rest of them done. I got some weird shit in there I really want to get up on here, including the soundtrack I previously mentioned that is for a movie that I can’t even find on the IMDB. I’m so very proud of that.

Pet Shop Boys
Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You) (Extended Mix)
How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously (Extended Mix)
The first two of many, many Pet Shop Boys tracks I’ll be putting up in the coming week or so. I scored a buttload of 12” singles by them last week. Their cover of ‘Where The Streets Have No Name’ has always been one of my all-time favorite covers, right up there with The Vandals’ take on ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ and Pete Townsend’s live solo version of ‘Save It For Later.’ I definitely like it more than U2’s version, but I”m not a real big fan of U2. The addition of ‘I Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You’ is what really does it for me I think. It’s like an early-90s disco mash-up and I love me the mash-ups. ‘How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously’ is a good track too. Both of these are off of the 12” for ‘When The Streets…” and these versions are available on some of the Pet Shop Boys compilations that are out there.

New Order
I Don’t Care (Bizarre Love Dub)
Bizarre Love Triangle (7” Version)
Been a long while since I put some New Order up here. It wasn’t for lack of effort, it’s just that New Order singles aren’t exactly easy to find. The 7” version isn’t that remarkable, I’m only posting it because it was never put on an album. The dub is good as dub mixes go.

Luscious Jackson
Under Your Skin (The Shed Lbs Mix)
Naked Eye (The Propellerheads Mix)
What the fuck do you call Luscious Jackson’s music? Rock? Indie? Dance? The best I could come up with is ‘Alternative Dance’ which kind of sucks because I’ve always thought of that term as a way for snobs to label dance music they like. These are two tracks off of a 12” promo. I’ll be putting up more from it later on.

It’s May! I survived April by the skin of my teeth this year. I really have to start working on that underground bunker so I can hide from the whole world during that awful month. It’s going to need a lot of work though. I need enough power outlets for my Xbox, Wii, PS2 and my computer. I also need enough room for my LPs and my record player. I should probably figure out how to get a toilet in there too…and maybe have a tunnel that would take me directly to Jerry’s Records.

Shit, I got to get a shovel.

I need more rare punk for this blog, since I never have anything to put up when I’m feeling totally aggro like I am today. If you need to break something head over to Gimme Tinnitus, where you can get some hardcore tracks by Unsane, including ‘Scrape.’

Hot Hot Heat
Goodnight, Goodnight (EL-P Remix)
Goodnight, Goodnight (Boom Bip Remix)
Alternative garage rock remixed by underground indie rap. Why not?

VHS Or Beta
You Got Me (Baby Daddy Remix)
You Got Me (The Juan MacLean Remix)
Electronic dance music from a band named after a format war between two now-defunct video mediums. In 2020 I’m totally going to start my own band called Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD. The ironic part will be that it’ll be a jazz ensemble. Did I say ironic? I meant retarded. These are both off a 12” single.

The Dandy Warhols
Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth (Rock Snobs Vocal Mix)
Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth (Rock Snobs Dub)
Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth (Rock Snobs Open Road)
Ever seen Dig? If you haven’t check it out it’s a totally amazing movie about both The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre and how one of those bands consists of complete douchebags. Watch it and find out for yourself. These awesome remixes of their first big hit is off of a 12” promo.

I accidentally left out three tracks on my giant Urgh! post. Is fixed now.

I was going to post the second Live At the 101 Club LP in it’s interity today, but I realized that the songs on it by The Fixx and Wang Chung were the exact same recordings that were on the first one. I’m redundant enough as it is. So here are the tracks from the second one that aren’t on the first, as well as a special treat for fans of Urgh! This will be my last post until finals are over for my on Wednesday. Well, I technically have a final on Thursday but since I didn’t study for the mid-term and I got the highest grade in the class I’m not that worried about it. Yay for the declining academic standards of our universities!

Philip Jap
Hermaphrodite
The Ambassadors
No idea who this dude is. ‘Hermaphordite’ is a great tune. Dude has one hell of an awful last name though.

Thompson Twins
Physics & Chemistry
Slave Trade
I mentioned in my last post that the songs by The Fixx and Wang Chung that were on the 101 live album had little in common with their later hits. Well, these two songs by Thompson Twins sound nothing like ‘Hold Me Now.’ Thank God, I fucking hate that damn song.

Jane Kennaway
Catch Cool
Scratching At The Surface
A No-Hit Wonder that shoulda been but wasn’t. Both these songs are pretty stellar.

Athletico Spizz 80 – Do A Runner
Yay, more complete albums on The Lost Turntable. I’m posting this for a few reasons. First, it’s a great early new-wave record. Secondly, it’s out of print and thirdly, it’s a record by a band that was on Urgh! a movie that long-time visitors to my blog recognize as the Holy Grail of New Wave concert movies. I’ve had the tracks from Urgh! spread out over a few posts for about a year now but I recently re-organized them into one simple post so those of you who have not grabbed all them now can with ease. Fans of Urgh! should also note that this album is the one that has ‘Clock Are Big’ on it, which is used as an intro to ‘Where’s Captain Kirk’ on the soundtrack. It easily gets my vote as the best 30 second tune ever.

I got an email from someone asking about Urgh! and I thought that in an effort to make things a bit more streamlined and easy to navigate, Id make this post which includes every single song from the Urgh! soundtrack as well as some bonus ones. I’m not the most organized person in the world, and it shows in the haphazard nature in which these tracks were originally put up. I hope this makes things a little easier for everyone. And if anyone is still looking for the long-deleted Urgh! Yahoo! Group (wow that was a lot of exclamation points) they restarted it here.

THIS POST IS OUT OF DATE!!!! UPDATED FILES ARE HERE!!!

Side 1
The Police – Driven To Tears
Wall Of Voodoo – Back In Flesh
Toyah Wilcox – Dance
Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark – Enola Gay
XTC – Respectable Street

Side 2
The Members – Offshore Banking Business
Go-Go’s – We Got The Beat
Total Eclipse – Klaus Nomi
Athletico Spizz ’80 – Where’s Captain Kirk
Alley Cats – Nothing Means Nothing Anymore
Jools Holland – Foolish I Know
Steel Pulse – Klu Klux Klan

Side 3
Devo – Uncontrollable Urge
Echo And The Bunnymen – The Puppet
The Au Pairs – Come Again
The Cramps – Tear It Up
Oingo Boingo – Ain’t This The Life
Joan Jett & The Blackheats – Bad Reputation
Pere Ubu – Birdies
Gary Numan – Down In The Park

Side 4
Fleshtones – Shadow Line
Gang Of Four – He’d Send In The Army
John Otway – Cheryl’s Going Home
999 – Homicide
X – Beyond And Back
Magazine – Model Worker
Skafish – Sign Of The Cross

Bonus from my VHS tape
Surf Punks – Go Home
Dead Kennedys – Bleed For Me
John Cooper Clarke – Health Fanatic
Chelsea – I’m On Fire

Live Letters From 101 Club
The 101 Club was a place in St. John’s Hill, Clapham in the early 80s. It must have been a fairly hip place to hang out at, because they released a few live albums showcasing some of the more high-profile artists that performed there. This one features four great New Romantic/New Wave bands from the early-80s, including a couple that never got the recognition they deserved. The album is a little odd and also features a couple really weird ads and PSAs as well. I’ll be putting up stuff from another 101 Club compilation in a day or so. This album was never released on CD.

Huang Chung (Wang Chung)
You’ve Taken Everything
I Don’t Believe A Word
Journey Without Maps
Early Wang Chung (back when they were still calling themselves Huang Chung. These guys get a really bad rap. Their first two records are pretty good and their soundtrack to To Live And Die In L.A. has some good stuff on it too. None of these songs were ever released on any of their studio albums and none of them sound anything like ‘Everybody Wang Chung Tonight.’ That might be good new or bad news depending on your viewpoint.

A Public Service Announcement
A silly fake ad reminiscent of The Who Sell Out.

Endgames
Works
Visions Of
Stare
Someone in this band was also in Simple Minds (I say la! la la la la…oops, sorry) and that’s all I can really find out about these guys. They only released one album and I’ll have to track it down because these tracks are pretty good.

The Fix
Acrobat
Soho Alley
Eye For Design
That’s not a typo, this is The Fixx before they added the extra “x”. Much like their renamed compatriots Wang Chung, their songs on this record sound nothing like the one that would later be their biggest hit, the uber synth-pop smash ‘One Thing Leads To Another.’

A Word From Our Sponsors
An ad for their next LP. I spelled “sponsors” wrong on the file’s ID3 tag, excuse the laziness.

Fay Ray
Do What You Want To Do
Dreams Of Heat
Modern Lovers
These songs are excellent and if you only download one thing off my blog today make it ‘Modern Lovers.’ I never heard of these guys before but you can find out about them at Lost Bands Of The New Wave Era, a great 80s-obsessed blog.

Oh today ’tis a glorious day. As long-time readers of this blog may remember, I plugged the wrong power supply into my external hard drive a few month ago and totally fried it (complete with magic blue smoke). After much sobbing and attempted suicide attempts, my genius friend was able to fix it and recover all of the lovely music that was trapped on it. So today my music collection went from 20GB to over 120GB. If I wanted to I could rock out non-stop for almost 70 days and not hear the same track twice (although I’d hear a ton of different live recordings of Pearl Jam’s ‘Yellow Ledbetter’). I don’t think I’m going to do that though. In celebration here are some tracks I wanted to post months ago but was unable to as they were on the fried disk. Oh, and if any of you sent me an email asking for a favor…I would check your inbox.

Erasure
Star (Trafalmadore Mix)
Star (7” Version)
Dreamlike State (The 12 Hour Technicolor Mix)
Trafalmadore is not an easy “word” to spell. Turns out it’s a planet in Slaughterhouse 5, ironic considering I posted the soundtrack to that a few days ago. All of these remixes come off the 12” single for ‘Star’, and don’t worry, the ‘Dreamlike State’ mix really isn’t 12 hours long (although how awesome would that be?).

Thomas Dolby
Windpower (Extended Mix)
Flying North (Extended Mix)
More Dolby, this time he’s not accompanied by Joe Walsh, Stevie Wonder, Lea Thompson, George Clinton and an anthropomorphic duck. 20 bucks says some combination of those characters have appeared in someone’s LSD flashback.

Depeche Mode
Strangelove (Maxi-Mix)
Strangelove (Midi-Mix)
Strangelove (Highjack Remix)
FPMIP
The first two Strangelove mixes and ‘FPMIP’ come off of a 12” single that has “Bong 13” on the cover. I swear I used to have that single on CD, I’m highly suspicious of my former pothead roomy, that is something that would be absolutely hysterical to a stoned loser. The Highjack remix is off of a promo single. The Midi-Mix is just that, a midi-recording, and it sounds totally awesome.

Run DMC Featuring Method Man
The Beginning (No Further Delay…)
This was the first single released in promotion of Crown Royal, the record that would be Run DMC’s final album because of the death of Jam Master Jay. Despite being subtitled ‘No Further Delay…’ the album was delayed for over a year after the release of this single, and when it finally did come out this song was nowhere to be found. Strangely, parts of it were taken and sliced into the vastly inferior track “Simmons Incorporated.” The quality of this isn’t the greatest, I got it off of some file-sharing site eons ago.

Sometimes I find a record that makes me happy record stores exist, tonight’s post features songs from that record.

Dobly’s Cube (With Cherry Bomb)
Howard The Duck (Megamix)
Howard The Duck (Album Mix)
Don’t Turn Away

When Howard The Duck crashed into theaters, it left behind it a critical trashing that could be compared to more recent bombs like Gigli and Battlefield Earth. Now, I’ve never seen Gigli, but I can safely say that Howard The Duck is a better film than Battlefield Earth. In fact, Howard The Duck probably wasn’t even the worst movie of 1986. Anyone ever seen Cobra or Soul Man? The movie “won” the award for Worst Picture at The Razzies, once again proving that The Razzies are nothing more but a venue for pathetic little wankers to get together and jerk each other off over the popular kids’ failures.

I loved this movie when I was a kid. I thought Howard was funny, Lea Thompson was cool and the Dark Overlords were creepy. When I got older I was a little scared to watch it again, worried that the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia had given me the impression I enjoyed it more than I actually did. I had already been burned by recent revisits to childhood favorites G.I. Joe: The Movie and any of the Police Academy movies. When I finally did see the movie again I was surprised that I still found it funny and immensely entertaining, and the special effects are still pretty incredible (they were done by ILM after all). And don’t forget that it had a great cast, which included Lea Thompson (with some seriously crimped-out hair), Tim Robbins and Jeffery Jones. Even if you thought the movie was a disaster you have to admit that it was an entertaining and well-financed disaster.

Strangely, the soundtrack of Howard The Duck was packed with some talented artists at the top of their game. Thomas Dolby wrote all of the original songs for the film, with assistance by Lord Funkenstein George Clinton. Joe Walsh of The Eagles plays guitar on the title track, and the harmonica on ‘Don’t Turn Away’ was performed by Stevie Wonder. The three tracks I’m offering tonight were all taken off of the 12” single for the theme song. The ‘Mega Mix’ of the theme song was only released on this 12”, while the other two tracks were available on the film’s soundtrack also. None of them are on CD. I think Lea Thompson (and her hair) sings on all three of these, but I could be wrong. If you want more info on Howard The Duck check out this great site.

Helmet & House Of Pain
Just Another Victim (T-Ray Devil Worship Mix)
Just Another Victim (T-Ray Dead And Stinking Mix)
Just Another Victim (T-Ray Heavy Metal Jazz Mix)
These tracks are remixes of a song from the soundtrack to Judgment Night. Now that movie sucked, but it’s rap/metal collaboration-filled soundtrack wasn’t half bad.