Man, just when I was putting forth a concentrated effort to cheer myself up fucking Richard Wright dies. Pink Floyd got me through a musical dark patch in my life years ago. After grunge died out but before I discovered indie rock I was pretty much a classic rock/heavy metal fan exclusively (although I was oddly into Big Beat Techno as well) and Pink Floyd was my favorite band for a good five years. I own every Pink Floyd album (except The Final Cut – I hate that one) a few of their box sets/compilations and more bootlegs and rarities than you can shake a giant inflatable pig at. Wish You Were Here helped get me through my sophomore year in college, and without Animals I would have killed one of my bosses multiple times over. So, yeah, I’m bummed.

I implore everyone to check out Richard Wright’s Wet Dreams (…wait that sounds wrong), it’s a great album that has gone unnoticed for years and if there’s any good that may come from this unfortunate event it’s that this album might finally get re-released on CD. Until then I have a good-but-not-great vinyl rip here.

David Gilmour
On An Island (Live)
Take A Breath (Live)
This Heaven (Live)
In the epic Waters/Gilmour battle I’ve always been on the side of David Gilmour. Sure, he may not be as talented a lyricist as Waters, but he’s 20 times the musician that Waters could ever hope to be on his best day. I’d rather listen to About Face 50 times than Amused To Death once. On An Island was his best solo album to date, and if you haven’t picked up the live DVD of it I highly suggest doing so. He’s also releasing a live album in a few weeks, which I’ll probably be picking up (I’ll probably be getting the ultra-neato-nifty-keen limited vinyl edition which includes an entire LP of bonus tracks that won’t be on CD). These live tracks are from a sampler that I grabbed at a record convention months ago. Although I don’t have the physical copy with me to check, I’m fairly certain that Wright is performing on these tracks with Gilmour, since he was on the tour with Gilmour.

Oh, and I interviewed Gilmour over the phone once, you can read it here. Highlight of my writing career, even if the school paper never published it (but that’s an entirely different rant).

Pink Floyd
Interstellar Overdrive (Tonight Let’s All Make Love In London version)
The end all be all of psychedelic jams. I have about 80 bagillion versions of this tune and this one is the best. It’s taken from the “London 66′ 67′” single (actually mine is from a bootleg compilation, but it’s the same veresion) and this version originally appeared in the movie Tonight Lets All Make Love In London. Anyone ever actually seen that movie?

I actually was able to hook up my turntable to my laptop without it sounding like complete ass, so I might actually record some shit this week. Does anyone know how good Audacity is when it comes to recording/audio clean-up?

With my computer dying and other crap I’ve had a really shit week and while that usually means industrial music for all of you I’m going to mix it up a bit and try to stay positive (I know! I’m shocked too!) with some songs that cheer my hate-filled ass up. Incidentally, The song that actually cheers me up the most is “Fat Bottomed Girls” by Queen, but that’s neither here nor there since that’s not exactly a “lost” track. If anyone has an obscure live version of that tune or a cover of it by a band that actually matters let me know.

Carbon/Silicon
The News
Late News
This is one of the few songs/things that actually makes me hopeful for the future. Big surprise to everyone reading this blog, I’m kind of a negative fellow and I don’t have much hope for this whole “human race” thing. But if Mick Jones, the guitar player for one of the angriest punk bands of all time, and Tony James, the frontman to one of the most outrageously cynical groups of all time (Sigue Sigue Sputnik) can even joke about the human race one day getting its shit together then maybe there’s hope even for a nihilist prick like me. This version of “The News” is over six minutes long is different than the album version. “Late News” is a dub remix. I found both online somewhere I believe. I know they didn’t come from a 12”.

Feist
Mushaboom (Red Demo Version)
Feist or Regina Spektor? (Or Imogen Heap?) The immortal debate. This demo version was taken from a CD that came with The Believer.

Ron Grainer (Composer)
Doctor Who Theme (1986 Version)
Original Doctor Who Theme
Doctor Who (Cosmic Remix)
I’m not the world’s biggest Doctor Who fan, although I did occasionally watch the show when I was a kid. However, I love the theme song. It’s one of the first electronic recordings of note, and definitely the first electronic theme song to any TV show. It’s gone through a shitload of revisions over the years and two of them are included above. The one from 86 is great, but it can’t hold a candle to the original, which is still one of the greatest electronic compositions of all-time. The “Cosmic Remix” is alright, but it goes on for far too long and has too many random effects thrown in for no real reason. Don’t muck with the classics. I grabbed these from a 12” single that had a holographic cover! It’s nifty.

My computer finally bit the big one today. It was the end of a long illness and its death should be celebrated as an end the suffering its endured for the past few years. Also, all my important stuff was backed up on an external hard drive, so it’s not the complete end of the world.

However, it does pose a problem since the laptop I am currently working on has no audio outputs for me to hook up my external soundcard, therefore making it impossible for me to currently record albums from my turntable. I could use the USB cable, but my limited experience with that is shit and I won’t subject my loyal fanbase to any more substandard recordings than I already have.

I should have enough stuff in my queue to sustain myself until I get a new computer and can resume the ripping. However as the well dries up things might get a little odd and obscure (even for me) so bare with me for the next few weeks.

Basement Jaxx
Daluma
Jus Becuz
Slide Slide
Fly Life (“Brix” Mix)
Fly Life (Erick “More” Dub)
Fly Life (Roni Size “Flyzs” Mix)
I almost labeled these as Chemical Brothers tracks, that’s how discombobulated this whole computer situation has made me. Luckily I caught the grievous error in time. The first three of these tracks is from the creatively-titled EP 3, which also included the track “Fly Life.” I’m not including that track because it is easily available on the band’s singles collection. But speaking of “Fly Life” I also had the 12” single to that, which was released when the previously mentioned singles collection came out and that’s where those remixes originated.

Dust Brothers – The Fight Club Remixes
This Is Your Life
What Is Fight Club? (Wally Gagel Remix)
Finding The Bomb (CMG Remix)
Chemical Burn (Headshop Remix)
Who Is Tyler Durden? (Dust Remix)
Homework (Fitz Remix)
I totally forgot I had this. I found it when I was rebuilding my iTunes playlists. So I guess something good came out of the whole crash-and-burn computer thing. I’m fairly certain these remixes were never released on CD and were only available on a 12” that I picked up God knows when.

I get much love from the comments:

“There MIGHT be another post in a few hours. Don’t get your hopes up too much though.” FUCK. Do you really think that anyone cares about what you have to say? the only reason anyone goes to your blog is to download music for free.

How does one respond to such insightful criticism? List my site statistics that show my rapidly growing fanbase? Reprint letters and comments by people who thank me for my educational comments on audio recording, obscure music and vinyl collecting? Mention that this blog is linked by several high-profile music sites? What’s the point? Those are all intelligent and well-thought out repsosnes to a blind and poorly written nonsensical rant. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned from this current presidential election is that you can’t fight bullshit with rational thinking. I think the best thing I can do is ignore him since I refuse to sink to his level.

Besides, he’s just a little bitch. I should know, his mom told me last night (at least I think that’s what she said, her mouth was full).

Madonna
Music (RHV Funkytown Club)
Music (RHV Funkytown Dub)
This is one of my weirder finds as of late. Occasionally Jerry will pick up a ton of records from a DJ. Sometimes they include a few oddball unmarked white-labels. I’ve found some excellent stuff this way, the highlight still being the unreleased remixes of Billy Idol’s cover of “Heroin” (much better than it sounds, trust me). More recently I unearthed these fairly good mixes of my favorite Madonna tune. The 12” doesn’t have any information on it other than a scribble of a DJ name I can’t make out, followed by “Madonna – Music” and a smiley face. The only reason I know the name of the remixes is because they’re etched into the groove.

!!! (Chk Chk Chk)
Take Ecstasy With Me
Get Up
I have mixed feelings about this band, from their annoying name to their occasionally repetive and mind-numbing style. However, their decision to release an EP with a Magnetic Fields cover as the A-side and a Nate Dogg cover as the B-side is brilliant in ways I can only hope to one day achieve.

Crystal Method
You Know It’s Hard (Boris & Beck Sinister Vocal Mix)
You Know It’s Hard (Boris & Beck Sinister Dub)
You Know It’s Hard (Koma & Bones Gaping Axe Wound Remix)
The title to this song always makes me giggle. Oh please, like it surprises you that I’m that immature. These are from a 12” single.

There MIGHT be another post in a few hours. Don’t get your hopes up too much though.

New music review roundup:

Motorhead: Motorizer – Fucking metal!!
DragonForce: Ultra Beatdown – Fucking power metal!!
Toadies: No Deliverance – Fucking…I dunno..um, it’s really good!!

And although I’m not reviewing it I do have to say that the new Metallica album is surprisingly not entirely awful. Yeah, I’m shocked too.

Jean Michel Jarre
Oxygene (Dado Ethnic Remix)
Oxygene (Hani’s Oxygene 303)
Oxygene (Sunday Club Remix)
Oxygene (Takkyu Ishino Remix)

RJD2
Exotic Talk (Alternate Version)
Get Off My Spaceship Bitch
The Move
Get Off My Spaceship Bitch might be the best b-side title in the history of all things. These are from a clear vinyl single of “Exotic Talk.” “The Move” is kind of scratchy but I can’t tell if it’s supposed to be that way.

Simian Mobile Disco
Hustler (Extended Club Remix)
Hustler (Armand Van Helden Remix)
I liked these guys first album but damn are they overrated. I had a whole rant about rock critics giving bias to rock artists who experiment with electronic music, but I’m far too annoyed and tired right now. Instead just enjoy these remixes.

First some business must be attended to. I am tired of getting variations of the following comment:

“Dude, where are the songs?”

Okay, now I want you to look at the top left corner of the sidebar. See the part that says “songs are only available for a limited time”? Good. Now piss off I got shit to do.

Moving on. A few days ago a commenter asked if I could tape my “record hunts/digs” to show what I go through to find all these bitchin’ LPs. I appreciate the idea and I’m flattered that anyone would care enough about my shitty little site to care that much, but that’s a really bad idea. I’m sure many of you assume that I go on these epic adventures for Pet Shop Boys 12” singles that involve Indiana Jones-like quests into dark caverns of crates that few humans have ever laid eyes on. Sorry, that’s not the case.

Let me go over for you all a typical record-finding journey.

• Step 1: Get out bed.
• Step 2: Leave house
• Step 3: Walk (or drive if I’m feeling lazy) the three or so blocks to Jerry’s Records.
• Step 4: Ask Jerry “what’s new.”
• Step 5: Buy the response.

That’s really about it. No bullshit, 99 percent of the albums I feature on this blog I picked up from Jerry’s Records. I’ll occasionally pick up an album from 720 Records or another local record store but that’s about it when it comes to my local record buying. When I’m in other cities I check out their record stores but Jerry’s is so amazingly amazing (and fucking cheap) that I usually don’t have to (expection: Culture Clash). Sorry to demystify it for you.

Pet Shop Boys
Go West (Mings Gone West First And Second Movement)
Go West (Farley & Heller Disco Mix)
Go West (Farley & Heller Fire Island Mix)
Go West (Kevin Saunderson Tribe Mix)
Go West (Kevin Saunderson Trance Mix)
In an act of solidarity with my fabulous brethern, I am protesting the Republican National Convention (AKA the racist sexist homophobic xenophobe douchebag idiot asshole gathering) by posting the gayest thing I could find; The Pet Shop Boys covering The Village People. These are from a CD single.

Pete Shelley
Homosapien (Special Mix)
Yesterday’s Not Here (Special Mix)
Witness The Change/I Don’t Know What It Is (Extended Combo Version)
Strike that, “Homosapien” is the gayest thing I could find. It’s a sad day when The Pet Shop Boys are out-gayed on my blog. Pete Shelley isn’t gay, he’s bi, but that didn’t stop him from writing one of the most non-subtle songs about doing it with a dude ever (“homo superior/in my interior” – I don’t think he’s talking about the X-Men hanging out in his den). I never heard this song until I saw the amazing video during VH1 Classic’s 80 Hours Of 80s and I never even knew that Pete Shelley had a solo career, not to mention a solo career that started with one of the cheeziest synth-pop albums of the decade. I would love to hear “Homosapien” and other songs from that album redone as Buzzcocks-style rockers. These strange mixes are from a 12” single.

Big Country
Look Away 12” Mix
Restless Natives: The Soundtrack Part I
These are come from the 12” single of “Look Away” and while the 12” remix of “Look Away” is totally awesome and worth downloading, the real treat here is the b-side, which is half of the soundtrack to the film “Restless Natives,” a rarely seen Scottish movie starring Ned Beatty. When researching it I found more than one person proclaiming it to be “the greatest Scottish movie ever made.” I don’t know about that since I’ve never seen it (although the fact that it stars Ned Beatty makes me doubt that claim). Anyways, Big Country did the soundtrack for it and that soundtrack has been notoriously hard to find ever since. In fact it wasn’t made available on CD until 1998, when it was included on a Big Country rarities compilation, appropriately titled Restless Natives & Rarities. Of course, nothing is ever easy and that 2 CD is now out of print, going for upwards of $100 on eBay. Now, that’s fucking nuts and at first I thought it was totally uncalled for, but then I listened to it. This is a really good soundtrack, and if you like instrumental guitar music ala Mark Knoplfer then you have to hear it. But as the “part 1” in the title suggests, this is only half of the soundtrack. If you want to track down the second half and don’t feel like coughing up $100 bucks do some searching (*cough* The Pirate Bay *cough*) and you should be able to find it. If if comes my way I’ll be sure to put up the whole thing here.

Tonight’s post is vagtastical.

Be Your Own Pet
Bicycle Race
Bicycle, Bicycle (Summer Summer EP version)
The only time Pitchfork and I have been in complete in total agreement is in regards to this band. We both loved their first CD, liked very much their second and were completely and totally fucking bummed when they decided to call it quits this month. I had the lucky opportunity to see the whirling teenyboppers from hell when they played Lollapalooza a few years ago and I am so happy I did. Jemina is a fucking monster on stage, spinning, screaming, dancing and puking – she’s the best female rock star since Deborah Harry. I really hope she starts up something else soon, she has too much energy to keep quiet.

Be Your Own Pet has very few rarities so I really had to stretch it with these bike-centric picks. This version of “Bicycle, Bicycle” is not the one that is on the band’s self-titled debut LP, but is instead the version that was on their first EP Summer Sensation. It’s more lo-fi than the LP version but really bitchin and still hyper-energetic and manic. The cover of Bicycle Race is off a Queen tribute compilation.

Siouxsie & The Banshees
Let Go
The Humming Wires
Siousxie could be called the proto-Jemma (she could definitely be called the proto-Karen O.). How come there aren’t any great alternative bands with female lead singers anymore? The Banshees, The Slits, L7, The Plasmatics, Joan Jett and The Go-Gos, remember them? Now what is there? Fucking Paramore, Flyleaf, Evanescence and Tokio Hotel (oh right, that’s a “guy”)? No wonder so many young girls are falling for shitty band with pretty boy lead singers, they have no one to tell them how to rock! Someone should lock Hanna Montanna/Miley Cyrus/WTF into a room with a bunch of L7 records until she’s ready tolead the tweens of America to a glorious revolution of post-glam hardcore punk rock. Don’t tell me that wouldn’t be totally awesome.

The Bangles
Hazy Shade Of Winter (Purple Haze Mix)
Hazy Shade Of Winter (7” Dub Mix)
This is the only song by The Bangles that is ever going to be on this site, unless there is some 12” remix of “Eternal Flame” I don’t know about. The day I enjoy “Walk Like An Egyptian” is the day I jam a rusty ice pick in my ear.

I don’t like that song.

Anyways, these remixes are from the 12” single.

Bananarama
Venus (Extended Mix)
Okay, now I’m really stretching the whole “girl rock” theme I started out with. I just wanted an excuse to finally put this 12” single remix on the site and off of my queue.

Super-ultra-cool Pop Will Eat Itself tracks! Hot off the turntable! I’m so happy I found these that I don’t even want to complain and rant tonight! I know, I’m shocked and disappointed too, but don’t worry my feelings of joy and happiness will soon pass.

I’m going to try to explain where all these tracks came from and where else you can get them, but it’s a little confusing and I’m writing this at 2:30 in the morning, so I apoloigize in advance if what you are about to read makes no sense.

Pop Will Eat Itself
Bubbles
From the 12” single for “Beaver Patrol” (sigh) single. Now available on the re-issued Now For A Feast! CD.

Oh Grebo I Think I Love You (New Version)
Also on “Beaver Patrol” (that doesn’t get any less stupid with repeated sayings) but this “new version” which is twice as long as the original one is not on any CD as of yet.

Def. Con. One. (12” Version)
If I have to tell you that this is from the “Def. Con. One.” 12” then you can’t read my blog anymore because you’re too stupid. It’s not on CD.

Inside You (Live)
She’s Surreal (Live)
Hit The Hi Tech Groove (Live)
Also on the Def. Con. One. 12”. The live “Inside You” is on the Now For A Feast! CD. Strangely the other two live tracks were put on the re-issued Box Frenzy CD.

Love Missle F1-11 (Designer Grebo Megamix)
Love Missle F1-11 (Original Poppies Mix)
Okay, now it gets (even more) confusing. There are two F1-11 12” singles. The first one has these two remixes on it. The “Grebo” mix is unavailable on CD while the “Original Poppies Mix” is on that “Now For A Feast!” CD.

Orgone Accumulator (Hawkwind cover…wait, they covered Hawkwind?!?! WTF?)
Everything That Rises (Shriekback cover)
Everything That Rises (New Version)
Like An Angel (A cover of someone…possibly The Mighty Lemondrops)
And now it gets even MORE confusing. “Orgone Accumulator” and “Everything That Rises” are on both F1-11 12” singles. However, while the both have the same version of “Orgone Accumulator” (even though one is called the “new version”) the versions of “Everything That Rises” are different. Finally, “Like An Angel” is only on the second F1-11 single. These are all on CD (I think) expect one of the versions of “Everything That Rises” – but I don’t know which one.

Do you know if I made any mistakes? I don’t care. However I will give a Lost Turntable no-prize to anyone who can tell me what the fuck a grebo is though. As far as I can tell it’s a retarded looking white British kid with dredlocks.

That title right there was almost the name of this blog. Yikes.

I wasn’t going to post anything else this week but I found two soundtrack so batshit nuts crazy that I had to force myself to make time.

Sounds From True Stories – Music For Activities Freaks
I have a music/movie nerd confession to make…I’ve never seen True Stories. Yeah, I know it’s a great weird bizarre cult classic that every Talking Heads fans should see. It’s totally on my Netflix queue I swear! But so is The Stuff, Wild Zero and countless 70s European softcore porno movies and I’m only one man dammit! I own the album though and just yesterday I was lucky enough to find this ultra-rare companion soundtrack to the film which features all the non-Talking Heads tracks. There aren’t many songs on this record really, most of it is just incidential music, but hardcore David Byrne freaks should enjoy it (and fans of Muzak). It’s never been released on CD and goes for about 20 bucks on eBay. That one surprised me, I would have figured it’d be much higher, kind of like the next album…

Three O’Clock High – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
Growing up as a socially arkward child with too much access to VHS tapes I saw this movie a lot growing up. I don’t remember much of it, but I do recall loving it. I probably liked it because the nebbish bookworm gets the girl and beats the shit out of the bully. Anyways, I grabbed this soundtrack a few days ago for nostalgia’s sake without even realizing it was by Tangerine Dream (for the most part, more on that in a bit). I went online to see how much this one was going for and holy shit! The prices are a little lower on eBay but you can still expect to shell out 20 to 30 bucks on this one. That is nucking futs! At first that blew my mind but after doing some research it started to make more sense.

Most of this soundtrack is by Tangerine Dream. If you rented a movie that was made in the 80s you’ve probably heard Tangerine Dream, since they did the scores to movies as diverse as Risky Business, Legend and Miracle Mile (GREAT movie btw). However, also contributing to the soundtrack is a dude by the name of Sylvester Levay. What Tangerine Dream was to movie soundtrack in the 80s Levay was to TV soundtracks because he is the man who brought us the theme to Airwolf (speaking of insane eBay auctions…). The combined force of Levay and TD is probably the reason why this puppy can be found on some sites for as much as 70 bucks.

They aren’t the only composers though. Someone named Jim Walker contributes the obligatory end credits song. I have no idea if he is the same Jim Walker who played drums in Public Image Ltd., I doubt it – although I am fairly certain it’s not Jimmy Walker. Rounding things out is Rick Moratta and David Tickle, who composed, produced and performed the final track on the album “Arrival”. I don’t know who Moratta is, but Tickle is a world-renowned producer, having worked with Prince, Adam and and Split Enz.

German ambient pioneers, 80s TV composers and the guy who produced Prince’s Parade all on one LP. I love the randomness of 80s cult soundtracks.

Double Argh. Life is totally dominating my…um…life right now, so I apologize again for the lack of posts and the lack of amazing commentary by me in said posts. Too tired to talk right now.

If you’re looking for a rant go read my review of the new Lost Boys soundtrack. Holy fuck it’s balls.

Dokken
Back For The Attack
Little known fact: I am totally metal. Doubt my metalness? Last week I went to the Metal Masters show and saw the majestic awesomeness of Motorhead, Heaven And Hell and Judas Priest. Lemmy is god. I’m reviewing Motorhead’s new CD, which is pretty good, and I’ll link to it once it’s done. Anways, although I’m a huge metal fan I’ve never been that into Dokken. I am however, very much into A Nightmare On Elm Street and this was the B-side to their “Dream Warrior” single. It is strangely not on the album of the same name.

Doobie Brothers
Listen To The Music (Motiv8 12” Mix)
Listen To The Music (Man City Dub)
Listen To The Music (Rampantly Pleasureable Mix)
How does something like this happen? These remixes aren’t from some fly-by-night bootleg label either, these were released by Warner Bros! What’s even stranger is that they aren’t the first dance-happy Doobie Bros. remixes I’ve heard. A while ago I bought a 12” single for a re-release of “Long Train Runnin'” that was absoultely hideous, worse than the version that was in DDR a few years back. I also remember a Toledo area DJ called DJ Daddy sampling “Black Water” in his live set, and that was actually pretty cool. These remixes aren’t bad either.

Michael Sembello
Maniac (Vocal Remix)
The college that I am currently trying to escape from is primarily known as a dance school, and as an overweight uncoordinated oaf seeing all those skinny pricks in leotards is very annoying. I have this fantasy of showing up to school one day, dressed as Jennifer Beals, and dancing to this song in the middle of a lecture hall untill I’m forcibly removed. That’s not just burning a bridge that’s blowing the motherfucker up. This remix is from a 12” single.

The thorn in my plan? They don’t make leg warmers that fit me.

Garbage
When I Grow Up (Danny Tenaglia’s Club Mix)
Special (Brothers In Rhythm Mix)
Good remixes of good songs by a good band. I’m tired and that’s all I got.