Lesson learned from New Year’s Eve: When someone offers you homemade moonshine and says “don’t worry, it’s not that strong” they are lying to you.

Pop Will Eat Itself
Can U Dig It? (Justin Strauss 12” House Mix)
Can U Dig It? (Justin Strauss 12” Vocal Mix)
Let me tell you why PWEI should be considered geek icons. First off, This PWEI song features some radical samples from The Warriors – one of the best cult flicks ever. Secondly, this song also references geek icons such as Optimus Prime and Alan Moore (and it even cites V For Vendetta) Thirdly, their music has been featured in a few videos games, most notable the fun PS1 game Loaded, a crazy little top-down shooter that 12-year-boys should love. And finally, after PWEI broke up leader singer Clint Marhsall went on to score several films, including Requiem For A Dream – the music to which was used in the trailer to Lord Of The Rings: Two Towers. Geekgasm!

The Cult
She Sells Sanctuary (Howling Mix)
She Sells Sanctuary (12” Mix)
Okay, the ‘Howling Mix’ of this song is just retarded, it sounds like someone just decided to randomly insert wolf howls into the song as part of Ian Astbury’s continuing effort to embrace every iconic Native American symbol. Casual fans of The Cult may want to skip it. The 12” Mix on the other hand is a must-have for everyone.

Big Country
One Great Thing (Big Baad Country Mix)
Look Away (Outlaw Mix)
Song Of The South (7” Version)
The misspelling of ‘baad’ is on purpose, that’s how they have it on the label. I previously posted an extended remix of a Big Country song on here before. These remixes aren’t as good as that one, but are still must-haves. And for the record, ‘Song Of The South’ has nothing to do with the racist Disney film of the same name.

Midnight Oil
Beds Are Burning (Kintore East Mix)
Beds Are Burning (Yuendumu Percappella Mix)
The Dead Heart (Long Version)
I posted a remix of ‘Beds Are Burning’ before and while that one wasn’t all that, these two certainly are. The Kintore East Mix is a nice extended take, while the Yuendumu version is a drastic reworking of the song that is nearly acapella. The Long Version of ‘The Dead Heart’ is excellent as well.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Upon This Tidal Wave Of Youngblood (BBC Music Gideon Coe Session)
Nice version of an awfully-named song by an poorly-named group from NYC. This is the B-side to one of the their singles.

Everyone have a great holiday? I did until my monitor broke and I fried my external hard drive by hooking up the wrong power supply to it (all in the same fucking day.) Now I have to re-rip my entire CD collection, all 100GBs of it. Sigh. I also have to re-record god knows how many LPs that weren’t backed up on my computer. Meh, my collection was too bloated anyways. I’m just pissed this whole thing started cuz I lost the fucking cable to my hard drive (which I still cannot fucking find.)

Let me drown my sorrows in music:

Mindless Self-Indulgence
My World
Pre-Teen Violence
Frying Pan
Lush
Born To Be Beheaded
I fucking hate store exclusives and I fucking hate Hot Topic, so when MSI announced they were releasing a Hot Topic exclusive EP my head damn near imploded. Well, here are all the new tracks from that EP (you’re better off without the remixes of ‘What Do They Know?’

Scissor Sisters
I Don’t Feel Like Dancing (Erol Alkan’s Carnival of Light Rework)
I Don’t Feel Like Dancing (Line Loves Vocal Edit)
Ambition
Fuck it, I’m feeling especially vindictive against over-priced national chain stores. These tracks are from a Best Buy exclusive CD that you got if you bought the CD from them. Or you can support your local CD store and just download the bonus songs here.

I promised something special to make up for the fact I won’t be able to post for the entire week and here it is…my collection of White Stripes B-Sides. I became a fan of The White Stripes about five seconds after I first saw the video for ‘Fell In Love With A Girl’ and have been ever since. I’ve seen them live four times and each time they blew my fucking mind apart. I’ve been collecting their singles since before I had a record player and when I got my external soundcard for my computer the first records I recorded were my White Stripes singles. While I don’t claim to have every 45 The White Stripes have released, I have a lot of them. Here are all the Non-LP cuts from every White Stripes single I have.

Good To Me
This tune was written by Brendan Benson and was the B-side to ‘7 Nation Army.’

Lord, Send Me An Angel
You’re Pretty Good Looking (Trendy American Remix)
If you’ve seen them live before then you’ve probably heard this take on this classic blues tune by Blind Willie McTell, it’s the one where he talks about how all the girls in Detroit that wanna do him. This is the A-side to a self-titled 45 they released in 2000. The B-side is a silly remix but fun nonetheless.

Stop Breaking Down (Live At The BBC)
One of many live BBC records the band has released over the years. This is the B-side to ‘Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground.’

Hotel Yorba (Live At Hotel Yorba)
Rated X (Live At Hotel Yorba)
Two of my favorite live recordings by Jack and Meg, these were recorded in room number 286 at the actual Hotel Yorba. Rated X is a Loretta Lynn song and from what I’ve heard this recording of the song led to her and Jack meeting and the eventual recording her great album ‘Van Lear Rose.’

Who’s To Say…
This is a song by a band called Blanche, it’s the B-side to ‘I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself.’

Do (Live)
This was the B-side to their live version of ‘Jolene.’ It also appears on their live DVD, Under The Blackpool Lights.

Candy Cane Children
Story Of Magi And Silent Night
These two tracks are off of a holiday single the band released called Merry Christmas From…The White Stripes. ‘Candy Cane Children’ is a bluesy track typical of many Jack White songs, while the ‘Story Of Magi/Silent Night’ is an odd and very stilted reading of a bible verse followed by a butchered take of the classic Christmas tune.

Same Boy You’ve Always Known (Live)
This B-side to ‘My Doorbell’ was recorded on June 1st 2005 in Manaus, Brazil.

Walking With A Ghost
This isn’t from a 45, it’s from a promo single I picked up a few months ago. It’s a great cover of an equally awesome song by Tegan And Sara.

Red Bowling Ball Ruth
This the B-side to ‘The Big Three Killed My Baby’ and is somehow weirder and even more confusing than that song.

Shelter Of Your Arms
This is a cover of a Greenhornes song and is the B-side to ‘The Denial Twist.’ For those keeping score at home, The Greenhornes is the band Patrick Keeler’s in when he’s not in The Raconteurs.

The Denial Twist (Live)
As Ugly As I Seem (live)
These two live recordings are from the single for ‘The Denial Twist.’ The first was recorded on August 13th, 2005 for 89.9 KCRW in LA, and the second was for Nic Harcourt’s Morning Becomes Eclectic and was recorded on September 5th of the same year.

St. Ides Of March (Live)
A great bluesy song (with an AMAZING name) that was originally recorded by The Soledad Brothers, a band from my hometown of Toledo, Ohio!

I Fought Piranhas/Lets Build A Home (Live At Electric Lady Studios)
This one starts slow and then explodes into an orgy of Jack White jamness. It’s the B-side to ‘There’s No Home For You Here.’

I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself
Another track from the radio. This one was originally recorded for Radio 1 and is the B-side to ‘Fell In Love With A Girl.’

I’m not really in a typing mood tonight, so I’m going to keep things brief. But I got good tunes so I don’t think you all will mind that much.

ABC
Poison Arrow (Trevor Horn Remix)
Theme From Man-Trap
Theme From Man-Trap (Lounge Sequence)
Trevor Horn probably produced half the songs on this blog. This remix of ‘Poison Arrow’ doesn’t sound that different to me, but the ‘Man-Trap’ songs are radically different versions of the same song, redone in a slow lounge tempo.

Peter Gabriel
Ga Ga (I Go Swimming Instrumental)
Walk Through The Fire
‘Ga Ga’ is the B-side to Red Rain, it’s the instrumental version of a song called ‘I Go Swimming.’ ‘Walk Through The Fire’ was on the soundtrack to Against All Odds.

Soft Cell
Tainted Love/Baby Where Did Our Love Go?
Tainted Dub
Memorabilia
I don’t need to say anything about this song. This version of ‘Tainted Love’ is off of the 12” single, and is the awesome 8 minute long version. ‘Tainted Dub’ is, obviously, the dub version of the song and this version of ‘Memorabilia’ is slower than the one that appeared on the EP Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing.

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.