This is the second CD collection of this duo’s hilarious Candid Microphone style man-on-the-street interviews from the mid sixties. This collection isn’t quite as solid as the last CD, Coyle and Sharpe on the Loose, but it contains some great bits nonetheless. My personal favorite is “Threeism” in which Coyle and Sharpe try to convince a man to combine with them and live as a single unit, making all decisions collectively. They follow the guy onto the bus while Mal Sharpe speaks of Threeism in a biblical tone, the victim trys his best to get away.
This is a killer single from Planet Pimp. This group is headed by two screaming chicks that know how to rawk! The songs titles are: “pop-a-wheelie cop-a-feelie”, “Teabaggin'”, “French One”, and “Go Away Geek!” Go Away Geek is hilarious and the single is worth it just for that song.
I finally bought this CD after hearing so many good things about it from various sources. I found this CD for cheap, and it contains both the MONO and STEREO mixes of the record. Although the CD is too mellow to be called a rock album by my standards, it is still very infectious. The production is lush and and inventive (for the time it was released… 1966!). It predates all the hippy stuff the Beatles did by almost 2 years! The liner notes are extensive and help put the whole thing in context.
Drums, Guitar, and a howling blues freak. Need I say more? Well, I will anyway. These songs rock to the high heavens!!
Goldfinger by John Barry & Shirley Bassey
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This is an essential item for your record collection. It contains the best Bond song from the best Bond movie. The incidental music is great too. It constantly refers back to the melody of the title track.
Admittedly, I was originally drawn to this band because of the cover of their first album, The Fun of Watching Fireworks. Seeing the Farfisa organ, I figured they some sort of garage-rock revival or lounge/exotica band. Turns out I was wrong, but not disappointed with what I heard. AmAnSet plays soft, dreamy pop songs. The organ and various percussion parts keep the music from descending into cheesy slacker-rock cliches. Many of the tracks have a trippy, repetitive structure with just enough subtle variety to hold the listener’s interest. The Golden Band is the band best work. Songs flow nicely from one to the other, and plenty of lyrical hooks within the low-key vocal parts. I could see how the repetition could put off some listeners, but for me it simply draws me deeper into to music.
The self proclaimed Recyclers of Rock bring us their debut album. The low-down on this band is this: all their songs sound the same and are really more or less a parody of the whole garage rock genre. All the song titles are fake and jokingly contain the word rock. They sing about their “Dodge Caravan” and “El Camino” and have about 3 or 4 different 1-4-5s theme songs. It comes with a funny zine-like insert.
Here are some pictures of my workspace from about 2000-2007, which was just a corner in my apartment. I work primarily as a woodcut printmaker. Of all the printmaking processes, woodcuts (relief prints in wood) are perhaps the least toxic. This means I can get away with doing my work in the confined space of an apartment. The process also requires very little in terms of equipment. A knife, wood, paper, an ink roller and ink are the only supplies one needs.
This is about the extent of my studio space. Because I can’t get too sloppy, I don’t really have a place to print my blocks, I usually move to my kitchen for that. What’s missing from this view is the TV and Stereo which are usually on while I work.
Despite the photographic chairoscuro of this scan, desk is usally very well lit. Like many woodcutters/engravers, I have have a whole bunch of tools for cutting, yet, I seem to revert to the same couple of tools (seen on the lower middle) all the time.
Here is my current series of woodcuts in progress. The two on the bottom which are completely black are the ones that I have already printed.
These days Nova’s drawing and painting supplies have taken over my space. You can see a hint of the print I am currently working on (when I have the time and energy to do art).
