Did Paris Get Botox In Her Bum? - Music for Earle
Okay, I have made my swap tape... this one is for Earle, here's hoping he'll have some appreciation for some of the crap I put on his cd... I have listed each track and given a brief descrition of them. I have also included a few suggestions as to when some of these songs may be apropriate listening...
But first the covers I made for the CD...
The front cover:
The Back Cover:
The Songs:
01) Grandpa Jones - It's Raining Here This Morning
Hillbilly song with some old coot plucking away at his banjo and singing about being in gaol and missing his girlfriend.
I think this was recorded back in the forties, I'm not sure... could be older.
Perfect song to whistle at the train station in drizzly weather.
02) The Novas - The Crusher
A cool little surf guitar number with a demented vocal about wrestling that could tear shreds of beef off innocent bystanding cattle.
"Do the hammerlock, you turkeynecks! .... GRRRRRRR"
Perfect soundtrack for wearing tight shorts, no shirt and frothing at the mouth.
03) Lubricated Goat - Jason the Unpopular
From the album "Lubriacted Goat Plays The Devils Music".
This is a wild track from one of Australia's weirdest bands ever.
Tells the tale of a pathetic wimp who gets teased and beaten a lot, even his mother don't like him apparently.
Worth it alone for the line "He got mistaken for a poofter outside Cheeseburgers and cried into his moustache. He declared his chips horrible and threw them into the gutter"
Perfect song for a high-school massacre shoot-out.
04) Dead Milkmen - Born To Love Volcanoes
From the album "Beelzabubba".
A strange little song about a guy who really digs watching documenteries about volcanoes and "the footwear of Ancient Rome".
So irreverently absurd it's almost brilliant. Perfect for lonely geeks who watch TV in their underwear.
05) Tom Waits - Way Down In The hole
One of my favourite of Waits songs.
A mock gospel song with a samba styled beat and some great wailing from those rusty old pipes known as Tom's throat.
06) Frank Zappa - Wowie Zowie
From the first Zappa LP "Freak Out", this is a great send-up of doo-wop and 60's styled R&B.
Weird lyrics like "I don't even care if you shave your legs" and "I don't care if your Dad's a he".
Perfect for singing into a blow dryer.
07) Roky Erickson & The Aliens - I Think Of Demons
Roky is one of my favourite rock composers.
Great bluesy hard-rock with a powerful vocal performance.
Oddball lyrics about Lucifer from the shock-therapy and LSD damaged mind of the infamous singer.
Perfect soundtrack for sitting naked in front of a fire whilst carving a goats head into your chest with a rambo-knife.
08) The Cramps - What's Inside A Girl?
From the album "A Date With Elvis" from one of the sleaziest bands ever.
White-trash rockabilly crossed with punk rock and B-movie sensibility.
Perfect soundtrack for a mini-skirt-stiletto-knife fight.
09) Tennessee Earnie & Ella Mae Morse - I'm Hogtied Over You
Bizarre hillbilly duet between two lovers from the 40's or 50's.
Sexual innuendo overload with references to hogs, mollases and petting your possum dog.
Perfect music for a roll in the hay with a cornfed milkmaid.
10) Alice Cooper - Halo of Flies
From the 1971 album "Killer" by the original band Alice Cooper and not the solo Alice Cooper.
A little more psychadelic than their standard garage rock songs, at 8 minutes this is something of an epic with lyrics about oriental she-devils and blowing up submarines or some such guff.
11) Dave Harris - Dinner Music For a Pack of Hungry Cannibals
From a compliation "Incredibly Strange Music Volume 1".
A pretty groovy version of a tune originally composed by Raymond Scott, who wrote a lot of the music from Looney Tunes cartoons.
Not as famous as the classic Powerhouse but should be familiar to those who watched too many cartoons as kids (or adults).
12) Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - The Equestrian Statue
Another band I am quite fond of... kind of like a bridge between The Beatles and Monty Python.
This song is reminiscent of Yellow Submarine or Penny Lane, very English, you know what I mean.. wink wink.. say no more...
13) Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - Zig Zag Wanderer
From the album "Safe as Milk"(1967), a great album indeed. Raspy vocals and blasting guitar riffs.
14) Edith Massey - Big Girls Don't Cry
Hatchet-faced star of John Waters flicks Pink Flamingos and Desperate Living doing a truelly awful yet awesome version of the 50's pop hit.
Apparently had another single called "Punks! Get Off The Grass!"
And here's a picture of Edith for your wallet!
15) David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
From my fav Bowie album "Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars".
Science fiction inspired lyrics about ray guns, electric eyeballs and the church of man love (?)...
16) Gloria Balsam - Fluffy
From a compilation called "The Worlds Worst Records"... horrible vocal performance by some weird woman looking for her dog Fluffy...
"Here Fluffy, Where Are You? Where are yooooo???"
17) Burt Ward & Frank Zappa - Boy Wonder, I Love You
At the height of Batmania in 1968 some executive must have thought that Robin The Boy Wonder singing would shift a few units.
This is obviously aimed at teenage girls as Burt replies to his fan mail..."Oh, Boy Wonder, I'm making a gum wrapper chain to symbolize my love for you."
Oddly enough Frank Zappa wrote the song, produced and played guitar... my vote for most unlikely collaboration ever.
18) Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Theme song from the blaxploitation film.
Anyone who has seen this flick will tell you the best thing was the soundtrack by Mayfield.
This song and "Pusherman" were definite stand-outs. I think the riff was sampled for the Beastie Boys song The Eggman.
Taken from a compilation called "Badmuthas".
Perfect song for dealing coke in a white suit and platforms.
19) Kim Fowley - The Trip
Fowley was something of a legend around the seedy side of Hollywood in the late sixties.
This is a silly attempt to make a song about LSD, the lyrics are about groovy stuff like green fountains, purple clowns and pictures hanging upside down.
20) Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina
Bossa nova influenced Psychadelic Brazillian experimental band from the 1960's.
I thought this song was pretty obscure until it turned up on a Mars bar ad.
21) Milk Cult - Psychoanalytwist
First track from the album "Burn or Bury" featuring Mike Patton of Mr Bungle doing the squeaky blurty vocal thing.
Milk Cult was a side project for members of the rock band Steel Pole Bath Tub (also worth checking out).
Original sound - like a cross between jazz, Funk, industrial and noise.
Perfect soundtrack for flailing your arms wildly while only your upper body is visible from a small wooden crate.
22) The Sonics - The Witch
Garage rock number from the late sixties.
These guys play loud and would have mangled a few guitars in their time.
Great vocalist, like a white Little Richard who can really scream.
Perfect for drunk, frat-boy parties.
But first the covers I made for the CD...
The front cover:
The Back Cover:
The Songs:
01) Grandpa Jones - It's Raining Here This Morning
Hillbilly song with some old coot plucking away at his banjo and singing about being in gaol and missing his girlfriend.
I think this was recorded back in the forties, I'm not sure... could be older.
Perfect song to whistle at the train station in drizzly weather.
02) The Novas - The Crusher
A cool little surf guitar number with a demented vocal about wrestling that could tear shreds of beef off innocent bystanding cattle.
"Do the hammerlock, you turkeynecks! .... GRRRRRRR"
Perfect soundtrack for wearing tight shorts, no shirt and frothing at the mouth.
03) Lubricated Goat - Jason the Unpopular
From the album "Lubriacted Goat Plays The Devils Music".
This is a wild track from one of Australia's weirdest bands ever.
Tells the tale of a pathetic wimp who gets teased and beaten a lot, even his mother don't like him apparently.
Worth it alone for the line "He got mistaken for a poofter outside Cheeseburgers and cried into his moustache. He declared his chips horrible and threw them into the gutter"
Perfect song for a high-school massacre shoot-out.
04) Dead Milkmen - Born To Love Volcanoes
From the album "Beelzabubba".
A strange little song about a guy who really digs watching documenteries about volcanoes and "the footwear of Ancient Rome".
So irreverently absurd it's almost brilliant. Perfect for lonely geeks who watch TV in their underwear.
05) Tom Waits - Way Down In The hole
One of my favourite of Waits songs.
A mock gospel song with a samba styled beat and some great wailing from those rusty old pipes known as Tom's throat.
06) Frank Zappa - Wowie Zowie
From the first Zappa LP "Freak Out", this is a great send-up of doo-wop and 60's styled R&B.
Weird lyrics like "I don't even care if you shave your legs" and "I don't care if your Dad's a he".
Perfect for singing into a blow dryer.
07) Roky Erickson & The Aliens - I Think Of Demons
Roky is one of my favourite rock composers.
Great bluesy hard-rock with a powerful vocal performance.
Oddball lyrics about Lucifer from the shock-therapy and LSD damaged mind of the infamous singer.
Perfect soundtrack for sitting naked in front of a fire whilst carving a goats head into your chest with a rambo-knife.
08) The Cramps - What's Inside A Girl?
From the album "A Date With Elvis" from one of the sleaziest bands ever.
White-trash rockabilly crossed with punk rock and B-movie sensibility.
Perfect soundtrack for a mini-skirt-stiletto-knife fight.
09) Tennessee Earnie & Ella Mae Morse - I'm Hogtied Over You
Bizarre hillbilly duet between two lovers from the 40's or 50's.
Sexual innuendo overload with references to hogs, mollases and petting your possum dog.
Perfect music for a roll in the hay with a cornfed milkmaid.
10) Alice Cooper - Halo of Flies
From the 1971 album "Killer" by the original band Alice Cooper and not the solo Alice Cooper.
A little more psychadelic than their standard garage rock songs, at 8 minutes this is something of an epic with lyrics about oriental she-devils and blowing up submarines or some such guff.
11) Dave Harris - Dinner Music For a Pack of Hungry Cannibals
From a compliation "Incredibly Strange Music Volume 1".
A pretty groovy version of a tune originally composed by Raymond Scott, who wrote a lot of the music from Looney Tunes cartoons.
Not as famous as the classic Powerhouse but should be familiar to those who watched too many cartoons as kids (or adults).
12) Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - The Equestrian Statue
Another band I am quite fond of... kind of like a bridge between The Beatles and Monty Python.
This song is reminiscent of Yellow Submarine or Penny Lane, very English, you know what I mean.. wink wink.. say no more...
13) Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - Zig Zag Wanderer
From the album "Safe as Milk"(1967), a great album indeed. Raspy vocals and blasting guitar riffs.
14) Edith Massey - Big Girls Don't Cry
Hatchet-faced star of John Waters flicks Pink Flamingos and Desperate Living doing a truelly awful yet awesome version of the 50's pop hit.
Apparently had another single called "Punks! Get Off The Grass!"
And here's a picture of Edith for your wallet!
15) David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
From my fav Bowie album "Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars".
Science fiction inspired lyrics about ray guns, electric eyeballs and the church of man love (?)...
16) Gloria Balsam - Fluffy
From a compilation called "The Worlds Worst Records"... horrible vocal performance by some weird woman looking for her dog Fluffy...
"Here Fluffy, Where Are You? Where are yooooo???"
17) Burt Ward & Frank Zappa - Boy Wonder, I Love You
At the height of Batmania in 1968 some executive must have thought that Robin The Boy Wonder singing would shift a few units.
This is obviously aimed at teenage girls as Burt replies to his fan mail..."Oh, Boy Wonder, I'm making a gum wrapper chain to symbolize my love for you."
Oddly enough Frank Zappa wrote the song, produced and played guitar... my vote for most unlikely collaboration ever.
18) Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Theme song from the blaxploitation film.
Anyone who has seen this flick will tell you the best thing was the soundtrack by Mayfield.
This song and "Pusherman" were definite stand-outs. I think the riff was sampled for the Beastie Boys song The Eggman.
Taken from a compilation called "Badmuthas".
Perfect song for dealing coke in a white suit and platforms.
19) Kim Fowley - The Trip
Fowley was something of a legend around the seedy side of Hollywood in the late sixties.
This is a silly attempt to make a song about LSD, the lyrics are about groovy stuff like green fountains, purple clowns and pictures hanging upside down.
20) Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina
Bossa nova influenced Psychadelic Brazillian experimental band from the 1960's.
I thought this song was pretty obscure until it turned up on a Mars bar ad.
21) Milk Cult - Psychoanalytwist
First track from the album "Burn or Bury" featuring Mike Patton of Mr Bungle doing the squeaky blurty vocal thing.
Milk Cult was a side project for members of the rock band Steel Pole Bath Tub (also worth checking out).
Original sound - like a cross between jazz, Funk, industrial and noise.
Perfect soundtrack for flailing your arms wildly while only your upper body is visible from a small wooden crate.
22) The Sonics - The Witch
Garage rock number from the late sixties.
These guys play loud and would have mangled a few guitars in their time.
Great vocalist, like a white Little Richard who can really scream.
Perfect for drunk, frat-boy parties.
posted by Ross T at 7:52 AM
1 Comments:
oH Wow! You are the Patron Saint of Tape Swap. If I ever get stuck on a desert island, I hope we have, if not your tunes, your running commentary on the bongoes playing in the distance....
That, plus your my boyfriend, so we can have sex and Jebus won't REALLY mind.
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