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Friday, March 03, 2006

The strangest CD I have ever heard.

A few years ago I was looking through the free bin at In Your Ear Records in Boston. I found a CD in a white cardboard sleeve with the word WAAH! written in marker on it. In the very center was a photocopied newspaper article titled "Youngstown Stations To Follow Same Plan" that explained how all entertainment was cancelled so that radio and TV stations could cover the JFK funeral. In the lower right corner was written, in marker, "397/1000." The actual CD looks like this:

That is literally of the information I have on this CD. There was no tracklist, or any other information on the sleeve.
Intrigued, I took it home. This is what I found (All songs in English unless otherwise specified):

Track 1 - 14 minutes of saxophone-heavy free jazz.
Track 2 - a bad quality recording of what sounds like a cover of Tiny Tim's "Down Virginia Way," performed on electric guitar and drum, with Al Jolson-style vocals probably done through a distant megaphone. EDIT: This is the band Milk, recorded live. Thanks for the info, Denny.
Track 3 - A lo-fi recording of a 60's style experimental/pop song in some language that I am not familiar with. The chorus involves chanting the word alcohol a lot.
Track 4 - Straightforward live recording of the Henry Glover and Morris Levy song, "California Sun," made popular by The Ramones.
Track 5 - A slinky guitar riff, with a lot of whammy bar on it, with arhythmic male vocals in Japanese, and some catchy drumming.
Track 6 - Lo-fi recording of "Jaguar Ride" by the Electric Eels. Singer has some kind of unidentifiable accent.
Track 7 - Great, catchy, 60's influenced garage song, about how "it's too late to make the golden gate"
Track 8 - Live cover of Alice Cooper's "Flush the Fashion", with organs and lots of electric guitar
Track 9 - Live recording that starts with a harmonica riff, then leaves the harmonica completely behind, following it with some arhythmic, Raincoats style drumming, singing in another Eastern language I am unfamiliar with, poorly timed rhythm guitar, and some very complex lead guitar, all punctuated every couple seconds with what sounds like a bike horn.
Track 10 - Better quality (still lo-fi) recording of a Jonathan Richman-ish singer, doing a 6 minute rock song that could almost be The Misfits if they were half as fast.
Track 11 - 11 minute lo-fi "Sister Ray" type song, with Mark E. Smith-influenced vocals, again in a language I can't identify.
Track 12 - Lo-fi recording of the excellent Denny Carleton (of The Lost Souls, The Choir, Moses, Milk, The Pagans, and the Fa band) pop song, "Alice," performed by a 60's garage band.
Track 13 - Live recording of 6 minutes of monotonous midtempo rock, with a sizable amount of yelling in another language.
Track 14 - Radio ad for The Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat, describing "The Gift," including a portion of the actual vocals.

If anyone knows what the hell this album is, please comment. My guess is it's a Japanese comp., recorded sometime in the late 70's, that someone reissued on CD.

10 Comments:

Blogger Alex Billig said...

i made a blog - so now we can be the only people to comment on eachother's blogs.

2:37 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am fascinated by this CD - what a great find! I would like to add the whole damned thing to Mp3 player, but most of the track links seem to be dead. Is there any way I could talk you into sending me a zip of the entire CD? E-mail me at FindPenwan @ gmail.com, if you're feeling generous. Thanks!

5:47 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i have no idea where the Cd came from but the Al Jolsen thing is a live recording of my band Milk (with Brian Sands, Al Globakar and Dave Alexy.
Denny Carleton
www.dennycarleton.com

11:41 PM  
Blogger Chance said...

Thank you so, so much! I have been wanting to hear that silly "White Light/White Heat" radio ad for years, never thought I'd ever find it anywhere. The Velvet Underground Web Page at one time had a streaming audio link for it, but the link was always dead, and now it's been taken down. So glad to finally be able to put it into my "gotta have everything" Velvets collection!

9:46 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey everybody

I just thought it would be good to introduce myself to everyone!

Can't wait to get to know you all better!

-Marshall

Thanks again!

8:15 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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It is my first time here. I just wanted to say hi!

12:57 PM  
Blogger Jeff Reding, Cleveland said...

I hate these friggin' idiots who posts spam posts on blogs. What a waste.

Anyway, love the site and the CD. Weird and intriguing. Too bad Denny didn't identify the name of the song by Milk (I'm a stickler for names lol).

11:14 PM  
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