Obscuro! now holds the record for fewest songs played during a DJ set on WIDR

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Nov 27 - 1:45 AM	Vermonster	Children of the Sun	The Holy Sound of American Pipe		No		e/d
Nov 27 - 1:24 AM	Residents	Hitler Was a Vegetarian	Third Reich n' Roll		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Nov 27 - 1:14 AM	Jim O'Rourke	Untitled 2	Bad Timing	Requestical	Yes		e/d
Nov 27 - 1:00 AM	Emmanuel Dilhac	Un Piege	Entre Ombre et Lumiere		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Nov 27 - 12:48 AM	Armand Schaubroeck Steals	The Queen Hitter	Ratfucker		No		e/d
Nov 27 - 12:35 AM	Mr. Bungle	Dead Goon	S/T	requestical	Yes	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Nov 27 - 12:24 AM	Jandek	When the Telephone Melts	You Walk Alone		No		e/d
Nov 27 - 12:03 AM	Hampton Grease Band	Hendon	Music to Eat		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d

a whopping 8 tracks for last Thursday's program. Two requests, even! Call it post-Thanksgiving laziness, or another 'theme' show (but it's not.) Get the podcast here, and tune in for the next two programs, which will be the final two in the series of theme shows.

A visual feast

Here are some youtube videos to get you in the holiday spirit:

-Some psychedelic indians:

-Some satanic pilgrims:

-Some turkey and dressing:

-And don't forget your corn:


That's all I've got for now, as I've been busy...but of course there will be a brand new edition of Obscuro! tomorrow night. Tune in, and get up to speed if you haven't.

Playlist for 11-20-09, "The Lost Years of Alex Chilton and Religious Curiosities"

Third in a series of 'theme shows,' where I break down all the music I play on the program into nice, neat little boxes. This one was kinda different, since half the program focused on one musician. That said, Alex Chilton is basically a genre all his own. Since his first and only hit single at the age of 16 with the Box Tops (the excellent tune "The Letter,") he has influenced countless alternative rock and 60's throwback groups with Big Star and then destroyed all traces of that influence with his solo career.

More or less, these records feature a band of musicians that probably first heard the tunes a day before recording them (if at all,) Chilton's "I-don't-give-a-fuck" mentality regarding quality, and countless covers of obscure blues tunes. Aside from that, he developed a habit of pissing people off on purpose during this part of his career, as is evident in tunes like "Riding Through the Reich," and scummily deranged covers of his own beloved discography.

Basically, he's my hero, so I devoted an entire hour to these rarely-heard recordings. Of course, I played a few later Big Star tunes because those are basically the same type of thing.

The second half of the program dealt with obscure religious records from the 1960's and 70's. Mostly private-press home-recorded type deals with a psychedelic bent, but also some oddball kid tunes. Pretty self-explanatory, though not like much other religious music you're likely to hear.




Alex Chilton portion:

Nov 20 - 12:55 AM	Alex Chilton	Under Class	Stuff EP		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 12:52 AM	Alex Chilton	Volare	High Priest		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 12:49 AM	Alex Chilton	Lost My Job	Feudalist Tarts EP		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Nov 20 - 12:46 AM	Alex Chilton	Thank You John	Feudalist Tarts EP		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 12:41 AM	Alex Chilton	The Letter	Live in London		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 12:38 AM	Alex Chilton	September Gurls	Live in London		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 12:34 AM	Alex Chilton	Hey! Little Child	Like Flies on Sherbert		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 12:32 AM	Alex Chilton	Like Flies on Sherbert	Like Flies on Sherbert		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Nov 20 - 12:30 AM	Alex Chilton	Alligator Man	Like Flies on Sherbert		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 12:26 AM	Alex Chilton	My Rival	Like Flies on Sherbert		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 12:21 AM	Alex Chilton	The Lion Sleeps Tonight	Live on KUT 1978		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 12:20 AM	Alex Chilton	Riding Through the Reich	Live on KUT 1978		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 12:17 AM	Alex Chilton	Walking Dead	Bach's Bottom		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Nov 20 - 12:15 AM	Alex Chilton	Bangkok	Bach's Bottom		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 12:12 AM	Alex Chilton	I'm So Tired (Parts 1 and 2)	Bach's Bottom		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 12:09 AM	Alex Chilton	All of the Time	Bach's Bottom		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 12:02 AM	Big Star	Kanga Roo	Third/Sister Lovers		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 12:00 AM	Big Star	Kizza Me	Third/Sister Lovers		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d

Religious Curiosities portion:

Nov 20 - 1:55 AM	Concrete Rubber Band	Christian	Risen Savior		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 1:53 AM	His Kids	It's Contagious/What's God Look Like?	S/T		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 1:49 AM	Countryside Unitarian Fellowship	Goin' to Bethlehem	Hey Jesus Christ Welcome to This World		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 1:47 AM	Little Marcy	A Talk With the Animals	Little Marcy Talks to the Animals		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Nov 20 - 1:42 AM	For Heaven's Sake!	For Heaven's Sake!	For Heaven's Sake!		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 1:42 AM	For Heaven's Sake!	For Heaven's Sake!	For Heaven's Sake!		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 1:40 AM	Dandelions	It's a Long Way to Heaven	S/T		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 1:37 AM	Sons of Thunder	Carpenter Man	Day Follows Night		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 1:33 AM	Captain Hook and His Crew	Phone Call/Stowaway	S/T		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 1:29 AM	Concrete Rubber Band	Passover	Risen Savior		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Nov 20 - 1:25 AM	Dave Bixby	666	Ode to Quetzacoatl		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 1:20 AM	The New Creation	Status Quo Song	Troubled		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 1:17 AM	The New Creation	Sodom and Gomorrah	Troubled		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 1:15 AM	Countryside Unitarian Fellowship	No Room for You	Hey Jesus Christ Welcome to This World		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 1:11 AM	The New Beginning	Hey	People Who Walk in Light		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Nov 20 - 1:08 AM	The New Beginning	Jesus Never Was a Sinner	People Who Walk in Light		No		e/d
Nov 20 - 1:01 AM	Liberal Religious Youth	Nuns of Carmelite	The L.R.Y. Record		No		e/d

Enjoy, and as always, get the podcast here.

A Chiltonian worldview...

Well, I decided to play the works of one of my favorite musicians for this week's Obscuro! That musician is Alex Chilton, the man behind the Box Tops, Big Star, and a whole string of bizarre solo albums. Obviously, I'll be focusing mostly on those, since I am "Bizarro" Jerry, plus they're fun to listen to.

...Haven't quite figured out what the second half of the show will feature, but in honor of this decision, and Alex's 59th birthday which is coming up in December, I'm posting a rare radio performance/interview from 1978. This was during the "Like Flies on Sherbert" portion of his career (known for drugged-out songs, obscure blues covers, haphazard musicianship, and mostly Alex acting like an offensive jerk because he thinks it's funny) meaning it features knocks against former Big Star bandmates, a pretty obviously drunken Alex, horribly outdated country covers, and a parody of "Jingle Bells" called "Riding Through the Reich." Also, his backup singers apparently can't sing too well.

Anyhow, enjoy that, and check out the Obscuro! back catalog if you're bored. For more Chilton-y goodness, be sure to tune into the program this week from midnight-2 am Thursday night.

Playlist for 11-13-09, "Electronic Pioneers"

The second in a series of shows focusing on one specific aspect of the show, this past Thursday night's edition featured the music of early synthesizers, tape loops, sound manipulation, and the innovators who began using them. This includes musicians like Bruce Haack, who invented many of his own synthesizers and created an entirely unique sound with them, the Silver Apples, whose rapid drums and strange oscillators predated techno by about 30 years, and Fifty Foot Hose, a 60's psychedelic group who also used strange electronics to develop their sound. You can download/listen to the show here. The playlist is below:

Nov 13 - 1:55 AM	The Screamers	Punished or Be Damned	Demos 1977-78		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 1:51 AM	Silver Apples	Anasazi Noodle	The Garden		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 1:48 AM	Lucifer	The Ride of Aida (Voodoo)	Black Mass		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 1:47 AM	Pere Ubu	Caligari's Mirror	Dub Housing		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 1:39 AM	Bruce Hack	Motorcycle Ride	Listen Compute Rock Home		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 1:37 AM	Cardiacs	Arnold	On Land and in the Sea		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 1:34 AM	Joe Meek and the Blue Men	Magnetic Field	I Hear a New World		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 1:30 AM	King Crimson	Dig Me	Three of a Perfect Pair		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 1:21 AM	Pekka Airaksinen	Suvarnabhasagarbha	Buddhas of Golden Light		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 1:14 AM	Chrome	Half Machine Lip Moves	Half Machine Lip Moves		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 1:13 AM	United States of America	I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife For You Sugar	S/T		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 1:04 AM	Fifty Foot Hose	Rose	Cauldron		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 1:01 AM	Residents	Margret Freeman	The Commercial Album		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 12:57 AM	Residents	Blue Rosebuds	Duck Stab		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 12:47 AM	Gong	Perfect Mistery	You		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 12:44 AM	Perrey-Kingsley	The Mexican Cactus	The Out Sound From Way In!		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 12:39 AM	Debris	Witness	Static Disposal		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 12:35 AM	White Noise	Love Without Sound	An Electric Storm		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 12:32 AM	Nightshadow	The Hot Dog Man	The Square Root of Two		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 12:29 AM	Clara Rockmore	Requiebros	?		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Nov 13 - 12:24 AM	Cromagnon	Caledonia	Orgasm		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 12:20 AM	Gal Costa	Pulsars E Quasars	Cinema Olympia		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 12:13 AM	This Heat	Paper Hats	Deceit		No		e/d
Nov 13 - 12:07 AM	Silver Apples	I Have Known Love	Contact		No		e/d

Shameless self-plug, but still a download or two

The band I play guitar/sing sometimes in, Whimper Warrior, has just recorded and released our first EP. Basically, we recorded it ourselves in a studio during the graveyard shift on borrowed time, abused printing privileges at a job or two to create the artwork (stole a 19th century painting for the cover art as well) and 'pressed' the CD with a burner working on overtime and some spray paint for the artwork. It's what I like to call the 'lazy independent.' We're thinking $2 a copy since we put a lot of sweat into this shit, plus it's half an hour long (even with just 5 songs.) Here's an idea of what's to be expected. It's a track called "Sandbox," and it's brought to you in high-quality .wav format.

This week's edition of Obscuro! will feature 'electronic pioneers.' This includes early synthesizer-based musicians, rock bands with electronic leanings, and a whole lot of fucked-up noise. It will be volume 2 in a genre-series I'm doing, which started with last week's "Incredibly Strange Metal, Basement Funk and Hard Rock Oddities." Dunno how long this'll last for...probably til I get bored and start doing something else. So, enjoy for the moment. Or don't. But, you can always check out the Obscuro! back catalog.

Playlist from 11-6-09, "Incredibly Strange Metal, Basement Funk and Hard Rock Oddities"

As the title of this post indicates, the show this past Thursday DID have a theme, or sorts. I covered those 3 genres as extensively as possible (in a 2-hour time frame.) Here's a brief summary of the stuff I was playing:

Incredibly Strange Metal: There are numerous 'incredibly strange music' compilations, but most of them don't cover all the outsiders and oddballs present in the metal genre. This includes misguided foreign metal releases, tax-scam albums put together by metal label execs who probably haven't actually HEARD any metal, and a lot of loners who cut their own solo metal albums.

Basement Funk: Judging by the sheer number of albums recorded in basements as-is, it shouldn't be that hard to find a few funk bands doing the DIY thing, right? This includes a lot of private press albums, and the legendary works of Gary Wilson

Hard Rock Oddities: Mostly just an excuse to play a lot of unknown classic-rock-era bands. There were some pretty weird ones, though. I.E. Hampton Grease Band, Creepy John Thomas, Yahowa 13, etc.

You can download this show here, and the entire playlist is below:





Incredibly Strange Metal portion:

Nov 06 - 12:54 AM	Oblachnyj Kraj	Sazhaj Korneplody, Vyrschlvaj Luk!	Incredibly Strange Metal, Vol. 1		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 12:51 AM	Gore	Back Home	Mean Man's Dream		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Nov 06 - 12:47 AM	Faxed Head	Teachers	Exhumed at Birth		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 12:43 AM	Damien Storm	Raven in the Courtyard	...Went to Hell and All I Got was This Lousy Record		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 12:36 AM	Black Hole	Land of Mystery	Land of Mystery		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 12:30 AM	Black Hole	All My Evil	Land of Mystery		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 12:22 AM	Legion	Hold On	Incredibly Strange Metal, Vol. 1		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 12:19 AM	Killer Fox	Killer Fox	Orgasm of Death		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Nov 06 - 12:16 AM	Killer Fox	The Sign	Orgasm of Death		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 12:14 AM	Killer Fox	Running Blade	Orgasm of Death		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 12:12 AM	Dwarr	Chocolate Mescaline	Animals		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 12:10 AM	Dwarr	Evil Lures	Animals		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 12:04 AM	Dwarr	That Deadly Night	Animals		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 12:02 AM	Dwarr	Electric Shock	Animals		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d

Basement Funk portion:

Nov 06 - 1:24 AM	Gary Wilson	6.4=Make Out	You Think You Really Know Me		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 1:22 AM	Jr. and His Soulettes	Pimp	Psychodelic Sounds		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Nov 06 - 1:18 AM	Konrad	My Girl	Evil		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 1:13 AM	Rick Mason and Rare Feelings	Rare Feelings	The Inner Dimensions of Rick Mason and Rare Feelings		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 1:01 AM	Wicked Witch	Vera's Back	Chaos 1978-86		No		e/d

Hard Rock Oddities portion:

Nov 06 - 1:55 AM	Yahowa 13	Man the Messiah	Savage Sons of Yahowa		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 1:50 AM	High Tide	Futilist's Lament	Sea Shanties		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 1:46 AM	Hampton Grease Band	Hey Old Lady/Bert's Song	Music to Eat		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Nov 06 - 1:40 AM	Edgar Broughton Band	Crying	Wasa Wasa		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 1:36 AM	Hot Poop	Let Me Loose	...Does Their Own Stuff		No		e/d
Nov 06 - 1:31 AM	Smokin' Willie	Hot Blooded Mama	S/T		No		e/d

Some of these genres will be covered to a fuller extent in the future, but next week I'm feelin' maybe some electronic pioneers or some other fucked up genre. That's it.

Nothing is more adorable than a child's laughter...except a kid singing some songs his dad wrote about skeletons and shit

Since I don't have too much to talk about or anything really cool to post (that stuff is being reserved for the show this week), here are some songs by kids.

1. Dandelions - The College School (1971)
This is a song recorded by a duo of really young girls. They like to sing about how they learned to sing/play and how this dude is going to cut their album (which apparently he did, since it exists.) Apparently, they play the guitars on this song too. Dunno, but there might be some underlying Christian messages on their record.

2. The Stinky Puffs - Menendez' Killed Their Parents (1995)
A little tune about...you guessed it...those dudes who killed their parents for virtually no reason. Simon Fair Timony (Jad Fair of Half Japanese's one-time stepson) fronts this band, and does a damn fine job at it. There's a tribute to Kurt Cobain (who was apparently going to help out with a Stinky Puffs record) on this album, called "A Little Tiny Smelly Bit of..."

3. Eyeball Skeleton - Eyeball Skeleton (2005)
I guess this isn't quite the same, since their dad writes the majority of the songs, but he still lets his REALLY young sons play guitar and bass, and sing their ridiculous horror-themed lyrics. Good times are had by all.


If you're tuning into Obscuro! this week, you're going to hear the first of what MIGHT be a series of specially-themed shows. This time around, the focus is 'Incredibly Strange Metal, Basement Funk and Hard Rock Oddities.' I know that's a pretty broad topic, but 2 hours is a lot of time to fill with music. Plus, I've got at least a few records in each of these subjects. That's it for now.

Bizarro Jerry's Devil's Night Spectacular! 10-30-09 playlist and more

I concocted a rather spooky collection of tunes for the program which aired on Devil's Night. Instead of the usual 'unifying' theme, these songs were all over the place, ranging from black metal to rap to reggae to 1950's instrumental throwaways. Aside from that, I brought back the vocal effects and had some scary-as-shit slowed-down laughing and such, and played more clips from old horror films than your mind can stand probably. All in all, a great soundtrack to your Halloween party, even though it's the day after Halloween.

Get the podcast here, and check out the playlist below to follow along:

Oct 30 - 1:57 AM	Bobb Trimble	Night at the Asylum	Iron Curtain Innocence		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Oct 30 - 1:53 AM	Coven	Dignitaries of Hell	Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls		No		e/d
Oct 30 - 1:50 AM	Freddy Krueger and Friends	Do the Freddy	Freddy's Greatest Hits		No		e/d
Oct 30 - 1:44 AM	Electric Wizard	Barbarian	Dopethrone		No		e/d
Oct 30 - 1:40 AM	The Surfmen	The Ghost Hop	45 rpm single		No		e/d
Oct 30 - 1:34 AM	Dr. Octagon	Earth People	Dr. Octagonecologyst		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Oct 30 - 1:31 AM	Mortician	Devoured Alive	Zombie Apocalypse		No		e/d
Oct 30 - 1:29 AM	The Misfits	Return of the Fly	Static Age		No		e/d
Oct 30 - 1:26 AM	Residents	Sinister Exaggerator	Duck Stab		No		e/d
Oct 30 - 1:20 AM	Mighty Sphincter	The New Manson Family	The New Manson Family	requestical	Yes		e/d
Oct 30 - 1:18 AM	Jack Starr	Halloween Party	Born Petrified		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Oct 30 - 1:07 AM	Type O Negative	Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)	Bloody Kisses		No		e/d
Oct 30 - 1:02 AM	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Up Jumped the Devil	Tender Prey	requestical	Yes		e/d
Oct 30 - 12:56 AM	Goblin	Sighs	Suspiria Soundtrack		No		e/d
Oct 30 - 12:51 AM	Sebastian Peabody	Grave in the Desert	Wavy Gravy Compilation, Vol. 2		No		e/d
Oct 30 - 12:48 AM	Dracula's	Tanz der Vampires	Music Cabinet		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Oct 30 - 12:46 AM	Destroy All Monsters	You're Gonna Die	45 rpm single		No		e/d
Oct 30 - 12:42 AM	Esham	Red Rum	Boomin' Words from Hell		No		e/d
Oct 30 - 12:34 AM	Celtic Frost	Inner Sanctum	Into the Pandemonium	requestical	Yes		e/d
Oct 30 - 12:30 AM	Groovie Ghoulies	Do the Bat	Appetite for Adrenochrome		No		e/d
Oct 30 - 12:20 AM	Burzum	Jesus' Tod	Filosofem		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Oct 30 - 12:15 AM	Jan Terri	Get Down Goblin	Baby Blues		No		e/d
Oct 30 - 12:13 AM	Robbie the Werewolf	Vampire Man	At the Waleback		No		e/d
Oct 30 - 12:10 AM	Samhain	All Murder, All Guts, All Fun	Initium		No		e/d
Oct 30 - 12:03 AM	Vampire Kiss	Spooky House	Spooky House		No		e/d

Oct 29 - 11:59 PM

Desmond Dekker

Dracula

Zombie Jamboree

No

Bizarro Jerry

e/d

Check back in a few days for another download-able post!