The O discography, part 2

And, continuing with the uploads portion of my program, here is The O's first full-length album, the aborted "Nightmerica" project. Originally, this was going to be the record which introduced The O to the UK and America, but they were dropped by EMI before its release. 

To make matters worse, this was the guys' first encounter with newly-made sample laws. The EPs covered in last week's post featured a wide array of illegal samples culled from the bands' favorite albums. They originally tried to make "Nightmerica" similar, but had to remix the entire album, removing all uncleared samples, on a VERY limited budget. Unfortunately, Druggy G seems to think this hurt the album irreparably, and he has a certain hatred for it...I dunno...I still think this is their finest moment and has the best songs and the best merging of Nepo and G's styles. See for yourself, though. Regardless, it's probably one of the few major label albums by a virtually-unknown and very young band where they were allowed to do the whole thing themselves in a shitty apartment. Also, it's probably one of the only albums co-produced by members of both PM Dawn and the Cocteau Twins.

The O - 'Nightmerica' LP

Description: The punk, rap and Beatles influences finally come together for the group, resulting in one hell of an album. 'Kill Yer Teacherz' channels the horror-rap of Esham, while 'Get Wasted Time' is the ultimate pop single. If you can make out the album's lyrics, they're pretty disturbing sometimes.

Tracklist:

1. Fucked Up Dreamz

2. Kill Yer Teacherz

3. Get Wasted Time

4. Nausea Bluez

5. Now

6. Brooklyn Drug

7. Xmas at Bob's

8. He Doesn't Love Me Anymore

9. A Celebration

10. Dream tha Fuck On

11. Liked You Better Living

12. Prozac

13. Shakin'

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Playlist for 3-26-10, aka the WIDR ALLNIDR

Well, not much pre-recorded music this time around...as part of the WIDR Week fundraiser, we put together 12 hours of live, on-air music performed by your favorite Kalamazoo bands. Or, at least MY favorite Kalamazoo bands, since I did most of the booking. Anyhow, the two sets that fell within my show's limits were the Whiskey Pickers (authentic bluegrass from Lansing) and Rotten Wood Moon, K-town's noisiest fellas. The playlist is below, and you can download the show here:

MP3

Podcast

Playlist:

Mar 26 - 1:51 AM	Rotten Wood Moon	Live in the WIDR studios	LiVE rock yall, come and get it		No		e/d
Mar 26 - 1:40 AM	Rotten Wood Moon	Live in the WIDR studios	LiVE rock yall, come and get it		No		e/d
Mar 26 - 1:27 AM	Rotten Wood Moon	Live in the WIDR studios	LiVE rock yall, come and get it		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 26 - 1:20 AM	Patron Saints	Flower	Fohhoh Bohob		No		e/d
Mar 26 - 1:14 AM	Prince G and the Clever MC's	Happy Holiday	33 rpm single		No		e/d
Mar 26 - 1:13 AM	Ende Shneafliet	Champagne	Independent World, Vol. 2		No		e/d
Mar 26 - 12:58 AM	Stephen David Heitkotter	Fly Over the Moon	Heitkotter		No		e/d
Mar 26 - 12:54 AM	Circuit Rider	Red Dog	S/T		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 26 - 12:45 AM	Pain Teens	Shock Treatment	Destroy Me, Lover		No		e/d
Mar 26 - 12:42 AM	gONNA gET gOT	Da Story (Slick Rick Remix)	Feelins Back: Raw, Unreleased GGG		No		e/d
Mar 26 - 12:40 AM	Kenneth Higney	No Heavy Trucking	Attic Demonstration		No		e/d
Mar 26 - 12:28 AM	Hawkwind	Earth Calling	Space Ritual		No		e/d
Mar 26 - 12:20 AM	Sandoz	Apple Core Machine	Pay Attention		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 26 - 12:07 AM	Whiskey Pickers	Live in the WIDR studios	LiVE rock yall, come and get it		No		e/d

Dass about it for now...First 'real' show in a few weeks comin' up in two days! Lots of new tunes, I suppose.

Playlist for 3-19-10, WIDR Week

Well, due to the WIDR Week donations etiquette, there wasn't a whole lot of music played for this show. There was, however, some witty dialog on the part of myself and guest DJ Walkamonkey....but some ASSHEAD stopped my podcast file, so there's no record of this. I'm pretty pissed about that because, y'know, if I accidentally stop someone's file from recording, I'd usually MENTION IT TO THEM. To who did that if you're reading: You know who you are and you probably also know that you're a dick.

Anyhow.

Lots of Big Star/Alex Chilton cuts during the show due to Alex's death this past Wednesday. This was really depressing to me as he's one of my favorite musicians of all time...plus he was only 59 and died of a heart attack. I never got to see him play! Goddamnit. 

Here's the playlist:

Mar 19 - 1:58 AM	Dennis Weise	Y M Alim-Kader	Valhalla		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 19 - 1:45 AM	Hedningarna	Tra	Min Skog		No		e/d
Mar 19 - 1:42 AM	astronautalis	Trouble Hunters	Pomegranate	requestical	Yes		e/d
Mar 19 - 1:38 AM	Big Star	Feel	#1 Record		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 19 - 1:12 AM	Residents	Syx Things to a Cycle (Parts 1-6) (section)	Fingerprince		No		e/d
Mar 19 - 1:09 AM	God Bullies	Automaker	War on Everybody		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 19 - 12:58 AM	Henry Flynt and Nova Billy	Good Morning	S/T		No		e/d
Mar 19 - 12:55 AM	Alex Chilton	Walking Dead	Bach's Bottom		No		e/d
Mar 19 - 12:49 AM	V-3	Horse Kick	Live on WNUR Chicago		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 19 - 12:34 AM	Randy Rice	I Think it's Time for Me to Get Out of Here	To Anyone Who's Ever Laughed at Someone Else		No		e/d
Mar 19 - 12:29 AM	Two Positive	I Love My Mother	33 rpm single		No		e/d
Mar 19 - 12:23 AM	Esther Lee	Jesus is the Christ	Where Glory Began		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 19 - 12:15 AM	Big Star	You Get What You Deserve	Radio City		No		e/d
Mar 19 - 12:12 AM	Crudo	Let's Go	dunno	requestical	Yes		e/d
Mar 19 - 12:10 AM	Harry Perry	Zoo Man	Greatest Hits of the Millennium		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d

Next week is the WIDR ALL-NIDR, so it won't be a proper edition of Obscuro! I'll still be around to rock the mic, though. For those not 'in the know,' this is 12 hours of live music on-air from your (and my) favorite Kalamazoo bands. This includes Matt Black and the Natural Mystics, Who Are the Owls?, Dooley Noted, Harvyst, and many many more. Be sure to tune in for that...and I'll probably be picking some cuts between the performances since this whole thing is my doing and I'm the lead engineer for it.

Alex Chilton is dead.

....so that means the show I've been carefully preparing all week is now being thrown out the window in favor of Chilton/Big Star cuts. This'll be the second time I've featured his songs on the show.

Shit sucks, man. A true rock legend. He was 59.

'Heitkotter' LP finally sees reissue...

A while back, I featured a record by one Mr. Stephen David Heitkotter on the program. I included a full-album download in this post, as well as most of the info I could find on the record at the time. However, a label called Time-Lag Records (along with Earmonger Records) have finally cleared the rights to a re-release of this weird-ass LP. Apparently, they only did 2,000 copies, LP's--no CD's--and no repress (probably on request of Mr. Heitkotter's family...read the former post and you'll probably understand why). I would urge everyone to order a copy of this, because it probably won't pop up again.

It's probably a singular story in the world of rock and roll, and it kicks the shit out of lots of other 'outsider' albums I've heard, mostly because this guy was a professional drummer and a pretty damn good guitarist..the recording quality isn't that great, but it's amazing given the circumstances. The above picture is the Road Runners, the garage rock combo Mr. Heitkotter played drums for before cutting this LP and eventually being committed to the psych ward. He's the not-so-happy looking shadowy guy directly next to the dude waving his hat.

Playlist for 3-12-10, Bizarro Jerry's personal record fair

An all-vinyl, not necessarily obscure program. I played some of my favorite albums in honor of the WIDR record fair, which is going on as I'm typing this probably (although I'm at work). Anyhow, the playlist is below...I have the mp3 file but it's not up yet, so for now, here's the podcast.

Mar 12 - 1:54 AM	Slint	Nosferatu Man	Spiderland		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 12 - 1:49 AM	Syd Barrett	Rats	Barrett		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 1:47 AM	Rage Against the Machine	People of the Sun	People of the Sun EP	requestical	Yes		e/d
Mar 12 - 1:42 AM	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Baby Appeal	S/T		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 1:40 AM	Roky Erickson and the Aliens	I Think of Demons	The Evil One		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 1:36 AM	The Fuzz	Nailed	45 rpm single		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 12 - 1:27 AM	Mahavishnu Orchestra	Birds of Fire	Birds of Fire		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 1:24 AM	Link Wray and his Ray Men	The Swag	45 rpm single		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 1:20 AM	Zakarrias	Country Out of Reach	S/T		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 1:11 AM	Moss	Dragged to the Roots	Sub Templum		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 1:06 AM	Peter Tosh	Legalize It	Legalize It		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 12 - 1:00 AM	Beastie Boys	Rhymin and Stealin	Licensed to Ill		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 12:56 AM	Melvins	Ligature	Bullhead		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 12:46 AM	The Bevis Frond	City of the Sun	The Auntie Winnie Album		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 12:44 AM	Mission of Burma	Trem Two	Vs.		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 12:37 AM	Fifty Foot Hose	Rose	Cauldron		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 12 - 12:30 AM	Dillinger	Cocaine in My Brain	Cocaine in My Brain		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 12:22 AM	Hawkwind	Down Through the Night	Space Ritual		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 12:18 AM	Fat Boys	Hell No!	Crushin'		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 12:15 AM	Iron Maiden	Purgatory	Killers		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 12:12 AM	Sunny Day Real Estate	J'Nuh	LP2		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 12 - 12:10 AM	Sunny Day Real Estate	J'Nuh	LP2		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 12:05 AM	Captain Beefheart	Dropout Boogie	Safe as Milk		No		e/d
Mar 12 - 12:00 AM	Sleep	Dragonaut	Sleep's Holy Mountain		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d

That's all I've got. REAL new show this week...I'm putting together some shit right now. Guest DJ Chris Wahamaki will be there as my phone buddy for the WIDR Week donation thing, too.

EDIT: Here's the mp3 link I promised a few days ago. Finally got around to making it.

Laziness + new records = this week's show

Well, that's not entirely true, I guess. It's not just laziness...it's also a symptom of having wayyyyy too much to do this week and last week. Basically, I didn't have decent time to prepare 2 mix CD's-worth of songs (this is how I usually do the program) so I'm thinking it's going to be an all-vinyl, non-obscure program this week. I did this once before when my hard drive crashed and I lost all the music I set aside for the show, but this time will be an even larger variety of tunes. 

So, yeah, that's about it...too busy to worry about uploading albums or anything right now, but it'll definitely be a good, if not themed, program. It gives me a chance to play some of my favorite tunes that wouldn't otherwise end up on the show. Then, the week after this, I should have another full-length and some new tunes to play.

Playlist for 3-5-10, featuring Black Widow's album "Sacrifice"

I decided to go back to my old ways...meaning for a bit here I'll be featuring full-length albums in the middle of the Obscuro! program. Usually, these are out-of-print or strange, and I actually had a few complaints (mostly from the same person) about the satanic nature of the album I chose to play last night. Speaking of which, the album in question was Black Widow's 1970 LP "Sacrifice," an ode to satanic rituals and demons and conjuring spirits and pretty much anything cultish. Their live shows featured a fabricated sacrifice and the music is actually well-accomplished progressive rock with saxes, flutes and organs. Some real catchy tunes, too. I'm going to continue posting mp3's of the show, so here are some links:

Podcast.

MP3.

Here's the playlist:

Mar 05 - 1:49 AM	Bobby Brown	My Hawaiian Home	Enlightening Beam of Axonda		No		e/d
Mar 05 - 1:37 AM	Black Widow	Sacrifice	Sacrifice		No		e/d
Mar 05 - 1:33 AM	Black Widow	Attack of the Demon	Sacrifice		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 05 - 1:25 AM	Black Widow	Seduction	Sacrifice		No		e/d
Mar 05 - 1:19 AM	Black Widow	Conjuration	Sacrifice		No		e/d
Mar 05 - 1:14 AM	Black Widow	Come to the Sabbat	Sacrifice		No		e/d
Mar 05 - 1:11 AM	Black Widow	Way to Power	Sacrifice		No		e/d
Mar 05 - 1:03 AM	Black Widow	In Ancient Days	Sacrifice		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 05 - 12:53 AM	Zu	Chthonian	Carboniferous		No		e/d
Mar 05 - 12:51 AM	Clem Hutchins	White Cloud	45 rpm single		No		e/d
Mar 05 - 12:49 AM	Jimi LaLumia and the Psychotic Frogs	Fucked by the Devil	Typically Tasteless EP		No		e/d
Mar 05 - 12:46 AM	Rita Lee	Tempo Nublado	Build Up		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 05 - 12:39 AM	Desiree	God of Hell	Desiree Tapes		No		e/d
Mar 05 - 12:36 AM	Exuma	Snake	Snake		No		e/d
Mar 05 - 12:32 AM	Lil Mac	Young and Embarrassed	The Lyrical Midget		No		e/d
Mar 05 - 12:26 AM	Raven	Can't You See	Back to Ohio Blues		No		e/d
Mar 05 - 12:20 AM	Little Howlin' Wolf	Shangri-La	Singles, Vol. 1		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Mar 05 - 12:14 AM	Harry Perry	Message	Greatest Hits of the Millennium '95		No		e/d
Mar 05 - 12:11 AM	The Astrology Album	Aquarius	The Astrology Album		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d

...and here's the tracklist from the Black Widow album:

1. In Ancient Days

2. Way to Power

3. Come to the Sabbat

4. Conjuration

5. Seduction

6. Attack of the Demon

7. Sacrifice

DOWNLOAD the full album by itself.

That's all I've got for now, hopefully that's enough to keep you occupied for a few days. Next week I'll have another full-length to play on the show.