Playlist for 8-6-10, featuring some tunes by Konrad and Parasites of the Western World

I tried something a little bit new this past week...instead of doing a 'theme' or playing an album in its entirety, I played 5 cuts from 2 different albums, in hopes of showcasing some artists while maintaining variety within the playlist.

Seemed to work good...everybody I talked to liked the two records I played sections from, and now the show is yours to download by way of podcast.

The first artist featured was Konrad, a man from Boise, Idaho who concocted a bizarre synth-pop record in the mid-80's. Topics range from how he is a music scientist from the future concocting tunes in a lab, how aliens will never come to earth (again) because people are too stupid, and how his girlfriend likes to buy things which stimulate her mind...it's a pretty wild, low-fidelity ride. His track 'My Girl' has popped up quite frequently on the program, and I was glad to finally get a hold of the entire album. After tracking down 'Konrad' (not his real name), I found him to be a definitely eccentric character, but also really friendly and interesting. Hopefully, once I find time, I will have him as a guest on the program. Also, as if that's all not strange enough, check out the metallic-looking album cover:

Secondly, I featured five tunes by Parasites of the Western World. These two guys were apparently some dudes from Oregon who, in the late '70's, attempted to bring their favorite influence to a home recording. What came out sounds much more like Chrome and Pere Ubu than Rush, and I don't mean that in a condescending way at all. Actually, what probably happened was they realized they couldn't recreate the sounds and moods of Rush right off the bat, and morphed their project into something much stranger. I will say right now, this is one of THE coolest records I've ever heard...and not just one of the coolest 'strange' records I've ever found. Definitely worth a spin. And, here's the VERY nondescript album cover:

Playlist (I'm typing these out from now on, because I don't like how my new web browser copies and pastes):

Billy R. Couvson - Ching Chong China

White Coffee - Voodoo

Konrad - People

Konrad - It's Only a Matrix

Konrad - Alien

Konrad - My Girl Likes to Buy

Konrad - One Way Motorcycle Ride

Parasites of the Western World - You Must be Joe King

Parasites of the Western World - Alienending

Parasites of the Western World - Mo

Parasites of the Western World - Accessories

Parasites of the Western World - God or Just a Slow Breeze

Wild Man Fischer with Smegma - Breakfast with Bananas

Beat of the Earth - This is an Artistic Statement, Pt. 1

Henry Flynt and the Insurrections - Go down

Tommy Jay and Mike Rep - Box Boy

Joint Effort - Stay High!

Residents - Almost Perfect

Residents - We Stole this Riff

Relatively Clean Rivers - Babylon

Bruce Haack - Supernova
C.A. Quintet - Cold Spider

Both the featured artists have had their albums since reissued, so I'd feel bad about putting up a free download...Parasites have their shit on CD Baby as an mp3 download, and I can't find the Konrad link right now, but you can hear a few mp3's here.

Playlist for 7-30-10

Here it be:

Jul 30 - 1:55 AM
Christian Yoga Church
Untitled #5
Turn On!
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 1:51 AM
Residents
The Shoe Salesman
Not Available
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 1:47 AM
Mij
Planet of a Flower
The Yodeling Astrologer
No
Bizarro Jerry
e/d
Jul 30 - 1:41 AM
Silver Apples
You and Me
Contact
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 1:36 AM
Michael James
You Don't Walk on My Street
Runaway World
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 1:33 AM
The Kids of Widney High
New Car
Special Music from Special Kids
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 1:27 AM
Kenneth Higney
Rock Star
Attic Demonstration
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 1:20 AM
Comus
The Prisoner
First Utterance
No
Bizarro Jerry
e/d
Jul 30 - 1:12 AM
Chico Magnetic Band
Explosion
S/T
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 1:08 AM
Pat Morris
We're Diabetic
45 rpm single
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 1:01 AM
Essra Mohawk
I Have Been Here Before
Primordial Lovers
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 12:58 AM
Arcesia
White Panther
Reachin'
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 12:53 AM
Michael Hurley
Werewolf Song
Blueberry Wine
No
Bizarro Jerry
e/d
Jul 30 - 12:48 AM
Vertical Slit
The Starlight Investor
...And Beyond
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 12:46 AM
Old Lady Drivers
Bathrooms Rule
S/T
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 12:43 AM
Red Krayola
Pink Stainless Tail
The Parable of Arable Land
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 12:40 AM
Happy Dragon Band
Disco American
S/T
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 12:35 AM
The Godz
Permanent Green Light
The Godz 2
No
Bizarro Jerry
e/d
Jul 30 - 12:29 AM
Vyto B
Tanya
Automatic Vaudeville
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 12:25 AM
Cincinnati Joe and Mad Lydia
Love Spider
S/T
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 12:23 AM
Cincinnati Joe and Mad Lydia
Jesus is Our Color Man
S/T
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 12:19 AM
Konrad
My Girl
Evil
requestical
Yes
e/d
Jul 30 - 12:15 AM
Sun City Girls
Burial in the Sky
Torch of the Mystics
No
Bizarro Jerry
e/d
Jul 30 - 12:10 AM
Georgie Leonard
The Clown
One Man Band
No
e/d
Jul 30 - 12:08 AM
Drunks with Guns
I Got the Gun
S/T
No
Bizarro Jerry
e/d

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The pic is Cromagnon. Weird fuckin' band.

Bizarro Jerry's Kutout Bin Klassics, Vol. 3

I first saw this album in a cutout bin when I was in junior high and thought it was the funniest looking rap tape ever. Years later, I tracked down a copy on amazon (for 50 cents) and confirmed this.

This is like the album Pharcyde always wanted to make, but never did because they did too much planning. Loose rhymes, murky beats, and a 'we're high as fuck in the studio' kind of feel dominate this record.

A while back, I spoke with H2O, one of the leading rappers, and he basically told me that initially they were pushed to be a stereotypical gangsta rap group by managers/labels, but after finishing their album found that they didn't like it at all. So, they redid the record, writing new rhymes and beats while still in the studio, and came up with this.

This has some of the downright funniest on-the-fly rhymes I've ever heard ('I'm hefty, hefty, hefty, you're whimpy, whimpy, whimpy/ you ain't got no TV, so you miss Ren and Stimpy'), the most bizarre misogynistic ranting ever ('Check this, last night I broke my fist/ from punchin' this bitch, I missed, twisted my wrist') and a token/tokin' (ha) weed rap that is so accurate it literally falls apart and descends into hilarity.

If this sounds up your alley, check it:

Yall So Stupid - 'Van Full of Pakistans'

Tracklist:

1. Introduce Me
2. 85 South

3. Interlude

4. Van Full of Pakistans

5. Interlude

6. Bowl of Soul

7. Interlude

8. The Plant

9. Interlude

10. Bootleg Beatdown

11. Interlude

12. Family Tree

13. Dirt Road White Girl

14. Interlude

15. Monkey Off My Back

16. Interlude

17. Super Nigga

18. Yall

19. On and On

20. Interlude

21. You Wouldn't Understand

22. 85 South (Remix)

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Playlist for 7-23-10, featuring a set of 1980's kid-metal

That's right...I found a compilation put out by a Swedish youth cafe in the 80's of some of their 'finer' musical acts...including a group of 9-year-olds who sing of their dislike for cops. Here's some photos:

And, since I haven't put up a download in a bit...here's the full compilation:

Title: Girls and Boys, Helge's '87
Tracklist:
1. Galaxy - Se Pa Mig
2. Pink Babycats - The Hunting
3. Boyhunters - Boys
4. Zero Zone - Good
5. Mix Music - Let's Go
6. Minimax - Disconight
7. Atomic - Windrider
8. Herins - Once Upon a Time
9. Our Metal - Let's Kill
10. Secret Metal - The Cop
11. Dross - Radioaktiv
12. Wilderness - The End of Mystery
13. Candy Girls - Together
14. Teffenet - Letar
15. Red'n'Black Viper - Nighttime (City Lights, Burnin' Bright)
16. Manitou - Tribal War
17. TB Line - Don't Listen
18. Ozark - Fight for Your Rights

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Some of the kids can really shred...others are just cute, I guess. It's an interesting listen, regardless.

...and, the playlist for this week's show:

Jul 23 - 1:56 AM	Noah	Brain Suck/Goodbye Earth	Noah Presents 'Brain Suck'		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 1:48 AM	Master Wilburn Burchette	Godhead	Music of the Godhead		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 1:44 AM	Mark Tucker (aka T. Storm Hunter)	Everywhere with Sally (Ride)	In the Sack		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 1:41 AM	John Ashcroft	Let the Eagle Soar	??		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Jul 23 - 1:36 AM	Palmer Rockey	Smile Pretty Baby	Rockey's Style		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 1:32 AM	MC Trachiotomy	Ma Baby	Robot, Alien or Ghost		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 1:27 AM	Joe Peace	Reflections I See	Finding Peace of Mind		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 1:22 AM	Wicked Witch	Electric War (Vocal Version)	Chaos 1978-86		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 1:20 AM	Jim Shepard	Untitled #4	V-3: Next Album		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Jul 23 - 1:15 AM	Gene Marshall	Richard Nixon in '76	??		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 1:09 AM	Chandra	Kate	Transportation		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 1:06 AM	Bobby Brown	Jungle Cowboy	Prayers of a One-Man Band		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 12:59 AM	Megatrip	Megatrip Outro	S/T		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 12:56 AM	Jimi LaLumia and the Psychotic Frogs	You'll Never Walk Again	Typically Tasteless 7"		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Jul 23 - 12:45 AM	C.A. Quintet	Trip thru Hell (Part I)	Trip thru Hell		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 12:42 AM	These Trails	Garden Botanum	S/T		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 12:39 AM	Dane Sturgeon	Ghost of Bardley Road	Wild n' Tender		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 12:37 AM	Vertical Slit	New Thrill	Basement 2215		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 12:35 AM	South Side Senior High School Choir	Happy Mother's Day	Context 70		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Jul 23 - 12:21 AM	Tom Nehls	Clean Air, the Underwater Symphony	I Always Catch the Third Second of a Yellow Light		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 12:18 AM	Galaxy	se pa mig	Girls and Boys, Helge's '87 Compilation		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 12:15 AM	Boyhunters	Boys	Girls and Boys, Helge's '87 Compilation		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 12:13 AM	Mix Music	Let's Go	Girls and Boys, Helge's '87 Compilation		No		e/d
Jul 23 - 12:12 AM	Pink Babycats	The Hunting	Girls and Boys, Helge's '87 Compilation		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Jul 23 - 12:02 AM	Bob Thompson and Doug Snyder	Teenage Emergency	Daily Dance		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d

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Playlist for 7-16-10...just a regular show

Yup.

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Jul 16 - 1:53 AM	Jim Shepard	A Streetcar Named Depression	Picking Through the Wreckage with a Stick		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Jul 16 - 1:46 AM	Eddie Callahan	Judge Me	False Ego		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 1:44 AM	Secret Metal	The Cop	Incredibly Strange Metal Vol. 1		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 1:40 AM	Peter Grudzien	Holding Court	The Unicorn (Bonus Tracks)		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 1:39 AM	Eddie Callahan	Judge Me	False Ego		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 1:36 AM	Sensational	Hi-Tech Issue	Corner the Market		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Jul 16 - 1:30 AM	Tool Shed	Variations on Cannabis	S/T		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 1:27 AM	Former Fetus	I'm a Mom	A Rock Opera		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 1:24 AM	Scissor Shock	Bring Back the Guillotine	Psychic Existentialism		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 1:21 AM	Mike Rep and the Quotas	H.M. My Mind	Stupor Hiatus		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 1:04 AM	Blacklight Braille	Side 1 (Excerpt)	Electric Canticles		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Jul 16 - 12:56 AM	Vertical Slit	Fair Exchange	Slit and Pre-Slit		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 12:52 AM	Kim Fowley, Jr.	Bad News from the Underworld	Son of Frankenstein		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 12:49 AM	Withuser and Westrupp	Nimm Doch Einen Joint, Mein Freund	Trips und Taumee		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 12:47 AM	Rockin' Rollin' Blues Band	Track #2	Wild and Untamed		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 12:39 AM	Michael Yonkers	Goodby Sunball	Goodby Sunball		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Jul 16 - 12:33 AM	Grant Moros	Death be the Penalty	Mysteries		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 12:30 AM	Hot Poop	My Baby's Dead	Hot Poop Does Their Own Stuff		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 12:22 AM	The Fuckin' Flyin' A-Heads	Swiss Cheese Back	45 rpm single		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 12:18 AM	Silver Apples	Water	Contact		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 12:14 AM	Tom Wilson	Lesbian Seagull	The Gay Name Game		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Jul 16 - 12:08 AM	Sun City Girls	Dreamland	Horse Cock Phepner		No		e/d
Jul 16 - 12:00 AM	People Band	Part 2	1968		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d

That's it for now. I've got another track up on the songfight, if you want to vote for it. Artiist name is the HATE noise this time.

Playlist for 7-9-10, "The Women of Obscuro"

Another theme show idea I've been kicking around for a while...it always seemed to me that I play more 'dude' songs than lady songs on the program, but upon closer inspection, that's not really true. I didn't really have to work too hard to put this show together. That's not to say it's slapdash--in fact, it's one of my favorites so far.

The stipulation? Any band fronted by, or featuring female members.

Get that fuckin' podcast.

Playlist:

Jul 09 - 1:57 AM	ESG	Come Away	A South Bronx Story		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 1:55 AM	Katie Lee	Shrinker Man	Songs of Couch and Consultation		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 1:53 AM	The Android Sisters	Ray-Dee-Oh	The Best of the Android Sisters		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 1:46 AM	Silmaril	Song of the Apocalypse	The Voyage of Icarus		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Jul 09 - 1:41 AM	Leona Anderson	Habanera from 'Carmen'	Music to Suffer By Compilation		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 1:40 AM	Art Bears	Three Figures	Winter Songs		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 1:33 AM	Ruth White	The Litanies of Satan	Flowers of Evil		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 1:30 AM	Jan Terri	Keep on Knockin'	Baby Blues		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 1:26 AM	Rita Lee	Sucesso, aqui vou eu	Build Up		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Jul 09 - 1:21 AM	Dandelions	The Children of Sunshine	S/T		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 1:18 AM	Yma Sumac	Chuncho	Inca Taqui		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 1:16 AM	The Shaggs	That Little Sports Car	Philosophy of the World		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 1:09 AM	Erica Pomerance	Koanisphere	You Used to Think		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 12:59 AM	Thrash Queen	God Save the Queen	Ashes to Ashes		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Jul 09 - 12:51 AM	The Space Lady	Major Tom	S/T		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 12:48 AM	Jandek (ft. Unknown Female Vocalist)	Go to Bed	Telegraph Melts		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 12:44 AM	Sandy Hurvitz	Arch Godliness of Purplefull Magic	Sandy's Album is Here at Last!		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 12:37 AM	Thorr's Hammer	Norge	Dommedagsnatt		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 12:34 AM	Joy Allan-Wisher	Nut Pumpkin	??		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Jul 09 - 12:29 AM	Destroy All Monsters	You're Gonna Die	45 rpm single		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 12:25 AM	Lucia Pamela	Blue Wind	Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 12:21 AM	Coven	Coven in Charing Cross	Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 12:19 AM	Edie and the Eggs	Big Girls Don't Cry	7" Picture Disc		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 12:15 AM	Tangela Tricoli	Jet Lady	Jet Lady		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Jul 09 - 12:05 AM	The Sun Also Rises	Taste of Jesamine and Suicide	S/T		No		e/d
Jul 09 - 12:01 AM	Pain Teens	Tar Pit	Destroy Me, Lover		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d

Enjoy, and as always, more downloads comin' soon.

Bizarro Jerry's Kutout Bin Klassics, Vol. 2

Another great record that, while basically completely out of print, can be found in a fair amount of cutout bins is Brainiac's 1993 album 'Smack Bunny Baby.'

Once said to be Devo's successor (due to their sound and their location in Devo's hometown of Dayton, Ohio), Brainiac flipped people out with their bizarre mix of homemade synths, grunge guitars, and fucked-up vocals until lead singer/synth basher Timmy Taylor was killed in a car accident.

College radio folks may know Brainiac's 2nd and 3rd albums, 'Bonsai Superstar' and 'Hissing Prigs in Static Couture,' which feature a more developed sound, but their debut album often remains unnoticed and un-praised. As far as angry, crazy rock tunes go, this album is by far the best. To me, it sounds a wilder version of Nirvana's early recordings.

I dunno, but it definitely has its merits.

Brainiac - 'Smack Bunny Baby'

Tracklist:

1. I, Fuzzbot
2. Ride
3. Smack Bunny Baby
4. Martian Dance Invasion
5. Cultural Zero
6. Brat Girl
7. Hurting Me
8. I Could Own You
9. Anesthetize
10. Draag
11. Get Away

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