Episode 43 - One foot in front of the other.

This episode is pretty uninspired and only about 40 minutes long. I enjoyed blasting Talulah Gosh in the studio, but mostly felt distracted by the mediocrity of the stories/my life. Has this project become over-run with self-deprecation?

In other completeist news, I've begun writing about every film that ever won the Palme D'or or Grand Prix at the Cannes film festival. I've almost seen them all. Follow the madness here: http://grandprixpalmedor.tumblr.com/

A Complete Abridged Record Collection, Episode 43


Talulah Gosh - Talulah Gosh
Go Gos - Talk Show
Randy Bachman - Axe
Abrabadabra - s/t
Keith - 98.6 Ain't Gonna Lie
Inuit - A cry from the earth (Folkways)
Blurt - Spill the Beans 12"

The Records Played!

Episode 42 - I hate Berlin.

On what can only be described as a "TERRIBLE DAY" I somehow managed to drag myself into the studio to expose the agony and the ecstasy (my words) of my life. Begin with the epic and cathartic 'Notorious Lightning', which drags my carcass across a full 6 years of doubtful existence. Follow that with the death-knell of Chet, a Taiwanese pressing of The Guess Who found while wandering the hot city of depression, Colin Blunstone's ethereal "Misty Roses", a rare Mutantes track that couldn't even get me the love I need and finish it all off with a side-long High Places 'bleak drone' iced with the elusive hope singing of Mary Pearson.

A Complete Abridged Record Collection, Episode 42


High Places - split w/ Soft Circle
Gilberto Gil and Rita Lee - Refestanca
Lilith Velkor - s/t
Niel Young and the Shocking Pink - Everybody's Rocking
Colin Blunstone - One Year
The Guess Who - So Long, Bannatyne
Chet - Chelsea Silver, Please Come Home
Destroyer - Notorious Lightning and Other Works

The Records Played!

Episode 41 -

This Is probably the most consistently great episode, as far as music goes, starting with the UNSTOPPABLE Bay City Rollers (a band still rejected by the same so-called 'populist' internet movement that has pushed the Doobies Brothers, Steely Dan & ABBA from the trash into the acceptable indie-elitist lexicon). I also fail to mention that someone took a picture of me with my pants down on the infamous buy-all-Bay-City-Rollers day.

A Complete Abridged Record Collection, Episode 41



Jonathan Richman - Because her beauty is raw and wild
Norman Luboff Choir - Songs of the West
Whodini - Your Musical Holiday in the West Indies
The Fall - Bend Sinister
O. Reyes Scrunter - Soca Fushion vol 4
Desolation Wilderness - White Strobbing Light
heavenly - vs Satan
Squirt - Squirt Does its Thing
Bay City Rollers - Dedication

The Records Played!

Episode 40 - Danced On

For the first time in my life, I am a real Disc Jockey. I scratch. I mix. I rock. I do a horrible job of just making the songs the proper volume. Apologies if you listened to the unedited 'real time' broadcast of this. Actually, apologies for the mixing as well. It is absolutely terrible.

A Complete Abridged Record Collection, Episode 40


Patti Austin - The Heat of the Heat 12"
The nasty boys - I was made for loving you 12"
yazz - 12"
Starlet - Games 12"
Michael Prince - Dance Your Love Away
Richard Hayman - Persuasive Electronics
Racheal and Julie - 12"
Randy Newman - 12 songs
rough bunnies - weisse westen dreckam stecken
Little Wings - Field Trip
high places - s/t
ukon - and his afro calypsonians
Lord Sutch - ...and heavy friends
The Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca


The Records Played!

Episode 39 - 2 Schools ago

Smell the faintest whiff of rockabilly on any revivalists outfit, be it mod, a leather jacket or otherwise. Here a complete picture of the high school me is painted in lush detail. Enjoy.

A Complete Abridged Record Collection, Episode 39


Vladmir Nabokov - Rain
Dick Dale - Surfer's Choice
Hasil Adkins - Out to Hunch
Charlie Feathers - Jungle Fever
Les Miladys - S/T
Zeigeist - Translate Slowly
Francoise Hardy - the ye ye girl
Salloom-Sinclair - s/t
The Nuns - Sex Dream 12"
The Troggs - Every Little Thing 12"
Cub - On Guard for Thee
Laura Nyro - Eli and the 13th Confessional
The Collectors - Grass and Wild Strawberries
Susan Jacks - I thought of you again...

The Records Played!

Episode 38 - Preventative Maintenance

What can I say about this inane project that hasn't already been said? I play some hits. I play some duds. I continue to be self-absorbed. For some reason I censor myself and don't talk about crying at a Julie Doiron show.

A Complete Abridged Record Collection, Episode 38


Sarah Shapiro - I Wish I Was An Animal
Crowded House - S/T
Tim Hardin - I
Louise Forestier - s/t
Los Euclids - Right here I'm now
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
Bad Finger - Magic Christian Soundtrack
We Five - You were on my mind
John Reborne - Sir John Alot of...
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Sagittarius - Present Tense
Walker Brothers - Images
Julie Doiron - I wake myself up

The Records Played!

Episode 37 - Better than Beatlejuice

If I'm getting this exhausted with this project, I can only IMAGINE what people listening to this garbage must think. At some point during this episode (somewhere between the Hollywood calypso and the mega-ultra-rare but actually good Christian LP) I was reminded of the ever eclectic "Lonesome Jimmy's Twilight Lounge", a radio show disdained during my youth. How did my life become 99% shtick? Pray that Episode 38 will only be super sincere actual good music.

A Complete Abridged Record Collection, Episode 37


Stan Getz and João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
The Dixie Cups - Chapel of Love
Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat
Bush Tetras - Boom in the night
The Replacements - Boink!!
Masters of the Hemisphere - s/t
Young Canadians - Just a loser
Lou Rawls - Soulin'
Lavender Diamond - Songs for you to Listen
Gammeltjo med Bordellmamma - s/t
Professor Peter Schickele - PDQ Bach on the Air
Linda Ziegler - Don't Deny Him
Harry Belafonte - Jump Up Calypso
Josie Cotton - 12" single

The Records Played!