The Friday MP3 Shuffle #112

My genius is beginning to hurt. Especially when I make a fucking excellent mix like this and then have to wait a whole month before I can share with you.

Yes, these mixes are often made long in advance and I've been sitting on this one since March 30th. Agonizing. I just finished #115 the other day and the thought of having to wait three weeks to post it is killing me. Because it's that good. You just wait and see.

And don't even get me started on #114, large parts of which could be a sort-of sequal to my flawless Paficic North West compilation of last year.

But enough of that, let's focus on this one. I've tried drinking in the sun on three separate occasions with this mix on full volume and it works spectalularly well. How lovely when spring is in the air, spirits are high and alcohol is going down your throat.

Good times. I call this mix "The Mood-Raiser".

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #112 (64 mb)

1. Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - Ekranoplan (2007)
2. Cosmic Psychos - Almost home (1995)
3. Stiff Little Fingers - State of emergency (1979)
4. Annhilation Time - Bald headed woman (2008)
5. Dead Boys - Ain't nothing to do (1977)
6. Union Carbide Productions - Cartoon animal (1987)
7. Silverbullit - Boom boom boogie (1997)
8. The Hellacopters - Her strut (Bob Seger cover, 1997)
9. Free Fall - Power and volume (2011)
10. The Desert Sessions - Eccentric man (Groundhogs cover, 1998)
11. Fu Manchu - Squash that fly (2010)
12. Clutch - Minotaur (2009)
13. Snail - Underwater (2009)

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Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #115

(mp3) Coffins - In bloody sewage
Available on Split 7" w. Hooded Menace (2010)

(mp3) Weakling - This entire fucking battlefield
Available on Dead As Dreams (2000)

(mp3) Unleashed - Shadows in the deep
Available on Shadows In The Deep (1992)

(mp3) Cloudkicker - It's bad. We're hit, man, we are hit
Available on Beacons (2010)

(mp3) Weedeater - Homecoming
Available on Jason... The Dragon (2011)

V/A - "Gummo Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" (1997)

Here you go, the classic soundtrack to Harmony Korine's classic directorial debut Gummo.

The soundtrack matches the film perfectly, in that the film was amazing, confusing, hilarious, depressing, horrible, annoying and occasionally unwatchable, and the soundtrack is amazing, confusing, hilarious, depressing, horrible, annoying and occasionally unlistenable.

White trash cubed.

(zip) V/A - Gummo Soundtrack (69 mb)

1. Cockadoodledoo
2. Absu - The gold torques of Uliad
3. Eyehategod - Serving time in the middle of nowhere
4. Electric Hellfire Club - DWSOB
5. Spazz - Gummo love theme
6. Bethlehem - Schuld uns'res knöchrigen faltpferd
7. Burzum - Rundgang um die transzendentale säule der singularität
8. Bathory - Equimanthorn
9. Dark Noerd - Smokin' husks
10. Sleep - Dragonaut
11. Brujeria - Matanda gueros '97
12. Namanax - The medicined man
13. Nifelheim - Hellish blasphemy
14. Mortician - Skin peeler
15. Mystifier - Give the human devil his due
16. Destroy All Monsters - Mom's and dad's pussy
17. Bethlehem - Verschleierte irreligiositat
18. Mischa Maisky - Suite no. 2 for cello in D minor
19. Sleep - Some grass
20. Rose Shepard & Ellen M. Smith - Jesus loves me

It wouldn't be right of me to post this glorious/shitty (take your pick) soundtrack and not also share these brilliant videos of Harmony Korine himself. Three interviews done on the David Letterman show in 1995 and 1997 that flawlessly capture the essence of Harmony Korine.

I particularly love the sudden change in him between the second and the third interview, which were taped only months apart. In no time at all he went from being a young well-dressed awkward eccentric to full-blown pill popping couldn't-give-a-shit hipster bum. It may have been some kind of Andy Kaufman-ish act, or he may have actually turned into walking "Don't Do Drugs" ad.

Either way, I couldn't love him more. A true genius in his very own peculiar little way.

This is television history, so do yourself a favor and take the time to watch these, and you'll appreciate the soundtrack so much more. Besides, it's not like you don't have 20 minutes to spare right now. What else do you have going on in your life that's so important?

Watch and kneel at the altar of Harmony Korine:

Pre-Gummo:




Promoting Gummo:




Post-Gummo:




Aaaaand just one last thing: Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree paying tribute to the big man himself:

(mp3) Steven Wilson - Harmony Korine
Available on Insurgents (2009)

PS. Did you know Harmony was in Good Will Hunting? I didn't.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #114

(mp3) Murkrat - The mighty spires
Available on Drudging The Mire (2011)

(mp3) Tool - Hush
Available on Opiate (ep, 1992)

(mp3) Captain Beyond - Myopic void
Available on S/t (1972)

(mp3) Down - Pillars of eternity
Available on NOLA (1995)

(mp3) Whitesnake - All for love
Available on Good To Be Bad (2008)

Science of extended anger

Just kickin' it in the sun with some booze in my hand and some Shrinebuilder on the stereo. Life is good.

Photo by Henning Gulli.

(mp3) Shrinebuilder - Science of anger (extended version)
Original version available on S/t (2009)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #111

The perks of living in a godless country like Sweden are plentiful. One of them is that one of the biggest television networks chooses to air Life of Brian on Good Friday. Fucking brilliant.

Not to be outdone, here's an appropriately profane Friday mix to honor the death of someone who never existed in the first place, except for in the minds of far too many people.

Question to ponder while listening to Metal Bastard's MP3 Shuffle #111 and relishing the absence of a divine creator: Is Maim's Deceased To Exist the best reverb-laden old school death metal album since Repugnant's 2006 meisterwerk Epitome of Darkness?

The answer is quite likely "hell yes".

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #111 (66,6 mb)

1. Amon Amarth - Death in fire (2002)
2. Skinless - From sacrifice to survival (2003)
3. Mistress - Cheyne stoking (2007)
4. Hail!Hornet - Golden whore (2007)
5. Maim - Evil smell of death (2011)
6. Watain - The return of darkness and evil (Bathory cover, 2010)
7. Kiss It Goodbye - Watching Hellraiser (1999)
8. Behemoth - Shemhamforash (2009)
9. Ov Hell - Krigsatte faner (2010)
10. Autopsy - Human genocide (2010)
11. Bombs of Hades - Infernal return (2010)
12. Death Breath - Cthulhu fhtagn! (2006)

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Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #113

(mp3) Europe - Carrie
Available on The Final Countdown (1986)

(mp3) Nailbomb - Hour bullshit
Available on Point Blank (1994)

(mp3) October Falls - IV
Available on The Womb of Primordial Nature (2008)

(mp3) At The Drive-In - Metronome arthritis
Available on Vaya (ep, 1999)

(mp3) Saint Vitus - The war starter
Available on Born Too Late (1986)

So... the new Morbid Angel song then

Will 2011 be remember as the year of "controversial" metal albums?

First The Haunted annoyed beer-guzzling neanderthals everywhere, then there's the upcoming In Flames album which I'm told sounds like Depeche Mode, the new Opeth album which reportedly sounds very little like Opeth, and Illud Divinum Insanus, the first Morbid Angel album in eight years.

Reports have kept coming in mentioning everything from "robot riffing" to Dutch techno. If it's all true, it could be the St. Anger or Cold Lake of the decade. Awesome, my fingers are crossed.

ExistoVulgore sounds pretty conventional though. Not bad - Dave Vincent's vocals are great and the bee swarm riff @ 2:01 makes me wet. But I'd rather hear the weird shit.

(mp3) Morbid Angel - ExistoVulgore
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Hive at the nurple funyun

I'm glad so many of you liked the Marc Maron interview with Zach Galifianakis I posted a few weeks ago. I liked it too. We're kindred spirits. We should kiss gently with tongues and get married.

Here's more Zach doing what he does best - interacting with people who don't necessarily care too much about him or his show.

(mp3) Zach Galifianakis - Audience interaction
Available on Live At The Purple Onion (2007)

Pimpin' ain't easy but it's necessary

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So you like totally should and stuff. Go on then.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #112

If more people listened to Crippled Black Phoenix, the world would be a better place.

That's a fact.

(mp3) Crippled Black Phoenix - When you're gone
Available on A Love of Shared Disasters (2007)

(mp3) Extinction of Mankind - Fourth reich religion
Available on Northern Scum (2006)

(mp3) Geordie - Give you till Monday
Available on Hope You Like It (1973)

(mp3) Spancer - Throne of wisdom
Available on Slowly We Rock (2007)

(mp3) Soulfly feat. Corey Taylor - Jumpdafuckup
Available on Primitive (2000)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #110

So, after a spectacularly uncreative week, which consisted mainly of one repost after another (and then yet another), here we are again with some original material.

The first and last tracks on this week's Friday mix are taken from the recent Mammoth Grinder/Hatred Surge split 12" on Cyclopean Records. It's one of the best releases of the year so far. Here's where you buy it.

And everything between the first and last track is fucking amazing too, but that can hardly come as a surprise to you, beloved reader.

By the way, thanks for recognising the genius of last week's mix, which got about three times as many downloads as most Friday mixes. Good for you.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #110 (78 mb)

1. Mammoth Grinder - Survieled (2011)
2. Incubus - Curse of the damned cities (1990)
3. Gorguts - Inverted (2001)
4. Paradise Lost - I remain (2009)
5. Opeth - Godhead's lament (1999)
6. Black Breath - I am beyond (2010)
7. Dismember - Retaliate (2000)
8. Seance - Controlled bleeding (1993)
9. Mastic Scum - Construcdead (2009)
10. Rotten Sound - Exploit (2011)
11. Burnt By The Sun - Inner station (2009)
12. Hatred Surge - Supernova (2011)

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Bloodbath DVD preview

I am officially fapping like a little monkey.

Queens of the Stone Age galore again again (re-post)

Originally posted here on August 17th 2009.


As promised, the third and last Queens Of The Stone Age rarities collections. Click the "Desert Rock" at the bottom of the post to find the other two.

This one has some of my favorites, like the Brian Eno cover Needle In The Camel's Eye (which elegantly slides into The Velvet Underground's I'm Waiting For My Man), the 2005 version of Infinity (which doesn't beat the 2000 version, but is still very good), the ZZ Top cover Precious And Grace and the excellent live version of A Song For The Dead.

There's also a third version of the fan favorite Born To Hula, and this is probably the best one.

(zip) QOTSA Rarities Collection Vol. 3

1. The real song for the deaf (2002)
2. Needle in the camel's eye (Brian Eno cover, 2007)
3. Avon (live, 2005)
4. The most exalted potentate of love (The Cramps cover, 2003)
5. Gonna leave you (Spanish version, 2002)
6. Ode to Clarissa (2000)
7. Inifinity (Alternate version, 2005)
8. Bloody hammer (Roky Erickson cover, 2002)
9. Covered in punks blood (live, 2005)
10. Back to Dungaree High (Turbonegro cover, 2001)
11. I want you to die (Mondo Generator cover, 2002)
12. Quick and to the pointless (live, 2003)
13. 18 A.D. (1997)
14. Go with the flow (live, 2005)
15. The fun machine took a shit and died (vinyl version, 2005)
16. Make it wit chu (acoustic, 2007)
17. Born to hula (alternate version, 2000)
18. Precious and grace (ZZ Top cover, 2005)
19. A song for the dead (live. 2005)

Queens of the Stone Age galore again (re-post)

Originally posted here on July 24th 2009.

Without further ado, here's another 19 tracks of non-album material, the QOTSA Oddities Collection Volume 2.

Volume 2 includes QOTSA's perhaps best song, Infinity, recorded for the Heavy Metal 2000 soundtrack. It was re-recorded during the Lullabies To Paralyze sessions in 2004. That version, which is not as good as this one, will be included in Volume 3.

(zip) QOTSA Oddities Collection Vol. 2 (80 mb)

1. This lullaby (Josh version, 2005)
2. Like a drug (2005)
3. White wedding (Billy Idol cover) (2007)
4. Everybody's gonna be happy (The Kinks cover, 2002)
5. Leg of lamb (unplugged, 2005)
6. Running joke (2007)
7. Rickshaw (date unknown)
8. If only everything (1997)
9. These aren't the droids you're looking for (1998)
10. Infinity (2000)
11. Goin' out west (Tom Waits cover, 2007)
12. Era Vulgaris (2007)
13. You can't put your arms around a memory (Johnny Thunders cover, 2002)
14. No one knows (Unkle reconstruction, 2002)
15. A song for the dead (radio edit, 2002)
16. Born to hula (alternate version, 1998)
17. Little sister (Contradictator remix, 2005)
18. Detroit (Mondo Generator cover, 2002)
19. The fun machine to a shit and died (2007)

Queens of the Stone Age galore (re-post)

Originally posted here on June 9th 2009.


The P.J. Harvey & Desert Sessions post yesterday got me nuts for all things Josh Homme, so I threw together a nice, fat mix of some Queens Of The Stone age odds and sods. Far from complete of course, QOTSA records more than should be humanly possible, but these are some of my personal favorites.

Some covers, b-sides, acoustic versions of album tracks etc ranging from 1998 to 2008. I made a QOTSA rarities post from their Era Vulgaris album last year, so I chose not to include them and make room other songs instead. Except Christian Brothers, it's just too good to leave out.

The most shining gold nugget here is the douchebag in the audience who, after hearing a blistering version of The Doors' Not To Touch The Earth, expresses disbelief about the band playing a cover and moans about it. I guess some people are just never satisfied.

Good shit.

(zip) QOTSA Oddities Collection (80 mb)

1. Spiders and vinegaroons
2. Broken box (acoustic)
3. Six shooter (acoustic)
4. Not to touch the earth (live The Doors cover)
5. The blood is love (Contradictator remix)
6. The bronze
7. Burn the witch (acoustic)
8. Christian brothers (Elliott Smith cover)
9. Four corners (acoustic Mondo Generator cover)
10. You're so vague
11. Wake up screaming (Subhumans cover)
12. I never came (acoustic)
13. Born to hula
14. Te voy a dejar (acoustic)
15. Who'll be the next in line (The Kinks cover)
16. Never say never (Romeo Void cover)
17. Hangin' tree (acoustic)
18. No one knows (extended live version)

Lika whatcha hear? Buy it all @ Amazon.com.

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #109

Could this be the best Friday mp3 mix yet? I probably say that or something like it every Friday, but this time I've really outdone myself.

Holy shit. This is one for the history books.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #109 (75 mb)

1. Pink Floyd - The nile song (1968)
2. Blue Öyster Cult - The red and the black (1973)
3. Grand Funk Railroad - Are you ready (1969)
4. Crow - Evil woman (don't play your games with me) (1969)
5. Uriah Heep - I wanna be free (1971)
6. Primeval - Progress (1974)
7. Steppenwolf - Your wall's too high (1968)
8. Fresh Blueberry Pancakes - Hassles (1970)
9. Les Variations - What a mess (1970)
10. Power of Zeus - It couldn't be me (1970)
11. Sir Lord Baltimore - Hard rain fallin' (1971)
12. Groundhogs - Cherry red (1971)
13. Lucifer's Friend - Toxic shadows (1970)

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Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #111

(mp3) Bay Laurel - In sorrow's tide
Available on Days of Joy (1996)

(mp3) Jex Thoth - Warrior woman
Available on S/t (2008)

(mp3) Rammstein - Zerstören
Available on Rosenrot (2005)

(mp3) Social Distortion - Gotta know the rules
Available on White Light, White Heat, White Trash (1996)

(mp3) Pantera - The sleep
Available on Cowboys From Hell (1990)

The top 30 most popular songs on this blog

I was bored at work so instead of actually doing what I'm being paid for, I logged into my Mediafire account to check out some of the download statistics. Then I decided to compile the 30 most downloaded songs and post them in order of popularity.

As of 3:00 pm today, the stats were as following:

(mp3) Pantera - Floods (1156 downloads)
Available on The Great Southern Trendkill

(mp3) Tool - Forty six & 2 (1167 downloads)
Available on Aenima

(mp3) Opeth - The throat of winter (1172 downloads)
Available on V/A - God of War: Blood & Metal

(mp3) Marilyn Manson - Coma white (1178 downloads)
Available on Mechanical Animals

(mp3) Deftones - Hole in the earth (1202 downloads)
Available on Saturday Night Wrist

(mp3) Foo Fighters - Exhausted (1297 downloads)
Available on S/t

(mp3) Guns 'n' Roses - My Michelle (1334 downloads)
Available on Appetite For Destruction

(mp3) The Dillinger Escape Plan - Farewell, Mona Lisa (1354 downloads)
Available on Option Paralysis

(mp3) Tool - Lateralus (1364 downloads)
Available on Lateralus

(mp3) Korn - Kidnap the Sandy Claws (1441 downloads)
Available on V/A - Nightmare Revisited

(mp3) Rage Against The Machine - Bullet in the head (1511 downloads)
Available on S/t

(mp3) Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the jar (1552 downloads)
Available on Vagabonds Of The Western World

(mp3) Slipknot - People = shit (1594 downloads)
Available on Iowa

(mp3) Slipknot - Frail limb nursery/Purity (1599 downloads)
Available on S/t

(mp3) Queens of the Stone Age - Go with the flow (1773 downloads)
Available on Songs For The Deaf

(mp3) Alice In Chains - Down in a hole (2028 downloads)
Available on Dirt

(mp3) Stone Temple Pilots - Sex type thing (2415 downloads)
Available on Core

(mp3) Slipknot - Eyeless (2486 downloads)
Available on S/t

(mp3) Slipknot - (sic) (2690 downloads)
Available on S/t

(mp3) Andrew W.K. - Party hard (2721 downloads)
Available on I Get Wet

(mp3) Metallica - ...And justice for all (2994 downloads)
Available on ...And Justice For All

(mp3) Electric Six - Gay bar (3033 downloads)
Available on Fire

(mp3) Metallica - Master of puppets (4097 downloads)
Available on Master of Puppets

(mp3) Korn - Blind (4606 downloads)
Available on S/t

(mp3) Pearl Jam - Even flow (4711 downloads)
Available on Ten

(mp3) Rage Against The Machine - Bulls on parade (6398 downloads)
Available on Evil Empire

(mp3) Slipknot - Duality (7581 downloads)
Available on Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses

(mp3) Pearl Jam - Black (7640 downloads)
Available on Ten

(mp3) Stone Temple Pilots - Plush (8023 downloads)
Available on Core

(mp3) Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight tonight (8133 downloads)
Available on Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

So what am I trying to say with all this? Nothing I guess, except that I'm a little surprised to see Opeth and The Dillinger Escape Plan among superstars like Metallica, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson and Rage Against The Machine.

It's heartwarming. Nice going, people.

Holy shit, the new Whitesnake album is fucking awesome!

It's called Forevermore, it's totally awesome, and it looks like this:



They rock out like it's still 1988, Easier Said Than Done recalls the power balladry of old, and David Coverdale still sounds like a golden god. The best heavy metal singer in the world since Dio packed it in.

Unashamed cock rock of the highest order. I'm told the deluxe version comes with a mullet and a codpiece. I'll be thrusting my groin in four different ways to this shit tonight.

Here's old goody to listen to while you place an order for Forevermore:

(mp3) Whitesnake - Children of the night
Available on S/t (1987)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #108

Now now Bill, you swore this was a battle between warriors, not a bunch of miss nancies, so warriors is what I brought.

Raptos a diis homines dici...

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #108 (54 mb)

1. Landmine Marathon - Exist (2010)
2. Converge - My unsaid everything (1998)
3. Half Gorilla - Left in ruins (2009)
4. Deathchain - Scimitar (2010)
5. Slayer - Aggressive perfector (1986)
6. Venom - Bleeding (1998)
7. Merciless - Nuclear attack (1994)
8. Repugnant - From beyond the grave (2006)
9. Sepultura feat. Jamey Jasta - Human cause (2001)
10. The Haunted - Narcotic (2008)
11. Grip Inc. - War between one (1997)
12. The Ocean - Asslickers inc. (2010)

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