Songs Get Juices Flowing My That #142

True story: Today I saw Alex Hellid of Entombed in my local grocery store. The annoying thing is I came reeeaaally close to putting on my Uprising tee when I left the house this morning. I could've blown his mind.

Lesson learned: Never leave home without your Uprising tee on.

(mp3) Brant Bjork - Feelin'
Available on Local Angel (2004)

(mp3) Dinosaur Jr. - The little baby
Available on Whatever's Cool With Me (1991)

(mp3) Hüsker Dü - Indecision time
Available on Zen Arcade (1984)

(mp3) The Gates of Slumber - Dweller in the deep
Available on Suffer No Guilt (2006)

(mp3) The Melvins - Foaming
Available on Hostile Ambient Takeover (2002)

Trippy Shit Tuesday

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant tide
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine
And no one showed us to the land
And no one knows the where's or why's
But something stirs and something tries
And starts to climb towards the light

(zip) Trippin' Balls Vol. 8 - Dreams of avarice (90 mb)

1. Yawning Man - Digital smoke signal (2005)
2. Endless Boogie - Slow creep (2010)
3. Dark Tooth Encounter - Weeping pines (2008)
4. Green Milk From Planet Orange - A day in the planet Orange (2005)
5. Sonic Flower - Indian summer (2003)
6. Greenleaf - The lake (2007)
7. Mia Doi Todd - Night of a thousand kisses (2008)
8. Weedeater - March of the bipolar bear (2011)
9. The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Faustine (2009)

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(mp3) New Bomb Turks - Streamline yr skull
Available on At Rope's End (1998)

(mp3) Refused - Worms of the senses/Faculties of the skull
Available on The Shape of Punk to Come (1998)

(mp3) Autopsy - Seven skulls
Available on The Tomb Within (2010)

(mp3) Cathedral - Skull flower
Available on The VIIth Coming (2002)

(mp3) Team Sleep - Your skull is red
Available on S/t (2005)

(mp3) Todd - Black skull
Available on Comes To Your House (2006)

(mp3) Dragged Into Sunlight - Totem of skulls
Available on Hatred For Mankind (2009)

(mp3) The Haunted - The skull
Available on Unseen (2011)

(mp3) The Misfits - Skulls
Available on Walk Among Us (1982)

If you don't have some meat on your wall...

...you're wack!


You're so wack!

(mp3) Stone Temple Pilots - Meat plow
Available on Purple (1994)

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #141

(mp3) Kongh - Pushed beyond
Available on Counting Heartbeats (2007)

(mp3) Swans - In the eyes of nature
Available on Love of Life (1992)

(mp3) Secrets of the Moon - I maldoror
Available on Privilegivm (2009)

(mp3) 35007 - Undo
Available on S/t (1997)

(mp3) Spiritual Beggars - Mr. White (Trouble cover)
Available on V/A - Bastards Will Pay: A Tribute to Trouble (1999)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #129

This is unlikely to get very many downloads. A crying shame, because it's amazing.

37 minutes of noisy, angular, and occasionally rather grating hijinx, with a couple of more straight forward tracks by Spazm 151 and Tight Bros to give you the strength to keep listening.

Hats off to Kielbasage for introducing me to the Guadalupe Plata song. Quality stuff.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #129 (54 mb)

1. Tight Bros From Way Back When - Show me (Joe Tex cover, 2001)
2. god bows to math - The unbearable lightness of being sober (2011)
3. Brass Castle - Due it (2003)
4. We Versus The Shark - I am the contempt machine (2008)
5. Spazm 151 - Freedom/Tear it up (2001)
6. Botch - John Woo (1998)
7. Guadalupe Plata - En este cementerio (2009)
8. Bastro - Krakow, Illonois (1995)
9. Circus Lupus - Tightrope walker (1992)
10. Rye Coalition - The dirty aristocrat (1999)
11. Bleach - Gechu ningen (2006)
12. Ventura feat. David Yow - Le petit chaperon beige (2010)
13. The Book of Knots - Third generation pink slip (2007)

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Machine Head - "Locust" (album mix)

None of this "advance mix" bollocks, here's the real shit. Or at least so I'm told.

Either way it sounds massive. Album will rule.

You damn kids today, why I oughta

From this day forward I can never again act like an ass and blame it on youth.

Somone kill me. Seriously, kill me now.

(mp3) Jesu - Birth day
Available on Ascension (2011)

(mp3) The Jesus & Mary Chain - Birthday
Available on Birthday/Hide Myself (1998)

Trippy Shit Tuesday

I'm glad so many of you recognised the awesomeness and badassery of last week's edition of Trippin' Balls. The download stats were just as great as I had anticipated. Good for you.

This week's edition is at 53 minutes the shortest one yet, but just as sweet as the others. Not much else I can say about it, except that the world can always use a bit more Harry Partch.

(zip) Trippin' Balls Vol. 7 - Approaching Theta (77 mb)

1. Sagor & Swing - In i skogen (2002)
2. Pyrior - Orbiter (2010)
3. Sungrazer - Sea (2011)
4. Black Math Horseman - A barren cause (2009)
5. Grails - The natural man (2008)
6. Ash Black Buffalo - Summer night with silverware (2009)
7. Hills - The vessel (2011)
8. Asoka - I'm tryin' (1971)
9. Harry Partch - The quiet hobo meal (1969)
10. The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - A place for fantasies (2009)

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Love or confusion

Curly burl is curly

Let's nerd out.

Mastodon has released the separate tracks for Curl of the Burl, allowing fans to remix and add whatever they want. I don't know how to remix or add anything - if I did, I can assure you I'd spend my time making music instead of just writing about it.

So here's the drums, guitars, bass and vocals, all on separate tracks. Nerdy, and fucking fun. Brann sounds amazing - how many bands can you think of were the drummer is the best singer? Skinny boy got some pipes.

PS. I've had posts taken down for their Mastodon contents, so if anyone from Warner reads this: Up yours, you can't take this post down. You released these tracks yourselves! Bwaahahaha! I am above the law!

(mp3) Mastodon - Curl of the Burl (vocal tracks)
(mp3) Mastodon - Curl of the Burl (guitar tracks)
(mp3) Mastodon - Curl of the Burl (bass tracks)
(mp3) Mastodon - Curl of the Burl (drum tracks)

The wit and the wisdom

Bob Mould of Hüsker Dü, Sugar and solo fame, is a bit of a personal hero of mine. You crazy kids probably know him best as the dude singing on Foo Fighters' Dear Rosemary.

Found this great interview where he talks about his book See A Little Light, about being one of the founding fathers of alternative rock, about being gay in the punk community, and much else.

Listen to this, then go buy some fucking Hüsker Dü records.

(mp3) The Sound of Young America - Bob Mould interview

Who's the retard here, me or Relapse.com?

Trying to order two t-shirts from Relapse. Sounds simple enough, but after logging in and entering all of my details, I just keep getting this shit (click to enlarge):


What am I doing wrong?

I also get told that "your order can not be completed at this time as there is no shipping methods available for it. Please make neccessary changes in your shipping address."

What's wrong with my shipping address? They don't ship to Sweden? Is that it? Then why the fuck does the registration form have a menu bar with a million fucking countries to choose from including (you guessed it) SWEDEN?

Fuck this assload of ass.

(mp3) LOK - Sug min
Available on Ut Ur Discot Och In i Verkligheten (2002)

(mp3) Myty Konkeror - Whitewash
Available on I Miss The Future (2011)

(mp3) Weird Owl - Tobin's spirit guide
Available on Ever The Silver Cord Be Loosed (2008)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #128

I'm gonna sound like an ungrateful dick saying this, but I'll say it anyway: Stop sending me your shitty promos.

Every day I get sent loads of stuff. People telling me to listen to this, to listen to that, watch this video, review that live clip. Sounds great, doesn't it? To have your inbox fill up with free music from all over the world.

Too bad 99.9% of it is ass.

Rarely do you get anything interesting or even good, and almost never do you get something that's actually great. One of the few times it's happened was when a band called god bows to math (I'm told it's supposed to be all lower-case letters) sent me a recording. I enjoyed it so much I even included a track from it on next week's Friday mix.

There's also been stuff like Dirt Communion, Turbowolf and a couple of others, but these are the exceptions. Lonely golden nuggets in a two-thousand gallon pool of puke. The last few months I haven't even opened any promo emails - straight to the junk mail folder they go.

If this blog has proven anything it's that I know how to dig out quality music, regardless of how obscure it may be. Trust me on this: if your music is good enough, I'll find it myself sooner or later. If it isn't I'll continue to ignore it forever. Either way, quit clogging up my mail box.

Stop sending me your shitty promos.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #128 (57 mb)

1. Taint - Hex breaker (2007)
2. Channel Zero - Hammerhead (2011)
3. Alabama Thunderpussy - Middle finger salute (1999)
4. The Wildhearts - Anthem (1997)
5. Ryan Adams - Ariel (2010)
6. Hail!Hornet - Suicide belt (2011)
7. Sepultura - No one will stand (2011)
8. Burnt By The Sun - Don Knotts (2002)
9. Haust - Ugly fucking Oslo (2008)
10. The Melvins - Jerkin' krokus (Mott The Hoople cover, 2002)
11. The Devin Townsend Project - Disruptr (2009)
12. Nine - A new sedative (2001)

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Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #140

(mp3) Ebba Grön - We're only in it for the drugs
Available on We're Only In It For The Drugs (1979)

(mp3) DSW - Trippin' the drill
Available on Dawn Storm Watchers (2011)

(mp3) Yakuza - Be that as it may
Available on Of Seismic Consequence (2010)

(mp3) Chronos - Silver tongue
Available on Demo (2010)

(mp3) Wino - Release me
Available on Punctuated Equilibrium (2009)

Books You Should Read: "The Rasputin File" by Edvard Radzinsky

I don't recommend enough books on this blog. I can only remember doing it once - last year when I told you to buy Grunge Is Dead by Greg Prato.

Well, now I'm telling you to read this most excellent book about Rasputin. These guys put it well:

"This book is based on a lost investigation file that only resurfaced after the fall of the Communist Russian government, in 1995. It was at this point that the world was to learn of just how involved Grigory Rasputin was at being a catalyst to the Russian revolution, which led to the ending of the Tsars in Russian history. The file is filled with interrogations of many of the people that made up the intimate circles of Rasputin, himself. And it is through these interrogations that a clearer picture of the character of Rasputin evolves."

If you have even the slightest interest in the life and death of Rasputin (if you're awesome you do), this is essential reading. Perhaps whilst listening to Mastodon's Crack the Skye?

Or this one:

(mp3) Fireside - Let Rasputin do it
Available on Uomini D'Onore (1998)

Trippy Shit Tuesday

I've been dying to post this for weeks - it's so fucking good. You will have to hear it to be believe it. And even then you may have trouble believing it.

It's that fucking good.

(zip) Trippin' Balls Vol. 6 - Gather, Psychonauts (92 mb)

1. Jeremy Irons & The Ratgang Malibus - Skin deep (2011)
2. Hills - Bring me sand (2011)
3. Agitation Free - First communication (1974)
4. SubRosa - Beneath the crown (2011)
5. Agalloch - Odal (2002)
6. Ten East - Draggin' balls (2006)
7. Wino - Water crane (2009)
8. Omega Massif - Totengebirge (2009)

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Curly burly

In a slightly better mood today.

Partly thanks to this:



You can't count the ways this album will rule.

Meh

I'm in a shitty fucking mood today. I wish it was Tuesday so I could at least post vol. 6 of Trippin' Balls, because that would cheer me up. But it isn't, so I can't.

Whatever. Fuck it.

Here's a good song. Listen to it or I'll cut your fucking face.

(mp3) Demon - Decisions
Available on Night of the Demon (1981)

If you don't have Master's Hammer on your lapel...

...you're wack!


You're so wack!

(mp3) Master's Hammer - Zapálili jsme onen svět
Available on Ritual (1991)

(mp3) Master's Hammer - Já nechci mnoho trápiti...
Available on The Jilemnice Occultist (1992)

(mp3) Master's Hammer - Ach synku, synku
Available on Šlágry (1995)

(mp3) Master's Hammer - Čerti
Available on Mantras (2009)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #127

This will go down in history as my sellout mix. Jesus saladtossing Christ, would ya look at all this easy-listening mainstream bullshit! Is there a dollar sign on my forehead? I bet there is.

I'm a whore.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #127 (62 mb)

1. Khoma - Like coming home (2006)
2. Brain Police - Iron fist (2003)
3. Liam Lynch - United states of whatever (2003)
4. Wolf People - Painted cross (2010)
5. The Smashing Pumpkins - Here is no why (1995)
6. Alice In Chains - What the hell have I? (1992)
7. Soundgarden - Fresh tendrils (1994)
8. Nirvana - Swap meet (1989)
9. Willard - Stain (1992)
10. Tool - Swamp song (1993)
11. Misery Loves Co. - The drowning man (The Cure cover, 2000)

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wtf?

Marc Maron's podcast WTF, now on its third year, continues to be one of the greatest things on the internet. Essential listening twice a week, link in the blog roll.

I found this and it amused me:

(mp3) Marcin Pawlik - I just want to feel better (feat. Marc Maron)

Q: How awesome does this look?

A: Very awesome.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #139

(mp3) Krux - Sea of doom
Available on Krux II (2006)

(mp3) Obliteration - A land of hope
Available on This Is Tomorrow (2009)

(mp3) A Perfect Circle - What's going on (Marvin Gaye cover)
Available on eMOTIVe (2004)

(mp3) Butthole Surfers - The annoying song
Available on Independent Worm Saloon (1993)

(mp3) Deftones - My own summer (shove it)
Available on Around the Fur (1997)

Trippy Shit Tuesday

Purified from the flames of the waking dream
Negates requisite embodiment from life to life
Currents ground as the solistic eye prevails
As the sky grieves way remainder
And the celestial's glow prevails
Beyond the seen and seer and the sight which sees
Into unmodified state reclaimed

(zip) Trippin' Balls Vol. 5 - Weed for Jesus (94 mb)

1. Explosions in the Sky - Human qualities (2011)
2. Maserati - The language (2002)
3. Ten East - Sun filter (2008)
4. Worm Ouroboros - A birth, a death (2010)
5. Triptykon - Shrine (2010)
6. Mono - Pure as snow (trails of the winter storm) (2009)
7. Intronaut - Below (2009)
8. Sällskapet - Hauptbahnhof (2007)
9. Giant Squid - Rubicon wall (2009)
10. Jex Thoth - Stone evil (2008)

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If you don't have a bit of old French absinthe poster art on your wall...

...you're wack!


You're so wack!

(mp3) The Gits - Absynthe
Available on Frenching the Bully (1992)

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #138

(mp3) Mountain Witch - Throne of blood
Available on Scythe & Dead Horse (2010)

(mp3) The Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia my reflection
Available on Floodland (1987)

(mp3) Helmet - Milquetoast
Available on Betty (1994)

(mp3) ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Bells of creation
Available on The Century of Self (2009)

(mp3) Machine Head - Violate (live)
Available on Take My Scars EP (1998)

V/A - "I Närbild: Svensk Retrorock" (2011)

Back in April Close-Up Magazine had a feature on Sweden's ever-growing 60s/70s retro rock scene, written by this guy. For subscribers such as myself, an excellent compilation CD was included with selected songs by the bands featured. That's the compilation you're getting today.

If you've followed this blog for a while you may recognise some of these names. My personal favorite on here is probably Gracious Man by Spiders. Cracking tune.

(zip) V/A - I Närbild: Svensk Retrorock (84 mb)

1. Graveyard - No good, Mr. Holden
2. Three Seasons - Too many choices
3. Horisont - Visa vägen
4. Free Fall - Power and volume
5. Noctum - Children of darkness
6. Spiders - Gracious man
7. Gordon Fights - Time machine
8. Crystal Caravan - Love and direction
9. Troubled Horse - Shirleen
10. Katla - Haze
11. Siena Root - As we return

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The Friday MP3 Shuffle #126

Alright. Friday. A new mix. A good one. Heavy shit here. Yeah. Listen to it. Good one. Yeah.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #126 (76 mb)

1. Hatred - Tempted by violence (1989)
2. Filthy Christians - Psychopathis sexualis (1994)
3. Possessed - March to die (1987)
4. Cryptic Slaughter - Lowlife (1986)
5. Carcass - Corporal jigsore quandary (1991)
6. Death - Pull the plug (1988)
7. Cannibal Corpse - Sentenced to burn (1998)
8. Bombs of Hades - Coffin (2008)
9. Tribulation - Curse of resurrection (2009)
10. Abscess - Damned and mummified (2004)
11. Vicious Art - Shudder (2011)
12. Hooded Menace - Laboratory of nightmares (2008)

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Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #137

(mp3) Tomahawk - Sweet smell of success
Available on S/t (2001)

(mp3) Roadsaw - Motel shoot out
Available on S/t (2011)

(mp3) Djembefitta - Lars Ulrich
Available on ??? (2008)

(mp3) Sayyadina - The revenge
Available on Bruce Banner/Sayyadina split 7" (2001)

(mp3) Filter - So cool
Available on Short Bus (1995)

If you don't have Krist Novoselic on your wall...

...you're wack!


You're so wack!

Trippy Shit Tuesday

Ah yes, you like Trippy Shit Tuesday, don't you? I can tell by the number of downloads. It may tickle your loins then to learn that I finished Vol. 10 just a few minutes ago, so this feature isn't going anywhere any time soon. Mark your calenders - your mind blown, every Tuesday.

You benefit from my awesomeness once again. You're welcome.

Back in April I said that if more people listened to Crippled Black Phoenix, the world would be a better place. That still holds true, and if their rendition of Journey's Of a Lifetime isn't yet another proof of this fact then you're simply not paying attention.

(zip) Trippin' Balls Vol. 4 - Remnants of a past that never was (99 mb)

1. Cult of Luna - Marching to the heartbeats (2006)
2. Träd, Gräs Och Stenar - Svärmors brudpolska (2009)
3. Alcest - Circle poisoning the sea (2009)
4. Galaxy-Lin - Bizarre (1975)
5. Agalloch - This white mountain on which you will die (2006)
6. Atlas - Den vita tranans väg (1979)
7. Blood Ceremony - The rare lord (2008)
8. Crippled Black Phoenix - Of a lifetime (Journey cover, 2010)
9. The Angels of Light - New York girls (2001)
10. Brant Bjork - Defender of the oleander (1999)
11. The Devin Townsend Project - Synchonicity freaks (2009)
12. Siena Root - Rasayana (2004)

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