Artist	Song
Half Japanese	Guitar Solo
Mr. Quintron	Take Off The Wet Suits
Vox Pop	Cab Driver
Shonen Knife	Dali's Sunflower
Scorched Earth Policy	Turn Your Eyes Away
Gris Gris	Cuerpos Haran Amor Extrano
Alice Cooper	Levity Ball
The Soft Boys	Sandra's Having Her Brain Out
Richard Hell & the Voidoids	The Kid With The Replaceable Head
Lee Harvey Oswald Band	Tinglers
The Leather Nun	Fly Angels Fly
Stnnng	I Held It For An Instant, I Knew What It Was, And Then It Was Vanished
The Stick Men	Caged Sex
Abe Vigoda	Here We Are Caves
Sort Sol	Boy-Girl
Jet	Cover Girl
The Fall	Stepping Out (live)
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy	My Underwear Froze To The Clothesline
Ohio Express	Beg, Borrow & Steal
Delta 5	Now That You've Gone
NNB	Slack
Edgar Broughton Group	There's No Vibrations, But Wait!
Weird War	Store Bought Pot
The Zerfas	Stoney Wellitz
The Flaming Lips	Rainin' Babies

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Some fun factoids - Vox Pop were an LA punk supergroup of sorts. This single from 1982 is an inspiring slowcore dirge from an era when things were getting faster & louder.
I was disappointed upon hearing last year's Shonen Knife reissues when I discovered that their quirky charms didn't seem as otherworldly to me now. A few cuts probably still make for good left field picks on mixtapes. After signing to Virgin Records they recorded slicker takes of some early songs, but this version's from their first LP.
Head over to mixotheque to learn more about New Zealand's Scorched Earth Policy & to d/l a jaw dropping number of kiwi pop essentials.
Always economically minded, I waited to find a cheap copy of the Alice Cooper box set, rightly presuming I'd only ever listen to the first two discs. As a result I don't have the booklet so I'm uncertain about the origin of this studio version of Levity Ball (as opposed to the live version on the perpetually misinformed live in Toronto bootleg). I'm guessing it was an outtake from Pretties For You.
The Lee Harvey Oswald Band were Rick Sims' of the Didjits gag band who's Ziggy Stardust on smack brand of glam comes off better & more on target than any number of grebo & hairspray bands of the same period.
I always thought of Denmark's Sort Sol as a Joy Division knockoff 'til I recently heard their first single. Lydia Lunch makes a guest appearance midway through this raunch-a-billy romp. Thanks to post-punk junk for this & the preceding two tracks.
The band Jet featured here is NOT the lame Aussie band, but a glam group from the 70's that featured the less popular members of John's Children, Sparks & Roxy Music. Later they became Radio Stars. I picked this off volume 5 of Hard Up Heroes. If anyone has a copy of Jet's LP available for dubbing please drop me a line.
The Edgar Broughton Band were a group of UK freaks who were regulars on the early 70's free festival scene, often performing from the back of their truck. I know I've used this tune on several mixes already, but this is an alternative take found on the reissue of Sing Brother Sing that doesn't beep out the "fucks" & also contains some odd background vocals.
Thanks to valis for the sleazetastical front & back cover images & for The Zerfas. I was initially put off by some of their jamming, but I wound up digging this track which features a far-out Moog solo & what sounds like a drugged out Robert Plant on vocals.
During an all night movie marathon following the accidentally downing of Dayquil before bedtime I caught the Flaming Lips doc Fearless Freaks. While seeing Steven Dozd shooting up did nothing to improve my state (nor did my second feature pick, Todd Solondz' Storytelling) I did fall for this track which plays over the closing credits. "This is my present to the world!"

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