Side A
Artist	Song
DISC 1	UNHEALTHY AS THE SHEEN ON A PIECE OF ROTTEN MEAT
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1. Big Star	Morpha Too (1974)
2. Steely Dan	Charlie Freak (1974)
3. Patti Smith	Hey Joe (Version) (1974, No Thanks! 2003)
4. Nico	Afraid (1970)
5. John Cale	Engine (1975)
6. Lou Reed	Oh Jim (1973)
7. The Modern Lovers	Hospital (recorded 1973, The Modern Lovers 1976)
8. Yoko Ono	Mind Holes (1971)
9. David Bowie	Win (1975)
10. Parliament	I Just Got Back From The Fantasy, Ahead Of Our Time In The Four Lands Of Ellet (1974)
11. Can	Oh Yeah (1971)
12. Roxy Music	The Bob (Medley) (1972)
13. Sparks	Saccharine And The War (1972)
14. Brian Eno	Third Uncle (1974)
15. Sadistic Mika Band	Picnic Boogie (1973, Golden Best 2002)
16. Iggy & the Stooges	Penetration (1973)
17. Ike & Tina Turner	Bolic (1972, Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter 2002)
18. Funkadelic	I Call My Baby Pussycat (1972)
19. David Bowie	Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family (1974)
20. Marc Bolan & T. Rex	Over The Flats (acoustic demo 1972, Work In Progress 2003)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
DISC 2	ALL THE TEENAGE STATIONS ARE BROADCASTING THROUGH THE BATHROOM PIPES
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1. The J.B.'s	Future Shock (Dance Your Pants Off) (1975, Funky Good Time 1995)
2. Parliament	There Is Nothing Before Me But Thang (1970)
3. Funkadelic	Alice In My Fantasies (1974)
4. Ike & Tina Turner	Contact High (1970, Scorched Earth 2004)
5. Lou Reed	N.Y. Stars (1975)
6. John Cale	Barracuda (1974)
7. Brian Eno	Cindy Tells Me (1973)
8. Bryan Ferry	Fingerpoppin' (1974)
9. New York Dolls	Stranded In The Jungle (1974)
10. Flamin Groovies	Doctor Boogie (1971)
11. John Lennon	Goodnight Vienna (demo 1974, Anthology 1998)
12. Gary Glitter	Baby Please Don't Go (1972, Rock and Roll 1991)
13. T. Rex	New York City (1975; The T. Rex Wax Co. Singles A's and B's 1972-77, 2002)
14. Suzi Quatro	Brain Confusion (For All The Lonely People) (1972, A's, B's & Rarities 2004)
15. David Bowie	I Can't Explain (1973)
16. NEU!	After Eight (1975)
17. Television	Little Johnny Jewel, Parts 1 & 2 (1975, No Thanks! 2003)
18. Lee Perry & the Upsetters	Kojack (1975, Dub-Triptych 2004)
19. William S. Burroughs	Virus B-23 (1975, The Best Of William S. Burroughs 1998)
20. Roxy Music	End Of The Line (1975)
21. Brian Eno	In Dark Trees (1975)
22. Yoko Ono	Dogtown (acoustic demo circa 1973, Rykodisc "Approximately Infinite Universe" bonus track 1997)
23. The Velvet Underground	I'll Be Your Mirror (live 1970, Peel Slowly and See 1995)

Comment:

A 2-CD sampler of what to my mind made 1970-1975 such great years: proto-punk, acid-funk, art-pop, junk-boogie, art-glam, glam-glam, dub, krautrock, Yoko; the weird, the wunnerful, the dirty, funky, confused, arty, druggy, junky, trashy, seedy, brilliant, f*cked-up, gorgeous, prescient, disposable, raw, primordial, unsettling, unclean. I first grew obsessed with this stuff back in the mid-80's when much of the best was out of print: circa 1987 I saw (but didn't buy) Parliament's "Osmium" for $100 or so, now it's on Amazon for $6.98. But still when I hear "Little Johnny Jewel" on CD, I flash back to mixing the 2-part Ork single onto cassette and experience PPBS (Phantom Pause Button Syndrome) precisely at 3:11. It will always be so. Of the (for me) new discoveries here I'll especially recommend "Contact High" (from the excellent "Scorched Earth" anthology), which may cause cannabis-infused negative energy to hover before the listener as a sculptural object. If that sounds like a good thing, check it out. ***** NOTES ABOUT SOURCES/YEARS: The years cited are year of commercial release or (for demos etc.) year recorded. I cite the source CD only when my source is a later anthology/hits package or the like. ***** SOURCES OF TITLES: "unhealthy as the sheen on a piece of rotten meat" is quoted from Robert Christgau's 1972 Consumer Guide review of Roxy Music's first album; "all the teenage stations are broadcasting through the bathroom pipes" is from "Egyptology (My Head Was a Sledgehammer)" by Richard Foreman.

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