Artist	Song
Sebadoh	Magnet's Coil
from Bakesale (Deluxe Edition) [Remastered] (2011)
The Halo Benders	Magic Carpet Ride
from Don't Tell Me Now (2007)
of Montreal	Don't Ask Me to Explain
from Cherry Peel (2008)
Portastatic	The Main Thing
from I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle (1994)
Pussy Galore	Sweet Little Hi-Fi
from Live: In the Red (1997)
The Magnetic Fields	Desert Island
from Holiday (1999)
Cynthia Dall	Christmas (California)
from Untitled (1996)
Pavement	Debris Slide
from Westing (By Musket and Sextant) (1993)
Beulah	Popular Mechanics for Lovers
from The Coast Is Never Clear (2001)
Beat Happening	Our Secret
from Beat Happening (2007)
Palace Music	New Partner
from Viva Last Blues (2008)
The Essex Green	Primrose
from Everything Is Green (1999)
Guided By Voices	A Salty Salute
from Alien Lanes (1995)
Low	I Remember
from Secret Name (1999)
Grifters	Bronze Cast
from Crappin' You Negative (1994)
Dinosaur Jr.	Freak Scene
from Bug (2005)
Palace Brothers	Merida
from There Is No One What Will Take Care of You (1993)
Monroe Mustang	The Elephant Sound 424
from The Elephant Sound (2007)
Railroad Jerk	Gun Problem
from One Track Mind (1995)
The Minders	Hooray for Tuesday
from Hooray for Tuesday (2004)
R. Stevie Moore	Alecia
from Contact Risk (1993)
Marshmallow Coast	Creative Writing
from Seniors and Juniors (1999)
Strapping Fieldhands	The Author In Her Ear
from Wattle & Daub (1996)
Dressy Bessy	New Song (From Me to You)
from Dressy Bessy (2003)
Refrigerator	Map to the Stars
from Abridged Perversion (1993)

Comment:

The lo-fi end of the indie spectrum is out at the edge of a scene that's [i]already[/i] out at the edge, so you can certainly expect some revelatory "who's that?" moments among these Deep Cuts. In "Christmas (California)," Cynthia Dall's sweet little schoolgirl vocal plays tug-of-war with a somewhat sinister riff about how she better get "something good" for Christmas or there's gonna be some unpleasant — possibly nuclear — consequences. Pussy Galore's "Sweet Little Hi-Fi" plants itself squarely at the corner of Cramps Boulevard and Ministry Avenue, a rockahelly-inflected noise-fest complete with Jerry Lee Lewis-style, corn-liquor-fueled vocal histrionics. And the Halo Benders (an ad-hoc three-release side project created by Built To Spill's Doug Martsch and the Beat Happening's Calvin Johnson) rumble out an archer-than-thou gobsmack in "Magic Carpet Ride" (no relation to the '60s Steppenwolf psychedelic smash).

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