Side A
Artist	Song
Syd Barrett	Octopus
Holy Modal Rounders	Bird Song
Love	Live And Let Live
Brian Wilson	Bicycle Song (from Smile Sessions)
David Peel & The Lower East Side	I Like Marijuana
Bonzo Dog Band	We Are Normal
Roky Erickson	Click Your Fingers Applauding To Play
The Fugs	Virgin Forest
The Monks	Complicated
Fapardokly	Super Market
Captain Beefheart	Beatle Bones 'N Smokin' Stones
Skip Spence	Lawrence Of Euphoria
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Cleaners From Venus	Illya Kuryakin Looked At Me
Robyn Hitchcock	Take Your Knife Out Of My Back
Nick Drake	Poor Boy
Jonathon Richman	Rockin' Shopping Center
Butterfly Joe	Little Pill
Daniel Johnston	Girls
Jad Fair	If I'd Only Known
Brother JT	Intangible Mack Truck
Julian Cope	Umpteenth Unnatural Blues
Scott Walker	Louise
Kendra Smith	Earth Same Breath
Kate Bush	Mother Stands For Comfort
The Deviants	Nothing Man

Comment:

Ee ECCENTRICS: In the world of rock snobbery, no one draws more fasination and devotion than that of the eccentric artist. To qualify. one must poseess one or more of the following characteristics: 1) be an idiot savant 2) lost your marbles 3) or avoid the public eye with obsessive passion. The information (and misinformation) surrounding the figures only serves to enhance the mystique. Only the likes of a Captain Beefheart or Roky Erickson could write "Click Your Fingers Applauding To Play". The likes of Prince and Tori Amos (who would like you to think they are eccentric but are trying too hard) couldn't come up with something that brilliant yet make $40 million bucks and Roky lives in a dump. Few artists record something so naked that reveal layers of inner soul like a Syd Barrett, Skip Spence or Brian Wilson. If we cannot communicate with them in "normal" terms, we have thier music that conveys emotions in vivid terms that few of the "sane" among us can match. What gives the life of the eccentric such fascination is the madness seems genuine. The barrier between life and art is all too fragile.

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