A little late this week, but it's worth it; we start off with definitive proof that Krautrock is alive and well in The Emperor Machine's 'The TV Extra Band', a tremendous dose of motorik beauty that has been surpassed in the last decade by only Klingklang's 'Heavydale' (another song I'll have to slap up here one of these days). We also have forgotten the Captain-Kirk-espousing Spizz doing some righteous early 80s proggy-punk fusion, a genre that should really be more popular than it is, because it's always cool. Follow this with 'Black Enuff' by The Pharaohs, a jazz/funk/r'n'b collective featuring Maurice White, later of Earth, Wind, and Fire of all things, as well as someone doing the best 'grandpaw' impression I've ever heard in a funk song. And of course, I couldn't finish this post without mentioning my not-so-secret love: song-poems, a phenom where hard-up session musicians advertised in the back of magazines for foolish poets with fame on the brain; we poets gave the musicians some lyrics (and more than a little hard-earned dough), and they put our weird scribblings to bland music. I had put up Ramsey Kearney performing John Trubee's absolutely unreal 'Peace and Love (Blind Man's Penis)' before, while 'Rat-a-tat, America' isn't quite as transcendental, it has a charming '70s fascist quality that the whole family can enjoy.
1. The Emperor Machine - The TV Extra Band
2. Harry Nilsson and Shelley Duvall - He Needs Me (demo)
3. Athletico Spizz 80 - New Species
4. Billy Childish and the Blackhands - Underneath the Mango Tree
-Commercial: Best fertilizer-
5. Boris Policeband - Tow Away
6. The Pharaohs - Black Enuff
7. Dick Kent - Rat-a-Tat, America!
8. Bongwater - Reaganation
9. Psychic TV - ?
Don't look directly into its eyes, just go here.
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