Laughing Trees

Arab On Radar - Swimming With A Hard On

2011-12-14T23:45:00.005-05:00

1 - Swimming With A Hard On
2 - Samurai Fight Song

Released on Load Records with a silkscreened cardboard sleeve. Some copies came in pink marble vinyl.

Load 023

(1998)

http://www.mediafire.com/?bfxg52yg1qi2ik5

Edward Ka-Spel - AaΔzhyd China Doll

2011-12-13T22:34:00.014-05:00

Edward Ka-Spel's catalog is vast with 40+ Legendary Pink Dots records, nearly 30 solo albums, and a dozen Tear Garden albums, all while actively touring for 30 years. I'm a big fan of Edward Ka-Spel's earlier solo work. Lo-fi bedroom recordings with intriguing storylines, trippy synths, carnival sounds, drones, and remnants of Eastern folk.

I believe this was the fourth release from the China Doll series. Recorded at the Dolls house in Amsterdam. I've found some new reissues from the other China Doll albums but I think this one has been out of print for 20 years.

1 - AaΔzhyd China Doll
2 - Flesh Parade
3 - The Qa' Spell
4 - The Unfortunate Demise Of The Fabulous Puccino Brothers
5 - Nuts In May
6 - Traitors' Gate
7 - Blowing Bubbles (Part III)
8 - The Fool
9 - The Witchfinder Suite (Parts I-VI)

(1987)

http://www.mediafire.com/?8x3usfvabxfxkbu

from an interview in 2004

- Do you have any idea of how many albums you've done so far?

I have no idea at all. It seems to me like a waste of energy to start counting.

http://www.premonition.org/premor.php3?lien=actu/actu.php3X1Xactuid=227002&ta=10

Cabaret Voltaire - Live October 25, 1980

2011-11-19T21:43:00.016-05:00

Supported by Young Marble Giants, The Sleepers, and Gears at the Keystone in Berkeley, Ca, USA.

Cabaret Voltaire released two live albums that both sounded like they were recorded in a toilet of the bathroom at the show. This unreleased cassette is crystal clear compared to those other documents. The Western Mantra track at the end clocks in at close to 20 minutes. A very creepy groan comes in and out of the droning dance beats. The vocals were modulated into a dying cyborg, atonal buzzsaw guitars waved about, reel to reel samples were fucked with, and a dainty drum machine thumped along into a trippy mess.
Original C90 had an interview from the KJFC Los Attos radioshow.

1 - Photophobia
2 - Kneel to the Boss
3 - This is Entertainment
4 - Expect Nothing
5 - No Escape
6 - Seconds Too Late
7 - Western Mantra

http://www.mediafire.com/?y0va6md9zsb7tia

Element Of Crime - '''The Things You Do For Love,,,

2010-08-30T20:59:00.021-04:00

Ink-stamped with label in custom stickered heavy duty card sleeve. This handmade 7" is 9 minutes of amazing lo-fi jangly throbbing garage rawk from some of England's riot bois and grrls.

According to a Huggy Bear fansite: Chris from Huggy Bear sang, Jo and Dale from blood Sausage traded bass duties, Andy from Linus played guitar, Daryl from Sister George played the drums, and Layla from Skinned Teen did some backup vocals. Supposed to be first in a series of Huggy Bear offshoot 7" singles. No others came out afterward.

"Chris wrote the lyrics crouched down in the tube station waiting for Bratmobile to come. The studio was Toe Rag, which is the same place a lot of Billy Childish/Holly Go Lightly stuff was recorded, really rad old equipment and atmosphere too. It was a drunken party style recording, songs all written on the spur of the moment." - Layla (Skinned Teen)

1 - Hero Erin

2 - ((Jaws All ism))

3 - Delinqunt Squint

4 - Verte Break

etching: collaboration . . frequencies. simon - the exchange. subliminal . . mod tendancies

(1993)

http://www.mediafire.com/?cwe7r16izaudodf

Public Image Ltd. - This Is Not A PiL Album

2010-08-30T16:52:00.038-04:00

Here is a collection from an Australian boot that came out in 1984. Catalog # Porpak SEX 3525.

1 - Blue Water

2 - Where Are You?

3 - Mad Max

Tracks 1-3 were recorded at Pasadena Convention Center, USA, November 8th, 1982. Mad Max is an early version of Bad Life.

4 - Profile

Recorded at the Olympic Auditorium in L.A., May 4th, 1980. It's an early version of Home Is Where The Heart Is.

5 - Poptones

6 - Careering

Old Grey Whistle Test on February 12th, 1980. The OGWT recordings from this record were pretty shotty so I replaced them with better quality files of the same performance.

7 - Belsen Was A Gas

The Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park, London, 1978.

8 - Problems

From somewhere in Paris in '79.

9 - Another

Originally a B-side to the Memories single. This track was from the Sci-Fi Festival, Queen's Hall, Leeds, September 8th 1979.

10 - Pied Piper

London, '80. Pied Piper was originally on the comp. titled Machines.

I amplified most of these tracks on Audacity way beyond the recommended clipping levels because they were too muffled and quiet.

http://www.mediafire.com/?47ztqcanosajep4

Swans - Live In Bochum, Zeche 9/29/87

2010-06-13T23:53:00.009-04:00

Here is a clean bootleg from the Children Of God era. The last song is from the Cop LP. Praise god.

1 - You're Not Real Girl
2 - Our Love Lies
3 - New Mind
4 - Blind Love
5 - Blackmail
6 - Sex, God, Sex
7 - Intermezzo
8 - Wandering Star
9 - Your Property

(1987)

http://www.mediafire.com/?adjgzhzjik4

PJ Harvey - Dry (Demonstration)

2010-06-07T23:07:00.007-04:00

Early copies of the Dry LP came with a limited edition CD with the album and demo versions. Here are all the demos from the album.

1-Oh My Lover (acoustic)
2-O Stella
3-Dress
4-Victory
5-Happy & Bleeding
6-Sheela-Na-Gig (acoustic)
7-Hair
8-Joe
9-Plants and Rags
10-Fountain
11-Water

(1991)

http://www.mediafire.com/?wdqmzml2ded

Antony and the Johnsons - France Inter - C'est Lenoir - White Session

2010-05-27T00:22:00.006-04:00

This is from a French radio session. It begins with a cover of Nico's Afraid and follows with an assortment from the first two albums.

1. Afraid (Nico)

2. I Fell In Love With a Dead Boy

3 - Bird Gerhl

4 - The Lake

5 - For Today I Am a Boy

6 - My Lady Story

7 - Cripple and the Starfish

8 - Crackagen

9- You Are My Sister

(2005)

http://www.mediafire.com/?5ienhdkuwta

B.E.F. Music for listening to:

2010-04-11T21:54:00.010-04:00

A brief lesson in the history of Sheffield, England.

In 1980 Martin Ware and Ian Craig Marsh left Human League and formed B.E.F. (British Electric Foundation). Sony just released the walkman and they decided to release this on cassette as Music for Stowaways. I'm sure this would sound good on headphones. The vinyl version which I ripped had the extra track A Baby Called Billy. Some of the songs are recognizable as early instrumental Heaven 17 songs. Soon after they got Glenn Gregory on vocals and changed their name to Heaven 17.

penthouse side:
1-Groove Thang
2-Optimum Chant
3-Uptown Apocalypse

pavement side:
4-A Baby Called Billy
5-Rise of the East
6-Music to Kill your Parents by
(1980)

http://www.mediafire.com/?z5wjuygnuiy

P.i.L. -Albatross/Death Disco Remix EP

2010-04-06T23:21:00.011-04:00

I'm not too sure of the origins of this but it is a reissue 12" with long remixes from Metal Box. It's a nice heavy slab of gray marble wax. Albatross is over 10 minutes of jangly dubby madness & Death Disco is nearly 10 minutes long. 'Words cannot express' 'Words are useless' (1979?)

-Albatross ('Melodrama' Mix)
-Death Disco (Swan Lake) (Unedited Monitor Mix)

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f7814e7842b4659eab1eab3e9fa335ca37cd1b410b6d4340

The Trashmen - Henrietta b/w Rumble

2010-01-22T00:55:00.005-05:00

The Trashmen are most known for their version of the 'Surfin' Bird'. This is a 45 reissue I have from 'Sundazed Music Inc.' on beautiful blue vinyl. Recorded live at Proaches Popular Ballroom on August 22, 1965. The B-side is a nice cover of Link Wray's fuzzy 'Rumble'.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mzllknm2dzz

Flipper - Love Canal/Ha Ha Ha 7"

2010-01-22T00:39:00.008-05:00

The first 7" from Flipper on Subterranean Records in 1980. I first heard 'Ha Ha Ha' as a youngin' from the 'Let Them Eat Jellybeans' compilation that I stole from my older sister who probably stole it from her surfer ex boyfriend in Hawaii. This is a nice slab of suicidal punk for the weird at heart.

Side A:

Love Canal

Side B:

Ha Ha Ha

http://www.mediafire.com/?yzajhzwidyx

Slant 6 split w/ The Make UP

2010-01-20T00:26:00.008-05:00

Stop 7"

Side One

1. I Love You A Lot
2. Rebel Rebel, Bat Cat

This split w/ The Make-Up came out in 1995 from the label Time Bomb. The song 'Rebel Rebel Bat Cat' is a very sweet rendition of Bowie's Rebel Rebel with altered lyrics about a feline. Coincidentally my oldest cat is named Bat and I consider this our love song. I'm assuming the Make-Up songs are still available on the CD version of the 'I Want Some' LP so I won't post 'We're Having A Baby' & 'Young Vulgarians'.

This post is for Danny.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f7814e7842b4659eab1eab3e9fa335cac906d1cbfc7a461a

Bratmobile - She Said

2009-10-22T22:46:00.012-04:00

Here's a lo-fi love song reminiscent of the Vaselines recording under a big comforter, but in a good way. This was part of trple 7" package with bands from Richmond, Baltimore, & D.C. Each City's record had a different color; Pink, Brown, & White. I only have the white one with Bratmobile. I'm wondering if Richmond was Pink or Brown.

Bratmoblie - Neapolitan Cosmopolitan 3x7" 1992

Side E1: She Said
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tmjmuxjwmlg

Divine - Born To Be Cheap

2009-10-20T22:56:00.005-04:00

A Born To Be Cheap
B The Name Game

Around the time he was working on Polyester this 45 was released on Chicago's Wax Trax label in 1980. The sleeve comes with a foldout poster of various poses and there are several fake autographs throughout the design.

http://www.mediafire.com/?jyndybei1nm

Soft Cell - Memorabilia 12"

2009-10-19T18:47:00.009-04:00

A Memorabilia (long version)
B Persuasion

This is the long version of Memorabilia recorded in 1980 and released in 1981 on Some Bizzare records. The B-side, Persuasion, not to be confused with the song by friends Throbbing Gristle, is a lovely ditty on the horrors of supermarket consumerism. A demo version of Persuasion can be found remastered on the Demo Non Stop CD released 2006 on Some Bizzare records.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?52tluigmh4j

The Cure - Tianenman Faith

2009-03-07T22:04:00.006-05:00

The song Faith has a history of improvised changes in lyrics while played live. This version was recorded the day of the murders in Tiananmen Square in China 6.06.89. This is an especially intense and angry version that lasts 15 minutes.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mmehzzdtzz2

Maintenance

2009-03-06T13:07:00.007-05:00

I'm in the process of trying to re-upload some past posts. I think rapidshare has changed things slightly so my files were only download-able 10 times. I will be switching them to mediafire and hopefully that will fix things for a while.

Radio Cramps - The Purple Knif Show

2009-02-05T22:46:00.009-05:00

The Purple Knif show was a radio show in Hollywood California with Lux Interior as the master of ceremony. He treated us to some of his favorite records with highly reverbed mic and echo for his other worldly comments.

R.I.P. Mad Daddy

Side One:
Jack The Ripper - The One Way Streets (from Ohio)
Louie Louie - The Swamprats (Pittsburg)
Oma Liddy - J.J. Jackals (He Later Became An Early MTV Video Jock)
Bird '65 - Trashmen (Michigan)
Oh, Girls, Girls - The Sparkles (Nashville)
The Fuzz - Link Wray (Maryland Or Outer Space...!)

Side Two:
Baby Brother - Bill Carter & The Rovin' Gamblers (Hollyweird)
Midnight Limbo - Tides (Sea?)
New Interns Watusi - Earl Hagan & The Interns (Emergency Ward)
The Hunch - Mad Mike & The Mechanics (Pittsburgh)
007 Theme - Billy Strange (Weirdsville)
Heartaches - Ted Weems & His Orchestra (Danceland)
Dragnet - Ray Anthony (Agony)

Side Three:
Turkey Neck Stretch - Grady O'Neal & The Bellatones (Hicksville)
Cafe Bohemian - Enchanters (Bohemia)
Take Me To Your Leader Cha Cha Cha - Sam Space & The Cadets
Fernandos Hideaway - Archie Bleyer (Stay Away)
Addams Family Theme - Vic Mizzy (he should be in the Addams Family with a name like that!!!)
Chicken - Spark Plugs
The Whip - Frantics
The Blob - 5 Blogs

Side Four:
Miller Beer Ad - The Troggs (Wild Thing)
Safari - Ward Darby and the Raves
Topsy Pt. II - Cozy Cole
It's Monster Surfing Time - Deadlyones

http://www.mediafire.com/?kwzymwyyz2i

Current 93 - The Dream Of The Green Goddess

2008-10-28T19:17:00.005-04:00

This is the first part of the special absinthe editions. It was released 2005 in a limited edition of 93. This song is a creepy deconstructed remix of Abba Alllla (Babylon Destroyer).

Contents of package:

Edition of 93 in sealed card sleeve.

Signed and numbered bottle of Absinthe Duplais Verte.

Two glasses, Two spoons , In printed wooden box with gold alpha/omega symbol.

Here is an interview with Pitchfork on the bottle:

Pitchfork: When I interviewed Ben (Chasney) he mentioned that you sent him a bottle of Current 93. Do you own a distillery?

DT: [Laughs] There's an absinthe company in Germany and the guy who runs it used to be a big Current 93 fan. He wrote to me and asked if I'd be interested in designing a label for his new range of absinthe. I said, yeah, I'd really like to, why don't we do a special edition of, say, 93 or 100 copies with a CD with an unreleased track done especially for it. That developed into a box with a bottle of absinthe and with my label, which was signed by me. There were two absinthe glasses and an absinthe spoon and the CD. So there were 93 of those, and Ben got sent one of those. There's a charity I work with called the John Bradburne Memorial Society, a leprosy mission in Zimbabwe. I said I'd do it for the absinthe company if they made a donation-- my payment-- to the society and also put in some blurb about the society. So they did.

http://www.mediafire.com/?nmcjmkehjmg

COIL - Absinthe Duplais

2008-10-28T17:38:00.008-04:00

This very limited edition part of the series of Absinthe bottles (yes, the real thing) is sold out. It was released in Dec 2006 in a signed and numbered edition of 250. I've seen these go from $650- 500 euros. There is a Coil track that's just under 12 minutes. Peter Christopherson did the cover work, bottle artwork, and music. The box came with two absinthe bottles, two spoons, and the one track CD.

Animal Are You?

http://www.mediafire.com/?tbjmzdmdamm

CURRENT 93 - BIRTH CANAL BLUES LIVE

2008-08-05T11:13:00.010-04:00

Birth Canal Blues is the latest limited edition EP from Current 93 and is a precursor to an upcoming album called 'Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain'. It was released for their last European tour.

'I Looked To The South Side Of The Door' Performed at the London Queen Elizabeth Hall, April 21st, 2008.

He starts off with a joke about the next album coming out in 2012. Everyone seemed to giggle at the thought of waiting four years for the new album to be released at the Mayan end time. I think he really chose a great and diverse pool of talent to work with once again. Baby Dee is banging on the piano, Andrew Liles is doing some sort of electronic bleeps, Michael Cashmore is conjuring some sort of slide guitar feedback, & there's a Lynchian drummer whom I don't recognize.

'She Took Us To The Places Where The Sun Sets' - From the Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, April 20th, 2008.

'The Nylon Lion Attacks As Kingdom' & 'Suddenly The Living Are Dying' at the Roadburn Festival, in Tilburg, April 20th, 2008.

COIL - THE REMOTE VIEWER

2008-07-13T18:39:00.007-04:00

Published as a limited CD-R to be sold during Coil's Spring 2002 tour in Europe. Only 500 copies were made. The disc is a CD-R with a blank face, no images, no text. It consists of a nearly 20 minute instrumental piece and two reworkings of the piece.

lineup:
Michael York (breton pipes)
Cliff Stapleton (hurdy gurdy)
John Balance
Peter Christopherson
Simon Norris
Danny Hyde (additional mixing on 2 & 3)

Tracks:
Remote Viewing 1
Remote Viewing 2
Remote Viewing 3

Listen, enjoy, and pretend to be Psychic.

http://www.mediafire.com/?gzzny1gtmug

Don't know what Breton Pipes are? Neither did I. Here's some info from http://folkipedia.org/

http://folkipedia.org/index.php?pageName=BretonPipes

And the Hurdy Gurdy. Don't pretend to know what it is if you forgot. School your friends with this obscure knowledge.

http://folkipedia.org/index.php?pageName=HurdyGurdy

HUGGY BEAR - SHIMMIES IN SUPER 8

2008-06-20T16:50:00.004-04:00

This was a double 7" compilation released on Duophonic in 1993 in a limited edition of 1200. Also on the comp were Stereolab, Colm & Darlin. This release is really rare and I wouldn't want to battle Stereolab fans on an auction site for it. These tracks are bedroom quality experiments in poetry, noise, and song. The answering machine sample mentions the Hickey Underworld, something I remember Nation Of Ulyssess referencing in their radical surreal manifestos.

Trafalger Square
Godziller
More Music From Bells
Snow White/Rose Red

http://rapidshare.com/files/123880101/shimmies_in_super_8.rar

HUGGY BEAR - FEBRUARY 14

2008-06-20T16:38:00.004-04:00

This is a one-sided 33rpm 7" self released in 1993. It was given away at a show on Valentine's Day 1993. The version of February 14 is different from the one on the split with Bikini Kill. The version of Into The Mission was taken from the We Bitched demo tape. These are lo-fi as can be but still a rare and interesting treat.

February 14
Into The Mission

http://rapidshare.com/files/123877881/February_14.rar

HUGGY BEAR - RUBBING THE IMPOSSIBLE TO BURST

2008-06-20T16:10:00.003-04:00

The debut 7" from Huggy Bear released by Wiija in 1992. This was mainly sold at shows and the rough trade store. This material wasn't re-released on the 10" of early singles or anything else.

Katholic Kunt

High Street Jupitor Super*Cone

Snail Messenger Lost

Single Bullets

http://rapidshare.com/files/123873489/rubbing_the_impossible.rar

THE SMITHS - LIFE IS A MISERABLE LIE

2008-06-17T19:20:00.007-04:00

Recorded live in Assembly Room, Derby, 12.07.83.

Here is a slightly edited version of accounts from passionsjustlikemine.com

Tickets for this concert were free, John Peel announced the ticket giveaway on his show. It was a very wild gig, the crowd was very energetic and constantly shouting requests. It all ended in chaos. After shushing the audience, Pretty Girls Make Graves was introduced with "A little quirk... a little quirk friends... pretty girls make!" In What Difference Does It Make?, he changed a line to "I think i can rely on me."
At some point during Miserable Lie, Morrissey was hit in the eye by a flower, dropped his microphone to the floor and left the stage. The band finished the song mostly as an instrumental. Morrissey came back on stage on time for the ending of "I need advice, I need advice", adding at the end "and so do you!" for the rowdy audience. Johnny Marr said in the 1985 programme for the Meat Is Murder tour, that this concert was his 'greatest embarrassment'.
Just before This Night Has Opened My Eyes which came next, Morrissey shushed the audience again and shouted "No! This!" In the song Morrissey changed a few lines, like "this night has opened my eyes and I will never see again", "The dream has gone, the crying is real" and "And I'm never happy and I'm never sad." After These Things Take Time, Morrissey just shouted "Goodbye! Stay handsome... goodbye..." and the band left.
They were soon welcomed back by a big collective cheer. They launched into You've Got Everything Now but it wasn't long before the stage became crowded with fans. Band members disappeared from view and Morrissey could barely sing his lines. The stage got filled with as many fans as was physically possible. It was one of the Smiths' first major stage invasions (including a small child!). This concert was recorded for The Old Grey Whistle Test and first broadcast the following Friday and Saturday. Some later rebroadcasts were shortened to seven songs, leaving out amongst others, the near-instrumental Miserable Lie.

Handsome Devil
Still Ill
This Charming Man
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Reel Around The Fountain
What Difference Does It Make?
Miserable Lie
This Night Has Opened My Eyes
Hand In Glove
These Things Take Time
You've Got Everything Now

http://rapidshare.com/files/123197691/Life_Is_A_Miserable_Lie.rar

NICO & JOHN CALE - LIVE

2008-06-17T14:25:00.003-04:00

I'm not sure when or where this show was from. I'm guessing it is sometime after Desertshore (1970) and before The End (1974). Possibly 1972? If anybody knows the source of these recordings please let me know.

A little bit of trivia I came across: According to the wikipedia, on December 13, 1974, Nico was the support act at Tangerine Dream's infamous concert at Reims Cathedral in north-east France. The promoter had so greatly oversold the capacity of the venue that attendees could not move or reach the outside, eventually resulting in some fans urinating inside the cathedral hall. As a result, the Roman Catholic Church denounced these actions, ordered the rededication of the cathedral and banned future gigs on church property.

Femme Fatale
No One Is There
Frozen Warnings
Janitor Of Lunacy
I’ll Be Your Mirror

http://rapidshare.com/files/123142341/Nico.rar

SKINNY PUPPY - Cleveland, Ohio, 1992

2008-06-16T22:28:00.006-04:00

Skinny Puppy - Cleveland, Ohio, 5.29.1992

This is a fairly decent recording from the Last Rights tour. Left Handshake is the infamous track that was deleted from Last Rights due to copyright issues. I believe there is a Timothy Leary sample in there. I think this was the last tour to feature Dwayne Goettel. They had to cancel a European part of the tour because of an injury Ogre had. He probably slipped on a pool of fake blood. It's a long set so I broke it up into two files.

Intro
Addiction
Love In Vein
The Choke
Harsh Stone White
Improv
Tin Omen
Warlock
Knowhere?
Anger

http://rapidshare.com/files/122979015/Cleveland__Oh__5.29.92__pt_1.rar

Improv
VX Gas Attack
Second Tooth
Killing Game
Circustance
Left Handshake
Testure

http://rapidshare.com/files/123111480/Cleveland__Oh__5.29.92__pt_2.rar

NICO - Live 1983

2008-06-01T21:31:00.005-04:00

I'm not sure when or where this was except that it was 1983 and in Europe. The interview in the beginning is hilarious. The questions and answers are very disjointed. She plays three of her songs, three Velvet Underground tunes, and a Bowie cover.

Interview
Sixty/Forty
Vegas
Saeta
All Tomorrow's Parties
I'm Waiting For My Man
Femme Fatale
Heroes

http://rapidshare.com/files/119449629/Nico.rar

Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express (german version)

2008-06-01T20:30:00.008-04:00

This is the german version of Trans Europa Express. Released May 1977. I haven't listened to these albums back to back (english vs. german) but I feel like these are entirely different sessions. The synthesizers all sound slightly different and louder. Rumor has it there is also a french version of the song Showroom Dummies entitled Le Mannequins.

Europa Endlos(Europe Endless)
Spiegelsaal(The Hall of Mirrors)
Schaufensterpuppen(Showroom Dummies)
Trans Europa Express
Metall auf Metall(Metal on Metal)
Franz Schubert
Endlos Endlos(Endless Endless)

http://rapidshare.com/files/119441806/Trans_Europa_Express.rar

Legendary Pink Dots - Dot To Dot

2008-05-31T18:45:00.006-04:00

There's nothing like a crispy clean bootleg of a live event from decades past. There's no clapping, no drunken chit chat by uncaring fans, it's almost as if the entire audience had their mouths taped shut. Recorded live in Hanover, Germany, 10 February 1988. Originally released by Teddy Bear Music in a limited cassette edition of 177 copies. LPD were a part of the cassette culture underground from the very beginning. Sing While You May!

(Side One)

Intro

True Love

A Strychnine Kiss

Neon Mariners

A Lust For Powder

MMMmmmmmmmmmm

The Gallery

The Light In My Little Girl's Eyes

Echo Police

(Side Two)

Under Glass

Curious Guy

I Am The Way, The Truth, The Light

Flowers For The Silverman

The Diary

Love In A Plain Brown Envelope

Band Line-up:

The Prophet Qa'Sepel (Edward Ka-Spel)

The Silverman (Phil Knight)

Stret Majest Alarm (Barry Gray)

Graham Whitehead

Patrick Q. Paganini (Patrick Wright)

Jason (Salmon)

http://rapidshare.com/files/119176005/01_-_LPD88partone.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/119185224/01_-_LPD88part2.rar

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - EDINBURGH, 1981

2008-05-20T23:06:00.004-04:00

Playhouse Theater, Edinburgh, 8.13.81

This was sourced from a tape to CD to mp3 and so on, so it is a little worn. I give it maybe a C+ in bootleg quality but it's at the height of their line-up with John McGeogh on guitar. This is from the JuJu tour.

'Placebo Effect' sounds much crazier here than ever.

Israel
Halloween
Spellbound
Placebo Effect
Tenant
Night Shift
Sin In My Heart
So Unreal
Voodoo Dolly
Christine
Head Cut
Arabian Knights
Eve White/Eve Black
Happy House
Switch
Monitor

http://rapidshare.com/files/116425176/Siouxsie_And_The_Banshees_-_Edinburgh_1981.rar

The Sisters Of Mercy - Live In The Trojan Horse, 1984

2008-05-15T12:05:00.006-04:00

Public Image Limited - Peel Sessions

2008-05-14T19:37:00.005-04:00

P.i.L. - Peel Session, December 17th, 1979.
These sessions are beyond words. As most Peel Sessions went, these tracks are a lot louder, colder, and scarier.

Chant
http://rapidshare.com/files/114963410/02_-_Track__2-5.mp3

Pop Tones
http://rapidshare.com/files/114964427/03_pop_tones.mp3

Careering
http://rapidshare.com/files/114956469/01_-_Track__1-3.mp3

Chumbawamba - Revolution EP

2008-05-14T11:20:00.015-04:00

Here is a copy of the extremely rare Chumbawamba 'Revolution' 12" EP from 1985. Some copies may be sitting in the dusty attics of aging anarcho-punks who are too cool for mainstream pop records but keep this for status. Other copies may be held hostage in big city record stores behind the counter with a three digit price tag. What once was a class conscious sales strategy of marking records at really low prices (one pound twenty pence) now just seems like a cute punk tag from 23 years ago. Listen closely as they rant against EMI who had hands in the arms trade and vivisection. This band would later have a one hit wonder while joining EMI attempting to change the system from within. They even encouraged fans to shoplift from mega stroes if they couldn't afford the CD. Unfortunately they were forced to censor a lot of great liner notes in the US. Baby teeny boppers could find said information if they ever tried to look up the band's website. Even though I haven't cared for their music since the early to mid '90's their website is very extensive and their hearts are still in the right place.

Adversity

http://rapidshare.com/files/114883016/01_-_Track__1-1.mp3

Total Control

http://rapidshare.com/files/114885533/02_-_Track__2-1.mp3

Stagnation

http://rapidshare.com/files/114886588/03_-_Track__3-1.mp3

Liberation

http://rapidshare.com/files/114887246/04_-_Track__4-1.mp3

http://www.chumba.com/index.html

Marc Almond & Friends - Discipline

2008-05-11T14:22:00.004-04:00

There once was a music zine called Flexipop. Each issue came with a 7" flexi record with different bands' rarities, b-sides, or leftovers. This 'Throbbing Gristle' cover was appropriately released with issue number 23 in October 1982. How Burroughsian. It was a clear one sided floppy. Matt Johnson (The The, Marc & the Mambas, etc.) is uncredited but plays guitar and percussion. Annie Hogan (Marc & the Mambas) played piano and keyboards and was also uncredited. This track can also be found on a bootleg of various rarities called 'Secret Life'. Soft Cell released two CDs of cold n' old rarities called 'Demo Non Stop' and 'The Bedsit Tapes'. This song was not included on either of those.

Marc Almond & Friends - Discipline (flexi disc)

http://rapidshare.com/files/114189392/02_-_Discipline__Marc_Almond___Friends_flexidisc_.mp3

Siouxsie & the Banshees - Whole Price Of Blood (demo)

2008-05-10T19:46:00.000-04:00

Siouxsie & the Banshees - the Whole Price Of Blood (demo)

Don't worry, there are vocals on this demo. I'm not always interested in instrumental band demos. This picture cracks me up. The back of her big haired nest while she gazes at the penguins (circa 1987).

(the song) Based on a episode from a series called 20/20 Vision Siouxsie saw about a female version of amnesty, called 'Les Sentinelle', "They rescue women who are trapped in certain religious climates in the Middle East, religions that view any kind of pre-marital sexual aspersion as punishable by death - either by the hand of the eldest brother, or by public stoning". A sister piece to 'Swimming Horses'.
Source: Downside Up liner notes.

Oh how could do it?
A murderous crime
A murderous wounding
How could you allow it?
After time that's been passing
Time should be wisening
A law that was written
In the blood of your victims
Born out of pure resentment
And what of your baby daughters
And what of these shameless slaughters
Lying buried in the sand?
Oh how could you do it?
A murderous past
That preys on the helpless
How could you allow it?
Such cruel and vile blades
To tear at such tender flesh
And loose the knot
From your tongue
Where evil is the resting place
And so it shall only be the single cry
Five senses shall be
The whole price of blood
Foot by foot, wound by wound
The whole price of blood
Hand for hand, strike for strike
The whole price of blood
Oh how could you do it?
Oh how could you allow it?

http://rapidshare.com/files/114020271/The_Whole_Price_Of_Blood__demo_.mp3

Virgin Prunes - Twenty Tens

2008-05-09T19:32:00.000-04:00

I only have the first track from their first 7". Originally released in 1981, later reissued on a compilation titled 'Artfuck' in 1993. Mute Records did a great job re-releasing most of their catalog. I highly recomend saving some money to buy all four CDs. This is just part of the missing gaps.

-Twenty Tens (I've Been Smoking All Night)

http://rapidshare.com/files/113788995/Virgin_Prunes_-_Twenty_Tens__I_ve_Been_Smoking_All_Night_Long_.mp3

Hey, hey, we’re all alone
Can I ask you a question?
Come answer some
Or is it you lack personality?
Can I state my case in case you mind?
Or how about what do you think about what I think about?
Could it, or is it so, in a conversation?
Do you really want to know?
Out of sight, yes out of mind,
A secret thinker! A hidden lie!
Running, living day to day
Running, living, nothing to say!
Hey, hey, where do I belong?
What have you been doing?
Smoking twenty tens for pleasure and company!
Listen, someone else is talking!
Talk! Talk!
Could it, or is it so, in a conversation?
Do you really want to know?
I’ve been smoking all night long

http://www.virginprunes.com/

COIL - Paradiso, Amsterdam, June 1st, 2001

2008-05-09T12:04:00.000-04:00

This is a good quality recording that was part of a Dutch radio broadcast. Sleazy plans on releasing a large batch of live recordings called 'Colour Sound Oblivion'. I will delete this post when this gets released.

-Something
-Higher Beings Command
-Amethyst Deceivers
-What Animal Are You?
-Blood From The Air
-I Am The Green Child
-Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil

http://rapidshare.com/files/113774421/_2001.06.01__Paradiso__Amsterdam-NL__01_June_2001_.zip

Annie Anxiety - It Was July

2008-05-08T23:01:00.000-04:00

From a collection called 'F/ear This' in 1987.

It was July

http://rapidshare.com/files/113584880/annie_anxiety-it_was_july-free.mp3

Annie & the Asexuals - Gates Of Freedom

2008-05-08T22:50:00.000-04:00

From the benefit album 'Here We Go' for the UK Miners' strike in 1985.

Annie & the Asexuals - Gates Of Freedom

http://rapidshare.com/files/113584876/annie_and_the_asexuals-gates_of_freedom-free.mp3

Annie Anxiety - Soweto Suntan

2008-05-08T22:44:00.000-04:00

From the 'Devastate To Liberate' LP to benefit the A.L.F. in 1985. Also on the compilation were Nurse With Wound, Sema, Coil, Shock Headed Peters, Current 93, Crass, Halfer Trio, Legendary Pink Dots, D & V, & P16.D4.

-Soweto Suntan

http://rapidshare.com/files/113584881/annie_anxiety-soweto_suntan-free.mp3

Annie Anxiety - Barbed Wire Halo

2008-05-08T21:35:00.000-04:00

Barbed Wire Halo 7" from Crass records in 1981. There's an infinite groove at the end of 'Hello Horror' so if I were to leave that record playing the scream would loop at the end forever.

Cyanide Tears

http://rapidshare.com/files/113584878/annie_anxiety-cyanide_tears-free.mp3

Hello Horror

http://rapidshare.com/files/113584879/annie_anxiety-hello_horror-free.mp3

Creatures - Skytrain (demo)

2008-05-08T20:31:00.001-04:00

Skytrain (demo)

In 1982 Siouxsie and Budgie took a vacation from the Banshees and ran away to Hawaii. While there they managed to crash a luau, make field recordings, and record the album 'Feast'. Here is a demo of the madness.

Here is some interesting trivia thanks to http://www.thebansheesandothercreatures.co.uk/

-The location for recording the first full length Creatures album was reached randomly

by placing a pin in a map of the world.
-When flying to Hawaii to record the album Siouxsie & Budgie passed through three different

time zones, as it was New Year's Eve they got to celebrate it three times!

Skytrain (demo)

http://rapidshare.com/files/115091874/Sky_Train.mp3

PJ Harvey on Jools Holland, 2007

2008-05-08T18:50:00.000-04:00

I was surprised at the amount of negative reviews PJ Harvey's last album received. She drastically changed her style to something much starker and minimal. While mainly voice and piano, she also used a broken harp, fiddle, wine glass, mellotron, optigan, mini-moog, and a variety of other toys. This is not background music to listen to while entertaining. Enjoy!

Silence
http://rapidshare.com/files/113560355/PJ_Harvey_-_Silence_-_Later_2007-11-16.mp3

White Chalk
http://rapidshare.com/files/113565081/PJ_Harvey_-_White_Chalk_-_Later_2007-11-16.mp3