June & July Music

Stevie roller skating

Billy Nicholls - Would You Believe?
Andrew Loog Oldham commissioned this album to be the British response to Pet Sounds. Only 100 copies hit the streets before label difficulties mothballed it.

Body Language - Falling Out

The Brothers Johnson - I'll Be Good To You // Land of Ladies

Clydie King & Brown Sugar - Dance to the Music

Doris - You Never Come Closer

Henry Lee Roberts - Halley's Comet (Dissolved)

The Jackson 5 - I Am Love

Larry Young - Turn Off the Lights

The Lat-Teens - African Twist // Now You Know

Quartetto Cetra - Crapa Pelada

Scott H. Biram - I See the Light/What's His Name?

The Makers - Don't Challenge Me

Todd Terje - Inspector Norse

Additionally:

This Boosh-y video:


Inside Led Zeppelin's private jet, 1973.

Cee Lo on American Dad:


Mr. Show's never released Rooms: The Musical:


A prequel mixtape to the forever delayed MF Doom / Ghostface Killah collaboration DOOMSTARKS.

This chopped and screwed midnight music video uses clips from Black Dynamite, Night on Earth, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Smiley Face, Death Wish, V, Dazed and Confused, Howard the Duck, Cruising, Danger: Diabolik, The Girlfriend Experience, Holy Mountain and 50 more I can't identify:


And lastly, Let My People Come: A Sexual Musical.

February 2012 Music

Sorry if this is super Jamaican-heavy but I'm half done wading through the complete Studio One singles:

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'

Arthur King - Fear

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - East 1999

The Brentford All-Stars - Blue Moon

The Darling Dears - And I Love You

Devon & the Soul Vendors - Get Ready Version

Freddie & Fritzy - Do Good
It's long since proven that kids singing reggae is irresistible

The Gladiators - Big Boo Boo Dey // Fling It Gimmie

The Hood Internet - When the Night Knows (Whitney Houston x Chromeo)

J-Dow - So Easy f. Busta Rhymes

Ken Parker - Before and After

Lloyd Williams - For Your Love

Nancy Wilson - Guess Who I Saw Today

The O'My's - Simply Beautiful

Rev. Robert Wilkins - The Prodigal Son
Covered but not credited by the Stones

Richard Ace & the Sound Dimensions - Can't Get Enough

Roberta Flack - Ballad of the Sad Young Men

SBTRKT - Hold On (Sisi BakBak Remix)
Word on the street is Sisi BakBak may also go by the name Thom Yorke

Schlachthofbronx - Slowine

Wayne Shorter - Face of the Deep

Additionally:

RIP Don Cornelius:


A cut guitar solo from Here Comes the Sun:


Joan Baez on Bob Dylan's writing process:

It reminds me of James Joyce talking about Ulysses: "I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."

A video compilation of fake bands:


Sun-Ra's Space Is The Place is now on YouTube:


?uestlove, Q-Tip, DJ Premier, and Pete Rock's hour long sets on Hot 97's Black Fist Fridays.

And this:

What a Fuck Up

How do you fuck up having a backing band consisting of Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, and Harry Nilsson? Apparently by being a complaining, coked-up, and drunk John Lennon, ugh. I finally tracked down the bootleg of this rumored 1974 recording (the only post-Beatles McCartney and Lennon performance known to man) and was so disappointed. You can literally hear John offering Stevie coke on the first track:


A Toot and a Snore
[right-click to download]

Then they twist the knife by starting and stopping to play one of my favorite songs, Santo & Johnny's Sleepwalker [right-click to download] (later covered nicely by Modest Mouse as Sleepwalkin' [right-click to download]):


Nightmares
[right-click to download]

Thankfully on the last track the mic is passed from John to Paul and Stevie and a song is actually completed:


Cupid / Take this Hammer
[right-click to download]

This beats the previous biggest blown opportunity I thought I had ever seen, The Dirty Mac, a supergroup consisting of John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix's drummer) that Lennon put together for the Stones' Rock and Roll Circus. It was also the first time that Lennon had ever performed without the Beatles since their inception. Of the two songs they ever played, Yoko Ono (who is not a bad person) got to sing:




At least the Stones appreciated a genius:



Uptight (Everything's Alright) / (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
[right-click to download]

Watch the end to see Stevie and Mick dancing together! God I love Stevie Wonder...