Following on from the great self-titled album, some Buckingham Nicks rarities in the form of Leftovers 1970 - 1974.

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Further to Bobby Conn and The Bee Gees, I'm only posting happy things this week. For your listening pleasure, Buckingham Nicks.

Here.

Pete Frampton + The Bee Gees

Whenever I'm having a less than chipper moment, I simply watch this and my sense of happiness is doubly restored.

i'm totally keeping you on the cusp of cool here. muxtape.com.
share your mixes with the greatest of ease, so says the man on the flying trapeze.

depending on how long it takes before the powers that be decide to let this project last, you may see it grow to add increased functionality... perhaps a search engine, friends list, comments, etc -- but for the meantime i'm sort of digging the lowfi feel to it all.

here's the jist.
- create a username
- nerdtown - you can totally change your hexcolour to reflect yr individual style and chi, man.
- upload your tracks (a total of 12 songs, each must be under 10mb)
- post your username in the comments here
- look through others' mixes.

I made a compilation for my friend's birthday yesterday, and since it turned out rather well, I thought I'd share it here.

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I'm not sure how I came across this band originally but earlier today I was browsing through my itunes library and stumbled upon a few of their tracks. Even google throws up very little on the band bar a few reviews of the new double cd retrospective and a couple of other blog posts. Originally called the Afflicted and playing 70's UK punk at some point in their career they must have started smoking way too much weed, bought fuzz pedals and changed their name to Afflicted Man. What proceeded was an incredible album called "Get Stoned Ezy". Too freaked out for the punks and too punked out for the freaks. It only contained three tracks but what absolutely amazing songs they are. Imagine Blue Cheer, Saint Vitus or High Rise.

I uploaded the whole album for your enjoyment:

Afflicted Man - Get Stoned Ezy

Just did this CD sleeve for my buddy Daniel Blumin's DJ Premium (ie, a limited-edition, hand-crafted CD you get for donating $75 or more) for the 2008 WFMU Marathon.

Obviously it's a great cause, even if you don't live in New York City, because of their great internet radio coverage and their always-edifying Beware Of The Blog, so pull out that PayPal password or credit card and get with the program.

Daniel's compilation, 'Russians Love Their Children Too', is a selection of songs from late Soviet era cartoons & children's films and records, and has an ear-boggling 38 tracks! How's that fer premium?!

Here’s a little podcast for you. It’s a 55-minute mess of overdriven amps, East LA funk, 'Godzilla', Gong, spaghetti western theme music, men in psychedelic-print shirts grunting and D-E-V-O. The sound quality wanders all over the shop but I hope that you like it anyway.



Pines Mix Feb

One of my favorite David Crosby songs is 'The Lee Shore'. Although I'm not a fan of sailing, primarily due to a tendency to turn green and throw up once I'm on any kind of seagoing vessel, the song lends such a sense of freedom and scale. There are many versions of it out there, but this is one of the best, I think, mostly because of the driving, almost-Latin percussion and the stripped-back extended jam at the end.

CSN&Y - The Lee Shore

And this is the fantastic boot whence it came.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Studio Archive 1969

Head here now to grab two of the best late '60s country-folk-rock albums, uploaded courtesy of the great Twilight Zone blog...



The password is: rideyourpony

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Saw an advert for First Choice travel agents on TV last night plugging their latest range of kid-friendly holiday package deals. Sadly, they used the same Chopin prelude as Serge Gainsbourg ripped off for his monumentally creepy '80s ode to intra-familial love, 'Lemon Incest', which put a whole new spin on the commercial for me.

Anyway, here's Serge and daughter Charlotte in the deeply uncomfortable promo clip for the original version of the song...

I think you'll all agree that anything Gruff Rhys does deserves a listen especially when it's with the ace Boom Bip. If you've got New Year's comedown as bad as me then you need something sprightly to kick your day off and this mix tape by Boom Bip and Gruff is just the ticket...

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/47233-neon-neon-mixtape-mp3

Cool!