Um.
What up, shufflefandudes. It's been a momentous week - trouble in the middle east, United almost signing Carrick (and who knows, maybe Mascherano too), I went on a Murray Head Musical Appreciation Bender and, most importantly, Derek fulfilled every music fan's dream in a Jim'll Fix-it style event to end all Jim'll Fix-it style events during Coldplay's set at Live 8:
Delightful news, I'm sure you'll agree. Anyway, on with the
1. Nekromantix - Driller Killer
Danish psychobilly. Had some fun tunes, but unfortunately most of them are on a different album than this one is on (Curse of the Coffin, if you're interested, which I DOUBT). Latterly, one of them was responsible for Horrorpops, and really, there is no excuse in the cosmos good enough to make me forgive him for that. The steaming great stupid haired twat.
2. Arthur Alexander - You Better Move On
Need any extra reasons to want to stove Mick Jagger's head in with one of Heather Mills' spare legs? Run out of motivation for detesting his wrinkily rubberised saggy excuse for an arseface? Why, just listen to this and then listen to their frankly retarded cover and then steep yourself in the fact that their cover is generally better known. People have even been known to like it. I know, sick isn't it? Wonderful early stax soul, later brutally hacked to bits by ugly mockney cunts. The world is a sad place at times.
3. Mudhoney - I'm Spun
Even though Piece of Cake is just about the only Mudhoney album that has never managed to earn itself a permanent place of precedence in my musical heart, it still has its moments. This may be one of them, I'm never quite sure. It has good bits in it. Does that help? Still, it has helped to cleanse my mind of thoughts of the Rolling Stones ,and that can only be a good thing.
4. The Cramps - Human Fly
Bzz bzz bzz. It's The Cramps. It's one of the finest fucking songs ever fucking bastard well cocking created. Motherfucker. If you don't like this, you should have your brains whisked and then fed to gerbils through a STRAW. It's all you deserve.
5. The Specials - Racquel (BBC Session)
Terry Hall once threw himself repeatedly off a wall in order to injure himself sufficiently that his bid to stay off school might be successful. Nothing to do with the song, but it's better than me ranting about how I would like to slap Jerry Dammers for turning The Specials from a great band into a shit band just because he had a huge urge to be a right twat.
6. Screaming Trees - You Know Where It's At
I certainly do! It's just over there, behind the thing, next to that other thing. Farfisa-y goodness, yum.
7. Mark Lanegan - Pill Hill Serenade
I'm sure sPazTunes is in the process of reaching full sentience. It increasingly seems to be endeavouring to make actual coherent mixes. Lovely song, obviously.
8. The Milkshakes - Don't Love Another
Medway blah blah blah blah bloody excellent blah blah blah blah Billy Childish blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah etc.
Blah.
9. 13th Floor Elevators - Baby Blue
This version sits atop that massive big building in
10. Reverend Horton Heat - Baby I'm Drunk
All bow before the Reverend. NOW. I wish I was drunk. His christmas album is absolutely awesome, y'know.
11. Élégantes - Mon Soldat
Rather prim and proper sounding sixties ladypop from the heart of
12. The Seeds - Evil Hoodoo
Further proof of sPazTunes approach to sentience. Or at least it would be if it had turned up a couple of songs ago, after The Elevators. One of my favourite Seeds songs, indeed, one of my favourite sixties garage numbers. Sky's voice can be a touch grating on occasion, but on this it's fine and the rest of it grunts, grinds and drives along in a chunkily satisfying manner.
13. GLC - Charmschool
The Return of the Non-Scary Welsh Rap Dudes. Nice use of a Grange Hill theme sample. You knows it, clart.
14. Marty Robbins -
It's Marty Robbins. But you knew that anyway. It's a chugging high plains trail country and western croony ballad about of vicious, murderous blanket. Possibly. Either way, it's great (in a non-frosties way).
15. Unsane - Make Them Cry
Christ, I nearly had an episode then. One way to change the mood, that's for certain. Inoffensive, heartfelt little Marty straight into the full, massive gutgrinding power of the frankly terrifying (in a good way) Unsane. If more bands sounded like Unsane, the world would be a better place. FACT.
16. Pink Floyd - See Emily Play (Fake Stereo Mix)
Without this, Blur would never have had a career. Despite that, I still love Pink Floyd and I still love this song.
17. The Dirtbombs - Tina Louise
The Dirtbombs at their most thunderous and convincingly sixties sounding. This is a good thing, in case you were unsure for some reason. Tina Louise >>>>> Tori Spelling. It must be true, if The Dirtbombs say so.
18. The Damned - Love Song (Ed Hollis Version)
I'll be the ticket, if you're my collector, I'll dodge the fare, if you're my inspector. If I need to tell you again how fuckingly splendid this song is, I might have to punch you upside the chops. Motherfucker.
19. Reverend Horton Heat - Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Maybe sPazTunes isn't so sentient after all. Or maybe it just has really good taste. I TOLD you the christmas album was awesome, and this is very possibly the single most majestic and wonderful christmas song ever recorded in the history of noises recorded for posterity. It sort of fades in and out of the batman theme at times, too. Right again, Batman! Right again, Boy Wonder. This and his version of The Orb's "Pretty Paper" should be compulsory listening. Not just at christmas, all year round motherfucker.
20. Mudhoney - Sonic Infusion (full length album version)
Last time I saw Mudhoney was when they were touring this album. They opened with "Baby Can You Dig The Light" and they closed on this. Just like the album, really. And you know what? It was intestine-gratingly fantastic. Words simply cannot convey just how utterly head-segmentingly wonderful the whole thing was, and the new songs were just a little bit more arse-meltingly great than that (probably on account of them not having played them eight bazillion times before).
Plus, it was the first time I'd seen them with the new bass player (Guy Maddison formerly of Lubricated Goat amongst others) and he was the spitting image of Tom Sizemore. Minus the hookers and obigatory screen-death in ensemble movie, of course (damn you
21. Wu-Tang Clan - Uzi (Pinky Ring)
So I've done one extra. I don't care. Think of it like a secret track on an album (although you don't necessarily have to sit in silence for twenty minutes before reading this bit like you would have to do with an actual secret track). Scary Rap Dudes! Don't erase none of that good shit at the beginning! Pinky ring shit! I have little idea what this means! A veritable masterclass in beats, mixing and rhymes. Ghostface's second greatest Wu-Tang performance (the greatest being on "Rules" from the same album. Who the fuck knocked our buildings down indeed).
Motherfucker.
Not a bad mix, really. In fact, it was absolutely fucking wonderful. It must have been, The Penguins think so. And no one in their right mind argues with The Penguins.
There was this picture of dancing penguins originally, right. I can't be arsed finding it again. Just imagine some quality and amusing prancing dancing penguinoids and quit yer yap.
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