Music
Joe Meek’s “I Hear a New World”
His Wikipedia page.Good long article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 12, 2024 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Outsider Art, Twentieth Century, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Follies of the Madmen #585
How to sell that newfangled gadget, the television? If you're RCA, you just make a special Xmas song!The singer's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 08, 2024 -
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Category: Holidays, Music, Television, Deceit, Trickery, Subterfuge and General Slyness, Advertising
Organ Orgy
The entire playlist is here.The Wikipedia page of the organist.
BONUS: I am reminded of a clip from THE SIMPSONS, seen below.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 04, 2024 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Music, 1970s
They Needed a Songbird in Heaven, So God Took Caruso Away
Never a good look for God, when He selfishly abducts entertainers for Heaven's Variety Show.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 02, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Music, Religion, 1920s
Atlantis in Hi-Fi
Why a stinker of a B-movie would have its soundtrack issued under a different title is a mystery best left to the ages. But it means you can enjoy some exotica tracks without watching the film. The embedded player is at the bottom of the post.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 30, 2023 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1950s
Don’t Go Near the Eskimos
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 07, 2023 -
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Category: Ethnic Groupings, Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s, Love & Romance
Gorey by Grimes
There are other tracks from this album on YouTube, but this cut should give you the general idea.Tammy Grimes on Wikipedia.
Edward Gorey on Wikipedia.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 03, 2023 -
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Category: Death, Literature, Music, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Children
Christmas in Vietnam
Now that it's December 1st, I feel we can start the Christmas music season here at WU.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 01, 2023 -
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Category: Holidays, Music, War, 1960s
The Saw Lady
Natalia Paruz calls herself the "Saw Lady," because she's one of the very few musicians who specializes in playing a carpenter's saw. From her wikipedia page:The December 3, 2011 'Washington Post' crossword puzzle had Paruz as a question: "Down 5 - Instrument played by Natalia Paruz".
More info: https://sawlady.com, yer sweet chimneys
Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 30, 2023 -
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Category: Music
Ross Bolleter’s Music for Ruined Pianos
His Wikipedia page.Over the past thirty years Bolleter has explored the timbral possibilities of ruined pianos, as quoted: old pianos that have been exposed to the elements of time and weather thus acquiring novel and unexpected musical possibilities. A piano is ruined (rather than neglected or devastated) when it has been abandoned to all weathers and has become a decaying box of unpredictable dongs, tonks and dedoomps. The notes that do not work are at least as interesting as those that do.
Ross Bolleter has five ruined pianos in his kitchen including the original ruined piano from Nallan Sheep Station, near Cue, 800 km north east of Perth, Western Australia. At Kim Hack's and Penny Mossops's olive farm, Wambyn, near York, Western Australia, Kim Hack and Bolleter developed the Ruined Piano Sanctuary, where some forty pianos are ruining in their own ways, and at their own pace, variously under trees, in dams, and on roofs. Bolleter's CD Frontier Piano, which represents the best of his work from 2007–2014, is almost entirely devoted to recordings of these dying pianos. Each piano in decay is a long-running composition. Death comes to every piano, and dying, each sings a different kind of song.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 28, 2023 -
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Category: Destruction, Music, Avant Garde, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
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