COVER THE EARTH Vol. 5

When will it end?!  Still more bizarre international ethnic versions of Western pop hits. And by 'ethnic' I also mean American and E...

FILTHY FRIDAY: An Album By The Munsters That Isn't By The Munsters, But By The Go-Gos, But Not Those Go-Gos

Someone on the internet sez: "THE MUNSTERS-  "The Munsters" TV show characters are only pictured on the cover, along with the...

The Psychedelic Exotica of The Orient Express

Namaste! I was interviewed recently by the very nice DJ Jess at BreakThruRadio . And our pal Count Otto is back: "The Orient Express to...

TOTALLY NUDE EXOTICA

By request, the Irish folk mashup collection " Straight Outta Ireland " is back up. When my unbelieving eyes saw that parts of th...

COVER THE EARTH 4

UPDATE 8/10/13: File is back up.  I'm a little worried that it disappeared as I haven't had any trouble with zippyshare...yet... Yet...

Le Enfant Terrible: Music Made from Pots, Pans, and Toys

Manchester band Le Enfant Terrible sent me a link to their new album, describing it thusly: "It's effectively 'World Music'...

The Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra

It took me a while to track down some albums by this very obscure group, but it was worth it - The Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra is as won...

JUNK ORCHESTRAS Pt 3

I'll be guest dj-ing once again this Sunday, 8pm PST on Spacebrother Greg's " Radio Misterioso ," bringing up another batc...

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT ANNETTE FUNICELLO

You may have heard that The Queen of the Beach, Annette Funicello, recently died at age 70. And, yes, she was a Mouseketeer on "the Mic...

HI-FI ZITHER!

" Zombie Jamboree " has been re-upped, by request. And speaking of requests: I hate to keep asking, but does anyone have the Ruth...

AVANT-POLKA

Following on the heels of our last post, which featured The Mighty Accordion Band ... Well, why not avant-polka?  Who says classical, jazz, ...

The Mighty Accordion Band - They Said It Couldnt Be Done!

Apart from having one of the all-time great album covers (pretty obvious why I snatched this one up for a mere 99 cents at my local charity ...

ROBOTS PLAY EXOTICA

- You got robots in my gamelan! - You got gamelan in my robots! Two great tastes that go great together: Gamelan Galak Tika (pronounced ...

BROWN-SKINNED MORMONS A-GO-GO!!

Lamanites? Is that what your kitchen counter is made of?  No, silly, Lamanites are the original inhabitants of North America, according to t...

SAVAGE Exotica!!

This collection of '50s-'70s sultry, steamy, jungle moods taken from 45s or otherwise-non-exotic albums is all I feel like listening...

MUSIC FOR A REAL TIKI THEATER

You may have heard the distressing news today that Fred Willard, a fine comic actor whose work I've always enjoyed, was arrested for per...

COVER THE EARTH 3: More Bizarro Versions of Your Favorite Oldies From Across the World Wide Weird

The first " Cover The Earth " collection we posted here a couple of weeks ago has been quite the success - twice as many downloads...

COVER THE EARTH: Ukrainian Punk

As an addendum to the " Cover The Earth " post of bizarre international versions of your favorite oldies, here are various rock re...