Christmas 2001: A Space-Age Adventure

The " Space-Age Santa " collection from a couple Christmases ago featured a track " from a kiddie xian xmas album that I foun...

The Story of the First Voice Synthesizer, The SONOVOX

By request, now back up: - Strange novelty songs collection " Fun Music" - Zoogz Rift "M urdering Hells Happy Cretins" ...

FILTHY FRIDAYS: Lowbrow vol.1 Sweet Beat

For a variety of reasons that I'll get into next week, I felt that the world needed more musical Sin! Sleaze! and Vice! So every Friday,...

Negativland Live - "Helter Stupid Tour" 1989

At the time this excellent board tape was made, multi-media collage/ performance art/ prankster legends Negativland had been around since th...

THE GREAT CELEBRITY SING-OFF

Remember the wildly popular "Golden Throats" collections of singing celeb records? 'Twas one of the few areas where the strang...

Maggie Estep "No More Mister Nice Girl"

A couple/few months ago, our frequent contributor Windy sent me a big ol'  batch of vinyl (that I'm still going thru) along with som...

Peter Sellers & Spike Milligan: Strangest Comedy LP Ever?

The Goon Show was hugely influential to Monty Python, British comedy in general, and even The Beatles (George Martin had worked with the Go...

The Acapella Death-Metal of EyeSea

What's more ridiculous than death metal? Howzabout acapella death-metal? EyeSea's " blue ten " is an entire album of Cook...

CRISWELL PREDICTS YOUR INCREDIBLE FUTURE

Now back up by request: one of the first posts ever in this blog's history: Polka Rap ; and the happy yodeling of Arthur Brogli . Still...

PETER COOK RARITIES pt2: "Here Comes The Judge"

Here's a second and final blast of comedic genius from the late Peter Cook, this time from 1979 - 24 minutes of "Here Comes The Jud...

PETER COOK RARITIES pt1

By request, the private-press lounge crooner Mr. "Home" Center  is back up. Count Otto Black, our expert in silly 78 rpm oddities,...

BEAT WRITER'S GOT THE BEAT: William S. Burroughs Sings!

One of the most unlikely stars of the late '70s-to-early '90s punk/college rock days wasn't a musician at all, but a taciturn, e...

SILLY 78s pt3

At long last! Count Otto Black's continued spelunking into the dark, forgotten caverns of music history has resulted in another overdue ...

HOW TO PICK UP GURLZ!

Hey losers! A while back I posted a "charm school" album for girls, and now it's the fella's turn. From 2000 comes this cu...

CHRISTMAS IN JULY - SILLY 78S EDITION

Count Otto Black has been sending us an amazing smorgasbord of shellac lately, including these three seasonal numbers, just in time for thes...

Silly 78s pt2

Count Otto Black returns!  With a further batch of awesome audio oddities and atrocities from the first half of recorded history. Perhaps ev...

The Conceptual Crank-Call of "Conversations (Revisited)"

As I wrote last year : " Brandon Locher's "Conversations 2012" is a near-20 minute tour de force that does for prank ph...