BURN OUT Sessions: "The Boy in Me"

This first session is a chance for me to get familiar with the new set-up and software. I imagine the sound quality will improve as I suss out the features. You’ll hear a couple of errors as I get used to everything. I’ll link to a single mp3 file from the public folder in my DropBox account.

I hope you like it. More to come…

Burn Out No1: The Boy in Me 
(Right click and save to download. I know that Chrome will stream it. Firefox 5 behaves weirdly, likely due to the file size. So, right click and save it.^^)

INTRO: Christopher Recordings - “The Problems of Growing Boys” mixed with Aphrodite’s Child - “The System”

Aphrodite’s Child - “The Four Horsemen” from 666 (1971)
Amon Duul II - “Wolf City” from Wolf City (1972)
Sonic Youth - “Brave Men Run (In My Family)” from Bad Moon Rising (1985)
The Fall - “Who Makes The Nazis?” from Hex Enduction Hour (1982)
Pere Ubu - “Non Alignment Pact” from The Modern Dance (1978)
Psychic Volts - “Horror Show No. 5” from B-side of Totally Useless 7” (1979)
Dead Kennedys - “Moon Over Marin” from Plastic Surgery Disasters (1982)
Government Issue - “Fashionite” from Legless Bull (1981)
The Descendents - “Suburban Home” from Milo Goes to College (1982)
Rocket From The Crypt - “Dollar” from Circa: Now! (1992)
The Compulsive Gamblers - “Rock & Roll Nurse” from Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing (2000)
Dead Moon - “Graveyard” from In the Graveyard (1988)
13th Floor Elevators - “Roller Coaster” from The Psychedelic Sounds of… (1966)
The Gories - “Sister Ann” from House Rockin’ (1989)
The Ponys - “Fall Inn” from Laced with Romance (2004)
Radio Birdman - “New Race” from Radios Appear (1977)
David Peel & The Lower East Side - “Lower East Side” & “I Want to Kill You” from American Revolution (1970)
The Clash - “The Equaliser” from Sandinista (1980)
Jimmy Cliff - “King of Kings” from King of Kings 7” (1963)
Desmond Dekker - “Please Don’t Bend” from Black and Dekker (1980)
Symarip - “Skinhead Moonstomp” from Skinhead Moonstomp (1970)
Claudette & The Corporation - “Skinheads A Bash Them” (single)
The Equals - “Hold Me Closer” & “Police on My Back” from Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys (comp: 1999)
The Flamin’ Groovies - “Shake Some Action” from Shake Some Action (1979)
The Who - “Tattoo” & “Our Love Was” from The Who Sell Out (1967)
The Buff Medways - “Ivor” from Tribute to the Daggerman 7” (2001)

OUTRO: Christopher Recordings - “The Problems of Growing Boys”

The Christopher Recordings Sex Instruction Series can be found around the intarwebs. The series was released on vinyl in 1951. They’re sufficiently creepy and are perfect for mixing, sampling, looping, etc.

C86, Records, Scenes

NME's C86 mixtape focused my no-wave fascinated punk mind not on its bands so much, though I love(d) The Pastels and The Wedding Present, as on the garage-rock revival scene in the US that I discovered while looking for music like this in the US. Well, discovered is not the best word: I was always a fan of garage rock, I was just a little too young to know much about the revival scene.  I never appreciated the resulting madchester/baggy thing (though it didn't arrive until later). It lacked what I liked about the punk, hardcore and, eventually, garage scenes.

My fondness for bands so clearly looking back to find inspiration in the music I loved as a kid drove my record-collecting habit. Finding the records I wanted required traveling to different cities to find and explore record stores.  When Ebay arrived in the mid90s, it was untrustworthy new, too expensive later on. Nothing beats visiting record stores and finding what you've been looking for.  I suppose I began finding excuses to travel to find records.  For example, I visited my brother in Kansas City, MO, as often as I could to see him and visit, the now closed, Music Exchange, which was one of my favorite record stores in the country.  Now, my records sit in a storage facility while I travel to, well, travel.

I think I first heard C86 a couple of years after it came out.  Although it's hard to remember if I heard the tape before seeing some of the bands on MTV.  I certainly didn't hear them on the radio.  But now I'm thinking about how I collect records and inspiration.

I so clearly heard The Who, for example, inspiring punk.  I so clearly understood the motivation in the hardcore scene that it seemed natural for me to join in, though I never fully embraced straight-edge culture.  I was still young enough when I heard this tape, that I had to go digging for the inspiration for the bands.  I wanted to know where the music came from, especially bands like The Pastels.  This led to thinking more about production than I had before. It's probably why I buy so many records: I'm always looking for the source of the sound.  It's the same sort of search I'm doing in my literary work, I guess.

I know I'm not alone in this.  It was a pleasant moment this afternoon when I read Music Ruined My Life's post on The Soup Dragon's "Whole Wide World" and C86.  I appreciate there are many useful ways to narrate how I got from the late 80s to where I am today--and that it would be a shame not to see how music has affected my journey.

And I've been arguing about scenes and inclusion lately with folks in Seoul.  It's always been weird for me. My mind and heart is always focused on music in general, with scenes that usually have nothing to do with each other. You could find me at the symphony, hip hop, jazz, or hardcore shows in a single week not too long ago. No matter what I collect, I'm at heart a punk who loves hardcore and a dedicated fan of garage punk and rock. The two scenes don't often mix and both require the sort of dedication that limits participation of others that I don't always like, but it's the only two in which I feel comfortably at home.

That said, the garage scene often becomes over-focused on fashion over substance and is every five years or so over-run with new-but-hipster fans who think it's a fad and pretend to adore it while posing for photos and playing dress up with their friends.  That's the mode it's currently in both here and the US.  Fortunately, there's always the hardcore scene where it's not too hard to find folks who simply refuse to tolerate the budding capitalists that attempt to destroy whatever they touch for profit.

I'm loving the antifa scene, currently.  It's been growing on me for awhile.  I have to admit, it's completely social and political and little to do with the actual music.  But this is for another post.

Here's some C86 info and the track listing:
Side one

Primal Scream - "Velocity Girl"
The Mighty Lemon Drops - "Happy Head"
The Soup Dragons - "Pleasantly Surprised"
The Wolfhounds - "Feeling So Strange Again"
The Bodines - "Therese"
Mighty Mighty - "Law"
Stump - "Buffalo"
Bogshed - "Run to the Temple"
A Witness - "Sharpened Sticks"
The Pastels - "Breaking Lines"
Age of Chance - "From Now On, This Will Be Your God"

Side two

The Shop Assistants - "It's Up to You"
Close Lobsters - "Firestation Towers"
Miaow - "Sport Most Royal"
Half Man Half Biscuit - "I Hate Nerys Hughes (From The Heart)"
The Servants - "Transparent"
The Mackenzies - "Big Jim (There's no pubs in Heaven)"
Big Flame - "New Way (Quick Wash And Brush Up With Liberation Theology)"
Fuzzbox - "Console Me"
McCarthy - "Celestial City"
The Shrubs - "Bullfighter's Bones"
The Wedding Present - "This Boy Can Wait"

Power Pop: L.A. Burgers "Hello Goodbye" (1980)

The first track from L.A. Burgers self-titled LP from 1980.

Power Pop: L.A. Burgers "Release Me" (1980)

I can't find much about this band. It's good power pop, though. You can find the album via Punk Not Profit. Odd place to find it, but glad I did.  I thought I'd share my favorite tracks on You Tube.  Enjoy.

김창완 - "어머니와 고등어"

Kim Chang Wan - "Mother and Mackerel"

My favorite song right now. I love the guitar work and production.



Kim Chang Wan is a third of 산울림 (Sanullim : Mountain Echo). This song is taken from the 1983 album, 기타가 있는 수필(gitahga itneun supeel : An Essay with Guitar). Kim is a TV personality now and starred in the popular Coffee Prince (커피프린스 1호점) as Mr. Hong.

키보이스 : "해변으로 가요"

Extremely difficult to find any information on 키보이스 (Key Boys). To make matters worse, there seems to be an earlier band The Key Boys who were known by their fans as The Korean Beatles. This is not that band.

I want to find the lyrics to this song and more about the second Key Boys. When I do, I'll post the info here. "Let's go to the Sea Shore" sounds to me like it is in the 노래운동 (norae undong : song movement) tradition that was very popular in Korea from the late sixties until the early eighties and served to give voice to people's concerns under the oppressive military governments of 박정희 (Park Jeong-hee) and 전두환 (Jeon Doo-hwan). Korean protest songs are also known as "민중 가요" (minjung gayo : people's song).

I like Broken Deer. Maybe you will, too?

BROKEN DEER "WHITE WOMAN" from OESB // FUTURE SOUND on Vimeo.

Broken Deer. (Myspace)

From Olde English Spelling Bee:

New animated video by Alice Cohen for the song "White Woman" by Broken Deer.

Broken Deer is the solo recording project of Lindsay Dobbin. She lives in the deep northern frontier of Yukon, Canada. "White Woman" is from the forthcoming album POLARAURA that will be released June 21, 2010.

There is a previous Broken Deer album titled OUR SMALL GOING that is available from www.gandhararecordings.org.