something else

I’ll just start writing, otherwise my self-consciousness will kill me and I will be dead. This blog is for music. I will post music and you can listen to it and enjoy it or hate it and abuse me through the fantastic technology that is blogging. It’s not yet fantastic enough for me to figure out how to change the page colours but it is fantastic enough for me to talk about the music I like and the music I play on the two radio shows I do in Sydney. I do two radio shows because I am fantastic.

The Holy Modal Rounders were a band from the 1960’s and early 1970’s. They were from New York, and were a duo of folk-music revivalists and psychadelic music lovers. They came up with their name when they were stoned on pot and ’something else’. 

ESP Disk, the worlds most fantastic record label has just re-released two of their albums; one live recording from 1965, and Indian War Whoop from 1966. That is by the far their most psychedelic album, and ESP describes it as a “notorious street-freako rockabilly classic!” They also list it as being released in 1967, so take your pick.

1. Jimmy and Crash Survey the Universe
2. Indian War Whoop
3. Sweet Apple Cider
4. Solidier’s Joy
5. Cocaine Blues
6. Sky Divers
7. The Second-Hand Watch
8. Radar Blues
9. The I.W.W. Song
10. Football blues
11. Bay Rum Blues
12. Morning Glory

*A note on the tracks - the first is very bizarre, and definately not background music. I’d suggest substance abuse before listening to it, or at the very least, don’t be put off by it before you listen to the second track, which is far more listenable in a regular sense. The second track really starts about 37 seconds in, so fast-forward to that if you don’t want to listen to some speech and fiddle (but you should).

Listen: Indian War Whoop
Listen: Cocaine Blues

Buy: Opens in iTunes

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