Way Out Junk

[filkertom]

A very cool blog, with downloads of very hard-to-find, out-of-print albums, most of which never made it to CD. A lot of tremendous stuff in the archives, including one of my favorite 1960s comedy albums, James Blonde: The Man From T.A.N.T.E. and several albums by the cover band Big Daddy.

What weird audio goodness have you found lately? Link 'em if ya got 'em.

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[darrenzieger.livejournal.com]

Not weird</>, but definitely goodness: there's an archive of Indigo Girl bootleg recordings -- going back to their High School days -- at http://www.lifeblood.net/bootlegs.html.

Very neat stuff. Going through the earliest recordings, you can hear their unique vocal harmonies emerge, their performances become more polished and their songwriting progress from painfully immature (if talented), to highly promising, to adept, to assured and professional. (The later bootlegs feature their full-out brilliant stuff, of course.).

Along the way, there are lots of interesting cover tunes, and the 1990s to the present recordings capture some really neat surprise guest performers.

As with all bootlegs, the audio quality varies greatly. The really early stuff was captured on cassette-player condenser mics, of course; very lo-fi, but all the more charming for it.

[darrenzieger.livejournal.com]

Damn you, HTML! 13 years of professional Web design, and I'm thwarted by an improperly closed tag.

I have brought dishonor to my family. I am not fit to use FrontPage 1.0. I am lower than a noob. I wmust use only AOL for six months -- on dial-up -- as an act of contrition, for I have pwned myself, in public.

I need more sleep.

Full of Lose, Grasshoppah

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

UNENLIGHTENED! [SMAK] You have shamed your clan, your ancestors, your teachings, your sensei, and possibly your house plants. The futon's over there.

[hms42]

Thanks for the link.

[lukeski.livejournal.com]

Sweet jumpin' Jesus! THANK YOU TOM!!! At last, my Big Daddy collection is complete! :D

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

Oh cool! Great link...thank you. :)

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

WHen I was in college (Oberlin '90), I found Mark Spoelstra's first album in the house collection at one of the co-ops.