Are you all fucking blind? Have you not seen this give-away, here, where I’m offering a free Big Star double album? Well, maybe knowing that Big Star was a huge influence on Paul Westerberg, star of The Replacements, will be an incentive to enter the give-away.
Replacements, live in ’85. Great show, great setlist, one of the greatest bands ever.
Disc One:
01. Intro
02. Mr. Twirly
03. Favorite Thing
04. Goddamn Job
05. Color Me Impressed
06. Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out
07. Can’t Hardly Wait
08. Unsatisfied
09. I Will Dare
10. Johnny’s Gonna Die
11. Kiss Me On the Bus
12. Sixteen Blue
13. Black Diamond
14. Saturday Night
15. Run It
16. Love You Till Friday
Disc Two:
01. Little Mascara
02. Answering Machine
03. Gary’s Got A Boner
04. Take Me Down to the Hospital
05. Some Kind of Wonderful
06. All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight
07. Go!
08. Smoke On the Water (Deep Purple cover)
09. Customer
10. Halls of Montezuma
11. September Gurls
12. Baby Strange
13. 20th Century Boy (T Rex)
14. Eighteen
15. Heartbeat, It’s A Love Beat
16. Hitchin’ A Ride
17. Chasing the Night
Tags: Covers
By your command . . .
Disc 2
‘Rope Demos:
02 – Safe European Home
03 – Drug-Stabbing Time
04 – Julie’s Been Working For The Drug Squad
05 – Stay Free
06 – Groovy Times
07 – Last Gang In Town
08 – Ooh Baby Ooh (It’s Not Over)
09 – One Emotion
‘Rope Outtakes:
10 – All The Young Punks
11 – Stay Free
London Calling era soundcheck:
12 – Baby Please Don’t Go
13 – Roadrunner
London Calling rehearsal:
14 – Mona
15 – You Can’t Judge A Book
London Calling Outtake:
16 – Revolution Rock [instrumental]
Sandinista! Outtakes:
17 – King Of The Road
18 – Blonde Rock And Roll
19 – Louie Louie
Combat Rock Outtakes:
20 – Know Your Rights
21 – Overpowered By Funk (instrumental)
Combat Rock Alternate Mix:
22 – Cool Confusion
Janie Jones Demo:
23 – House Of The Ju Ju Queen
Joe Strummer Unreleased Song:
24 – In The Pouring Rain
Tags: Clash
“I got lawyer for the case to keep what’s in my safe; safe.”
-Kanye West, Through the Wire
The best collection of Clash demos and rarities, never released (and if they ain’t been now, I don’t see them coming out ever–Clash ain’t Tupac, after all). It starts with their earliest Polydor sessions (1976) and goes up through 1982. Some of these are even better than the originals. I’m throwing up disc one. If there’s interest, I’ll put up disc 2 later.
This will be up for a limited time–so get it now.
Disc 1
Polydor Demos:
01 – Career Opportunities
02 – White Riot
03 – Janie Jones
04 – London’s Burning
05 – 1977
Micky Foote Demos:
06 – Preamble
07 – I’m So Bored With The U.S.A.
08 – London’s Burning
09 – White Riot [take 1]
10 – White Riot [take 2]
11 – Career Opportunities
12 – 1977
13 – Janie Jones [instrumental]
Film Soundtrack Demos:
14 – Heartbreak Hotel [take 1]
15 – Heartbreak Hotel [take 2]
Promo Video Shoot:
16 – 1977
17 – White Riot
18 – London’s Burning
19 – 1977 [alternate mix]
20 – White Riot [alternate mix]
Elisabethan Suite Outtake:
21 – What’s My Name
Rude Boy Rehearsal:
22 – Garageland
Rock Against Racism track:
23 – (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
Alternate Mixes:
24 – Clash City Rockers
25 – The Prisoner
B-Side Outtakes:
26 – 1-2 Crush On You
27 – Pressure Drop
28 – The Prisoner
British TV Outtakes:
29 – Clash City Rockers
30 – Tommy Gun
31 – Israelites
Alex Chilton, the lead guitarist/vocalist who was so cool The Replacements made a song for him, fronted for Big Star back in 1972, when the foursome released #1 Record and in 1973 when they followed up with Radio City.
These are two of the most influential albums you may never have heard, and now you’ve got the chance to get ‘em both, on one CD, as a high quality reissue from Ardent/Stax records.
Here’s how you win: Tell me your favorite Big Star or Alex Chilton song (drop a comment). It can be an original, a cover, or even a tribute like the afore-mentioned ‘Mats tune. (Naturally, that’s my fave.) Winner will be chosen at random on June 17, and I’ll be contacting the winner by e-mail so make sure you provide me that e-mail address, and make sure you check your e-mail on 6/17 or 6/18, ’cause if I ask you for your address and you don’t provide it, I’ll move on to the next winner . . . . Good luck!
And here’s a lil’ sumpin’ to startcha off . . .
Thirteen (Big Star) Alejandro Escovedo w/Lorrie Fountain (YSI)
Give Me Another Chance – Whiskeytown (YSI)
CLOSED--WINNER CONTACTED VIA E-MAIL, SO CHECK YOUR IN-BOXES!
In the spirit of great indie, Reed KD‘s debut album, “In Case the Comet Comes,” was recorded by Reed KD, mixed by Reed KD, performed by Reed KD . . . You get the idea. He makes folk/Americana, writing whistful songs of longing and love, and singing them in a straight-ahead, Earthy style. (The one exception is the Godawful “Hippie Chicks”–skip this one at all costs.) Great lyrics and solid songwriting mark the start of a promising career.
Tags: Picture of the day
Steve Jones, formerly of the Sex Pistols, on his L.A. metal tip . . .
1 – Fire and Gasoline
2 – God In Louisiana
3 – Leave Your Shoes On
4 – Freedom Fighter
