The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet has been found

 FEX [Germany] - Subways of Your Mind (demo tape 1984)

 

Cum grano salis, of course.

 

Here's a live version from 1985.  

Plaid Cow - Sunshine of Your Love 12" (1988)

 Female-fronted new wave cover of the classic song. My record sucks as far as pops are concerned but it's not unlistenable.

I don't only collect music but I collect books as well. I know 'reading' is one of the most common and most boring of all hobbies but I aim for rare and forbidden books whose topics sometimes bleed into the mainstream. I don't see how the term "conspiracy theorist" is an insult in any way. 

That being said, I had a copy of "Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon" by David McGowan for years but I never got around to reading it. So recently I cracked it open. A bit more mainstream than what I normally read but it was good. I grew up around that area. I have stories to tell myself. 

 The Internet Archive is down and may be down for a while so I included a PDF copy of this book in this download. This record and the book go well together.

 Enjoy the music. Read the book. 

You'll laugh. You'll cry. It'll change your life.

 (Yes, this is a Dylan Moran quote from Black Books)

 

 

A1 - Sunshine of Your Love

A2 - Softly I Stand

B - Sunshine of Your Love (Tired Eyes Mix)

 

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The False Friends - The False Friends (1994)

 This was a band from Poland who played harder alternative rock with the shadow of 80s heavy metal cast over them. They never really reached a true heavy metal sound and they had a horn section. The song "Love You to the Bones" is a ska song with hard rock vocals. 

The A-side is 6 studio tracks while the B-side is six live tracks.

 1 Parasite

2 Advantage of the Average

3 And B.Y.E.

4 Love You to the Bones

5 Eastern Cowboy

6 Never to Slow

7 Asses High

8 Hard Hop

9 Another Day

10 Ears of a Frog

11 Evil

12 CO 2  

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Chemicals Made From Dirt [Complete Recordings]

 Chemicals Made From Dirt 7'' (1981)

1 Oriental Television

2 Bachelor Party

3 Beatniks

4 Uh Oh'

 

Chemicals Made From Dirt Flexi (1982)

1 Rapula

2 Claus Von Bulow

 Chemicals Made From Dirt - Ike 

1 Manikin

2 M

3 Hard

4 Beatniks Looking for Tourists

5 Protein Pants

6 Another Dinner

7 Chemicals Made From Dirt

8 Panic - No Fusion

9 Girls My Age

10 17th Century

11 Communist Calendar Girls

12 Air Raid Drill

13 Medicated Elvis

14 Uh-Oh

15 Homeless Men

16 Fast Ocean Puppet

17 Fly to Work

18 Multiple Station Wagon

19 Claus Von Bulow

20 Dr. Shockley

21 Lost in the Cave of Flying Dogs

22 Barney

23 Hiding from Bozo

24 Show World

25 Rapula

The compilation is called "Ike" but there was one song that was not included. That song is called "Ike" and I have included it in this download.

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All She Wrote - All She Wrote EP (2004)

 This was a surprising thrift store find. This is a female fronted band from Riverside California who only ever released one album in 2005 called "Coshade".

There is no mention anywhere online about this EP but from what I have heard  from the vocalist's YouTube channel the song "Liar" from this CD is the same song that appeared on the album but I think it's a different mix. At least the tempo is different. 

This is for those 90s punk/post-punk fans who still longed for the female fronted grunge bands like Letters to Cleo. That's not an insult. I love Letters to Cleo and I love this band here. 

Incredible songwriting. Great lyrics. They edge on poppy without going over and I'm surprised they never had commercial success. They had it all figured out and were self sustaining. Any record label who knew of them and didn't sign them were foolish. 

1 Distracted

2 Rescue Me

3 Grass

4 Liar

 

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Kevin Zed [Vancouver] - Double Dutch EP (1985) [NEW LINK 10-06-2024]

 

1 Saigon Orders

2 UR

3 Dead Boots

4 Moral Support

5 Somewhere Else

 

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Zootcase - We Make it Happen (1996)

 How to describe this one? It's perched on the edge of those early 90s white funk bands but the vocalist and possible band leader is black so "WHITE-funk" doesn't work. They have a slight heavy metal vibe but all of their songs are mellow paced. They do have one blues song but they don't come across as a blues band despite what this eBay seller says. ($168.99? Come on now.)

They're a three-piece rock band with a familiar style that eludes description. 

The one band I can think of that they sound closest to is King's X. That might be a lazy description but that's all I got. 

1 We Make it Happen

2 The Moon is Full

3 Alice Don't Cry

4 Since You Left Me Baby

5 Where is My Heart?

6 Could This be True

7 Tell Me

8 Alicia

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va Commercial (2002)

  Hardcore punk compilation from the New York label Traffic Violation Records. 

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At the time I got this CD I was playing the Recess Records compilations Hot Curly Weenie volumes 1 and 2* and I was looking for something similar. This didn't live up to being what I wanted it to be but there are a couple noteworthy tracks.

 

The inlay was printed on, what we called back in the 20th century, "typewriter paper" which wasn't made for computer printer ink so the scans look like the inlay is water damaged. It's not. A lot of things from back in the days look like this. That's why it's important for them to be preserved.

* Hot Curly Weenie vol 2 is my favorite. How do you not love beautiful songs like this?: 

va Class of 81 [UK] (1981)

 I'm too lazy to type out the track listing so, here, have this. 

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The Donors - Take Whatcha Want (1992)

 This is one of those "white funk" bands from the early 90s. They were from New York and I don't know if they ever released anything else.

They were way more "alternative rock" than they were funky but the sound is still recognizable.

The high pitch yodeling vocals are hard to get used to.

1 Tearjerker

2 Positive People

3 My Brain

4 Not Gonna Worry

5 Half a Man

6 Perfect Thing

7 Get Down

8 Genie Says

9 Assistance

10 Temptation

11 Bulletproof

12 What I Do

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