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There's been buckets of ink already spilled about 1980's Stone Age cassette culture and spinner dial broadcasting to warrant a Penguin size tome, and may much more pour forth. For now, here are my digital contributions. Caveatz tho’~~~~Air check playbacks of my 18-22 year old self are characterized by a superficially outsized air personality, elitist nods to the imagined cognoscenti and strained analysis accompanied by lame one-liners. I sound like an ESPN announcer (more so on WMUA than WPRB or WMFU)~~~~But even though there’s nothing as immediate and tasteful as the meat sliced by the original Pat Benatar band, the selections were choice then and remain so now, yes?~~~ No?~~~ Love is a battlefield!~~~~~All shows at 320 kbps, chopped into proper MP3s with lovingly detailed labeling~~~~Download Qs: leftofleftofthdial@gmail.com

Sunday, January 1, 2012

2011's Wicked Company...Music Has No End (with commentary)

Oh, all right. 


As widely reported throughout the media, Left of Left of the Dial has been forced to recant its decision to roll out its Best of 2011 list, slowly, week by week, until March 2012. LOLOTD Chair ATPJR was quoted as saying, "Based on Left of Left of the Dial reader input, we believe the best path forward is to encourage readers to take advantage of the best and most efficient options, eliminating the need to institute the delayed Best of 2011 list at this time." 

So in no particular order - yet - the records listed below have been loved muchly (no $2 convenience fee for reading either): 
19. DECIMUS 3 lp (Kelippah)
20. the OBNOX I'm Bleeding Now ep (Smog Veil)
21. Hey Tim Warren, you win
  • XRAY EYEBALLS Not Nothing cd (Kanine)
  • K-HOLES K-Holes cd (Hozac)
22. the SCENE IS NOW Magpie Alarm cd (Tongue Master)
23. SHOPPERS Silver Year (Feeble Minds)
24. AZITA Disturbing The Air lp (Drag City)
25. HPP HPP 7" ep (Perennial)

Well the names have all changed since you hung around

 Death cannot stop true love. 
All it can do is delay it for a while.
...
  • LAUGHING CLOWNS Don't Ask Stupid Questions To An Artist, Cop [Live 1982] cd (Prince Melon - 2010)
  • ELIANE RADIGUE Transmorem-Transmortem cd (Important)
  • VIDEO Leather Leather lp (Play Pinball!) 
  • MICHAEL CHAPMAN The Resurrection and Revenge of the Clayton Peacock lp (Ecstatic Peace)
  • MICHAEL CHAPMAN Trainsong: Guitar Compositions 1967-2010 2 cd (Tompkins Square) 
  • P.G. SIX Starry Mind cd (Drag City)
  • Cartagena! Curro Fuentes & The Big Band Cumbia and Descarga Sound of Colombia 1962 - 1972 comp cd (Soundway)
  • WICCANS Skullduggery lp (Katorga Works)
  • This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM 1957-1982 3 cd comp(Tompkins Square) 
  • NATE YOUNG Stay Asleep (Regression, Vol. 2) lp (NNA)
  • SORE EROS Just Fuzz cd ep (Blackburn)
  • PYGMY SHREWS You People Can All Go Straight To Hell lp (Jack Shack)
  • WHORE PAINT Menarchy 7" ep (Anchor Brain)
  • MIKE WATT hyphenated-man cd (org/clenchedwrench)
  • SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Asleep On The Floodplain cd (Drag City)
  • SIGHTINGS Future Accidents lp (Our Mouth)
  • TIGER & WOODS Through The Green cd (Running Back)
  • PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT Laced cd (Fat Cat)
  • NOCHEXXX Savage Herald/Charo 12" (Ramp)
  • RHYS CHATHAM Outdoor Spell cd (Northern Spy)
  • VIVIAN GIRLS I Heard You Say 7" Polyvinyl)
  • MEDICATION Judgement Day 12" ep (Sacred Bones)
  • ROBAG WRUHME Thora Vukk cd (Pampa)
  • TIMES NEW VIKING Dancer Equired cd (Merge)
  • STARE CASE Lose Today lp (De Stijl)
  • the SKULL DEFEKTS with HIGGS Peer Amid cd (Thrill Jockey)
  • BALACLAVAS Snake People cd (Dull Knife)
  • NEGRO SPIRITUALS song on Tumblr
  • JACKMASTER Fabriclive 57 cd (Fabric)
  • ALVARIUS B Baroque Primitiva lp (Poon Village)
  • the FLESH LIGHTS Muscle Pop lp (Twistworthy)
  • KINGDOM OF SUICIDE LOVERS System vs. Factory 7" (Golden Hour)
  • DAN MELCHIOR Assembalge Blues lp (Siltbreeze)
  • ICEAGE New Brigade lp (What's Yr Rupture?)
  • FACTORY FLOOR NYC Fall 2011 cd ep (Factory Floor)
  • DAVID KILGOUR & the HEAVY EIGHTS Left By Soft cd (Merge)
  • AVON LADIES Guns & Gold 7" ep (Katorga Works)

The following have yet to be heard. They are nonetheless highly touted by those held in high esteem, and sometimes we need a friend. I may not have had the pleasure of enjoying these macushlas personally in the calendar year of 2011, but one day I hope they're living all over me: 

  • OBN IIIs The One and Only (Tic Tac Totally)
  • CHRIS FORSYTH & KOEN HOLTKAMP: Early Astral (Blackest Raindbow)
  • LOS LLAMARADA Gone Gone Cold lp (S-S)
  • BLOODLOSS  Lost My Head for Drink lp (Dirty Knobby)
  • Borgata Boredom lp comp (No=Fi, Italy)
  • WHITE OUT Asphalt and Delay lp (audioMER, Belgium)
  • SCORPION VIOLENTE Uberschleiss lp (Avant!, Italy)
  • BROKEN WATER Peripheral Star 12" (Perennial)
  • PHANTOM FAMILY HALO/MEAH! split 7" (Sophomore Lounge )
  • the MALEFACTORS OF GREAT WEALTH Today Is the Best Day of My Life cdr (Old 3C)
  • MARS Live at Artists Space lp (Feeding Tube)
  • OVENS 7” EP (Catholic Guilt)
  • the FLESH LIGHTS/NAW DUDE split 7" (12XU)
  • JAKOB OLAUSSON Morning & Sunrise (DeStijl)
  • OBN IIIs The One and Only (Tic Tac Totally)
  • CHRIS FORSYTH & KOEN HOLTKAMP: Early Astral (Blackest Raindbow)
  • LOS LLAMARADA Gone Gone Cold lp (S-S) 
  • SHELLEY SALANT & FRED THOMAS Duo C-40 (Life Like)
  • BARDO POND / CARLTON MELTON split (Agitated)
  • COULOURS 12” EP (Freelovinganarchists)
  • SEX CHURCH | Beneath the Bottom | Growing Over | Load 
  • NO NECK BLUES BAND Ytiu lp (Kelippah)
  • CHUCK BETTIS Urgency Renewal cd-r(donttrusttheruin)
  • DECIMUS 8 lp [and all the others] (Kelippah)
  • MATANA Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Conleur Libres cd (Constellation)
  • ALL THE COLD One Year Of Cold (Kunsthauch) cd 
  • BAD INDIANS The Path Home 7" (Ginkgo)
  • OMMA COBBA lp (Sweet Rot)
  • PSANDWICH Northren Psych(Columbus Discount)
  • COLA FREAKS Cola Freaks lp (Douchemaster)
  • NATE WOOLEY/CHRIS CORSANO/C. SPENCER YEH Seven Storey Mountain cd (Important)
  • POOR SONS Dyunes EP (self-released) cassette 
  • BILL ORCUTT How The Thing Sings cd (Editions Mego, Austria)
  • the PAPERHEAD The Paperhead  lp (Trouble In Mind)
  • SHIGGAJON Asconema LP (Chironex)
  • BILL DIXON Envoi (Victo, Canada)
  • JEFFREY NOVAK "Back At The Bottom" 7" ep (Trouble In Mind)
  • DREXCIYA Journey of a Deep Sea Dweller (Clone Classics)
  • DANIEL KNOW Evryman For Himself (La Société Expéditionnaire)
  • DEAD GHOSTS Dead Ghosts lp (Florida's Dying)
  • JOHN WIESE Seven of Wands cd (Pan)
  • FAT WORM OF ERROR Broods lp (Ecstatic Peace)
  • the PAPERHEAD Focus In On...The Looking Glass lp reiss (Trouble In Mind)
  • PREDATOR Predator lp (Douchemaster)
  • FARMERS BY NATURE Out of This World's Distortion (Aum Fidelity)
  • BURNING SENSATIONS Burning Sensations 12" (Vertex, Australia)
  • CHARALAMBIDES Exile (Kranky)
  • ULTRATHIN Glass City 7" (Bad Master)
  • EVAN PARKER/OKKYUNG LEE/PETER EVANS The Bleeding Edge cd (Psi, UK)
  • BARRERACUDAS Nocturnal Emissions cd (Douchemaster)
  • 3 TOED SLOTH Jukebox Single #2 7" (Negative Guest List)
  • PROVIDIEN Followed by a Wraith lp (Amethyst Sunset)
  • RICHARD PINHAS & MERZBOW Rhizome/Paris 2008 cds (Cuneiform)
  • MANNEQUIN MEN Mannequin Men lp (Addenda)
...as well as music from AUTHORIZATION, LESLIE KEFFER, PULSE EMITTER, the LOST DOMAIN, WEIRD TV, HANK IV, the FEELING OF LOVE, HAUNTED HOUSE, PER PURPOSE, KIM PHUC, PLATES OF CAKE, WATERY LOVE, the RENDERERS, LIQUOR STORE, MICHAEL BEACH and probably 1000's more.
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