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Otra cosa, mariposa... Presenting a weightless six pack on all things butterfly for your listening pleasure. Still a collector?

Pink Floyd - Butterfly
Simon Finn - Butterfly
Arcesia - Butterfly Mind
The Jam - Butterfly Collector
Massive Attack - Butterfly Caught
Sundays & Cibele - Butterfly's Dream

Meandering With The Streams

You probably know that Pink Floyd was named after two relatively obscure bluesmen. Syd Barrett came across their names in the lyrical liner notes of a Blind Boy Fuller album he owned: "Pink Anderson or Floyd Council - these were a few amongst the many blues singers that were to be heard in the rolling hills of the Piedmont, or meandering with the streams through the wooded valleys". Must have been weird for these guys, provided they even knew, having to accept that they would forever be a footnote in musical history mainly because of a bunch of longhaired, psychedelic weirdos from Britain. Especially since their own small output wasn't half bad, as you can hear below.

Pink Anderson - Baby I'm Going Away MP3

Floyd Council - Runaway Man Blues MP3

Pink Floyd - King Bee MP3

Fresh Vegetables

Just got word there´s a new book on Syd Barrett coming out soon. A Telegraph review of Rob Chapman´s Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head definitely sounds promising, so if you´re one of them snobs like me who thinks a Floyd without the madcap is no Floyd at all you better start saving up. In the meantime, check out some fine rarities of Pink Floyd featuring mr. Barrett below. "And all the lot is what I got, it's what I wear, it's what you see, it must be me, it's what I am..."

Pink Floyd - Vegetable Man MP3

Pink Floyd - Lucy Leave MP3

Pink Floyd - Candy And A Currant Bun MP3

Pink Floyd - Scream Thy Last Scream MP3

Wild Weekend Vol. 2

Time for another version of Wild Weekend, where the shuffle function of my iPod decides the contents of a sixpack of songs. What did the ghost in the music machine line up for you this time? You´re about to find out.

Let´s get warmed up with the legendary Motor City Five, and a track from their killer second album Back In The USA. "Felt like screaming out loud..." Sharp soloing by brother Wayne Kramer here. Next up is something completely different, as it should be: allegedly the most widely known and biggest selling record in African music history. The half Nigerian and half Camerounian Prince Nico sold over 15 million (!) copies of his ´76 hit Sweet Mother to date.

MC5 - Looking At You MP3

Prince Nico Mbarga - Sweet Mother MP3

Time for one of my favorite horn players. Here´s king of the tenors Ben Webster performing the Duke Ellington classic Don´t Get Around Much Anymore. Ben digs deep. The Only Ones were one of my fave bands of the so-called new wave. Out There In The Night is a fine example of Peter Perrett in his prime. That lyrical guitar comes courtesy of the way underrated John Perry btw.

Ben Webster - Don´t Get Around Much Anymore MP3

The Only Ones - Out There In The Night MP3

"Be a hip cat, be a ship cat..." There´s not a lot of Pink Floyd on my iPod, as I´m one of them snobs who abhorrs almost anything of the post-Barrett era. Cause "that cat´s something I can't explain..." Wonderful song. And we reach the finish of this week´s edition of Wild Weekend with the late great Johnny Thunders covering Dylan. Remembering only a fraction of the lyrics, and improvising the rest, he still manages to pull it off somehow.

Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam MP3

Johnny Thunders - Joey Joey MP3