Big Heads

Hong Kong, baby! Presenting a fragrant six pack going out to the brave protesters in the pearl of the orient. Keep on keeping on guys.

22-Pistepirkko - Hong Kong King
The Velvet Underground - Countess From Hong Kong
Cornershop - Hong Kong Book Of Kung Fu
The Ethiopians - Hong Kong Flu
The Tabbys - Hong Kong Baby
Clarence White - Hong Kong Hillbilly

Up To My Brain

Waiting for the starman? It's 1972, and Ziggy and his Spiders From Mars play homage to the Velvets on auntie Beeb. Pay special attention to the mad guitar work by Mick Ronson on White Light. Down to his toes indeed.

David Bowie - Waiting For The Man
David Bowie - White Light, White Heat

Song Songs

It's grab bag time alright, inna ten pack stylee. Boss songs all of them. Take your pick please, ladies & gents, and stifle the flames of your discontent.

Mission Of Burma - Academy Fight Song
Shellac - Squirrel Song
The Verlaines - Slow Sad Love Song
The Velvet Underground - Sad Song
Dave Bixby - Drug Song
The United States Of America - Cloud Song
Neil Young & The Stray Gators - War Song
Mott The Hoople - Trudi's Song
Canned Heat - An Owl Song
Betty Davis - Anti Love Song

Awright

The hot dogs from Hoboken took on an obscure '67 Velvets gem long before it finally got an official release on that marvellous Peel Slowly And See box. Way to go, guys.

Yo La Tengo - It's Alright (The Way That You Live)
The Velvet Underground - It's All Right (The Way That You Live)

Wild Weekend Vol. 6

Wild: aj. - not tamed or domesticated; not cultivated

Weekend: n. - Saturday and Sunday (as a period of rest or holiday)

iPod: t.m. - a pocket-sized device used to play music files

Shuffle: v.t. - to mix together so as to make a random order of arrangement

Yes, and here we go again... with yet another edition of Wild Weekend. Let´s kick it off with Swedish garage rockers supreme the Nomads, and their swampy Where The Wolf Bane Blooms. Saw these guys live a couple of times in the early eighties, and I can tell you their guitar player Hans Östlund was really something else. After which we slow down the tempo a bit with a smooth but still very funky piece of soul by the eccentric hypochondriac Donny Hathaway, from his classic debut Everything Is Everything (´70). "I hear voices, I see people, I hear voices of many people..."

The Nomads - Where The Wolf Bane Blooms MP3

Donny Hathaway - Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything) MP3

Time for some roots reggae now. One of Jamaica´s finest vocalists - Bob Marley even called him the best reggae singer in the world at some stage - Dennis Brown scored many a hit on the island. Deliverance Will Come, produced by the mighty Joe Gibbs, is a fine example of his powers. Next up are the Velvets, with a live track recorded back in ´69 by future Voidoids and Reed guitarist Robert Quine. Lofi they may be, but the Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes are definitely essential listening for fans of Lou and company.

Dennis Brown - Deliverance Will Come MP3

The Velvet Underground - Over You MP3

John Phillips was the brain behind the Mamas & the Papas, but I´d rather listen to his country-tinged solo album John, The Wolf King Of L.A. to be honest. A question of "subtracting the former from the latter" I suppose. And yes, that´s practically the whole Elvis band taking care of business here. And we´ll call it a day with a fine song from the obscure Marc Benno, who you may remember from his collaboration with Leon Russell in the Asylum Choir. Here he´s lost in his hometown: Austin, Texas. Attention Slowhand fans: listen closely, for that really is Clapton on guitar.

John Phillips - Let It Bleed, Genevieve MP3

Marc Benno - Lost In Austin MP3