Feast on Tucson
2001
Folk / Roots / Traditional Folk / Western Swing / Native American Traditions / Gospel / Mariachi

The Blasting Concept Volume II
1986
Punk Rock / American Underground / Heavy Metal / College Rock / Post-Punk / Art Punk

The Blasting Concept - An SST Compilation
1983
Punk Rock / Hardcore Punk / American Underground

Gonna be doing this 'Basic Record Library'-building, Billboard-maxxing thing for a while. Took on Billboard's Top Rock & Roll Hits series a few years ago that spanned from 1955 thru 1974, & now I'm picking back up on it with 1975

Welp, a few of these definitely have not aged well at all—just take a gander at this album's tracklist & you'll be able to figure out 1 of them immediately 😬

& if you're wondering how does someone *accidentally* shoot themselves in their own head, it's bc he was playing around with a pistol and thought he knew which chamber had a bullet in it, &, well, he evidently didn't 😬. & from his death spawned his famous posthumous album, which looked like this

First volume in this Big Itch series from a label called Mr. Manicotti was damn near perfect, as it gathered together a bunch of underground rock & roll and garage rock obscurities and oddities from the 50s and 60s, but this second installment was significantly worse 😔

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& then even though Koda hardly released anything as King Uszniewicz, former senior editor of AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, wrote a bio of him anyway on the site, & didn't make any mention that King Uszniewicz was actually just his coworker 😂

Oh, & one more thing: Brownsville Station's Cub Koda wrote a review of this album for AllMusic once, & completely neglected to mention that he actually appeared on the album twice himself; once as a member of a group called The Del Tinos & then as someone named King Uszniewicz

Now this is a record that every rock & roll, garage rock, & even punk rock collector should have; an album that celebrates the pure trashy zaniness that coursed through the arteries of much of rock music's underground throughout the late 50s and 60s

Look, I'm sure that Canada made some important contributions to the disco landscape during the genre's heyday—"Come to Me"by France Joli anyone?—but this rundown of the history of a Montréal-based label called Telescope Records is one of the worst disco comps that I've ever heard in my life

Pretty sure that this 1991 release from Profile Records was the first techno comp to ever be released by a big label in the US, but the funny thing about it is that its first track isn't actually techno

Dove a little bit into Sue Records, a label that ran from the late 50s & early 60s out of New York & was home to Ike & Tina Turner for some time, released "Mockingbird" by Inez & Charlie Foxx—later made more famous by Carly Simon & James Taylor—& gave Jimi Hendrix his 1st recording contract