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Just someone who's totally fascinated by the ephemeral nature of the V/A compilation & DJ mix & trying to piece together a history of music through them 🎶💎

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Feast on Tucson
2001
Folk / Roots / Traditional Folk / Western Swing / Native American Traditions / Gospel / Mariachi
April 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The Blasting Concept Volume II
1986
Punk Rock / American Underground / Heavy Metal / College Rock / Post-Punk / Art Punk
April 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The Blasting Concept - An SST Compilation
1983
Punk Rock / Hardcore Punk / American Underground
April 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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
January 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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 😬
January 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
& 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
January 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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 😔
January 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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January 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
& 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 😂
January 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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
January 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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
January 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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
January 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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
January 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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
January 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM