Purple Hazel

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 02/09/2014. Enjoy, NØ.


While I was pondering all things Parliamentally Funkadelified, thinking 'Good night, Star Child!', I thought of the Maggots that crawled in the Brain of the greatest of all Mothershippers, Maggot Brain  hisself, 'The Haze'. The song "Good Nite Eddie" popped unbid into my mind. I dragged out this ole double cassette I hadn't listened to in quite some time & luxuriated in the heavenly FUNK! of Bootsy's NEW Rubber Band. The lyrical plaint of Eddie's guitar is sweetest nectar to a bruised soul. Hope you all enjoy.

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Cassette 1 -

Side 1 -
Funk Express Card
J.R. (Just Right)
Blasters of the Universe
Bad Girls
Back 'n' the Day
Where 'r' the Children
Female Trouble's (The National Anthem)

Side 2 -
Wide Track
Funk Me Dirty
Blasters Featuting Eddie Hazel
Good Nite Eddie
A Sacred Place
Half Past Midnight
It's a Silly Serious World

Cassette 2 (Instrumental Versions) -

Side 1 -
J.R. (Just Right)
Funk Express Card
Back 'n' the Day
Bad Girls
Good Nite Eddie

Side 2 -
Where 'r' the Children
Funk Me Dirty
It's a Silly Serious World
A Sacred Place

 Enjoy,NØ

R.I.P Nappy Star Child

Re-uploaded by request 12/04/2024. 

Originally just the title track, now the entire album.

 

I'll be missing you, brother...but I gots yer tunes & I'll be seein' you aboard the Mothership.

 

You were always...

 

Standing on the Verge of Getting it On, Westbound Records WB1001, 1974.
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Side 1 -
Red Hot Momma
Alice in My Fantasies    
I'll Stay    
Sexy Ways    

Side 2 -
Standing on the Verge of Getting it On    
Jimmy's Got a Little Bit of Bitch in Him    
Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts

 

 

Funk On!

Nasal Sex is back

UPDATE: thanks to dedos.info for letting me know the link to Nasal Sex - Golly was no longer working. I have re-upload the file to mediafire. Several of my accounts on Fileden (a host I originally used here) have been suspended for so-called violations & now links to more than 50 past posts are no good. I'll try to get them back up as I see fit, so if there is something you are desiring but the link is bad, let me know here. I'll get things back up in order of request. It's the best I can do.

UPDATE UPDATE: Once again I have re-uploaded this, this time to MEGA. Just click on the link above to the original post. One of the most requested post here. All right!

Courtney Love (the band, not the Hole)

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 09/07/2013. Enjoy, NØ.

Been some conversation going on around here about Courtney Love, the band from Olympia,Washington that contributed the track "Spray" to the Throw compilation I posted a few days ago. 

 Thought I'd post up three 7"ers from the band & a solo album by Courtney Love brain grrrl Lois Maffeo (known professionally [usually] as just Lois).

Courtney Love - Uncrushworthy, K Records IPU 12, 1990.
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Side A -

Uncrushworthy
Sunny Day

Side B -

Motorcycle Boy
The 2nd Most Beautiful Girl in the World

Courtney Love - Hey! Antoinette,
Feel Good All Over Records FGAO #4, 1991.

Side A -

Hey! Antoinette
Stripmine

Side B -

My Last Night

Courtney Love- Highlights, K Records IPU 22, 1991.

Side A -

Highlights

Side B -

Shaniko
Disappearing Lessons

On all three:
Guitar, Vocals - Lois Maffeo
Drums - Pat Maley

plus Lois Maffeo’s first solo release subsequent to Courtney Love.

Lois - Butterfly Kiss, K Records KLP 015, 1992.

Side A -

Davey
Narcissus
Press Play And Record
Staring At The Sun
Valentine

Side B -

Stroll Always
Spray
Never Last
Bonds in Seconds
Sorora
Look Who's Sorry

On this release:
Guitar, Vocals - Lois Maffeo
Bass - Stuart Moxham
Drums - Molly Neuman

Enjoy, all you Courtney haters...
NØ

UPDATE

I know I'm a Luddite. 

Every so often I go back through all my posts & physically dig out the latest comments. 

My life has been in turmoil lately so I haven't checked regularly. Friday I noticed three friends commented on different things on two separate posts.  

Anonymous wanted to let me know that the link to Dark Star - Travelogue II was no longer working & Quiscalas wanted to know if I could post Dark Star - Headtrip.  

Done & done.  

bunchterror let me know that the Pigbag link was down, so I re-upped that & posted two more Pigbag releases as a way of saying thanks. It takes a lot of thought & effort to post good musick. I truly appreciate it when folks take the time to let me know when links are down. I always try to respond with a little extra as well. To those of you who asked & all the rest of you that might care... 

Another re-up - kontort let me know about a problem with the LPD file Live at the Metro that was requesting a password. None of the posts here at NSS should require passwords. If they do, please let me know. Thanks kontort. 

 Enjoy, NØ

I think I'm Gonna Throw Up

LINK HAS BEEN UPDATED 23 JUNE 2013

At the time of this release, Pat Maley had run Yoyo Studios in Olympia, Washington for over eight years. His philosophy was that “good bands should be recorded regardless of their ability to pay” because he felt that most bands were at their best when they were new, poor, & still had something to prove. This album is a collection of what he considered to be some of the best recordings he had done at Yoyo.

From 1984 to 1990 Yoyo Studio recorded in a chicken coop & a barn on a ten acre farm in Olympia. In April 1990 they moved to the ABC House basement, then in July 1991 they moved once again to the Capitol Theater in downtown Olympia.

This material was recorded on a half inch eight track multi-track deck, a twelve by eight mixing board, & just enough microphones to record three piece bands properly. It was then mixed down to stereo on a DAT machine.

This copy is on green vinyl with a info insert. It varies from the CD re-release in that there are only 16 tracks here as opposed to 22 on the CD, & the order is different. Both start with Kicking Giant’s “Fuck the Rules” which is appropriate for this compilation.

Various Artists - Throw, the Yoyo Studio Compilation,
Yoyo Recordings YOYO-LP-01, 1992.
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Side A:
Kicking Giant - Fuck the Rules
Bikini Kill - Candy
Gravel - Coming Down
Unwound - Stumbling Block
Al Larsen - Umbrellafication
Lumihoops - Roman Holiday
Mecca Normal - One More Safe
Burl - Hollowed Out Logs

Side B:
Some Velvet Sidewalk - Peel
Superchunk - Skip Steps One & Three
Glad - Pry
Courtney Love - Spray
Candice Peterson - After School Special
Oklahoma Scramble - Boy
Cannanes - Chia Pet
Heavens to Betsy - Baby‘s Gone

Enjoy,
NØ

What's New?

Hello Voyagers.

What a strange bad time the last few weeks have been. Not to bring you down with my shitty life, but...

1) I was arrested & just got out of jail.
2) I lost my job.
3) I’m being evicted from my home.

Awfully fucked up trifecta if you ask me.

original billboard

You probably all are aware of the Billboard liberation movement. Slightly altering the messages of those hideous eyesore advertisements blighting the landscape of Amerika, the Billboard liberation brother/sisterhood try to present a more honest text to the selling of our Nation. 

Being the narco-anarchist that I am, I have often myself participated in the above mentioned pastime. 

Well, this time I was apprehended in the act & charged with trespassing on private property & commercial(???) vandalism.

altered billboard

While I was sitting in jail waiting to get OR’ed (released on my own recognizance), I was fired from my stupid-ass wage-slave job. No matter how mind numbing or time robbing that grind was, it paid my bills in a paycheck to paycheck, hand to mouth sort of way.

Now that I’m not gainfully (???) employed, I can’t keep up on my rent & am being evicted from my domicile, ye olde Casa de Nada.

So now I’ve got to try & find a job in this troubled economic climate. I've got to try & get some unemployment compensation from this budget strapped State for day to day survival & to possibly afford to move to a new abode before becoming completely homeless. So, I’m trying to rapidly down-size my life.

I am going to be selling most of my vast musick & literary libraries on e-bay, along with many of my musickal instuments & other various crap I’ve accumulated that seem like an Albatross around my neck right now. If anyone is interested, contact me with requests or wants. I don’t have a list of things compiled yet, but if you’re no stranger here, then you probably have had a taste of my musickal leanings & literary wanderings.

Most of all I’m sorry for the long delay in posting up any new musick. Hope you like what I’m offering today & hope you’re life is going better than mine. If it’s not, then you’re really fucked.

The Wolfgang Press - Going South 12" prom EP, 4AD/WB PRO-A-7174, 1994.
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Side 1 -
going south (apollo440 mix)
11 years (sabres main mix 2)

Side 2 -
executioner (adamson mix)
going south (country style)

Enjoy,
NØ

Home Taping

Following My Muse

Muse - Supermassive Black Hole, Black Holes & Revelations, 2006.

Mark Linkous R.I.P

Re-uploaded by request 06/30/2025 

 

 

9 September 1962 - 6 March 2010...Sparkle on, you crazy horse. 

 

 

Sparklehorse & Fennesz - In the Fishtank, 2009.

Soldier of Love

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 01/12/2014. Enjoy, NØ.



Trying to keep up with the latest musick while at the same time finding all the ancient nuggets is kinda hard. I tried to do my part this week-end by buying some new tuneage. Two acts that I always like have new musick out now after quite some time so among others I picked them up & was not at all disappointed. Massive Attack just released their latest Heligoland & I've been waiting since 2003's 100th Window for something new, although lately I've been listening mainly to Collected because it has a great cross-section of their material. I'll post something from it after I've given it a few more listens & figure which song to present.

The other new purchase that I'd really been waiting for was Soldier of Love by Sade. I have a huge crush on Ms. Adu. I should probably feature the title track as it is such a fantastic song with excellent vocals & tremendous guitar, but everyone has been slapping that up (since the single release...cover above). It is my humble opinion that Sade's voice has become increasingly more potent as she has matured & now at times the thought that pops into my mind when I hear her singing is 'the female Leonard Cohen'. I mean that in the most positive of possible ways. After nearly continuous replays, I have decided to honor you all with "The Safest Place". decryption codes in comments

 


Enjoy,
NØ

Requiem to a Dream

“Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era---the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time & place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run...but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there & alive in that corner of time & the world. Whatever it meant... History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of ‘history’ it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now & then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time---& which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights---or very early mornings---when I left the Fillmore half-crazy &, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts & a Butte sheepherder’s jacket...booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland & Berkeley & Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change)...but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high & wild as I was: No doubt at all about that... There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda...You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning... & that, I thinks, was the handle---that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old & Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting---on our side or theirs, We had all the momentum; were were riding the crest of a high & beautiful wave... So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas & look West, & with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark---that place where the wave finally broke & rolled back.” from the chapter “Genius ‘Round the World Stands Hand in Hand, & One Shock of Recognition Runs the Whole Circle ‘Round”, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson, 1971. 

 

H. P. Lovecraft - Live-May 11,1968, recorded live at the Fillmore Auditorium.

Hey Mr. President

 Re-uploaded 07/02/2025

Haven't been too inspired to post lately. I've been getting caught up on the best(s) of 2009 recently. Haven't really heard a hella lot that I'd call BEST any ole year, but that's just me. 

Also been filling in some gaps in my Muslimgauze. Just got twelve more, making a total of: 101 Muslimgauze releases; plus all four E.g. Obligue Graph; five splits; Muslimgauze meets The Rootsman Al Aqsa Intifada remixes...but there's never a bottom to that well (anyone interested in any, let me know, I'll get ya the list, we'll talk). 

Got the idea of posting this from Brother Ib. 

 

The Electric Prunes - Hey Mr. President b/w Flowing Smoothly, Reprise RV 20198, 1969.

 

Enjoy, NØ

Live Lady Day

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded Winter Solstice 2014. Enjoy, NØ

Reuploaded again 03/20/2026

 

I’ve never been much of a couch potato. Never really got strung out on the stuff the Church of the Cathode Ray Tube peddled as the opiate of the ‘new masses’. Recently did away with cable TV altogether following the Media Domination of so-called 'REALITY’ programming. Just couldn’t see the point of paying money I can scarce afford for mass quantities of somebody else’s reality. Since I strive in all else I do to escape self-same reality, it seemed kinda counter-productive. Switched instead to Netflix new system that allows me to instantly watch movies & TV episodes online on my computer or streamed instantly from Netflix over the Internet right to my TV via a Netflix ready device.

Now whenever I have a few moments with nothing to do but absorb some mindless input, I can flip on the tube & there’s Theo Kojak, Carl Kolchak, Dr. Who (yes, Tom Baker) anytime I want. Way kool.

Lately been mostly watching Ken Burns great documentary series, Jazz. It’s been absolutely fantastic. I remembering watching parts of it when it was aired on PBS some years back, but to be forced to week after week free up the same time slot is always too much for my kinetic sporadic life. I’ve never been good with any ‘mini-series’ type event. Shit, it took me years to finally see all the Twin Peaks episodes & that’s David Lynch, for Satan’s sake. So I missed a fair share of the Jazz series the first time around. This new ‘on-demand’ way of viewing is perfect for me. I can watch, enjoy, & absorb at my own pace.

All this in way of preface to this great slab of musick history, inspired by Ken Burns & Lester Young (who gave young Billie her ‘Lady Day’ sobriquet). This material was recorded in 1951 in Boston at Storyville, a night club owned by George Wein (the man behind the Newport Jazz Festival). The recording was discovered after more than a decade (& after Billie’s untimely death in 1959) & finally released in 1964 by Recording Industries Corporation on their Posterity Series (RIC...not just a recording...an experience). Not only was this a newly discovered unreleased recording, but it was also one of the relatively few occasions when Billie Holiday was recorded “live” during an actual set at a club.

Nat Hentoff writes: “One of the Holiday myths, as perpetuated by some critics, is that Billie had declined as an artist by the 1950s. It is true that her range (never more than about one octave - NØ) had narrowed & that there were nights when the texture of her voice was bruised & torn as her spirit sometimes became. But the essence of Billie Holiday’s nonpariel skill & the power of her impact never came primarily from only technical expertise. Far more than any jazz singer of her time (or any time - NØ), Billie’s strength was in her capacity to so deeply personalize the songs she sang that the very act of performing was a fragment of autobiography.”

One of the wonderful things about this recording is the variety here, the range of mood & style encompassed by these songs. The bitter anger of “Strange Fruit”, the resilient toughness of “Billie’s Blues”, the sensuality of “Miss Brown to You”, the rueful memories of “Lover Man” are all represented here & given that otherworldly touch of the great Ms. Holiday. She gave musick a universality that is unequaled, in the history of jazz or any other musickal genre. She was & is simply the best.

& remember, though you may know these songs from other sources, you heard this great recording here first.

Billie Holiday - A Rare Live Recording of..., RIC Records M2001, 1964.
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Side One -
Billie’s Blues
Lover Man
Them There Eyes
My Man
I cover the Waterfront
Crazy He Calls Me
Lover Come Back to Me
Side Two -
Detour Ahead
Strange Fruit
Drivin’ Me Crazy
Ain’t Nobody’s Business if I Do
All of Me
I Love You Porgy
Miss Brown to You

Enjoy,
NØ

A Day in the Life of Brian Wilson

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 08/17/2013. Enjoy, NØ.

I got this last March from TheeBradMiller over at Because God Told Me To Do It. It was supposed to be released last year & was one of the best albums of 2009 that wasn't, because the release was delayed due to the usual musick bu$ineSS bullshit, then was scheduled for a mid-October 2009 release on Big Blue Records, but was finally available the 15th of this month in Poland & the 22nd in Germany. It should be available here February 2nd. I think you can pre-order it on Amazon. It was well worth the wait (I guess, since I didn't). I highly recommend it to anyone familiar with Phallus Dei or not. It is some great musick. The track I was going to highlight here, "Will You Come Now" features vocals by John Walker (of The Walker Brothers fame), but you can hear it on Phallus Dei's MySpace page. Also, this song has been re-mixed by Bohren & der Club of Gore into an 11 minute epic & should appear on a remix album this year. You can listen to a nearly 5 minute excerpt here. I've decided to feature "The Same" with vocals by Clara Engel.

Since I wrote this post, John Walker died on May 27, 2011 after a long battle with cancer. John was 67.
I have decided to post up the entire album as a tribute to him, as "Will You Come Now" was originally my first choice here, & is a fantastic song by a great musician. I have posted The Walker Brothers elsewhere on this blog, as I have always been a big fan of their classy stylings. (decryption code in comments)

Enjoy,
NØ

Times Square

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 10/19/2013. Enjoy, NØ.

A couple weeks past my friend Matt posted up “Your Daughter is One” from the Times Square soundtrack. I hadn’t really thought much about that movie or the musick from it in quite some time. I dug out a VHS tape of the film & watched it. It was corny/cool as many timepiece musickals are, & the musick is of varying quality, as movie soundtracks have a tendency to be. Had this movie been made in, say, 2005, it would not be such a monumental undertaking to patch together songs from that era, but the fact that this movie came out in 1980 & that the musick was fresh at that time says a great deal about the integrity of this undertaking.

The movie was produced by RSO Records big-shot Robert Stigwood & his record label was able to compile quite a respectable line-up of acts. “Babylon’s Burning” by The Ruts, “Grinding Halt” by The Cure...Patti Smith, The Ramones, Lou Reed, Roxy Music, Gary Numan & more.

Of course there are the movie numbers...character Nicky Marotta's (Robin Johnson) punk song "Damn Dog" is included, as is her duet with David Johansen, "Flowers of the City" & the above mentioned duet with Trini Alvarado, “Your Daughter is One". Although the movie was re-issued on DVD in late 2000, the soundtrack has never found its way to cd. It might not be as filled with hits as some compilations, but it is far better than many. A re-issue should have instant appeal to fans of this cult film. Also it should be of interest to those who haven't seen it . I would guess that contractual difficulties with so many disparate artists may have been the reason. & with so many various artists, this post might not last too long, so you better grab it while you can.

Various Artists - Times Square OST, RSO Records RS-2-4230, 1980.
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Record 1 Side 1 -

Suzi Quatro - Rock Hard
The Pretenders - Talk of the Town
Roxy Music - Same Old Scene
Gary Numan - Down in the Park
Marcy Levy & Robin Gibb - Help Me!

Record 1 Side 2 -

Talking Heads - Life During Wartime
Joe Jackson - Pretty Boys
XTC - Take This Town
The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
Robin Johnson - Damn Dog

Record 2 Side 3 -

Robin Johnson & Trini Alvarado - Your Daughter is One
The Ruts - Babylon's Burning
D.L. Byron - You Can't Hurry Love
Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
Desmond Child & Rouge - The Night Was Not

Record 2 Side 4 -

Garland Jeffreys - Innocent, Not Guilty
The Cure - Grinding Halt
Patti Smith - Pissing in the River
David Johansen & Robin Johnson - Flowers of the City
Robin Johnson - Damn Dog (reprise - The Cleo Club)
(the only song from the film that i noticed not included on the OST was “Dangerous Type” by The Cars. I have added that song [side two track 5 from Candy-o] here for your listening pleasure. Do with it what you will)

Enjoy,
NØ

Bye bye Van Morrison

Today I received the following notification from Blogger: "We have received a DMCA complaint for your blog, Nothin' Sez Somethin'. An e-mail with the details of the complaint was sent to you on Jan 21, 2010 , and we reset the post status to "Draft"; you can edit it here. You may republish the post with the offending content and/or link(s) removed. If you believe you have the rights to post this content, you can file a counter-claim with us. For more on our DMCA policy, please click here. Thank you for your prompt attention."

The offending post was the Parrot Records U.S. version of The Angry Young Them from 1965 from that curmudgeon Van Morrison & the band that dumped him. My response..."Good Riddance!"

The Act You've Known For All These Years

I've featured the great We're Late For Class musickal co-operative here before. Well here's their latest... 

   

Get it while you can. Destined to be their first deleted release. They originally made this for their own amusement, then figured, hey... why not share it? This is a psychedelic mash-up using only tracks from The Beatles' experimental solo releases. Every sound you'll hear is The Beatles (and whoever appeared with them on those albums). As a future press release should wildly claim, "The Beatles - As You've Never Heard Them Before!" If only they'd all just gotten along. That's the premise, anyway. Mashed by WLFC, January 2010. Please post this anywhere, so it can't be easily eradicated. Link back to them & they'll whisper your name in bonged reverence & dedicate a bowl to your existence. The Reviews Are Already In... "The psychedelic follow up to Magical Mystery Tour" - Rolling Stoned "The Beatles were never this heavy!" - Mojoe "Smoke 'em if you've got 'em!" - Spun "The best opera yet written!" - Hit Parader "If only they'd all just gotten along." - We're Late For Class 

 Enjoy, NØ

Let's Rock Again!

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Get Down Moses

(from Streetcore 2003)

I just got finished watching the movie Let’s Rock Again which follows the newly revitalized Joe Strummer & his fantastic new band The Mescaleros on tour across the world in 2000 & 2001, not long before his untimely death. This film, as is said, touched my heart. M. Strummer was such a humble musickian, beautiful soul, & selfless human. & if there are any doubts about the quality of his new musickal path, it is set aside graphically by the great live performances captured in this warm, loving picture.

John Graham Mellor, better known as Joe Strummer.

He says his musickal heroes are Captain Beefheart & King Tubby. Mine, too (& Joe).

He was without a doubt one of the most powerful vocalists & greatest lyricists of our generation.

Though a majority of critics fail to see the absolute genius in his work with his new band, The Mescaleros, their musick would prove to be some of Joe’s most stunning work ever. Joe never abandoned his fierce, yet friendly demeanor. Strummer & Co. play everything from acoustic numbers to some of the finest straightforward rock & roll tunes that he has ever written. Somehow it is this later work of Strummer’s that truly show his talents, allowing us to see the entire discography of The Clash in a different light.

The Mescaleros stand today as one of the finest backing bands in history. Though much of the musick is more mellow & relaxed than his work with The Clash, Joe Strummer sounds as good & powerful as ever. Showcasing his trademark raspy, growling voice, Strummer re-stakes his claim as one of the greatest, most captivating vocalists in history. Joe gave the world musickal gifts unlike any other performer. Shaping & influencing countless musickians who followed, Strummer's name continues to demand the utmost respect to this day. After disappearing from the musick scene for eleven years, Strummer surrounded himself with some of the finest musickians & began to explore new musickal territory, creating some of the finest songs of his career.

Cementing his name as a legend, as well as proving that regardless of the style of musick one played, it was the soul behind the songs that mattered most, Joe Strummer was clearly on the verge once again when he was taken from this world far too soon. There are probably few moments in musick that are as heart-wrenching as the one found at the end of the album Streetcore. After playing the clean & stripped down, grab-life-by-the-balls song, "Silver & Gold," Strummer mutters his final ever recorded words, as he simply states, "OK, that's a take..." Such final words, eerily predicting his passing (which would occur less than a week later), along with the overall sentiment of the song which stands as his last, are in many ways a fitting end for a man who truly lived through his music.

But having said all that, at the end of the movie, Joe’s words seem even more apt & less prophetic, but more true to the spirit of Joe ‘Woody’ Strummer...Let’s Rock Again!

Let's Rock Again!

Thank you for the musick, Joe. I’ll never forget you.

Enjoy,
NØ

Be Bop Redux

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 09/07/2013. Enjoy, NØ.

A while back I posted most of the Bill Nelson musick that I have. I have since received some very encouraging comments, most from folks who like M. Nelson but no longer have the ability to enjoy his analog output in this digital age. So I completely overlooked some of his releases that I had on cds. The other day I was going through a box of old cds & came across these three, so, without further ado, here they are, in no particular order...

Bill Nelson - Blue Moons & Laughing Guitars,
Caroline Records CAROL 1878-2, 1992.
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Tracklist -

Ancient Guitars
Girl from Another Planet
Spinnin' Around
Shaker
God Man Slain
The Dead We Wake with Upstairs Drums
New Moon Rising
The Glory Days
Wishes
Angel in My System
Wings & Everything
Boat to Forever
The Invisible Man & the Unforgettable Girl
So it Goes
Fires in the Sky
Dream Ships Set Sail

Bill Nelson - Chimera,

Mercury 983 1027,2005 (original release MER B19, 1983).

Tracklist -

The Real Adventure
Acceleration
Everyday Feels like Another Drug
Tender is the Night
Glow World
Another Day, Another Ray of Hope
Hard Facts from the Fiction Department
Acceleration (long version)
Acceleration (dub version)
Acceleration (short version)

When I first did this post, I had included Getting the Holy Ghost Across. I explained at the time some of the changes it had gone through during its lifespan (see comments for more information). Because I was not happy with the version I posted, I removed it from the post following lengthy discussion with visitors & friends of NSS. I have hopefully corrected those issues, addressed them somewhat here, & am returning the release to its original place, now that I am happier with the results. I am posting the cassette files & track order, as that is where I originally ripped the files. I have included the other listings for information purposes for purists. Hope you all enjoy.

On Getting the Holy Ghost Across, the musicians are: Bill Nelson – vocals, acoustic & electric guitar, bass, keyboards, marimba, drums, & percussion; Iain Denby – additional bass; Andy Davis – additional keyboards; Ian Nelson – saxophone; & Preston Heyman – additional percussion.

Bill Nelson – Getting the Holy Ghost Across, Portrait PRT 26602, 1986. (LP)

Side One –

Suvasini

Contemplation

Theology

Wildest Dreams (feat. Peter Greeves on violin)

Lost in Your Memory

Side Two –

Rise like a Fountain

Age of Reason (feat. Dick Morrisey on sax & William Gregory on soprano sax)

The Hidden Flames

Because of You (feat. Dick Morrisey on sax)

Pansophia (Bill Nelson on all instruments)

 Bill Nelson – Getting the Holy Ghost Across, Portrait 40-26602 1986.

Side A -

Suvasini

Contemplation

Theology

Wildest Dreams (feat. Peter Greeves on violin)

Lost in Your Memory

Rise like a Fountain

Age of Reason (feat. Dick Morrisey on sax & William Gregory on soprano sax)

Living for the Spangled Moment

Side B -

The Hidden Flames

Word for Word

Illusions of You

Heart & Soul

Finks & Stooges of the Heart

Because of You (feat. Dick Morrisey on sax)

Pansophia (Bill Nelson on all instruments)

Wildest Dream (wild mix hidden track)

On the cassette  release, tracks A8 & B2 - B5 are bonus tracks (as well as the hidden track “Wildest Dream (wild mix)”. These were later issued on vinyl with the addition of two instrumentals “Feast of Lanterns” & “Nightbirds” as the EP Living for the Spangled Moment.

The 2006 rerelease on Sonoluxe contained the above first fifteen tracks (in different oder) as well as the additional instrumental tracks: “Feast of Lanterns”; “Nightbirds”; & “The Yo-yo Dyne”. “The Yo-yo Dyne” appeared on the 1986 Portrait EP entitled Wildest Dreams along with “Wildest Dreams” & “Wildest Dreams (wild mix)” & a fourth song “Self Impersonation” which has nothing really to do with Getting the Holy Ghost Across.

Enjoy,
NØ