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Three The Hard Way Soundtrack LP by The Impressions

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Three The Hard Way featured the triple threat of Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, and Jim Brown…with a lot of excellent music from The Impressions.

The movie is hilarious–the villian is the same guy who played Doctor Shrinker on Saturday morning TV, which makes every one of his scenes 100% more fun to watch. The premise of this movie is basically that a villian named Feather (yes, really) wants to create a virus that will selectively wipe out only one portion of mankind. Guess which portion a crazy white guy with sinister eyebrows wants to get rid of?

Jim Kelly and company bust heads and take out the bad guys, naturally.

My favorite thing about the movie-aside from, well, everything else, is that the soundtrack basically describes the entire plot of the movie. All the lyrics tell you everything you need to know about the movie–awesomeness abounds.

It’s a shame these three guys didn’t do about 100 of these movies together, the chemistry is great and they would have made an excellent series of crazy-ass movies. Sure, this movie has its share of filler, but as an artifact of good old fashioned drive-in movie making, I give it two thumbs way up…and the Three The Hard Way soundtrack is 100% pure gold.

Check out this clip from Three The Hard Way, with Jim Kelly giving a racist cop the business–and groove to that sitar-drenched soundtrack!



Paul Mawhinney’s Record Collection

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Record collectors who know the name Paul C. Mawhinney won’t be shocked by this…but the less obsessive will be picking their jaws up off the floor after seeing this video. This multi-million record collection is the life’s work of ONE PERSON. Brace yourself.



Simply amazing.

Vinyl: More Than Just a Scratch in the Music Industry

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A lot of people are making videos about vinyl these days…a practice I’d like to encourage by promoting them here. Sure, a lot of them are collectors talking to other collectors about, um, collecting. But any interest in living la vida vinyl is a damn good thing.

Floating around on YouTube, you might run into this little podcast about, “the resurgence of vinyl sales and its impact on the music industry” by Stephen Babcock, Mike Thal, and Jeanette Wall. While there is an awful lot of classic butt-rock featured in this and not really a LOT about the actual vinyl’s impact on the industry (apart from rising sales stats) it is REALLY gratifying to see people geeking out over vinyl records.

And not just a bunch of fogey-ish collectors, either. Make no mistake–there is nothing wrong with being a record collecting fogey, exactly the opposite, but seeing a new crop of young, excited faces proclaiming their love for records is a sure sign that LPs aren’t going away…ever?



…by the same token, the voices of record fogeys are a damn fine thing when they speak clearly and intelligently about all things vinyl. I love the take on record collecting presented in this YouTube clip by WatchMojo.com, though I am bewildered by the “How To Collect Vinyl Records” title–there is minimal how-to going on here thankfully –do we REALLY need a primer on this? But it’s good to get the vinyl seller’s side.




If you know of any vinyl-related YouTube clips, I’d love to get links…share!

–Joe Wallace

Beat at Cinecitta Series

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The Beat At Cinecitta series, issued by the utterly fantastic label Crippled Dick Hot Wax, is a collection of Italian soundtrack sounds from the sexier, steamier side of Italian cinema. There are three editions of Beat At Cinecitta, both on vinyl and CD. Volume three was limited to 3000 vinyl copies so if you find one, scoop it up fast.

These sounds are addictive–once you start, if your ear is so inclined, you won’t be able to stop collecting them. For me, the gateway drug was a CD called Women In Lounge, which features the same kinds of sounds you’ll get from the Beat At Cinecitta collections…naturally I couldn’t stop there!

To whet your appetite, have a listen to some of these clips–they truly are amazing. Lounge-y, groove-a-delic, with a surreal tinge at times that makes you wonder who spiked the punch at the go-go club. All three of the Beat At Cinecitta releases are essential.

–Joe Wallace


The second clip takes a moment to get started, but it’s worth the wait.

The third track is much more lounge-driven…short, sweet, and should be listened to whilst in a swanky airport departure lounge sipping cappuccino.