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WTF: Crosby Stills and Nash Skullcrushingly Bad Album Art

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For those of you just joining us, WTF is our archive of crappy album artwork. There’s no way to define what exactly earns an album cover inclusion in our WTF gallery–we just know it when we see it. With that in mind, we give you…

Crosby Stills and Nash Live It Up

Crosby Stills and Nash are responsible for some of the worst hippified excesses of the 60s. Once Neil Young departed the picture, these three sonic tormentors were free to torture the rest of us with godawful dribble like “Teach Your Children”. Behold: “..and so become yourself/because the past is just a goodbye.”

Um, what? Bloody hippies. Go back to the peace pipe and leave us alone.

And then there’s THIS abomination–skewered hot dogs on the moon. Of COURSE! What ELSE would you put on an album called “Live It Up”? If you look closely you can see tiny little telephone company linemen wondering WTF they’re doing on the cover of this wretchedly awful nonsense. Can you hear what they’re thinking? “Oh my, I do hope I don’t float away into the cold vacuum of space. After all, I don’t have a space suit and I may die. But if I DO. at least I don’t have to listen to Crosby Stills and Nash ever again. In fact, I think I’ll just let go of my pole here and sail off into the dark. Maybe I’ll explode.” Continue reading WTF: Crosby Stills and Nash Skullcrushingly Bad Album Art →

Mackie D4 Mixer

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mackie D4 mixer

Once upon a time I edited and wrote features for a website called Gearwire.com. One of those features was on the Mackie D4 DJ production console. I talked on camera with Mackie rep Ronnal Ives, AKA DJ Buttnaked, about the Mackie D4 at a music industry trade show, NAMM 2007. Revisiting that video now (where the D4 was featured in a demo of  Mackie’s Traktion3 software),  I am tempted to pick up the D4 to integrate into my setup for Paisley Babylon, which goes back and forth between straight music production/performance and DJ sets.

The D4 connects to your Mac or PC via firewire, features Onyx mic pres, XLR outs, and sports four stereo program channels for your CD player, turntable, and FireWire inputs. The turntable inputs have Mackie-designed pres. It also comes with Traktion 3 software.

I’d love to hear from anyone who owns and uses the Mackie D4–drop a comment and let me know how you like it.
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WTF Thanksgiving 2009 Edition: Rednecks Gone Wild

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WTF Bad Album Cover Art Chicken Coup deVille

Happy Thanksgiving 2009.We bring you the biggest turkey we could find–and what a steaming pile it is, hands down the most ridiculous album cover seen in weeks. Is the name of this band CHICKEN? Or is the name of the record “Chicken Coup de Ville”? Never mind all that, behold the SPECIMEN on the cover here.

What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is an honest-to-godzilla redneckity MULLET in all its repugnant, ill-advised 90s glory. This poor slob is clearly ready to audition for the part of A) backwoods Arayan Jesus,  B) Billy Ray Cyrus lookalike, or C) NASCAR crash test dummy.
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Crosley iJuke CD/MP3 player

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crosley ijukeComing to a convention near you? We’re seriously thinking of scoring the Crosley iJuke CD/MP3 player for the Turntabling.net booth to display and play Goblin CDs  on when doing horror movie conventions. It looks great, the price is decent, but we don’t know anybody who’s actually used one. Amazon.com customer reviews notwithstanding, we know very little about how good this little baby might be. If you own one or know someone who does, drop us a comment and let us know what you think–we’d love to get some feedback on this unit before dropping cash on it.

It would make an awfully cool addition to the table, I must say…