Border Radio Original Soundtrack Vinyl LP

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Border Radio original soundtrack vinylBorder Radio was a great, low-budget indie film directed by Kurt Voss, Dean Lent, and Allison Anders over a period of four years in Southern California. It stars a who’s who of Cali punk luminaries including Dave Alvin, Chris D. and John Doe in a standout role as a grungy bass player in exile from the local music scene.

The film’s soundtrack is a combination of meditative guitar strumming and more energetic sounds from Alvin, Green On Red, DJ Bonebrake (John Doe’s bandmate in X), Lazy Cowgirls, and many more. The film–a potboiler about a club theft and the local heavies chasing down the most likely suspects)–holds up well and is still fascinating to watch for a variety of reasons. Partially shot in documentary style, the first half hour (after some intro scenes) feels a bit like Penelope Spheeris’s Decline of Western Civilization, but Border Radio is definitely working in its own idiom.

The soundtrack is awesome, and this edition comes with a strip of 16mm film from the movie. We’ve got one solitary copy of this for sale, and we strongly recommend it. The movie was originally released in 1987 and finally got a Criterion Collection release in 2006, which we also recommend…

Border Radio is a sealed, unopened vinyl LP released on Enigma (not a reissue). Buy it now from Turntabling for $23 plus shipping. Overseas shipping is extra.







WTF Bad Album Covers Lil’ Flip The Leprechaun

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WTF bad album covers lil flip the leprechaun

What in the world were they thinking on THIS one? One music blogger writing for the Houston Press declares this the WORST hip hop cover in the history of the Houston scene. We’ll go that one better and say that this is simply one of the worst album covers, like, ever. Nothing says, “Hey, take me seriously” like a guy dressed up like the Lucky Charms mascot.

Gotta give Lil’ Flip points for originality in one respect–he’s not pointing a gun at the cover, standing against a brick wall with his arms folded and his chin stuck in the air like a weathervane, or making some ding-dong finger exercises that are supposed to indicate which side of the street he lives on. So good on you for that.

Ever since Lil’ Kim gained traction in the music industry, hip hop and related sounds has suffered from a veritable flood of “me too” rappers and hip hoppers all trying to get some of that “lil” magic to rub off on them. Seems pathetic, doesn’t? Lil Flip is only one of a shameful crop of intellectually bankrupt me too-ers. My question for all these Lil’ guys–do you want to be known as Lil ANYTHING when you’re FORTY? I didn’t think so. We can NEVER forgive Lil Kim for unleashing this torrent of Lil knockoffs.

Behold the list of the damned, courtesy of Wikipedia.

Hows about somebody calling themselves Lil Dumbass?

Schulmadchen Report OST Vinyl LP

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schulmadchen report soundtrack vinyl LP

Gert Wilden’s 60s softcore/erotica soundtrack music on the ultra-sexy Schulmadchen Report OST LP on the Crippled Dick Hot Wax label is just plain awesome. Things kick off with a groovy homage to Canned Heat, and only get funkier from there. (Sample below–you’ll LOVE this if you’re inclined to these sounds…) This album features “combo sounds”–the Hammond Organ, fuzzed out guitars, the grooves you know and love from the 60s.

We have two of these delicious slabs of hard-to-find vinyl in stock currently. Schulmadchen Report features liner notes from Tim Lucas of Video Watchdog fame, and seventeen sizzling tracks of hot and sexy numbers from the Schulmadchen Report series, plus a few other choice erotica sounds from related films.

Schulmadchen Report by Gert Wilden & Orchestra is a sealed, shrink-wrapped, German import vinyl album. Buy it now from Turntabling for $20 plus shipping. Shipping is extra on overseas orders.