WTF: The Ethel Merman Disco Album

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ethel merman disco album

Before you ask: we DO NOT have this monstrosity for sale in the vinyl section. The best I can do is offer you this link to the CD version of the Ethel Merman Disco Album.  Some have listened to this–and you can hear a sample below–and claim that it’s proof that there is no God. Others, like me, believe this record is a prime example of the worst cocaine-Stoli-quaalude cocktail fueled excesses of the disco generation. Ethel Merman herself supposedly hated disco and word on the street is that she recorded her vocals separately from the rest of the album.

Merman–for those of you mercifully too young to remember, was famous for show tunes. “There’s No Business Like Show Business” and that sort of thing. The modern day equivalent would be, I suppose, Josh Groban doing a gangsta rap single. Equally hideous on all fronts.

Have a listen and decide for yourself if this is the most ill-advised thing since The Star Wars Holiday Special or if it’s just another minor blip on the radar of bad taste. Continue reading WTF: The Ethel Merman Disco Album →

Herbie Hancock Blow-Up Soundtrack LP

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Blow Up Soundtrack LP vinyl Herbie Hancock

This is the 4 Men With Beards re-issue of an all-time classic. Blow Up features Herbie Hancock in the high point of one of his most creative and inventive periods, long before he ever touched a synthesizer–it’s great stuff. And the Yardbirds work on here is worth the price alone.

All in all, this is an excellent sonic portrait of Swinging London, and anybody who’s a fan of the Easy Tempo series deserves to pick up a copy of this for themselves. You’ll find people trying to collect upwards of $90 for a Blow Up soundtrack, but this much more reasonably priced edition seems to be getting scarce. Continue reading Herbie Hancock Blow-Up Soundtrack LP →

Joe Meek: I Hear a New World SOLD OUT

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joe meek I hear a new world vinyl LP

Joe Meek’s I Hear A New World is one of those sonic experiences you either “get” or you don’t. A sonic David Lynch experience, to be certain…it could be said that Meek presages Eno’s Taking Tiger Mountain or Another Green World by many years–the same skewed, left-of center studio thinking is apparent here. Joe Meek himself says, “Yes! This is a strange record. I meant it to be.”

From Glob Waterfall to Valley of No Return you’ll marvel at this literally spaced-out concept album from 1960. This is just as out there as it gets when it comes to conventional instruments in a 60s era recording studio without Zappa or Beefheart singing over the top. Sometimes it’s only the little flourishes that make this so strange…but what flourishes they are.

This is a new, sealed LP–it’s the 1991 RPM reissue via Cherry Red Records. $SOLD OUT


Danny Elfman’s Corpse Bride Soundtrack LP SOLD OUT

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Tim Buron Corpse Bride OST LPWe’re currently SOLD OUT of the Tim Burton Corpse Bride OST double vinyl soundtrack album. It’s just been added to the Turntabling catalog, but how long will it last? It’s a sealed double LP featuring four songs by Danny Elfman, plus the usual Elfman score. Fans won’t be let down…have a look at the clip and you’ll hear classic Elfman at work…how does he keep winding up scoring movies with singing skeletons?