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Just Bought the Farm? The Residents' 'Animal Lover' Reissued - Weird bones The Residents – ‘Animal Lover’ – Cherry Red Animal Lover has always carried a strange reputation. Some listeners treat it like a puzzle that demands explanation and a map, a late‑period curio that sit...

Eyeballs, Alex De Renzy pig films, meditations on the human condition by chickens. Obviously, it's my latest Residents review weirdbones.co.uk/just-bought-...
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This Can't Be Today - A Trip Through the US Psychedelic Underground - Weird bones Various – ‘This Can’t Be Today – A Trip Through the US Psychedelic Underground’ – Cherry Red There’s a particular kind of compilation that arrives already carrying its own mythology, and ‘This Can’t B...

New boxset covering the Paisley Underground, the second wave of psychedelia. More misses than hits, but still intriguing.
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Poster for the 1991 album release of TAD's "8-Way Santa".

On this day, 35 years ago in 1991, TAD's 8-Way Santa was released on @subpop.bsky.social records.

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The Electric Dead Speak! - Weird bones Various – ‘Electric Dead Speak – Music for Electric Voice Phenomenon’ – Eighth Tower Records When I was little, I remember very clearly that my sister, Tracy, had a flexi-disc featuring not hits of th...

When I was little, my sister had a flexi-disc of dead voices captured within the grooves. It all came rushing back listening to this.

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Music for Ghosts - The Lasry-Baschet Sound Structures - Weird bones The Lasry-Baschet Sound Structures might not be the go-to group on Spotify right now, I really couldn’t say. However, it would give humanity as a whole a tremendous boost if everyone were to run out i...

It's what all the kids are listening to. I think.
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CBGB - A New York City Soundtrack 1975-1986 - Weird bones Various – CBGB – A New York City Soundtrack CBGB mythology tends to calcify around the same five names – Television, Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, Talking Heads – the pantheon that debuted within fif...

If you were there, you don't remember it. I wasn't there, so listened to this new box set.
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Steppin’ Out: The Roots of Garage Rock 1963–1965 - Weird bones Various – Steppin’ Out: The Roots of Garage Rock 1963–1965 Rock ’n’ roll was still a toddler when the kids on ‘Steppin’ Out: The Roots of Garage Rock 1963–1965’ started treating it like a battlefield....

New review is up - back to the garage

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Analog 2025 and the Case for Wobble - Weird bones Various – ‘Analog 2025’ – Unexplained Sounds Group ‘Analog 2025’ arrives with tape flutter, slow pitch wobble, spring reverb that sounds like a corridor, and the soft, humanised clipping that turns a ...

Mark my words, all the cool kids will be listening to wobble this year
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It Came from Beyond the Channel - So High I've Been - Weird bones Various – So High I’ve Been: A European Rock Anthology 1967–1973 3CD Set – Cherry Red For decades, the story of rock music has been told as if it were a transatlantic conversation between Britain and ...

It came from beyond The Channel. Sonic madness from the continent reviewed: weirdbones.co.uk/so-high-ive-...

IX TAB: Ropes, Rituals, and Inescapable Dread - Weird bones Capricorni Peneumatici – ‘Ix Tab’, Eighth Tower Records I don’t often start reviews like this, but I think the accompanying text with this release speaks (in tongues) for itself: Ix Tab is an album de...

Completely obsessed with this at the moment - unsettling and then some. Hugely recommended.
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Beyond Telstar - The Horror and Western Themes of Joe Meek - Weird bones Various – Joe Meek – A Curious Mind Outer Space! Horror! Death Discs! The Wild West! Demos!. Cherry Red Joe Meek, astronaut extraordinaire (in his Holloway flat), was the launchpad for some of British...

Joe Meek's bearing gifts.
New review of a new box set covering some of Joe Meek's excursions into death, horror and cowboys

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Dinner Party Godzilla and the Truth Behind Horror Top Trumps - Weird bones Little evokes as eye-watering a Proustian rush as images of Waddington’s Horror Top Trumps. Despite my best efforts, I have not been able to ascertain the artist of the two packs of cards released in ...

Giving this another airing as it's suddenly attracted lots of hits.
The last word on Horror Top Trumps (nearly)
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Musical Differences - The Tribulations of Dr Teeth & The Electric Mayhem - Weird bones Like most bands, The Electric Mayhem has experienced more than a few ups and downs nearly 50 years since its inception. That they are all still alive to tell the tale says much. But what skeletons lur...

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In Feedback Everything is Fine - Revisiting the Score to Eraserhead - Weird bones VA – The Eraserhead – Music Inspired by the Film of David Lynch – Unexplained Sounds Group In the cult cosmos of David Lynch’s ‘Eraserhead’, silence drips like oil, and the industrial groan of existen...

There are even more things in the radiator

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YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park

RIP Tom
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You cannot, as my creaking shelves confirm, have too much Screaming Trees

Luke Haines & Peter Buck - Going Down to the River to Blow my Mind - Weird bones Music’s strangest séance gets its final incantation – tea brewed, minds blown. Three albums into their collaborative endeavours, we can safely remove any semblance of novelty from this album. Now able...

"Beatles-y immediacy and cockroach intent"

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It's quite the listening experience

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The Residents Wage War on the 80s - American Composers Series 1982-1987 - Weird bones The Residents’ ‘American Composer’s Series‘ – Cherry Red There are bad years for music. Then there’s 1983. It was the year everything got airbrushed. Bowie traded Berlin’s paranoia for peroxide and pa...

"MTV had turned sound into sausages, and fashion into farting." You don't get reviews on this quality on Alan Titchmarsh.

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Yum!

Now That's What I Call Entropy - Sonologyst's Planetarium - Weird bones Sonologyst – Planetarium Cold Spring Records Ah, to be floating, gliding, soaring through the silent everlastingness of outer space. Or, as the latest album from Sonologyst makes clear, the incredibly...

A short review of outer space.

Heat Wave! Sweaty Flutes and Bubbling Swamps with Lux & Ivy - Weird bones Heat Wave – The Intoxicating World of Nexotica as Dug by Lux and Ivy I’m sure I said I wouldn’t get any more of these, but here we are. It seems entirely reasonable that some, if not all, of these rec...

Nice weather for it
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YouTube video by TheBeachBoysVEVO The Beach Boys - This Whole World (Visualizer)

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Scratching that Itch - A Year in the Music of Lee Perry - Weird bones Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Presents Confusion: The Jamaican Upsetter Singles 1971 One of the reasons I love music is the way that it captures an unrepeatable moment in time – thoughts, emotions, character, m...

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Motown Who? Michigan's Rock 'n' Roll Roots - Weird bones va – Motor City is Burning A Michigan Anthology 1965-1972 If Motown’s brilliant PR is to be believed, Michigan’s contribution to music starts and ends with Detroit soul. Actually, that’s unfair. You’d...

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YouTube video by The Midnight Special Thank You - Sly and the Family Stone | The Midnight Special

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Car Boot Weekends - The Joy of Jetsam - Weird bones For the last couple of years, I have slowly – that is to say, quite quickly, become addicted to attending car boot fairs. Luckily, the small Cambridgeshire village I live in is equidistant to two fair...

Why on Earth would you get up at the crack of dawn every weekend?
I'll tell you why.
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One of The Residents' Most Monumental Albums - Doctor Dark reviewed - Weird bones Split into three acts, the latest new material from The Residents draws heavily upon two significantly troubling events of the late 20th Century – the trial by puppets of Judas Priest as they defended...

50-odd years after they formed, The Residents have casually released the best album of their career

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God bless Tiny Tim.

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