The Mountain Goats - Ghana

I fuckin love these.

going to (VBR)

Sad day.

Along with a lot of other people around here, wishing Captain Beefheart peace.

Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold

Starts and closes with a music box.

down it (VBR)

Tom Waits also beatboxes on "The Waitress," which is cool.

The National - Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (320)

God, this is good, and sad. Possibly the best titled album ever.

start slippin'.

The Mountain Goats - Bitter Melon Farm

One of three Mountain Goats compilations, full of EP songs and other rare stuff. Everything by the Mountain Goats is good. This is especially good. Also can't go wrong when it ends with an Ace of Base cover.

and your arms were warm and that's all I remember (@256)

The White Stripes - Under Blackpool Lights (2004)

Audio rip. Really really good. Who doesn't like the White Stripes? Especially right in 2004? I could bone and bone, but it's just totally worth it. One of my favorites. The other girl who posts on here (at least used to, if she ever comes back) saw them back on their tour for Elephant. Jealous as fuck.

This version of Death Letter will kick your ass. I recommend youtubing it first. In fact...




here. 256.

Bike for Three! - More Heart Than Brains (2009)

Okay. Hello Again. Bike for Three! More Heart Than Brains, a new collaboration from BUCK 65 and GREETINGS FROM TUSKAN.

It's like shiny things in the dark. (Sorry.)

Buy it if you've got money.

Or if not, here you go. It's VBR, and it sounds fine to me. And this album is from both Canada AND Belgium.

The Fugs - First Album (1965)

The first ten tracks of this one, I believe, were the original Fugs album, the next 11 are bonus tracks added on a 1993 reissue. Hard to say much about this record...it's weird and excellent and funny, but you can still take it seriously (sometimes). I think the songwriting is fucking superb, but the performance is so unusual. I think if the term had existed, they would have been pegged "outsider." Whatever the fuck that means.

-Released on ESP-Disk
-1965
-US
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1. Slum Goddess
2. Ah, Sunflower Weary of Time
3. Supergirl
4. Swinburne Stomp
5. I Couldn't Get High
6. How Sweet I Roamed from Field to Field
7. Carpe Diem
8. My Baby Done Left Me
9. Boobs A Lot
10. Nothing
11. We're the Fugs
12. Defeated
13. The Ten Commandments
14. CIA Man
15. In the Middle of Their First Recording Session The Fugs Sign the Worst Contract Since Leadbelly's
16. I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Rock
17. Spontaneous Salute to Andy Warhol (from rehearsal at the Peace Eye Bookstore, February 1965)
18. War Kills Babies
19. The Fugs National Anthem
20. The Fugs Spaghetti Death (No Redemption No Redemption) - A Glop of Spaghetti for Andy Warhol
21. The Rhapsody of Tuli

Do you like a boobs a lot? (320)

The Residents - Meet the Residents (1974)

-Released on Ralph
-1974
-US
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1. Boots
2. Numb Erone
3. Guylum Bardot
4. Breath and Length
5. Consuelo's Departure
6. Smelly Tongues
7. Rest Aria
8. Skratz
9. Spotted Pinto Bean
10. Seasoned Greetings
11. N-ER-GEE (Crisis Blues)

mediafire (320)

info (links to lyrics and more at the bottom)

The Residents - ...Imaginary Jack (2005)

For short called "Imaginary Jack," the full title of Animal Lover's second/bonus disc is all the text up there on the CD, or, this:

I stood at my window staring at an arcing streetlight. A sudden wind made me pull my shoulders to my ears. I pissed into the dark. It smelled like canned tuna. My swollen lip throbbed. I could still taste the blood. My eyes rolled back looking for memories. I stopped. I was changing details in my mind, remembering only what I wanted it to be, not what it was. I had only a short time to do what had to be done, after that it would all be forever absorbed by my imaginary Jack.

-Released on Mute
-2005
-US
-
One long untitled track according to The Residents, but split up into six parts.

Imaginary Jack @320

More info here

The Residents - Animal Lover (2005)

This is perhaps the best place for a Rez novice to start - it may still be terrifying and bizarrely dark, but it is relatively "accessible" - very emotional songs ("My Window," "What Have My Chickens Done Now?," "Elmer's Song" etc.). It was my first Residents album and for several listens through I was petrified, but too fascinated to stop. Welcome to another place!

-Released on Mute
-2005
-US
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1. On The Way (To Oklahoma)
2. Olive and Gray
3. What Have My Chickens Done Now?
4. Two Lips
5. Mr. Bee's Bumble
6. Inner Space
7. Dead Men
8. My Window
9. Ingrid's Oily Tongue
10. Mother No More
11. Dreaming of an Anthill (Teeming)
12. Elmer's Song
13. The Monkey Man
14. The Whispering Boys
15. Burn My Bones

Listen:
Download (@320)
Info (scroll down to bottom for links to pesudo-reviews/analyses)
Lyrics

3 albums by the Residents: Duck Stab / Buster & Glen (1978); Commercial Album (1980); God In Three Persons (1988)

This is an update of an older post, links replaced by links to 320 rips, all mediafire. Animal Lover was up here before, I will get it up soon, as well as some other Res albums in the future. Please enjoy:

"Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, The Residents have remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions; cloaking their lives and music in a haze of wilful obscurity, the band's members never identified themselves by name, always appearing in public in disguise -- usually tuxedos, top hats and giant eyeball masks -- and refusing to grant media interviews."

-The Residents.com
-RalphAmerica.com

Some good Residents albums, @320:

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (1978)

Two EPs, though generally considered an album or something. Real good. I recently discovered Primus included a medley cover of the tracks "Constantinople" and "Hello Skinny" as a bonus on some issues of their debut Frizzle Fry. Neat oh.

-Released on Ralph
-1978
-US
-
-Duck Stab:
1. Constantinople
2. Sinister Exaggerator
3. The Booker Tease
4. Blue Rosebuds
5. The Laughing Song
6. Bach Is Dead
7. Elvis and His Boss
-Buster & Glen:
8. Lizard Lady
9. Semolina
10. Birthday Boy
11. Weight-Lifting Lulu
12. Krafty Cheese
13. Hello Skinny
14. The Electrocutioner

Listen:
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Lyrics
Info

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Commercial Album (1980)

An album made up of 40 1-minute songs, based around the "concept" of a commercial pop song and reducing it to a one-minute jingle.

-Released on Celluloid
-1980
-US
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1. Easter Woman
2. Perfect Love
3. Picnic Boy
4. End of Home
5. Amber
6. Japanese Watercolor
7. Secrets
8. Die In Terror
9. Red Rider
10. My Second Wife
11. Floyd
12. Suburban Bathers
13. Dimples and Toes
14. The Nameless Souls
15. Love Leaks Out
16. Act of Being Polite
17. Medicine Man
18. Tragic Bells
19. Loss of Innocence
20. The Simple Song
21. Ups and Downs
22. Possessions
23. Give It To Someone Else
24. Phantom
25. Less Not More
26. My Work Is So Behind
27. Birds In the Trees
28. Handful of Desire
29. Moisture
30. Love Is...
31. Troubled Man
32. La La
33. Loneliness
34. Nice Old Man
35. The Talk of Creatures
36. Fingertips
37. In Between Dreams
38. Margaret Freeman
39. The Coming of the Crow
40. When We Were Young

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God In Three Persons (1988)

A concept album of sorts, although the music plays a background to "Mr. X's" narrative about his meeting of two androgynous siamese twins who have miraculous healing powers.

This ranks highly in my favorite albums, it's one of the Residents' best projects.

-Released on Rykodisc
-1988
-US
-
1. Main Titles (God In Three Persons)
2. Hard & Tenderly
3. Devotion?
4. The Thing About Them
5. Their Early Years
6. Loss of a Loved One
7. The Touch
8. The Service
9. Confused (By What I Felt Inside)
10. Fine Fat Flies
11. Time
12. Silver, Sharp and Could Not Care
13. Kiss of Flesh
14. Pain and Pleasure

Listen:
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After you listen:
Info
Analysis 1
Analysis 2

Sun City Girls - Dante's Disneyland Inferno (1996)

One of two massive double albums released by SCG in 1996. Hard to really describe this one, it's a melting pot by normal standards, but they make it sound like an album should. When I started listening to this album, I really started to grasp just how good Sun City Girls are, and how much of a shame it is that pretty much everyone ignores their work.

-Released on Abduction
-1996
-US
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-1:
1. Sexy Graveyard
2. Hector and Chino
3. Soft Fragile Eggshell Minds
4. A Bad Dream
5. Geography of the Swastika
6. Flesh Balloons of Tibet
7. Pay the Fiddler
8. The Brothers Unconnected
9. Hippie Conglomerate
10. Five Minutes
11. Charles Gocher Sr.
12. A Man Is An Insect Is A Flame
13. Jack the Ripper
14. Persistence of Vision
15. Dear Anybody
16. A Secret Revealed Unwittingly
17. Helen Waite
18. Jessup's Diary
- 2:
1. Ballad of (D)Anger
2. Bitter Cold Countryside
3. Ruby on the Ferris Wheel
4. The Ballad of Co-Dependency
5. Joan of Arc
6. Holiday for Shakespeare
7. The Harley of Horror
8. Floppy Pus
9. Bloody Zipper
10. Family of Nails
11. Fourteen
12. Sal Manilla
13. Six Kids of Mine
14. Dan and Ross
15. Book of Revelations
16. Bird of Prey

RYM info/reviews

Are ya nervous, fellas? Have a cigarette...smoke!

@192.

Sun City Girls - Horse Cock Phepner (1987)

A little more Sun City Girls for ya all.

-Released on Placebo
-1987
-US
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1. Horse Cock Phepner
2. Voice of America #1
3. Nancy Reagan
4. Esta Susan en Casa?
5. Aristocrats of Impertinence
6. It's Underneath the House
7. I Protect You From Me
8. Without Compare
9. CIA Man
10. Dreamland
11. Pornoshop
12. Voice of America #2
13. Eyeball in a Quart Jar of Snot
14. Passenger Seat People
15. Saint Bernard's Observation Booth
16. Kill the Klansmen
17. Cloaven Radio

Alright Harold, start up that mower! (@256 or 224 or something)

RYM info
little bit of lyrics

Sun City Girls - Sun City Girls (1984)

Get it. Especially if you've never heard them at all - this group's work can rip open a gaping hole in your perception.

-Released on Placebo
-1984
-US [as much as you wouldn't know it]
-
1. Caravan on Scars
2. Uncle Jim
3. Hitman Boy
4. Jokers on a Waltz
5. Rubbing Stamp Icons
6. The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Trick
7. Black Tent
8. 561b (For Alexis)
9. Rapping Head
10. My Painted Tomb
11. Trippin on Krupa
12. Metaphors in a Mixmaster
13. Your Bible Set Off My Smoke Alarm
14. Helwa Shek
15. Moment of a Million Lands
16. Woman in Mourning
17. Vomiting Diamonds

Grab it

Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)

Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
-Released on Drag City
-2004
-US
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1. Bridges and Ballons
2. Sprout and the Bean
3. The Book of Right-On
4. Sadie
5. Inflammatory Writ
6. This Side of the Blue
7. "En Gallop"
8. Cassiopeia
9. Peach, Plum, Pear
10. Swansea
11. Three Little Babies
12. Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie

here-mediafire/320kbps

Ahmad Jamal - Jamal Plays Jamal (1974)

I really like this album. It's piano-driven jazz, but not without its share of bass and drum bits too. And strings! Very nice strings here and there. It's far from being considered a jazz classic or anything like that, although Jamal is well know enough, I just like it. I listened to this album on repeat while reading Ryu Murakami's book Almost Transparent Blue. Doing that created some strong attachment to this album for me, so that's probably why it's here. You might recognize part of the second song," Pastures" from somewhere. It looped for a pretty hook on "Feelin' It" off Unreasonable Doubt. Anyway, enjoy, this is good stuff, especially if you're looking to relax.

-Released on 20th Century
-1974
-US
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1. Eclipse
2. Pastures
3. Dialogue
4. Spanish Interlude
5. Death & Resurrection
6. Swahililand

Jamal Plays Jamal at 320kbps

Neon Genesis Evangelion OST II and OST III

Neon Genesis Evangelion OST II [320kbps]


OST2 (@320)

Neon Genesis Evangelion OST III [320 kbps]


OST3 (@320)

If you want one of them, get them all, you'll also get nine billion versions of "Fly Me To The Moon." These soundtracks are serious gold, though, if you're into anime. Strings, gigantic horn sounds, just immediately nostalgic if you spent your pre-adolescent/early adolescent years obsessing over this stuff. If you didn't, I both envy and feel sorry for you. (Also, these links are megaupload, I apologize for them not being mediafire, but the zipped files are too big for mediafire without splitting them up, and that's all a pain in the ass for everyone, especially me.)

Neon Genesis Evangelion OST 1

I will post stuff at 320kbps when it's available as such. Those of you who don't know the importance of that, I suggest a google search into finding out, it's not hard, and it's much better to know. That said, here's the first of three anime soundtracks, to Neon Genesis Evangelion, at 320 bit rate. It's a good soundtrack, but probably not worth getting unless you've seen the show, and since those of you who have are likely the only ones who would be interested, I won't explain what it's like, so here ya go with OST 1:

get it (via Megaupload)

RYM info