Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Interpol: Hands Away (Peel Session)

Listen:
[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Website]
[Band Myspace]
[Band Wiki]
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Lou Reed, Nico, and John Cale: Live at Le Bataclan '72
With the enormous interest generated by the Velvet Underground bootleg I posted a few weeks ago, "Live at the Gymnasium 1967" (Link), I thought I would post another show. This one isn't quite as rare, but it's just as interesting. In it, Lou Reed, John Cale, and Nico have a semi-reunion and play VU songs alongside their own solo work. You could kind of say it's the VU "unplugged". Here's the tracklist:1 I'm Waiting for the Man
2 Berlin
3 The Black Angel's Death Song (Reed, Cale)
4 Wild Child
5 Heroin
6 Ghost Story (Cale)
7 The Biggest, Loudest, Hairiest Group of All (Cale)
8 Empty Bottles (Cale)
9 Femme Fatale
10 No One Is There (Nico)
11 Frozen Warnings (Nico)
12 Janitor of Lunacy (Nico)
13 I'll Be Your Mirror
14 All Tomorrow's Parties (encore)
[Download the whole show]
Listen to "Heroin":
[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Wiki]
Waiting for the Man:
Berlin:
Labels: live, mp3, rarities, velvet underground
Friday, February 22, 2008
The Velvet Underground: Live at the Gymnasium, NYC
Furious Wank writes on the Libertines Forum:The Gymnasium, NYC
I'm not into VU bootlegs really, but apparently this is a big deal. It's the ONLY available live stuff from 1967 and has only become available in literally the last two days. Recorded just after the release of The Velvet Underground And Nico and featuring the debut performance of Sister Ray (19 mins long) and the *previously unheard* song I'm Not A Young Man Any More. That's right, A NEW VELVET UNDERGROUND SONG. And it's fucking good too. This version of Sister Ray absolutely shreds and is what the Velvet Underground are all about.
I'm just listening now and i can already say that, in addition to the historical importance of these five recordings, this thing rocks like a motherfucker.
DOWNLOAD IT NOW
http://www.mediafire.com/?9zcetzynbvo
1. I'm Not A Young Man Anymore (previously unheard VU song)
2. Guess I'm Falling In Love
3. I'm Waiting For The Man
4. Run Run Run
5. Sister Ray (debut live performance)
(feel free to pass this link around all you like - i think a lot of people are gonna be excited to hear this)
Listen to "I'm Not a Young Man Anymore":
[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Wiki]
Labels: live, mp3, rarities, velvet underground
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Ride: Twisterella (Acoustic)

Listen:
[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Website]
[Band Wiki]
Buy it:

Amazon CD

Amazon CD
Amazon Boxset
Labels: acoustic, classic, creation records, mp3, rarities, ride
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Buckley Rarity Smorgasbord
Pretty much every Buckley rarity ever can found by clicking the link below:[Buckleyesque]
Very nice...shame it's all on Rapidshare, but beggars can't be choosers.
Listen to "All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun" (with Liz Fraser):
[Download the MP3 Here]
[Artist Website]
[Artist Wiki]
Buy it:

Amazon MP3
Amazon CD

Amazon CD
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Blur: Parklife Demos (Part V)

"Peter Panic":
[Download the MP3 Here]
"Badhead":
[Download the MP3 Here]
"Trouble":
[Download the MP3 Here]
"One a Minute":
[Download the MP3 Here]
"Debt Collector-Waltz"
[Download the MP3 Here]
[Part I]
[Part II]
[Part III]
[Part IV]
Labels: blur, mp3, parklife demos, rarities
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
The Rolling Stones: Dead Flowers (Alternate Version)
Well when you're sitting there in your silk upholstered chairTalking to some rich folk that you know
Well I hope you won't see me in my ragged company
For you know I could never be alone
Take me down, little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
Well when you're sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac
Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day
I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon
And another girl to take my pain away
Yes
Take me down, little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the U.S .mail
Say it with dead flowers at my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
No, I won't forget to put roses on your grave
Listen:
[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Website]
[Band Wiki]
Labels: mp3, rarities, rolling stones
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Blur: Parklife Demos (Pt IV)

"Never Clever":
[Download the MP3 Here]
"Seven Days":
[Download the MP3 Here]
"Jubilee":
[Download the MP3 Here]
[Part I]
[Part II]
[Part III]
Labels: blur, mp3, parklife demos, rarities
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
The Smiths: Soundcheck Rarities

"How Soon is Now" (Instrumental):
[Download the MP3 Here]
"Purple Haze" (Jimi Hendrix Cover):
[Download the MP3 Here]
"Asleep":
[Download the MP3 Here]
"There is a Light that Never Goes Out" (Instrumental):
[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Wiki]
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Blur: Parklife Demos (Pt III)

"Tracy Jacks":
[Download the MP3 Here]
"Far Out":
[Download the MP3 Here]
"Bank Holiday":
[Download the MP3 Here]
[Part I]
[Part II]
Labels: blur, mp3, parklife demos, rarities
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Blur: Parklife Demos (Pt: II)

Listen to "Clover Over Dover" (Demo):
[Download the MP3 Here]
Listen to "To The End" (Demo):
[Download the MP3 Here]
[Part I]
(Thanks to "trevordewane" on the Libertines.org forum)Labels: blur, mp3, parklife demos, rarities
Saturday, August 18, 2007
DJ Shadow: Live at Oxford Sound City (10.30.97)
As a special treat, here's what is quite possibly DJ Shadow's best ever live performance. Recorded for the BBC on October 30, 1997, the set witnesses Shadow, aka Josh Davis, at the height of his powers. After "Endtroducing", before "Psyence Fiction"--the confidence and creativity displayed in this recording is striking.Highlights include a preacher sounding off on rock n' roll right before the incendiary "High Noon": "It hooks young people. And they become a part of this hooked generation and their lives are RUINED until they can shake themselves of this filthy beat and music and words that produces revolution, sex and drugs!" At the 31:19 mark, Shadow lays a sparkling piano part over "Midnight in a Perfect World" that casts the song in a whole new light.
Enjoy, and remember a time when Shadow was unbeatable.
Tracklist:
1) Intro
2) Lonely Soul (Instrumental Early Version)
3) Lost and Found
4) Painkiller (Kill the Pain Remix)
5) High Noon
6) Organ Donor
7) Midnight in a Perfect World
Listen:
[Download the MP3 Here]
[Artist Website]
[Artist Myspace]
[Artist Wiki]
Friday, August 10, 2007
Foreign Born: Escape (Original Version)

Listen:
[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Website]
[Band Myspace]
[Read my interview with singer Matt P]
Labels: foreign born, mp3, rarities
Friday, August 03, 2007
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
The Rolling Stones: Brown Sugar (Alternate Version w/ Eric Clapton)
Listen:
[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Website]
Labels: mp3, rarities, rolling stones
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Blur: Parklife Demos

Listen to "Parklife" (Demo):
[Download the MP3 Here]
Listen to "Girls and Boys" (Demo):
[Download the MP3 Here]
[Part II]
(Thanks to "trevordewane" on the Libertines.org forum)Labels: blur, mp3, parklife demos, rarities, UK
Friday, June 29, 2007
The Verve: Urban Hymns Demos






