Blur: The Death of a Party + Acoustic Demo

Listen/Download:
"Death of a Party"
"Death of a Party" (Early Acoustic Version)
[Band Wiki]

Oasis: Lord Don't Slow Me Down (Liam Vocal Version)

Listen:

[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Website]
[Band Myspace]
[Band Wiki]
[NME Story on the New Leaked Tracks]

Interpol: Hands Away (Peel Session)

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[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Website]
[Band Myspace]
[Band Wiki]

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:

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:

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)

Repost/Update 8/7/08: Since there's still a lot of traffic to this post, I've put up individual mp3s of all the tracks for your listening pleasure. Enjoy.

Band Wiki

Ride: Twisterella (Acoustic)

Listen:

[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Website]
[Band Wiki]

Buy it:

Amazon CD


Amazon CD
Amazon Boxset

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

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]

The Rolling Stones: Dead Flowers (Alternate Version)

Well when you're sitting there in your silk upholstered chair
Talking 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]

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]

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]

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]

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)

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]

Foreign Born: Escape (Original Version)

Listen:

[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Website]
[Band Myspace]
[Read my interview with singer Matt P]

The Libertines: Smashing (Unreleased)

Listen:

[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Website]

Radiohead : Come to Your Senses (Soundcheck Snippet)

[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Website]

The Rolling Stones: Brown Sugar (Alternate Version w/ Eric Clapton)

Listen:

[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Website]

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)

The Verve: Urban Hymns Demos

Listen to "C'mon People" (Demo):

[Download the MP3 Here]
[Download them all from I Am Fuel, You Are Friends ]
[Link From Anti-Climacus]