gts164 “combusht” Don’t play with matches. 01-01 Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra – RCA Victor PM-45689 – Oh What You Said (Are We Burnt Up?) (1939) — Charlie didn’t have to do it. He was independently wealthy, music was a fun hobby. Which made him famously affable, everybody liked him. The band’s instruments, sheet music,…

gts163 “shpecks” Easier to breathe with a fork. 01-01 Bob Lawrence & Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra – Victor 24455 – Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (1934) — Lucky Strike Mother Fucker Turtle? 01-02 Lillie Bryant – Swan 4029 – Smokey Grey Eyes — Lillie’s sister Anita Bryant got much more famous, as the spokeswoman…

gts162 “buggish” All the butterfly songs turned out to be weird. 01-01 Cecil Gant – Gilt-Edge 502 – Wake Up, Cecil, Wake Up (1945) 01-02 Bill & Bink – Hu-Se-Co 1358 – Bed Bug Boogie [excerpt] (1958) 01-03 Heywood Banks – Bob & Tom: Twin Geeks 01 – Dust Mites (1990) 01-04 Weezer – Hurley…

gts161 “stash” Owsley Acid is the standard, but don’t mess with Owsley STP… that’ll put you in the psychward. 01-01 The Ink Spots – Decca 1789 – That Cat Is High (1938) — a year later, the Ink Spots released “If I Didn’t Care” also on Decca, which sold an astounding 19 million copies. For…

gts160 “shpingle” 5 tunes per hour, that’s comfortable progrock. 01-01 Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 302 – The Waiting Room (1974) — the album version. Across 102 shows for the Lamb tour, they never played this song the same twice. This is how one identifies which Lamb concert one is listening to.…

gts159 “shpungle” Nine for the kings of men. 01-01 The Mars Volta – Amputechture 04 – Meccamputechture (2006) — two of my favorite hyphenated Texans: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala. Cedric said: “To me, religion is the reason there is so much conflict in this world, and I think it’s just so unnecessary to believe…

gts158 “shpangle” Intricate dreams. 01-01 Arabs In Aspic – Live At Advantgarden 05 – Rejected Wasteland / Pictures In A Dream (2018) 01-02 Naikaku-No-Wa – Wheel Of Fortune 02 – In Short, You’ve Just Changed “Point Of View”, Don’t You? It’s Only A Superficial Part, Right? Modern? Or Post-Modern? We Don’t Care. Go Home! Go…

gts157 “fetish” It’s not an orgy until someone runs out of butter. 01-01 Jan Garber & His Orchestra – Brunswick 8060 – Ten Pretty Girls (1938) — unless you’re Mormon and the other nine are called “sisters”. 01-02 Mark Eddie – Rock N Roll Cuts Part II 16 – O.R.G.Y (1998) — don’t need ten…

gts156 “teenthish” Galveston 1865, seems that massas sorta ‘forgot’ to tell their slaves that the Civil War was over for a couple months, oopsy. 01-01 Mills Brothers – Brunswick 6278 – Rockin’ Chair (1932) — vocal style so distinctive it was parodied, the Mills Brothers broke ground crossing from “special audience” records into the white…

gts155 “shine” They say that waking up is haaaa-aard to doo-oo. 01-01 Arthur Fields – Victor 18489 – Oh How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning (1918) — it was the War To End All Wars, oops. But incentive to learn to play the horns. 01-02 The Beatles – Revolver 103 – I’m…