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Ep 165 – horribilish
gts165 “horribilish” A group with cubs is called a “streak” but when they go out hungry, it’s an “ambush”. 01-01 Mills Brothers – Brunswick 6197 – Tiger Rag (1931) — always my favorite version, becuase of that “hmm”. Turns out, the acapella Mills Bros were trying to faithfully represent a trombone not in the 1918…
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Ep 164 – combusht
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,…
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Ep 163 – shpecks
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…
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Ep 162 – buggish
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…
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Ep 161 – stash
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…
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Ep 160 – shpingle
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.…
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Ep 159 – shpungle
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…
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Ep 158 – shpangle
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…
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Ep 157 – fetish
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…
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Ep 156 – teenthish
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…