GUEST POST MADNESS: thee ende
The final contribution comes courtesy of the mighty Dean Rasmussen:
James asked me to fill in for a day and I figured I would talk about the dilemma of working in an office without filesharing. I have 18 hours of mp3s that I have found laying around on the internet- usually from doing the Google search with "parent directory" mp3 "old band you and everyone else on earth could not possibly care about anymore since I'm 39" thingy. I am convinced that EVERYTHING is buried on the internet somewhere for free- not unlike the Ark Of The Covenant at the Smithsonian. I figured I would tell you of my triumphs and the psychotic searches that remain. These are songs that so personally obsessive that even having access to hipster ftp sites won't help you. These are lost. Lost to the world. Or so one would think.
First there was the endless search in the 80s for "Shelly's Boyfriend" by Bonnie Hayes and Wild Combo. I just remember being haunted by the pop perfection of the hook in the chorus while watching EG Daily shop for shoes in VALLEY GIRL. I got the VALLEY GIRL soundtrack back in the day, figuring it was one of the minor Josey Cotton songs. THEN I found out it was Bonnie Hayes and Wild Combo and THEN I found out that it was on the IMPOSSIBLE to find back in the day SECOND VALLEY GIRL soundtrack EP. So I gave up my record store quest and got on with my life. Then the nineties came around and POW! the internet! It was strange that the "Shelly's Boyfriend" obsession was completely buried in the back of my mind when I had the original Napster. Any way 2003ish rolls around and I remember Bonnie Hayes et al and, of course you can download it right off her official website. LISTEN to the eighties synthpop hook that 80s teenage dreams were made of.... HERE: http://www.bonniehayes.com/index2.htm
One of the more pathetic obsessions that turned into a true quest was my Quest For The Best Bruce Springsteen Song- "Ramrod" from THE RIVER. I was 15 when my mom got me every Springsteen record for Christmas. Bruce boils down to five essential songs and dozen or so really good songs. The five are : "Born To Run" (Find it in 20 seconds on Google), "She's The One" (ditto), "Badlands" (I was still completely burned out after 24 years from listening to it everyday from 1982 to 1984), "Born In The USA" (easily found on sites using it for completely the opposite reason it was written) and the impossible to find "Ramrod". "Ramrod" is the best Springsteen song because it's about a car and girl. In that order. He appreciates the value of the love of his girl because she the closest embodiment of "a hot stepping hemi with a four on the floorShe's a roadrunner engine in a '32 Ford." Plus it was the closest Springsteen ever got to what I think he truly wanted to sound like- the White Gary US Bonds. The Duane Eddy keychange and vocal delivery, the anthemic call for love. To hell with those cretins who think "Thunder Road" is the Boss. "Ramrod" is the alpha and omega. Even his remake of "Ramrod"- "Pink Cadillac"- smokes everything but the title track on BORN IN THE USA, which it was left off of for whatever reason. Anyway, I FINALLY found it by doing the porn-drenched Google search for - oh fuck, wait for it- "Bruce" "Ramrod". Go to this index: http://66.116.198.201/Bruce/ It also has two of those "really good songs": "Cadillac Ranch" and "I'm Going Down".
The latest great thing I found was "Jesus Chrysler Drives A Dodge" by the Screaming Blue Messiahs. The SBM were a pretty big deal when I was 21 years old in 1987. Bill Carter was a fucking hellish Quine-ian guitar player and it's weird that everything about their existence on the net is their listings in record store stock. I came across this link to a 40 year old guy whom I expect had the same experiences I had except he still had his SBM cds and could upload this motherfucker of a song. http://www.huskwv.com/pages/1/index.htm
My present idiotic unfulfilled free internet quests are for "Stay" by David Bowie and "Upside Down" by the Jesus and Mary Chain. Anything to keep me from working.
And I would also state that "Like A Girl Jesus" by Game Theory is the holy grail and I would give up the internet completely after I find it.
James asked me to fill in for a day and I figured I would talk about the dilemma of working in an office without filesharing. I have 18 hours of mp3s that I have found laying around on the internet- usually from doing the Google search with "parent directory" mp3 "old band you and everyone else on earth could not possibly care about anymore since I'm 39" thingy. I am convinced that EVERYTHING is buried on the internet somewhere for free- not unlike the Ark Of The Covenant at the Smithsonian. I figured I would tell you of my triumphs and the psychotic searches that remain. These are songs that so personally obsessive that even having access to hipster ftp sites won't help you. These are lost. Lost to the world. Or so one would think.
First there was the endless search in the 80s for "Shelly's Boyfriend" by Bonnie Hayes and Wild Combo. I just remember being haunted by the pop perfection of the hook in the chorus while watching EG Daily shop for shoes in VALLEY GIRL. I got the VALLEY GIRL soundtrack back in the day, figuring it was one of the minor Josey Cotton songs. THEN I found out it was Bonnie Hayes and Wild Combo and THEN I found out that it was on the IMPOSSIBLE to find back in the day SECOND VALLEY GIRL soundtrack EP. So I gave up my record store quest and got on with my life. Then the nineties came around and POW! the internet! It was strange that the "Shelly's Boyfriend" obsession was completely buried in the back of my mind when I had the original Napster. Any way 2003ish rolls around and I remember Bonnie Hayes et al and, of course you can download it right off her official website. LISTEN to the eighties synthpop hook that 80s teenage dreams were made of.... HERE: http://www.bonniehayes.com/index2.htm
One of the more pathetic obsessions that turned into a true quest was my Quest For The Best Bruce Springsteen Song- "Ramrod" from THE RIVER. I was 15 when my mom got me every Springsteen record for Christmas. Bruce boils down to five essential songs and dozen or so really good songs. The five are : "Born To Run" (Find it in 20 seconds on Google), "She's The One" (ditto), "Badlands" (I was still completely burned out after 24 years from listening to it everyday from 1982 to 1984), "Born In The USA" (easily found on sites using it for completely the opposite reason it was written) and the impossible to find "Ramrod". "Ramrod" is the best Springsteen song because it's about a car and girl. In that order. He appreciates the value of the love of his girl because she the closest embodiment of "a hot stepping hemi with a four on the floorShe's a roadrunner engine in a '32 Ford." Plus it was the closest Springsteen ever got to what I think he truly wanted to sound like- the White Gary US Bonds. The Duane Eddy keychange and vocal delivery, the anthemic call for love. To hell with those cretins who think "Thunder Road" is the Boss. "Ramrod" is the alpha and omega. Even his remake of "Ramrod"- "Pink Cadillac"- smokes everything but the title track on BORN IN THE USA, which it was left off of for whatever reason. Anyway, I FINALLY found it by doing the porn-drenched Google search for - oh fuck, wait for it- "Bruce" "Ramrod". Go to this index: http://66.116.198.201/Bruce/ It also has two of those "really good songs": "Cadillac Ranch" and "I'm Going Down".
The latest great thing I found was "Jesus Chrysler Drives A Dodge" by the Screaming Blue Messiahs. The SBM were a pretty big deal when I was 21 years old in 1987. Bill Carter was a fucking hellish Quine-ian guitar player and it's weird that everything about their existence on the net is their listings in record store stock. I came across this link to a 40 year old guy whom I expect had the same experiences I had except he still had his SBM cds and could upload this motherfucker of a song. http://www.huskwv.com/pages/1/index.htm
My present idiotic unfulfilled free internet quests are for "Stay" by David Bowie and "Upside Down" by the Jesus and Mary Chain. Anything to keep me from working.
And I would also state that "Like A Girl Jesus" by Game Theory is the holy grail and I would give up the internet completely after I find it.
posted by James at 11:58 AM
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1 Comments:
wow. i don't know these songs but now i do. and shit man. good job for finding these hard to find gems. it's really hard finding music on the internet like that. and the last place i worked so was goddamned strict about file sharing not only could we not download music. we couldn't even rip music from a cd! it was insane. so i would search for songs i wanted to hear but didn't have and it was hard as hell. so good job dean. good fucking job.
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