Weird Oowee Weird

Full title: Weird Oowee Weird aka A Strabismus Cow Licks Grapes & Gravy

Original title: What a Weird Way to Go

18 tracks by artists/bands labelled as weird rock among other genres. Now don't worry - there isn't any abstract, harsh, noise, or any non-music tracks. It's all listenable and frankly, most of the tracks are not all that entirely weird. You could say the band names are more weird in a no-connection-to the-music relation. Let's go with examples...

Kevin's "Ficking E" - a short instrumental ditty with an occasional scream in the background, and a saxophone playing a repeated motif. Not that weird, yet still cool...

Fuscia's "Headphones" - sounds like you'd hear on top 40 radio. There's a bit of scat and not the usual sounding instrumental break mid-way, but really not all that weird if at all...

The Great Journey's "The Meltdown" - okay, it's weird. A short little ditty but cool nonetheless...

Phoaming Edison's "Utilization Management" - love it! A great instrumental with the only thing weird would be the group and song title...

Creat's "I No U Do Not I" - wait for the Die Hard sample. Hilarious, then again I enjoy juvenile humor...

Chins' "Turtles" - more juvenile humor...

Captain's "Gary Larson" - to describe the tune, if Dinosaur Jr. went unplugged...

Soon Li's "Matt C." - another awesome instrumental. Nothing weird here, unless a trombone in a rocking tune...

Schwartz's "Pruen" - I had to recheck and make sure I got the band name and song title correct, lol...

Ben Lewis' "Blue Bubbles with Generators" - another awesome short instrumental, the title being the only thing weird...

Welington Irish Black Warrior's "Don't Blame Me" - just give the track a couple of minutes, and then sit back for a fast, motorik-styled ride...

Louis Jucker's "Attics" - as far as I know, the static near the beginning and the end is intentional.

Anyway, I really do like the tunes in this mix. I hope you do too. Enjoy!

Groovy Retro Family Christmas 2024 [1950-69]

For all you with family, young and old, a retro mix of a lot of unheard/underplayed Christmas tunes. Several tunes not only aimed at the kiddies, but the kid inside us. I still listen to every track, all twenty of 'em. Ooops, I meant nineteen of the twenty. I've never heard Barry Richards' "Baby Sittin' Santa" until just the other day, lol. Let's see what we got here...

Ricky Zahnd and The Blue Jeaners' "Something Barked on Christmas Morning" should have been a Christmas classic. The Royal Guardsmen's "The Return of the Red Baron" - the one they don't play, at least when I'm listening to the radio, or shopping at the mall. Billy May's "Do You Believe in Santa Claus? (feat. Thurl Ravenscroft)" - yeah, the singer dude is also Tony the Tiger, and the voice behind "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch."

Peter Wood Singers and Orchestra's "Winter Wonderland" goes back before blogs really took off (2003). I no longer recall who, where, and when (I'm guessing one of those groups like y*h** or maybe a peer 2 peer thingy, I really don't recall), but someone shared this track (probably no more than 128 kbps and full of snap, crackle & pop) and it's been in my Christmas playlist almost every year since.

Little Rita Faye's "I Fell Out of a Christmas Tree" is cute, and so is Lawrence Welk's Little Band's "Outer Space Santa." Art Carney's "Santa and the Doodle-Li-Boop" is simply awesome. There's also a bit of family humor, including Allan Sherman's "The Twelve Gifts of Christmas." Enjoy, and Merry Christmas!

Groovy Christmas 2024

Hey folks! Long time, no see! I've been busy, really busy. Anyway, got a cool Christmas mix with lots of groove, soul, funky-jazz and the like. Well, except one track - a rockabilly, early rocker. I just couldn't find the time (aka too lazy) to replace it, but it's all good.

16 unsung and/or rare tracks. The highlight would be Skafish's 10-minute plus "We Three Kings Fusion." Other favs in The Poets' "Merry Christmas Baby," Binky Griptite's "Stone Soul Christmas," Sparkplug's "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and The Ramsey Lewis Trio's "The Sound of Christmas." They're all good. Merry Christmas!