Electricity & Gravity

Nobody did what they did and they did it better than anybody could.  It's heart-breaking to lose a band that was so damned beautiful, original, and progressive.  Here are some of my favorite tracks by the Beastie Boys.  There aren't many songs in common between this and the Mick Boogie mix.
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1. Jimmy James (O.G. Version)
2. A Year & A Day
3. The Blue Nun
4. Square Wave in Unison
5. The Update
6. 3-Minute Rule
7. B-Boys Makin' With the Freak Freak
8. Hey Fuck You
9. Heart Attack Man (Live)
10. Professor Booty
11. Freaky Hijiki
12. Resolution Time
13. Deal With It
14. The Move
15. The Scoop
16. OK
17. Car Thief
18. And Me
19. I Can't Think Straight
20. What Comes Around
21. The Cousin of Death
22. Lee Majors Come Again
23. Bodhisattva Vow
24. Super Disco Breakin'
25. The Vibes
26. Nervous Assistant
27. Say It
28. Instant Death

Wobbly Rail 4/2012 Kids With Replaceable Heads!

No there aren't really any boy bands. There is something unique about the music of the late 70's and early 80's. This music has an electric shock to it that is constantly surprising and interesting. From original punk of the Only Ones, X-Ray Spex, and the Saints, to ska, like the Specials, to hardcore, like Black Flag, to weirdos and the mentally ill, like Daniel Johnston, Roky Erickson, and Kevin Coyne & Dagmar Krause, it's inexplicably attached to a certain period. Thrown together and stitched up like Frankenstein and his bride, this playlist is the first one from this site that is from a time, rather than reaching across it. There's some weird, old mystery to this music that doesn't exist anymore and that's why it's special.

Kids with Replaceable Heads!
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1. Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
2. Let's Submerge - X-Ray Spex
3. Gangsters - The Specials
4. Is Ths Real? - Wipers
5. TV Set - The Cramps
6. Ghost on the Highway - Gun Club
7. The 15th - Wire
8. Love In A Void - Siouxsie & The Banshees
9. Rocket Ship - Daniel Johnston
10. Academy Fight Song - Mission of Burma
11. Tally Ho! - The Clean
12. Video Eyes - Exposure
13. Radio G String - Bow Wow Wow
14. Room 13 - Black Flag
15. Include Me Out - Young Marble Giants
16. Original Love - The Feelies
17. Ain't That Nothin' - Television
18. Fiery Jack - The Fall
19. Bloody Hammer - Roky Erickson & the Aliens
20. Stand Up - Kevin Coyne & Dagmar Krause
21. The Kid With The Replaceable Head - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
22. (I'm) Stranded - The Saints
23. Ghosts - The Jam

As You Wish! The Return of Boy Bands!

As You Wish!

Celebrate the Return of Boy Bands with this Mix that takes you from Boys 2 Men to B2K! From NKOTB to Big Time Rush!

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1. Incomplete by Backstreet Boys
2. Back For Good by Boys 2 Men
3. More Than That by More Than That
4. This I Promise by N'Synch
5. Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely by Backstreet Boys
6. Poison by Bel Biv DeVoe
7. I Swear by Boys 2 Men
8. I Drive Myself Crazy by N'Synch
9. Seasons in the Sun by Westlife
10. If I Let You Go by Westlife
11. Shape of My Heart by Backstreet Boys
12. I Want It That Way by Backstreet Boys
13. Season of Love by Boys 2 Men
14. Mmm Bop by Hanson
15. Summer Girls by LFO
16. Progress by Take That
17. Hubbub by Big Time Rush
18. You Got Served by B2K
19. Hangin' Tough by NKOTB

March 2012 Wobbly Rail Playlist!

A Time To Chill

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D O W N L O A D N O W !

1. Come to the City - The War on Drugs
2. Mellow Out - Jeff the Brotherhood
3. Keep Your Heart - TV on the Radio
4. Let Me Dream If I Want To - Mink Deville
5. Big Mouth - Santigold
6. Happy Homes - Kevin Coyne & Dagmar Krause
7. No Time For Dreaming - Charles Bradley
8. All Mod Cons - The Jam
9. Cup Half Full - The Stepkids
10. Optimo - Liquid Liquid
11. The OtherSide - The Roots
12. Greatest of All Time - Archers of Loaf
13. Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin
14. The Last Living Rose - PJ Harvey
15. Uprising - Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell
16. The Wayward Granddaughter (Live) - The Fiery Furnaces
17. ...As Bond Did - Bumps
18. Fall In - Cloud Nothings
19. Elanor Rigby - Booker T. & The MGs
20. Violent Games - Polica
21. Every Day As We Grow Closer - Alex Chilton
22. Up In the Dark - The New Pornographers
23. Misfit - Wipers
24. Kiss Me Again - Jessica Lee Mayfield

Wobbly Rail - February 2012

As Excursions on Wobbly Rail finally returns for 2012, there will be a new mix every month from myself or a guest. This months mix is a succulent blend of rock, soul, punk, and a god damn Pink Floyd cover. Enjoy and please share with your friends and family. New mix in EARLY March!

Wobbly Rail 212

Variety is the spice of life and he who controls the spice, controls the universe.

Blake makes a guest mix.

D O W N L O A D !

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· three girl rhumba

· all grown up

· veni vidi vici

· sexy coffee pot

· think about it

· making plans for nigel

· the dark end of the street

· a bomb in wardour street

· carbona not glue

· 25 miles

· blue arrangements

· dark eyes

· them bones

· let me get close to you

· it’s hard to be humble (when you’re from alabama)

· (my baby loves) chili dogs

· it’s you

· idle hands are the devil’s playthings

· the commander thinks aloud

· miss black america

Friendly Championship Oddity!

Download the new mix HERE!

1. Teach Me Sweetheart - Fiery Furnaces
2. Victory Laps (Madvillainz Remix) - Doomstarks
3. Friends of Friends - Hospitality
4. Champs - Wire
5. Punch-Out - Doomtree
6. Odditty - The Clean
7. Wrong - Archers of Loaf
8. The World (Is Going Up In Flames) - Charles Bradley
9. I Can't Reach You - The Who
10. Baby Missiles - The War on Drugs
11. Running on Nothing - Fucked Up
12. Gotta Have It - Jay-Z & Kanye West
13. Something Came Over Me - Wild Flag
14. Let Me Be Good to You - Carla Thomas
15. Scalding Creek - Kelly Deal & Buffalo Killer
16. Dehumanized - Void
17. I'm the One - Black Sheep
18. Apathy - Mikal Cronin
19. Hora Decubitus - Charles Mingus
20. By the Time It Gets Dark - Yo La Tengo
21. These Days - R.E.M.
22. Keep On Knocking - Death
23. Hornet's Nest - Jonti
24. Insufficient Fare - Cerebral Ballzy
25. Little Miss Strange - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
26. Bullet Proof Nothing - Ty Segall
27. Horror Movie Heave Ho - The Best Show on WFMU
28. Sweet and Low - Fugazi

Excursions on a Wobbly Rail

In the early 1960's, Lou Reed hosted a radio program called "Excursions on a Wobbly Rail" that was named after a song by the Cecil Taylor Quartet. This blog is about music that is not always new or easy to come across, but that is inspiring and exciting. If successful, the blog will have new music up approximately every month. Eventually, there may be some guest contributors that add their mixes and there may be some writing about things that are happening or have happened in music.

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