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Music, films, oddballs and weirdos www.weirdbones.co.uk
Professor Plum, in the library, being beheaded.
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Music Boxes, Dead Crows, and Damp Mattresses - Weird bones
RhaD ā āGhost Music Libraryā ā Unexplained Sounds RhaD has always been the place where Raffaele Pezzella lets the wires show. Under his Sonologyst name, heās meticulous, almost architectural in how he...
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about 11 hours ago
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I asked AI to solve some of music's most enigmatic questions. Mixed results.
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Me, Myself and AI - Answering Music's Most Pressing Questions: Hip Hop Edition - Weird bones
The terror surrounding AI remains unwavering. How will YouTubers ever be able to make a living unboxing things with computers taking over our minds? How long can we expect to be able to select the req...
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6 days ago
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Eyeballs, Alex De Renzy pig films, meditations on the human condition by chickens. Obviously, it's my latest Residents review
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Just Bought the Farm? The Residents' 'Animal Lover' Reissued - Weird bones
The Residents ā āAnimal Loverā ā Cherry Red Animal Lover has always carried a strange reputation. Some listeners treat it like a puzzle that demands explanation and a map, a lateāperiod curio that sit...
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14 days ago
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New boxset covering the Paisley Underground, the second wave of psychedelia. More misses than hits, but still intriguing.
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This Can't Be Today - A Trip Through the US Psychedelic Underground - Weird bones
Various ā āThis Canāt Be Today ā A Trip Through the US Psychedelic Undergroundā ā Cherry Red Thereās a particular kind of compilation that arrives already carrying its own mythology, and āThis Canāt B...
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On this day, 35 years ago in 1991, TAD's 8-Way Santa was released on
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When I was little, my sister had a flexi-disc of dead voices captured within the grooves. It all came rushing back listening to this.
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The Electric Dead Speak! - Weird bones
Various ā āElectric Dead Speak ā Music for Electric Voice Phenomenonā ā Eighth Tower Records When I was little, I remember very clearly that my sister, Tracy, had a flexi-disc featuring not hits of th...
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28 days ago
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It's what all the kids are listening to. I think.
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Music for Ghosts - The Lasry-Baschet Sound Structures - Weird bones
The Lasry-Baschet Sound Structures might not be the go-to group on Spotify right now, I really couldnāt say. However, it would give humanity as a whole a tremendous boost if everyone were to run out i...
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29 days ago
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If you were there, you don't remember it. I wasn't there, so listened to this new box set.
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CBGB - A New York City Soundtrack 1975-1986 - Weird bones
Various ā CBGB ā A New York City Soundtrack CBGB mythology tends to calcify around the same five names ā Television, Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, Talking Heads ā the pantheon that debuted within fif...
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New review is up - back to the garage
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Steppinā Out: The Roots of Garage Rock 1963ā1965 - Weird bones
Various ā Steppinā Out: The Roots of Garage Rock 1963ā1965 Rock ānā roll was still a toddler when the kids on āSteppinā Out: The Roots of Garage Rock 1963ā1965ā started treating it like a battlefield....
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about 2 months ago
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Mark my words, all the cool kids will be listening to wobble this year
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Analog 2025 and the Case for Wobble - Weird bones
Various ā āAnalog 2025ā ā Unexplained Sounds Group āAnalog 2025ā arrives with tape flutter, slow pitch wobble, spring reverb that sounds like a corridor, and the soft, humanised clipping that turns a ...
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about 2 months ago
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It came from beyond The Channel. Sonic madness from the continent reviewed:
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It Came from Beyond the Channel - So High I've Been - Weird bones
Various ā So High Iāve Been: A European Rock Anthology 1967ā1973 3CD Set ā Cherry Red For decades, the story of rock music has been told as if it were a transatlantic conversation between Britain and ...
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about 2 months ago
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Completely obsessed with this at the moment - unsettling and then some. Hugely recommended.
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IX TAB: Ropes, Rituals, and Inescapable Dread - Weird bones
Capricorni Peneumatici ā āIx Tabā, Eighth Tower Records I donāt often start reviews like this, but I think the accompanying text with this release speaks (in tongues) for itself: Ix Tab is an album de...
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6 months ago
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Joe Meek's bearing gifts. New review of a new box set covering some of Joe Meek's excursions into death, horror and cowboys
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Beyond Telstar - The Horror and Western Themes of Joe Meek - Weird bones
Various ā Joe Meek ā A Curious Mind Outer Space! Horror! Death Discs! The Wild West! Demos!. Cherry Red Joe Meek, astronaut extraordinaire (in his Holloway flat), was the launchpad for some of British...
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7 months ago
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Giving this another airing as it's suddenly attracted lots of hits. The last word on Horror Top Trumps (nearly)
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Dinner Party Godzilla and the Truth Behind Horror Top Trumps - Weird bones
Little evokes as eye-watering a Proustian rush as images of Waddingtonās Horror Top Trumps. Despite my best efforts, I have not been able to ascertain the artist of the two packs of cards released in ...
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7 months ago
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Musical Differences - The Tribulations of Dr Teeth & The Electric Mayhem - Weird bones
Like most bands, The Electric Mayhem has experienced more than a few ups and downs nearly 50 years since its inception. That they are all still alive to tell the tale says much. But what skeletons lur...
https://weirdbones.co.uk/musical-differences-the-tribulations-of-dr-teeth-the-electric-mayhem/
7 months ago
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There are even more things in the radiator
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In Feedback Everything is Fine - Revisiting the Score to Eraserhead - Weird bones
VA ā The Eraserhead ā Music Inspired by the Film of David Lynch ā Unexplained Sounds Group In the cult cosmos of David Lynchās āEraserheadā, silence drips like oil, and the industrial groan of existen...
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7 months ago
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RIP Tom
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Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
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7 months ago
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You cannot, as my creaking shelves confirm, have too much Screaming Trees
8 months ago
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"Beatles-y immediacy and cockroach intent"
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Luke Haines & Peter Buck - Going Down to the River to Blow my Mind - Weird bones
Musicās strangest sĆ©ance gets its final incantation ā tea brewed, minds blown. Three albums into their collaborative endeavours, we can safely remove any semblance of novelty from this album. Now able...
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8 months ago
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8 months ago
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"MTV had turned sound into sausages, and fashion into farting." You don't get reviews on this quality on Alan Titchmarsh.
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The Residents Wage War on the 80s - American Composers Series 1982-1987 - Weird bones
The Residentsā āAmerican Composerās Seriesā ā Cherry Red There are bad years for music. Then thereās 1983. It was the year everything got airbrushed. Bowie traded Berlinās paranoia for peroxide and pa...
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8 months ago
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A short review of outer space.
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Now That's What I Call Entropy - Sonologyst's Planetarium - Weird bones
Sonologyst ā Planetarium Cold Spring Records Ah, to be floating, gliding, soaring through the silent everlastingness of outer space. Or, as the latest album from Sonologyst makes clear, the incredibly...
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8 months ago
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Nice weather for it
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Heat Wave! Sweaty Flutes and Bubbling Swamps with Lux & Ivy - Weird bones
Heat Wave ā The Intoxicating World of Nexotica as Dug by Lux and Ivy Iām sure I said I wouldnāt get any more of these, but here we are. It seems entirely reasonable that some, if not all, of these rec...
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9 months ago
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The Beach Boys - This Whole World (Visualizer)
YouTube video by TheBeachBoysVEVO
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9 months ago
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Scratching that Itch - A Year in the Music of Lee Perry - Weird bones
Lee āScratchā Perry Presents Confusion: The Jamaican Upsetter Singles 1971 One of the reasons I love music is the way that it captures an unrepeatable moment in time ā thoughts, emotions, character, m...
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9 months ago
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Motown Who? Michigan's Rock 'n' Roll Roots - Weird bones
va ā Motor City is Burning A Michigan Anthology 1965-1972 If Motownās brilliant PR is to be believed, Michiganās contribution to music starts and ends with Detroit soul. Actually, thatās unfair. Youād...
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9 months ago
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Thank You - Sly and the Family Stone | The Midnight Special
YouTube video by The Midnight Special
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9 months ago
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Why on Earth would you get up at the crack of dawn every weekend? I'll tell you why.
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Car Boot Weekends - The Joy of Jetsam - Weird bones
For the last couple of years, I have slowly ā that is to say, quite quickly, become addicted to attending car boot fairs. Luckily, the small Cambridgeshire village I live in is equidistant to two fair...
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10 months ago
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50-odd years after they formed, The Residents have casually released the best album of their career
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One of The Residents' Most Monumental Albums - Doctor Dark reviewed - Weird bones
Split into three acts, the latest new material from The Residents draws heavily upon two significantly troubling events of the late 20th Century ā the trial by puppets of Judas Priest as they defended...
https://weirdbones.co.uk/one-of-the-residents-most-monumental-albums-doctor-dark-reviewed/
12 months ago
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God bless Tiny Tim.
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12 months ago
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Abracadeadbra - the ritual of the broken wand
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12 months ago
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The Mind Buggles - Hans Zimmer and the Dumbing Down of Film Scores - Weird bones
One-time sideman of musical nuisance Trevor Hornās The Buggles, Hans Zimmer is now a byword for Hollywood movie scores and is credited with revolutionising the art form, a feat achieved by using moder...
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about 1 year ago
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Irregular verbs a gogo!
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Glossolalia - A History of Speaking in Tongues - Weird bones
Glossolalia ā derived from two New Testament Greek words: Ī³Ī»įæ¶ĻĻĪ± āglossaā meaning ātongueā or ālanguageā and Ī»Ī±Ī»ĪĻ ālalienā, ātalkingā, is the most neglected of all languages, not least as, to all int...
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about 1 year ago
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Brutes? Rondo Hatton and Acromegaly on film - Weird bones
Acromegaly: nounĀ (Derived from the Greek words āakrosā, extremities, and āmegasā, big) A medicalĀ diseaseĀ in which theĀ bonesĀ of theĀ head,Ā hands, andĀ feetĀ growĀ largerĀ thanĀ normal,Ā caused by the pituita...
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about 1 year ago
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"It would have been much easier to sit farting in a bath with a tuba" But then, there's a fetish for everything, so you might like it!
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A Turn for the Wirtz - Is the Pop Svengali Really All He's Cracked Up To Be? - Weird bones
Mark Wirtz ā āDream, Dream, Dreamā The Anthology Mark Wirtz ā the less cool Kim Fowley, has been afforded an almost mystical and mythical status over the years. A shadow with an aura that floated arou...
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about 1 year ago
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The terrible human behind the Sea Monkeys
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The Evil Behind The Sea Monkeys - Weird bones
Harold von BraunhutĀ ā born plain old Harold Nathan Braunhut ā was one of the greatest marketing geniuses of his ageā¦possibly of any age. Taking snake oil to brave new pastures, he was the Emperor of C...
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about 1 year ago
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A glimpse of the future this morning.
about 1 year ago
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The Horrific Life and Death of Peter Stumpp - Weird bones
Peter StumppĀ (died 1589) (whose name is also spelt asĀ Peter Stube,Ā Peeter Stubbe,Ā Peter StĆ¼bbeĀ orĀ Peter Stumpf) was a Rhenish farmer, accused of being a serial killer and flesh-eater also known as the...
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about 1 year ago
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Monsterbacks - The essential guides for the 80s youth - Weird bones
Though a step down from Usborneās guides to monsters and the supernatural, Monsterbacks were still a much-treasured book in the 1980s for kids desperate for a horror fix. The four books, published by ...
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Usborne Guide to the Supernatural World - Weird bones
The Usborne Guide to the Supernatural World was first published in 1979 and comprised three smaller, separately published books by Usborne, all under the āSupernatural Guidesā banner; 'Haunted Houses,...
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about 1 year ago
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There's suffering for your art, and then there's this.
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Brutes? Rondo Hatton and Acromegaly on film - Weird bones
Acromegaly: nounĀ (Derived from the Greek words āakrosā, extremities, and āmegasā, big) A medicalĀ diseaseĀ in which theĀ bonesĀ of theĀ head,Ā hands, andĀ feetĀ growĀ largerĀ thanĀ normal,Ā caused by the pituita...
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about 1 year ago
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Can you do anything with your eyebrows? The majesty of Prince Randian.
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Down in Demerara - Prince Randian, The Living Torso - Weird bones
Prince Randian was born in 1871 in the Demerara area of what was then British Guiana (now called Guyana). Randianās real name is unknown ā indeed, little at all is known about his early life, other th...
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about 1 year ago
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Looking for something for your elderly next-door neighbour for Christmas? Look no further than this new box set of Ralph Records artists!
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about 1 year ago
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The remarkable life of Schlitze
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The Mystery of Schlitze Surtees - Weird bones
The mystery of Schlitze Surtees. The life of one of the most famous freaks of all.
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over 1 year ago
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Archival relics like these feel like peering into hell...or heaven, depending on your mood.
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Alessandro Moreschi - The Last Castrato - Weird bones
The extraordinary story of Alessandro Moreschi - the world's last castrato
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over 1 year ago
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Drug addiction, alcohol problems, infidelity...and that's just for starters.
#muppets
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Musical Differences - The Tribulations of Dr Teeth & The Electric Mayhem - Weird bones
Like most bands, The Electric Mayhem has experienced more than a few ups and downs nearly 50 years since its inception. That they are all still alive to tell the tale says much. But what skeletons lur...
https://weirdbones.co.uk/musical-differences-the-tribulations-of-dr-teeth-the-electric-mayhem/
over 1 year ago
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