Red Hot Chili Pipers - Music for the Kilted Generation

Happy Bobby Burns Birthday!!! In celebration of Robert Burns birthday today went to our annual party - I provided these for music. For those who wonder HUH? Here's Wikipedia's sanitized bio ---
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets,^{[nb 1]} was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a light Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these writings his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest.
He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement, and after his death he became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism, and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish diaspora around the world. Celebration of his life and work became almost a national charismatic cult during the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literature. In 2009 he was chosen as the greatest Scot by the Scottish public in a vote run by Scottish television channel STV.
As well as making original compositions, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. His poem (and song) "Auld Lang Syne" is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of the year), and "Scots Wha Hae" served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country. Other poems and songs of Burns that remain well known across the world today include "A Red, Red Rose", "A Man's a Man for A' That", "To a Louse", "To a Mouse", "The Battle of Sherramuir", "Tam o' Shanter" and "Ae Fond Kiss".

 I'm sparing you my 100 plus versions of "Auld Lang Syne" and giving you this to help celebrate. Enjoy. If you want the "Auld Lang Syne" I'll post them for your enjoyment and your friends/enemies/guests annoyance.

 Red Hot Chili Pipers - Music for the Kilted Generation Bagpipes with attitude. Drums with a Scottish accent. A blazing rock band and a show so hot it carries its own health warning. The Red Hot Chilli Pipers have rocked the world from New York to Beijing with musicianship of the highest order and a passion for pipes that will leave you breathless!
An abundance of energy--all the power of the Scottish bagpipe times three and an amazing rock band enhanced by brass, pipes, and drums. An unforgettable and unique sound. Modern classics and rock anthems fused with the adrenaline rush created by a passion for the Pipes! OK - not the best in the world but really fun . As for this album, the Pipers only get better and better. Best cut, Low Rider. Most fun, Everybody Dance, least favorite Amazing Grace (not bad, just my least favorite rendition of this song.) Been to too many funerals. 

 Track listings 1. Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Bagrock) 2. Just For Willie 3. Chasing Cars 4. Hellbound Train 5. The Hidden Gem 6. Amazing Grace 7. Black Knight On The Crazy Train 8. Low Rider 9. Radio Ga Ga 10. Little Cascade 11. Everybody Dance Now 12. Let Me Entertain You 13. Baba O’Reilly 

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Me and my Kilt celebrating Bobby Burns.

Red Hot Chili Pipers - Octane

Red Hot Chili Pipers - Octane 

Bagpipes with attitude. Drums with a Scottish accent. A blazing rock band and a show so hot it carries its own health warning. The Red Hot Chilli Pipers have rocked the world from New York to Beijing with musicianship of the highest order and a passion for pipes that will leave you breathless!
An abundance of energy--all the power of the Scottish bagpipe times three and an amazing rock band enhanced by brass, pipes, and drums. An unforgettable and unique sound. Modern classics and rock anthems fused with the adrenaline rush created by a passion for the Pipes! OK - not the best in the world but really fun. Cool versions of modern rock and some trad. thrown in. Good for parties to freak folks out.  

TRACKLIST

1. La Grange: La Grange / The Green Room (4:04)

2. Starlight: Starlight / Charlie Brown (5:16)

3. Time for Trad: The Kesh / Old Wullie’s Dog / Merrily Kiss the Quaker's Wife (3:12)

4. Fat Bottomed Girls: Fat Bottomed Girls / Fat Arsed Lassies (3:05)

5. Seven Nation Army: Roadhouse Song / Seven Nation Army (2:54)

6. Pressed For Time (4:21)

7. The Fallen (3:26)

8. Chasing Love (1:47)

9. The Way It Is: The Way It Is / Chasing Love (3:36)

10. Jump: Jump / Dancing Feet (3:42)

11. Neon: Neon / Wee Derek’s Song (3:22)

12. Everybody Wants to Rule the World: The Bung / Everybody Wants to Rule the World (2:58)

13. Wild Mountain Thyme (4:12)

14. Urban: Rip the Calico (4:18)

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Tom Lehrer - An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer

An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer (1959)

A classic - In 1959, when the so-called "sick humor" of Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, and Shelley Berman was the new rage among America's hipsters (and would-be hipsters), the acid-penned musical satire of Tom Lehrer doubtless seemed to be daring indeed, as he worked his audiences for laughs with tunes like "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park," "Oedipus Rex," and "The Masochism Tango." Thankfully Lehrer's humor still works well thanks to its considerable skill and its charm, even if its ability to shock isn't what it once was. Recorded before an enthusiastic audience at a concert at Harvard University (where Lehrer spent his days teaching mathematics), An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer finds him in superb form as a performer, able to dissect various musical forms for their comic potential with the skill of a surgeon and displaying not merely dead-on comic timing in his vocals but a easy élan as a pianist; for a guy who picked musical comedy as a part-time job, he sure had a knack for the trade. And while Lehrer's songs no longer shock, that's not to say they've entirely lost their sting, as the bitter twists of "Bright College Days," "It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier," and "A Christmas Carol" hit their target just as well as ever, while inspiring no small amount of laughter. And it's worth noting that the album's final punch line, "We Will All Go Together When We Go," is just as apt today as it was in 1959, for good or ill. While the work of many of his contemporaries today sound like the products of their time and place, Lehrer's best songs are still slyly funny and corrosively charming, and An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer ranks with his finest work on record. Highly Recommended.

1 Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
2 Bright College Days
3 A Christmas Carol
4 The Elements
5 Oedipus Rex
6 In Old Mexico
7 Clementine
8 It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
9 She's My Girl
10 The Masochism Tango
11 We Will All Go Together When We Go

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The Raymond Scott Quintette - Microphone Music

The Raymond Scott Quintette - Microphone Music (2003)

Microphone Music is a 2003 double CD compilation by The Raymond Scott Quintette. It is "a collection of unreleased titles, radio performances, first-rate rehearsals and forgotten gems by the Raymond Scott Quintette recorded between 1936 and 1939." (The sizes of each version are correct, these are mono recordings converted to each format.)

Warner Bros. licensed his music for the Looney Tunes cartoons. Powerhouse and few others will be familiar to fans of these classic cartoons. Enjoy.

Jazz music, always known for its spirit of improvisation, was hardly the medium for composers or producers during its first 50 years. Even the greatest early arrangers – Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman – allowed plenty of room for solos, and would've been deserted by most of their musicians if they hadn't. All of which explains why Raymond Scott was never considered a jazz artist. His pieces, impressionistic yet rigidly composed, did use all the same components of a jazz band and exhibited close superficial similarities to Duke Ellington's early jungle band and the Benny Goodman Orchestra. The difference lay with his insistence on perfection, in his recording techniques and the members of his band. The Raymond Scott Quintette was a clean, technical, utterly precise swing machine – the logical progression, in his mind, of the noisy jazz racket originally delivered on record by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1917. Microphone Music, another Scott-related reissue by the Basta label, is a two-disc bonanza of unreleased titles, rarities, and rehearsals from the late '30s that will taste of manna from heaven for listeners who spent a decade in the wilderness after Columbia's greatest-hits volume, 1992's The Music of Raymond Scott: Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights. These certainly don't sound like afterthoughts, either; Scott took quality control very seriously, and the result is a set of 40 splendid, fascinating songs that often sounds better even than the Columbia release. Most of the songs are new to CD, and even the familiar titles (like the Scott perennial "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals") are presented in radically different interpretations. Drummer and percussionist Johnny Williams (father of composer John Williams) is revealed as an extraordinary talent, not just keeping time for the quintette, but splitting it into halves and quarters with his brisk, perfectly timed fills. As for Scott, who's usually recognized solely as a compositional or arranging genius, the focus here is on his talent for sound reproduction. The title is a nod to the importance of engineering and microphone placement in his music – a reprint of a Popular Mechanics article appears in the liner notes – and his constant recording experiments produced dynamic music utterly unlike anything heard before, since sound had never been picked up and amplified the way Scott did it. The relative scarcity of Quintette recordings is enough to boost this set into recommended status, but the bounty of fabulous music inside makes it essential for fans and highly recommended for the uninformed. Really fun with headphones.

oooops- for you early adopters - disc1 is now fixed.

DISC 1
1. Egyptian Barn Dance (April 1938)
2. The Penguin (December 1938)
3. Christmas Night In Harlem (March 1939)
4. Pretty Petticoat #1 (April 1939)
5. Square Dance For Eight Egyptian Mummies (1938)
6. Moment Whimsical (December 1938)
7. Devil Drums (June 1939)
8. A Little Bit Of Rigoletto (APril 1939)
9. Hypnotist In Hawaii (April 1939)
10. Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals (April 1937)
11. The Toy Trumpet (December 1936)
12. Suicide Cliff (December 1939)
13. Siberian Sleighride (1938)
14. Steeplechase (April 1939)
15. Peter Tambourine (March 1939)
16. Celebration Of The Planet Mars (January 1938)
17. Brass Buttons And Epualettes (January 1938)
18. Bumpy Weather Over Newark (June 1939)
19. Pretty Petticoat #2 (May 1939)
20. Turkish Mish-Mush (March 1939)
(UNLISTED TRACK)
21. Powerhouse (rehearsal) (1940)
DISC 2
1. Microphone Music (January 1938)
2. Twilight In Turkey (February 1939)
3. New Year's Eve In A Haunted House (December 1938)
4. Tobacco Auctioneer (April 1939)
5. The Girl With The Light Blue Hair (January 1939)
6. Sleepwalker (March 1937)
7. The Happy Farmer (April 1938)
8. Oil Gusher (January 1939)
9. Boy Scout In Switzerland (March 1939)
10. Reckless Night On Board An Ocean Liner (April 1937)
11. Swing, Swing Mother-In-Law (December 1936)
12. Girl At The Typewriter (1939)
13. Yesterday's Ice Cubes (March 1937)
14. Pretty Petticoat #3 (April 1939)
15. War Dance For Wooden Indians (February 1939)
16. Dead End Blues (January 1937)
17. Harlem Hillbilly (June 1939)
18. The Quintet Goes To A Dance (March 1939)
19. Bugle Call Rag (March 1937)
20. Powerhouse (June 1939)
(UNLISTED TRACK)
21. A Happy Frenzy At Aquackanack

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For Adults Only XXX

Cheers to Dr. Cheese. Hilarious out of print 25 track collection of very rare and previously banned tracks from the '50s, '60s & '70s about carnal knowledge via naughty words. Very much more upfront its content than some of the other racy/naughty comps we've posted. Enjoy all.

1. It's So Hard To Say You Love Me When You're Sitting On My Face - Marty and the Mufftones
2. F**k Me Forever-Connie Lingus
3. Did He Eat Your Titty-The Perversions
4. Sit On My Face-The Echoes
5. Everybody Is An Asshole(To Somebody Sometimes)-Couto & The Milligans
6. Think Twice(X Version)-Jackie Wilson & Laverne Baker
7. Don't F**k Around With Love-The Blenders
8. Streakin' USA-Harry Hepcat & The Boogie Woogie Band 9. Derby Town-The Clovers 10. Bite It-Screamin Jay Hawkins 11. Hot Nuts-Blackie Kidd 12. F**k Off(The Dirty Rooster)-Slim Gaillard 13. Baby Let Me Bang Your Box-The Bangers 14. The Rotten Cocksuckers Ball-The Clovers 15. Asshole From El Paso-Chinga Chavin 16. The Pussycat Song-Connie Vannett 17. Yo Yo-Adam Martin & The Pickers18. Stickball-P. Vert 19. Get Ready(Freanch Style)-Jack & Basil 20. F**k Off-The Dildos
21. The Fast Food Song-David Trout 22. Come Back Pussy-Dicky Williams 23. The Iceman-Dick Curless 24. Uranus Is Out Tonight-James Lee Meadows 25. Constipation Blues-Screamin' Jay Hawkins

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Obscurity File – VA Twisted Comedy

This is a compilation album of wonderfully "politically incorrect" ditties. If you're a long-time Dr. D listener, you've probably heard most of them on his show. As with most comps, the reason to get this one as opposed to one of the Dr. Demento albums is the particular combo of songs. Mostly New Wave and punk songs, plus a few novelty songs. As with any comp -- some of the songs are good (Funky Poodle is my fave), some are not so good, yet necessary for any good collection of trashy funny stuff.

Kinko the Clown - Ogden Edsl 2. Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage - Killer Pussy 3. Funky Poodle - Wild Horses, Wild Horses 4. Pajama Party - Unit 3 UK, Venus 5. Earthquake Song - Little Girls 6. Dwarf Tossin' – Boquet of Veal 7. Buffy Come Back - Angel and the Reruns 8. Time Is a Ticky Talk – Klondike Karl 9. See You on the Other Side - Brian Briggs 10. Harley David (Son of a Bitch) - The Bollock Brothers 11. Ronnie's Song -LAX 12. Urban Struggle - The Vandals 13. Cowpunk - Scott Goddard 14. Rodeo Song- Bird and McDonald 15. Kinko Returns - Ogden Edsl

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Shel Silverstein – Freakin’ At The Freaker’s Ball

A blast from the past - a true classic in the field of albums of humorous songs. All the songs here are very funny (with the sole exception of "The Man Who Got No Sign"). Many of these songs will be familiar to listeners of The Dr. Demento Show, especially the legendary "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out". The lyrics to that song were later included in one of Silverstein's books of poetry for children (as was "The Peace Proposal"), but this is not an album for children. Most of these songs are about sex and/or drugs. Yea BABY! If you are one of Uncle Shelby's adult fans, you will probably love this album. The CD includes three bonus tracks, all of which are about the music industry, oddly enough. One of my ALL time favorites.

1.Thumbsucker 2. I Got Stoned And Missed It 3. Sarha Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out 4. Stacy Brown Got Two 5. Polly In A Porny 6. Freakin' At The Freakers Ball 7. All About You 8. Don't Give A Dose To The One You Love Most 9. The Peace Proposal 10. Masochistic Baby 11. Liberated Lady 1999 12. The Man Who Got No Sign 13. A Front Row Seat To Hear Ole Johnny Sing 14. 26 Second Song 15. Everybody's Makin' It Big But Me

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