Top 13 (of The Week)

Sure,you know what's cool. But do you know what's really fuckin' FAR OUT? That's where Advanced Demonology takes over. Every week, (K)en and (S)wilson trudge through the murky waters of the pop culture hellscape, dredging up sparkly morsels of wonder. These are the result of our latest foray into the world of the weird, our wildest, wiggest-out picks of the week. Call it our 13 Point Program.



13. Aqua Nebula Oscillator
English as a second language groups get forgiven for band names that are just three "trippy" words strung together. But what's in a name? These french maniacs are making some of the most bombastic churning, pulsating, occult, F-R-E-E-K Rock, in all the land. Tear off your clothes snakes and spiders!!!! The new record known simply as: Third is like a Coffin Joe movie in sound. Trouver!! (S)




12. The Destroyer: Acid Rock 
If you're in the mood for some seriously f**ked-up 70's pulp fiction, you can't really go wrong with this head-spinning potboiler about a couple of kung-fu mercenaries trying to keep a well-heeled debutante-slash-groupie from getting  offed by various assassins hired by her rich dad's enemies. The twist? She's in a heavy relationship with Maggot, ,lead singer of "acid rock" juggernauts The Dead Meat Lice (!), who may or may not be into some whacked-out occult shit on top of everything else. Pure delirium. You can buy it from Amazon for a penny. (K)

11. Dizzy and Lalo - Free Ride
What was Dizzy Gillespie doing in 1970? He was hanging out with Steve McQueen soundtrack king Lalo Schifrin (Bullit, Cool Hand Luke), recording this awesome funky-jazzy-disco-y album. Sweet jams. (K)




10. Panopticon Eyelids - Overwhelming Visions
I can't for the life of me figure out how to actually buy this record. Maybe because I've been all kinds of dazed and confused by the sounds seeping from my headphones into my brain. They are from Canada and they are tripping out up there. Like your whole day ruined by a bottle of cough syrup. A bad fever dream. Bitchin'.  (S







9. Shinin' Shade 
Just discovered this Italian slow-mo doomadelic groove machine and I don't even know what to do about it. I mean, they're basically the Italian Jefferson Airplane with an occult-rock edge. I wanna go carve their name into a picnic table or buy a goat or something. Anyway they have a new record out, called Slowmosheen. I don't know how you get it. I think you might have to kill a goat first? (K).





8. Tommy Bolin "The Ultimate" Documentary
Lot's of talking heads but this is all we got as far as docs go on the great Tommy Bolin. Rock 'n die young.(S)





7. Girls, Chains and Epic Warriors
My new favorite Facebook Group posts outrageous 80's heavy metal record covers and then tries to make some sense out of them. I can't believe I spent a good chunk of my adolescence listening to bands like these. And now, thanks to this fucking group, I'm listening to them all over again. Heavy Load, FTW. (K) 

6. Doing Drugs by Michael And Bruce Jackson
If you like late 70's teenage delinquents like Long Island Acid King murderer Ricky Kasso or the cast of Over the Edge you'll love this  riveting account of teenage drug use in the early 80's by the family  that brought us Your Father's Not Coming Anymore ( book about divorce). The best part is the first half were it's real life interviews with what I would like to call "dopers", "burnouts" or "druggies". Kid's who's whole identity is based off of getting high or fucked up. We're not talking junkies. Junkies are boring, just run of the mill "wastoids" and it's a fantastic time capsule.  You can almost hear the NWOBHM in the background as you read, or better yet throw some on while you read. I'm moving and I have to give my copy back to my next door neighbor. It's another fantastic el-chepo book from Amazon.(S)

5. Any Gun Can Play
Just picked up this amazing comprehensive guide to Euro westerns. From Django to Clint Eastwood to bug-eyed Klaus Kinski and (way) beyond, this mammoth tome (500 pages!) maps the history of the genre, provides bios of all the key players, and slathers the pages with generous amounts of photos, posters, and lobby cards. Killer book. PS the hardcover verrsion is crazy expensive, but I got the paperback version for about $30. (K)

4. Feeding Back: Conversations With Alternative Guitarists From Proto-Punk to Post-Rock By David Todd
I Just got this on tuesday, I'm only half way done,  it's already indispensable if you are an Advanced Demonological guitar player or someone who loves them. Todd is a great at interviewing these outsider axe slingers: Brother Wayne Kramer, James Williamson, Tom Verlane, Zoot Horn Rollo, all the way through Johnny Marr, Christan Fennesz and Ghost's Michio Kurihara and many more. Although it's centerpiece is guitar playing in general it's about the creative process and what it means to be a musician that maybe doesn't fit in. Crucial! (S)

3. Sun Preachers
Stellar dirty 70's van rock played by a bunch of hip young Frenchies. (K)




2. The Guess Who - Live at the Paramount
We played them recently on the thanksgiving show and I ran across the rave review by Lester Bangs agin so I thought I'd give it a swing. I'm not going to attempt to recreate the review, but Bangs is right as always…. it rules!! (S)



1. Swilson - Cool Skull
I am the minister of information so I can shamelessly promote my own record. It's out this week and you still haven't downloaded it. It's free demonologist! (S)

Top 13 (Of The Week)

Sure,you know what's cool. But do you know what's really fuckin' FAR OUT? That's where Advanced Demonology takes over. Every week, (K)en and (S)wilson trudge through the murky waters of the pop culture hellscape, dredging up sparkly morsels of wonder. These are the result of our latest foray into the world of the weird, our wildest, wiggest-out picks of the week. Call it our 13 Point Program.

13. Bee Gees : Mr. Natural (1974)

I've always been a big Bee Gees fan. I love the early chamber psychedelia and the late disco. Fantastic! I started thinking there must have been some transition period right? Right. It was the 1974 record Mr. Natural. It marks the move from England to Los Angeles and reflects a Philly soul influence that would pave the way to the amazing Saturday Night Fever. There are no super hits on here but  every song is great. My Favorite being the hard rock funk of Heavy Breathing. (S)

12. Vocoder - What Happens Now

I've been immersing myself in bottom-shelf 80's synth-rock for the past couple weeks. Why?  I guess I was too busy listening to macho chest-thump music back then to enjoy the simple goofy pleasures of dudes in suspenders playing keytars, so now I'm making up for it. One of my faves is Spanish button-pushers Vocoder and their amazing supermarket-themed video for 1985's almost-smash, "What Happens Now?" This is pretty much exactly what I imagine Swilson's videos will look like once he signs to a Bulgarian label.  Euro-budget rock FTW! (K)

11. Iceberg Slim

Real name Robert Beck. He wrote eight fantastic novels about street life in the 40's and 50's.  The best is his autobiographical Pimp: The Story Of My Life. I read it when I was in high school and it blew my mind, written in 40's street slang, it includes a glossary of slang words in the back. Awesome. It's a no holds bar view of the life of a player, the highs and the very low lows, This week I've been reading Mama Black Widow, the story of a cross dressing homosexual in the concrete jungles of the Chicago. Brutal.  He's the best selling African American author after Alex Haley.  (S)

10. I dream of Jeannie goes psyche

Barbara Eden did,I believe, release a pop single somewhere in the beginning of her career, and she did Vegas revues for decades after the show ended, so it's not surprising that Jeannie would end up singing at some point. But sexed-up faux-psychedelia? Of course, it was really her evil twin, but either way, groovy! (K)

09. The Heretic's Handbook Of Quotations

Blasphemous quotes by everyone from Emma Goldman to Adolf Hitler on an assortment of topics from politricks to sex . Indispensable to any neo-beatniks library.  Here is a few short ones, chosen at random: "The Human tendency prefers familiar horrors to unknown delights" -  Fred Woodworth ; " Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life." - Senator Orrin Hatch ; "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein ; "He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; he who dares not is a slave" - William Drummond; "speed will turn you into your parents" - Frank Zappa; "under Soviet conditions masturbation is no longer the mass phenomenon it was in the past" - T.S. Atarov ; "polyester shirt, polyester pants!" -Swilson (S)

8. Den Haan Gods from outer space 

My nu fave nu-disco (or "macho disco", or "neuro-glam", as they like to call themselves) outfit have a nu album, Gods from Outer Space, and it's got some serious lease-breaking party jams. Holy smokes.

PS: if you're extravagant or a 1%-er, you may wanna spring for the double-vinyl import. (K)

07. Keiji Haino

I think it's good for people to listen this kind of stuff every now and agin, especially with coffee in the morning, Cleans out your head head, keeps the mind limber and get's ya ready for a day were anything can happen. Haino is an arch-freek who as been at this noise/nonsense since the 70's. Speaking of quotations  I'll qote a youtube comment about 'em I like very much :  "Because this hurt's!!! This can not be heard. I'll rather listen to fingernails scraping a blackboard!!! But eventually i do not understand a lot of music....... or drugs!!!!" - JaackPat (S)

6. Titan landing 

Maybe I knew this but forgot? Six years ago a European space probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan and took pictures for 90 minutes. It took seven years to get there! Wow! I mean, all it saw was rocks and ice, but still, fuckin' Titan. That is bananas. This entry would seriously blow your mind if this was 2006. (K)

05.James Gang: Bang (1973)

In a quest for all things Tommy Bolin and a recent desire  for some A-List classic rock that I might have glossed over, I'm now mining the depths of the cocaine caves and coming up with things like late period James Gang. Lord help me! Thing is I can't stop listening to it. Maybe it's California? (S)

4. Hardcore hula hoopin'

Ok, so I suggest you add your own soundtrack (I bet Cool Skull works!), but seriously, how great is this? (K)

3. G.G. Allin: Live Fast Die Fast (1984)

Other than the shit and the puke what's up with G.G.'s music? Is it any good? By good I mean I think he might have something wrong with him and he's speaking from the heart of a disenfranchised idiot. So I think that it might be good. I'm just not sure, maybe I shouldn't care. Life sucks scum fuck? I love this song. (S)

2. Haunted Leather - Shapes on the Wall

Michigan's big into apocalyptic psyche these days, and Haunted Leather is one of the most extravagant practitioners thereof. Hazy, droning, locked-in-the-basement-for-days stuff. Awesome. (K)

Shapes on the Wall from Haunted Leather on Vimeo.

1. Lantern: Dream Mine (2012)

These guys have got there feet dancing in all the right places, wholesome, all american, exuberant freak out music. You can tell they love it and Advanced Demonology loves it. Dream Mine is a cyber punk concept record. It sounds like a Stooges tape being played on a boom box while some longhaired kids are getting drunk on the railroad tracks, in the year 2085.  Buy it!!! (S)

Top 13 (Of The Week)

Sure,you know what's cool. But do you know what's really fuckin' FAR OUT? That's where Advanced Demonology takes over. Every week, (K)en and (S)wilson trudge through the murky waters of the pop culture hellscape, dredging up sparkly morsels of wonder. These are the result of our latest foray into the world of the weird, our wildest, wiggest-out picks of the week. Call it our 13 Point Program.

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13. Purrfect Crime: The Julie Newmar documentary

Everybody loves Julie Newmar, the statuesque 60's beauty who will forever be known as the original (and greatest!) Catwoman. But how much do you know about her? This illuminating doc spills the beans, some of it funny, some of it tragic. Did you know she invented her own kind of pantyhose named Nudemars? And that she was at war with Jim Belushi for years? Awesome. (K)

12. Ali, fear Eats Soul

Yes it certainly does.  Saw this at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica last night. It's a story about a big (in every way) Moroccan man who falls in love with a little German old lady. It's 1974 and although Hitler is a distant memory the locals are none too happy about all the Arab's populating the area, and really not happy about  inter racial relationships. The super prolific Fassbinder  shot this in just under two weeks as a film making exercise between the production of two other film. This is a good entry point into his catalog. He made tons of movies in his very short life. (S)

11. Vandroid  

So, Vandroid was a brutal cyborg/van themed exploitation flick from the mid 80's that was never released because the studio (and all the prints) burned in a fire. All that remains are a few pieces of artwork and the master tapes for the amazing electro-synth soundtrack. I mean, maybe all that happened. Probably not, though. Probably it's all a ruse to get you to listen to the sweet Vandroid mega-jams. Which is ok with me.  (K)

10. Ronnie Self

My good fried Dave turned me on to this lost Rockabilly belter. His biggest hit was a song called "Ain't I'm A Dog" but he had a really unsuccessful solo career despite being signed to Columbia and Decca records and had a history of boozing, insanity and violent behavior. All the hallmarks we like to admire from afar when enjoying a potential Advanced Demonological hero. Other people had some hits with his songs: Jack Hess & Brenda Lee. The song "High On Life" is NOT indicative of Ronnie's rockabilly snarling, I just posted it cause it fits this blog a little better. (S)

09. Samantha Glass

 

I've been trying to buy some Samantha Glass (band, not a girl named Samantha) cassettes (their preferred mode of musical delivery) for the past couple days, but both labels that released this band's stuff are too cool (or whatever) to have sensible websites. Luckily you can freak freely to their mysterious Krautgloom all you want on Bandcamp. And you should. Dark, weird, super groovy.

08. Tommy Bolin

Speaking of doing allot in a short time, This guy blazed a trail through the Rock 'n Roll big top faster and brighter than most. Somehow he is not a household name? Despite being the lead guitar in the Zephyr,  playing on a Jazz Fusion classic (Billy Cobham's Spectrum), recording two records with James Gang, and replacing Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple and busting out two solo records, than dying at the age of 25 of an OD!  (S)

07. The Slasher Movie Book - ah, the simple pleasures of a good 80's slice n' dice. Slashers were huge in the day-glo decade, and for good reason: they delivered the goods. The goods, of course, being blood, boobs, laughs (usually unintentional), and a twist ending (usually telegraphed in the first five minutes). The Slasher Movie Book covers the golden age and looks ahead, and it does it exactly the way I prefer, these days: with lots of cool, color pictures and not a whole lot of text. I'm a man of leisure, after all. A pretty perfect summer read.  (K)

06. Floored Genius: The Best of Julian Cope and The Teardrop Explodes 1979-91

I think this is right up there with Alice Copper's greatest Hits as the best greatest hits album of all time, if there is such a thing, I think there is. Sometimes that's all you really need. If you have found Julians work to be a little confounding to sift through this 1992 comp does it for you. It starts with the Teardrop and takes you up to Peggy Suicide. Cool!  (S)

05. Julia Stone 

Julia and her brother Angus are Australian pastoral pop-folkies who have been playing together since the mid-2000's and are apparently big news in places more culturally refined then here, but I just happened to stumble on 'em this week, and I am most definitely smitten by Julia's soulful sad-girl music. Julia started doing solo stuff in the past couple years, and her new album, By the Horns, is killer. If you like Vashti Bunyan, The Pierces, and/or Anna Ternheim, or just melancholy pretty girls with guitars in general, then you're gonna dig this. Also, she sounds just like Melanie (Safka)!  (K)

04. The Art Of War by Sun Tzu

I'm reading the Thomas Cleary translation now. It's great! You don't have to be into killing pople and war to read this book. It's  good advice when you have to do anything strategic. All you hippies should get into it, might help when the  Apocalypse  comes and we have to start our own Advanced Demonology war tribe, with dune buggies…… (S)

03. Satanism afoot in Great Britain

Seems almost quaint, given this week's surge of grisly mayhem (the face eating guy, the throwing-his-own-intestines-at-cops guy), but apparently there's some horse-flaying Satanic creeps running loose in merry olde England. I can only assume it's a hippie devil cult run a long-maned acid-rocker and populated by busty Ingrid Pitt types in peasant blouses and dandelion headbands. Lock up your barns!  (K)

02. The Tamrons: Wild Man

What's a Tamron? I don't know but I like it!  It's friday!!!(S)

01.Cool Skull 

the Ep is coming kids and you download the title track for FREE now. (S)