Some Albums You Might Just Need to Download

One thing I like to do when cruising blogs that post full albums is to make lists of Rapidshare URLs so I can go back and download what I want in my own time, without having to wade through months of archives to find a particular post. That is what I did today. I usually make them private or highly filtered posts, because I don't like sharing my sources. It kind of kills the mystique of the guy with the bogglingly large music collection. But I'm going to share this month's list because...well, no good reason.

Tonight is going to be dedicated to me organizing and ID3-tagging my new music downloads, and making mixtapes for my sisters, so I guess I just feel like sharing.

A lot of these files are from Lellebelle and the Rato Records Blog, which are terrific and everyone should really check them out, and Soundsational is occasionally pretty good (though more on the kitsch side).

In case anyone's interested in checking out a broader selection of what's available, you might want to occasionally skim through Realm of X, Ride Your Pony, Down in the Groove, Endless Mike 101, Lysergia (mostly 1960s psychedelia, folk and acid rock), Pinocchio's Easy Listening and Instrumental Corner, Xtabay, Snow Day, Sounds of Champaign (and the archives at the old Sounds of Champaign site might be of interst), Space Debris, Mexicovers, Tam Tam Melodie, Oops Whoops, Quimby and Lounge Tracks.

Generally, these blogs post a lot of strange and not-very-good records. Stuff you'd only need one or two records of, like space-age bachelor pad hipness, hawaiian tiki lounge music, whitebread bossa-nova craze records, obscure Gallic ingenue-pop, extremely square 'swinging' jazz played by white dudes who look like high school math teachers, &c., &c. Then again, maybe you're the kind of person who needs hundreds of Brazilian bossa-nova records. Who knows.

I haven't yet downloaded all the following albums myself (this is, after all, my to-do list), so I can't attest to the quality of each record. Caveat downloader! But they're all things I'm confident are at least a little awesome.



The Sonics - Here Are the Sonics!!! + The Sonics Boom - covers - original post

Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder - cover

The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday + The Notorious Byrd Brothers - covers - original post

Swing for a Crime (Dutch bootleg noir theme comp) - cover - original post

The Ventures - The Ventures in Space - cover - original post

The Seeds - The Seeds - cover - original post

The Remains - The Remains - cover - original post

Alice Coltrane - Eternity - cover

Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - Surfer's Guitar - cover - original post

Fela Kuti - The Jazz Side of Fela part 1 - part 2 - cover

Bob Wills - King of Western Swing - cover - original post

Atomic Cafe Soundtrack - cover

Donald Byrd - A New Perspective - cover

Ray Baretto - Senor 007 - cover

Girls Born to Be Bad comps - Vols 1, 2 & 3 - Vols 4, 5 & 6 - covers

Talkin' Trash!: Greasy Rhythm & Blues With Attitude! '54-'63 - cover - original post

Isaac Hayes - Tough Guys - cover

Jimmy Smith - Livin' it Up - cover

Ennio Morricone - Psichedelico Jazzistico cover

Ennio Morricone - Once Upon a Time in the West - cover - original post

Nancy Wilson - Just For Now part 1 - part 2

Beau Brummels - Triangle - cover

Ennio Morricone - Novecento - cover

Rosemary Clooney & Perez Prado - A Touch of Tabasco - +2 bonus tracks - cover

Ennio Morricone - Giu La Testa - cover

The Staccatos - Come Back Little Girl - cover - original post

Astrud Gilberto - Windy - cover

Astrud Gilberto - A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness - cover - original post

Connie Francis - Connie Francis Sings Jewish Favorites - cover - original post

Richard Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight - cover - original post

Nat King Cole - A Mis Amigos - covers - original post

The Four Freshmen - Today is Tomorrow! - cover - original post

Claudine Longet - Let's Spend the Night Together - cover - original post

Claudine Longet - The Look of Love - cover - original post

Claudine Longet - Colours - cover - original post

Claudine Longet - We've Only Just Begun - cover - original post

Tom Jones - Live in Las Vegas - cover - original post

Doris Day & Andre Previn - Duet - cover - original post

Gillian Hills - Gillian Hills EP - cover - original post

Henry Mancini - Charade - cover - original post

Doris Day & Harry James - Young Man With a Horn - cover - original post

Brigitte Bardot - The Brigitte Bardot Show - cover
- original post

Casino Royale SDTK, w/ Burt Bachrach & Dusty Springfield - cover - original post

Fats Domino - Christmas Gumbo part 1 -
part 2 - cover - original post

Remembering Cliff Richards & The Shadows - part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - cover - original post

Gene Page - Blacula SDTK - cover - original post

Toes on the Nose (1960s surf compilation) - cover - original post

Lee Hazlewood - Cowboy in Sweden - cover - original post

JJ Johnson & Kai Winding - Jay & Kai - cover