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May 21, 2021: Incredibly Strange Music Vol. 2 - Chapter 1: Jello Biafra pt. 37 pg. 51 (Jello & Paul Major pt. 2 : Private Press Religious Records)
Episode art: An actual order catalog by Paul Major
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Jiggers | Boys & Girls For Jesus/Zacchaeus | Story Time | LP | Jello Biafra: "Paul's nomination for the most demented record of all time is another religious singing ventriloquist record: Jigger's Story Time from Anaheim, California." Paul Major: "I think it's a Firesign Theater-type parody of a Christian record. There are subtle clues scattered throughout,...and when they're talking about taxes, Jigger puts in put in crazu Bronx-accent wind-u[ whistling noises." Jello: "But why would anybody make something like that? I think it was designed for parents to sit down and listen to with their kids, reminiscent of the era Pat Robertson wants to bring back. There are jokes to keep the adults interested, as well as the kids-- the dialogue must be heard to be believed." | 0:00:49 (Pop-up) | |
Xenogenesis | Side 1 | seXxenogenesis #1 - I Am That I Am | LP | "Another religious find is Xenogenesis #1 from Florida. The artwork shows an intricate galactic painting with a Star of David and an endless circle of craked eggshells with apple-eating snakes. The liner notes throw all kinds of words, symbols and signs together (like swastikas and peace signs) mixed with phrases like: "equating equilibrium gamma rays of Christ-crystal clear new-nuclear energy of-Revelation 22:1-and he showed me a river of the everlasting water of life clear as crystal coming forth from the throne of God - seat of nuclear reactor power-within the nucleus of an atom... They pyramid-triangle-trinity laws that the holy spirit-neutron-five the water-electron-six the blood-proton-these three are one, therefore this is limitless sexual love law of 69, cancer, milky way of time-space existence, continuum of immaculate virgin conception...revert to a carbon 666 atom of recycle reincarnation. Now in order to obtain your Xenogenesis #2, please send me the price of a carbon 666 atom: $6.66. I'm not going to kid you or beat around the bush; I need a lot of money and workers in order to help everyone on this planet earth since you use money here. Considering there are about 3-1/2 billion people here, can you imagine if each of you only gave me one dollar? That would be approx. 3-1/2 billion dollars. I ask sincerely, humbly: would that be enough if I in turn spend that same one dollar on each of you?" - Paul Major | 0:06:52 (Pop-up) | |
J Ann C Trio | More | At the Tan-Tar-A | LP | (Featured album cover pg. 51) | 0:28:07 (Pop-up) | |
Xenogenesis #1 | Side 2 | seXxenogenesis #1 - I Am That I Am | LP | "...his voice sounds like Richard Simmons!" - Jello Biafra | 0:31:05 (Pop-up) | |
Sheldon Allman | Girl in the 4th Dimension | Folk Songs for the 21st Century | LP | (Featured album cover pg. 52) | 0:52:35 (Pop-up) | |
John Rydgren | The Happening/ Groovin' on a Saturday Night/ Dark Side of the Flower/ The Lord is My Shepard | Silouette Segments | LP | "The American Lutheran Church in St Paul, Minnesota, aimed its "Silhouette" series of records at wayward youngsters. One cover, showing a girl in a tiger-striped mini-skirt, proclaims, "It's Rock! It's Religious! It's a Revelation!" The record combines very well-done psych-ploitation movie soundtrack music with religious narrations and guest apperances by everyone from Marvin Gaye to Paul Revere & the Raiders to Peter Tork of the Monkees. The producers had a certain understanding of '60s teen pop culture; a lot of money must have gone into this." - Paul Major | 0:54:30 (Pop-up) | |
The Click Kids | Run, Samson, Run | Jesus Is a Soul Man | LP | Paul Major: "Then there's The Click Kids Are Comin', another D.I.Y.-for-Jesus job out of Oregon - " Jello Biafra: "--same stompin' grounds as Little Marcy! What is it about Oregon that creates these people? Oregon hillbillies are a unique breed." | 1:05:52 (Pop-up) | |
Little Marcy | Do You Know? | Sing With Marcy | LP | 1:08:31 (Pop-up) | ||
The Click Kids | We're Happy Christians | Jesus Is a Soul Man | LP | Paul Major: "Here they are, all brothers, standing on top of their psycjedelic-painted van that says "Jesus is a Soul Man" on the side, along with the phone number of their manager, Electric Norm. The music's just a step up from the Shaggs--" Jello Biafra: "With "Go Tell It on the Mountain" fervor thrown in--" | 1:10:40 (Pop-up) | |
The Shaggs | Who Are Parents? | Philosophy of the World | 1:14:15 (Pop-up) | |||
The Click Kids | Fugitive From God? | Jesus Is a Soul Man | LP | "And songs like "Run, Samson, Run/ Delilah's Gonna Getcha" (as she chases him with a pair of scissors!). They also croon, "We're Happy Christians," and "Why Must I Be a Fugitive From God?" - Paul Major | 1:16:17 (Pop-up) | |
John Rydgren | Music To Watch Girls By/ Hippie Version Of The 23rd Psalm/ Rinky Dink | Silhouette Segments | LP | 1:19:30 (Pop-up) | ||
Ron Dilulio & James E. Kerr | The World Of Now/ The Death Of The World Of Now/ Satan's Army/ The Conquest Of A Will/ The Time Of Eternity | The Death of the World of Now | LP | "The world's about to end, so why not put out your own end-of-the-world record with low-budget heavy-metal skull graphics? This album is by Ron Dilulio and James E. Kerr, The Death of the World of Now, produced by "the Creation Factory Inc. in association wwith astral projections." [?] Dilulio does the music; it's '60's experimental electronics that would fit well on a Limelight Records release, except this was recorded in 1978. Over eerie, echoey screams and sound effects James Kerr narrates: "A canyon began where man ended, and ended when the moon had stopped...Satan stood on a shelf of rock that shut out over the gorge and surveyed the aftermath of God's destruction. His laughter roared across the depression and echoed off the far walls washing back like waves over the sea of dead... thousands of flickering fires flurrying upward in a luminous background of read and blue. Cyclops monsters and creatures of the inferno swirled in the conglomeration of chimeras and hallucinations as they whirled around the fires, whipping themselves into a fitful fury of an orgy. Now and again a shout of laughter would shatter the night as a reptilian creature heaped the flames of a fire with the deformed body of a slave..." - Jello Biafra | 1:26:05 (Pop-up) | |
John Rydgren | Plea Of A Lonely Girl | Silhouette Segments | LP | 1:40:07 (Pop-up) | ||
Ron Dilulio & James E. Kerr | Freedom Suite/ The World Of Afterward/ Uneik/ The Death Of Uneik/ Thy Kingdom Come | The Death of the World of Now | LP | "If Ken Nordine had turned into David Koresh, he would have made a record like this!"- Jello Biafra | 1:41:14 (Pop-up) | |
Ken Nordine | Seven Ways Of The Meek | Stare With Your Ears | LP | 1:54:56 (Pop-up) |
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Great week in Sheena's... Steve Young last night on Kitten and today Paul Major. Fun fun.
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i recall hearing dark side of the flower recently, probably on sheena but....
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+ the Feel the Music comp he did was also quite lovely, some moving songs form private presses on there. Go Major!
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Thanks for airing this, BCS.
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