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Makin' Out by Smyle

categories: music · repeat-1 song of the day   ·   originally posted 2005-06-14 19:42:14   ·   last edit 2005-06-15 20:05:50   ·   permalink
Makin' Out was commissioned by MAD Magazine in 1978, and released as a free "flexi-disc" single stuck to the cover of "MAD Super-Special #26". I was in the fourth grade at the time, and I remember getting a copy of it and taking it over to Peter Ho's house where the two of us listened to it over and over.

Back in 1996 MAD re-released all these such one-off singles on one CD titled MAD Grooves: Classic Schlock 'n' Roll!. (Be warned: the snippet Amazon has online cuts isn't...

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'75 aka Stay With You

categories: music · repeat-1 song of the day   ·   originally posted 2005-04-06 09:13:07   ·   last edit 2005-04-14 07:59:48   ·   permalink
Lemon Jelly has finally come out with a new album! It's called '64-'95, and it's... uneven, which is something new for them.

But then there's a lot of new territory here. The concept behind the album was to build on samples from old records—from the years 1964 to 1995, hence the name. On first listen, much of the album strays from the classic Lemon Jelly "sound"; that uniformity of style that made their first two albums as close in timbre as Jean-Michel Jarre's...

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