The Mice - Unreleased and Live Recordings

Bill Fox: frontman for The Mice

music from: unreleased album, 
live show, early single

1984 - 1988

various venues & recording info

soundboard recordings (quality VG- to VG+) 

 

 
 

 
01 Resurrection Day

02 Music Here

03 Something Pushed 

After an early single, this EP was the band's next release

04 Public Television

05 I Got a Gal In Kalamazoo

06 Phone in My Car

07 Across the Mighty Ocean

08 Don't Be a Stranger to Me

09 Nearly a Mile Away

10 Struck Me Paralyzed

11 Girl in Red (live)

12 Downtown (live)

13 Stay Forever (live)

14 Love Ain't No Feeling (live)

15 The Good's Gone (live)

16 American Pagan Girl (live)

17 Bye Bye Kitty Kat (live)

18 Can't Explain… [Who medley] (live)

19 She Loves You (live)

20 A Hard Day's Night (live)

21 Can You Walk on the Water Baby? 
      (first single A-side)

22 Little Creatures (first single B-side)

23 Santa Claus

TRACK NOTES:

#1: outtake from the Scooter album - recorded & produced by Chris Burgess June 1986 at Beat Farm, Willoughby OH

#2-10, 23: from sessions for the never-completed Canterbury Bells LP. Recorded by Chris Burgess in 1987 at Beat Farm. Mixed Feb 2002 by Brendan Burke at Uberstudio, Chicago, IL

#11-20: taken from studio portion of a live show 1988-06-04 recorded by Ken Dixon in Cleveland, OH for WRUW-FM

#21, 22: vinyl rip from the band's rare first single, recorded while still in their early teens, released 1984

The Mice: so short-lived & mysterious, this is one
of the group's only surviving band photos

ROB SEZ: What's better than discovering a terrific, little-known band? That would be finding a complete set of the band's rarities, including raw tracks from a never-completed and never-released album. Call it punky pop-rock, if you need a descriptor. This set was sold exclusively (for a red-hot minute) through Scat Records’ website, a CD-R release (SCAT 72). It was quickly deleted at the band's request, and is now otherwise unavailable. Frontman Bill Fox went on to a somewhat better-known solo career, with several albums worth seeking out (see especially Shelter from the Smoke). Read a great, feature-length post about The Mice from Adios Lounge.

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HUMONGOUS THANKS to Don from the old ASH blog for sharing

 Learn more about The Mice's music at Trouser Press, Wikipedia & the music of Bill Fox at Wikipedia

 

Jason Falkner - Two Rarities Collections

'An Alternative You Can Still Feel'
alt. version of CYSF? album
late 1990s
various recording venues, etc.

soundboard recordings (quality VG+ to Ex-)

01 The Invitation - full-length version 

02 Author Unknown - album outtake

03 Revelation - GLR live

04 My Lucky Day - B-side version

05 Holiday - single version

06 Eloquence - GLR live

07 I Already Know - demo

08 See You Again - acoustic

09 Honey - GLR live

10 The Plan - GLR live

11 All God's Creatures - demo
12 Goodnight Sweet Night - demo
    

SAMPLE: "Hello Mr. Future" (from IPO sampler)

         
'Play Myself Some Music'

demos, B-sides & other rarities

various recording venues & dates

 

soundboard & FM recordings
   (quality VG+ to Ex-)

01 Play Myself Some Music 

      - R. Stevie Moore cover

02 Start Over - 17A version

03 Do Ya - The Move cover

04 Great Big Yes - B-side version

05 Touch and Go - Cars cover

06 My House is Not a Home 

      - yellow pills version 

07 Both Sides Now - B-side version

08 In Awe of Industry - B-side version

09 Pretty Ballerina - Left Banke cover

10 Hello Mr. Future - IPO sampler

11 Photograph - Def Leppard cover

12 My Lucky Day - B-side version

13 Baby I Love You - J. Barry & E. Greenwich cover

14 Upside Down Frown - demo

15 Holiday - single version

16 Kids Without Curfew

17 They're Coming to See Us

18 Some Things Are Big 
     Some Things Are Small - live on TV 

19 All God's Creatures - demo

20 Goodnight Sweet Night - demo

21 Honey - demo

22 I Already Know - demo

ROB SEZ: There's some overlap in these two rarities collections, which come courtesy of Mick and thanks to Don from the old ASH blog (Mick is the biggest JF fan I know of). But I figured you'd rather have two copies of a few of these rather than not hear 'em at all... Jason Falkner and R. Stevie Moore recently released (?re-released?) a collaboration called Make It Be, which is getting great reviews (check out Rushbo's review for Rockerzine). Many say the project brings out the best in both artists (see more below). Bonus share? Of course...

  

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Jason Falkner & R. Stevie Moore made this album.
Sample "I H8 Ppl" below.

Cotton Mather - Late 1990s + 2017 live sets

KUTX-FM live session

Austin, TX

May 23, 2017

  

web stream capture (sound quality VG++)
   

01 Better Than a Hit

02 I Volunteer

03 Girl With a Blue Guitar

04 Robert Harrison

     interview+

05 Candy Lilac*

+several interview segments put into a single file

*bonus track from an earlier KUTX live session in 2016

unidentified live session

a TV studio in Texas (?)

late 1990s

   

audio rip from video (quality VG++)
    

01 Animal Show Drinking

     Song (partial)^ 

02 Church of Wilson

03 She's Only Cool

04 Aurora Bori Alice

05 Flying (Badfinger cover)

   
^beginning cut, fades in (about 1 minute total)

ROB SEZ: Judging from the comments generated by my last Cotton Mather post, we seem to have some serious fans of this little-known band — and I'm one of them. ROIOs are hard to come by for this fab, Beatlesque group — so here's a couple more I recently acquired. I don't know much about the late 1990s set, but it seems to come from a live session in a TV studio (I'm guessing somewhere in Texas). Special treat: a live cover of the song the band contributed to a Badfinger tribute album in 1996. RIDICULOUS THANKS to KUTX in Austin and to Mike Rosen for sharing.

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Cotton Mather just released a second installment in front man Robert Harrison's ambitious Songs from The I Ching project. It's called Wild Kingdom, and I heartily recommend it. Purchase directly from the band HERE (while you're at it, pick up the first installment, Death of the Cool).
 

NoiseTrade has a cool freebie: a 9-track sampler that covers both albums. Check it out (you'll have to register with NoiseTrade, but you'll probably be glad you did. They give away lots of cool music).

Kontiki: Deluxe Edition is still available from the band HERE.

Learn more about Cotton Mather's music at 

the band's web page, FB page & Wikipedia

Johnny Marr - Bath Pavilion, UK 2014

Bath Pavilion

Bath, England

October 24, 2014

    

audience recording (sound quality VG++; so impressive, this could be mistaken for an FM-sourced recording if it weren't for crowd noise, which is fairly minimal)

       

01 Playland

02 Panic (Smiths song)

03 Upstarts

04 Easy Money

05 Twenty-five Hours

06 New Town Velocity

07 The Headmaster Ritual (Smiths song)

08 Back In the Box

09 Speak Out Reach Out

10 Generate! Generate!*

11 Bigmouth Strikes Again (Smiths song)+

12 Boys Get Straight

13 Word Starts Attack

14 Candidate

15 Getting Away With It (Electronic song) 

16 There Is a Light That Never 

     Goes Out (Smiths song) 

17 Still Ill (Smiths song)

18 Dynamo     

19 I Fought the Law (Crickets cover)

20 How Soon Is Now? (Smiths song)

*Generate! Generate! is aborted mid-song as Johnny calls out misbehavior in the crowd

+30-second cut in Bigmouth Strikes Again due to taper's mic becoming unplugged
   

Johnny Marr - the hands that rock the house

TREMENDOUS THANKS to Petrock2000 & MonsterH for sharing. Artwork is mine.

ROB SEZ: I've always been bowled over by Johnny's guitar playing and song-writing talent. After reading his autobiography, I was moved to find an excellent live show to share here. For those who think the bloke can't sing, you might want to check the sample. His vocals have improved quite a bit since he started touring intensively some years ago, fronting his own band. In case you haven't noticed, he still writes great songs. Errata: date on artwork is in error (date at top of post is correct) and venue name has a spelling error. Oh well; can't be perfect all the time...

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FLAC lossless files

This official live recording from 2015 is excellent.

Learn more about Johnny Marr's music at 
his official site, FB page and Wikipedia