The Cordelia Records CDs in reverse chronological order
(sorry, I keep forgetting to update this page. I'll get round to it eventually)
1. My Dog Has Fleas |
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1. Didja get any onya - Spanner Jazz Punks |
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1. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Penny-Farthings |
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1. Signal 02:45
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“Rare Episodes” Frank Zappa’s unmined nuggets 1. VARIANT #1 by Zappa Early Renaissance OrchestraOne of a number of pieces Frank wrote “must record” – see The MOFO Project/Object booklet – and then actually did: at TTG Studios in Hollywood on 10 June 1966, during sessions for the Burt Ward single Boy Wonder I Love You. 2. FALLING IN LOVE IS A STUPID HABIT by The VegetariansA song Frank denied knowing, yet a tape exists of him demonstrating it to drummer Jimmy Carl Black. Jimmy told The Idiot Bastard that Frank said he “could have the song and we even discussed the instruments that would sound good on it. It was Frank playing the piano in his studio with Andy Cahan and me there. The year was 1981 and I was in California rehearsing for the first Grandmothers tour of Europe.” 3. BOGNOR REGIS by Jerry Outlaw & FriendsAn instrumental originally recorded during the Hot Rats sessions in 1969, and intended to be released as the b-side of a single version of ‘Sharleena’ that never happened. 4. RALPH STUFFS HIS SHOES by Todd Grubbs Group feat J Todd Plant and Daniel SwartwoodIn September 1974, shortly before it became ‘Can’t Afford No Shoes’ on One Size Fits All, Frank’s lyrics poked fun at drummer Ralph Humphrey. 5. MICE by Evil DickAccording to Frank, the first thing he ever composed: “a piece for snare drum...I wrote that when I was about 14 and performed it at school.” 6. PORTUGUESE LUNAR LANDING by FuchsprellenPerformed live during the 1975 Bongo Fury tour, and rehearsed by the 1981 band, but like all of these songs, not officially released thus far. 7. MO’S VACATION by Marc AtkinsonAn early version of ‘Mo ‘N Herb’s Vacation’ in a basic arrangement, described by drummer Terry Bozzio as "like ‘The Black Page’, but more of it!" Performed live with Vinnie Colaiuta and Arthur Barrow in 1978, Chad Wackerman told The Idiot Bastard he also "did a studio recording for Frank." 8. CLOWNS ON VELVET by Lex Bronkowitz OrchestraFirst performed at New York's Ritz Theatre in November 1981, with special guest Al DiMeola on lead guitar. Frank then added studio overdubs to a fragment of this live recording and had the Thing-Fish rap over it. 9. LITTLE DOTS by Gumbo VariationAn instrumental similar to ‘Approximate’, only ever performed live by the Petit Wazoo in 1972. 10. ROLLO by Chato SegererOfficially released in instrumental form only on the albums Imaginary Diseases, Apostrophe, QuAUDIOPHILIAc and You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1. In 1972, the piece has the lyrics presented here. (This version also appends the rare ‘Village Of The Sun’ intro/outro that appeared on the recent Road Tapes, Venue #2 release.) 11. BRUTALITY by Neither Beasts, Nor GodsA Synclavier composition from a cassette titled Resolver+ Brutality that Frank handed to someone he'd had an 'intensive artistic relationship' with for several years. 12. VELVET SUNRISE by Spanner Jazz PunksAnother piece performed live during the 1975 Bongo Fury tour, providing Frank with an opportunity to tell various tales about life on the road. 13. WE ARE NOT ALONE by ZAPPATiKAThe instrumental track on The Man From Utopia album had these lyrics when rehearsed by the 1981 band. |
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Considerably Further Beyond the Sea The Avant-Garde Surf Music Compilation. 1. Smoke on the Water - Wonk Vision |
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My Gerniums Are Bulletproof - the first album by The Deep Freeze Mice on CD with a lots of extra muisc and a 12 page booklet with things writen in it. 1. Minstrel Radio Yoghurt 2. I vote conservative ('cos I'm in love with you) 3. Emile Zola 4. Phylis is a protozoa 5. Embalming fluid future 6.I met a man who spoke like an UCCA form 7. The octagonal rabbit surplus 8.The octagonal rabbit surplus surplus 9. The man behind the batman mask A free download of a recording of the first concert by The Deep Freeze Mice from May 1980 is on this page. |
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Ziggy Played Surf Guitar. The surf instrumental bands of the world perform the songs of David Bowien. Here - is it's track listing, links to most of the contributing bands and a couple of bonus tracks to download. |
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Free Surf Music #1 & #2. Two L.P.s and an E.P. by Alan Jenkins and The Thurston Lava Tube from 1999 and 2000 on one CD. |
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21 Burnt Weeny Sandwiches. A second CD released in conjunction with the Idiot Bastard Son web site - the 21 contributing artists were asked to condense Frank Zappa's "Burnt Weeny Sandwich" album into a 3 to 5 minute piece of music. The 21st track is this album condensed down to a 3 to 5 minute piece of music and is only available as a download here. And there's a promo video. |
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The Tender Yellow Ponies of Insomnia - the 10th album by The Deep Freeze Mice on CD with a lots of bonus tracks and a 24 page booklet full of writing and pictures. 1. A (dog found a stick in the park with such magical powers that a bark caused a marvelous pie to drop out of the sky and the doggy would grin like a shark) 2. Ariadne metal cream pie 3. The postman's dry 4. The cake of conversation 5. Programme controller flowers 6. I don't have a horse 7. Poodle Haddock: part one 8. Poodle Haddock: part two 9. Conversation gap panic 10. Buzzing unobtrusively 11. The amphibious nun 12. Love you more 13. Janis 14. Into the valley of death rode the six hundred shouting "dig it" 15. Don't eat aluminium 16. To hell with it, let her keep the chicken (the postman's dryer) extra tracks:17. The delicious little green roosters of insomnia 18. Into the valley of death (demo version) 19. The grindy track Download an mp3 of "Conversation Gap Panic" |
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The Year of the Dog - the fifth album by The Thurston Lava tube. 1. The Poisoned Pawn Variation 2. Ghost Train (Camel) 3. Ianisation 4. The Hitler Goat Fuck. 5. Queen Anne's Revenge 6. Pipeline 7. Where Is the Hyena Magnet? 8. I Wanna Hold Your Hand 9. Mrs Pterodactyl 10. Ziggy Stardust 11. Guess What? 12. Don't Borrow Dominoes From a Black Man 13. 1. E4 Nc6 14. Action Dog 15. The Poisoned Porn Variation CD Extra format - there are various other videos and sound recordings in mp3 format on there. |
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The Last Days of Cordelia Records DVD A feature length documentary film charting the final 33 days of the Cordelia Records recording studio. |
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20 Extraordinary Renditions - The Idiot Bastard Son. This CD has been released in conjunction with the Idiot Bastard Son web site where you can find every possible detail of the participating artists (and many other interesting Zappa related things.) 20 different versions of the song by Frank Zappa performed by: Die Beistelltische, Freedom In Hats, André Cholmondeley, DOOT! Ensemble Ambrosius, Evil Dick & The Banned Members, Jerry Outlaw, John Tabacco, Nigey Lennon, Oldgreygoat And His Girls, Pojama People, Project/Object, The FoolZ, The FrazKnapp Fusion Project, The Thurston Lava Tube, The Vegetarians, The Wrong Object Vs, The Friendly Dogs, Todd Grubbs Group feat. Bo Smith, The Whip It Out Ensemble. |
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The Thoughtful Sounds of Bat Smuggling - the fourth album by The Thurston Lava tube. 1. Miserlou 2. Fear the Bat Smuggler 3. Bag Territory 4. Death in Duck Street 5. Hair and Plants 6. In the Keeler Gap 7. The Points, As You Call Them, Will Not Be Changed 8. Guardian of the Soul of Derreck 9. Space 1752 10. Tide of Jam 11. Organ Failure 12. Message Two 13. We'll Gather Lilacs in the Spring Again. Download an mp3 of "Fear the Bat Smuggler" |
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Free Surf Music #3 - the final part of the series by Alan Jenkins (and an early version of The Thurston Lava Tube). Recorded 1999 between 2000. Download an mp3 of "I Walk the Lion" If you put this CD into your computer you will find an additional three albums in mp3 format (with artwork and sleevenotes). These are: 1) "Mechanical Birds with Many Wings" (a compilation of unreleased or non-album tracks by various Cordelia bands mostly from the '90s - including The Deep Freeze Mice, The Chrysanthemums, Ruth's Refrigerator and The Creams). 2) A live recording from 1992 by Ruth's Refrigerator and 3) A live recording by the Creams from 1997. So you get a total of 76 bonus tracks on this CD. |
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The Miraculous Healing of the Daughter of Henry the Glass Cat The Cordelia Sampler CD 1.
The Thurston Lava Tube She Loves You (new mix) |
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Cordelia Records invited contributions to a compilation CD called The contributing bands recorded surf instrumentals that were cover versions of well known tunes outside the usual surf instrumental repertoire. Often way outside it. 1. My Favourite Things by The Swamp Coolers |
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The Pink Elephant with Nipples for Tusks - the third album by The Thurston Lava tube. 1. The Anchor Pigs 2. Argentinasaurus 3. It is the music of The Thurston Lava Tube but it is performed here by pigeons 4. Fritter Capsule 5. Peruvogator 6. I didn't bite the dinosaurs 7. Forgot to put the chain on Baxter 8. It must have been the mousse 9. Absurdo 10. Shit Weasel 11. Oh, what happened to the poor bear 12. Surf Rider 13. Wonderful Land 14. Mrs. Robinson Download an mp3 of "Forgot to put the Chain on Baxter" |
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Version two point zero - the second album by Don's Mobile Barbers. 1. (this is) amiga speaking 2. Euros and dollars 3. f08 4. Your agenda will remain 5. but where are we? 6. Always the same 7. Hold on 8. Ricatid 9. It's understood 10. The language you are using now Download an mp3 of "Euros and dollars" |
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Delicate Tension - R. Stevie Moore's 2nd album from 1978 on CD for the first time with lots of bonus tracks (including the "Stance" ep) and some writing and pictures. 1. Cool daddio 2. Delicate tension 3. Schoolgirl 4. Don't blame the niggers 5. Zebra standards 29 6. You are too far from me 7. Oh pat 8. Apropos joe 9. Funny child 10. Norway 11. This wednesday 12. Some voices 13. I go into your mind 14. Horizontal hideaway 15. Don't let me go to the dogs 16. Ist or mas 17. Dance man 18. Manufacturers 19. My little automobile is sad 20. Caffeine Boy 21. Let's 22. Thinking 23. New Strings 24. Bulk Of Knowledge 25. Adjacent Species Like You Download an mp3 of "Cool Daddio" |
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A compilation CD of [mostly] surf instrumental bands performing the music of Frank Zappa. This one has its own page here. |
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The First album by Don's Mobile Barbers. 1. Ok, let's go 2. Making the most 3. In disguise 4. Solutions 5. ...meanwhile back at the hair centre 6. What club is this? 7. Zero brain 8. Dollybird 9. Let this go 10. ...the chase (executive relief) 11. Summer skies 12. Fell into 13. Shooting clouds 14. 2000 miles for this Download an mp3 of "Solutions" |
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Move over Rover, let Clover take over - the 2nd album by The Thurston Lava Tube. 1. Penetration 2. Gluon boy 3. Lumpy gravy 4. The man with no ping 5. Dogmatic 6. Lullaby of the leaves 7. func_surf entity 8. Rocket science 9. Being and nothingness 10. Pempslider 11. Fox sharp, badger minor 12. Don't eat aluminium 13. Dogs are from Pluto 14. Forget about freeman Download
an mp3 of "Dogs are from Pluto" |
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War, Famine, Death, Pestilence and Miss Timberlake - the 9th album by The Deep Freeze Mice on CD with a lots of bonus tracks and all that sort of thing. 1. Out-takes 2. I am big chirf radio luxembourg 3. George Bailey lassoes a refrigerator 4. A Kangaroo #1 5. The stockholm syndrome 6. A dead hering in the moonlight 7. Fish in the air/birds in the sea 8. The time from acurist 9. Its snowing parts 1-5 10. A kangaroo #2 11. In this area 12. The chocolate bar from hell 13. Something happened 14. Metamorphosis 15. The short good friday 16. The weasle under the cocktail cabinet 17. Iam big chief radio luxembourg (reprise) 18. Here comes the sun exploding 19. Big monkeys in a cosmic emergency 20. Till dawn 21. Vorsprung durch werbung 22. Alabaster frog 23. Slow shiny bricks 24. George Bailey lassoes a refrigerator (1993 mix) 25. Here comes the sun exploding (1986 mix) 26. Big monkeys in a cosmic emergency (1986 mix) 27. Till dawn (1986 mix) Download an mp3 of "George Bailey Lassoes a Refrigerator" |
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Me Ka Nahuku - The first album by The Thurston Lava Tube. CD. 1. Surfin' USSR 2. A hard day's night 3. Maxwell's silver hammer A 4. Helter skelter 5. Maxwell's silver hammer B 6. With a girl like you 7. And your bird can sing 8. I am the walrus 9. When I'm 64 10. Revolution 9 11. Please please me 12. Across the universe 13. I feel fine 14. She loves you 15. I will 16. I'll be back 17. I wanna be your man 18. What's the ugliest part of your body? 19. A day in the lift 20. Free as a bird Download an mp3 of "I am the Walrus" |
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Free Surf Music #1 - a vinyl L.P. by Alan Jenkins 1. Freak saturn tattoo 2. Pour Quoi Pas Moo 3. Hairy Japanese Bastards 4. Gargling With Shelves 5. Bees 6. Free Surf Music #1" 7. Tell Out My Soul 8. Plague Of Cows 9. Pies, Pies, The Sky Is All Pies 10. Chewing Gum For The Spine 11. The Machine's Just Set Up For Poisonous Foam 12. Lumpy Gravy 13. Frequent Moderate Violence 14. A Murder, A Mass Murderer And A Man In A Bri-Nylon Shirt Download an mp3 of "Bees" |
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The "A Big Dog.n" CD by Jody and the Creams 1. The queen #1 2. Margery is dead 3. Moulted fur fom a labrador 4. Tree rings 5. Appleseed alley 6. Hi felicity 7. Shropshire 8. N 9. The queen #2 10. Blue moon ...plus ten untitled bonus tracks. Download and mp3 of "Margery is dead" |