Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings
Gorey by Grimes
There are other tracks from this album on YouTube, but this cut should give you the general idea.Tammy Grimes on Wikipedia.
Edward Gorey on Wikipedia.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 03, 2023 -
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Category: Death, Literature, Music, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Children
The Bergen Evans Vocabulary Program
I am having fun trying to make a coherent story out of all the sample sentences. It's a surreal masterpiece!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 02, 2023 -
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Category: Education, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Rhetoric, Eloquence, Public Speaking, and Vocabulary
Cartoons In Sound
Cy Harrice's credits.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 06, 2023 -
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Category: Humor, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1950s
The Eventuals, “Charlie Chan”
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 02, 2023 -
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Category: Literature, Movies, Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1960s, Asia
The Distant Galaxy
Spacey, man!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 24, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1960s
1969: A Record of the Year
I think every year should have its own vinyl LP. What soundbites would we start to compile for 2023?Meanwhile, take an aural timetrip back to 1969, via the player below.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 30, 2023 -
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Category: History, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1960s
Instant Yiddish
Don't be a schmuck! Use the player below to bone up on your Yiddish.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 18, 2023 -
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Category: Ethnic Groupings, Languages, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1960s
Actual Business Letters
Need to practice your shorthand? We have the assistance you need, right here! Play the embedded album below. Track number 4 about fisheries regulations is spell-binding.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 02, 2023 -
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Category: Boredom, Offices, Business Supplies, Institutional Regulations, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Twentieth Century
Most Inscrutable Liner Notes Ever
The Wikipedia page for the album.
I have taken the liberty of breaking the text into random paragraphs, to ease your perusal.
Who was the author, Barry Titus? We find record of him under his wife's Wikipedia page.
WAIT QUICKLY by Barry J. Titus after Jim Hall and Bill Evans
Rimmed iron wheels chew candy between tracks window smithers Xmas tree window silver money fleeing present unone given coca cola smiling blank wall perspires omens heads nodding close gaped lips seen stick stuck taxi sign disrobes May 15th, 1959. hanging about her knees mail bundle wheeled cripple clutches Read Wall Street clock white sun monocle IIV or VII long blink see eyes time? Apparitional liquid hesitates a foot, a universe below the white paint-trussed varicose cieling. Liquid slips, drops, unoutlineable shape, presenting absence, glides unreal, an excuse for splattering focus, a school of Dolphins or a dark Grecian head.
Virtuoso: practice makes perfect. Two sharps. Ice crystal diamond egg frog oan wrkwrk-wrxwrx. Donned rubber belts nose mouth. Nub knuckled fingers bounce overfilled heat tear salt balling. Again. Two sharps. Ice crystal, diamonkey, egg, nail rubonk, snill. Huhhh. Snill. rubru, nail, frog, diamond many windows flash ice. Air out. Curtain fingers, cieling lines, French door bars gripped unstill sun broiling play, fat ended keys with black spines.
"How could the Augsburg festival have been in Vienna, hah! Loewy?" Paint corner her jagged lip fingertips petrified red cream smile flicked starving grotto. "I mean is she a satirist or," her tendon muscle stomach dieted twist the flat skirt front. "I think she needs a milk man, Loewy." The shambled, bent, stripped fingers forked each others angles. His imagination chained in Veronica's orange ochre wallpaper, blankets. A quicksilver limb paints the swamptoon. "Yes, I do!" shook, he shivered, remembering, room loose daggers broke ice bergs about them. Peanut butter note, Fang, Fang. Ice Fang back wriggled sorcerer hand hung dead skin frog fangs back Mama into Eassie leap shrunk from the door hid sharpened tusk hallway awwwrice fang bump jump.
"Six fifteen," growled grate hunched on the sofa. "You're presence is expiring, I mean, inspiring." Blue, yellow tinged, Mars capillaried, eye, blue crystal, whites slash, "I know what I want! Why is it such a struggle for you? I feel revolutions." Lie quicksilver idealisation limb delusion chrome rationalisation dance dragged curtained bog cracked ice amazon child's burning nerves. Always left whiskers, uneven fingernails, premature orgasms hairy legs, long nose pranthula.
Go play. Eat chocolate cake, peanut butter, pickles, but clean your room and wash your elbows. Ceiling lines, piano leg shadows, French door bars, eleven to four thirty. "Ma!" shook the still fingers. Rectangled silence coagulated, scraped waiting, dangling. Daddyeeee drove him smack clamored up back fallen stairs into the quilt where a silk wrapped, dark quaked moon bled tears. Run vanity open smear black commaed cheek. "Coups d'etat!" forehead burst powder, lipstick ribboned run eye shadow sink spit spigot greyened clear washed black rubbed lather pushed red pressed tan smeared blue smudged grey circled one eye deathlaughcue hiccupping criggle vermouth spread on the table top gash crystal core neck glass cupped fingers polished green.
A silver ghost hears. Life illuminates a paper screen. Eyes dance truth's instrument. Sieve, sickle and sloat, red grimes grey molds parted skins furrowed tissue lives skeletal screams. Long brown stone blunt nose raised, "Naked day?" puffed sound slices blush. Tongue stuck inside closed teeth. Torso immobile inflame face clacks ticket counter leaned hat veiled hat pulled hat swivel, "I don't know what to say." Jagged leaning brown limbed face. His eyes crumbled smiles smoke dust wound warm bricks.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 08, 2023 -
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Category: Literature, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Surrealism, 1960s
True Crime Podcast on Vinyl
Well, not exactly, but close enough. Use embedded player below.History of the case here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 25, 2023 -
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Category: Crime, Death, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, United Kingdom, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
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