February 19, 2013

Hark, it is a very handy index covering the first 2 years of Blowtorch Baby

Today marks 2 years since the site's first song post. I decided to make an alphabetical list of all of the songs, mainly because I want to peruse such a list, and because the Library Of Congress has been pestering me to do it.  In parentheses is the recording date of the track, and after that is the date it was posted on here, in case you want to go find the original article.  Since joining last.fm and Tumblr last fall, I've been neglecting this site.  I do have a ton of songs to post in the future that will blow some minds, including many by bands in my all-time top 10, so don't worry about this site going anywhere.  I'm already getting a little disillusioned with last.fm & Tumblr.  I'll be randomly disabling song downloads from now on, based on a very complex algorithm, due to the fact that the world has greeted Blowtorch Baby with a collective shrug and because I don't feel all songs should be free forever.  I've been seeing lots of mediocre "here's a free album download link" mp3 blogs getting shut down, so I think my choice to do a site devoted to just offering one great track at a time has been validated.

Aarktica - "Big Year" (2002) 1/6/12
Abecedarians - "Soil" (early version) (~1983-85) 9/19/11
Above The Law - "Freedom Of Speech" (1989) 10/17/11
A.C. Temple - "Chinese Burn" (1988) 3/2/11
American Music Club - "Sick Of Food" (1991) 10/12/11
Amoeba - "Ignoring Gravity" (1997) 11/30/11
Tiffany Anders - "Runnin' From No Place To Nowhere" (1998) 11/29/11
Michael Andrews w/ Miranda July - "When I Call A Name" (2005) 10/16/11
Angry Samoans - "You Stupid Jerk" (1982) 11/23/11
Antipop Consortium - "Your World Is Flat" (1999) 3/31/11
The Aqua Velvets - "Nomad" (1996) 10/8/11
Asylum Party - "Play Alone" (1989) 9/26/12
Autumnfair - "Black Spring" (~1988) 11/10/11
The Autumns - "Boy With The Aluminum Stilts" (1999) 11/25/11
Band Of Susans - "Ice Age" (1990) 7/16/11
Bare Minimum - "Night We Streak, Divine Failure" (1995) 2/27/12
Bare Minimum - "Swim In Anxious Moment" (1997) 3/4/12
Bark Psychosis - "The Loom" (1993) 6/22/11
William Basinski - "The River" (excerpt) (1983) 7/12/11
Bell Hollow - "Storm's End" (2007) 3/11/12
Bethany Curve - "Long Beach" (2001) 11/24/11
The Bevis Frond - "Desperate" (1993) 8/11/12
Biosphere - "The Things I Tell You" (1997) 3/15/12
Black Flag - "Rise Above" (1981) 11/30/11
The Black Watch - "Terrific" (1991) 9/5/11
Bleach - "Burn" (1991) 4/8/11
Bleach - "Hit On Me" (1992) 3/28/11
Bleach - "Shotgun (1991) 7/2/12
Blouse - "Into Black" (2011) 11/4/12
Bongwater - "Free Love Messes Up My Life" (1991) 7/1/11
Bright Channel - "Airborne" (2005) 12/25/11
Bright Channel - "Final Stretch" (2004) 12/22/11
Bright Channel - "Night Eyes" (Demo) (2003) 12/19/11
Brujeria - "Don Quixote Marijuana" (1999) 4/20/11
Catherine Wheel - "Wish" (demo) (~1990-91) 4/30/11
Cerulean - "Here Is Hoping" (2004) 10/24/11
!!! [Chk Chk Chk] - "Intensify" (2000) 4/25/12
Choir Invisible - "The Distance From..." (1981) 11/21/11
Christian Death - "Cavity (Version)" (1981) 10/3/11
Chrome - "Isolation" (1980) 9/9/11
Chug - "Water Torture" (1996) 3/16/11
The Cleaners From Venus - "Follow The Plough" (6/13/11)
Colfax Abbey - "Feel" (1996) 2/17/12
The Comsat Angels - "I Come From The Sun" (1992) 3/4/11
Curious (Yellow) - "Taken By Surprise" (1990) 3/28/11
Cush - "The Touch" (2000) 11/17/11
Das Racist - "Rainbow In The Dark" (2010) 10/3/12
Del The Funky Homosapien - "No Need For Alarm" (1993) 11/28/11
Constance Demby - "The Longing" (1982) 11/26/11
DJ Magic Mike & MC Madness - "Dynamic Duo" (1991) 12/28/11
Doldrums - "Weird Orbits" (1995) 6/17/12
Dome w/ Angela Conway - "Cruel When Complete" (1980) 5/19/12
Drop Nineteens - "Delaware" (1992) 12/31/11
Dub Sex - "Then And Now" (~1987/88) 7/3/12
Duster - "Topical Solution" (1997) 11/30/11
Earwig - "Everything's Just Fine" (1991) 8/26/11
Editors - "Lights" (2005) 12/7/11
The Emerald Down - "Heavier Than Ether, Lighter Than Air" (2001) 8/28/11
The Emerald Down - "Stars" (2002) 2/26/11
[EXITMUSIC: see LAKE]
Faith No More - "Why Do You Bother?" (1985) 10/1/11
FCS North - "1222" (2000) 4/6/11
Felt - "Fortune" (re-recorded version) (1984) 8/7/11
Feverdream - "Never Letting Go" (1995) 5/8/11
Film School - "Pitfalls" (2006) 9/14/11
Film School - "Time To Listen" (2010) 9/16/11
Film School - "Two Kinds" (2007) 9/18/11
Flying Saucer Attack - "Up In Her Eyes (1997) 7/22/11
For Against - "Paperwhites" (1988) 6/27/11
Francis 7 - "Red Roses" (~2003) 2/19/11
The Furious Colour - "Closer" (BBC Session) (1986) 3/6/12
Allen Ginsberg - "Poem Rocket (Be A Star-Screwer)" (1959) 11/28/12
Glide - "Water Falls" (1992) 6/8/11
Hex - "Mercury Towers" (1989) 6/14/11
Honeyburn - "Sister" (1995) 4/15/11
Adina Howard vs. Ride - "FreakRide" (1994 vs. 1992 in 2003) 6/1/11
William Hung - "I Believe I Can Fly" & "Inspirational Thoughts: Perseverance" (2004) 11/13/11
Idaho - "If You Dare" (1995) 9/25/11
Idaho - "You Are There" (1993) 5/13/11
ILYA - "Isola" (2002) 9/13/11
[Insides: see Earwig]
Isotope 217 - "Kryptonite Smokes The Red Line" (1997) 5/1/11
The Joy Circuit - "Run In Circles" (demo) (2004) 10/18/11
The Joy Circuit - "The New Sunrise" (demo) (2004) 7/7/11
The Joy Circuit - "X's" (2004) 11/8/11
[Miranda July: see Michael Andrews w/ Miranda July]
Juned - "Kyuss" (1995) 8/31/11
Junius - "A Word Could Kill Her" (2006) 1/19/12
Juno - "Leave A Clean Camp And A Dead Fire" (1998) 10/8/12
Kill Laura - "Unheeled (1994) 6/18/12
Knapsack - "Decorate The Spine" (1996) 10/29/11
Michael Krassner - "Telegraph Hill" (1996) 8/14/11
Kriedler - "She Woke Up And The World Had Changed" (1998) 7/23/11
Dayna Kurtz - "Beside You" (Live) (1997) 4/18/12
LAKE - "Don't Give Up" (2009) [+ EXITMUSIC - "The Sea" (2011)] 10/31/12
Liberty Horses - "King Of A Rainy Country" (1992) 5/20/11
Lid - "Up" (1992) 2/19/13
Lions & Ghosts - "Wild Garden" (1989) 11/5/11
Long Fin Killie - "Clinch" (1996) 7/13/12
Loquat - "Swingset Chain" (original version) (2001) 9/7/11
Lovers - "Figure 8" (2010) 9/14/12
Love Spirals Downwards - "Sideways Forest" (1996) 10/19/11
Lowercase - "Willing To Follow You Down" (1998) 9/10/11
Lubricated Goat - "New Kind Of Animal" (1990) 8/13/11
Lucid Nation - "Fun" (1999) 10/23/11
Lynnfield Pioneers - "Add It Up" (1997) 5/16/12
The Make-Up - "I Want Some" (1998) 4/16/12
Memoryhouse - "Lately" (2009 & 2011 versions) 8/16/12
Merchandise - "Time" (2012) 11/16/12
[Mercury Rev: see Shady Crady]
Margot Mifflin - "Backlash" (1992) 2/1/12
Maria Minerva - "Luvcool" [a.k.a. "Lovecool"] (2011) 10/16/12
Minutemen - "Anxious Mo-Fo" (1984) 11/27/11
The Moog Cookbook - "The One I Love" (1996) 10/31/11
Moonshake - "Girly Loop" (1993) 2/23/12
Moonshake - "The Taboo" (1996) 7/30/11
My Bloody Valentine - "You Made Me Realise" (1988) 3/17/12
National Skyline - "Ghosts" (2001) 7/5/11
Necropolis Of Love - "Talk" (re-recorded version) (1984) 11/1/11
Negativland - "Methods Of Torture" (1987) 9/6/11
New Math - Invocation (1982) 11/30/11
Nice Strong Arm - "Cloud Machine" (1989) 12/27/11
Will Oldham & Jim O'Rourke - "Ebb's Folly" (1996) 8/14/11
Opal - "Supernova" (1987) 8/1/11
The Orange Peels - "I Don't Mind The Rain" (1996) 9/21/11
[Jim O'Rourke: see Will Oldham & Jim O'Rourke]
Oval - "Shop In Store" (1994) 2/8/12
Mike Patton - "Pajama Party Horror" (1995) 11/7/11
Pharmacy Lounge - "Building A Compound" (1993) 10/11/12
A Place To Bury Strangers - "I Lived My Life To Stand In The Shadow Of Your Heart" (2006 & 2009 versions) 1/26/12
Plexi - "Forest Ranger" (1996) 9/3/11
Plexi - "Peel / He" (1995) 9/1/11
Plexi - "Simple Man" (1994) 9/2/11
Pocahaunted - "Ashes Is White" (2008) 10/21/11
Poem Rocket - "Appeal To The Imagination" (2000) 1/10/13
Poem Rocket - "Flaw" (1994) 12/6/12
Poem Rocket - "Small White Animal" (1994) 12/14/12
The Prime Movers - "Museum" (1984) 9/26/11
Primitive Painters - "Like You" (1991) 10/13/11
Psi Com - "City Of 9 Gates" (1985) 11/19/11
Psi Com - "Ho Ka Hey" (1985) 9/11/11
Psychic Ills - "January Rain" (2005) 1/13/12
Pteranodon - "Adrift" (2001) 12/14/11
Puro Instinct - "Slivers Of You" (2010) 11/9/11
Lee Ranaldo - "Deva, Spain (Fragments)" 2/3/12
Lee Ranaldo w/ Steve Shelley - "Live ∞ #1" (1987) 7/3/11
Billy Reid - "White Chicks And Gang Signs" (2006) 11/13/12
Replikants - "Patty's Trip" (1996) 3/23/11
[Ride: see Adina Howard vs. Ride]
Steve Roach - "Structures From Silence" (1984) 11/15/11
Steve Roach & Robert Rich - "Touch" (1992) 11/29/11
Savage Republic - "Next To Nothing" (1982) 10/14/11
Scala - "Hold Me Down" (1995) 4/23/11
Scenic - "All Fish Go To Heaven" (1996) 2/28/11
School Of Seven Bells - "Windstorm" (2010) 8/28/12
Christian Scott - "Litany Against Fear" (2007) 8/14/11
Screen Of Dreams - "I Can't Remember" (1983) 11/12/11
The Sea And Cake - "Choice Blanket" (1993) 6/22/12
Section 25 - "New Horizon" (1980) 9/16/12
Seefeel - "Come Alive" & "Come Alive (Climactic Phase #1)" (1993) 8/19/11
Shady Crady - "Clamor" (demo) (1988) 5/24/11
Shady Crady - "In Bloom" (demo) (1988) 5/27/11
Sleepers - "Let Me Free" (1980) 2/20/11
Sleepers - "Mirror" (1980) 10/6/11
[Sonic Youth: see Lee Ranaldo]
Soul Whirling Somewhere - "Every Female Werewolf Ever, Listed Alphabetically By Crime" (1997) 8/18/11
The Sound - "Burning Part Of Me" (1985) 4/12/11
Southpacific - "Analogue 9" (1999) 8/25/11
Sovetskoe Foto - "Cellophane Laughter" (1991) 4/12/12
Springhouse - "Enslave Me" (1992) 4/6/12
Starflyer 59 - "Blue Collar Love" (1993) 9/24/11
Starflyer 59 - "The Boulevard" (1996) 10/11/11
St. Johnny - "Go To Sleep (1992) 9/8/12
Karlheinz Stockhausen - "Struktur X" (1959-60) 4/27/11
Suburban Lawns - "Computer Date" (1981) 10/28/11
Swervedriver - "99th Dream" (1996) 3/26/12
Tagging Satellites - "Sun Damage" (2000) 1/30/12
Tamaryn - "Dawning" (2010) 9/29/11
Tape - "Fill In The Blank" (2002) 9/4/11
Telefon Tel Aviv - "My Week Beats Your Year" (2004) 5/13/11
This Heat - "Horizontal Hold" (~1978) 4/28/12
Tomorrowland - "Kepler Planet Harmonies" (1997) 5/16/11
To Rococo Rot - "Prado" (1999) 7/27/11
Tortoise - "Glass Museum" (1995) 2/16/12
Trans Am - "Futureworld" (1998) 5/6/12
Trespassers William - "Love You More" (2002) 11/30/11
Trial Of The Bow - "Inverloch" (1994) 4/2/12
Tristeza - "I Am A Cheetah" (2000) 9/23/11
Twin Sister - "The Other Side Of Your Face" (2010) 12/4/11
Ultracherry Violet - "Post-Wing-And-Prayer" (1994) 5/20/12
The Universal Chrome - "Helium" (2000) 10/23/12
[Unwound: see Replikants]
Venus Beads - "Heaven And Back" (1990) 4/2/11
Venus Beads - "One Way Mirror" (1990) 7/18/12
Volplane - "Lost In Blue" [a.k.a. "I Want This Dream"] (1997) 12/10/11
Warpaint - "Composure" (2010) 10/5/11
The Werefrogs - "Don't Slip Away" (1992) 5/22/11
White Cascade - "Fine As Usual" (2010) 11/22/12
Windy & Carl - "A Dream Of Blue" (1997) 3/11/11
[Wire: see Dome]
Zombi - "Challenger Deep" (2005) 8/25/11


Pic of the often-thought-provoking sign at Metairie Grammar School on Sept. 20, 2012. (See the other side here.)

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