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PFU’s Best of 2011

maxbuckingham — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:50:51 +0000

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USE: Examining/enjoying the past year by the music it inspired.

PFU #021 – The Best of 2011 [Pt. 1]

Felt Letters – 600,000 Bands
YACHT – Shangri-la
The Cars – Free
Eleanor Friedberger – My Mistakes
Kanye West & Jay-Z – That’s My Bitch
Emily Bell – Back To The Way I Was
Thee Oh Sees – Dead Energy
Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band – Stay Away [Nirvana Cover]
Miami Horror – Holidays
The Black Lips – Modern Art
The War on Drugs – Baby Missiles
Chain & The Gang – Detroit Music [Pt. 1]
The Rapture – How Deep Is Your Love?
Patton Oswalt – The Vestibule of Dreams
DJ Shadow – Run For Your Life
Justice – Newlands
The Black Keys – Lonely Boy
Wu-Tang & Jimi Hendrix – The Wind Cries Mary [ft. GZA & U-God]
Wire – Please Take
SebastiAn – Tetra
Telekinesis – Please Ask For Help
Dirty Beaches – Sweet 17
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Tiger
Four Tet – Locked
Jacuzzi Boys – Zeppelin
David Lynch – Good Day Today
Veronica Falls – Stephen
Moon Boots – Gopher It
The Generationals – Dirty Mister Dirty
Young Hunting – Into Yr Mind
King Krule – Bleak Bake
Okay Colour! – (Caribbean) Dreams
Proxy – West
The Caretaker – All You Are Going To Want To Do Is Get Back There

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PFU #022 – The Best of 2011 [Pt. 2]

The Archers of Loaf – Web In Front
Cut Copy – Need You Now
Dom – Some Boys [ft. Emma]
Dr. Dre – Kush [ft. Snoop Dogg & Akon]
Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Wrong Time Wrong Planet
Kids At The Bar – Young Ones [ft. Glasnost]
Gospel Music – Let’s Run
Lykke Li – Jerome
Modest Mouse – That’ll Be The Day [Buddy Holly Cover]
Night Beats – Puppet On A String
Nicolas Jaar – I Got A Woman
My Morning Jacket – Victory Dance
Big K.R.I.T. – Dreamin’
Radiohead – Lotus Flower
Real Estate – Barely Legal [Strokes Cover]
Stornoway – Zorbing
Thurston Moore – Benediction
Tom Waits – Kiss Me
Tyler, The Creator – Yonkers
M.I.A. – 27 [Amy Winehouse Tribute]
Washed Out – Soft
Widowspeak – In The Pines
Wu-Tang Clan – Only The Rugged Survive [ft. RZA]
The Strange Boys – Me & You
Deerhoof – Super Duper Rescue Heads!
Cults – Never Saw The Point
Chain & The Gang – Not Good Enough
Paul Simon – Rewrite
Wild Beasts – End Come Too Soon
Youth Lagoon – July
YACHT – Tripped and Fell in Love
Yuck – Georgia
Puro Instinct – Luv Goon
Bosco Delrey – The Afterlife
Charles Bradley – How Long?

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PFU #023 – The Best of 2011 [Pt. 3]

Little Dragon – Little Man
Peaches – Turn It On [Franz Ferdinand Cover]
Edwyn Collins – Come Tomorrow, Come Today
Explosions in the Sky – Trembling Hands
Fujiya & Miyagi – Yoyo
The Generationals – Please Be It
Guided By Voices – Chocolate Boy
Holy Ghost! – Wait and See
I Break Horses – Winter Beats
Mikal Cronin – Apathy
Night Beats – High Noon Blues
Radiohead – Morning, Mr. Magpie
Toro Y Moi – Still Sound [Glasnost Remix]
Okay Colour! – Tropical Fleetwood
Ty Segall – My Head Explodes
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Ffunny Ffriends
Lana Del Ray – Video Games
M83 – Midnight City
Atlas Sound – Terra Incognita
Kanye West & Jay-Z – Niggas In Paris
Justice – On’n'On
Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire – Huzzah! [Remix] [ft. Despot, Das Racist, & El-P]
Royal Headache – Wilson Street
The Soft Pack – Answer To Yourself
Thee Oh Sees – Chem-Farmer
WU LYF – Dirt
Wild Flag – Electric Band
Phantogram – 16 Years
Cat’s Eyes – Over You
Toro Y Moi – I Can Get Love
The Drums – Money
Widowspeak – Fir Coat
Calvin Harris – Feel So Close
Danny Brown – EWNESW
Chairlift – Wrong Opinion
Jacuzzi Boys – Glazin’
Johnny Falstaff – Honky Tonk Blood
Marc Maron – Working Out Their Daddy Issues
Marc Maron – “Stop Talking!”

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PFU #024 – The Best of 2011 [Pt. 4]

Proxy – We Will Get Your Information
The Sounds – It’s So Easy
Real Estate – Out of Tune
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – New Whaling
Motel Aviv – The Unknown
YACHT – Paradise Engineering
Youth Lagoon – Daydream
Battles – My Machines [ft. Gary Numan]
Washed Out – A Dedication
The Rapture – In The Grace of Your Love
Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
People Like Us – I’m Dreaming Too
Phantogram – Don’t Move
Quintron & Miss Pussycat – Ring The Alarm
Andre Williams – My Time Will Come
Anthony Jeselnik – Seduction
Big K.R.I.T. – American Rapstar
Bitch Perfect – Holiday in America
Boris – Attention Please
Beastie Boys – OK
The Feelies – Nobody Knows
Eleanor Friedberger – One Month Marathon
Four Tet – Pinnacles
Brian Lopez – Montjuic
John Maus – The Crucifix
Kurt Vile – Jesus Fever
Major Lazer – Original Don
Man Man – Spookie Jookie
The Go! Team – Ready To Go Steady
Adele – Rolling in the Deep
Jacuzzi Boys – Los Angeles
Veronica Falls – The Box
The Antlers – Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out
Frank Ocean – Thinking About You
The Roots – The OtherSide [ft. Greg Porn & Bilal Oliver]
Candles of Paradise – In The Chapel

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PFU #025 – The Best of 2011 [Pt. 5]

The Caretaker – Libet’s Delay
Christmas – Pyong
Clams Casino – Natural
Crystal Fighters – At Home
Dirty Beaches – Lord Knows Best
Kavinsky & Lovefoxxx – Nightcall
Charlotte Gainsbourg – All The Rain
Fleet Foxes – Grown Ocean
The Psychic Paramount – Isolated
Katy B – Disappear
The Strange Boys – Over the River and Through the Woulds
J. Viewz – Salty Air
Cat’s Eyes – Face in the Crowd
David Lynch – Pinky’s Dream
Vockah Redu – Lay Wit U [J-Dawg Mix]
Adele – Rumour Has It
Raphael Saadiq – Good Man
Atlas Sound – Mona Lisa
Lauren Wood – Summer Skin [ft. Haley and Abby]
Austra – The Noise
Southern Backtones – Forever
TV on the Radio – Caffeinated Consciousness
Wale – Chain Music
Wilco – The Whole Love
Lindsey Buckingham – Rock Away Blind
Freddie Gibbs – Heaven Can Wait
Ghostface Killah – Purified Thoughts [ft. GZA & Killah Priest]
Girls – Vomit
Tom Waits – Talking At The Same Time
Toro Y Moi – New Beat
Nerves Junior – Champagne & Peaches
Night Beats – Ain’t Dumbo
Radiohead – Little By Little [Caribou Remix]
My Morning Jacket – Movin’ Away
SebastiAn – Ross Ross Ross
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Witchhunt Suite for World War III [9/11 10th Anniversary]
Chain & The Gang – Music’s Not For Everyone

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PFU’s Favorite Videos: 2010-2011 (and a couple trailers)

maxbuckingham — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:03:16 +0000

Hey kids. The Best of 2011 cavalcade will be posted tomorrow, but in the meantime I thought I would share some of my favorite videos of the last couple years. They are probably not any new news to anyone, but they are great and posted again here for your enjoyment. Spike Jones directed 2 of them, and they are playful and fun but, the best by far and actually my favorite music video of all time is “Bombay” by El Guincho. It is absolutely staggaring in how well made and how successfully ambitious it is. I hardly noticed the first time I watched it because it’s tone is so modest. I doubt I’ll see something do this much this well for a long time. My favorite from last year is by far the “Yonkers” video by Tyler, The Creator. Who knows if those Odd Future kids will make as lasting a mark as they initially seemed, but their entrance was undeniably spectacular. This video (and their Tonight Show appearance) were instrumental in their overnight rocket to stardom. The video does what any great video should do: it perfectly represents their style so that it further defines it, but still leaves them mysterious, AND the video is a great piece on its own. I don’t think I’ve been so unnerved and so charmed at the same time. The only problem is..now they have a lot to live up to.

Oh yeah, and Thee Oh Sees video is brilliant, the Cults video is a small landmark (and kind of offensive too), the Adele video makes me ok with her selling 11 trillion albums, and the Jacuzzi Boys managed to inspire their female fans to make a video using only their vaginas…that might just be rock and roll. I warned you…Enjoy.

Also, at the end I threw in 3 of my favorite indie trailers of 2011. The last of which (Rainbow’s End) was described as “a remaking of the Muppet Movie in east Texas…as a documentary…with cock-fighting.” Just watch it.

The Best of 2011 Mixes are Coming…

maxbuckingham — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:09:14 +0000

But in the meantime…here’s a sample.

Ariel Pink does a 9/11 tribute. I’m sure it will be universally appealing.

Get Born: PFU’s Christmas Hymnal 2011

maxbuckingham — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:16:58 +0000

Here it is everybody. Have a top notch holiday season.

PFU #020 – CHRISTMAS 2011

USE: Birthday Party Music

Dion McGregor [Sleeptalker] – The Gift
Deerhoof – The Eyebright Bugler
Four Tet – Spirit Fingers
Louis Armstrong & The Lyn Murray Choir – Shadrack
Atlas Sound – Artificial Snow [Notown Version]
T.L. Barrett & Youth for Christ Choir – Like a Ship
Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel – A Hazy Shade Of Winter
Maria Bamford – Baby Jesus
Nadroj & The Wolrats – Forget It
Bobby Darin – Poor Little Jesus
The Rapture – In The Grace Of Your Love
The Sensational Nightingales – Standing In The Judgment
Animal Collective – Winters Love [Pt. 1]
The Who – Christmas [PFU's Tommyless Edit]
Kings of Convenience – Mrs. Cold
The Avalanches – Midnight Sun
Lightnin’ Hopkins – Merry Christmas
The Drums – Money [Chad Valley Remix]
Marc Maron – Bitter Jesus
Detroit Junior – Christmas Day
The Helio Sequence – Hallelujah
Make*Up – The Choice
John Lurie – Horse Guitar
Takeshi Terauchi – Caravan
The White Stripes – In The Cold, Cold, Night
Luna – Thank You For Sending Me an Angel [Talking Heads Cover]
Little Ax & The Golden Echoes – So Soon
John Cale – Child’s Christmas In Wales
Real Estate – Snow Days
Alice Coltrane – Lovely Sky Boat
Otis Redding – White Christmas
Cara Stewart & The Lee Hudson Orchestra – The New Year Song
Palace Brothers – All Is Grace

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RICHARD PRYOR IS SANTA CLAUS

maxbuckingham — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:17:40 +0000

“Kid, if you want a firetruck, then burn down your house.”

Hunter S. Thompson Sets A Christmas Tree On Fire

maxbuckingham — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:54:56 +0000

FROM THE DESK OF WAYNE EWING [www.hunterthompsonfilms.com]

NOTE: THE VIDEOS WERE NOT SHARING PROPERLY SO I RE-UPPED THEM FOR THIS POST. I HAVE NO INTENT OF UNETHICAL USE OF MR. EWING’S FOOTAGE.

The Christmas Tree

December 12th, 2010

Hunter had a soft heart for Christmas. He loved to receive and give gifts, and his were lots of fun. I still have a kitchen clock he gave me that announces each hour with a different bird call. “Have you learned which birds are at each hour yet?” he often inquired. But, I never have figured out the sequence, even though they keep calling from the kitchen more than a decade later, reminding me of my mischievous friend.

Every December there was a Christmas tree decorated in the living room at Owl Farm, and in January, Deborah Fuller – Hunter’s dedicated secretary for two decades – would take down the tree, but leave it either on the porch or by the wood pile out front in case Hunter wanted to burn it.

On January 9, 1990, Hunter had a visitor from Time Magazine, a reporter who Deborah remembers by a first name of Allen, but his surname has been lost unless he happens to read this and corrects the record.

“Let’s give the journalist a memorable experience to write about,” declared Hunter. “He needs to learn how to burn the creosote out of a chimney. We can’t run the risk of a chimney fire during the year.”

Of course, there’s a fine line between burning the creosote out of a chimney and starting a creosote fire that burns at 2100 Degrees Fahrenheit and sounds like a jet airplane taking off just before it explodes through the sides of your chimney and burns down a log cabin style house like Owl Farm.

In preparation, Deborah gathered all the fire extinguishers in the living room, while Hunter set up a video camera since I wasn’t there to shoot it. (I was back East, finishing a TV special for NBC News with Tom Brokaw called “The New Hollywood.” Believe me, Hunter was a hell of a lot more interesting to hang out with than Tom Brokaw, but as they say in show business: “Theater is life. Film is art. TV is rent.”)

I used some of Hunter’s Christmas tree video in Breakfast with Hunter when Ralph Steadman reads from a 1995 Time/Life book titled “The Enigma of Personality” which so far as I know is the only printed reference to the burning of the Christmas tree other than interviews in which I have mentioned it. Allen the Time Magazine reporter seems to have produced only this anecdote for the book and nowhere else from his 1990 winter’s journey to Owl Farm, but somebody please correct me in the comments section below if I’m wrong on this point.

Visitors to Owl Farm usually came in search of an experience with Hunter that would make a good story whether they were journalists or fans, and Hunter always delivered. But, the story wasn’t necessarily what they expected. In this case, Hunter got more than he bargained for as well; you can see how desperately he pokes at the burning Christmas tree, trying to contain the raging fire. The heavy wooden mantle still has the burn marks to this day.

Before he put the tree in the fireplace, there was a small fire burning already. The mass of the tree almost snuffed out the first fire when he jammed it in, so Hunter threatened to splash lighter fluid on it. In the original video, you can barely hear Deborah and Allen screaming, “NO, HUNTER DON’T DO IT” above the Cowboy Junkies playing “Misguided Angel” at maximum volume over the array of living room speakers.

I said ‘mama he’s crazy and he scares me
But I want him by my side
Though he’s wild and he’s bad
And sometimes just plain mad
I need him to keep me satisfied’
(lyrics by Margo Timmons & Michael Edward Timmons)

Hunter gets a bit of lighter fluid onto the tree, and then throws a match after it, creating the conflagration you see in the film and then in the aftermath below. The flames were coming out of the top of the chimney in a four foot cone of fire, like the exhaust of a jet engine. Hunter, Deborah and Allen retreated to the front porch where Hunter taped the inferno with pride. No one remembered to carry out the manuscript of the latest book in progress which was lying on the living room table.

PFU CHRISTMAS COLLECTION PART 4: FAMILY RESCUE VERSION

maxbuckingham — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:32:43 +0000

This is a mix designed to allow you to listen to decent Christmas music without your family giving you trouble. It’s very handy, trust me.

PFU #011 – Family Christmas Music Emergency Mix [for 2009]

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TRACK LIST:

Johnny Cash – Not Cool to Kill on Christmas
Toni Stante – Donde Esta Santa Claus
Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & The Clowns – All I Want For Christmas
Squirrel Nut Zippers – My Evergreen
Toots & the Maytals – Christmas Feeling Ska
People Like Us – Everyday
New Pornographers – Joseph, Who Understood
Jackie Gleason – Christmas In Paris
The Wailers – She’s Coming Home
Josh Rouse – Christmas with Jesus
Kay Martin & Her Body Guards – My Santa Daddy
Nina Simone – Chilly Winds Don’t Blow
Jimmy Butler – Trim Your Tree
The Bird And The Bee – Carol of the Bells
Teenage Fanclub – Christmas Eve
The Staple Singers – Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas
Erlend Øye – Last Christmas
Eddie Cochran with The Holly Twins – I Want Elvis For Christmas
Yo La Tengo – Winter A-Go-Go
James Brown – Sweet Little Baby Boy [Parts 1 & 2]
Henry Mancini – Snowfall
Bob Dylan – Winterlude
Ramsey Lewis Trio – Egg Nog
Vaughn Monroe – Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
Danièle et Michèle – J’ai vu maman embrasser le père Noël
Lighnin’ Hopkins – Happy New Year
Johnny Cash – Here Was A Man

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM KURT COBAIN & WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

maxbuckingham — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:23:18 +0000

When you are looking for cheer, there’s no one better than these two.

SPECIAL GUEST CHRISTMAS MIX: PROXY’s HOLIDAY ARMAMENT VOL. 5

maxbuckingham — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:15:57 +0000

Proxy (ne Todd Buker) is amazing. He’s an electronic music dynamo, a crack designer, master digger of crates, acclaimed theater director, and all around winner. PFU has featured him on our Christmas mixes before mashing up Billie Jean and the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy on our very first mix.

Here’s another one of his exceptional creations.

He sent me his annual Christmas mix and I had to share it. The tracks are numbered on the files, so please sort the mix by track number and listen to this in order. It’s a Christmas Program of amazing (and family accessible) holiday music and extremely rare seasonal nuggets. This is a great mix.

PFU #G001 – PROXY’s HOLIDAY ARMAMENT VOL. 5 [2011]

The Free Design & the USAF Dance Orchestra – The Now Sound of Christmas
Broadcast – Winter Now
Bela Lugosi – Snowkenstein
Herman Apple – Let it Snow
Baby Pac Man – Snowflakes & Frozen Lakes
Mangus T. Cook – Snow Bunny
Janette Eden – You Turn Me On (And Light Me Up)
Jimmy McCracklin – Christmas Time [Pt. 1]
Pattie Marie Joy – Space Age Santa Claus
Ambassador Record Corp Ensemble – Donner & Blitzen
Harvie June Van – Dasher
Preston Penn – Little Pee Wee
The Legend of the Monkey Santa Claus
Lightnin’ Hopkins – Santa [Alt Version]
Cordell Jackson – Rock N Roll Christmas
Snowflakes [Pt. 1]
Good King Wenceslas
Larry Rivera – Menehune Santa
Jimmy McGriff – The Christmas Song
Ben Light and His Surf Club Boys – Christmas Balls
Jimmy Jones and the Versatiles – Christmas is a Drag
Sonny Boy Williamson – Christmas Morning Blues
Mary Denise Cawley – The Day That Santa Cried
J.J. Barnes – Snow Flake
Mary White – Christmas Bells
Jingle Bells [Live]
Walter “Crybaby” Stone & the Tradewinds – Christmas Time Again
Santa Claus, That’s the Signal
Eric Idle – Fuck Christmas
The Christmas Holidays are Over…and Reprise

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PFU’s CHRISTMAS COLLECTION: PART 3 [CHRISTMAS 2009]

maxbuckingham — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:54:10 +0000

My personal favorite.

PFU #010: CHRISTMAS 2009

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TRACK LIST

Neil Hamburger – Cranberry Sauce
The Mistreaters – Santa Stole My Baby
Fat Daddy – Fat Daddy
Twice As Much & Vashti – The Coldest Night of the Year
James Brown – Hey America
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – All I Want For Christmas
Dean & Britta – He’s Coming Home
The Phi Mu Washboard Band – Chilly Winds
Elvis Presley – Santa Claus Is Back In Town
Dr. Octagon – Moosebumps
Holly Golightly – Christmas Tree’s On Fire
The Shangri-Las – Good Taste Tip #3: Gift Receiving
George Harrison – Ding Dong, Ding Dong
Nina Simone – I Am Blessed
The Halo Benders – Snowfall
Dion McGregor [Sleep Talker] – Snowflakes
Dick Dale – Hava Nagila
Pebbles & Bam Bam – Snowflakes
Floyd Dixon – Empty Stockings
Galaxie 500 – Listen, The Snow Is Falling
The Davis Sisters – Christmas Boogie
Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
The Harlem Children’s Chorus – Black Christmas
Merle Haggard – If We Make It Through December
Archers of Loaf – Assassination On X-Mas Eve
Mae West – My New Year’s Resolutions
Pharoah Sanders – Prince of Peace