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[Dec. 2nd, 2007|12:17 am] |
 
 Here's the second Pick!
When Charlie's fiancee insists on his inviting his father to their wedding, he learns of his father's passing - in a karaoke bar, tumbling off the stage and unceremoniously removing a woman's top as he hit the floor, dead. When he goes to the funeral, he learns many strange things, not the least of them that his father was the African Spider God...
This Neil Gaiman story stars comedians Lenny Henry (Chef) and Matt Lucas (Little Britain) and contains mild adult situations.
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[Oct. 8th, 2007|10:13 pm] |
 
 Apparently, there is more to this liner-note-less album than it lets on... this bit of information comes from a lurking horror:
"Not heard of this record before. The tracks on from the soundtracks to 80s stories. Only one comes from a Tom Baker story with the rest from the Davison era. They've been released as part of the BBC LP The Music & Silva Screen's re-release Classic Music from the Radiophonic Workshop Vol.1, both long deleted."
More info on the Doctor Who picture disc of mystery!
Now the second side are sound effects from the series. Considering the helpful info left last time in the comments, I decided to try to give some background info on where these come from.
Listen to the Doctor Who picture disc, side B
The Shrine Of The Sisterhood Of Karn
(1.62 mb; 1:46 min.)
This sound effect is from the episode "The Brain Of Morbius", a Tom Baker episode. Cynthia Grenville plays the head of the Sisterhood.
Kraal Disorientation Chamber
(1.04 mb; 1:08 min.)
From "The Android Invasion", a Tom Baker episode. Used to scramble brains, but thanks to Sarah Jane Smith, the Doctor's brains remain unscrambled
The Mandragora Helix
(1.53 mb; 1:40 min.)
From "The Masque Of Mandragora", a Tom Baker episode. The Mandragora Helix, a living energy structure, leads the Tardis to 15th century Italy.
Atomic Reactor Runs Wild
(1.24 mb; 1:21 min.)
From "The Hand Of Fear", a Tom Baker episode. Sarah Jane, possessed by a fossilized hand, waltzes into a reactor in the Nunton Complex. The reactor does run wild, but mysteriously never explodes.
Wind-Mine Machine
(1.41 mb; 1:32 min.)
From "The Robots Of Death", a Tom Baker episode. In this "Hercule Poirot Meets The House Atreides" episode, the ship Storm Mine 4 uses this to mine minerals.
Distillation Chamber
(602 kb; :38 min.)
From "The Talons Of Weng-Chiang", a Tom Baker episode. I never saw this one. I don't know what the distillation chamber is.
Cloning And Miniaturisation Process
(548 kb; :35 min.)
Inside Dr. Who's Mind
(.97 mb; 1:03 min.)
From "The Invisible Enemy", a Tom Baker episode. When the Doctor comes down with a deadly virus, people get cloned, shrunk down and inserted into the Doctor. Ouch.
Tardis Interior (In Flight)
(1.44 mb; 1:34 min.)
Tardis Interior (Stationary)
(814 kb; :51 min.)
Tardis Observation Screen Operates
(48 kb; :03 min.)
Tardis Door Opens
(88 kb; :05 min.)
Sonic Screwdrivers
(128 mb; :08 min.)
Oh come on. Like you've never ridden in a Tardis or used a sonic screwdriver.
I got mine at Home Depot.
The last few are various weapon sound effects...
Fission Gun
(2.39 mb; 2:36 min.)
...from "The Ark In Space", a Tom Baker episode...
Tesh Gun
(84 kb; :07 min.)
...from "The Face Of Evil", a Tom Baker episode...
Gallifreyan Staser Gun
(126 kb; :07 min.)
...from "The Deadly Assassin", a Tom Baker episode...
Vardan Gun
(190 kb; :12 min.)
(96 kb; :06 min.)
Gallifreyan Staser
(100 kb; :06 min.)
Dematerializer Gun
(350 kb; :22 min.)
....from "The Invasion Of Time", a Tom Baker episode... Dalek Gun
(160 kb; :10 min.)
...from "Genesis Of The Daleks", a Tom Baker episode...
Dragon-Ray Gun
(138 kb; :08 min.)
...and from "The Talons Of Weng-Chiang", a Tom Baker episode. There are apparently other Doctor Who soundtrack albums and sound effects, so if there's an astronaut out there who has MP3s of them, I'd love to post them here.
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[Sep. 24th, 2007|05:02 pm] |
 Strangely enough, I've had this record for nearly twenty years, I've been posting this site for about four and never have the two coincided. However, I finally recorded this and cleaned it up - and here it is.
Though there have been many fine Doctors throughout the years, Tom Baker was always my favorite. Therefore when I stumbled upon a Doctor Who picture disc sporting his likeness, I snapped it up. Side A featured theme music from several episodes, including the show's theme; side B featured a number of the low budget sound effects. I used to listen to it quite a bit, then it got placed with the rest of my records. Many of these records were stolen, but the Doctor Who picture disc somehow escaped plunder, perhaps by traveling forward in time far enough to avoid the thief. There it sat.
When I unloaded my new, smaller, not nearly as impressive record collection, I found it filed under "Badass" and decided to offer it here. I spent nearly a day cleaning the pops and clicks and overall static out of the recordings, so I'm posting the record in two parts to give myself enough time to clean side B. Listen now to the untitled Doctor Who picture disc, released in 1985.
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[Jul. 22nd, 2007|09:42 pm] |
 I posted this ages ago (in one of the "Lost Issues"), but I recently bought the record and re-recorded it, so if you already have this, there's a chance this is a better recording.
Power Records, the defunct record label we all love, released this tie in to the classic TV series, Space: 1999. If this isn't enough Space:1999 for you, try this page of all the Space: 1999 theme songs you'll ever need to rock out to.
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[Jun. 13th, 2007|08:27 pm] |
 Sydney Greenstreet is one of my favorite actors. Though not horror, I'm a huge fan of the Nero Wolfe radio series he did and though he and Peter Lorre stole The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca from Bogie (okay, maybe not so much Casablanca). Hearing Greenstreet do Poe was thrilling for me (okay, maybe I don't get out too often).
If Greenstreet's involvement wasn't impressive enough, composer Victor Young wrote and performed the musical score. Young composed scores for such films as For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Quiet Man and Shane, and received a posthumous Oscar for Around The World In 80 Days. He also wrote songs like "Stella By Starlight".
Here is the late, great Sydney Greenstreet in "The Cask Of Amontillado".
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[May. 20th, 2007|10:12 pm] |
 I'd wanted to post these when I posted the Bobby "Boris" Pickett obituary, but now is not a bad time, either.
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[Apr. 22nd, 2007|02:48 pm] |
 Sometimes I find myself spending ridiculous amounts of money on supercool stuff I shouldn't be spending money on. It's not my fault. I'm obviously being controlled by a power greater than my own will. This offering is an example of one of those moments my body (and therefore my credit card) is being manipulated as though I were merely a puppet - a point in time where I am controlled by the cool.
This is a copy of a record of radio spots for Chamber Of Horrors, a really low-budget horror flick that offers not one, but two warning systems for the faint of heart who inexplicably decided to take in a horror movie but don't really want to be scared. Thanks to the Fear Flasher and the Horror Horn, you'll be warned of any unpleasantries while taking in this flick.
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[Apr. 15th, 2007|09:26 am] |
 E-Bay is an evil thing, but I do occasionally get some great stuff there...
This is the Lively Arts recording of Burgess Meredith reading Ray Bradbury, specifically "There Will Come Soft Rains" and "Marionettes Inc." In my humble opinion, this version of "There Will Come Soft Rains" is the best audio version I've heard yet, and well worth the purchase of the album.
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[Feb. 25th, 2007|09:55 am] |
 Here's a bit of Scholastic Records history - Mother Ghost Nursery Rhymes (And Other Tricks And Treats). Scholastic produced quite a few fun children's vinyl offerings, many better known at that, but this is special as it includes Joe Raposo and Bob McFadden.
Joe Raposo is probably best known for his work on Sesame Street as the composer of "Bein' Green", "Sing", "C Is For Cookie", the theme to Sesame Street and many, many more memorable tunes. He also had a hand in composing for The Electric Company and wrote the theme song to Three's Company. The last thing Raposo worked on before his death from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was the children's show Shining Time Station - he passed away a week after the first episode aired.
Ohio native Bob McFadden did cartoon voice-over work, playing the mouthpiece for characters ranging from Cool McCool to Snarf on Thundercats, but will arguably be best known as Frankenberry.
The flip side to this 45 is "The Teeny Tiny Woman", narrated by Jean Richards.
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[Dec. 10th, 2006|07:51 pm] |
 Though I've posted audio based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft and background information on Lovecraft, this will be the first bit of audio detailing information on Lovecraft. This BBC documentary was brought to my attention by Astronaut Walt and is a wonderful biographical accompaniment to any Lovecraft you might have in your collection.
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[Sep. 29th, 2006|09:08 pm] |
 As I've said on the site in previous posts, adding a pinch of videogame in your sci-fi or horror can be fatal. Except for Tron (or including it, depending on your opinion), no videogame-themed sci-fi can be very good. This only strengthens my opinion.
The Atari 2600 was created in 1975 and released on a Pong-starved public in 1977. However, the allure of Pong wore thin really quickly, and the demise of the 2600 seemed inevitable -until they aquired the license for Space Invaders in 1980. By '83, the Atari was once again the greatest thing since - well, Pong.
Record label Kid Stuff decided to cash in on the 2600's popularity, so they acquired the rights to produce a few game-themed audio storybooks for games like Asteroids, Missile Command and Yar's Revenge. Here in all its glorious awfulness is Asteroids...
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[Jul. 1st, 2006|06:15 pm] |
 I originally happened across this gem many years ago in a used bookstore in New Orleans, and I've been a fan of Nelson Olmsted ever since.
Olmstead reads his favorite Edgar Allan Poe stories on this album entitled Tales OF Terror...
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