Eight years of chezlubacov. w00t!

Proper service wil be resumed shortly.
Ish.

We're off to Madrid. Forever and ever. No updates here until we're fully installed and connected to the interweb and all that.
See you on the other side.

Los Piolines - Anunciado en t.v.
label: Munster
year: 1996
side a1: Huevosaurio
side a2: Patos
side a3: No todo lo que grunge es una fiera
side a4: Minimanía
side a5: Yellow Fever
side b1: Atari
side b2: Relatividad
side b3: I Am a Winner
side b4: Guachisnai
side b5: La hormiguita punk
side c1: Dracula
side c2: 10 en punkitud
side c3: I Wanna Be Kike Turmix
side c4: El jevi no es biolencia 2
side c5: No quiero pensar
side d1: Wonderbra
side d2: Algo grande
side d3: Salvaje
side d4: Fistfucking
side d5: Megan

The fun we had with these guys. Their gigs were always very, err, let's call them 'eventful', and they had as many avid fans as people hating them. No-one was safe for them, Los Piolines (Piolín is the Spanish name for cartoon character Tweety) made fun of literally everyone (themselves first, of course). Tis a pity they split up, would have been nice to see them again.

This double single in gatefold sleeve is the vinyl version of their debut album No quiero pensar, minus six songs.

The Pinker Tones/Astrud Gilberto - If Not for You
label: Wah Wah
year: 2002
side a: Astrud Gilberto - If Not for You
side b: The Pinker Tones - If Not for You
www.thepinkertones.com | www.myspace.com/thepinkertones
www.astrudgilberto.com

Got this as a promo from Jordi at his Wah Wah record shack in Barcelona. He released it on his label, on white vinyl and in a deluxe sleeve. Astrud Gilberto recorded this Bob Dylan cover on the 1971 With Stanley Turrentine album. The Pinker Tones have since gone on to become one of Spain's most successful bands in club land.

Here's a video for a more recent song, "Happy Everywhere":

The Piglets - Johnny Reggae
label: Bell
year: 1971
side a: Johnny Reggae
side b: Johnny Reggae (Instrumental)

One of the singles from my mum's collection and one of my favourites when I was a kid - I thought, and think, it was a very funny song. At first I didn't really get the moaning in the break, but that probably had something fi do with my age.
The Piglets were produced by Jonathan King.

Pigbag - Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag
label: RCA
year: 1982
side a: Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag
side b: The Back Side

Pigbag - The Big Bean
label: RCA
year: 1982
side a: The Big Bean
side b: Scumda

The first time I heard Pigbag's "Papa's Got a Brand New Pig Bag" was on TV. The song was used as the intro of a Dutch program on (underground) youth culture in the eighties called Je ziet maar. My mother didn't like it because they talked about sex and punk and stuff. I was about thirteen so I had to see it, if only to go against my mum's wishes. I always loved the song, and when it was played on school disco nights or even at the carnival parties at the local "alternative" youth club I danced my ass off to it.

Many years later I found the single in some ramsj in Spain and to my surprise the B-side held the sample I was intrigued by on Instrümental's "100 Pies". Which was nice.

Edith Piaf - Milord
label: La Voz de Su Amo
year: 1957
side a: Milord
side b: Je sais comment

You gotta love her.

Esther Phillips - What a Diff'rence a Day Makes
label: Omega
year: 1975
side a: What a Diff'rence a Day Makes
side b: Turn around, Look at Me

I thought I was buying a nice little easy listening tune when I handed the sales guy my three euros in exchange for this here slab of wax, but when I listened to it at home I found it's a extremely annoying disco version of Dinah Washington's classic. Which, by the way, is a version of a Mexican bolero called "Cuando vuelva a tu lado".
The horror, the horror.

I didn't know much about Ms. Phillips but I didn't expect her to have recorded stuff like this. I don't dislike disco, quite the contrary, but this is one 45 I wouldn't have bought had I had the opportunity to listen to it. It's even worse than that übercheesy version of "Night and Day" by Francis Albert I own - come to think of it, I probably got it from the same guy, at some record fair. At least that one has a kind of Loveboaty feel to it that makes me chuckle.

The Pharcyde - Otha Fish
label: Delicious Vinyl
year: 1993
side a: Otha Fish
side b: Pharcyde Live at Dodger Stadium
www.myspace.com/thepharcyde

The Pharcyde - Runnin'
label: Delicious Vinyl
year: 2005
side a: Runnin'
side b: Emerald Butterfly

I don't know why I don't know the other ones but Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde is the only Pharcyde album I actually, erm, know. That's three knows in one sentence, I know. I heard Labcabincalifornia when it came out but I guess I wasn't into it. Except for this single "Runnin'" (produced by the mighty J Dilla) which I loved. I bought that ten years too late though as a re-issue, when stores started stocking loads of Dilla-produced stuff after he passed away.