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Things I've downloaded and enjoyed recently from forums and friendly blogs:::

Lydia Lunch - Hysterie --> download from rapidshare

5 EPs by The Reels --> download at The Death Party

Various - So Young but So Cold: Underground French Music 1977-1983 --> download at Saltyka's Music Take Away

This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears --> download at The Commercial Zone

Lefdup and Lefdup - (S)Abordable --> download at Mutant Sounds

The Queen

Ms. Lunch is the mistress of off-key insouciance. She sings like she's coming down off the Anna Nicole Smith cocktail (too soon?), and it's sloppy and lazy and perfect. From her 1980 debut Queen of Siam:

Lydia Lunch - Atomic Bongos
Lydia Lunch - Spooky

Atomic bongos is my jam du jour, and Spooky is a rendition of an old Classics IV song from 1967. Here is the original for comparison and contrastison:

Classics IV - Spooky