Music

So how come nobody ever told me that Can did a song called “Transcendental Express” two years before their countrymen Kraftwerk hit with “Trans-Europe Express”? Well, maybe somebody did, and just as with all the people I’ve forgotten who may have told me how awesome Rory Gallagher was, I just wasn’t paying attention at the time. I do remember Frank Kogan telling me once that he used to confuse King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man” with Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” back in 1970, though. And I do know that Teena Marie has a song called “Surrealistic Pillow,” though I’m not sure anybody ever told Grace Slick. It’s not on Robbery, but “Cassanova Brown” is. Now, if only Gloria Gaynor’s “Casanova Brown” were on Music for Lonely Housewives instead of “I Will Survive.”

CAN
Future Days
(Mute/Spoon ’70s Kraut-rock reissue)

Stream “Future Days” (Windows Media)

Stream “Moonshake” (Windows Media)

CAN
Landed
(Mute/Spoon ’70s Kraut-rock reissue)

Stream “Full Moon on the Highway” (Windows Media)

Stream “Half Past One” (Windows Media)

CAN
Soon Over Babaluma
(Mute/Spoon ’70s Kraut-rock reissue)

Stream “Dizzy Dizzy” (Windows Media)

Stream “Come Sta, La Luna” (Windows Media)

CAN
Unlimited Edition
(Mute/Spoon ’70s Kraut-rock reissue)

Stream “Gomorrah” (Windows Media)

Stream “Doko E” (Windows Media)

THE FUGS
Virgin Fugs
(ESP-Disk ’60s perverted comedic proto-psychedelic dirty-hippie folk reissue)

Stream “We’re the Fugs” (original recording) (Windows Media)

Stream “New Amphetamine Shriek” (original recording) (Windows Media)

Stream “Saran Wrap” (original recording) (Windows Media)

RORY GALLAGHER
Big Guns: The Very Best Of
(Capo/BMG Heritage ’60s-’90s blues-rock reissue)

Stream “Big Guns” (Windows Media)

Stream “What’s Going On” (Windows Media)

Stream “Tattoo’d Lady” (Windows Media)

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
The Essential
(RCA/Legacy ’60s-’70s psychedelic-rock reissue)

Stream “Blues From an Airplane” (Real Audio)

Stream “White Rabbit” (Windows Media)

Stream “Plastic Fantastic Lover” (Windows Media)

KING CRIMSON In the Court of the Crimson
King
(Discipline Global Mobile ’70s prog reissue)

Stream “21st Century Schizoid Man (Including Mirrors)” (Real Audio)

Stream “I Talk to the Wind” (Real Audio)

KING CRIMSON
In the Wake of Poseidon
(Discipline Global Mobile ’70s prog reissue)

Stream “Peace-A Beginning” (Windows Media)

Stream “Pictures of a City” (Windows Media)

Stream “Cadence and Cascade” (Windows Media)

TEENA MARIE
Robbery
(Epic/Legacy ’80s r&b reissue)

Stream “Robbery” (Windows Media)

Stream “Playboy” (Windows Media)

Stream “Shadow Boxing” (Windows Media)

MUSIC FOR LONELY HOUSEWIVES
(Audio Fidelity ’50s-’80s pop reissue)

Stream “I Need a Lover” by Pat Benatar (Windows Media)

Stream “It Ain’t the Meat (It’s the Motion)” by Maria Muldaur (Windows Media)

Stream “Girl Talk” by Julie London (Windows Media)

TOMMY BOY PRESENTS HIP HOP ROOTS
(Tommy Boy ’60s-’80s funkily sample-able music of many stripes reissue)

Stream “It’s Just Begun” by the Jimmy Castor Bunch (Real Audio)

Stream “Big Beat by Billy Squier (Real Audio)

Stream “Fame by David Bowie (Real Audio)