Old Man Songs

Recently uncovered a cd I made a number of years ago entitled Old Man Songs. Listening, I thought, "This is good stuff, these songs really sound good together. What the heck, I should share this." So here it is.

1. If You Tolerate This - Manic Street Preachers bbc live

2. Leave - R.E.M.

3. Overcome By Happiness - Pernice Brothers Pernice Brothers - Overcome By Happiness by SubPop

4. Mission Bell - Stan Ridgway

5. I Want Someone Badly - Jeff Buckley with Shudder to Think

6. Blue - The Jayhawks

7. I Don't Get You At All - AA Sound System. Not on YouTube or Soundcloud but I contacted the man and it will be soon, so I can fix this.

go here please

8. Lost Highway - Hank Williams



9. Just Really Want to See You - Shudder to think featuring Mimi Parker & Alan Sparhawk (first love, last rites sdtk)

10. Speed of Love - John Doe

11. Men Just Leave - Glen Phillips

12. Erecting a Movie Star - Liz Phair

Sorry, not on YouTube or Soundcloud. so it doesn't really exist, does it? Go here for a taste.

13. She's a Jar - Wilco Wilco -She's A Jar by mud_hut

14. Nobody's Fault But My Own - Beck



15. Lullaby -

16. No Distance Left to Run - Blur creepy video, though... 17. Tokyo - Bruce Cockburn



18. Crowned in Chrome - Crooked Fingers



19. Fall at Your Feet - Crowded House

20. Baby Britain - Elliot Smith

21.Sexuality - kd lang

graphic at top of blog by Michael Douglas. No, not that Michael Douglas, a much more talented Michael Douglas.

Stan Ridgway's Camoflauge is 25?!

Scruffy recently received a missive from Stan Ridgway informing me that Camoflauge, the single from his first solo album that somehow became a hit in Europe, is now 25 years old. Guess that means that the album, The Big Heat, is a quarter-century young too. Still one of Scruffy's favourites ever. A new item in Ridgway's shop is Live in Byron Bay Australia 1987, recorded on The Big Heat Tour, and boy, does it sound amazing. Below are vids of a few of the original tracks from Scruff's desert album disc.
























If you forgot, Stan's the man who fronted Wall of Voodoo, who unleashed this serious song upon the world.

Wall of voodoo - Room With A View by chrisosurfs

Leave a comment, it will bring you good luck. Scruffy will even endeavour to reply.

New Stan Ridgway - Neon Mirage and Rare Free MP3s

The greatest American singer/songwriter/guitarist/storyteller/man about town/humourist you've never heard of, Stan Ridgway, recently unleashed his newest album, Neon Mirage. You have probably heard of his former band Wall of Voodoo's Mexican Radio, but the guy's been putting out amazing solo albums now for 24 years. Please give him a listen, buy some of his stuff, I dearly want him to continue making music.




Drive She Said from The Big Heat



Can't Stop the Show (Live) - original version from The Big Heat



Goin' Southbound from Mosquitos



Camouflage from The Big Heat



Beloved Movie Star from Holiday in Dirt



Talkin' Wall of Voodoo Blues from Snakebite: Blacktop Ballads and Fugitive Songs



Lonely Town from Mosquitos



Train of Thought (Live) original version from Anatomy



If you've made it all the way down here, you deserve a prize. The following are available as free downloads from Beyond Tomorrow, which is billed "your Stan Ridgway resource on the net" and is linked straight from Ridgway's own site - so these are free, legal downloads. Live stuff, oddities, demos, music for films or commercials and more.

The Last Honest Man (Live 2000)- Download mp3



Don't Box Me In (Live 2000) - Download mp3



Roadblock (original Mix) - download mp3




Buy Stan Ridgway here.