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The Bhutanese Stamp Records

(The Bhutanese Stamp Records....Actual Size.....)

Anyone who collects stamps knows the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has by far the strangest and most unusual postage stamps in the world.

But these have to be amongst the STRANGEST of the strange. In the early '70s, Bhutan issued record-stamps. They are actual one-sided phonograph records, playable on any turntable without automatic, end of side pick up.

They featured history talks and traditional Bhutanese folk music.

In a 21st century update, Bhutan recently issued a series of CD-ROM stamps....

NWPUNKROCK: 30 Plus Years Of Punk In The Northwest (2007)

If you've always wondered where all that crazy grunge stuff in Seattle got it's start, look no further. This 2 hour documentary takes you back from the '70s all the way up to 2007 and looks at every aspect of the whole punk scene of the last 30 years from every location in the Puget Sound from Vancouver, BC to Olympia. A MUST watch for every fan of indie/DIY/punk/hardcore!

Download/Watch here

http://archive.org/details/NWPUNKROCK-30-plus-years-of-punk-in-the-Northwest 

"Lightning Tree" The Settlers (1971)

I don't know what attracts me so much to this song, but somehow I love it. I remember hearing it many years ago online on the now-defunct Saga FM 105.7 in Birmingham, England. There's a certain, distinctly British beauty about it that's hard to put in words. It's a song that really should/could have been a hit here in the States.

"Lightning Tree" (York Records, later reissued on Decca Records UK.) was originally released in 1971 and only charted in the UK and a few other countries. It was the biggest hit for a '60s UK pop band called The Settlers.

The song is most famous there for being the theme song to the Yorkshire TV/ITV series Follyfoot, which was about a rest home for horses, It had challenging things to say about the treatment of horses in British society that was far ahead of it's time. The show had a two year run on British TV and ran there as repeats until well into the late '80s.

Here's the UK TV opener for Follyfoot:

The Settlers never had another hit single. Which was odd. I always thought they kind of sounded like The Seekers and I guess I'm wasn't alone when I looked them up on Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlers_(band)

"The Settlers have generally been referred to as a folk group. However, like the Seekers, the successful Australian group with which they shared marked similarities, some of their material gravitated towards mainstream pop, which, taking its cue from American singer-songwriters Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and such groups as Peter, Paul and Mary and The Byrds, readily absorbed folk influences in various ways in the mid 1960s......"

A Rock N' Roll Food Fight

Some bands/artists with food or food related names:

Smashing Pumpkins
The Lovin' Spoonful
Cranberries
The Honey Cone
Meatloaf
Lemonheads
Blind Melon
Bread
Cibo Matto
The Cookies
The Platters
Artichoke
Hootie & The Blowfish
Olive
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Cake
Dead Milkmen
Belly
The Raspberries
The Applejacks
The Honeycombs
Humble Pie
April Wine
Black Grape
Amy Winehouse
Taco
Pigmeat Markham
Fine Young Cannibals
Ambrosia
Matthew Sweet
Salt & Pepa
Pearl Jam
The Fat Boys
Soup Dragons
Gin Blossoms
My Cat Puddinhead
Spice Girls
Sugaland
100 Proof Aged In Soul
Cream
Vanilla Ice
Dave & Sugar
Sugarloaf
Neutral Milk Hotel
Ice-T
The Moldy Peaches
Green Jello (Jelly)
Brandy
Fiona Apple
Phish
Fattburger
Grapes Of Wrath
Chet Baker
T-Bone Walker
1910 Fruitgum Co.
Hot Tuna
School Of Fish
Wings
Sausage
Anita Baker
Uncle Kracker
Hall & Oates
Dishwalla
Buckcherry
Bowling For Soup
Korn
Vanilla Fudge
The Black Eyed Peas
Jon Butcher Axis
Breakfast Club
Country Joe & The Fish
Captain Beefheart
G. Love & Special Sauce
Wild Cherry
The Spoons
Richard Cheese
Feeder
Mudhoney
Meat Puppets
Fishbone
The Flaming Lips
Pop Will Eat Itself
A Taste Of Honey
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Reel Big Fish
The Lemon Pipers
Fatback
Fischerspooner
Veruca Salt
Peaches
Moby Grape
Jello Biafra
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Peaches & Herb
The Electric Prunes
Sugar Ray
The Jam
Custard
Sugar Hill Gang
Mushroomhead
Everclear
Marc Almond
Mighty Lemon Drops
Neneh Cherry
Strawberry Switchblade
Sweet
The Brand New Heavies
Toni Basil
Tangerine Dream
Big Pig
Sugar
Heavy D
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Spacehog
Ultimate Spinach
Kid Creole & The Coconuts
Prefab Sprout
Vitamin C
Vitamin Z
Joy Of Cooking
Juice Newton
Limp Bizkit
Hot Chocolate
The Sugarcubes
DJ Quik
Apples In Stereo
Rachel Sweet
Bananarama
Eagle Eye Cherry
Jimmie's Chicken Shack
Chuck Berry
String Cheese Incident
Leadbelly
Hot Butter