May
The Sweet Life - Mexico City Heart vinyl lacquer is being made right now at Sterling Sound in NYC!
May
The Slowest Train in the World - Quagmire Podcast
This is a special episode of the Quagmire Records Podcast. It features 90 minutes of one band. The Slowest Train in The World.
I have trouble with beauty. It’s all around, but it’s hard to see. The cynical mind wants to ignore it or discount it. I want to embrace it and breathe it in. But it’s more difficult than it seems. Beauty and love are everywhere. I think part of what makes an artist an artist is the ability to see beauty before anything else. Beauty envelopes them. I have a better time hearing beauty. The Slowest Train in the World is beautiful. Their music opens your heart and leaves you raw. This is why I needed to make this episode. I need beauty in my life.
This represents probably less than 10% of the Train’s recordings. There are so many good songs, it was difficult to leave some out. Some of my favortes are missing actually, but that’s because I’ve already included them on other episodes. So if you’re interested, go back and listen to those.
I promise to work with the band to make official releases of all their albums. Pehraps we’ll do a 2013 version of the Cigar Box set that we did in 1993. I don’t know.
Embrace beauty.
Here are this weeks songs (all by The Slowest Train in the World):
- Mother Russia
- One of Those Days
- Twenteen
- New Years Eve Party
- Throwing Apples at the Stars
- Hope You Feel Better
- Anne’s Sister (Live at SJSU)
- Two Smiles for Harpo
- When She Comes
- Vegas
- Caroline
- Caracus
- Linger Longer in Kansas
- Arabian Love Song
- Uxbridge Road
- Jackson’s Free
- The Ballad of Big Ed Delehanty
- Circus
- I’m With Fire
- Pistol Pie
- Sobriety Song
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Hugs,
Beach
May
Audrey made this painting for me of Mr. Owls face in her high school art class!!!! @waynecoyne #flaminglips
Apr
New Quagmire Podcast Episode (Finally!)
Hey bros!
I know it’s been a while, but fear not, the podcast is back. For some reason it took me a while to do this. I think I’ve been missing Tim more than ever recently. It might have something to do with baseball season starting, I’m not sure. Also the new Flaming Lips is out and there’s a new Deerhunter coming soon. I would love to talk to him about it. Baseball and music.
Scott Miller just passed away too. He was 53 (not 23 or 24 or 25). He was the singer and songwriter for Game Theory and The Loud Family. Game Theory was one of my favorite bands in the late 80s. Lolita Nation is probably one of the best albums ever. So I started listening to them again and it sort of startled me about how similar they are to Bab and what he did. Same influences. Big Star, power pop, Bay Area, etc. It just made me sad again. But I love their music so much that I can’t stay down. It’s too good. It’s just hard to know that he’s gone. Please go toThe Loud Family web site. There you can download every Game Theory album. It’s worth it.
Here are this weeks songs:
- The Slowest Train In The World - Black Steve
- Baby - Snoot $ vs. Dr. Diamond
- Go Pound Salt - Sinn Fein
- Bab - Punk Bitch
- AWF - MGL
- Dale Strachan - Drunk In My Backyard
- Stop The Keg - Beach Stranded
- A Western Front - Making Rumors
- King Friday - Scarcely So Wrong
- Game Theory - 24
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Hugs,
Beach
Feb
((((006)))) Quagmire Podcast - Andy Partridge Interview!
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This episode is a little different. It features a never before heard interview with Andy Partridge of XTC. It was recorded and conducted by Bab in 1984 upon the release of XTC’s album The Big Express. If you love XTC, you’ll dig this. Andy even gives Bab a guitar lesson! Andy goes into his infamous “freak out” and talks extensivly about his youth and getting into music. He also dives into the making of The Big Express. We start things off with a live recording from A Western Front covering XTC’s No Language In Our Lungs live in 1982.
The interview is in three parts. Each part ends abruptly, probably because the tape ended or needed to be turned over. This was 1984.
Here are this weeks songs:
- A Western Front - No Language In Our Lungs (live 1982)
- Interview with Andy Partridge (1984) by Tim Alexander
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Hugs,
Beach
Feb
Quagmire Podcast - Episode ((((005))))
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Penelope sleeps all day, she can’t get out of bed… The first three tracks are different songs that all feature that lyric (or close to it). The line as well as the third song (She’s Happy) was written by the late Dale Strachan, Bab’s A Western Front bandmate, collaborator, and dear friend. Bab loved that line and sprinkled it in at least two other songs featured here. The first song uses “Emily” instead of Penolope. I don’t know why. The second song (On This Day) was supposedly written about me as I was (and am) fighting cancer. I certainly slept all day and couldn’t get out of bed, so it was fitting. I live in Happy Valley, Santa Cruz. As far as I know that was the only song that Bab wrote about me. Which is probably a good thing because when he wrote songs about people in his life, he was either heartbroken or irritated. There are exceptions of course. The It’s Beach thing was something I did with Bab, Bif, and Mouse. We were just fooling around in the studio and this was the result. Mylar Balloon is from the album Full Blown Dave by A Western Front (you can find it on eBay) and features my brother Adam Beach on saxophone. Plateau is a great band from Seattle. They are like the children of Quagmire and that scene. You can get their awesome EP at Bandcamp. Patrick Goddard is now from Long Beach. He skateboards and collects clowns. He’s making great new songs that I’m sure we’ll play soon, but you can check them out at SoundCloud. Dale’s song is about Pete Best.
Here are this weeks songs:
- Baby - She Lives On His Blessing
- The Sweet Life - On This Day
- The Sweet Life - She’s Happy
- It’s Beach - Woo Woo
- A Western Front - Mylar Balloon
- Plateau - Everything Was Sweet
- Patrick Goddard - I Hate This
- Dale Strachan - Ballad of Pete’s Lament
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Plateau: http://plateauseattle.bandcamp.com
Patrick Goddard: https://soundcloud.com/thund3rbox
Hugs,
Beach
Jan
Quagmire Podcast Episode ((((004))) - Ooh Child
Oh hello! I didn’t see you there. You caught me in the middle of typing this. What’s that? Oh, well I’m glad you asked. This is the Quagmire Records podcast, episode ((((004)))). This week is a hootenany! At least it starts that way, then it gets funny, then it’s a cover song, and then it gets quirky, and then it ends on a somber note. Don’t worry, it’s all good.
Hey, while you’re listening, please rate and/or review this on iTunes. It helps spread the word and maybe Apple will take notice and promote it or something. That would be nice. Just click or tap on the iTunes link below and go for it. No need to be verbose, just say it kicks ass and that you love to listen to it while taking a bath or eating a pickle.
By the by, we are working on releasing a digital EP for The Sweet Life very soon. It’ll be available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, MOG, and all those other places where the future happens. The EP will be a preview of the new Sweet Life full-length album coming out on vinyl. It will feature Change Is Magic and some awesome B-sides. We’ll keep you posted. Speaking of Change Is Magic…
Here are this weeks songs:
- The Sweet Life - Change Is Magic
- The Sons Of Jesuses - She Speaks Fluently
- A Western Front - Pump The Lemon Barrel
- The Oblio Joes - Ginger
- A Western Front - Ooh Child
- The Slowest Train In The World - Three Lisas
- Baby - Striking Beauty
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Hugs,
Beach
Jan
Quagmire Records Podcast: ((((003)))) Quagmire Podcast - Relax
It’s a damp day here in the Quagmire. The weatherman said it wouldn’t be damp, but it’s damp. I like wet. Not forever or anything, but it’s a nice change from sun. What am I doing? This episode is kind of all over the place. I don’t have much of a plan when I start making these. I just…
Jan
Quagmire Records Podcast: Episode ((((002)))) - Take Me To The Hospital
Hi kids,
First of all… If you have used this feed or have subscribed to the podcast through Tumblr for some reason, you’ll need to change. The podcast can be subscribed to here:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/quagmire-records-podcast/id593709115?mt=2
Or if you’re some…
Jan
Quagmire Records Podcast: Quagmire Podcast - Episode ((((001))))
Download: Quagmire Podcast (((001)))
The Quagmire Records Podcast features songs from the Quagmire Records catalog. Most of these songs have either never been released or released in limited quantities. The tracks span over a 20 year period of furious writing and recording by people…
Jan
Quagmire Records Podcast… Coming soon.
Sep
A Song For Daniel Johnston
This weekend I watched The Devil And Daniel Johnston with the family. I forgot a lot about all the things that happened to Daniel. All of his struggles and obsessions reminded me a little bit about what Bab went through. Though certainly Bab never did get that far out. He had his moments though. There are echoes of Daniel’s story in Bab’s.
It’s no wonder that Bab was so taken with Daniel’s songs. Bab even wrote sort of a tribute/plea to Daniel in the song Sun Shines Down from the A Western Front album The King is Dead, Long Live the King. Bab was worried about Daniel, just as Bab was worried about Bradford Cox of Deerhunter more recently. Bab cared. He was often concerned and cared about other people more than he could care for himself.
Here is the song for Daniel Johnston. Sun Shines Down by A Western Front.
Quagmire Records
Quagmire is a Santa Cruz, CA based independent record label founded by David Beach and Tim Alexander. Quagmire was the first online record label, setting up shop exclusively online in 1993. We released the worlds first downloadable album in 1994 and continue the tradition today. Quagmire features new improved full-blown stereo sound. We also love you.
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