Mixtape: The Art of Giving Up 3

For what's likely the final mixtape of 2018, here's the third volume of outsider music featuring songs and sonic expression that are either winsomely amateur, conceptually iffy, awkwardly executed, just plain bad or any combination thereof.* (I cut two songs out of this show because they were too good.) This compilation owes a heavy debt to the currently dormant blog Music for Maniacs, as a lot of these songs were featured in that site's past posts. We've got a heavily German Lou Reed cover, several stabs at rap, a rather crude emasculation fantasy, the sonic equivalent of taxidermy, the wonderful Jan Terri, a moon landing conspiracy, and a gospel song actually called... well, I'll leave that one for you to find out. And much more. Enjoy. And if you don't enjoy, please don't take it out on me. Just the messenger. (Contains some explicit lyrics.)

*Except Brute Force's "King of Fuh," which is perfectly embroidered and should be a national anthem somewhere.

Tracklist:

John North Wright - Looky Here, Hi-Ram

Robert Williams - Buy My Record

Gerty Molzen - Walk On the Wild Side

Tony Fabbri - Her Phone Number (On the Wall)

Dr. Clarke - H1N1 Rap

David Liebe Hart - Insect Woman

The Corillions - Armageddon

William Tapley - Mitt Romney, a Hero in My Mind

Denny Blazin Hazen - Average Homeboy

Petunia-Liebling MacPumpkin - Bagboy Cowboy

Chief Kooffreh - She Will Cut Your Balls Off

Calvin B. Rhone - He Came On Me

Five Starcle Men - Oh My Goodness

Jan Terri - Fax My Love

MC Potbelly - Potbelly Rap

The Syntetic - Hollywood

The Chewers - Can't Sleep

UFOetry - We Never Went to the Moon

Ron Artest - Michael Michael

Lynn Rockwell - Spiders

Farrah Abraham - On My Own

Murray Ross - You've Got It All L.A.

B.J. Snowden - In Canada

Larry Shannon Hargrove - Leave Bill Clinton Alone

Peter Grudzien - White Trash Hillbilly Trick

Bucktown Tiger - Throw Your Paws Up

Animal Thoughts - Memories of Maxx

Brute Force - King of Fuh