RE/Search Incredibly Strange Music Volume 1 CD

Incredibly Strange Music is a comprehensive guide to little-known yet amazing vinyl recordings, there are two volumes and we have a copy of each available now. Alongside the incredible guidebooks RE/Search also released companion compilation albums that feature some of the strange music found within. Here we have the companion album to Volume 1 featuring:

• Busy Bee by Buddy Merrill
• Sweet Sixteen by Bob Peck
• Lonesome Road by Dean Elliott
• The Will to Fail by Katie Lee
• Minute Merengue by Harry Breuer
• Up, Up & Away by Rajput and The Sepoy
• Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals by Dave Harris and the Powerhouse Five
• Swans Splashdown by Perrey and Kingsley
• Tico Tico by Jo Ann Castle
• Hawaiin War Chant by Billy Mure 
• William Tell Overture by Fred Lowery

The volume covers a much more extensive mix (mostly from the '50s - '70s) like Muhammed Ali Fights Tooth Decay, Jayne Mansfield reading Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky and Me, Sebastian Cabot (Mr French on Family Affair) singing songs by Bob Dylan, Fornicating Female Freaks, Money Is to Burn and How to Overcome Discouragement. 

Enthusiastic, hilarious interviews illuminate the territory of neglected vinyl records ignored by the music criticism establishment of the time. Interviews include The Cramps, Eartha Kitt, Martin Denny, Gil Ray and Lynn Peril.

Lavishly illustrated with reference sections, quotations, sources and an index, this is a comprehensive guide to the last remaining 'garage sale' records. Published in 1993 it marks the 14th release of RE/Search books which is possibly the ONLY surviving 70s punk publisher who never quit, V. Vale’s RE/Search continues to provide ‘Against-the-Status-Quo’ publications that stimulate the imagination and optimistic skepticism to this day.

Vale has been doing counterculture publishing since 1977, when he founded the Punk tabloid, Search & Destroy, San Francisco’s first. It was published at City Lights Bookstore, where V. Vale worked, and was funded by $100 each from Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg. Then in 1980, V. Vale launched RE/SEARCH, which is best known for its impact on the total world of underground culture.

And we've got plenty more RE/Search publications which we'll be sharing here on the site and on our instagram over the next few days. Including Volume 2 of Incredibly Strange Music.