WTF Records Issue #1
Full disclosure: I am an aficionado of Dana Countryman’s Cool & Strange Music zine & the
Incredibly Strange Music books from RE/search Publications. Therefore the
moment I stumbled across the WTF Records zine, without a blink of hesitation I
ordered it.
Vinyl records will always be my “media of choice” in the way
that iPods / mp3s might be the media of
choice for teenagers who are growing up now in thirty years, regardless of what technological formats have arisen to supplant iPods in the intervening decades. There is
magic in the LP grooves, in letting the needle drop. So too, there is magic in
the endless diversity of records that were created and released in the golden era of
vinyl.
WTF Records features some of the most oddball, quirky, peculiar,
bordering on depraved records and record jackets ever pressed. Finding titles
like “A.A. Allen Preaching God is a
Killer” and “My Lips Are For Blowing”
in a dusty flea market somewhere is akin to unearthing shards of the holy
grail. One wonders how these records ever came to exist, and how by some stroke
of serendipity, into your hands (and ears).
Joe Wallace covers everything like a sardonic journalist
introducing you to the most beloved archives in the library. There’s Christmas with Colonel Sanders and The Six Million Dollar Man, sex and
bondage with the Ohio Players, the dour female stalking records of Conway
Twitty … this zine is a virtual feast of weirdness and wonder. One request to
Joe, our tourguide – more, please!!!
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