What did I tell ya? The X completer!

(Scott)-I told you someone, happened to be the legend that is Jon S, would step forward with the X albums
that I either don't have or can't find......so now, you have got it ALL! X was one of the greatest, so enjoy, and if they are new to you, Junior, look at what you missed! (Also, see very cool epub (I've read it before) of "Under the Big Black Sun", which is quite a good look at the entire scene).
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John Doe and Tom DeSavia - Under the Big Black Sun - A Personal History of L.A. Punk (epub)

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Under The Big Black Sun

01 The Hungry Wolf/ 02 Motel Room In My Bed/ 03 Riding With Mary/ 04 Come Back To Me/ 05 Under The Big Black Sun/ 06 Because I Do/ 07 Blue Spark/ 08 Dancing With Tears In My Eyes/ 09 Real Child Of Hell/ 10 How I (Learned My Lesson)/ 11 The Have Nots/ 12 Riding With Mary (Single Version)/ 13 X Rewrites El Paso (Rehearsal) - Because I Do (TV Mix - Instrumental)/ 14 Universal Corner (live)/ 15 Breathless (Single Mix)/ 16 How I (Learned My Lesson) (live)

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More Fun In The New World

01 The New World/02 We're Having Much More Fun/03 True Love/04 Poor Girl/05 Make the Music Go Bang/ 06 Breathless/ 07 I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts/ 08 Devil Doll/ 09 Painting the Town Blue/ 10 Hot House/ 11 Drunk in My Past/ 12 I See Red/ 13 True Love Pt. #2/ 14 Poor Girl (Demo Remix)/ 15 True Love Pt. #2 (Demo Remix)/ 16 Devil Doll (Demo Remix)/ 17 I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts (Demo Remix)

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Ain't Love Grand

01 Burning house of love/ 02 Love shack/ 03 My soul cries your name/ 04 My goodness/ 05 Around my heart/ 06 What's wrong with me/ 07 Watch the sun go down/ 08 I'll stand up for you/ 09 Little honey/ 10 Supercharged/ 11 Wild thing/ 12 I will dare/ 13 My goodness/ 4 All or nothing

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Live In Los Angeles

01 Your Phone's Off The Hook, But You're Not/ 02 In This House That I Call Home/ 03 We're Desperate/ 04 Beyond & Back/ 05 White Girl/ 06 The Unheard Music/ 07 Los Angeles/ 08 True Love/ 09 I'm Coming Over/ 10 Blue Spark/ 11 The New World/ 12 Nausea/ 13 Johnny Hit And Run Paulene/ 14 Motel Room In My Bed/ 15 It's Who You Know/ 16 Because I Do/ 17 Devil Doll/ 18 The Hungry Wolf/ 19 Year 1/ 20 The World's A Mess, It's In My Kiss/ 21 Soul Kitchen/ 22 How I (Learned My Lesson)

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The Finale of the X Collaboration, somewhat lacking.......

WOW, don't know what happened to the rest of my X studio discs, I was pretty sure I had most all of em, I
seem to be lacking "Under the big Black Sun", "More Fun in the New World", "Ain't Love Grand", and "Hey Zeus!"......I'm certain someone will come up with them, and at least I have the most important pair, "Los Angeles" and the masterful "Wild Gift", as well as "See How We Are" and the two-disc "X Anthology", which combines studio tracks, rarities, demos, and live tracks into as good an anthology as has ever been created on ANY band!

"Los Angeles" was an immediate classic upon it's release, capturing the spirit of that city's scene  with a 4-star effort, including the staggering title track, "Sex and Dying In High Society", and plenty more.....no "one hit wonder" status for this crew however, "Wild Gift", the follow-up, is a TRUE classic, a five-star effort all the way......every track is amazing, as John Doe and Exene Cervenka trade vocals in rapid fire succession..."Beyond and Back" is my personal fave ("Now it's five to twelve, shut up and smoke!"), but there are TONS more great songs here, "White Girl", Back 2 the Base" "Year 1", "The Once Over Twice"....tremendous album.

"See How We Are" came along a few years later, we have a vinyl rip at least ("Wild Gift" is a vinyl rip as well), to me it was a "playing out the string" effort, worth a listen, but it's the first two albums that matter.

As for the "X Anthology", this is no typical "Greatest Hits" effort.......stellar live versions (check out "Beyond and Back" /"Back to the Base", stellar!), demos, tracks exclusive to this set, the odd-ball single "Wild Thing" (why it was used in the movie "Major League" rather than, say, ANY other version, I'll never know), and LOTS more....this is essential, and I rarely say that in regards to this type of release.

As far as the missing titles, I'll look around a bit more, I was pretty sure I had them, if not, I will almost guarentee someone comes through with them. For now, though, I hope we have presented one of my fave bands up to your satisfaction!

LOS ANGELES-01 You're Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not/02 Johnny Hit and Run Pauline/03 Soul Kitchen/04 Nausea/05 Sugarlight/06 Los Angeles/07 Sex and Dying in High Society/08 The Unheard Music/09 The World's a Mess It's In My Kiss

WILD GIFT-01 The Once Over Twice/02 We're Desperate/03 Adult Books/04 Universal Corner/05 I'm Coming Over/06 It's Who You Know/07 In This House That I Call Home/08 Some Other Time/09 White Girl/10 Beyond and Back/11 Back 2 the Base/12 When Our Love Passed Out on the Couch/13 Year 1

SEE HOW WE ARE-01 I'm lost/02 You/03 4th Of July/17 In the Time It Takes/18 Anyone Can Fill Your
Shoes/19 See How We Are/20 Left & Right/21 When It Rains...../22 Holiday Story/23 Surprise Surprise/24 Cyrno de Berger's back

THE X ANTHOLOGY DISC 1-01 Los Angeles/02 The World's a Mess It's In My Kiss (from the film "The Unheard Music")/03 Yr Ignition (rehearsal)/04 Year One (demo)/05 Hungry Wolf/06 We're Desperate(single)/07 Beyond and Back (Live)/08 Back 2 the Base (Live)/09 Blue Spark (remixed outtake)/10 Some Other Time (unreleased track from the film "The Unheard Music")/11 Sex and Dying In High Society (Demo)/12 Motel Room In My bed/13 Heater (rehearsal)/14 The Once Over Twice (Live)/15 Because I Do/16 In This House That I Call Home/17 Soul Kitchen (demo)/18 Universal Corner (live)/19 Delta 88 (demo)/20 Real Child of Hell (remixed demo)/21 I'm Coming Over (live)/22 White Girl (single mix)/23 Nausea (live)/24 Johnny Hit and Run Pauline (demo)/25 Your Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not/26 Riding With Mary (single mix)

THE X ANTHOLOGY DISC 2-01 The New World (demo)/02 Breathless (Single Mix)/03 Poor Girl/04 What's Wrong With Me (rough mix)/05 How I (Learned My Lesson) (Live)/06 The Have Nots/07 Someone Like You (demo)/08 The Stage (demo)/09 See How We Are (demo)/10 Surprise Surprise/11 4th of July (demo)/12 Arms for Hostages/Country At War (demo fragments)/13 Wild Thing (single edit)/14 Burning House of Love (From the Infidelity Records Release "Unclogged")/15 Devil Doll (demo)/16 True Love/17 Call of the Wreckin' Ball (From the Knitter's Slash Records release "Poor Little Critter On the Road")/18 In the Time It Takes (demo)/19 I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts (1997 mix)

Part 2 of a Jon S/Big Scott X collaboration

Took me a bit longer to prep my part of this, I hope (I know) that you enjoyed Jon S' cool series of X
bootlegs posted a couple days ago......I have a handful of older boots from the band, who always were one of my favorites....VERY soon, also, I'll get around to posting the studio albums that I have as well as the TREMENDOUS "X Anthology" which is a major gem in itself.

So, I'm really not going to describe each of these shows......I loved X's unique punkabilly, LOVED Exene Cervenka's one of a kind vocals, which she traded off masterfully with John Doe, who was slamming out those one-of-a-kind X -riffs.....and a perfect rhythm section of Billy Zoom and DJ Bonebrake (HELL yes!), X was one of THE great American bands of the late 70's/early 80's.....my favorite album was BY FAR the masterpiece "Wild Gift", followed by "Los Angeles", both of which are well represented on each of these sets....the latter albums were not as great, but, the songs still translate well on stage......yet ANOTHER one of those bands I wish i could have seen, but these boots could be the next best thing I guess....

I'll have to check, I think I am missing a couple of their later studio albums, when I do THAT post, I'm sure someone (Jon S?) will help me out! Til then rock these boots, they fucking rule!

UNKNOWN VENUE, LOS ANGELES, 12/28/78 (Date uncertain)-01 You're Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not/02 We're Desperate/03 Beyond N Back/04 It's Who You know/05 The Unheard Music/06 Year 1/07 Soul Kitchen/08 The World's a Mess (It's In My Kiss)/09 Universal Corner/10 I'm Coming Over

CLUB 88 LOS ANGLES (EARLY SHOW) 1/10/81-01 Hi/02 Some Other Time/03 We're Desperate/04 Sex and Dying in High Society/05 Universal Corner/06 Beyond and Back/07 Johnny Hit and Run Pauline/08 Nausea/09 The Once Over Twice/10 Back 2 the Base/11 Year 1/12 In This House That I Call Home/13 Los Angeles/14 You're Phone's Off the Hook (But You're Not)/15 Sugarlight/16 It's who You know/17 Soul Kitchen

THE CATALYST SANTA CRUZ CA 10/26/82 DISC 1-01 Under the Big Black Sun/02 You're Phone's
Off the Hook (But You're Not)/03 Real Child Of Hell/04 Blue Spark/05 Los Angeles/06 We're Desperate/07 The Once Over Twice/08 The Have Nots/09 Some Other Time/10 Because I Do/11 Back 2 the Base/12 A Little Blues Vamp/13 Johnny Hit and Run Pauline/14 The Unheard Music/15 The hungry Wolf

THE CATALYST SANTA CRUZ CA 10/26/82 DISC 2-01 Beyond and Back/02 nausea/03 It's Who You Know/04 The Worlds a mess (It's In My Kiss)/05 How I (Learned My Lesson)/06 Sugarlight/07 Motel Room In My bed/08 Riding With Mary/09 Year 1/10 Soul Kitchen/11 In This House That I Call Home/12 White Girl

THE AGORA WEST HARTFORD 2/21/83-01 (Intro)/02 Sugarlight/03 Real Child of Hell/04 Some Other Time/05 The have Nots/06 Sex and Dying In High Society/07 How I (Learned My Lesson)/08 White Girl/09 Unheard Music/10 Los  Angeles/11 Back 2 the Base/12 I'm Coming Over/13 The Hungry Wolf/14 Nausea/15 Year 1/16 True Love/17 Universal Corner/18 Beyond and Back/19 We're Desperate/20 Johnny Hit and Run Pauline/21 Because I Do/22 Encore Break/Banter/23 We're having Much More Fun/24 Motel Room In My Bed/25 Soul Kitchen

THE WHISKEY A GO GO 1988 DISC 1-01 Los Angeles/02 In This House That I Call Home/03 The New World/04 Around My Heart/05 Surprise Surprise/06 Because I Do/07 Burning House of Love/08 My Goodness/09 Blue Spark/10 The Once Over Twice/11 Devil Doll (includes Excerpt of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues")/12 The Hungry Wolf


THE WHISKEY A GO GO 1988 DISC 2-01 Just Another Perfect Day/02 Unheard Music/03 Riding With Mary/04 The World's a Mess (It's In My Kiss)/05 True Love/06 White Girl/07 Skin Deep Town/08 So Long/09 The Call of the Wreckin Ball/10 Year 1/11 Johnny Hit and Run Pauline

L'AMOUR BROOKLYN 11/26/85-01 Intro/02 We're having Much More Fun/03 Real Child of Hell/04 Year One/05 Make the Music Go Bang/06 White Girl/07 True Love/08 The Hungry Wolf/09 Beyond and Back/10 Poor Girl/11 Nausea/12 The New World/13 Johnny Hit and Run Pauline/14 Los Angeles/15 Blue Spark/16 True Love Part 2/17 Breathless/18 We're Desperate/19 Soul Kitchen/20 Motel Room In My Bed/21 Devil Doll/22 Some Other Time/23 It's Who You Know/24 Because I Do

MY FATHERS PLACE 11/12/83-01 True Love part 1/02 In This House That I Call Home/03 The Hungry
Wolf/04 More Fun In the New World/05 Universal Corner/06 True Love part 2/07 Beyond and Back/08 Los Angeles/09 Make the Music Go Bang/10 Some Other Time/11 Hot House/12 Soul Kitchen/13 Breathless/14 Medley/15 Johnny Hit and Run Pauline/16 Motel Room In My Bed/17 Poor Girl/18 Devil Doll

Hope you all enjoy them, look for the studio discs in a day or three, they rule as well!

Part 1 of a Jon S/BigScott X Collaboration

(Scott) when Jon S sent me these fab X boots today, I was simply going to add mine to them and make a
mega post, but upon checking I just have too many to make it manageable.....so YOU are the winners, you will get his great series of X boots, (great for me as well because I have none of them), then tomorrow or so I'll do up a post with a bunch of MY X stuff, as X was/is always one of my faves and were a fantastic live band (never saw em, but the boots totally SMOKE).......

BTW, thanks to everyone for all the submissions of late, I WILL get to you, I LOVE LOVE LOVE guest material!

Henrick Borch of Russia or wherever (who submitted the Souldiggers Band album) has emailed me and vowed to send a bunch of psych/stoner stuff, and what could be better? Welcome Henrick! Meantime, here's Jon S with Part One of the "Great X Collaborative Effort".......this one will be a good one trust me!
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X is one of the best American rock and roll bands ever. These shows have the original members playing their first four albums over four nights last year in LA. Recordings are great performances are great. 

X plays Los Angeles - The Observatory, LA 7/9/15

01 Intro/02 Your Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not/03 Johnny Hit and Run Paulene/04 Soul Kitchen/05 Nausea/06 Sugarlight/07 Los Angeles/08 Sex and Dying in High Society/09 The Unheard Music/10 The World's a Mess; It's in My Kiss/11 In This House That I Call Home/12 Beyond and Back/13 Dancing With Tears In My Eyes/14 Come Back To Me/15 Guitar Issues/16 The Hungry Wolf/17 More Guitar Issues/18 True Love/19 We're Having Much More Fun/20 The New World/21 Year 1/22 White Girl/23 Devil Doll

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X plays Wild Gift - The Observatory, LA 7/10/15 

01 Intro/02 Once Over Twice/03 We're Desperate/04 Adult Books/05 Universal Corner/06 I'm Coming Over/07 It's Who You Know/08 In This House That I Call Home/09 Some Other Time/10 White Girl/11 Beyond And Back/12 Back 2 The Base/13 When Our Love Passed Out On The Couch/14 Year 1/15 The New World/16 Poor Girl/17 True Love/18 Dancing With Tears In My Eyes/19 Drunk In My Past/20 Come Back To Me/21 The Unheard Music/22 Los Angeles/23 The Hungry Wolf/24 The World's A Mess; It's In My Kiss/25 How I (Learned My Lesson)/26 Devil Doll

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X plays Under The Big Black Sun - The Observatory, LA 7/11/15 

01 Intro/02 The Hungry Wolf/03 Motel Room In My Bed/04 Riding With Mary/05 Come Back To Me/06 Under The Big Black Sun/07 Because I Do/08 Blue Spark/09 Dancing With Tears In My Eyes/10 Real Child Of Hell/11 How I (Learned My Lesson)/12 The Have Nots/13 In This House That I Call Home/14 Beyond And Back/15 White Girl/16 True Love/17 We're Having Much More Fun/18 Drunk In My Past/19 The Unheard Music/20 Los Angeles/21 The New World/22 Year 1/23 I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts/24 The World's A Mess; It's In My Kiss/25 Devil Doll/

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X Plays More Fun In The New World - - The Observatory, LA 7/12/15 

01 Intro/02 The New World/03 We're Having Much More Fun/04 True Love/05 Poor Girl/06 Make the Music Go Bang/07 Breathless/08 I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts/09 Devil Doll/10 Painting the Town Blue/11 Hot House/12 Drunk In My Past/13 I See Red/14 True Love Pt. #2/15 Year 1/16 In This House That I Call Home/17 The Once Over Twice/18 The Hungry Wolf/19 Blue Spark/20 Come Back To Me/21 The Unheard Music/22 Beyond And Back/23 White Girl/24 The World's A Mess; It's In My Kiss/25 Encore - Billy Zoom Chant/26 Dancing With Tears In My Eyes/27 How I (Learned My Lesson)/28 Los Angeles

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