The legendary underground radio station WFMU provides many fantastic services to its fans: stellar programming, insightful commentary, and a burning passion for music normally ignored by mainstream (read: sane) audiences. In this reporter's humble opinion, however, WFMU's greatest contribution to Modern Society is their practically bottomless collection of MP3 downloads. Featuring everything from corporate-produced musicals extolling the virtues of state-of-the-art bathroom fixtures to long-forgotten Big Black promotional interviews, WFMU's Mp3 selection will transform yr Ipod from staid to stunning with the click (give or take a few hundred clicks) of a mouse.Of particular interest to the Facebuster Faithful is the download page from September of '07, which features tracks from the Holy Grail of wrestling ephemera: Classy Freddie Blassie's "Pencil Neck Geek" record. Swaggering machismo? Check. Classic Heel dickishness? Check. Rampant sexism? Check and CHECK. Often imitated, never duplicated... ladies and gentlemen, in association with WFMU New York, Arabian Facebuster presents: THE KING OF MEN!
Now get clicking, geeks!
3 comments:
In another example of great minds thinking alike, I was preparing Exhibit K in the 26 part series of Why We Watch Professional Wrestling...featuring none other "Classy" Freddie Blassie!!!
Christ, man, let it fly. Before deciding to highlight the man's musical prowess, I was trolling through Youtube hunting for some old-skool Blassie bloodletting. Sadly, the only in-ring footage available seems to be some rare "face" footage of th' King of Men. If you've tracked down some clips that you wanna share with th' FB massive, by all means do so.
The wretched state of contemporary wrestling aside, how can anyone not love this shit?
You sir, have my eternal gratitude for unearthing this vast treasure trove.
I remember first hearing "Pencil Neck Geek" like it was yesterday. The year was 1986 and I had
rented(!)a vinyl Dr. Demento collection from Django Records ($3 for a week). Shrewdly, I dubbed the record using my state-of-the- art Panasonic dual cassette deck and loved the shit out of that tape until I lost track of it sometime in high school. Blassie's cut was a fave- up there with Fish Heads by Barnes and Barnes (Yay) and far superior to King Tut by Steve Martin (Ugh).
Let's hear it for the amazing advances in music piracy that have been made over the past two decades!
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