Will Chatham

My search party has returned on their Taun-Tauns empty handed. It’s time to close the shield door on the South Wing as Chew­bacca moans in agony.

Pretty much since the orig­i­nal Nap­ster was ever worth a darn I have been search­ing for two songs, but have always come up empty handed.

The first song, which should be eas­ier to find, is called Noth­ing Spe­cial by Bas­tro. The song was orig­i­nally done by My Dad is Dead. This song was one of my favorites, but the only copy I ever had was a tape I made from Paul Oldham’s split 7″ of Bas­tro and My Dad is Dead. That tape is long gone, but my need to hear the song has only grown stronger over the years. The drum­ming on it was stellar.

The sec­ond song was from a mixed tape orig­i­nally given to my brother when he was in 9th grade at the Brown School in Louisville (which would put me in 5th grade at the time). I think he got the tape from Brian McMa­hon or Britt Wal­ford. On the first side was the sem­i­nal Flex Your Head LP from Dischord Records (I have that on vinyl still), but on the other side were a bunch of ran­dom songs.

There were no liner notes or any­thing, so I don’t know who sang it, but the song i think was called Refrig­er­a­tor Kid, and was about a kid get­ting stuck inside of a refrig­er­a­tor and suf­fo­cat­ing. Mor­bid, yes, but it stuck with me all these years, and I’d love to hear it again.

That tape I inher­ited from my brother pretty much steered me away from Def Lep­pard and Nena, alter­ing my musi­cal tastes forever.

Any­one know any­thing about these songs, where I might obtain a free MP3, or even buy them?