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The Artwoods - Singles A's And B's ( 1964-67 )

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:40:00 GMT

The Artwoods were every bit the rivals of such bands as the Animals and the Spencer Davis Group, but never saw the success as a recording act that either of them enjoyed. Rather, their following was confined to the clubs they played, despite releasing a half-dozen singles and an LP during their four years together.

Art Wood, the older brother of Ron Wood, had been involved with the London blues scene almost from the beginning, as an original member of Blues Incorporated, the pioneering blues/R&B outfit founded by Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies. He was the backup rhythm singer in the band's early lineup, before the split between Davies and Korner (and prior to their recording their one and only album); he also had a group of his own that he fronted on the side, called the Art Woods Combo. They later became the Artwoods in 1963 and Jon Lord later joined along with guitarist Derek Griffiths, after their own earlier band, Red Bludd's Bluesicians, split up. The group's decision to turn professional in 1964 required a new drummer and Keef Hartley was recruited by way of an ad in Melody Maker magazine. For their bassist, they raided Malcolm Pool from the Roadrunners lineup. In the booming London music scene, getting a recording contract was relatively easy -- labels were signing everything in sight that could make a noise that sounded like music -- and they joined Decca Records' roster in 1964.

The Artwoods' early records are some of the most fondly remembered British R&B singles, rivals to the work of the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, or, ironically enough, the Birds, the outfit of which Art Wood's younger brother Ron Wood was a member. Their sound was as steeped in soul and funk as it was in blues, which set them apart from many of their rivals. What's more, they were good at it, with a natural feel for the music and even capable of writing decent originals, which graced the B-sides of their singles. And they had a virtuoso lineup: Jon Lord's piano and organ sound was a great complement to Wood's singing, Derek Griffiths' guitar work was tastefully flashy, and Keef Hartley was animated as well as powerful, with a bigger sound on the drums than, say, Jim McCarty of the Yardbirds. All of these attributes made the Artwoods a top stage attraction. Club audiences always knew they were good for a great show and the band loved playing live. Ultimately, in fact, the group's success in touring and their love of playing live may have hurt them. They had no problem playing hundreds of gigs a year at venues like Klooks Kleek in Hampstead and dozens of lesser clubs for the sheer enjoyment of it, but they earned relatively little money doing it.

At the same time, their singles never seemed to connect, despite appearances on programs like Ready, Steady, Go! and other television venues promoting them. Their failure as a recording outfit is inexplicable upon hearing the singles -- they weren't strong songwriters, to be sure, but when covering American-style R&B, their records were soulful, funky, and played not only well but inventively; close your eyes and it seems like they were the U.K. answer to Booker T. & the MG's. And the vocals -- if not as charismatic as what Eric Burdon, Mick Jagger, or Paul Jones were doing with their respective bands -- were attractive and memorable and sounded authentically American. And, in contrast to a lot of other British bands of that period, they did manage to capture something of their live sound on those records, which made them very potent. In fairness, Decca even allowed them to cut a complete LP despite their lack of chart success, but the quintet never broke through. Like the Action, another U.K. R&B outfit that made great records that never got heard, the Artwoods never did more than amaze audiences one club at a time and leave behind some great music to be found by pop culture archivists.

A series of label switches in 1967 to Parlophone and then Fontana gave them some furtive success on the continent (in Denmark, of all places) and after four years of hard work, the Artwoods called it quits after a brief foray under the name the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Keef Hartley was the first to go, heading to John Mayall's band (Macolm Pool followed his lead) and then into his own group, while Jon Lord, who had dabbled in studio outfits like Santa Barbara Machinehead, took up an offer from ex-Searcher Chris Curtis to join a group called Roundabout, which evolved into Deep Purple. Art Wood himself never left music, despite the disappointment inherent in the Artwoods. Like such older contemporaries as Alexis Korner, he made the occasional recording and was one of the members of the revived Downliners Sect during the 1980s and 1990s.

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Paul & Barry Ryan - Singles Vol.1

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 10:57:00 GMT

Barry along with his brother, Paul, who were both identical twin sons of Marion Ryan, a fifties pop singer, were signed by Decca in 1965. With neat long hair and carefully selected fashionable clothes they were skillfully marketed by Decca. In 1968, Barry Ryan went solo and Paul took to songwriting. An early result of this new partnership was "Eloise", a stunning single with its melodramatic vocal style and heavily orchestrated backing. This was certainly Barry's magnum opus and he soldiered on for several years after without achieving the same heights again

Paul & Barry Ryan Singles Vol1

01 - Don't Bring Me Your Heartaches

02 - To Remind You of My Love

03 - Have Pity on the Boy

04 - There You Go

05 - I Love Her

06 - Gotta Go Out to Work

07 - I Love How You Love Me

08 - Baby I'm Sorry

09 - Have You Ever Loved Somebody

10 - I'm Telling You Later

11 - Missy Missy

12 - Rainbow Weather

13 - Keep It Out of Sight

14 - Who Told You?

15 - Claire

16 - I'll Make It Worth Your While

17 - Heartbreaker

18 - Night Time

19 - Pictures of Today

20 - Madrigal

21 - Glad to Know You

22 - So Lass Uns Leben

23 - Carry the Blues

24 - Reincarnation Games

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Paul & Barry Ryan - Singles Vol.2

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Paul & Barry Ryan Singles Vol2

01 - Eloise

02 - Love Is Love

03 - The Colour of My Love

04 - The Hunt

05 - Magical Spiel

06 - Kitsch

07 - Red Man

08 - Zeit Macht Nur Vor Dem Teufel Halt

09 - It Is Written

10 - Can't Let You Go

11 - From My Head to My Toes

12 - Sanctus Sanctus Hallelujah

13 - I'm Sorry Susan

14 - Love I Almost Found You

15 - I'll Be on My Way Dear

16 - Give Me a Sign

17 - When I Was a Child

18 - Alimony Honey Blues

19 - L. A. Woman

20 - We Did It Together

21 - Today

22 - Show Me the Way

23 - Storm Is Brewing

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The La De Das - La De Das Legend (1975)

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:36:00 GMT

Aside from Ray Columbus & the Invaders, the La De Das were New Zealand's most popular rock group of the '60s. As big fish in a very small pond, their work doesn't hold up to scrutiny in the company of the era's top American and English acts. But they did record some fine garage/pop numbers in the spirit of the Rolling Stones in the mid-'60s. A few of these ("How Is the Air Up There?" and "All Purpose Low") were big N.Z. hits, and they reached the Top Ten with covers of John Mayall's "On Top of the World" and a version of Bruce Channel's "Hey Baby." In 1968, they recorded a psychedelic-tinged children's concept LP, The Happy Prince; which bears resemblance to modern twee. After a failed attempt to crack the British market, the group soldiered on for quite some time with pedestrian hard rock that -- like even the best of their early work -- was very derivative of overseas trends. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi

La De Das Legend

In March 1975, EMI gathered up the band's recent singles and four unissued

tracks for the compilation album Legend, in a superb gatefold sleeve with an

intricate leatherwork pattern, as something of a contractual obligation.

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La De Das

1. The La De Das - Gonna See My Baby Tonight (3:17)

2. The La De Das - Morning, Good Morning (3:31)

3. The La De Das - I Guess I'll Never Stop Lovin' You (2:55)

4. The La De Das - It's The Beginning (4:37)

5. The La De Das - Honky Tonkin' (2:45)

6. The La De Das - Too Pooped To Pop (2:32)

7. The La De Das - Feel Like A Dog (6:02)

8. The La De Das - Sentimental Rose (4:44)

9. The La De Das - I'm In Love Again (3:21)

10. The La De Das - All Along The Watchtower (5:58)

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The Rattles - The Rattles 50 (2010)

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:52:00 GMT

One of the most successful, and certainly one of the most prolific, German rock groups of the '60s, the Rattles enjoyed reasonable success in their native land without making much of an impression elsewhere (though some of their material was released in other countries). Starting out in the same Star Club-based Hamburg scene as the Liverpool groups of the early '60s, their early repertoire was built upon a similar base of '50s rock and soul/R&B. They released about 30 singles during the '60s (some on the Star-Club label itself), as well as almost ten albums, eventually making the transition to original material, and marching on well into the 1970s.

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Masters Apprentices - Fully Qualified (2006)

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:06:00 GMT

CD featuring all the Classic Tracks by Australia's Own Legendary Masters Apprentices. They were Wild, They were Hungry, They were the Bad Boys of Australian Rock 'n' Roll. They were the Legendary Masters Apprentices, and Between 1965 and 1972 They Embraced Almost Every Trend in Pop Music, from Raw R&B and Psychedelic Pop to Full Blown Progressive Rock. This is the Story of How the Masters Propelled Themselves from the Garage to National Stardom.

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Some would rate The Masters Apprentices as the Aussie Led Zep come Yardbirds. I would rate them as the Australian "Pretty Things" as both bands formed around the Mid 60's and started off as Wild boys playing fierce loud RnB during the Mid to late 60s, and then delivered top quality Hard Progressive Rock at the turn of the 70's. I will let you know that I loved the Pretty Things 1st 3 albums of the 70s (i.e. Freeway Madness/Savage Eye and Silk Torpedo) BUT I did'nt really care too much for their 60s RnB offerings which they so heavily rely on to this day. The same goes with TMA. Their 60s output featured on this CD will immediately remind you of all those 60s British Beat bands (Yardbirds/Pretty Things/Kinks/Stones etc). OK, they do it well, but as is usually the case, you will prefer one style to the other, and mine as I said was the Harder edged style of the 70s. I bought this CD as I only had their 70s CDs, and wanted some reminder in a "best of" offering of their earlier years. One thing the CD could have done though is feature some of their Blues covers they did from their re-union of the late 80's which feature on the compilation "Do what you wanna do" to give you a FULL picture (Fully qualified?). Finally, their is also the Fully QUalified DVD which as you would expect, also gives you the history of T.M.A. with numerous interviews with Band members past and present, and also features clips of Classic Tracks. Great! you say? Well! It would have been, but all the songs were cut to shreds. God! How lovely it would have been to see all those tracks UN-CUT. Here's hoping. Masters Apprentices are best known for the 2 songs "Because I love You" (That should have been a worldwide hit - PERIOD) and "Turn up your Radio", but songs like "Beneath the Sun" and "Love is" are 2 more that spring to mind which were/are sadly overlooked.~ By Paul Watson

- 1. Masters Apprentices - Poor Boy (3:05)
- 2. Masters Apprentices - Undecided (2:28)
- 3. Masters Apprentices - Wars Or Hands Of Time (2:51)
- 4. Masters Apprentices - Buried and Dead (2:39)
- 5. Masters Apprentices - Living In A Child's Dream (2:42)
- 6. Masters Apprentices - Elevator Driver (2:21)
- 7. Masters Apprentices - But One Day (2:39)
- 8. Masters Apprentices - Brigette (2:24)
- 9. Masters Apprentices - Merry-Go-Round (2:43)
- 10. Masters Apprentices - 5:10 Man (2:36)
- 11. Masters Apprentices - A Dog, A Siren & Memories (3:11)
- 12. Masters Apprentices - How I Love You (Instrumental) (3:12)
- 13. Masters Apprentices - Think About Tomorrow Today (3:22)
- 14. Masters Apprentices - Turn Up Your Radio (3:34)
- 15. Masters Apprentices - Because I Love You (4:32)
- 16. Masters Apprentices - Rio De Camero (3:20)
- 17. Masters Apprentices - Easy To Lie (4:29)
- 18. Masters Apprentices - Michael (3:53)
- 19. Masters Apprentices - Death Of A King (3:37)
- 20. Masters Apprentices - Our Friend Owsley Stanley 111 (3:25)
- 21. Masters Apprentices - Song For A Lost Gypsy (2:58)
- 22. Masters Apprentices - Love Is (4:13)
- 23. Masters Apprentices - Thyme To Rhyme (2:40)
- 24. Masters Apprentices - Wild, Wild Party (2:27)

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The Plastic Cloud - The Plastic Cloud (1968)

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:18:00 GMT

The Plastic Cloud were an Ontario-based folk-rock quartet, consisting of Brian Madill (bass), Don Brewer (lead vocals, 12-string guitar), Mike Cadieux (guitar), and Randy Umphrey (drums). Formed in 1967, they managed to encompass the commercial side of the music in pleasant, Byrds-like original numbers, but also showed a much harder sound dominated by fuzztone guitar and other effects, for a much more spaced-out sound on about half of their recorded material. Madill and Umphrey were the initial partners, with Cadieux and Brewer -- who not only sang lead but wrote all of their original songs -- coming aboard next.

They were signed to Allied Records in Ontario and got one self-titled LP out which, sadly enough, never found an audience, despite beautiful production and some bold, ambitious use of psychedelic effects. Their vocals were pretty and they played better than that, and the results, with a sympathetic producer in charge, were mighty impressive -- their one album is worth hearing a lot more than once, and you get the feeling that if these guys had been working out of, say, L.A. or the Bay Area and been signed to a label with some real marketing power, they'd be a lot more than a footnote today with exactly the music they did leave behind. In 2005, Pacemaker Entertainment reissued their album on CD, and based on the results, Steven Van Zandt or CaveStomp! should be digging these guys up, if they're still around, for a gig as soon as possible.

The Plastic Cloud's self-titled album is a strangely compelling and overall delightful mix of West Coast '60s sounds, without any two songs sounding exactly alike, or even displaying the same attributes. Not that any fan of that era will mind any of it, and especially not the Byrds-like harmonies on the opening number, "Epistle to Paradise," which sounds like a more ornate and trippier follow-up to "Renaissance Fair" coupled with "Here Without You." But on "Shadows of Your Mind" the fuzztone guitar cuts in, along withRandy Umphrey's drumming -- which recalls John Densmore's work with the Doors -- for a kind of Buffalo Springfield homage. And "Art's a Happy Man" comes off like a weird-ass amalgam of the early Jefferson Airplane and Spanky & Our Gang. But the ten-minute "You Don't Care" may well bring to mind Big Brother & the Holding Company instrumentally, and the Notorious Byrd Brothers album vocally and psychically. And "Bridge Under the Sky" evokes memories of the Youngbloods. It's all enjoyable and full of pleasant surprises.

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The Sons of Champlin - Fat City (1991)

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:24:00 GMT

.It's not well known that the Sons of Champlin, before entering the heart of the San Francisco area psychedelic scene in the late 1960s, were a much more straightforward rock band that did a lot of recording in 1966 and 1967, though little of that material was officially released.

This compilation unveils 19 tracks (plus some radio commercials) from that era, and with the exception of the rare 1967 Verve single "Sing Me a Rainbow""/"Fat City," all of it is previously unissued. It's far more concise in structure and execution than the much looser psychedelic-inclined material they cut in the late 1960s, and there's a surprising wealth of vocal harmonies and influences of AM pop and blue-eyed soul. That's not a criticism; indeed, those who find their later recordings tiresome may enjoy this juvenilia much more than the group's Capitol albums. Eclecticism was a trademark of many Bay Area groups of the era, but it could be said that the Sons of Champlin may have been < | >too eclectic, not just for commercial success but also for the purposes of establishing an identifiable vibe. There's raucous soul-rock with horns ("Fat City" is a definite highlight in this regard), gritty pop-rock with harmonies (a track like "1,000 Miles from Nowhere" sounds like a tough Turtles; "Green Monday" a bit like a hard Monkees), and traces of Bay Area psychedelia, garage, and wistful folk-rock (they even cover the Beau Brummels' "Don't Talk to Strangers" and Paul Simon's "I Wish You Could Be Here"). It shows more promise than payoff; the playing and singing are good and the songs enjoyable and sometimes intriguing, but there aren't any lost classics, and stylistically it's not that innovative. An uncharacteristic (not that anything was that characteristic of the band) highlight is "Shades of Grey," a beautiful Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil composition given a pleasing folk-rock-pop production.

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The Cats - Cats As Cats Can (1968)

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:30:00 GMT

Dutch rock band the Cats were popular during the late '60s and early '70s, releasing a bunch of English-language hits and full-length albums during this peak period. Founded in the mid-'60s in Volendam, the Netherlands, the band was comprised of Cees Veerman (vocals, guitar; born October 6, 1943), Piet Veerman (vocals, guitar; born March 1, 1943), Jaap Schilder (guitar, piano; born January 9, 1943), Arnold Muhren (bass; born January 28, 1944), and Theo Klouwer (drums; born June 30, 1947).

The Cats made their album debut in 1967 with Cats as Cats Can, and at least one new album followed each year until the swan song release The End of the Show (1980). Some of the band's most popular hits include "Times Were When" (1968), "Lea" (1968), "Why" (1969), "Scarlet Ribbons" (1969), "Marian" (1969), "Magical Mystery Morning" (1970), "Where Have I Been Wrong?" (1970), "One Way Wind" (1971), "Let's Dance" (1972), "There Has Been a Time" (1972), "Let's Go Together" (1973), "Maribaja" (1973), "Rock 'n' Roll" (1973), "Be My Day" (1974), and "Come Sunday" (1974). The popularity of the Cats declined sharply during the mid-'70s, and the band ultimately broke up in 1979. Piet Veerman subsequently embarked on a solo career, releasing the album Back to You (1980), but didn't experience solo success until 1987, when he released the eponymous album Piet Veerman and the smash hit single "Sailin' Home." Following the band's breakup in 1980, the Cats reunited from time to time, and their greatest hits were compiled time and time again on a long list of best-of collections.

1. The Cats - What's The World Coming To (3:32)

2. The Cats - Night Time (2:47)

3. The Cats - Little Miss Mary (2:30)

4. The Cats - Without Your Love (2:50)

5. The Cats - No You Can't Love Them All (2:55)

6. The Cats - Far Beyond The Call Of Duty (2:05)

7. The Cats - Sure He's A Cat (2:35)

8. The Cats - Goodbye Baby, Baby Goodbye (3:19)

9. The Cats - I'm Going Out (The Same Way I Came In) (2:29)

10. The Cats - Love Of The Common People (3:10)

11. The Cats - But Tomorrow (2:24)

12. The Cats - Full Stop (2:35)

13. The Cats - What A Crazy Life (2:37)

14. The Cats - Hopeless Try (2:36)

15. The Cats - Vive L'amour (2:06)

16. The Cats - How Could I Be So Blind (2:40)

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VA - Marijuana Unknowns (1964-69)

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:44:00 GMT

Marijuana Unknowns is indeed a collection of obscure marijuana-related '60s tracks, but the bad news (or good news, depending on your perspective) is that it's not nearly as fried an experience as one might expect. Sure, there are plenty of veiled and not-so-veiled references to the evil weed, but most of the tunes themselves are pretty lightweight freakbeat and British Invasion pop ditties, not fuzzed out stoner anthems. The nadir has to be "Pot Party," by the World, where a bunch of supposedly stoned fools giggle at nothing over a sped-up "Spirit in the Sky" riff. This is good for a chuckle, but probably not the best thing for your next incense-and-black-light bong party.

1. Sweet Smoke - Mary Jane Is To Love (2:11)
2. Birdwatchers - Mary Mary (2:36)
3. Two Dollar Question - Aunt Matilda (2:17)
4. Mike Clifford - Mary Jane (2:02)
5. Them - Walking In The Queen's Garden (3:01)
6. The Renaissance - Mary Jane (2:33)
7. Castels - Rocky Ridges (2:48)
8. The World - Pot Party (2:23)
9. Prophecy - Take A Look At Mary (2:27)
10. Owen B - Zig Zag Man (2:12)
11. Listening - Stoned Is (4:36)
12. Copperpenny - Stop The World (8:00)

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The Critters - Anthology ( 1965-1967)

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:52:00 GMT

In 1966, this New York group came off very much like a Lovin' Spoonful Jr., scoring a minor hit with a cover of John Sebastian's "Younger Girl" and then chalking up their only Top 20 single with the very Spoonful-esque original "Mr. Dieingly Sad." The group's soft harmonies and pop folk-rock were in a considerably lighter vein than their Kama Sutra labelmates, though. Much of their material was self-penned, though they also benefited from compositions by Jackie DeShannon and Brill Building tunesmiths Pete Anders, Vinnie Poncia, and Doc Pomus. Recording quite a few singles and an LP for Kama Sutra from 1965 to 1967, their gentle pop/rock was rather lightweight, with the exception of their best singles. After a final Top 40 hit in 1967 ("Don't Let the Rain Fall Down on Me"), principal songwriter Don Ciccone was drafted, and the group struggled on with a couple albums for the Project 3 label before splitting.

New Jersey's Critters have earned a reputation as a bubblegum pop group, but they really had a lot more going for them than that. For starters, founding members Jim Ryan and Don Ciccone were both gifted songwriters, singers, and arrangers, and if they had a sort of soft, sunshine approach to things, well, they did it as well as anyone. This anthology collects their Kapp recordings (which essentially means their one album for Kama Sutra and a handful of singles and B-sides) from 1965 to 1967, and it shows a versatile band that was much more than a sort of precursor to Bread. Their first single, a folk-rock cover of Jackie DeShannon's "Children and Flowers," leads things off here, and yes, it's sappy, but wonderfully so, and once you accept the lyrics, it emerges as a bit of a lost treasure. The next two tracks are also striking, the Beatlesque "He'll Make You Cry" and the equally impressive "Little Girl," both of which could have -- and should have -- been AM radio hits. "Mr. Dieingly Sad," a group original that out-associates the Association, is another highlight, and the set closes with a surprisingly bright, joyous, and breezy version of the Motown classic "Dancing in the Street." Leaving Kama Sutra at the end of 1967, the band recorded a second album on the Project 3 label before calling it quits. The Critters, like Chicago's Cryan' Shames, might have gone on to bigger and better things if the military draft, label snafus, and public perception hadn't short-circuited the creative life span of the group. As it is, they'll make you smile on a rainy day. There's something really valuable in that.

The Critters - Anthology, The Complete Kapp Recordings; 1965-1967

1. The Critters - Children And Flowers (2:28)

2. The Critters - He'll Make You Cry (5:21)

3. The Critters - Little Girl (3:08)

4. The Critters - Heart Of Love, Head Of Stone (2:04)

5. The Critters - Mr. Dieingly Sad (2:50)

6. The Critters - Gone For Awhile (2:44)

7. The Critters - Younger Girl (2:26)

8. The Critters - It Just Won't Be That Way (2:20)

9. The Critters - Come Back On A Rainy Day (1:50)

10. The Critters - Best Love You'll Ever Have (3:04)

11. The Critters - Forever Or No More (2:19)

12. The Critters - I Wear A Silly Grin (2:48)

13. The Critters - Blow My Mind (2:16)

14. The Critters - Everything But Time (2:06)

15. The Critters - Bad Misunderstanding (2:00)

16. The Critters - Marryin' Kind Of Love (2:26)

17. The Critters - New York Bound (2:33)

18. The Critters - Don't Let The Rain Fall Down On Me (2:43)

19. The Critters - Walk Like A Man Again (2:07)

20. The Critters - Dancing In The Street (2:19)

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The Flies - Collection 1965-1968

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:13:00 GMT

Although the Flies are primarily remembered for their punkish rendition of "(I'm Not) Your Steppin' Stone" — covered from Paul Revere & the Raiders' version — the vast majority of the U.K. quartet's other material is much more pop-oriented and less aggressive. Complete Collection: 1965-1968 (2002) features 22 tracks from the virtually unknown Brit rockers. The East London band had evolved from The Rebs to the In-Sect and issued a long-player under the latter moniker in 1965. The following year saw two more name changes (the Decadent Streak and No Flies on Us BUT...) and a few personnel adjustments before being signed by Decca Records based upon their double-sided demo disc of "(I'm Not) Your Steppin' Stone" b/w "Just Won't Do." (Incidentally, both demos are included on this collection.) The label convinced the band to shorten their name to simply the Flies and, in October 1966, re-recorded "Steppin' Stone" as well as the mid-tempo love song "Talk to Me" for the respective A and B sides of their debut single. With a great industry buzz beginning to surround the Flies, they were picked up as a live support act, doing gigs with the Who, the Moody Blues, the Move, and Traffic; they even opened for the Jimi Hendrix Experience in February 1967 at the Roundhouse in London. The follow-up 45 also included two strong cuts. The backbeat heavy rocker "House of Love" as well as the lightweight take on the pop standard "It Had to Be You" — which made the band sound more like Sopwith Camel or the New Vaudeville Band than the acid-laced garage rockers associated with their earlier sides. The Flies eventually landed as the core lineup began to splinter by the end of 1967. John Hunt (drums/vocals) issued a solo single under the guise of Alexander Bell — which featured a session guitarist named Jimmy Page. Their "theme" (if you will), "Alexander Bell Believes," is an odd bit of Baroque pseudo-peacenik psychedelia, with a decidedly Kinks-influenced mod sound. In addition to the previously mentioned platters, this CD also includes a few pre-Flies pieces, such as the In-Sect covers of Chuck Berry's "Reelin' & Rockin'," the Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," and a demo of the Kinks' "Tired of Waiting for You," among others.

1. The Files - 01. (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone (2:40)

2. The Files - 02. The Magic Train (2:22)

3. The Files - 03. House Of Love (2:17)

4. The Files - 04. Turning Back The Page (3:47)

5. The Files - 05. Gently As You Feel (2:39)

6. The Files - 06. Talk To Me (1:55)

7. The Files - 07. Tired Of Waiting For You (2:25)

8. The Files - 08. Just Won't Do (1:59)

9. The Files - 09. (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone (Unissued Demo) (3:05)

10. The Files - 10. The Magic Train (Unissued Demo) (2:52)

11. The Files - 11. Alexander Bell Believes (3:07)

12. The Files - 12. A Hymn...With Love (3:12)

13. The Files - 13. Sincerely Yours (2:43)

14. The Files - 14. Where (3:43)

15. The Files - 15. There Ain't No Woman(Unissued Demo) (1:56)

16. The Files - 16. Winter Afternoon (2:45)

17. The Files - 17. It Had To Be You (2:22)

18. The Files - 18. The Dancer (2:57)

19. The Files - 19. Reelin' And Rockin' (2:23)

20. The Files - 20. Ticket To Ride (2:58)

21. The Files - 21. There Ain't No Woman (1:56)

22. The Files - 22. Winter Afternoon(Unissued Demo) (2:06)

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VA - Spencer Davis Group Hottest Hits Performed By Danish Sixties Garage Rock Bands (1966-70)Bands

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:30:00 GMT

1. Mats The - High Time (2:42)
2. Shakers The - Keep on Running (2:37)
3. Hellions The - Neighbour Neighbour (3:07)
4. Defenders The - Jump Back (Live) (2:07)
5. Crowd - This Hammer (2:29)
6. Sound Of Seasons - Gimme Som Lovin' (2:13)
7. Peter Belli & Les Rivals - I Can't Stand It (2:15)
8. Mats The - When I Come Home (1:57)
9. Flames The - Nobody Loves When You Down And Out (3:20)
10. Lions The - It's Gonna Work Out Fine (3:19)
11. Mats The - Sombody Help Me Now (1:51)
12. Hellions The - I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song) (3:05)
13. Crowd - Please Do Something (3:03)
14. Mats The - Washed My Hands In Muddy Water (2:32)
15. Mats The - Midnight Special (2:03)
16. Flames The - When A Man Loves A Woman (2:17)
17. Spector Group - Dust My Blues (1:52)
18. Hellions The - Let Me Down Easy (2:54)
19. Mats The - Wach Your Step (2:44)
20. Melvis Confirmation Free - George On My Mind (3:23)
21. Crowd - High Time (3:39)
22. Crazy Woman - Gimme Some Lovin' (2:25)
23. Spector Group - Neighbour Neighbour (3:05)
24. Mats The - This Hammer (2:13)
25. Sound Of Seasons - Dust My Blues (4:38)
26. Mats The - Please Do Something (2:03)
27. Johnny & His Snakes - Keep on Running (2:43)
28. Mats The - Keep on Running (2:13)

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VA - The Rolling Stones Hottest Hits Performed By Danish Sixties Garage Rock Bands (1964-68)

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:33:00 GMT

1. Tony & The Diamonds - Satisfaction (3:34)
2. The Arons - Presentation (Medley) (3:38)
3. The Swinging Stones - Empty Heart (2:03)
4. The Caravans - Can I Get A Witness (3:03)
5. The Jokers - Under The Boardwalk (1:42)
6. The Noblemen - Its All Over Now (3:00)
7. Joe E. Carters Group - Mothers Little Helper (3:04)
8. The Arons - Honest I Do (2:45)
9. Finn Toni & Them - Suzie Q (2:14)
10. The Lions - Thats How Strong My Love Is (2:07)
11. The Scarlets - Blue Turns To Gray (2:23)
12. Tony & The Diamonds - Heart Of Stone (2:48)
13. Master Joseph & His Diciples - Down The Road (2:48)
14. The Arons - Tell Me (3:15)
15. The Jokers - If You Need Me (2:13)
16. The Firestones - Talkin Bout You (3:20)
17. The Centaurus - Round & Round (3:31)
18. The Eagles - Move On (2:50)
19. Jolly Boys - She Said Yeah (2:30)
20. The Dukes - The Last Time (3:06)
21. Danny & Royal Strings - I Wanna Be Your Man (2:12)
22. The Telstars - As Tears Go By (2:35)
23. The Powers - Lady Jane (3:44)
24. Johnny & The Snakes - Route 66 (5:20)
25. 25 - The Defenders - Satisfaction

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V.A. - Northwest Battle of the Bands ( Only Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 ...)

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:20:00 GMT

V.A. - Northwest Battle of the Bands vol.1

1. You've Got Your Head On Backwards - The Sonics

2. Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day - Sir Raleigh & The Cupons

3. Little Sally Tease - Don & The Goodtimes

4. Wastin' My Time - The Express

5. Louise - The Raymarks

6. Breakdown - The Trolley

7. I've Searched - The Juveniles

8. She's Boss - The Dimensions

9. Take Me Back - Tyme's Children

10. Black Winds - Little John & The Monks

11. Trick Bag - The Counts

12. I'm Fast - The Heirs

13. Long Tall Shorty - The Mercy Boys

14. I Told You Once - Mr. Lucky & The Gamblers

15. Signed D.C. - The Brave New World

16. Sorry Charlie - The Scotsman

17. I Should Know - Tom Thumb & The Casuals

18. Like No Other Man - The Sonics

19. Little Sally Walker - The Bandits

20. Goodbye - The Liberty Party

21. The Owl And The Pussycat - The Bards

22. Yes You're Mine - The Live Five

23. Turn & Run - The Rock-N-Souls

24. Blue Turns To Grey - Don & The Goodtimes

25. You're Not My Girl - The New Yorkers

26. I'll Be Standing There - The Dynamics

27. Tossin' And Turnin' - The City Limits

28. Crisco Party - George Washington & The Cherrybombs

29. Why Girl - The Emergency Exit

30. Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go - The Live Five

V.A. - Northwest Battle of the Bands vol.2

1. Don & The Goodtimes - You Were A Child

2. The Galaxies - Along Comes The Man

3. The Ceptors - I Can't Make It

4. Rocky & The Riddlers - You Weren't Using Your Head

5. The Bumps - Please Come Down

6. The Springfield Rifle - 100 Or Two

7. The Liberty Party - Please Help The Man

8. The Brave New World - I See

9. The Raymarks - Hard Times

10. The Live Five - Move Over And Let Me Fly

11. The Sonics - High Time

12. The Dimensions - Knock You Flat

13. Jack Horner & The Plums - Who Do You Love

14. The Heirs - You Better Slow Down

15. Mr Lucky & The Gamblers - Alice Designs

16. The London Taxi - Feelin' Down

17. Gil Bateman - My Daddy Walked In Darkness

18. The Express - You Gotta Understand

19. The Mercy Boys - Lost And Found (alt version)

20. The Moguls - Try Me

21. Noises N' Sounds feat Terry Dale - How Much Lovin'

22. Don & The Goodtimes - Runnin' Not Walking

23. The Bards - My Generation

24. The New Yorkers - Lazy Meadow

25. The Brave New World - It's Tomorrow

26. The Spindle - Little Lies

27. The Purple Gang - I Know What I Am

28. The Menagerie - About Him

29. The Magic Fern - High Flyer

30. The Springfield Rifle - Nordstrom

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The Turtles - The Turtles Present The Battle Of The Bands

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:55:00 GMT

Though the Turtles were rightfully known as an excellent pop/rock singles band, on this recording they let loose their humor, which was part of their act from the beginning. On the outside cover the group is dressed in conservative suits and bow ties, yet on the inside the group is clad in, shall it be tastefully said, less traditional attire. The Turtles (who wrote nine of the 12 songs on the original LP, two songs being added to the CD) basically mock the entire spectrum of music on this album, though elements of their pop/rock sound are contained even in the most country, psychedelic, and R&B elements of the music presented here. Two Top Ten hits are contained in this collection, Roger McGuinn's "You Showed Me" and the Turtles own subtly mocking "Elenore." Light psychedelia meets Booker T. & the MG's in the instrumental "Buzzsaw." The Beach Boys sound shows up in "Surfer Dan," and the original album closer "Earth Anthem" is a hippie ecology, folk-pop anthem that is both very pretty and quite satirical -- a listener could easily lose himself in the fine melody and atmospheric production, while laughing at the same time. The only potential problem with this album is that it is caught in the middle between two extremes: On the one hand, non-mainstream listeners will criticize the album for sounding too commercial, and, on the other, typical Turtles fans will find the album too sophisticated, especially if they are looking for another album like Happy Together. Between these two points of view falls an excellent album that is both commercial and comical, as if both of these elements couldn't coincide in one album.

1. The Turtles - The Battle Of The Bands (2:14)

2. The Turtles - The Battle Of The Bands (2:14)

3. The Turtles - The Last Thing I Remember (2:54)

4. The Turtles - The Last Thing I Remember (2:54)

5. The Turtles - Elenore (2:30)

6. The Turtles - Elenore (2:30)

7. The Turtles - Too Much Heartsick Felling (2:42)

8. The Turtles - Too Much Heartsick Felling (2:42)

9. The Turtles - Oh, Daddy (2:45)

10. The Turtles - Oh, Daddy (2:45)

11. The Turtles - Buzzsaw (1:56)

12. The Turtles - Buzzsaw (1:56)

13. The Turtles - Surfer Dan (2:41)

14. The Turtles - I'm Chief Kamanawanalea (We're The Royal Macadamia Nuts) (1:33)

15. The Turtles - You Showed Me (3:14)

16. The Turtles - You Showed Me (3:14)

17. The Turtles - Food (2:39)

18. The Turtles - Food (2:39)

19. The Turtles - Chicken Little Was Right (2:46)

20. The Turtles - Chicken Little Was Right (2:46)

21. The Turtles - Earth Anthem (3:52)

22. The Turtles - Earth Anthem (3:52)

23. The Turtles - Sound Asleep (2:27)

24. The Turtles - Sound Asleep (2:27)

25. 14.The Story Of Rock And Roll (2)

26. 14.The Story Of Rock And Roll

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Chad & Jeremy - Sing For You& Second Album (1964;1965) 2 in 1

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:02:00 GMT

Sing For Yo 1964

Chad & Jeremy's first British LP, Sing for You, was -- confusingly -- an entirely different release than the American LP bearing the same title, which was the second of the duo's U.S. long-players, and featured different tracks for the most part. The U.K. Sing for You was pretty similar to Chad & Jeremy's first American LP (Yesterday's Gone), with the exception of a different running order and a few different tracks. Three songs from the British Sing for You don't appear on Yesterday's Gone: "If I Loved You" (their third British single), the traditional folk song "Donna Donna," and the John Lennon-Paul McCartney composition "From a Window" (never done by the Beatles, but a hit for Billy J. Kramer). Conversely, three songs from Yesterday's Gone -- "Now and Forever," "Too Soon My Love," and the instrumental "Only for the Young" -- don't appear on the British version of Sing for You. It's a pain to keep straight, but luckily it doesn't really matter. Since everything from the British Sing for You (including the aforementioned three songs that don't appear on Yesterday's Gone) all found release in the United States, there's no reason to hunt down an original copy of the U.K. album; if you want to hear the songs in their original order, they're the first dozen tracks on the reissue compilation Sing for You/Second Album, which combines the first two albums and five additional tracks on a single-CD release. As for the music, it was pleasant fare that epitomized the lightest aspects of the early British Invasion, highlighted by their pop-folk hits "Yesterday's Gone," "A Summer Song," and "Willow Weep for Me." Elsewhere the song list is more varied and less rock-oriented than that of the usual British Invasion act, including a few originals, popular standards ("September in the Rain" and Rodgers-Hammerstein's "If I Loved You"), and folk music.

Second Album 1965

Although Chad & Jeremy's Second Album was not released in the U.S., there's not much reason for collectors to sweat out trying to find the LP, as all of its tracks did come out in some form stateside. In fact, Second Album had nearly the same contents as the duo's second American LP (titled Sing for You, and, confusingly, not at all the same as the British LP called Sing for You, which was their first U.K. long-player). The only differences between Second Album and the U.S. Sing for You are that Second Album has a few songs not on the American counterpart, two of which ("Now and Forever" and "Too Soon My Love") had already appeared in the U.S. on the Yesterday's Gone album, the other of which ("It Was a Very Good Year") would soon appear on an American B-side, and subsequently on U.S. album compilations. And naturally, in this transatlantic mishmash, the American Sing for You has two songs which don't appear on Second Album, "Donna Donna" and "From a Window," though they'd already appeared on the British version of Sing for You. The musical merits of Second Album were, naturally, similar to those of the American Sing for You: no big hits, but generally likeable lightweight British Invasion music, though the songs that actually verge on cheery British Invasion rock ("My How the Time Goes By," "Now and Forever," "Too Soon My Love," "Only Those in Love") are far better than the covers of popular standards ("The Girl From Ipanema," "It Was a Very Good Year") and the bossa nova-cum-folk on their cover of Ian & Sylvia's "Four Strong Winds." If you do want to hear everything from Second Album in the original order, try to find the reissue compilation Sing for You/Second Album, which combines the first two albums and five additional tracks on a single-CD release.

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The Kinks — Fab Forty :The Singles Collection 1964-1970

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:19:00 GMT

CD 1

1. Kinks - I Took My Baby Home (1:49) 2. Kinks - Long Tall Sally (2:13) 3. Kinks - You Still Want Me (2:00) 4. Kinks - You Do Something To Me (2:25) 5. Kinks - You Really Got Me (2:14) 6. Kinks - It's All Right (2:37) 7. Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night (2:23) 8. Kinks - I Gotta Move (2:24) 9. Kinks - Tired Of Waiting For You (2:32) 10. Kinks - Come On Now (1:47) 11. Kinks - Everybody's Gonna Be Happy (2:16) 12. Kinks - Wholl Be Next In Line (2:03) 13. Kinks - I Need You (2:26) 14. Kinks - Set Me Free (2:13) 15. Kinks - See My Friends (2:46) 16. Kinks - Never Met A Girl Like You Before (2:04) 17. Kinks - Till The End Of The Day (2:21) 18. Kinks - Where Have All The Good Times Gone (2:51) 19. Kinks - Sunny Afternoon (3:35) 20. Kinks - I'm Not Like Everybody Else (3:26)

CD 2

1. The Kinks - Dead End Street (3:23) 2. The Kinks - Big Black Smoke (2:33) 3. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (3:16) 4. The Kinks - Act Nice and Gentle (2:40) 5. The Kinks - Autumn Almanac (3:12) 6. The Kinks - Mr. Pleasant (2:58) 7. The Kinks - Polly (2:52) 8. The Kinks - Wonderboy (2:49) 9. The Kinks - Days (2:54) 10. The Kinks - She's Got Everything (3:09) 11. The Kinks - King Kong (3:24) 12. The Kinks - Plastic Man (3:04) 13. The Kinks - This Man He Weeps Tonight (2:42) 14. The Kinks - Shangri La (5:21) 15. The Kinks - Victoria (3:39) 16. The Kinks - Mr Churchill Says (4:42) 17. The Kinks - Lola (4:03) 18. The Kinks - Berkeley Mews (2:40) 19. The Kinks - Rats (2:40) 20. The Kinks - Apeman (3:51)

"What makes this Kinks compilation such an essential addition to the group's catalogue," writes Patrick Humphries in his liner notes, "is that for the first time it contains in correct chronological sequence, virtually all the Kinks' singles they recorded for the old Pye label, 1964-1970." Humphries' statement is correct, right down to the key word "virtually," which needs to be explored in greater detail. As its title implies, the two-CD set, which runs over 114 minutes, contains 40 tracks drawn from Kinks singles released during their first seven years of existence, 20 A-sides and 20 B-sides. As such, it is half a greatest-hits album, containing well-known tracks like "You Really Got Me," "All Day and All of the Night," and "Lola," and a half a rarities album containing some of the group's most obscure recordings, and they alternate with each other through the collection. But back to the word "virtually." Given that this is a British compilation, it is not surprising (but still disappointing) that "A Well Respected Man," which reached the Top 20 of the U.S. singles charts, but which was not released as a single in the U.K., is missing. But there is no apparent explanation for the omission of "Dedicated Follower of Fashion," a Top Ten hit in the U.K. Of course, that single's B-side, "Sitting on My Sofa," is also missing, as is the wonderful non-chart 1969 single "Drivin'." And, as a singles collection, the album contains nothing from the album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, from which no singles were issued. Only one of the first 33 of the 40 tracks is in stereo, and oddly enough it's the first one, "I Took My Baby Home," which actually was the B-side of the Kinks' debut single, a cover of the Little Richard hit "Long Tall Sally." Starting with "Shangri-La," the last seven tracks are in stereo. Since bandleader Ray Davies was such a good songwriter, there are many excellent compositions among the lesser known tracks here, notably several with lead vocals by guitarist Dave Davies. There are also hints of what was to come after 1970 -- "Act Nice and Gentle" (the B-side of "Waterloo Sunset") and "Plastic Man" (actually a Top 40 hit in Britain) both sound like they could have come from the Kinks' country-rock album Muswell Hillbillies of 1971. But the main joy of the set is hearing the group evolve from its hard rock days with "You Really Got Me" and its soundalikes to more idiosyncratic and sophisticated fare such as "Victoria," even if some key

songs are missing, some for no obvious reason.

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V.A.- Destroy That Boy! More Girls With Guitars

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:19:00 GMT

A sequel to the 2004 Ace CD Girls with Guitars, this likewise focuses on guitar-oriented, girl-sung 1960s rock from the '60s, though to be technical one 1970 cut sneaks in. These aren't all self-contained female groups who played their own instruments (although a few of them are); in fact, a number of these artists didn't play their own music, and some of them were solo acts, not bands. The common factor, however, is that all of them did play rougher, more guitar-heavy rock than the norm for woman rockers of the era. There's a fairly narrow pool of discs to choose from when you're making an anthology like this (though not as narrow as many people realize), which makes it hard if not impossible to make an "all killer no filler" compilation. That's how it goes with Destroy That Boy! More Girls with Guitars, which is usually fun, and occasionally very good, but often more interesting for historical oddity and energy than for the quality of the songs or performers. Still, there are some genuinely stand-out tracks here, none more so than Beverley Jones' "Hear You Talking," which is average Merseybeat musically, but has a vocal that's incredibly vicious by 1964 standards, and a chorus ("I'll cut you dead...if I hear you talking about her") that's downright gangsta in this company. Also very good is Sharon Tandy's "Hold On," justly hailed as a first-rate mod rocker long before its appearance on this compilation, and Ann-Margret's unlikely (and mighty strange) psychedelic Lee Hazlewood-written and produced 1968 rarity "You Turned My Head Around." Nothing else on the CD galvanizes like these three items, but it does at least present a wide range, from Merseybeat (including Liverpool's self-contained Liverbirds) and Beatles novelties to She Trinity's "He Fought the Law" (reportedly the inspiration for the Clash's "I Fought the Law" cover, according to the liner notes); a folk-rocker co-written by Erik Darling of the Rooftop Singers (Project X's "Don't You Think It's Fine"); and a rocking Donovan song that Donovan himself never put on his records (Karen Verros' "You Just Gotta Know My Mind"). Also neat is the Girls' previously unreleased "Here I Am in Love Again," with backing by the Beau Brummels, which was written and produced by Sly Stone, even if the vocals are pretty shaky.

1. The What Four - I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy (2:06) 2. The Starlets - You Don't Love Me (2:17) 3. Raylene & The Blue Angels - Shakin' All Over (2:10) 4. She Trinity - He Fought The Law (2:22) 5. Toni McCann - No (1:56) 6. The Liverbirds - He's Something Else (2:17) 7. Beverley Jones & The Prestons - Hear Your Talking (2:46) 8. The Debutantes - Shake A Tail Feather (2:16) 9. The Fondettes - The Beatles Are In Town (2:04) 10. Project X - Don't You Think It's Fine (2:40) 11. Ann-Margaret - It's A Nice World To Visit (But Not To Live In) (2:28) 12. Sharon Tandy - Hold On (3:12) 13. Karen Verros - You Just Gotta Know My Mind (1:56) 14. Ann-Margaret - You Turned My Head Around (3:21) 15. The Feminine Complex - I've Been Workin' On You (2:49) 16. The Girls - Here I Am In Love Again (2:01) 17. The Termites - Tell Me (2:56) 18. The Liverbirds - Talking About You (3:06) 19. The What Four - Baby, I Dig Love (2:03) 20. The Pivots - (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone (2:33) 21. The Liverbirds - He's About A Mover (2:40) 22. Cheryll & Pam - That's My Guy (2:07) 23. The Lady Bugs - Fraternity, USA (2:28) 24. She Trinity - Climb That Tree (3:32)

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The Fabs - The Fabulous Fabs

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:28:00 GMT

British gal band The Fabs somehow ended up releasing an LP in Mexico in the late sixties! The story that must go behind that must be a hoot! But yes the group consisted of Sarah Johnstone on guitar and organ (plus writing duties on occasion!), Maria Kaye on guitar, Margaret Lewis on bass and Lynne Barry on drums. The record includes mostly covers of popular songs of the time, including Bread and Butter! Plus two originals, "Fabulous" being one of them.

01 - Fabulous

02 - Simon Says

03 - Dancing In The Streets

04 - Can't You Hear My Heartbeat

05 - Wipe Out

06 - Another Minute

07 - Bread And Butter

08 - Land Of 1000 Dances

09 - Whiter Shade Of Pale

10 - Shake / What'd I Say

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V.A. - Heimatliche Klaenge vol.39

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:35:00 GMT

Heimatliche Klaenge - Deutsche Schallplatten-Kleinlabels

Native Sounds - Small German Record-Labels

vol.39

Toni Cavanaugh und die Liverpool Triumphs (aka The Bats / Hamburg)

Rock'n Twist Slop Hully Gully, Somerset 583 (mono)

01 - Long Tall Sally (My Babe)

02 - Mashed Potatoes

03 - I'm Talking About You

04 - What Did I Say

05 - Hummel Twist

06 - Money

07 - Jezebel

08 - Hully Gully

09 - Slippin' And Slidin' (We Are Slopping)

10 - Twiullyop

11 - Tell Me Baby

Somerset 583 (stereo)

12 - Mashed Potatoes

13 - I'm Talking About You

14 - Money

15 - Hully Gully

16 - Slippin' And Slidin' (We Are Slopping)

Toni Cavana & The Beat Brothers

17 - Niemand ist ein Engel

18 - Dann sag nein

19 - Little Clementine

20 - Mein schoenster Tag

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V.A. - Northwest Battle of the Bands Vol. 3 - 4

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:51:00 GMT

CD 3

1. Flash & Crash - Rocky & The Riddlers

2. No Name - The Raymarks

3. I'm Real.. - Don & The Goodtimes

4. I Want Your Love - The Accents

5. Jim's Milk Song - The Liberty Party

6. Ski Bum - The Moguls

7. Penny - The Dimensions

8. Hunose - The Live Five

9. Maintaining My Cool (Audio Recording version) – The Sonics

10. Do You Want Me - The Heirs

11. Take A Look At Me - Mr Lucky & The Gamblers

12. Just Can't Go To Sleep - The Bandits

13. Go Go Time - Tom Thumb & The Casuals

14. Look Around - The Other Two

15. Farmer John - The Beachcombers

16. Bo Diddley - The Juveniles

17. Our Loving Ways - The Tempests

18. Again - The New Yorkers

19. You're Not Wrong - Rocky & His Friends

20. Tuff Enough - The Scotsmen

21. I'll Be There - The Page Boys

22. Lost Love - The Sonics

23. It Takes Love - George Washington & The Cherrybombs

24. Get Yourself Home - The Liberty Party

25. Beaver Patrol - Tymes Children

26. Incubatin' Middle Of The Night Gyratin' Blues – The Bag

27. The Train Kept A Rollin' - The Brave New World

28. Too Many People - Little John & The Monks

29. Things Happen - Secret Agent & The Vice Squad

30. What Kind Of Day Is This - The Dynamics

CD 4

1. Woody Carr & the Entertainers - I Think I Love You

2. The New Yorkers - Mr Kirby

3. Thee Unusuals - I'm Walkin', Babe

4. The Stags - You Know He Did

5. The Raymarks - Feelin' No Good

6. The Bumps - Hey Girl

7. Merrilee & the Turnabouts - Would I

8. Jack Horner & the Plums - Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

9. The Bandits - I Remember The Girl

10. The Mercy Boys - The Way I Am

11. The Ceptors - I Need Her

12. The Beachcombers - Help Yourself Baby

13. The Brave New World - Fire Girl

14. The Express - Long Green

15. The Rock-N-Souls - Got No Love

16. The Counts - Come Now

17. Rocky & the Riddlers - Batman

18. Don & the Goodtimes - You Did It Before

19. The Liberty Party - It's Not Too Late

20. The Raymarks - I Believed

21. The Live Five - Anyhow, Anyway, Anywhere

22. Tom Thumb & the Casuals - The Draft

23. The Emergency Exit - Happy Song

24. The New Yorkers - She's Gone

25. The Other Two - I Have Found Another Girl

26. The Dynastys - Forever And A Day

27. The Heirs - Don't You Love Me

28. Don & the Goodtimes - Stop Telling Lies

29. The Sonics - Going Home

30. The Dynamics - High

Thanks a lot Greetz for this share

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The Chessmen - Collection 1964 - 1966

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:02:00 GMT

Primarily remembered as Terry Jacks' first band, this Vancouver, B.C. ensemble cut four singles during their brief career (1963-66).

Core members included Guy Sobell (lead guitarist and founder) and Bruce Peterson (electric accordion); with various drummers and bassists (e.g. Bill Lockie, Al Wiertz, Miles Kingan and Larry Borisoff) passing through the rhythm section's revolving door. Billing themselves as "The Modern Rock Quartet, " they began as frat-house instrumentalists but quickly progressed to mainstream pop. Their first 45, "Meadowlands" b/w "Mustang" (London 17334), was an inspired reworking of (of all things!) an old Russian folk song, and spotlighted Sobell's lightning-fast flat-picking. "The Way You Fell" b/w "She Comes By Night" (London 17340) debuted Jacks' soft, saccharine vocals and hit #2 locally. The A-side invokes the Grassroots or the Cascades, the flip is an odd grave-rock dirge. Still, both tracks demonstrate Jacks' growing talent as a songwriter (fortunate, for the band found his rhythm guitar work abysmal and had considered dumping him!). Despite U.S. airplay in Chicago and the Midwest, two further 45's met with general indifference, and in 1966, the Chessmen retired from the board. Jacks, briefly affiliating with the Poppy Family, later found fame as the author of the memorably maudlin, "Seasons In The Sun."

1. The Chessmen - Love Didn't Die (2:25) 2. The Chessmen - For Running Wild (2:06) 3. The Chessmen - The Way You Fell (2:40) 4. The Chessmen - Meadowlands (2:33) 5. The Chessmen - You Lost Your Game (2:05) 6. The Chessmen - Whats Causing This Sensation (2:18) 7. The Chessmen - She Comes By Night (2:01) 8. The Chessmen - Mustang (2:43) 9. The Chessmen - When I'm Not There New (2:05) 10. The Chessmen - There's No Blood In Bone (2:39) 11. The Chessmen - Instrumental (0:41) 12. The Chessmen - Wild Thing (2:50) 13. The Chessmen - You Lost Your Game (2:07)

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V.A. - Lenivyj sheyk (Lonely Shake) 1964-1973 USSR

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:21:00 GMT

REQUEST

Pure Music... Easy Listening...

01. "Rokoko" - Rokoko (2:18)

02. "Rokoko" - Dyuny (3:46)

03. "Akkord" - Eho (2:40)

04. "Rokoko" - Lesnoy ruchey (3:30)

05. "Rokoko" - Galantnaya p'esa (3:30)

06. "Rokoko" - Lenivyj sheyk (3:06)

07. "Akkord" - Pingviny (2:04)

08. "Balalayka" - Zelenyj goroshek (2:41)

09. "Rokoko" - Veterok (3:39)

10. "Balalayka" - Dyhanie yuga (3:19)

11. Anatoliy Gorohov & "Balalayka" - Dal'nih zvezd ogni (3:46)

12. "Rokoko" - Dolina tsvetov (2:27)

13. "Rokoko" - Tanets vlyublennyh (3:01)

14. "Balalayka" - Dedushkina svirel' (4:24)

15. "Balalayka" - Tul'skiy samovar (2:11)

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Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band- Safe as Milk (1967)

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:21:00 GMT

Born Don Vliet, Captain Beefheart was one of modern music's true innovators. The owner of a remarkable four-and-one-half octave vocal range, he employed idiosyncratic rhythms, absurdist lyrics and an unholy alliance of free jazz, Delta blues, latter-day classical music and rock & roll to create a singular body of work virtually unrivalled in its daring and fluid creativity. While he never came even remotely close to mainstream success, Beefheart's impact was incalculable, and his fingerprints were all over punk, new wave and post-rock.

Don Vliet was born January 15, 1941 in Glendale, California (he changed his name to Van Vliet in the early '60s). At the age …Read More

Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk (1967)

Beefheart's first proper studio album is a much more accessible, pop-inflected brand of blues-rock than the efforts that followed in the late '60s -- which isn't to say that it's exactly normal and straightforward. Featuring Ry Cooder on guitar, this is blues-rock gone slightly askew, with jagged, fractured rhythms, soulful, twisting vocals from Van Vliet, and more doo wop, soul, straight blues, and folk-rock influences than he would employ on his more avant-garde outings. "Zig Zag Wanderer," "Call on Me," and "Yellow Brick Road" are some of his most enduring and riff-driven songs, although there's plenty of weirdness on tracks like "Electricity" and "Abba Zaba." [Buddha's 1999 reissue of Safe as Milk contained restored artwork and seven bonus tracks.]

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