vineri, 28 septembrie 2012
60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 14: 33 obscure folk-rock janglers
33 obscure folk-rock janglers from the 60s. Non-stop 12-strings jangle pop action from start till end.
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01 The Paradox - There's A Flower Shop
02 The Night Crawlers - You Say
03 Solid Ground - She Played With Love
04 The Restless Feelin's - Hey, Mama, You've Been On My Mind
05 The Drones - When I'm With You
06 The Off-Set - You're A Drag
07 The Squires - I Don't Care
08 The Road Runners - Tell Her You Love Her
09 The Rogues - You Better Look Now
10 The Shan-Dells - Chimes
11 Poverty-Five - Cry Cry Cry (Over You)
12 His Majesty's Coachmen- I Don't Want To See You
13 Pat 'N' Al - I'm Still In Love
14 The Weads - Today
15 The Truths - Pending
16 The Scavengers - Always Travelling Around
17 The Dantes - Can't Get Enough Of Your Love
18 The Allies - Burning Flask
19 The Stillroven - Sunny Day
20 Sir Michael & The Sounds - Love Your Fellow Man
21 The Skunks - I Need No One
22 Brian Arthur - What Can You Do With A Broken Heart
23 The Beachnuts - Nature's Company
24 The Intruders - Ruins
25 The Maltees Four - You
26 The Senders - She Told Me
27 The Rovin' Flames - Seven Million People
28 The Novas - And It's Time
29 The Bethleem Exit - Walk Me Out
30 The Second Set - Picture Window
31 Dennis & The Times - Just If She's There
32 The Escorts - My Only Love
33 The Loved Ones - Being Here With You
marți, 15 mai 2012
60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 13
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1. The Torero's - Come
2. The Shades Of Blue - The Time Of My Life
3. The Shaprels - A Fool For Your Lies
4. The Mirror - Mr. Papermaker
5. The Nicols - Lord I've Been Thinking
6. The Shanes - Faces, Faces
7. The Hustlers - If You Try
8. Tuesday's Children - Doubtfull Nellie
9. Evil Eyes - Mister Mystified
10. The Purple Canteen - If You Like It That Way
11. The Druids - Sorry's Not Enough
12. The Gremlins - Kingsforth Hemmingseen
13. The Bumble Bees - Maybe Someday
14. The Birdwatchers - Mary Mary (It's To You That I Belong)
15. Mustache Wax - I'm Gonna Get You
16. The Enfields - I'm For Things You Do
17. The Spectacles - I'll Be Satisfied
18. Things To Come - Good Day
19. The Spiffys - Dreams
20. The Gregorians - Dialated Eyes
21. The Motions - Miracle Man
22. Difference - Sweet Sounds Everywhere
23. The Lykes Of Us - Tell Me Why Your Light Shines
24. The Hellions - Tomorrow Never Comes
25. The New Yorkers - Mr. Kirby
26. The Chums - You're The Sweetest Girl
27. The Waters - Day In And Out
28. The Trips - At Least She's Happy
29. The Summer Set - Oh Miss Stone
30. The Last Words - I Symbolize You
vineri, 9 martie 2012
60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 12
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1. The Black And Blues - Candy Castles
2. The Private Property Of Digil - Jewelry Lady
3. Weather - Jamboree Special
4. Mike Wallace - Daffodil
5. Substantial Evidence - Please Walk On By
6. The Baytovens - Waiting For You
7. The Tills - One Sided Love
8. American Zoo - Back Streets Thoughts
9. Zimmo's Thanatopsis - In A Dream World
10. Stix & Stonz - Take a Bus
11. The Esquires - Settle Down
12. Kate - Empty World
13. The Gants - Greener Days
14. The Waterproof Candle - Saturday Morning Repentance
15. The Excelsior Spring - Happy Miranda
16. The City Zu - I'll Find Another
17. The Fringe - Flower Generation
18. The Klan - Lonesome Gene
19. East African Fair - Lovin' Every Little Thing You Do
20. The Orbits - Don't
21. The Baroque Brothers - So Glad Was I
22. Something Else - Let Me Say Now Love
23. The Us Too Group - The Girl With The Golden Hair
24. Your Mother - Hello
25. Tonto & The Renegades - Anytime You Want Some Lovin'
26. The Peeps - Got Plenty Of Love
27. Peanut Gallery - Summer's Over
vineri, 30 decembrie 2011
60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 11
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1. The Tikis - If I've Been Dreaming
2. The Basement Wall - Picture On Page 10
3. His Majesty's Coachmen - Where Are You Bound
4. The Baroque Monthly - You Are Your Only Mystery
5. A New Generation - She's A Soldier Boy
6. The Ragges - If I Had Something
7. The Epics - Just How Wrong You Can Be
8. The Knack - Dolly Catcher Man
9. The Heard - Laugh With the Wind
10. Benjamin Carry Ltd - Old Man
11. Jade Hexagram - Crushed Purple
12. Saturday's Children - I Hardly Know Her
13. Squires - Tomorrow Tomorrow
14. The Revolvers - Like Me
15. Glass Candle - Keep Right On Living
16. The Love Ins - That's All She Wrote
17. The Myddle Class - Free As The Wind
18. Grains Of Sand - Nice Girl
19. The Factory - Two People
20. Denny Laine's String Band - Ask the People
21. The Cannons - Day To Day
22. The Rainy Day Friends - Thru My Painted Window
marți, 13 decembrie 2011
60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 10
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1. The Summer Set - What Are You Gonna Do
2. The Motleys - My Race Is Run
3. The Starlites - Good Morning Mr. Milkman
4. Fairchilds - Thinkin' About Me
5. The Brothers Cain - Pupil Alexander
6. The Jones Boys - Seashore Dreamin
7. Hogarth - Suzie Is Getting Married
8. The Bobcats - Can't See For Looking
9. The Imaginations - Summer In New York
10. The Art Movement - I Love Being In Love With You
11. The Trillium - Queen Alice
12. Science Poption - Lady Of Leisure
13. Playboys Of Edinburg - Sanford Ringleton V Of Abernathy
14. The Beauchemins - My Lovin' Baby
15. The Thomas Group - I've Got No More To Say
16. Pan Pipers - Stop
17. The Primates - She
18. The Golden Horizon - Dear Emily
19. Sky - The Weather Forecast
20. The Pop Art - Rumplestilskin
21. The Back Alley - Soda Pop Man
miercuri, 17 august 2011
60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 9
60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 9
1. 49th Parallel - Twilight Woman
2. The Revelles - Little Girl
3. The Jackals - Linda Come Lately
4. The Breeze - The Rainmaker
5. The Julian Kirsch - Clever Little Man
6. The Actress - It's What You Give
7. Group Therapy - Magic In The Air
8. Tony Ritchie - Anybody At The Party Seen Jenny
9. The Full Treatment - Just Can't Wait
10. Sight And Sound - Little Jacky Monday
11. The Mongrels - Good Good Man
12. The Loot - Whenever You're Ready
13. Cat's Pyjamas - Camera Man
14. The Fourth Dimension - Rainy Day
15. The Fault Line - Did You Hear About The End Of The World
16. The Sound Carnival - I Wish I Could Tell You
17. Cat's Eyes - Where Is She Now
18. The Unforscene - Little Toy
19. The Cleves - Sticks And Stones
20. The Music Combination - Crystal
21. Jim Valley - Maintain
22. Pete Sully & Orchard - Evil Woman
23. Sweet Rolle - Squares & Triangle
24. The Look - In A Whirl
25. The Sidekicks - Miss Charlotte
26. The Us - How Can I Tell Her
duminică, 14 august 2011
60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 8
60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 8
1. The Young Idea - Room With A Wiew
2. The Chocolate Watch Band (UK) - Requiem
3. Frabjoy & Runcible Spoon - I'm Beside Myself
4. The Virgin Sleep - Comes A Time
5. The Silver Eagle - Theodore
6. Dave Austin - You Outside
7. Cardboard Orchestra - Yes I Heard A Little Bird
8. The Act Of Creation - Yesterday Noontime
9. The Tate Gallery - Newspaper Man
10. The Symbols - (The Best Part Of) Breaking Up
11. Sandy Coast - Back To The City
12. The Outer Limits - Great Train Robbery
13. Fountain Of Youth - Sunshine On A Cold Morning
14. Phul Wainman - Going Going Gone
15. The Merseys - Dreaming
16. Roger Bloom's Hammer - Polly Pan
17. Dry Ice - Mary Is Alone
18. Katch 22 - Making My Mind Up
19. The Bunch - Birthday
20. Goldrush - Somebody's Turning On The People
21. West - Summer Flower
miercuri, 10 august 2011
60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 7
60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 7
1. The Bystanders - Royal Blue Summer Sunshine Day
2. Prince And Walsh - The House Of Ilene Castle
3. Penny Peeps - Curly, The Knight Of The Road
4. Turnstyle - Riding A Wave
5. The Trodden Path - Don't Follow Me
6. The Mindbenders - Uncle Joe, The Ice Cream Man
7. Love Sculpture - River To Another Day
8. Shades Of Morley Brown - Pretty Blue Bird
9. Peppermint Circus - Keeping My Head Above Water
10. The Jensens - Deep Thinking
11. Pattern People - Take A Walk In The Sun
12. The Nerve - Satisfying Kind
13. The Epic Splendor - It Could Be Wonderful
14. The Everpresent Fullness - Darlin' You Can Count On Me
15. Sixpentz - Imitation Situation
16. The Flies (UK) - Alexander Bell Believes
17. The Hifis - Thread Softly For The Sleepers
18. The Roman Numerals - Matchstick In A Whirlpool
19. King Biscuit Entertainers - (The Courtship Of) Priscilla Brown
20. The Berkeley Kites - Hang Up City
duminică, 31 iulie 2011
60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 6
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60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 6
1. San Franciso Earthquake - Hold The Night
2. The Laurels - Threepence A Tune
3. Warm Sounds - Angeline
4. Pandamonium - Today I'm Happy
5. Central Nervous System - Alice In Wonderland
6. The Others - My Friend The Wizard
7. The Montanas - Take My Hand
8. Arnim-Hamilton - Pepperman
9. The Cadaver - Haven't Got The Time
10. Tim Andrews - Sad Simon Lives Again
11. The Trolley - Toy Shop
12. The Decision - Constable Jones
13. The Tuesday Club - A Goddess In Many Ways
14. Boystown - Hello Mr Sun
15. Ronnie Burns - Picadilly Pages
16. Six Mile Chase - Never In A Month Of Sundays
17. Rhubarb Rhubarb - Rainmaker
18. The Other Voices - May My Heart Be Cast Into Stone
19. The Sugar Canyon - On Top Of The World
20. The Empty Vessels - Low Toby
21. The Brentwoods - Yeah, Yeah, No, No
joi, 28 iulie 2011
60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 5
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1. Common Market - Wings
2. The Ravin' Blue - Colors
3. The Gibsons - The Magic Book
4. The Magic Ring - Little Mary Sunshine
5. The Proposition - Two Faced Madonna
6. Joyce's Angels - Flowers For My Friends
7. Forest Authority - Childhood Friends
8. The Milky Way - Sunshine Daffodils
9. Morning Sun - Let's Walk In The Woods
10. The Flower Pot - Mr Zig Zag Man
11. The Joint Effort - Mary On A Go-Round
12. The Conservatives - Miami
13. The "New" Sound Spectrum - Summer Girl (Now That Summer's Over)
14. The In-Keepers - Everytime
15. Harry's Group - Under My Umbrella
16. A New Generation - Sadie And Her Magic Mr Galahad
17. Particular People - What's The Matter With Juliet
18. The 13th Power - I See A Change Is Gonna Come
19. Milk - Angela Jones
20. The Marshmellow Highway - Loving You Makes Everything Alright
21. Bats - Listen To My Heart
22. Special Delivery - Hello Love
23. Living Daylights - I'm Real
24. The Chelsea Boys - Little Boy Blue
25. Dukes Noblemen - City Of Windows
26. The Nite People - Is This A Dream
miercuri, 27 iulie 2011
60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 4
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60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 4:
1. Circus - Do You Dream
2. The Brain - One In A Miliion
3. State Of Micky & Tommy - Sunday's Leaving
4. Pinkerton's Colours - Mum And Dad
5. Persimmon's Peculiar Shades - Coplington
6. The Virginia Wolves - Rose Peddles Everywhere She Goes
7. The Kytes - Frosted Pane
8. The West Coast Delegation - Mr Personality Man
9. Double Feature - Just Another Lonely Night
10. The Marianne - As For Marionettes
11. The Laughing Wind - The Bells
12. Tales Of Justine - Albert
13. The Neat Change - Sandman
14. The U.S. Males - Come Out Of The Rain
15. Crocheted Doughnut Ring - Happy Castle
16. Two & A Half - I Don't Need To Tell You
17. Toby Twirl - Romeo And Juliet
18. The Clockwatchers - Make Me Not Love You
19. The Truth - Jingle Jangle
20. Still Life - What Did We Miss
marți, 26 iulie 2011
60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 3
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60s Psych Pop Treasures - vol 3:
1. Fargo - Sunny Day Blue
2. Lavender Hill Express - Visions
3. Strawberry Children - Love Years Coming
4. Hi-Revving Tongues - You'll Find Me Anywhere
5. The New Mix - Ever Brighter
6. The Cymbaline - Matrimonial Fears
7. The Castels - Rocky Ridges
8. The Magicians - Lady Fingers
9. Sounds Around - Red, White & You
10. Pop Workshop - Punch And Judy Man
11. Wishful Thinking - I Want You Girl
12. The Fox - Hey Mr. Carpenter
13. The Swinging Blue Jeans - Rumours, Gossip, Words Untrue
14. Kippington Lodge - Tomorrow Today
15. Gary Walker & The Rain - The View
16. Sidewalk Skipper Band - Cynthia At The Garden
17. The Orphans - This Is The Time
18. The Onyx - You've Gotta Be With Me
19. The Illusions - Wait Till The Summer
20. The Epics - Travelling Circus
sâmbătă, 23 iulie 2011
60s Psych Pop Treasures - Vol 2
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60s Psych Pop Treasures - Vol 2
1. The Mirage - Is Anybody Home
2. The Fredric - Henry Adams
3. Made In Sheffield - Amelia Jane
4. The Churls - Princess Mary Margaret
5. Glitterhouse - Princess Of The Gingerland
6. Barclay James Harvest - Mr. Sunshine
7. The Higher Elevation - The Summer Skies
8. The Hung Jury - Buses
9. Los Mac's - Anne Marie
10. Our Plastic Dream - Encapsulated Marigold
11. The Hinge - The Village Postman
12. The Vectors - Paisley Haze
13. Phluph - Doctor Mind
14. Carnival Connection - Alfred Appleby
15. The Escorts - Sitting By A Tree
16. Life 'N' Soul - Peacefully Asleep
17. Dantelian's Chariot - Sun Came Bursting Through My Cloud
18. The Lemon Drops - I Like You
duminică, 6 martie 2011
60s Psych Pop Treasures - Vol 1
Vol 1
1. The Factory - No Place I'd Rather Be
2. Grisby Dyke - The Adventures of Miss Rosemary LaPage
3. Los Brincos - Peque? Pajaro
4. The Staccatos - Whisper Words
5. The Pussyfoot - Hasty Words
6. Bit 'A Sweet - 2086
7. The Fourmyula - Mr. Harris
8. Orange Bicycle - Amy Peate
9. Master's Apprentices - Elevator Driver
10. Saturday's Photograph - Gentle Lovin' San Francisco Man
11. The Merseys - Change Of Heart
12. The Daily Flesh - The French Girl
13. The Gloomys - Westend Station
14. West Coast Consortium - Colour Sergent Lillywhite
15. Chances Are - What Went Wrong
16. The British North-American Act - Baby Jane Days and Nights
17. The Avengers - Flower Girl
18. The Motions - Memories O' Fair Hired Lady
vineri, 28 august 2009
Focal Point - First Bite of the Apple: The Complete Recordings (1967-1968)
sâmbătă, 11 aprilie 2009
Horses - Horses (1969)
The Rainy Daze broke up following several post-LP singles on the Turtles' label, White Whale. Carter and Gilbert, meanwhile, had written an entire album, and now needed a band to record it. With Diamond, they held auditions and ultimately assembled Dave Torbert on bass, Scott Quigley and Matt Kelly on guitars, Chris Herold on drums, and lead singer Rich Fifield. Fifield was replaced midway through the recording sessions with an unknown 18-year-old kid, Don Johnson, in his first professional gig. The resultant, self-titled album was a strong effort, mixing tongue-in-cheek counterculturalisms ("Class of '69" was a carefully couched song about a sex act) and hippie-fied country elements into its hard rock, but also, unfortunately, came out on White Whale just at the moment that the label was beginning to come undone. (AMG).
Tracklist :
duminică, 5 aprilie 2009
Picadilly Line - The Huge World Of Emily Small (1967)
Tracklist :
marți, 31 martie 2009
Plastic Penny - Currency (1969)
Tracklist :
1. You Way To Tell Me Go
2. Hound Dog
3. Currency
4. Caledonian Mission
5. Mcarthur Park
6. Turn To Me
7. Baby You're Not To Blame
8. Give Me Money
9. Sour Suite
10. She Does
11. Celebrity Ball
joi, 26 martie 2009
The Paper Garden - The Paper Garden (1968)
Tracklist :
1.Gypsy Wine
2.Sunshine People
3.Way Up High
4.Lady's Man
5.Mr. Mortimer
6.Man Do You
7.Raining
8.I Hide
9.Raven
10.A Day
marți, 24 martie 2009
Harmony Grass - This Is Us (1969)
Tracklist :
1. Move in a Little Closer Baby
2. My Little Girl
3. What a Groovy Day
4. I've Seen to Dream
5. (It Ain't Necessarily) Byrd Avenue
6. Chattanooga Choo Choo
7. Good Thing
8. Mrs Richie
9. Summer Dreaming
10. I Think of You
11. Ballad of Michael
12. Tom Dooley
13. What Do You Do When Love Dies
sâmbătă, 21 martie 2009
Blues Section - Blues Section (1967)
Tracklist :
1. Paint It Michael And Others, Maybe
2. Answer To Life
3. The Day The Bird Of Paradise Looked Down Trough A
4. Wolf At The Door
5. End Of A Poem
6. Please Mr. Wilson
7. Once More For The Road
8. The East Is Red
9. Carpets And Bags And Balls
10. Apartment 51
11. Call Me On Your Telephone
12. Hey Hey Hey
joi, 19 martie 2009
Kensington Market - Aardvark (1969)
Aardvark is a weird and wonderful mini masterpiece in which much of the Kensington Market’s reputation rests. This time out there were no silly jugband tracks and many of the album’s ideas are fully formed and well thought out. Some of the songs, like the beautifully trippy Cartoon and the ahead-of-it’s-time Help Me, use primitive synthesizer in all the right ways. Help Me sounds like a lost Flaming Lips track with its open arrangement and blissed out guitar playing. Side I Am would have had radio potential had it not been for the experimental Smile-era Beach Boys intro. It’s a stunning pop song with Penny Lane horns, fine vocals and that special, inspiring 60s magic. Other tracks like Think About The Times and If It Is Love have more of a meloncholy air but are equally excellent and reveal a more pessimistic side of the band. The experimental Americana of Half Closed Eyes is another standout composition that’s superb in an early morning folk-strum Dylan way with unusual synthesizer flourishes.
Aardvark requires a few close listens to sink in but it really is a great Beatles influenced pop album by an underrated band. (RisingStorm.net).
Tracklist :
1. Help Me
2. If It Is Love
3. I Know You
4. The Thinker
5. Half Closed Eyes
6. Said I Could Be Happy
7. Ciao
8. Ow-ing Man
9. Side I Am
10. Think About The Times
11. Have You Come To See
12. Cartoon
13. Dorian
miercuri, 18 martie 2009
The Shamrocks - Smoke Rings Around the Cadillac (1964-1967)
Tracklist :
1. We Gonna Make It
2. A Lonley Man
3. Skinny Minny
4. A Mountain Of Silver
5. Cadillac
6. Easy Rider
7. And I Need You
8. Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
9. La La La
10. Things Will Turn Out Right Tomorrow
11. Balla Balla
12. Oxford Street 43
13. Don't Say
14. Nobody Cares About Me
15. Days
16. Smokerings
17. See Me Coming
18. I'm On The Outside Locking In
19. Please Don't Cry (For Me)
20. Gipsy Lullaby at 1030
21. Missconception
22. I'm Ready For The Show
23. Cadillac (Paris version)
24. How The Time Flies
25. Travelin' Man
26. The Smiling Kind
27. Don't You Know She's Mine
28. Daytime Nightime
29. Rich Life
duminică, 15 martie 2009
The Tremeloes - Here Come the Tremeloes (1967)
Yet, the Tremeloes are also one of the least-known and least-respected of '60s English bands. The precise reason for the lack of respect is difficult to pin down, except perhaps that their timing was off, as far as making the most of their success. They generally didn't write their own material and they cut their best singles long after the British Invasion (and the mystique surrounding the bands that were part of it) had ended. Yet, ironically, the Tremeloes are also one of the longest surviving English rock & roll bands, still playing regularly more than 40 years after the group's founding.
Tracklist :
1. Here Comes My Baby
2. Run Baby Run
3. My Town
4. Round And Round
5. What A State I'm In
6. Loving You
7. Good Day Sunshine
8. You
9. Let Your Hair Hang Down
10. Shake Hands
11. When I'm With Her
12. Even The Bad Times Are Good
sâmbătă, 14 martie 2009
The Fredric - Phases and Faces (1968)
Tracklist :
1. Federal Reserve Bank Blues
2. The Girl I Love
3. All About Judi
4. Henry Adams
5. Morning Sunshine
6. Taggin'
7. Cousin Mary Knows
8. My Yellow Tree
9. Red Pier
10. Old Fashioned Guy
11. Born in Fire
12. Saturday Morning With Rain
Tinkerbells Fairydust - Tinkerbells Fairydust (1969)
In 1968, they released a second single ('Twenty Ten' b/w 'Walking My Baby') which didn't chart high in the U.K., but managed to become a #1 hit in Japan. In 1969, they briefly worked with Idle Race and future ELO guru Jeff Lynn to release a final single ('Sheila's Back In Town' b/w the Lynn penned 'Follow Me Follow'). That same year they released a self titled LP, which had a limited issue of 500 copies and now goes for thousands of dollars on the collectors market. The album includes some original material as well as some great covers, including the previously released 'Lazy Day' and Joe Cocker's 'Marjorine'. Unfortunately, the group split soon after the record's completion.
Tracklist :
1. 20-10
2. In My Magic Garden
3. Marjorine
4. You Keep Me Hanging On
5. The Worst That Could Happen
6. Never My Love
7. Lazy Day
8. Every Minute Every Day
9. Whole World
10. They Didnt Believe Me
11. Happy
12. Sheila's Back In Town
13. Jeff's Boogie
miercuri, 11 martie 2009
Turquoise - The Further Adventures of Flossie Fillett: The Complete Recordings (1966-1969)
Tracklist :
1. Tales of Flossie Fillett
2. Flying Machine [Second Version]
3. Sister Saxophone
4. 53 Summer Street
5. Sea Shines
6. Village Green
7. Saynia
8. Sunday Best
9. Woodstock
10. Stand Up and Be Judged
11. Woodstock [First Reduction]
12. Flying Machine [First Version]
13. Leana [Backing Track]
14. What's Your Name
15. Mindless Child of Motherhood
16. You're Just Another Girl (As the Brood)
17. Wrong Way (As the Brood)
18. Turquoise 1968 Christmas Record
marți, 10 martie 2009
Rainbow Ffolly - Sallies Fforth (1968)
Tracklist :
1. She's Alright
2. I'm So Happy
3. Montgolfier
4. Drive My Car
5. Goodbye
6. Hey You
7. Sun Sing
8. Sun and Sand
9. Labour Exchange
10. They'm
11. No
12. Sighing Game
13. Come or Go
luni, 9 martie 2009
The Lemon Pipers - Jungle Marmalade (1968)
The band played a mix of blues and rock jams regularly in Oxford clubs and a Cincinnati underground rock venue, the Ludlow Garage, and released a single on the Carol Records label, "Quiet Please". In late 1967 they were offered a recording deal by a talent scout from Buddah Records and moved to New York.
Working with producer and songwriter Paul Leka, the group’s debut on Buddah was a Bartlett composition, "Turn Around and Take A Look". When the song failed to make the charts, the label approached Leka and his songwriting partner, Shelley Pinz, who were working out of an office in the same Broadway building as Buddah, to come up with a song. The pair wrote "Green Tambourine" and the band reluctantly recorded it. The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 at the end of 1967 and hit No.1 in February 1968. The song peaked at No. 7 in the UK and was also a hit worldwide.
Its success led to pressure being placed on the band by the label to replicate the song with an identical follow-up and in March the band released another Leka/Pinz song, "Rice Is Nice", which peaked at No. 46 in the US and No. 41 in the UK in May. The band had little enthusiasm for either song, however, dubbing them "funny-money music" and recording them only because they knew they would be dropped by Buddah if they refused.
Their pop success created what Nave has described as "the duality of the Lemon Pipers": "We were a stand-up rock 'n' roll band, and then all of a sudden, we're in a studio, being told how to play and what to play."
The chasm between the label’s aspirations and the band’s own musical tastes became apparent on the Lemon Pipers’ debut album, Green Tambourine (1967). Produced by Leka, the album contained five Leka/Pinz songs and the band-written free-form and extended blues-inspired tracks "Fifty Year Void" and "Through With You" (the latter bearing influences of The Byrds and running to more than nine minutes). Writing in Bubblegum is the Naked Truth, Gary Pig Gold commented: "It was the Pipers’ way with a tough-pop gem in the under-four-minute category which was most impressive by far: 'Rainbow Tree', 'Shoeshine Boy' and especially 'Blueberry Blue' each sported a taut, musical sophistication worthy of The Move and, dare I say it, even the Magical Mystery Beatles."
The band recorded a second album for Buddah, Jungle Marmalade, which again showed both sides of the band – another Leka/Pinz bubblegum song, "Jelly Jungle", (released as a single and peaking at No. 51 in the US), a version of the Carole King/Gerry Goffin song "I Was Not Born to Follow" (released in 1968 by the Byrds) and an 11-minute, 43 second epic, "Dead End Street/Half Light".
The band left the Buddah label in 1969 and later dissolved.
Tracklist :
1. Jelly Jungle
2. I Was Not Born to Follow
3. Everything Is You
4. Catch Me Falling
5. Hard Core
6. Love Beads and Meditation
7. I Need Someone
8. Mirrors
9. Wine and Violet
10. Dead End Street/Half Light
sâmbătă, 7 martie 2009
The Young Rascals - Once Upon a Dream (1968)
Once Upon A Dream opens up with a fairly well known track, Easy Rollin’. Easy Rollin’ is one of the mini classics on this album and stands out from previous Rascal outings in that it’s more roots influenced with edgy acoustic guitars, harmonica, and B-3. The production on this song is remarkable: one can hear birds chirping in the background and the band itself seems to have more space and breathing room. Other tracks like the dreamy Silly Girl and zany Rainy Day are psychedelic pop songs that have strings and horns in the mix. These sweet, confectionery treats give way to harder edged psych rockers Please Love Me and It’s Wonderful. Please Love Me harks back to the band’s mid 60s garage soul period but has wonderful flute and swirling fuzz guitar effects. Other great songs are the soul-blues of Singin’ The Blues Too Long which has a clear Ray Charles influence, and the great, overlooked blue-eyed soul classic, My World. My World is notable for including female backup singers as well as the Rascals’ own excellent vocal arrangement.
The Rascals would release other good albums after Once Upon A Dream but few pop records from the time are as instantly memorable and sophisticated as this. At the time, the album’s production and sound were considered a triumph. This is a true classic and should be part of any serious rock n roll collection. (RisingStorm.net).
Tracklist :
1. Intro/Easy Rollin'
2. Rainy Day
3. Please Love Me
4. It's Wonderful
5. I'm Gonna Love You
6. My Hawaii
7. My World
8. Silly Girl
9. Singin' The Blues Too Long
10. Sattva
11. Finale Once Upon A Dream