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Who’d have thought Elton John would be so controversial? On to safer territory.
Like the Beatles, Pink Floyd proved to be more than the sum of its parts. Together, they were genius. Apart, less so. However, that doesn’t mean the solo stuff is all bad. Roger Waters’ post-Floyd releases reveal him to be the pretentious git he sounds like in interviews, but his first effort with Ron Geesin, “Music from the Body,” hangs together better than his other stuff, except “Radio K.A.O.S”. Richard Wright’s “Wet Dream” is excellent, as is Nick Mason’s “Profiles” (with Rick Fenn, the 10CC guitarist). David Gilmour’s solo stuff is all pretty choice, even if he desperately needs Roger’s lyrics, but I rather like his collaboration with Dr. Alex Paterson (The Orb), “Metallic Spheres”. Lastly, we have an unauthorized release, “Forever and Ever,” put together by someone on the web, which re-incorporates “The Division Bell” material with the outtakes and leftovers from those sessions that eventually became their last release, “The Endless River.” It’s not quite a solo album since three of four members worked on it, but if Roger hates it, it must have some merit.
Music from The Body (with Ron Geesin) (1970) – http://www120.zippyshare.com/v/EuIfkMxm/file.html
Wet Dream (1978) – http://www120.zippyshare.com/v/OUqAt6KU/file.html
Profiles (1985) – http://www120.zippyshare.com/v/RLpbk5ON/file.html
Metallic Spheres (with The Orb) (2010) – http://www120.zippyshare.com/v/TKFQrONH/file.html
Forever and Ever (1994-2014) – http://www120.zippyshare.com/v/W6S0WPqT/file.html
In today’s Kitsch Korner, “Hair” starts its world tour with the Israeli cast, we hear from the post-death Elvis, and then we drop into the cockpit with the “Airplane!” soundtrack. Surely, bitrates will vary—but don’t call me Shirley.
“Hair” Original Israeli Cast (1970) – http://www120.zippyshare.com/v/00HZNYIh/file.html
Gail Brewer-Giorgio – The Elvis Tape: Is Elvis Alive? (1988) – http://www120.zippyshare.com/v/p2fGnPNu/file.html
“Airplane!” (1980) – http://www120.zippyshare.com/v/gNGuBiOY/file.html
Thanks to all who have posted the comedy records...more laughter definitely needed these days.
Wishing you all a safe and pleasant start to your new year. Health, happiness and peace.
UB
Holy Macaroni!!
Big thanks to montysmusic & Gaius for
Tony Carey. His ballads are one of my
Guilty Pleasures.
Hope the New Year brings prosperity and
ever increasing Music Collections to
all TZ'ers.
TRANSATLANTIC record label.
I've put up previous specific genre Transatlantic compilations before, but this is the "general" one.
Thanks to the original uploader. Very recently downloaded by me, but the tracks were not labelled so I put the information in and re-uploaded.
VA - The Transatlantic Story - CD1 - A Laugh, A Song & A Hand-Grenade.zip
http://www32.zippyshare.com/v/KTQveM5L/file.html
VA - The Transatlantic Story - CD2 - Do You Hear Me Now.zip
http://www32.zippyshare.com/v/g73IleMg/file.html
VA - The Transatlantic Story - CD3 - Dance The Buckles Off Your Shoes.zip
http://www32.zippyshare.com/v/PPEG9lFm/file.html
VA - The Transatlantic Story - CD4 - Granny Takes A Trip.zip
http://www32.zippyshare.com/v/09PMnZ2z/file.html
Continuing the Elton John chat it was rumoured he made a psychedelic album anyone know of this?
Holiday Soundz vol 3
contents are
allmen joy - 1967 family dog denver, colorado (bootleg)psyche
andy california! - the amazing andy california! live!
Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas E.P. Collection(e.p)
Billy J. Kramer With The Dakotas-The E.P Collection
Exotic - Exotic 1969
Fallen Angles-1985 in loving memory
Jacula-1969 - In Cauda Semper Stat Venenum[prog]
Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock-Threadgill's Supper Session
kristofferson tribute
Les Kitchenettes
out of darkness - 1970 - out of darkness[xian rock]
Quatermass-1970 - quatermass (flac)
Spur - Spur of the Moments 1968 (Vinyl) [flac]
the maharajas - sucked into the seventies ep [crusher 2010]
The Rose of Avalanche-La Rain (The Singles Album)
The Strumbellas-Hope[alternative]
7 day link
Download link
https://we.tl/a65Q7vQm5M
1 file
Holiday Soundz vol 3.zip
This was requested
VA-Fuzzy Tiger Mix 4.zip
http://www79.zippyshare.com/v/qKlnLweU/file.html
A message for Johnny Diego could you remember the date you posted the info about the missing zippy files please? or repost the info thanks for all your work and good to see you back Happy New Year to you and yours
A message for all TZer's please in 2018 spare thought for your lonely wives,girlfriends,boyfriends, dogs ,cats ,budgies,parrots and goldfish..who may or may not miss you while you are sailing on the good ship TZ
In AA they have twelve steps to recovery I wonder if any kind wit could do twelve steps for recovery from TZ it would be a fun read and may help some of you lost souls
Bless you All [and Elton John ]in 2018
a re-up of these was requested
VA -Daft Wild Sparkling Strawberry Soda (Disc 2)indie pop.zip
http://www79.zippyshare.com/v/C4gp6bu2/file.html
VA -Daft Wild Sparkling Strawberry Soda (Disc 1)indie pop.zip
http://www79.zippyshare.com/v/qi2NWDcY/file.html
Teenage Fanclub - Complete B-Sides Collection.zip
http://www79.zippyshare.com/v/Ye0Khjix/file.html
montysmusic,
thanks for your good wishes but you forgot the husbands... ; )
Another Agnes Obel album and a beatly blues covers album
Agnes Obel-2013 - live at studio 105.zip
http://www79.zippyshare.com/v/T2Ta7gCE/file.html
johnny jones--beatles blues.zip
http://www79.zippyshare.com/v/e6ZD0Sqx/file.html
For Hermann a re-up of Holiday Soundz vol 2
https://mega.nz/#!MtFlABaB!1rnin2NgsajpsT-xa55IUDtT0umgUnuIRy1Fb2RFPgE
Timebender asked for some Beatnik Filmstars from there later era[I think]
here's a selection
Boyracer + Beatnik Filmstars split.zip
http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/lynR9InI/file.html
Beatnik Filmstars-The Purple Fez 72 Club Social.zip
http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/1QwQjgsc/file.html
Beatnik Filmstars-Shenaniganism (Tape Hiss And Other Imper.zip
http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/AYLJGKaZ/file.html
beatnik filmstars - john peel session 6-04-95.zip
http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/nEVj1BH0/file.html
Beatnik Filmstars - Barking (A Collection Of Oddities).zip
http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/vwOSTtqJ/file.html
Beatnik Filmstars - [2003] Boss Disque.zip
http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/ZMWL4dwV/file.html
Whew - my Floyd post made it in. I thought I'd gotten banned for a second...
NEWSFLASH ! Ringo Starr and Barry Gibb have both been knighted in the New Years Honours list
@monty's - the psychedelic EJ album is improbable. He went from playing in Bluesology (by night) and recording today's-hits-not-by-the-original-artist albums, covering Stevie Wonder and others (by day) to his own sessions (done after hours and days off) for "Empty Sky," and stylistically, that seems too far a departure. Nothing is impossible, but something would have surfaced by now.
JWDen,
there is no reason to be ironic! Here you can say what you like, unless it's offensive, racist or discriminatory!
I'M NOT LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE SONG SWARM
http://www85.zippyshare.com/v/52OVhAdD/file.html
"I'm Not Like Everybody Else" is a song written by Ray Davies and first recorded by The Kinks in 1966 and released that year as the B-side of "Sunny Afternoon". The lead vocal is sung by Dave Davies, with occasional parts vocalized by his brother Ray, the band's usual lead singer. The song is a defiant anthem of non-conformity. It has been covered by various artists, notably the Chocolate Watchband in their 1968 rendition of the song.
The song is a defiant anthem of non-conformity, and its lyrics exhibit sentiments of frustration, accompanied by the outsider perception of being different from the rest, while yearning to seek and find, as well as assert, one's own individual identity. The song begins with an opening signature played somewhat menacingly on a twelve-string electric guitar in the key of A-minor, punctuated by subtle drum beats, which then shifts into a key of G-major when the lyrics begin, highlighting the song's angry stance.
I won't take all that they hand me down
And make out a smile though I wear a frown
And I'm not gonna take this all lying down
'Cause once I get started I go to town
'Cause I'm not like everybody else...
Yet the mood also conveys a sense of sadness, and in the third verse expresses love and a sense of remorse, but with a cautious warning:
But darling, you know that I love you true
Do anything that you want me to
Confess all my sins like you want me to
There's one thing I will say to you
I'm not like everybody else...
As the song progresses into its last bars, it builds up to a cathartic finale with intense playing from all of the members of the Kinks and then comes to a crashing close. -- Wiki
It was difficult, if not impossible in the time I allowed myself, to find any versions of this song other than Rock and Roll. So, some may say there's a folk-rock version or someone else may say that's pretty much pop. It's all rock & roll to me. And since several songs sound similar I've only included 17, chucking the pretty bad ones.
From the moment I first heard "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" it became my favorite song. Or as my young daughter used to say, "Dad! Every song is your favorite!" -- JohnnyDiego
01 The Kinks (1966)
02 The Goshorn Brothers (2003)
03 Jimmy And The Boys (1979)
04 Chrissy Flatt (2006)
05 The Finchley Boys (1968)
06 Peter Perrett (1996)
07 The Sacred Mushroom (1969)
08 The Nomads (1984)
09 Camper Van Beethoven (1993)
10 Don DiLego (2005)
11 Welshly Arms (2016)
12 Flesh For Lulu (1986)
13 Television Personalities (2001)
14 Soraia (2014)
15 Chris Spedding (1980)
16 The Chesterfield Kings (1999)
17 Ray Davies (Live) (2006)
Completely and cleanly tagged
Cover included
@Ryp - Thanks, and I appreciate you and Gyro maintaining this forum for lovers of all kinds of music! Post on in 2018!!
Monty --
Thanks for the New Year wishes and the same goes out from me to you. I'm going to try to find what I wrote concerning those missing Zippy files. I'm not sure but I think I lost a bunch of files after I got out of the hospital so that might be September or October. There are a lot of posts in those two months. If anyone else knows the month that Zippy got hijacked a note would be of help.
I can't sit at the computer for hours and hours so unless someone else can help it may take me awhile.
@ Bob (December 29, 2017 at 8:07 PM) Thank you very much Bob for all the extra work you have put in there. Underrated artist. Appreciate it a lot!
Thanks JDub for leading it off this morning. All your shares look interesting and I will give them a listen.
In 1971 a friend brought over to my house an album by Elton John. Neither of us had heard him before but my friend was a piano player so we listened. I think I thought the record was pretty good, but I can't really remember. Later the times I heard his early albums I thought they sucked. And shortly after 1971 I got out of rock and roll so I pretty much thought all of Elton John's songs, even though some are pretty melodic, sucked big time. And I pretty much still do.
I remember a few years ago I got into the same type of discussion with Gyro over Van Morrison whom I can't stand. Gyro had some good points but he still couldn't sway my stiff and rigid body.
Various Artists – La Noire Vol. 1 "Have Mercy, Uncle Sam" Vinyl @320
http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/0PSamGWT/file.html
http://www.discogs.com/Various-La-Noire-Vol-1-Have-Mercy-Uncle-Sam/release/5506082
Various Artists – La Noire Vol. 2 "Please Mr Playboy" Vinyl @320
http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/n2Jntxvc/file.html
http://www.discogs.com/Various-La-Noire-Vol-2-Please-Mr-Playboy/release/5506166
Various Artists – La Noire Vol. 3 "Baby You Got Soul !" Vinyl @320
http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/bxcWVaiN/file.html
http://www.discogs.com/Various-La-Noire-Vol-3-Baby-You-Got-Soul-/release/5765490
Tommy James & The Shondells – Hanky Panky (1966) Vinyl @320
http://www58.zippyshare.com/v/VTSBkTaD/file.html
https://www.discogs.com/Tommy-James-The-Shondells-Hanky-Panky/release/2962537
Thelonious Monk- Underground (1968) Vinyl @320
http://www75.zippyshare.com/v/DvWYDh37/file.html
https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/thelonious-monk-underground-1968-columbia/
Motherlode – When I Die (1969) Vinyl @320
http://www19.zippyshare.com/v/cZ8knEz4/file.html
https://www.discogs.com/Motherlode-When-I-Die/release/1067905
Johnny Copeland – Copeland Special (!981) Vinyl @320
http://www73.zippyshare.com/v/2GAg5xjg/file.html
https://www.discogs.com/Johnny-Copeland-Copeland-Special/release/2878978
Graham Parker – The Real Macaw (1983) Vinyl @320
http://www64.zippyshare.com/v/BEAoXe4p/file.html
http://www.discogs.com/Graham-Parker-The-Real-Macaw/release/2690289
Graham Parker And The Shot – Steady Nerves (1985) Vinyl @320
http://www64.zippyshare.com/v/nh9WdW2j/file.html
http://www.discogs.com/Graham-Parker-And-The-Shot-Steady-Nerves/release/1664802
Graham Parker – Human Soul (1989) CD @320
http://www64.zippyshare.com/v/mWwjQyQc/file.html
https://www.discogs.com/Graham-Parker-Human-Soul/release/2333162
Talking Heads – Little Creatures (1985) CD @320
http://www87.zippyshare.com/v/SLroLWog/file.html
https://www.discogs.com/Talking-Heads-Little-Creatures/release/6237131
Talking Heads – True Stories (1986) Vinyl @320
http://www87.zippyshare.com/v/qSmElQMC/file.html
https://www.discogs.com/Talking-Heads-True-Stories/release/7529695
Bobby Bland – Blues You Can Use (1987) Vinyl @320
http://www2.zippyshare.com/v/uUAMEjgR/file.html
http://www.discogs.com/Bobby-Bland-Blues-You-Can-Use-Me/release/4040684
Southside Johnny – Slow Dance (1988) Vinyl @320
http://www52.zippyshare.com/v/0Rt11EOF/file.html
https://www.discogs.com/Southside-Johnny-Slow-Dance/release/2337481
Manu Chao – Clandestino (1998) CD @320
http://www105.zippyshare.com/v/Y4XwgXYh/file.html
https://www.discogs.com/Manu-Chao-Clandestino/release/633510
Tommy Womack – The Tommy Womack Band - Washington D.C. (2003) CD @320
http://www64.zippyshare.com/v/WKsWXv8w/file.html
http://www.allmusic.com/album/washington-dc-mw0000986701
http://nodepression.com/album-review/tommy-womack-band-washington-dc
https://www.discogs.com/Tommy-Womack-Tommy-Womack-Band-The-Washington-DC/release/5344881
To RYP, GYRO and all the TZ-ers in Blogsville and Across the World:
Have a Happy, Healthy, Musical New Year. Much thanks to ALL the generous and gregarious contributors, you know who you all are, and to the entire lot of TZ-ers for making this such a vibrant meeting place.
@Aging Child - My soundtrack collection sprawls pretty far, but thanks for the "Excalibur" upgrade, which I had at a puny 128. Much appreciated!
@Johnny Diego - I hope you enjoy. I'm with Gyro on Van Morrison, but as many concerts as I've been to, I've never seen him live. He rarely tours the interior of the US, just the coasts, and the one time he did show up here in Colorado at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the tickets were gone in minutes with scalpers wanting obscene amounts of money. I rarely go to shows anymore, but that would be a bucket list concert for me.
@Days of the Broken Arrows - LOVE that Culture Club album!!
@ montysmusic
Many thanks for johnny jones--beatles blues, listening to it now, excellent!
Just a question, where did you find this album???
I tried googlin' it in lots of ways (in order to find the cover art), but found zilch! Nothing on discogs, same for AllMusic...
Only 1 or 2 tracks appear on Beatles Blues tributes with various artists.
Just an intriguing little mystery!
Have a great New Year's Eve and thanks again.
@ montysmusic Never mind, I found it just now, it really is the various artists compilation Blues Beatles (Indigo), Johnny does only Come Together.
monty with apologies to AA
Hello, my name is lemonflag and I am a download-aholic. It has been 3 minutes since my last download. Well, since I started a download, it's still downloading now.
1. I admit I am powerless over downloading, my life has become unmanagable. (Unless I get an 8 terrabyte hard drive for my birthday next month.)
2. I have come to believe that only a Power greater than myself can restore me. (Elvis or JPGR or Chuck or Elton)
3. I have made a decision to turn my will and my collection over to the care of, see #2
4. I have made a search and inventory of my downloads.
5. I admit to, see#2, the exact size and taste of my downloads. (Guilty pleasures etc.)
6. I am entirely ready to remove all of my guilty pleasures (Elton, disco, Donovan, ISB.)
7. I humbly ask Ryp to removes all temptations. (but not The Temptations.)
8. I have made a list of all persons harmed and am willing to make amends. (only my wife came to mind.)
9. I will make amends to all such people whereever possible. ( I don't think she minds?)
10. I will continue to take inventory and delete duplicates.
11. I will pray or meditate or send out vibes to Ryp and hope he/she will stop uploading Surf Music.
12. I hope that my awakening will result in controlled down-loading and that Gyro will be by my side and help all other download-aholics.
PS add Van or Englebert or Groucho to #2
PSS add Sir Ringo as a solo artist to #2
My thanks to RYP and all contributors, and happy new year to all who share the generous spirit of this blog, which does so much to expand our tastes, and expose us to sounds we didn't think at first that we'd like. Stay open-minded. It's music.
Rose Marie upgrade thanks to the Cheerful Earful.
Songs For Single Girls (1964) @256
https://mega.nz/#F!fpZzhIZb!cr_7wdZN-lmYi8oK3cHARQ
— Plus! —
Booga! Booga! (1974) David Steinberg @192
https://mega.nz/#F!n1AVyL5K!q8tH36mFvFvD4UO1gce-pA
Happy New Year to all you TZ'ers
Can anyone help with the following MIRWOOD RECORD L.P releases
MW-7002 - Music Company - Rubber Soul Jazz - 1966
MW-7003 - Olympics - Something Old, Something New - 1966
1001 - Various Artists - Where There's a Will
1002 - Bob & Earl / Olympics - The Best of Bob & Earl & the Olympics
ROOT
Gaius said:
According to the world wide community of TZ and regarding the fact that the Australians are the first on earth reaching 2018 and not so very far away from the new year I post my best wishes to you already at the 30th of December.
@monty and JWDen
'Empty Sky' is really the Elton John album which is sometimes credited as psychedelic. It was his first album in 1969, so the time is right. It includes tracks like Val-Halla or Gulliver that indicates in a way some psychedelic stuff.
But getting away from this. Here are "The Vipers", a NYC based band. Clean good garage stuff of Rock 'n Roll. After "Outta the Nest", it's their second album, some record you couldn't find round the next corner. Here is 'How about some more?':
http://www35.zippyshare.com/v/UHZynqGK/file.html
And here is some really heavy psychedelic stuff: "The Grail" is an obscure British psychedelic quartet based in London who played the Marquee, among other clubs, in 1969. Their only album, released around 1970 on the German Metronome label, is rumored to have been produced by Rod Stewart."...
"Grail "
Grail 1970 (UK, Heavy Psychedelic Rock, 320)
https://yadi.sk/public/?hash=gYi%2B6wOWUeIHIfrVG8Efu3YajnTsEP5a3le%2FGidAHFA%3D
Here's a couple more of the early British rock & roll collections:
VA - Wide Skirts, Drape Coats & Brothel Creepers - Vol. 3.zip
http://www85.zippyshare.com/v/pYDu6uJq/file.html
VA - Wide Skirts, Drape Coats & Brothel Creepers - Vol. 4.zip
http://www85.zippyshare.com/v/aS8U7yKe/file.html
J.D.
Here's a worthy addition to the "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" song swarm:
Head-1994-I'm Not Like Everybody Else-(320).zip
http://www59.zippyshare.com/v/fdzzFyIM/file.html
The song is a favorite of mine as well in the original as well as the covers.
Thank you for the swarm!
@Lemonflag You and I have the same affliction - Our only cure seems to be an Exorcism
@montysmusic - Thanks for locating Fuzzy Tiger Mix #4. That leaves on Fuzzy Tiger Mix #3. I've been looking myself but haven't tripped over it yet.
@Bob - Thanks for the Wide Skirts series. Like Topps baseball cards, I hope to collect them all!
@Gaius - Now that you mention it, I can see "Empty Sky" as psychedelic, especially in the song recap montage that ends the album. Thanks for the perspective!
Please can anyone direct me to the links for Fuzzy Tiger Mix# 1 & 2 ?
I know how you feel, Lemonflag. Whether it's DL or buying music, it's such an obsession. I can't say that it's why I became divorced, but it certainly didn't help. I can't stop, and I don't want to stop.
(Thankfully my present longtime girlfriend seems OK with my obsessive habits)
...Timebender says...
@montysmusic Amazing post of the BEATNIK FILMSTARS.This really helps round out my collection indeed.Thanks so much.
For anybody out there who has not listened to the Beatnik's the Boss Disque post would be a good starting point.Highly recommended to any fans of THE FALL,THE WEDDING PRESENT, or GUIDED BY VOICES.
The only remaining albums I am looking for are 2006 - In Great Shape, 2007 - Left Hooks, 2013 - Cat Scan Aces and Disc 2 from their Boxset A Box Of Light Entertainment if anyone could help.
Thanks again from @Timebender
@montysmusic, thanks for the Beatle Blues and the Beatnik Filmstars (I’m a big Fall fan).
@Anonymous (or is it Gaius?) I think you’ll find that the New Zealanders are the first on Earth reaching 2018 (by two hours over us Aussies - just over 16 hours away here in Sydney). Still, Happy New Year and thanks to all (even those who don’t rate Elton John – I know he’s done some crap, but he’s also done some great rock and pop).
@RYP, thanks for all your efforts and in particular, thanks for not tolerating offensive, racist or discriminatory posts.
@clash
Thanks for the 3 LaNoires!
Cheers!
Bill
Happy New Year to all. just want to say Johnny D great song to swarm today. you did miss my fave version by the Chocolate watchband although there are quite a few I've never heard. kudos. you can't never have enough of The Kinks.
lemonflag— Hi. My name is JohnnyDiego and I am a download-aholic. The truth is that I consume so much that I have gallons of music that I’ve never heard. The process of downloading, tagging, and then just knowing that I have the music is an intrigal component of my illness. I’m glad that you’ve started a group and I’m pleased to be a member. Remember, if you have two people discussing their illness then that’s a meeting.
RYP, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
And I promise no downloading until after dinner.
Monty !
Thank You !
Hermann
I totally agree with you lemonflag. I too have been addicted to music collecting since i was a teen. I even worked at a record store (back when they still had those) for almost 15 years to feed my addiction. Since downloads came along it has become a whole new ballgame. I guess none of us will ever get enough, but there are worse things to be addicted to and music has enriched my life unlike anything else (other than my kids)
@ JWDen - I've been enjoying your posts, especially your perceptive and often wryly funny notes.
I happen to be in the pro-Van camp -- having seen a number of his shows has undoubtedly helped my appreciation. That said, he's an unpredictable performer. I saw a mid-'70s show where he delivered most of his vocals while obscured by a speaker array or facing the band. While some consider his "celtic-soul" shtick pretentious., I think he's among our most interesting artists and a very soulful singer. Having sustained a six-plus decade career without pandering is no small achievement in my view.
In the spirit of wrapping up this wild year, here are several best-of compilations. Back in the 1990s, before music became so much more within our instant reach, I picked up these disks (Rod Stewart early this century) because they had specific, (then-) hard-to-find tracks I really wanted to be able to listen to.
Those songs paralleled some of the struggles and aches I'd been through, and survived, never unscathed (you know what it's like): "Cinderella" and "Someday Soon"; "Taxi" and "Sequel"; "It Doesn't Have to Be That Way"; "Your Song" (whoops! wanted Al Jarreau's!), "So Far Away", and so on. I searched pretty hard in some cases, eventually found what I was looking for... and now had the background music to the hard bumps in the road behind me. It's like having air bags and seatbelts installed for any return trip!
Now, a quick apology to the purists: For some reason that utterly baffles me, no compilation I've ever picked up -- the five below, and other, more-exhaustive, ones celebrating The Beatles, Electric Light Orchestra, Fleetwood Mac, and more yet -- has been arranged in anything like chronological or even thematic order. I want the oldest song first, and the newest last... so here I've let my OCD bent take the reins, and I fixed that nuisance in these compilations below, except for the Marsalis. (Wynton's work I'm not as versed (heh-heh) on as I want to be, so I left it as is. And here Chapin's chronological live work follows the chronological run of his studio recordings.)
All tracks are at 320 KBpS, and all the rips are mine, with the exception of Wynton Marsalis. Whoever ripped and uploaded that originally, whenever and wherever it was, thank you most kindly!
- Firefall - Greatest Hits, 1976-91
- Harry Chapin - Gold-Medal Collection, 1972-81
- Jim Croce - Greatest Love Songs, 1972-73
- Rod Stewart - Very Best Of, Vol. 2, 1977-2001
- Wynton Marsalis - The Essential, 1983-2003
Seven-day link (expires Jan. 6):
https://we.tl/k5LqcVQ6Wn
Happy New Year, TZ family!
JWDen - thanks for "The Body" soundtrack
the movie is available here: (sorry - slow DL)
http://rarelust.com/the-body-1971/
good docu ! sometimes you hear out the PF touch.
Hermann
@ Lemonflag thankyou Sir you made my day with the 12 Steps I hope guys on here print and frame it to hang over their smokin computers as they hive away
@ Johnny Diego please dont spend your time looking for the info Ill scan the two months you mentioned..great swarm by the way
@RYP and Gyro1966 - Just wanted to say thanks for the Buffalo Bop and Collector CD shares. When I found TZ in September, I was mostly into garage rock from the mid to late 60s. However since being here, I have gained an appreciation for a greater number of things, especially the early rock stuff. Lucky for me, most of the Bison/Buffalo Bop and Collector CD shares are still going strong (including all 65 volumes of Bop That Never Stopped).
@clash - Thanks for the La Noire volumes.
@JWDen: Thank you for "Airplane", and for the post-Floyd! Do you have Wright's 1984 one-off with Zee? I missed out on that, thirty-some years ago. (PS: "band", not "banned". ;-) Thank you.) And -- wow! -- I'm honored I could upgrade even one of your soundtracks; you're most welcome!
@JohnnyD: Oh, Johnny -- have you not a romantic bone in your stiff and rigid body? I've got to side with Gyro. The very first CD I bought (I think) was Van's "Avalon Sunset" in 1989 as a gift for a new and especially golden-hearted girlfriend. While I was visting with her one Sunday afternoon, the disk's "Have I Told You Lately" came on; and at the sweet piano over the song's bridge, Kerry beckoned me up from her couch, and we danced all around and around her hard-floored living room, there in the 200-year-old former farmhouse that had once served as a Civil War hospital. To this very day, those delicate notes (and at the song's very beginning) always, always bring her back into my arms. It was a beautiful fit. And the disk's next number, "Coney Island", stunningly (and Gaelically) captures our many long drives through the country. I am going to buy you a pocket defibrillator as a Greek Orthodox Christmas present.
@Faze: You said it -- amen!
Clang, clang -- Happy New Year, NZ and Australia! (Brother in Perth (college year in Christchurch, too), niece in... Canberra? He ushers in the new year by being possibly the first cobber in the world to wash his car. He does not poo-poo Australian table wine.
Cheers!
I wish that each and every TZer has a wonderful 2018. TZ was one of the few bright spots of this horrible, horrible year. It will take many, many years to undo the damage that Trump has done to my beloved country in only 11 months.
At least, I hope, the Republicans will go down in flames in November '18.
@montymusic - thanks for the re-up of the Daft Wild Strawberries and Teenage Fanclub.
@ montysmusic Thanks again for the excellent Beatles Blues album. I note that track 12 (Why Don't We Do It In The Road by Fred James) is missing from the zip file.
Elton also got married in Sydney, that was pretty far out!
let us not forget Elton worked on half of john baldrys It Aint Easy album ... Elton brought John Lennon back to yoko and ended his extended lost weekend... and just a few years ago brought leon russell (an early mentor) up and out of obscurity with the collaborative album The Union.
I totally agree, oldrocker.
Amen, Old Rocker, amen...
!ggy
What Moe said, including the record store, with thanks and happy new year...
!ggy
Same here, oldrocker99. Hoping we can begin to undo this shit in 2018.
@ montysmusic - Thanks a lot for the Beatnik Filmstars links!
I wish that each and every TZer has a wonderful 2018. TZ was one of the many bright spots of this wonderful, wonderful year. But it will take many, many more years to undo the damage that Obama has done to my beloved country in only 8 years.
And, I hope, the Democrats will go down in flames, again, in November '18.
Does anyone have the early Elton stuff compilation (UK?) CD (from about a decade ago or so) to share? It was all (some?) of his “pre-fame” stuff, from when he as hacking away at the keys to make ends meet by doing “covers” and such for those “nameless” cheep-o drugstore (OK, “Woolies,” whatever, I've never actually even BEEN to merry olde England . . . . So I dunno fer sure. . .) albums. Pickwick, MFP, “Top of the Pops,” what-have-you.
By the same token (or two bob or quid?) EJ supposedly played piano on some of the Hollies stuff of the era, like maybe “He Ain’t Heavy...” (?)
Any serious Reg Dwight fan will know of what I type!
Merry happy. And all that Jazz. Or “lounge.” Or “music hall”. . . ?
Trump's done nothing but re-energize the disenfranchised & remove the wool from many sheeples' eyes, turn the Republican party to even more total crap than it always has been & brought out into the light some motherfuckers who just need to be put away.. Good for him! The more this country turns against him, the better it will be when it spits him out. Hell yeah, 2017! Now get the hell outta the way!!!
oldrocker
I'm with you 110% Trump has made us the laughing stocks of the world and damaged our reputation.
Let's see the Republicans go down in flames in November and impeach the wretch.
... that Diana said ...
Thanks to one and all, especially of course RYP and Gyro for making TZ happen and keeping it bumping along nicely down the road of Internet life.
Please remember me in your prayers: "... and deliver me from politics, because once I get started things are certain to get out of hand fast." This comp I just now assembled will be my one and only political 'statement' here.
Various Artists - Dept Of Political Correction
https://mega.nz/#!F2BzmSIZ!3kBL-hKeST2Pk4cnB1FUzseHFMczO_nV-7BXjkbpodM
Elton has made some brilliant albums.Any doubters should check out 'Captain Fantastic' True classic.And why shouldn't we have a bit of main stream on TZ,instead of piles of Madman compos
. . . why I became divorced . . .
Not to git all Mr. Phil on ya, but does this make all of us (T-Z-ers) “Enablers” . . .?
(As for “Mr.” Phil --- I refuse to call anyone who’s NOT a doctor a “Dr.” . . . . Even if they might have an “honorary” degree . . . )(?)
JWDen - Thanks so much for the Post Floyd stuff.
Cheers monty for Fuzzy Tiger #4 & Teenage Fanclub B sides and to JohnnyDiego for the I'M NOT LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE SONG SWARM.
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