Headless Chickens "Cruise Control" EP 1991

…In 1990 'Gaskrankinstation' became the band's first chart single, reaching No.28 with the help of a striking video that underlined the group's links to the wider arts community. The song is the epitome of Matthews' ability to draw characters within his songs – in the clip, the band's actor friend Peter Tait doesn't so much sing the song as perform the role of the loser service station attendant. (The year before, Tait had appeared in Alison Maclean's creepy short film Kitchen Sink, whose soundtrack was produced by the Headless Chickens.)……By this point, Taylor had left and another old friend, Anthony Nevison, had returned from his OE to join the band on guitar. They wrote songs for a followup album, including one with a loping bassline and a simple, memorable, keyboard motif.
Matthews performed vocals on the song live, but singer Fiona McDonald was asked to sing the chorus at recording sessions late in 1990. Her keening voice, an entirely new sound in the Chickens' arsenal, proved to be the final element of a New Zealand pop classic 'Cruise Control'.
It became the lead single from 1991's Body Blow album, whose conception was quite different to that Stunt Clown. Mushroom Records, which had taken a stake in Flying Nun, offered to bankroll recording time in a Sydney studio, but the band chose instead to work at Incubator, a new inner-city studio set up by Nevison and de facto band members Rex Visible and Angus McNaughton. The album took the band to a new level – the art-trio of yore could now easily fill The Gluepot and tour Australia (where a remix of 'Cruise Control' reached No.26). Nevison's ribald 'Donde Esta La Pollo' went to No.4 in the local charts, two places better than 'Cruise Control'. 'Juice', McDonald's wistful song about watching weekend morning pop shows was twinned with the raucous 'Choppers' and reached No.7… to be continued - Russell Browntrax:

01 Cruise Control (Eskimos In Egypt Mix) 02 Railway Surfing (Octane Mix) 03 Cruise Control 04 Inside Track

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"Electric Blues" Part 2 disc 3 - 1954-1967

The second volume of Bear Family's four-part electric blues series Plug It In! Turn It Up! features the years 1954-1967 but that's slightly misleading, as much of the latter years are bunched up on the third disc, which rounds up 29 significant instrumentals…...The rest of the collection concentrates on continuing the story the first volume began, as West Coast, Delta, and Chicago blues all began to swing harder and play louder, working their way onto rock & roll jukeboxes as they did so. Some of these singles do play like rock & roll -- that's particularly true of Bo Diddley's heavy-footed rumble and Hank Ballard's easy shuffle on "Look at Little Sister" -- but this is primarily devoted to electrified blues that jolts and jumps like a bare wire. There are plenty of big names and classics here, songs that would later be standards in any number of house bands across the country: "Kansas City," "I'm Ready," "My Babe," "I'm a Man," "I Wish You Wouldn't," "I Can't Quit You Baby," "Got My Mojo Working," "I'm a King Bee," "Texas Flood," "Kansas City," "Baby What You Want Me to Do," "The Sky Is Crying," "Wham!," "Frosty." It's a crash course in history that plays like a party, even on that third disc of high-octane instrumentals.(Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic)

trax:

1. Texas Hop - Pee Wee Crayton 2. Junior Jives - Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 3. Strolin' With Bones - T-Bone Walker 4. Tiny's Boogie - Tiny Grimes Quintet 5. Hawaiian Boogie - Elmore James 6. Easy - Jimmy & Walter 7. The Huckle-Buck - Earl Hooker 8. Space Guitar Young - John Watson 9. Hopkins' Sky Hop - Lightnin' Hopkins 10. Okie Dokie Stomp - Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown with Pluma Davis Orchetsra 11. Big Boy - Bill Jennings Quintet 12. Shake Walkin' - Mickey Baker 13. Strolin' With Nolen - Jimmy Nolen 14. Congo Mambo - Guitar Gable & The Musical Kings 15. Lucky Lou - Jody Williams 16. Johnny's House Party (1 & 2) - Johnny Heartsman 17. Guitar Boogie - Chuck Berry 18. The Big Push - Cal Green 19. Back Track - Little Walter 20. Steppin' Out - Memphis Slim And His House Rockers 21. Hard Grind - Wild Jimmy Spruill 22. Royal Earl Shuffle - Royal Earl & The Swingin' Kools 23. Prancing - Ike & Tina's Kings Of Rhythm 24. Red Light - Clarence Green 25. Remington Ride - Freddie King 26. Wham! - Lonnie Mack 27. Frosty - Albert Collins 28. Finger Lickin' - Johnny Jones & The Beat Boys 29. Looking Good - Magic Sam

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…and now for something completely different! 0960 - 2020

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The Adult Net "Tomorrow Morning Daydream" 2006

This 60s revivalist pop band from the UK was fronted by Laura Elise (aka ‘Brix’) Smith (b. California, USA), performing a dual role after she relocated to England, when she was also a member of husband Mark E. Smith’s band, the Fall…...The Adult Net was inaugurated in 1985 when Brix, who was brought up in Hollywood, took the phrase from a line in ‘Stephen’s Song’, from the Fall’s The Wonderful And Frightening World Of. She had previously worked in Rage and Burden Of Proof. In contrast to the Fall, whom many noted she pushed in a more commercial direction, Adult Net concentrated on vocal harmony and bubblegum pop which harked back to Smith’s Californian roots, and the Beach Boys in particular. Her accomplices at one time included three ex-members of the Smiths; Andy Rourke, Mike Joyce and Craig Gannon, the line-up that saw the band make their live debut. Hastily arranged in order to impress Geffen Records, the band nevertheless acquired a contract from Fontana Records. ‘Incense And Peppermints’ (Strawberry Alarm Clock) and ‘Edie’, a tribute to the Andy Warhol protégé, attracted plenty of press attention but few record sales. A cover version of the Grass Roots’ ‘Where Were You’ preceded The Honey Tangle, an album of seamless and occasionally sickly pop. The line-up had transformed to include Clem Burke (ex-Blondie) and James Eller (ex-The The), while Gannon was retained from the earlier formation. A previous album, recorded in 1987 for Beggars Banquet Records and titled Spin This Web, remained unreleased. As Honey Tangle, named after a racehorse, was released, the personal and professional split between Brix and Mark E. Smith became public. Subsequently a version of Donovan’s ‘Hurdy Gurdy Man’, featuring new boyfriend Nigel Kennedy on violin, was shelved when Fontana dropped the band in October 1990. Smith laid low for a while before tentatively rehearsing with Hole as replacement bass player. In 1995 she returned to the Fall to guest on that year’s Cerebral Caustic, having temporarily made up with one-time husband Mark E. Smith. - Artist Biography by AllMusic

trax:

1. Take Me 2. Sea Of Rain 3. Going Nowhere 4. Incense And Peppermints 5. Where Were You (When I Needed You) 6. Over The River 7. Waking Up In The Sun 8. August 9. Remember (Walking In The Sand) 10. Spin This Web 11. Sad 12. Honey Tangle 13. Tiffany Tuesday 14. Tomorrow Morning Daydreams 15. It's The Way

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The Milkshakes "After School Session" 1983

In May 1983 two mad French brothers and Mike Spenser from The Cannibals promoted the first and only Night Of Trash in Le Havre (France) with the Milkshakes, Stingrays and headlined by The Cannibals. Mad and memorable night as you can see by yourself... Some had travelled hundred of miles to be there French, English exchange of insults, all with a great sense of fun. After School Session offers a somewhat tempered 'Shakes, playing familiar covers (like Bo Diddley's "Cadillac" and "I Can Tell") and chummy originals with all the verve but none of the previous grit.This UK, Chatham, Kent-based band was originally conceived in the late 70s by the Pop Rivets roadies Mickey Hampshire and Banana Bertie as Mickey And The Milkshakes. Often appearing on the same circuit as fellow Medway town bands the Dentists and the Prisoners, they performed as a "psychobilly" outfit, supporting the Pop Rivets from time to time with Wreckless Eric cover versions. Pop Rivets leader Billy Childish (b. William Charlie Hamper, 13 December 1958, Chatham, Kent, England) then began writing with Hampshire and in 1980 formed a new version of Mickey And The Milkshakes. Eventually settling on a line-up of Childish and Hampshire (guitars, vocals), Russ Wilkins (bass) and Bruce Brand (drums), they started recording a string of albums featuring various R&B classics plus original material. After the first album they truncated their name. Later on, when John Agnew replaced Wilkins, they began to refer to themselves as Thee Milkshakes. In addition to their normal activities of gigging and recording, they also acted as the backing band to an all-girl vocal trio called the Delmonas. As prolific releasers of album material, The(e) Milkshakes were only modestly successful with singles, achieving two UK Independent Top 20 hits with "Brand New Cadillac" (1984) and "Ambassadors Of Love" (1985). The band split in 1984 (although Milkshake material continued to be released long after), with Childish going on to form the equally productive Thee Mighty Caesars. - http://www.nme.com/artists/thee-milkshakesThe Milkshakes:

Mickey Hampshire (git/vox) Wild Billy Childish (git/vox) Bruce Brand (Drums) and Mark Gilbert (Bass), joined by the Milk-Boilers on backing vocals

trax:

01 Shimmy Shake 02 I Can Tell 03 Tell Me Child 04 Goodbye Girl 05 More Honey 06 Soldiers Of Love 07 El Salvador 08 Let's Stomp 09 Hide And Scatter 10 Jaguar 11 That Girl Of Mine 12 You Can Only Lose 13 Little Minnie 14 Cadillac

Headless Chickens "Body Blow" 1991

...1987 brought an event that was both a blessing and a curse. The Headless Chickens won the Rheineck Rock Award, an artist development prize its sponsors had expected to go to someone a little more mainstream……The band didn't enjoy the subsequent controversy over the judges' choice (they would later have the satisfaction of silencing their critics in the commercial radio business) but the prize money funded the sprawling Stunt Clown album – or partly so. The recording ran $7000 over its $30,000 budget and, frustratingly, the band was unable to tap into the $30,000 part of the prize earmarked for a promotional campaign for a subsequent national tour.
If the award sometimes seemed like more grief than it was worth, the album's opening track 'Expecting to Fly' purposefully signalled the band's direction. Flying Nun's early ethos had been about the purity of guitars and melody: this was the sound of a band alert to the world of drum machines and samplers. With its clattering rhythm and Matthews' anxious riff, it was a dance tune – if a weird one. Appropriately, it was released as a 12-inch single… to be continued - Russell Browntrax:

01 Choppers (Koppelman Mix) 02 Donde Esta la Pollo (Kentucky Freud Mix) 03 Mr Moon 04 Gaskrankinstation 05 Body Blow 06 Juice 07 Cruise Control 08 Million Dollar Dream 09 Inside Track 10 Railway Surfing ('93 Octane Mix) 11 Nose 12 Donde Esta la Pollo (Cock Rock Mix) 13 Choppers (Helibator Mix) 14 Road Train

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"Electric Blues" Part 2 disc 2 - 1954-1967

The second volume of Bear Family's four-part electric blues series Plug It In! Turn It Up! features the years 1954-1967 but that's slightly misleading, as much of the latter years are bunched up on the third disc, which rounds up 29 significant instrumentals…...The rest of the collection concentrates on continuing the story the first volume began, as West Coast, Delta, and Chicago blues all began to swing harder and play louder, working their way onto rock & roll jukeboxes as they did so. Some of these singles do play like rock & roll -- that's particularly true of Bo Diddley's heavy-footed rumble and Hank Ballard's easy shuffle on "Look at Little Sister" -- but this is primarily devoted to electrified blues that jolts and jumps like a bare wire. There are plenty of big names and classics here, songs that would later be standards in any number of house bands across the country: "Kansas City," "I'm Ready," "My Babe," "I'm a Man," "I Wish You Wouldn't," "I Can't Quit You Baby," "Got My Mojo Working," "I'm a King Bee," "Texas Flood," "Kansas City," "Baby What You Want Me to Do," "The Sky Is Crying," "Wham!," "Frosty." It's a crash course in history that plays like a party, even on that third disc of high-octane instrumentals.(Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic)

trax:

1. Who Do You Love - Bo Diddley 2. Honky Tonk (Part 1) - Bill Doggett 3. Rock My Blues Away - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 4. Gonna Wait for My Chance - Jackie Brenston 5. Walking by Myself - Jimmy Rogers 6. My Home Is a Prison - Lonesome Sundown 7. Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters 8. I’m a King Bee - Slim Harpo 9. Farther Up the Road - Bobby "Blue" Bland 10. Walking with Frankie - Frankie Lee Sims 11. All Your Love - Magic Sam 12. Family Rules - Guitar Jr 13. All Your Love (I Miss Loving) - Otis Rush 14. Texas Blood - Larry Davis 15. Sugar Coated Love - Lazy Lester 16. Living with the Blues - Brownie McGhee 17. That Will Never Do - Little Milton 18. As the Years Go By - Fenton Robinson 19. Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison 20. Look at Little Sister - Hank Ballard 21. Baby What You Want Me to Do - Jimmy Reed 22. Messin’ Around - Memphis Slim 23. Rooster Blues - Lightnin' Slim 24. Fannie Mae - Buster Brown 25. The Sky Is Crying - Elmore James

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…and now for something completely different! 0959 - 2020

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Adam Schmitt "Parasol Demos" 1999

Singer / songwriter Adam Schmitt first won acclaim in the early '90s when his 1991 debut album, World So Bright, and 1993 follow-up, Illiterature, had critics hailing him as a young pop genius…...However, when his label Reprise didn't want to release a third album from him, Schmitt decided to record other artists instead, engineering, producing, and mastering music for Tommy Keene, Hum, Beezus, Robynn Ragland, and others in his home studio. By 1998, Schmitt was ready to concentrate on his own music again, but his perfectionism and production work delayed the release of his third effort until the middle of 2001. That album, Demolition, was issued by Parasol; Schmitt started out as a producer by working with many of the label's artists.

trax:

01 Only Her 02 Onion Heart 03 Alone On A Crashing Plane 04 Overdone

The Milkshakes "in Germany" 1983 (Wall City Records / Berlin, Germany)

With two guitars, bass, drums, and plenty of snarl and cheek, the Milkshakes joyously grind out their affectionate variations based on the rougher aspects of early 1960s U.K. rock & roll (Kinks, Beatles) and its '50s forefathers (Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry).1979: The Pop Rivets, a Canterbury group of devoted acolytes to punk's gritty DIY ethos, release Greatest Hits, home-recorded and enclosed in handmade sleeves (later repressed in printed covers; later still retitled for its Hangman reissue). A more mod-oriented and less reserved TV Personalities or Desperate Bicycles, the Rivets (aka Rivits) retrospectively fit neatly in with the sloppy, violent pop noisemeisters of the era, endearingly careless (though even the best songs leave mere flesh wounds as opposed to the scars inflicted by their more prominent contemporaries).
Empty Sounds from Anarchy Ranch consolidates the band's sound into a tamer, more controlled — albeit equally ill-tempered — punk stew. While Fun in the U.K. is a compilation drawn somewhat randomly from both LPs, Live in Germany '79 simultaneously nods deeper to their UK punk basis and points up their obvious (again in retrospect) trash '60s roots and attitudes 'In Germany' was originally released in 1983 on Wall City records from Berlin, Germany. Original copies have been selling on e-bay for over GBP 75! In 1984, the Milkshakes undertook an effort to have four albums released on four labels, in four countries, and all on the same day.
With two guitars, bass, drums, and plenty of snarl and cheek, the Milkshakes joyously grind out their affectionate variations based on the rougher aspects of early 1960s U.K. rock & roll (Kinks, Beatles) and its '50s forefathers (Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry).THE MILKSHAKES:

Mickey Hampshire - Burns Nu-sonic guitar, vocals, Vox Twin-30 amp / Billy Childish - Höfner Club-20 guitar, vocals / Bruce Brand - Ludwig Super-classic drum set / Russ Wilkins - Framus "Star-Bass", Vox and Fender amps

traxfromwax:

1. I'll Find Another 2. If I Get You 3. Last Night 4. She's The Kind Of Girl 5. Love Can Lose 6. Comes Along Midnight 7. One Day You Die 8. Late At Night 9. I'm Asking You 10. I Need Lovin' 11. Found My Girl 12. Sometimes I Wantcha (For Your Money)

Bird of Passage "This Kindly Slumber" 2014 + Bird of Passage & I've Lost "I Was All You Are" 2012 EP

Following 'Without the World' and 'Winter Lady', the New Zealander Alicia Merz of Birds of Passage returns with her third album 'This Kindly Slumber'......Like a cocoon, this album will envelope you in its many layers. Quiet storms filled with ambient atmospheres, densely layered choral drones, fragile vocals. Harsh reverberation, gently lulled by sweet musings, offset by poetic and philosophical lyrics, ebb away into blissful ambience.
With allusions to dark-pop and classic broken-folk, the anti-climactic compositions of Alicia remind us that she is a singer songwriter for people who don't like singer songwriters.
Climb into the cocoon of 'This Kindly Slumber'. This place of refuge will find you when you most need it, take you to the world within its folds.trax:
01 Ashes To Ashes 02 Belle De Jour 03 And All Of Your Dreams 04 Stranger 05 Take My Breath 06 Yesterday's Stains 07 Lonesome Tame
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Bird of Passage & I've Lost "I Was All You Are" 2012 EP“Like time-lapsed nature photography, the music itself drifts in dream-like fashion, delicately wrapping itself around the fragile voice as it does so.” - Textura

“Listening is like watching a film in slow motion, then filming it and watching that film in slow motion, then taking the stills, cutting them into separate strips and spreading them sequentially over a one kilometer field. Lest one misinterpret such a statement, this is a good thing, an alternate proposal to an ADD world. To slow down, to listen, to listen carefully, to discern.” - A Closer Listen

trax:

01 I was all you are 02 Never Said Goodbye 03 Bullrush in the Sun

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"Electric Blues" Part 2 disc 1 - 1954-1967

The second volume of Bear Family's four-part electric blues series Plug It In! Turn It Up! features the years 1954-1967 but that's slightly misleading, as much of the latter years are bunched up on the third disc, which rounds up 29 significant instrumentals…...The rest of the collection concentrates on continuing the story the first volume began, as West Coast, Delta, and Chicago blues all began to swing harder and play louder, working their way onto rock & roll jukeboxes as they did so. Some of these singles do play like rock & roll -- that's particularly true of Bo Diddley's heavy-footed rumble and Hank Ballard's easy shuffle on "Look at Little Sister" -- but this is primarily devoted to electrified blues that jolts and jumps like a bare wire. There are plenty of big names and classics here, songs that would later be standards in any number of house bands across the country: "Kansas City," "I'm Ready," "My Babe," "I'm a Man," "I Wish You Wouldn't," "I Can't Quit You Baby," "Got My Mojo Working," "I'm a King Bee," "Texas Flood," "Kansas City," "Baby What You Want Me to Do," "The Sky Is Crying," "Wham!," "Frosty." It's a crash course in history that plays like a party, even on that third disc of high-octane instrumentals.(Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic)

trax:

1. You Upset Me Baby - B.B. Blues Boy King & His Orchestra 2. I'm Ready - Muddy Waters 3. Mamma Talk To Your Daughter - J.B. Lenoir 4. Hard-Hearted Woman - Big Walter & His Combo 5. You Know - Yeah - Pee Wee Crayton 6. A Mother's Love - Earl King & His Band 7. Bad Boy - Eddie Taylor 8. My Babe - Little Walter & His Jukes 9. She's Five Feet Three - L.C. McKinley 10. Aw Aw Baby - Robert Lockwood Jr. And His Combo 11. I'm A Man - Bo Diddley 12. Quicksand - Guitar Slim 13. Wee Wee Hours - Chuck Berry 14. I Wish You Would - Billy Boy Arnold 15. Three Hours Past Midnight - Johnny "Guitar" Watson 16. Don't Start Me Talkin' - Sonny Boy Williamson II 17. Need Your Love So Bad - Little Willie John 18. Rockin' - Little George Smith 19. Ain't That Lovin' You - Jimmy Reed 20. My Next Door Neighbor - Jerry McCain 21. Smoke Stack Lightning - Howlin’ Wolf 22. I'm Tore Up - Billy Gayles 23. Dimples - John Lee Hooker 24. I Can't Quit You Baby - Otis Rush 25. Next Time You See Me - Little Junior Parker With Bill Harvey's Band

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…and now for something completely different! 0958 - 2020

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Shannon & The Clams "Gone By the Dawn" 2015

Shannon & the Clams really put it all together on their 2013 album Dreams in the Rat House. Tighter and tougher than before with hookier songs and both bassist Shannon Shaw and guitarist Cody Blanchard nailing their vocals, the album was a near-brilliant '50s/'60s throwback. Just to show that it wasn't a fluke, their 2015 album Gone by the Dawn is even better…...With simple, near genius production from Sonny Smith, a batch of songs that cut deeper and have longer-lasting effects, and even more impressive performances from the whole group (which includes new drummer Nate Mayhem), the record is just about the best garage/rockabilly/girl group/doo wop/early rock & roll hybrid around in 2015. With a nice balance between loping midtempo love songs that often feature nicely rendered Joe Meek-style keyboards, tear-stained ballads, and hard-charging rockers, the record has a nice oldies jukebox feel. The jumped-up rockers might be the songs that get the most notice the first time through, with "Telling Myself" and "Point of Being Right" sounding like covers of hits from back in the day. "Knock 'Em Dead" provides a punky blast of energy, and a bunch of other tracks slash and shimmy like the best rock & roll. It's great and fun, but when they cut the tempo down to super slow, dial in some late-night soul, and break open their soggy diaries, that's when the heart of the album is revealed. Both Shaw and Blanchard prove very adept at the kind of heartbroken torch songs that inspire tattoos and benders, the kind that feel inspired by crushing defeats and love gone very wrong. Shaw's vocals are impressively strong on these tracks; on "How Long?" the control and depth she exhibits is almost breathtaking. There are only a few of these ballads mixed in, but they are showstoppers that help give the album an extra boost. Shannon & the Clams have hit the peak of their powers here, making good on their promising early records and improving on the already strong record that came before. Here's hoping they can keep it up for many more great rock & roll albums to come. - AllMusic Review by Tim Sendratrax:

01 I Will Miss the Jasmine 02 My Man 03 Point of Being Right 04 How Long 05 Baby Blue 06 It's Too Late 07 Gone By the Dawn 08 Corvette 09 Telling Myself 10 The Bog 11 Knock 'em Dead 12 The Burl 13 You Let Me Rust

The Milkshakes "Fourteen Rhythm And Beat Greats" 1982

One of the Medway's finest bands from the eighties. Very much influenced by the rhythm and beat from the 50's and 60's, as well as the comedians from the 40's onwards. Formed in 1980 from the ashes of the Pop Rivets. 1982: With ex-Rivet Russ Wilkins replacing Bertie on bass, 14 Rhythm & Beat Greats (recorded in Germany on borrowed money) showcases a band more in dynamic control and confident of their direction. Distinct echoes of the Kinks and assorted forgotten US garages begin to reverberate in the vinyl canyons.Since the introducing of Rhythm-and-Beat with The Milkshakes' debut LP, "Talkin' About Milkshakes", closely followed by their single "It's You", all the facts and figures point to The Milkshakes being the indeniable leaders of world beat.
From the opening rasp of "7 days", to the dying chimes of "Wo' now", the frenzied beat goes on. Even the more subdued tracks are given that unmistakable Milkshakes brand.
This is the 2nd great LP from the four Milkshakes, and from every corner of the globe daily reports are coming in of new successes for the four young men - Sidney, Australia - "Rush as many records as yer can spare, cobbers. It's a stampede!" - Dallas, Texas - "Oil ain't the word for it!" - and the story is the same the world over. William Loveday 1982 - liner notesThe Milkshakes:

Mickey Hampshire - Burns Nu-sonic guitar, vocals, Vox Twin-30 amp / Billy Childish - Höfner Club-20 guitar, vocals / Bruce Brand - Ludwig Super-classic drum set / Russ Wilkins - Framus "Star-Bass", Vox and Fender amps

traxfromwax:

1 Seven Days 2 Black Sails (In The Moonlight) 3 Exactly Like You 4 A Girl Called Mine 5 Sad Girl Mambo 6 I Want You 7 Cadalina 8 No-one Else 9 I Need No-one 10 You Did Her Wrong 11 Can You Tell Me 12 Red Monkey 13 Take You Home Tonight 14 Wo' Now

Headless Chickens "Stunt Clown" 1988

From the radical edge to the top of the singles chart: Few bands here or anywhere have quite the span of the Headless Chickens. Their story begins in Auckland in 1983, when Johnny Pierce (bass), Grant Fell (guitar) and Bevan Sweeney (drums) hooked up with a Westie kid called Chris Matthews (vocals, guitar) to form the dark, roaring Children's Hour……After a single and an EP on Flying Nun and several national tours, Children's Hour broke up in 1985. Fell went to Australia and Pierce and Matthews began to move away from the thunderous sound of Children's Hour (and the pubs where they'd played) to work with the Jefferies brothers Peter and Graeme as This Kind of Punishment.
That TKP line-up recorded the spare, experimental EP 5 By Four before Matthews and Pierce began working with Michael Lawry, whose focus was on found sounds and early sampling techniques. They practised in a disused charm school in the rundown arcade that housed His Majesty's Theatre and debuted as International Headless Chickens at the Maidment Theatre, as part of a multimedia performance event called The Nitpicker's Picnic. They were a long way from the pubs now.
There followed a self-titled mini-album, recorded at 95bFM (where Lawry was fulfilling a Community Service sentence), that still sounds as strange, unexpected and full of dark humour now as it did then.
Then, in August 1986, Pierce took his own life. His death shook the close community of which he was part and left the Headless Chickens without their bass player and marshaling force (he had always been the "Minister of Finance" in his bands). Fell, just back from Australia, picked up both roles and was henceforth effectively the band's manager. Not long after, the willowy Rupert E. Taylor, formerly of Bird Nest Roys, arrived as a second vocalist and Sweeney joined his former Children's Hour bandmates on drums… to be continued - Russell Browntrax:

01 Expecting To Fly 02 Frank 03 Do The Headless Chickens 04 Fish Song 05 Donka 06 Run, Sheep Run 07 White Out 08 Untitled 09 Cyclic 10 Star At Night 11 Expecting To Fly (Magik's Back to the 80's Mix - Bonus)

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"Deep & Gritty The Sound Of The City" Vol 12: Windy City Soul Pt. 3

Deep, tough and rare Chicago soul from the 60’s into the early 70’s - most have never been on a compilation before!trax:

1. You're Being Unfair - Elvin Spencer 2. I Still Care - Sugar Pie DeSanto 3. Here Come the Tears - Gene Chandler 4. Don't Stop Loving Me This Time - Marvin Preyer 5. As Much Yours As He Is Mine - Keanya Collins 6. Confidence - Judson Moore 7. It's All Over Between Us - Lee Charles 8. Something I'm Glad About - King George Orchestra 9. Saving My Love for You - Mister T 10. Six Lonely Days - Ray & Dave  11. Do It - Bobbie Jean Bland 12. There's Gonna Be a Showdown - Denna Johnson & Rick Davis 13. Getting Nowhere Fast - Floyd Smith 14. You Can't Take It Away - Fred Hughes 15. Don't Leave Me Now - Little Mack 16. I'm Gonna Build - The Krystal Generation 17. I Loved and Lost - Bobby Jones 18. Come Alive - Chuck Ray 19. Say You Will - Curtis Smith 20. I Learned My Lesson - Willie Davis 21. You Were Meant for Me - The Crume Brothers

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…and now for something completely different! 0957 - 2020

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"NOT SO PRETTY" 1995

22 bands from around the globe salute the Pretty Things & Phil (R.I.P.)!More interesting than the majority of this kind of tribute can usually be, and a good value estimating the good 90's bands we find inside. Actually, many of the more interesting of them are here, paying tribute to their idols, (and a super group.) - hectorvadair1trax:

1. The Headcoatees - Come And See Me 2. Kwyett Kings - Sitting All Alone 3. The Tell-Tale Hearts - Me Needing You 4. La Machina Del Tempo - Il Sol 5. The What...For! - Get A Buzz 6. The Kliek - House In The Country 7. the Flashback V - It'll Never Be Me 8. The Chesterfield Kings - Rosalyn 9. The Bogeymen - Progress 10. The Lears - You Don't Believe Me 11. The Thanes - Honey I Need You 12. The Breadmakers - Raining In My Heart 13. The Shindiggers - Don't Bring Me Down 14. The Puritans - I can Never Say 15. The Paramount Trio - We'll Be Together 16. The Hydes - Big city 17. The Fudds - Get Yourself Home 18. The Saucermen - Get the Picture 19. The Disciples - L.S.D. 20. The Fiends - Midnight To Six 21. The Others - Big City 22. Teengenerate - Midnight To Six

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The Milkshakes "Talking 'Bout Milkshakes" 1981

NEED MORE KICK ASS ROCK 'N' ROLL!No other group since the sixties has captured the exuberance and rawness of the original British beat group sound as well as the Milkshakes. 'Wild' Billy Childish and his merry men released 13 albums as The Milkshakes between 1980 and 1985 and a further 20 albums by spin-off and associated groups such as The Del-Monas, Mighty Caesars & Thee Headcoats, and have in the intervening years, created a veritable cottage industry. Big Beat has always enjoyed a special relationship with The Milkshakes.THE MILKSHAKES:

Mickey Hampshire - Burns Nu-sonic guitar, vocals, Vox Twin-30 amp / Billy Childish - Höfner Club-20 guitar, vocals / Bruce Brand - Ludwig Super-classic drum set / Banana Bertie/Russ Wilkins - Framus "Star-Bass", Vox and Fender amps

traxfromwax:

1: She'll be mine 2: Pretty baby 3: For she 4: I want'cha for my little girl 5: Ruhrgebeat 6: After midnight 7: Bull's nose 8 : Shed country 9: Don't love another 10: Tell me where's that girl 11: Can'tcha see 12: Love you the whole night through 13: Nothing you can say or do 14: I say you lie

Axemen "Derry Legend" 1989

An album simmering with background chaos worthy of prime-era Buttholes or Royal Trux. The real surprise is how Derry Legend clears room for pop chops, making it possible to see the Axemen’s relation to bands like the Clean and the Gordons. A wonderful testament to the power and limits of form-bloat. Ahoy! — Byron ColeyLong overdue re-issue of this cracked pop classic and Flying Nun rarity, Derry Legend was one of Kurt Cobain’s top NZ platters and a staple of his mix-tapes.
Once I saw this band play live and thought “Ugh! What is this crap?!” I tried to listen to their truly awful “Three Virgins” album, but just couldn’t see (hear?) the point. So the other day when a flatmate bought this “new” album (it appears to have been recorded in 1987, actually), I just shook my head and thought “so some people still buy records just because they like the cover art.”
Then a strange thing happened: by accident I heard the last song first and thought “Hey that’s quite good.” I played the first side next – better still! – then the whole second side – FAR OUT! Since then I’ve been playing this over and over and it just cracks me up how good it is.
The music is like childhood memories of the first time you ever heard rock ‘n roll; the first time you ever heard slushy-pop; the first time you ever heard rap (!). Listen to "He’s Leaving Home" and wonder what George Benson LP the band sat around and assimilated; hear “The Wharf With No Name” and wonder why the Beatles never thought of it first; hop on one leg to “That’s Finland, Dear” and understand why Acid House was just a nine-day wonder while Chuck Berry’s rhythms still cascade like thunder. – Bevandra’s Earstrax:

01 Disc to Disk 02 You Gave Me the Power of the Gangbusters 03 Hey Alice! 04 Rocks in My Heart 05 He's Leaving Home 06 The Tragic Tale of the Rock n Roll Legend 07 Ferris Wheel 08 Human Hot Dogs 09 The Wharf With No Name 10 Carmen on Ice 11 That's Finland Dear 12 Mourning of Youth

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"Do The 45!" Vol. 485 (2020)

Super fun collection of soul, blues, R&B, instro, and rock 'n' roll from the original 45's. (From my record collection.)It's just me having fun with my 45's and whatever random record I pull out of the boxes. I will try to give both sides of the 45 unless one side is dull, unbearable or unplayable. I hope you enjoy. (Gyro1966)trax:

1. Dark Alley (Junior) - Don Gardner & His Sonotones 2. Nightmare (Track) - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown 3. I Put a Spell on You (Track) - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown 4. Turn! Turn! Turn! (Columbia) - The Byrds 5. She Don't Care About Time (Columbia) - The Byrds 6. Him or Me - What's It Gonna Be? (Columbia) - Paul Revere & The Raiders Featuring Mark Lindsay 7. Legend of Paul Revere (Columbia) - Paul Revere & The Raiders Featuring Mark Lindsay 8. Funny Man (Columbia) - Mongo Santamaria 9. There Is a Mountain (Columbia) - Mongo Santamaria 10. Next Door to the Blues (Argo) - Etta James 11. Fools Rush in (Argo) - Etta James 12. I Can't Let Go (Bullet) - Nobody's Children 13. Don'tcha Feel Like Cryin' (Bullet) - Nobody's Children 14. Just One Look (Imperial) - The Hollies 15. Keep Off That Friend of Mine (Imperial) - The Hollies 16. Rain (Capitol) - The Beatles 17. Paperback Writer (Capitol) - The Beatles 18. Midnight Special (Imperial) - Johnny Rivers 19. Cupid (Imperial) - Johnny Rivers 20. People Got to Be Free (Atlantic) - The Rascals 21. My World (Atlantic) - The Rascals 22. Block Buster (Rca Victor) - Boots Brown & His Blockbusters 23. Shortnin' Bread (Rca Victor) - Boots Brown & His Blockbusters 24. Do the Monkey (Congress) - James Ray 25. Put Me in Your Diary (Congress) - James Ray 26. My Special Prayer (Atlantic) - Percy Sledge  27. Bless Your Little Sweet Soul (Atlantic) - Percy Sledge  28. Superman (White Whale) - The Clique 29. Sugar on Sunday (White Whale) - The Clique

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…and now for something completely different! 0956 - 2020

We have a first entry each day that is a picture or a video, and only in that entry you can place your music links and requests (NO ALBUMS RELEASED IN 2018 AND AFTER, AND A DAILY LIMIT OF 3 ALBUMS)! All the rest official posts will only allow comments related to the official posts and such. That way it will keep things much more organized and tidy. Enjoy! RYP and Gyro1966

"Kitara Soi Rautalankaa" Vol 2 - 2002

Kitara soi rautalankaa.saa jatkoa. Maailman parhaat suomalaiset (ja 1 ruotsalainen) rautalanka-bändit lennättävät Stratocastereitaan kohti kuumaa kesää. 24 hienoa tuubeja lämmittävää kappaletta.The guitar rings the iron wire. The world's best Finns iron wire bands fly their Stratocaster towards the hot summer. 24 cool tub warming songs.trax:

1. Siberia - The Mustangs 2. Dancesong - Hurmio 3. Cobra - The New Violents 4. After The Summer - Pekka Tiilikainen & Beatmakers 5. Shindig - The Aftons 6. Strangers In The Night - The Quiets 7. Moonshine - The Wanglers 8. Sweet Georgia Brown - Nono Söderberg 9. Saunavihta Twist - The Fellows 10. Man of Mystery - The Needles 11. Girls - Rami Hammar & The Riders 12. Dance On - Korsuorkesteri 13. Blue Shawl - The Mustangs 14. Sunrise - Hurmio 15. When Roses Die - The New Violents 16. I Will Stay - Pekka Tiilikainen & Beatmakers 17. Moonshot - The Aftons 18. Twist D'Amore - The Quiets 19. Black Horse - The Wanglers 20. One Magic Night In Urjala - Nono Söderberg 21. Dream Castle - The Fellows 22. Autumn Leaves - The Needles 23. After The Storm - Rami Hammar & The Riders 24. Parisienne Walkways - Korsuorkesteri

Thee Headcoats Sect "Ready Sect Go!" 1999/2006

Bombastic, slamming fun! Another joint effort between The Downliners Sect and Thee Headcoats results in a slamming, molten slab of vinyl guaranteed to get you out of your comfy chair on the first tune. I haven't heard drumming like this since Keith Moon passed away. If you like garage rock of any form, this is the real deal here. Forget the cute outfits and hairdos on the new bands, put on your Headcoat and venture into the storm!The Downliners Sect were the most unapologetically rough band to emerge from the British R&B explosion of the '60s (as well as one of the wittiest), so its no great surprise that the U.K.'s leading rock & roll primitive, Billy Childish, would happen to be a big fan. What one might not expect is just how well Childish's band Thee Headcoats would collaborate with former Downliners Sect men Don Craine and Keith Grant; on Ready Sect Go!, Thee Headcoats Sect (featuring Craine and Grant teaming up with Childish and his bandmates Bruce Brand and Johnny Johnson) tear though a dozen songs (two new numbers from Childish and ten classic covers) with a gritty swagger that flatters the style of both acts. While Childish's recording projects often sound like three or four guys bashing away in a garage as documented by a cheap boom box (which usually plays like a virtue), on Ready Sect Go! Craine and Grant bring a modicum of professionalism to the project, and Liam Watson's monophonic engineering clearly captures a band that's tight, powerful and disciplined without losing their rough edges. At the same time, Childish's back-to-basics world view complements the gutsy, elemental attack of Craine's guitar and Grant's bass work, and with the exception of the Pirates' excellent comeback recordings in the '70s and '80s, you'd be hard pressed to name a "reunion" effort from a classic British beat group that delivers as much potent rock action as Thee Headcoats Sect generate in these sessions. Ready Sect Go! is a superb meeting of the minds between two schools of like-minded U.K. rockers, and fans of British beat madness both old and new will groove hard behind this stuff. - Mark Deming, AllMuisctrax:

01. Ain't That Just Like Me 02. Down In The Bottom 03. I'm A King Bee 04. Take Out Some Insurance On Me 05. Knight Of The Baskervilles 06. I'm A Lover, Not A Fighter 07. Mean Red Spider 08. A Certain Girl 09. She's Fine, She's Mine 10. I Got Love If You Want It 11. Ready Sect Go! 12. I'm Ready

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Headless Chickens "Headless Chickens" 1986

New Zealand band of the late 1980s and 1990s. The Headless Chickens grew out of Children's Hour. Signed to Flying Nun Records, they were that label's most successful local act, with a double platinum album and a number one single (in fact Flying Nun's only number one), "George". They disbanded in 1998. - discogstrax:

01 Monkey Jar 02 Axe 03 The Slice 04 Hedge Song 05 Totalling Dad's Car 06 Agit Pop 07 The Ghost Of Some Cold Street 08 Monkey Jar (Alternative Version)

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"Deep & Gritty The Sound Of The City" Vol 11: Nashville

Deep, tough and rare Nashville soul from the 60’s into the early 70’s - most have never been on a compilation before!trax:

1. Sho Nuff You Can (You Can Count on Me) - Obrey Wilson 2. Precious Minutes - Elaine Armstrong 3. The Same Things It Took to Get Me - Joe Tex 4. I'll Be Watchin' Over You - Freddie North 5. How's Things with You - Joe Mayfield 6. Running Back - Jewell Ausbon 7. So Much to Be Thankful For - Herbert Hunter 8. How's the World Treating You - P.W. Cannon 9. I Can't Be Your Part Time Baby - Gwen Davis 10. Don't Leave - Tom Dooley 11. Feelin' That Glow - Yvonne Hodges 12. Your Love Is a Masterpiece - Roger Hatcher 13. Stealing Love on the Side - Paul Kelly 14. Got to Have You Baby - The Original Chessmen 15. Begging to You - Otis Williams 16. Don't Walk on My Feet - The Three Heads 17. You Ain't Gonna Get It - Sugar Taylor 18. So Long Bye Bye - Ted Taylor 19. I'm Gonna Try Love Again - Joe Tex 20. Glad You Came My Way - Joe Simon 21. Mr. Lovemaker - Willie Hobbs 22. Unbelievable - Vivian Reed

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…and now for something completely different! 0955 - 2020

We have a first entry each day that is a picture or a video, and only in that entry you can place your music links and requests (NO ALBUMS RELEASED IN 2018 AND AFTER, AND A DAILY LIMIT OF 3 ALBUMS)! All the rest official posts will only allow comments related to the official posts and such. That way it will keep things much more organized and tidy. Enjoy! RYP and Gyro1966

Wild Billy Childish & His Famous Headcoats "I Am The Object Of Your Desire" 2000

Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1 December 1959) is an English painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. Since the late 1970s, Childish has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art. He has lead and played in bands including the Pop Rivets, The Milkshakes, Thee Headcoats, and the Musicians of the British Empire, primarily working in the genres of garage rock, punk and surf......He is a consistent advocate for amateurism and free emotional expression. Childish co-founded the Stuckism art movement with Charles Thomson in 1999, which he left in 2001. Since then a new evaluation of Childish's standing in the art world has been under way, culminating with the publication of a critical study of Childish's working practice by the artist and writer Neal Brown, with an introduction by Peter Doig, which describes Childish as "one of the most outstanding, and often misunderstood, figures on the British art scene". He is a visiting lecturer at Rochester Independent College. In July 2014 Childish was awarded an honorary Doctor of Arts Degree from the University of Kent. - wikitrax:

01 I Am The Object Of Your Desire 02 Hurt Me (Slight Return) 03 An Image Of You 04 In A Dead Man's Suit 05 Chatham Town Welcomes Desperate men 06 In Blood 07 Come Into My Mind 08 Great Grandfather 09 I'm A Desperate Man 10 Strange Looking Woman 11 Your Crying Means Nothing To Me (Slight Return) 12 The Same Tree

Lawson Sqare Infirmary "Lawson Sqare Infirmary" 1984 - EP

Lawson Square Infirmary was a 12" extended play released in November 1984 by the Triffids and James Paterson under the collaborative project of the same name. In 2008 all six tracks from the EP were included on the compilation Beautiful Waste and Other Songs...…Lawson Square Infirmary was the result of a one-off recording collaboration between members of the Triffids and Sydney musician James Paterson, of JFK & The Cuban Crisis,[1] who financed the recording and was the Triffids' singer David McComb's occasional song writing collaborator. The performances were recorded in a couple of takes live to stereo at the Sydney Opera House shortly before the Triffids relocated to London in late August 1984.[2] It was also the first Triffids-related release to include 'Evil' Graham Lee, who later joined the band.[1][3] The Triffids shared a rambling, run down house in Lawson Square, Redfern in Sydney. - wikitrax:

01 Figurine 02 When My Heart Breaks 03 Mother Silhouette 04 Mercy 05 Crucifixion Speech 06 Not the Marrying Kind

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"Do The 45!" Vol. 484 (2020)

Super fun collection of soul, blues, R&B, instro, and rock 'n' roll from the original 45's. (From my record collection.)It's just me having fun with my 45's and whatever random record I pull out of the boxes. I will try to give both sides of the 45 unless one side is dull, unbearable or unplayable. I hope you enjoy. (Gyro1966)trax:

1. Everybody's Twisting (Myrl) - Darron Lee (Billy Lee Riley) 2. I've Been Searching (Myrl) - Darron Lee (Billy Lee Riley) 3. Hey, Hey Baby (Herald) - Vito & the Salutations 4. Sugar Wugar (Herald) - Al Savage 5. Bridge of Love (Herald) - Al Savage 6. Mama Wants to Drive (Federal) - The Zircons 7. No Twistin' on Sunday (Federal) - The Zircons 8. Soul Beat (Columbia) - Carl Perkins 9. C.C. Rider (You're So Bad (Columbia) - Carl Perkins 10. Teenage Letter (Sun) - Jerry Lee Lewis 11. Come on in (Elektra) - The  Butterfield Blues Band 12. One More Time (T N T) - Roy Head & the Traits 13. Don't Be Blue (T N T) - Roy Head & the Traits 14. Aw Shucks Baby (7 Arts) - Bull Moose Jackson 15. Up the Street (Junior) - Don Gardner & His Sonotones 16. Southern Soul (Mojo) - Billy Lee Riley 17. Midnite Hour (Mojo) - Billy Lee Riley 18. Just a Wigglin' n' Wobblin' (Coral) - The Del-Aires 19. Elaine (Coral) - The Del-Aires 20. Baby Please Don't Go (Wild) - Gizelle 21. Blessed Are the Tears (Wild) - Gizelle 22. Pain Is the Name of Your Game (Pres) - Ural Thomas & the Pain 23. I'll Do It for You (Pres) - Ural Thomas & the Pain 24. Baby Blue (Apple) - Badfinger 25. Flying (Apple) - Badfinger 26. Past, Present and Future (Red Bird) - The Shangri-Las 27. Love You More Than Yesterday (Red Bird) - The Shangri-Las 28. Land of 1000 Dances (Atlantic) - Wilson Pickett 29. You're So Fine (Atlantic) - Wilson Pickett 30. Anyway You Want Me (Acta) - The American Breed 31. Master of My Fate (Acta) - The American Breed

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…and now for something completely different! 0954 - 2020

We have a first entry each day that is a picture or a video, and only in that entry you can place your music links and requests (NO ALBUMS RELEASED IN 2018 AND AFTER, AND A DAILY LIMIT OF 3 ALBUMS)! All the rest official posts will only allow comments related to the official posts and such. That way it will keep things much more organized and tidy. Enjoy! RYP and Gyro1966

Django Reinhardt "Douce Ambiance" Expanded Edition 1947

Douce Ambiance Expanded Edition album by Django Reinhardt was released in 2003, with 19 jazz songs.Django Reinhardt = Genius. This album? No exception. DOUCE AMBIANCE is a collection of sides by Django's late-1940s ensembles Souvenirs De Django Reinhardt and Le Quintette du Hot Club de France (a later incarnation; not the one with Stephane Grappelli). Each ensemble features a line-up of twin guitars, clarinet, bass, and drums, and the intimate, acoustic feel of these recordings allows the true brilliance of the instrumentalists (especially Reinhardt) to shine. The music is fun, dazzling, nostalgic, slightly dirty, and the whole thing swings like a monkey on a vine. The compilation features many of Reinhardt's best-known tunes, including the atmospheric "Nuages" and "Swing 39," with its insanely frantic bounce. Two compositions were co-written with the great Stephane Grappelli, the slinky title track and all-time classic "Minor Swing." As a stylist, Reinhardt seems omnipotent, segueing seamlessly from slow, space-filled, soulful leads to blistering, advanced bop (he plays the melody of "Babik," for example, with superhuman speed). There are mountains of Reinhardt compilations on the market, but DOUCE AMBIANCE is a fine choice for bringing the magic Reinhardt's fingers make into your life. 1947 Recording-Mostly Experi- Mental. - cduniversePersonnel:

Django Reinhardt (guitar); Django Reinhardt; Emmanuel Soudieux (double bass); Joseph Reinhardt, Eugene Vees (guitar); Hubert Rostaing, Maurice Meunier, Gerard Leveque (clarinet); Eddie Bernard (piano); Jacques Martinon, André Jourdan (drums)

trax:

01 Nuages 02 Belleville 03 Songe D'Automne 04 Topsy 05 Django's Blues 06 Danse Norvegienne 07 Gipsy With A Song 08 Vendredi 13 09 Swing 48 10 Swing 39 11 Stockholm 12 Blues Primitif 13 Babik 14 Melodie Au Crepuscule 15 Del Salle 16 Douce Ambiance 17 Blues en Mineur 18 Dinette 19 MINOR SWING 20 Minor Blues (bonus) 21 Anniversary song (bonus) 22 I Can't Give You Anything But Love (bonus)

This music is dedicated to the tradition of Johnny Diego's Rock 'n' Roll Free Sunday!

Thee Headcoat Sects "Deerstalking Men" 1996

This is: Garage-Rock, Rhythm & Blues, Rock & Roll.One of the stranger, more delightful modern incarnations of a '60s British invasion outfit, Thee Headcoats Sect is a quintet comprised of Don Craine (guitar, vocals) and Keith "Grant" Evans (bass, vocals), of the Downliners Sect, and Billy Childish (lead guitar), Bruce Brand (drums), and Johnny Johnson (harmonica), of the 1990s retro rock & roll band Thee Headcoats. Together, they sound astonishingly like the original Downliners Sect, playing that same unique, very rude sounding early-'60s style R&B.Line Up:

Don Craine - guitar, vox / Keith Grant - bass, vox / Billy Childish - lead guitar / Johnny Johnson - harp / Bruce Brand - drums

trax:

01. Strychnine 02. My Dear Watson 03. Fog-Bound Pinhead 04. Troubled Times 05. Cowboys Are Square 06. Baby What's Wrong 07. Why Don't You Smile Now 08. The Witch 09. Squaresville 10. Lie Detector 11. Deerstalking Man 12. I'm A Gamekeeper

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Chainsaw Masochist "Facing Up" 1989

Today it's about the 'Chainsaw Masochist', someone who works the masochists with the chainsaw or the chainsaw with masochists or whatever......You can see the blood spurting anyway. On the other hand, 'nomen' is not an omen here. The two albums in this group are really good indie mainstream and exactly what you would call good alt in the late 80s. Rock could expect. - Gaius

Credits

Bass – Darren McShane / Drums – Ricky McShane / Vocals, Guitar – Debbie Silvey, Murray Couling

trax:

1. There's Nothing To Write Home About 2. Passing Time 3. Hopeless Situation 4. I Hate The Blues 5. Facing Up 6. Not All Change Is Progress 7. See-Saw 8. If These Walls Could Talk 

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"Electric Blues" Part 1 disc 3 - Beginnings 1939-1954

Bear Family's Electric Blues history Plug It In! Turn It Up! may not seem quite as ambitious as some of their projects, but that's only because it arrives in four volumes of three CDs, not a hulking 12-disc, 12X12 box complete with a hardcover book…...Taken on its own terms, it is a pretty impressive chronicle of electrified blues from its infancy to its prime. Here in the first volume, the spotlight shines on its birth, opening up with a cut from Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds of Joy, a 1939 side called "Floyd's Guitar Blues" featuring a solo by Floyd Smith, and running to 1954, when the jumping, hard-charged sound started to break into the big time. Wisely, Bear Family is happy to repeat artists -- there is no way to limit yourself to just one T-Bone Walker or Muddy Waters song, after all -- and they bend the rules ever so slightly, letting in sides by R&B singers like Fats Domino and Ray Charles, artists who aren't always strictly classified as electric blues but certainly fit this wide definition. Roughly speaking, the first disc here is devoted to the swinging, jumping sounds of the '40s and '50s, with the second finding the rawer, nastier sounds starting to sneak in (Jackie Brenston's 'Rocket '88'," Howlin' Wolf's "How Many More Years," Elmore James' "Dust My Broom," and Little Walter's "Juke" pop up here), and the third concluding with the rise of overdriven Chicago blues and boogie, with Jimmy Reed rubbing shoulders with Wynonie Harris. Perhaps there are some seminal sides from these 15 minutes -- almost certainly there are -- but this first volume of Plug it In! Turn It Up! tells its story expertly and, best of all, it sounds like a party as it does so.(Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic)

trax:

1. Messin' Up - Chuck Norris 2. Please Love Me - B.B. King & His Orchestra 3. Forty Cups Of Coffee - Danny Overbea 4. Ice Cream Man - John Brim 5. Losing Hand - Ray Charles 6. Hydramatic Woman - Joe Hill Louis 7. Feelin' Good - Little Junior's Blue Flames 8. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer - Amos Milburn And His Aladdin Chickenshackers 9. Tiger Man - Rufus Thomas, Jr. 10. Blues With A Feeling - Little Walter & His Jukes 11. Piggly Wiggly - Lil’ Son Jackson 12. TV Mama - Big Joe Turner & His Blues Kings 13. The Things That I Used To Do - Guitar Slim And His Band 14. Shim Sham Shimmy - Champion Jack Dupree 15. Dirty Work At The Crossroad - Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown With Jimmy Mccracklin And His Orchestra 16. You Don't Have To Go - Jimmy Reed & His Trio 17. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters 18. Sloopy Drunk - Jimmy Rogers & His Rocking Four 19. Shake That Thing - Wynonie Harris 20. Wine, Women, Whiskey - Papa Lightfoot 21. I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare 22. Pet Cream Man - J.B. Hutto & His Hawks 23. Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulson 24. Don't Have To Worry - Lafayette Thomas 25. The Boogie Disease - Doctor Ross

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