Max's Kansas City: 1976 & Beyond coming to CD and Vinyl on May 5th via Jungle Records
The original Max's Kansas City 1976 pioneering punk club album, extended with an extra 30 tracks and historical notes
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In 1976 Peter (Crowley) compiled a studio album of acts associated with the club, Max's Kansas City 1976, to help promote the club. It featured the first released recordings of Suicide, The Fast and Warhol-era veteran Wayne County, whose title-track gave a roll-call of many of the famous acts who'd regularly performed there.
Now the original album is reissued as Max's Kansas City 1976 & Beyond, greatly extended to 40 tracks on a double-CD and a selection of 25 tracks on a double-LP. As well as the aforementioned Suicide, Fast and Wayne County, the new extended album features the New York Dolls, the Stillettos, the Offs, the Senders, Philip Rambow, VON LMO, Iggy Pop, Knots, Roland Alphonso, Cherry Vanilla, Nico, Joy Ryder, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers and Sid Vicious amongst many others. It includes many previously unreleased tracks and rarities. Compiled by Peter Crowley, who also contributes notes detailing the history of the album. Writer, musician and Max's scenester Jimi LaLumia provides historical overview sleeve-notes along with biographies of the artists in a 20-page booklet.
Track Listing
Disc 1
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 27 March 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
Ha, just now came here to paste that, rat on! Would def like to check the expanded Lotus too.
― dow, Monday, 27 March 2017 23:04 (seven years ago) link
I'm in the middle of this, which would be a good companion to that comp. It starts out shaky (oh no, yet another half-assed oral history), but when it covers the more obscure nearly forgotten clubs and the forgotten artists better than anything previously.
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― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 13:32 (seven years ago) link
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For reasons that will become lysergically clear once you’ve heard the samples, Midori Takada's sublime debut album Through The Looking Glass [1983] is widely regarded the holy grail of ‘80s Japanese ambient & minimalist music. Perhaps it’s no wonder that 2nd hand copies are known to trade for over £600, and, therefore this deluxe reissue is welcomed by a whole new generation of listeners tracing this enchanted sound back to source.
Rooted in Midori Takada's fascination with Asian and African percussion traditions, Through The Looking Glass documents the Japanese musician navigating syncretic channels of practice between floating fantasy kingdoms and parallel ambient dimensions whilst guided by a deeply ethereal, oneiric spirit that’s utterly key to the album’s appeal. While it broadly falls under the ambient banner, the results are far too grand and ambitious to be considered sonic wallpaper - they’re more like widescreen tableaus that open out exponentially the deeper in you dive.
The image of a Lady Godiva-like character riding a hare-sheep-horse chimera on the cover symbolises the surreal confluence of ideas and gestures within; a Japanese musician translating Victorian psychedelic fantasies into a language of rippling rhythmelodies and softly pealing harmonics that nod to Pygmy music as much as gamelan traditions, the soundtracks of Cocteau films and precise marimba patter.
The rest, we’ll leave for your dilated discovery. Take it on trust that this is especially spellbinding and sui generis stuff without complete comparison. A dream.
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― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 13:40 (seven years ago) link
^ indeed. A beautiful record and very proud of my friend who's behind this reissue as well as a few other great ones (Mariah and Woo).
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 15:46 (seven years ago) link
Intriguing, thanks for the news.
Colourbox: 'Music of the band (1982-1987)' 4AD Store Exclusive LP
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24th March 2017To coincide with Wolfgang Tillmans' first major exhibition at the Tate Modern in London, Music of the band (1982-1987), a celebration of Colourbox, is available as a limited double LP. An HD audio version is also now available to stream / download via Bower & Wilkins. You can buy the LP edition from the 4AD Store, and the LP is also available from the Tate Modern in London.
The 16 tracks chosen by Wolfgang were originally selected to be played on loop at a conceptual playback listening space at Tillmans’ Berlin gallery, Between Bridges, in 2014, where lyrics and samples were pasted on the walls and where copies of the v23-designed records sat alongside original session ½” and ¼” tape reels, seeking to provide a unique environment for the audience to immerse themselves in the band’s modest but potent legacy. A limited number of CDs featuring those exhibition tracks were made available at this 2014 exhibition.
Both Colourbox and the Playback Room now form part of Tillmans’ exhibition in London (running until June 11th 2017) and this gatefold 2xLP edition of the compilation is now available exclusively through both the Tate shops and via the 4AD online store. This version features a new variation of the Tillmans-designed CD sleeve, a previously unreleased photograph series of his that features his prized Canon Colour Laser Copier, ripped apart and dismantled after a decade of service; “Eighties technology has influenced me a lot. When I won the Turner Prize I bought this copier with the money. Ten years later it was no longer repairable and I made this 'deconstruction' of it." You can find full details of the exhibition at the Tate Modern here.http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/wolfgang-tillmans-2017
Previously speaking of the band, Wolfgang said, "Brothers Martyn and Steven Young together with Ian Robbins, Lorita Grahame and Debian Curry were pioneers of experimental pop music. They created an eclectic sound drawing from reggae and soul influences, beat-box driven hip-hop rhythms, blue-eyed soul, as well as a fusion of far-ranging influences spanning from classic R&B, to dub and industrial. Using montages of analogue magnetic tape pieces and experimenting with tape machines, Colourbox were at the fore-front of sampling, which in its digital form would become ubiquitous in the course of the 1980's. The band worked in a seeming contrast of pure artistic research in the studio and an anti-intellectual stance towards the outside world.”
Between the initial exhibition in Berlin and this, Steven Young has sadly passed away. This release is also being pressed as a tribute to him and to Ian Robbins, who left us in 2014, and the wonderful music they made.
Colourbox - Music of the band (1982-1987)TADD3443A1 - Looks Like We’re Shy One Horse / Shoot Out (7:57)A2 - Sleepwalker (2:16)A3 - Just Give ‘em Whiskey (4:19)A4 - Baby I Love You So [7” version] (3:20)
B1 - Edit The Dragon (2:43)B2 - Hipnition (3:06)B3 - We Walk Around the Streets (0:24)B4 - Nation (10:00)
C1 - Justice (4:51)C2 - Sex Gun (4:08)C3 - Shotgun (4:50)C4 - The Moon Is Blue [7” version] (4:34)
D1 - Keep On Pushing (5:18)D2 - Fast Dump (5:40)D3 - Arena I (4:22)D4 - Hot Doggie (2:58)
― dow, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 00:59 (seven years ago) link
From Rhino: a real whole bunch of vinyl for Record Store Day, mixed bag incl. musical quality-wise of course, but (get the 7" of Patti Smith's "Piss Factory"/"Hey Joe" even if you have it; a spare can't hoit): http://view.e.wbr.com/?qs=9747d2ac29ae3c05b318849a452b453bd4ae8262ac14a3f675f19827070f0f18105438b121f26c2b2854a368f14c1077856eefb2281f3d880a64effb380eda7d
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Everloving Records announces the US reissue Super Furry Animals’ 1996 debut album, Fuzzy Logic, for Record Store Day 2017!
On Saturday April 22nd, Fuzzy Logic will be available on 180g LP with an additional 35 bonus tracks and on 2xCD. Gruff Rhys says: “The reissue is radically different to the original, some songs have alternative beginnings and endings and people will notice the difference in definition, especially in high resolution digital and the new vinyl cut.”
Despite the Lennon-aping antics of their peers, Wales’s Super Furry Animals were the closest Britpop came to the adventuring spirit of the Beatles. Their indie rock, psychedelic pop, dance, country, glam and space-folk mashup was as pioneering as their aesthetic was madcap … These homecoming gods showed us the old magic.” — The Guardian
The madness and the majesty of Super Furry Animals’ chaotic emergence as an indefinable, thrillingly exciting addition to the innovative margins of mainstream rock and roll is irresistibly encapsulated in the US reissue of their 1996 debut album, Fuzzy Logic for Record Store Day 2017 on Saturday April 22nd via Everloving Records. From the two-decade deep well of their adventurous catalogue come B-sides, a legendary festival performance and demo versions from low-key 1995 recording sessions, revealing the genesis and winding roads taken by many of their early hits.
Super Furry Animals are comprised of Huw Bunford (Guitar/Vocals), Cian Ciaran (Keyboards/Effects/Vocals), Dafydd Ieuan (Drums/Vocals), Guto Pryce (Bass) and Gruff Rhys (Vocals/Guitar). This is the original lineup that burst onto the music scene in 1995 with the release of their first EP Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (In Space). They were quickly recognized as being amongst the most interesting and inventive bands of the ‘90s British music boom and a string of lauded albums. Renowned for an energetic and exhilarating live show, the band has become synonymous with their native Wales and are considered a bona fide national treasure.
The significance of the reissue and the forensic remastering process was heightened as the band learned of the tapes’ near destruction in a storage fire sometime between the original Rockfield Studio sessions in late 1995 and their retrieval in 2016. Official Furries Archivist and Co-Compiler, Kliph Scurlock dusted off the smoke-tinged reels and led a fingertip search for each and every track, working with Mastering Engineer, Donal Whelan to unpeel layers of primitive, mid-nineties digitization, correct subtly corrupt edits and expose the warmth and ingenuity of the original, analogue recordings in superior, high resolution.
Gruff Rhys says: “The reissue is radically different to the original, some songs have alternative beginnings and endings and people will notice the difference in definition, especially in high resolution digital and the new vinyl cut. 1995/6 was an overwhelming whirlwind of touring, gimmickry and mayhem for us so it’s been a real treat to take some time to relive and reassess all these songs and compile everything that we recorded in that short, magical period in one place. In the unfamiliar environment of a big studio, Fuzzy Logic didn’t end up sounding anything like what we’d had in our heads for those years of songwriting building up to it, but it does have that undefinable vigor and energy of youth which isn’t included in the price of hiring a multitrack studio.”
Super Furry Animals spent six weeks in Rockfield Studios, South Wales completing the album, which was then released on Creation Records in May of 1996, climbing to 23 in the UK charts. The productivity of the time is evident in a separate collection of eight rock-solid b- sides, including the boisterous, fan favorite, Guacamole, creating parallels with bands such as The Beatles, The Smiths and The Jam, all renowned for the songs on the flipside being of the same, unquestionable quality as the lead.
Super Furry AnimalsFuzzy LogicApril 22, 2017Everloving Records – EVE055 – 180g LP & 2XCD
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more info via the orig. press sheet: http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=252b821bb623c0544fd0dfc64&id=73e5d7c978&e=adc06515ce
― dow, Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:02 (seven years ago) link
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Game Theory - Two Steps From The Middle Ageshttp://omnivorerecordings.com/music/2-steps-from-the-middle-ages/ Following up 1987’s Lolita Nation (whose reissue appeared on numerous year-end “best of” lists for 2016) would be no easy task for Game Theory. But, Scott Miller and company were certainly up for the task. Re-teaming with producer Mitch Easter (R.E.M., Marshall Crenshaw, Velvet Crush), 2 Steps From The Middle Ages was released in 1988, and showed the band had no shortage of energy, experimentation, and excellent material. This reissue contains the original 13 songs supplemented with a whopping 11 bonus tracks—demos, live performances and covers—all previously unissued. The translucent orange, first pressing of the LP (on vinyl for the first time since its initial release), contains a download card for the entire CD/Digital program. Packaging includes rare and previously unseen photos from the band’s photographer, Robert Toren, as well as essays from Easter, Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, Big Star), and Franklin Bruno (The Village Voice, Salon.com). The band’s drummer, Gil Ray, who was involved in all aspects with the Game Theory reissue series including this title, sadly passed away earlier this year. This reissue is lovingly dedicated to him. As the first track says, there’s “room for one more, honey.” That 1 more is 2 Steps From The Middle Ages.
Can - The SinglesReleased 16th June 2017
Pre-order now:Buy: http://smarturl.it/CanTheSinglesBuyStream: http://smarturl.it/CanTheSinglesStream
This unique document is the first time the singles have been presented together and shows the breadth of their influential career, from well loved tracks like Halleluwah, Vitamin C and I Want More to more obscure singles such as Silent Night and Turtles Have Short Legs.The tracks are all presented in their original single version, many of which have been unavailable for many years and not presented outside of the original 7" release.
The triple vinyl comes packaged in a trifold sleeve, decorated with a beautiful spot gloss lamination, and is designed by the award winning Julian House from Intro, a long time design collaborator of Can's.
CAN - THE SINGLES - TRACKLISTING:Soul DesertShe Brings The RainSpoonShikako Maru TenTurtles Have Short LegsHalleluwah (Edit)Vitamin CI’m So GreenMushroomMoonshakeFuture Days (Edit)Dizzy Dizzy (Edit)Splash (Edit)Hunters And Collectors (Edit)Vernal Equinox (Edit)I Want More...And MoreSilent NightCascade WaltzDon’t Say No (Edit)ReturnCan CanHoolah Hoolah (Edit)
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Smog Veil has a small limited number of the Brad Warner (0DFX, Dimentia 13) directed documentary film double DVD set, "Cleveland's Screaming!" Our friends at Red Hour Records produced this release and also licensed to us The Guns double LP.
"Cleveland's Screaming!" is a documentary film about the hardcore punk rock scene in northeast Ohio in the era of Reaganomics (1981-1984). A new breed of punk rock music came about named hardcore, which led to kids forming bands and building scenes around the country, networking a community of people from all over the world. This film shows the beginnings of NEO hardcore punk's scene to its demise a few years later, as told first hand by the people and bands that were there, including interviews, rare concert footage, photos and fliers, never before seen until now. Even yours truly, Frank Smog Veil, makes an appearance in the film!!
DVD 1 - Full Length DocumentaryDVD 2 - Special Bonus DVD with rare 80s concert footage, interviews and other extras
Our double LP retrospective of Cleveland's greatest hardcore band, The Guns, went out of print nearly immediately after release in 2012. We constantly get questions about it, and now we're happy to report that a repress is on the way.
For the uninitiated, hands down the top-end standard by which all other Cleveland hardcore bands should be measured, Cleveland hardcore history could not have been the same without The Guns. Scott Eakin and Dave Araca formed the band originally as a 2-piece, later adding to the lineup some amazing rippers in the form of Sean Saley, Bob Ries, and Scott Silverman. Though a couple compilation appearances is all they managed back in the day, this release collects those tracks plus all other studio recordings, as well as some choice live cuts. The LP also features Vince Rancid's original cover art as commissioned by the band in the 80s and informative liners penned by Scott's brother, Tom Dark, and Sean Saley.
"The Guns is a fitting tribute to an excellent band." --Hunter Bennett/Ugly Things #34
"This is a definite must-have for any old-school hardcore punk..." --Janelle Jones/AMP#111
The numbers: double LP with free download code, 43 songs, 2nd press limited to 500 copies, black and red marble vinyl.
Platters du Cuyahoga series 2 update Masters for the 3rd entry in series 2 are being assembled now at SUMA Studios in Painesville, Ohio. Parts for Allen Ravenstine's "Terminal Drive" studio album from 1975 are off to the pressing g plant within the week. The same can be said for the super secret 3rd entry, a double LP retrospective of Cleveland's groundbreaking electronic improv troupe that existed in 1972 and 1973. This release will include both studio and live tracks and extensive liners and photos. The whole series can be ordered by clicking the links below.
Praise for the first of our Platters du Cuyahoga series 2 releases: the legendary and never before released 1967 studio demo from Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade "Sunday Morning Revival":
"...destined to bring a smile to the face of Butterfield and Musselwhite fans far and wide while deepening the already rich history of its municipality..." --Joseph Neff/The Vinyl District
"...the band winds you up and leaves you begging for more". --Elmore Magazine
"As I grew to love the blues, I wanted to try to see if we could come up with something worthy of recording, and the only way to do that was to actually try it."- Jimmy Fox (James Gang/Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade)
Though once believed to have been lost or to only exist in theory, the lone 1967 studio demo recording by The Schwartz-Fox Blues Crusade featuring Mr. Stress - consisting of Cleveland legends and then members of the James Gang and Mr Stress Blues Band, Glenn Schwartz (guitar/vocals), Jimmy Fox (drums) Bill "Mr. Stress" Miller (vocals/harmonica), Tom Kriss (bass), Rich Kriss (guitar/vocals), and Mike Sands (piano) - is finally being released for music fans to savor and enjoy. 9 studio tracks of pure post-teen garage rock blues are accompanied by extensive liners and and never before published photos. The LP features colored vinyl, a free download code, and is limited to 1500 copies. Both the CD and the LP contains extensive liner notes penned by Nick Blakey and never before published photos.
Want to order the entire series 2 at a discount? Here's the details:
The three releases comprising Platters du Cuyahoga series 2 are: (1) Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade: "Sunday Morning Revival" (1967); (2) Allen Ravenstine: "Terminal Drive" (1975) (spring 2017 release); and (3) a soon to be announced double LP release of studio and live recordings from the first and most influential improvisational electronic outfit that called Cleveland home (1972-1973 recordings). All the releases will be formatted on vinyl as well as CD and download/streaming. A hallmark of the series will be that each release contains extensive liner notes, all carefully crafted and researched.
Praise for our recent Platters du Cuyahoga Series 1 releases:
ROBERT BENSICK BAND "French Pictures In London" LP/CD/digital:
"...deepens the already labyrinthine rewards of its region and rescues its namesake from footnote status." --Joseph Neff/The Vinyl District
MR. STRESS BLUES BAND "Live At The Brick Cottage 1972-1973" LP/CD/digital:
"At the risk of mythologizing a past I wasn't there for, Live at the Brick Cottage captures a particular scene and time, and Nick Blakey's extensive liner notes help to contextualize it. But it's not just a valuable time capsule, it's more important as a fun listen." --Justin Cober-Lake/Dusted
X_X "Albert Ayler's Ghosts Live At The Yellow Ghetto" LP/CD/digital:
"I love how it starts off in chaos before it coalesces toward the end." --Ron Kretsch/Dangerous Minds
Pere Ubu and Rocket From The Tombs have announced a series of special gigs. Note that Cheetah Chrome will make a special appearance with Rocket From The Tombs at the Austin gig. Here's the dates:
May 11: Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland (Rocket From The Tombs)May 13: Ace Of Cups, Columbus (Rocket From The Tombs)May 19: Beerland, Austin (Rocket From The Tombs)May 20: Beerland, Austin (Pere Ubu)Aug 24: London, The Lexington (Pere Ubu Moon Unit)Aug 28: Prague, Palace Akropolis (Pere Ubu Moon Unit)Aug 29: Dresden, Jazzclub Tonne (Pere Ubu Moon Unit)
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JETHRO TULL - SONGS FROM THE WOOD
40th Anniversary Edition Featuring Mixes By Steven Wilson
3CD/2 DVD Set With Rare Live Records And Footage Available On May 19
Vinyl, Digital, And Standalone CD Versions Will Follow In July
Contents, many other details here:http://view.e.wbr.com/?qs=9a4263172a944cd0152617fbb1cce9fe0b0f2646621b6b42ebc2c57fd9343397461e890de7ef957968fea8e901a7f5ec7ff145ff97a069894e0cd32672a031fd
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Numerophiles-
It’s that time of the year again. Wait, that’s exactly how we started this off last year. We’ve run out of ideas, folks. From here on out it’s going to be one rehash after another, as we trot out both tired tropes and borderline product in a vein attempt at maintaining RSD cred. We’ve tried to do interesting things in the past, be it WTNG or Los Alamos Grind! Our hope was that the average RSD chud-thumber might need a break from flipping past 311 triple 11” box sets, Feldman & Haim rap 12”s, and Mac Demarco reading fan tweets EPs. But it turns out that most people just want the same reheated garbage every year. You’ve been burned before with long lines and punishing prices, and if we get our way it’ll be more of the same, with hopefully longer lines and even higher prices. Who are we to argue with your terrible life choices?
But this is Numero, after all, and if we’re going to go big, we’re going to do it in a way that surely frustrates record buyers. In the past when we trotted out Hüsker Dü and Dinosaur Jr. sets, we pressed them in quantities that insured against the flipper economy. We wanted to make enough so that average fans who didn’t set up tents on the street the night before RSD would have a chance to buy our wares at an affordable price. Not this year. This year we’re pressing just enough copies to make you wonder if we actually pressed anything at all. The only way you’ll know for sure is if you come to one of our pop up stores (details below), pop a tent, or get a bowl of Pop Secret in your lap for the long, dark night of eBay refreshing for the soul.more info incl many links in web version of this press release:http://numerogroup.com/sendy/w/KGfkwQIbooVTdJucmNY1892Q/PtzdMeEx763iy9sRJJjiM8ww/GEjMthjFuCS892dpDyvJSB4g
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Telefon Tel Aviv's Map of What is Effortless reissued digitally today & original pressing vinyl available via Ghostly BUY IT HERESTREAM: Map of What is Effortless -https://soundcloud.com/ghostly/sets/telefon-tel-aviv-map-of-what-is-effortless/s-uZzQoBy 2004, New Orleans friends Joshua Eustis and the late Charles Cooper had fixed their flag in the landscape of the American electronic underground as Telefon Tel Aviv. The duo’s acclaimed 2001 debut Fahrenheit Fair Enough, released by John Hughes III’s Chicago-based Hefty imprint, offered a deep Southern sweep on glitchy IDM and pastoral post-rock, drawing as much from bounce rap, R&B, and jazz as it did Autechre and Aphex Twin. The follow-up, Map of What Is Effortless, managed to both expand and refine the sound. Signature polyrhythmic programming met new vocal presences on seven of the nine tracks. The Loyola University Chamber Orchestra contribute to the title track; a sumptuous centerpiece exemplifying Telefon Tel Aviv’s craft for wordless, cinematic storytelling.
Ghostly International, having reissued Fahrenheit Fair Enough at its 15th anniversary in 2016, will update Map of What Is Effortless on April 14th. The digital release, noticeably absent in most streaming libraries until now, features three bonus tracks: “Jouzu Desu Ne,” “Sound In A Dark Room,” and a remix of the latter by legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Also, there is a modest amount of original vinyl pressings from 2004 available for purchase at The Ghostly Store. Hefty Records were kind enough to help us source an unsold batch of the original pressing (long since unavailable). Stored for over a decade, the LPs have some character.
Track List:01. When It Happens, It Moves All By Itself02. I Lied03. My Week Beats Your Year04. Bubble And Spike05. Map Of What Is Effortless06. Nothing Is Worth Losing That07. What It Is Without The Hand That Wields It08. What It Was Will Never Again09. At The Edge Of The World You Will Still Float10. Jouzu Desu Ne (Digital Bonus)11. Sound In A Dark Room (Digital Bonus)12. Sound In A Dark Room (Ryuichi Sakamoto Remix) [Digital Bonus]TOUR DATES:
― dow, Friday, 14 April 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
Sad Lovers And Giants - Where The Light Shines Through – 1981-2017: 5CD Box Set Apr 28https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/where-the-light-shines-through-1981-2017-5cd-box-set/#sthash.9QTXp5T3.dpuf
Formed in 1980, Watford band Sad Lovers & Giants carved a unique furrow through the 1980s independent music scene, creating music which was haunting, atmospheric, melodic and evocative and which somehow straddled post-punk, synth pop, psychedelia and indie.
Compiled, designed and curated by the band, WHERE THE LIGHT SHINES THROUGH is the first comprehensive anthology of the band’s recordings.
After singles on their own Last Movement label, they signed to Midnight Music, issuing two albums – Epic Garden Music (1982) and Feeding The Flame (1983) – before splitting. This period also witnessed a John Peel session and a live concert for Dutch Radio Hilversum (subsequently issued as Total Sound in 1986). All of these recordings appear here.
Sad Lovers & Giants returned with a revitalised line-up in 1987 – still fronted by ever- present vocalist Garce (Simon) Allard. New albums followed – The Mirror Test (1987), Headland (1990) and Treehouse Poetry (1991) – as the band found new audiences in the Netherlands, Spain and France.
When Midnight Music dissolved, so too did the band. But Sad Lovers & Giants reunited in the noughties, playing to loyal fans and recording a new album, Melting In The Fullness Of Time. Since then, Sad Lovers & Giants have stayed active, culminating in a short tour of North America in spring 2016, during which they were invited to showcase at the prestigious SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.
WHERE THE LIGHT SHINES THROUGH spans the band’s entire career, with every recording of note, sleeve-notes by Garce and design by ex-member Simon Blanchard.
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Studio One Hi Fi SpecialLtd. Edition Collectors Edition 7" Record Store Day Box SetSOUL JAZZ RECORDS
Studio One Hi-Fi Special super-limited Record Store Day 5x7" Box Set special!
This record is only available direct from independent record stores on Record Store Day Sat 22nd April. So you need to get on down to one to ensure you get a copy!This is the second of three Soul Jazz Records RSD Specials! - you will receive info on the third one tomorrow!
Unique Soul Jazz Records’ Record Store Day seven-inch box set comprising five separate singles featuring ten killer rare collectors tracks from Studio One Records, featuring Ska, Roots, Rocksteady, Dub.
Seminal, rare and classic tunes! These singles have only ever ever been available exclusively direct from Soul Jazz Records' Soho shop in London and are available worldwide only for this collectors box set RSD special release.
This unique box-set edition is only available as a one-off pressing especially for Record Store Day 2017.
Release Date22 April 20175×7" BoxsetCat. No.: SJR 377 BOXBarcode: 5026328003771 Tracklisting1 Joseph Hill – Behold The Land2 Tommy McCool & The Skatalites – Full Dread3 Roland Alphonso – Drums Of Fue Man Tru4 Tommy McCook and The New Establishment – Blues For I5 The Traps – Higher6 The Traps – Higher Version7 Larry Marshall – I've Got To Make It8 The Skatalites – Coconut Rock9 The Magnificent Seven – Jack Johnson10 Dobby Dobson – Seems To Me I'm Losing YouMore Info & Audio:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/press/kqg1uy7mjm7y
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Nigeria Soul Power 70Record Store Day 7" Box SetSOUL JAZZ RECORDS
Nigeria Soul Power 70 super-limited Record Store Day 5x7" Box Set special!
This record is only available direct from independent record stores on Record Store Day Sat 22nd April. So you need to get on down to one to ensure you get a copy!This is one of three Soul Jazz Records RSD Specials! - you will receive info on the next one tomorrow!
Soul Jazz Records’ Record Store Exclusive Limited-Edition Soul 7” Box Set comprising five heavyweight 70s Afro-Funk, Afro-Disco & Afro-Rock seven-inch singles all with unique bespoke label artwork and all digitally re-mastered. Seriously rare, killer and classic Nigerian 70s Afro-Funk, Afro-Disco & Afro-Rock tunes bought together here in this unique one-off Record Store Day box-set edition.
Release Date22 April 20175×7" BoxsetCat. No.: SJR 379 BOXBarcode: 5026328003795 Tracklisting1 Geraldo Pino – Heavy, Heavy, Heavy2 Geraldo Pino – Africans Must Unite3 Wings – We'll Get Home4 Wings – Single Boy5 Tony Grey and The Ozimba Messengers – You Are The One6 Don Bruce and The Angels – Sugar Baby7 Geraldo Pino – Shake Hands8 Geraldo Pino – Power To The People9 MFB – Beware10 Colomach – Kassa Kpa Sama KpaMore Info & Audio:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/press/3smq7pa5waus
― dow, Monday, 17 April 2017 19:32 (seven years ago) link
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Soul 70Record Store Day 7" Box SetSOUL JAZZ RECORDS
Soul 70 super-limited edition collectors Record Store Day 5x7" Box Set special!
This record is only available direct from independent record stores on Record Store Day Sat 22nd April. So you need to get on down to one to ensure you get a copy!This is the third of three Soul Jazz Records RSD Specials!
Soul Jazz Records’ Record Store Exclusive Limited-Edition Soul 7” Box Set comprising five fantastic 70s soul seven-inch singles reproduced here in exact replica bespoke label artwork and all digitally re-mastered. Previously only available individually and direct from Soul Jazz Records website. Seriously rare, killer and classic soul tunes brought together here in this unique one-off pressing Record Store Day box-set edition.
Release Date22 April 20175×7" BoxsetCat. No.: SJR 378 BOXBarcode: 5026328003788 Tracklisting1 Arnold Blair – Trying To Get Next To You2 Arnold Blair – I Won The Big Deal3 Brief Encounter – Total Satisfaction4 Brief Encounter – Human5 Johnny Adams – Feel The Beat, Feel The Heat6 Johnny Adams – Spanish Harlem7 Norma Jean – I've Taken Over8 Norma Jean – Raising Hell9 Richard Brown – Sweet and Kind10 Richard Brown – Don't Listen To The GrapevineMore Info & Audio:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/press/hdtawbsgmrbh
― dow, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 18:59 (seven years ago) link
The track listing for the deluxe reissue of Prince's Purple Rain has leaked; it's a 3CD set that may also contain a DVD/Blu-Ray, since it's supposed to include two concert films as well. Street date is supposedly June 9.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 23:40 (seven years ago) link
JOHN COLTRANE
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Rhino's New Compilation Spotlighting Coltrane's Atlantic Years Will Be Released On June 9 The Acclaimed Documentary Chasing Trane In Theaters Now
Five Individual Releases Of The Pioneering Saxophonist's Mono Albums For Atlantic Records Out June 16
LOS ANGELES - John Coltrane will take the spotlight this year when John Scheinfeld's highly anticipated Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary begins its theatrical run on April 14. Shortly after, Rhino will focus on the revolutionary music the "heavyweight champion" of jazz recorded for Atlantic Records with a series of releases.
It all begins on June 9 with the arrival of a new anthology that includes nine tracks selected from recordings the saxophonist made for Atlantic Records between 1959 and 1961. TRANE: THE ATLANTIC COLLECTION will be available on LP ($19.98), CD ($14.98) and digitally.
The compilation will be followed by mono reissues for five Coltrane studio albums: Giant Steps, Olé Coltrane, Coltrane Plays The Blues, Bags & Trane and The Avant-Garde. Each will be available on 180 gram LP ($21.98), and digitally on June 16, with the mono CD of the classic Giant Steps ($11.98) coming July 7. These albums were recently issued together as part of Rhino's boxed set John Coltrane: The Atlantic Years In Mono. The set received critical acclaim in 2016 including five stars from Downbeat which noted, "With no alternate takes and presented verbatim and presented as the albums were originally issued song-by-song, there is certainly a warmth, clarity and a sense of wholeness that can give new fans a fresh way to listen to Coltrane."
The mono albums and new compilation cover the time when Coltrane - after playing on Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue - was moving away from the life of a sideman and embracing the role of bandleader. The music he recorded at Atlantic features some of his finest work, including the wise blues of "Equinox," a bright, swinging version of "My Shining Hour," the exuberant "Giant Steps," and the hit single "My Favorite Things."
In the liner notes that accompany TRANE: THE ATLANTIC COLLECTION, author and noted jazz critic Ben Ratliff writes: "You can listen through this 46-minute collection of romantic or purposeful or slightly mysterious music...and get it clearly: the sense of a strikingly original sound and intelligence."
Coltrane is poised to reach a new audience this year thanks to Chasing Trane. Written and directed by critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker John Scheinfeld, it is the definitive documentary film about an outside-the-box thinker with extraordinary talent whose boundary-shattering music continues to impact and influence people around the world. Some the film's notable appearances include Bill Clinton, Sonny Rollins, and Common, with Coltrane's own words spoken by Denzel Washington. Following its theatrical launch in New York, the film will be shown in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, with additional cities planned.
TRANE: THE ATLANTIC COLLECTION Track Listing
1. "My Favorite Things" (Part I) - Single Version2. "Like Sonny"3. "Cousin Mary"4. "Giant Steps"5. "Central Park West"6. "Equinox"7. "Naima"8. "My Shining Hour"9. "Mr. Syms"
― dow, Thursday, 20 April 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
I just bought the deluxe double edition of X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents, which apparently was reissued in 2009. It's one of my alltime favorite albums, how did I not know about this? I checked and it wasn't mentioned in the rolling 2009 thread. Anyone know of deluxe reissue plans for Lust For Life/The Idiot, Low/Heroes, Blank Generation or New York Dolls, pipe up!
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 20 April 2017 19:23 (seven years ago) link
Trying to decide whether it's worth it to buy the Coltrane mono CD box set. Leaning towards no.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 20 April 2017 19:44 (seven years ago) link
Oh yeah, guess I should put this here too (just now on Rolling Jazz)--note forthcoming reissue and single (check Luaka Bop to order):
Alice Coltrane Tribute show on May 21st!RBMA Festival New York: As you may have heard, we are working very hard on a large celebration of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda. This year marks the 80th year since she was born, and the tenth year after she passed to another place. We just announced a large tribute concert and ceremony in her honor, which will take place In New York at the stunning performance and arts space called The Knockdown Center, as part of Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York. The first part of the show (that we are involved with) is inspired by the Sunday ceremonies Alice held at her Sai Anantam Ashram in California. Timed to coincide with sundown, the powerful, spiritual music will be performed by an ensemble led by music director Surya Botofasina, who grew up at the Ashram. The latter half will be a concert led by her son, Ravi Coltrane, featuring an all-star band playing music from throughout Alice's career. Tickets are available here.
A few weeks prior to that, we will be releasing the compilation of her spiritual music, which we told you about last time. Titled World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, it features a lot of beautiful artwork, photos and essays. You can pre-order it here.
Ps. if you have read this far, you may also find it interesting to learn that we have a handful of the very limited Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda 7"s we made for the "Come Together" Record Fair last weekend. If you would like to order one, you can do so here.
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― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, April 20, 2017 8:23 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I have that XRay Spex double cos it turned up in HMV when they were having the closing sale. Had the previous cd so hadn't picked it up previously.
Would love an update on the 2 late 70s Iggy lps. But not sure there's even a remaster around though have seen that there is a 2 fer iof the 2 lps on cd from 2011. Thought there may be another version around. THink the 2011 thing is just a repackaging of the previous cds which I think may be late 80s.
I thought that people were slowly working through the Bowie lps and making them doubles with a loto f bonus, but that was possibly on the basis of Ziggy Stardust coming out followed by at least Aladdin Sane and that might be 15 odd years back.Is there likely to be a Berlin era thing like the recent set that covered the build up to Young Ameriocans and Station to Station. Who Can I be Now?
I think Blank Generation was done as a single cd with some bonus tracks an age ago and that there have been some other anthologies mopping up various bits of Richard Hell's history.
Only thing I know about NY Dolls semi rarities is a llive box set from sometime around that era, Sanctuary 2008. But I think t hat covers some later stuff too by ex members.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 20 April 2017 22:49 (seven years ago) link
The long-deleted Ryko Bowie CDs' bonus tracks are listed and described here: http://bowiesongs.tumblr.com/post/29565725664/a-bowie-rykodiscography
― dow, Friday, 21 April 2017 03:29 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I got the deluxe sets of everything up to Station To Station, which was in 2010. Then they stopped.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 21 April 2017 05:50 (seven years ago) link
What's Rhino's reputation these days?
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 21 April 2017 09:38 (seven years ago) link
Rhino's Wilson Pickett set was really nice. I've been debating whether it's worth getting the Sabbath Paranoid Super Deluxe set, I might pick it up used. They did Otis' Dictionary of Soul in October, and Led Zep's 3 disc BBC Sessions reissue was cool. Stevie Nicks and later Fleetwood Mac deluxes. Everything is tip top quality that I can tell. But they also do a lot of vinyl only reissues which I have no interest in. It's just a matter of time 'til they revive 8-tracks (I think I saw a glimmer of that), then 78s and wax cylinders.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 21 April 2017 13:27 (seven years ago) link
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Happy Record Store Day!Vic Chesnutt's West of Rome now available for the first time on vinylNew West Records is proud to present Vic Chesnutt’s second studio album, West Of Rome. Meticulously remastered and pressed on vinyl for the very first time, West Of Rome is widely regarded by fans and hailed by critics as Chesnutt’s best record. Produced by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, this vinyl pressing features an alternate tracklisting curated by Vic and Stipe in which “Latent/ Blatant” no longer kicks off the album and is moved to the bonus tracks. In addition, the closing instrumental which was “hidden” in the original release is now titled “Little Fugue” and has been resequenced as the fourteenth track. West Of Rome’s two studio outtakes, “Nathan” and “Where’s The Clock,” appear in the bonus tracks. Also included are four-track demos and live versions of songs from the same time period. This pressing is West Of Rome as it was meant to be.
You can pick up a copy of West of Rome at your favorite independent record store, exclusive for Record Store Day.
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Drunk“On his third and maybe most conceptually complete album, Vic Chesnutt emerges as that rare kind of artist who can see right into the living room of small-town America. Drunk is an example of how he can turn seemingly self-absorbed songs into something strangely universal. In the end, it is probably that ability which makes his genius the most readily apparent.”– All Music
Little“Little served notice of Chesnutt’s singular gift for finding deep truths in the commonplace, and unfurled his affectionate embrace of the sad and funny foibles that comprise the bulk of our lives.”– No Depression
“The most elemental of any of Chesnutt’s albums.”– Pitchfork
Coming Soon Silver Lake“Chesnutt’s stories always strike an honest and recognizable emotional chord, no matter how oddball the situations that surround them.”– All Music
“Vic Chesnutt might never be famous, but his songs touch on inner truths that lurk around us. They strike something deep inside their listeners’ beings.”– Pop Matters
Ghetto Bells“These songs are ultimately and admirably patient and fluid, building not to grandiloquent climaxes but to a greater and greater complexity of meaning.” – Pitchfork
“The songs are all-encompassing. They sweep you up. They really get to you.”– Washington Post
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― dow, Monday, 24 April 2017 16:07 (seven years ago) link
PAUL COLLINS' BEAT TO RELEASE LONG TIME GONE / TO BEAT OR NOT TO BEAT ALBUM APRIL 28TH VIA LOLIPOP RECORDS!
THIS MARKS THE FIRST TIME THESE TWO LONG LOST EPS WILL BE RE-ISSUED ON ALL FORMATS (VINYL, CD, CASSETTE & DIGITAL)
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE PREVIEW OF PAUL COLLINS' TRACK "ALWAYS GOT YOU ON MY MIND" https://soundcloud.com/lolipoprecords/always-got-you-on-my-mind
THE KING OF POWER-POP KICKS-OFF SOLO EUROPEAN TOUR MAY 6TH IN FRANCE!Paul Collins' (from The Nerves, The Breakaways) two long lost EPs with his band The Beat from the early '80s make it to Lolipop Records as the first re-issue on all formats in over 30 years, from the "king of power pop" himself. To Beat Or Not To Beat was recorded in New York in 1983 at The Ranch with John Mathias (The Romantics) and Paul Collins/Steven Huff producing. It was released in the U.S. by Jem/Passport Records and then it was later released in Europe on Closer Records France and Dro Records Spain. The single "All Over The World" was featured regularly on KROQ in Los Angeles and got a lot of airplay in France and in Spain. Steve and Paul toured in Europe off that record for several years until they wound up in London where they recorded their follow-up EP Long Time Gone, just before returning to the States. Long Time Gone was released in 1985 on Closer France and Dro Spain, and both records were released as a two-fer on Wounded Bird Records in 2004. Paul recalls those days fondly, “I remember getting an $800 royalty check for 'All Over The World' when I was living in San Francisco so I went out and bought a used green Datsun B210! I would always hum 'All Over The World' as I drove up and down all those hills in SF!"
Paul Collins' Beat's Long Time Gone / To Beat Or Not To Beat will be released on vinyl, CD, cassette and digital formats April 28th via Lolipop Records (distributed by Cobraside Distribution). LONG TIME GONE / TO BEAT OR NOT TO BEAT TRACK LISTING:Broken HeartedLong Time GoneWorking On A Good ThingFind Somebody ElseStanding In The RainGood TimesAll Over The WorldDance DanceMaking You MineBurning DesireGive Me The DrugsAlways Got You On My MindPAUL COLLINS 2017 TOUR DATES FRANCE5/6 Clermont-Ferrand @ Bombshell5/7 Marseille @ Le Jam5/8 Toulouse @ Dispensary5/10 Rouen @ 3 Pieces5/11 Vannes @ Jam Session5/12 Paris @ La Mecanique-Ondulatoire ENGLAND5/13 London @ The Finsbury5/14 Adam Smith's Black Wax Radio Live Show BELGIUM5/16 Kortrijk @ Den Trap NETHERLANDS5/17 Rotterdam @ V115/18 Haarlem (Amsterdam) @ Patronaat GERMANY5/19 Düsseldorf @ The Tube5/20 Berlin @ Cortina Bob5/21 Hamburg @ Monkeys Music Club SWEDEN5/23 Malmo @ Folk & Rock5/24 Gothenburg @ Liseberg Amusement Park Power Pop Festival5/25 Eskilstuna @ Ölkultur5/26 Karlskoga @ Rockbar5/27 Stockholm @ Pet Sounds record shop show! SPAIN5/30 Madrid @ Fun House5/31 Burgos @ Matarile6/1 Leon @ Chelsea Bar6/2 Zarragoza @ Teatro Arbolé6/8 Barcelona @ A Wamba Buluba6/22 Elche @ Hotel Galicia6/24 Fuengirola @ Fuengirola Pop Weekend with The Beach Boys PORTUGAL6/28 Algarve, TBC6/29 Lisbon @ Popular Alvalade FRANCE7/21 Tourville-Sur-Mer "Le Sable, Les Mouettes et Les Guitares Electriques" Festival FOR MORE INFO ON PAUL COLLINS:http://www.thepaulcollinsbeat.comhttps://www.facebook.com/Paul-Collins-Beat-46392812761
― dow, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link
Diggin' deep---don't think they had the best rep album-wise, but maybe better live?
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Plasmatics - Live! Rod Swenson's Lost Tapes 1978-81coming to DVD and VOD on May 19th
The rare Wendy O. Williams / Plasmatics live footage in this DVD has, in the main, never been released before.
During the early years Plasmatics creator Rod Swenson, who directed and shot all the Wendy O. / Plasmatics conceptual videos (AKA known for his footage of the Ramones, Dead Boys, Blondie, and Motorhead among others) shot numerous Plasmatics shows the footage from which was never edited or released. Except for some short excerpts most of it until the discovery of this footage was thought to be lost or degraded (shot on tape which has been shown as with audio tape to degrade over time).
Recently during the moving of WOW / Plasmatics archive material the footage here was found unlabeled in buried boxes. While much had degraded producer / director Randy Shooter was able to discover, relabel, and with additional editing and restoration, salvage the rare and remarkable footage in this DVD. A lot of it is raw (and much of the audio is the audio from ambient video deck mics, noise and all) but the energy and power is there straight through.
The material includes two tracks from CBGBs the first of which was among the first Plasmatics shows ever as well as other footage from benchmark shows. A bonus track (Monkey Suit) features footage shot by Swenson when he was shooting the iconic album cover for "New Hope for the Wretched," but never released.
Complete details, hi-res cover art, specs, etc can be found HEREhttps://mvdb2b.com/s/PlasmaticsLiveRodSwensonsLostTapes197881/MVD9695D
Track Listing:Want You (Baby) (July 26, 1978Tight Black Pants (June 9, 1979)Dream Lover (May 17, 1980)Sometimes I Feel It (May 17, 1980)Squirm (May 17, 1980)Butcher Baby (May 17, 1980)Living Dead (May 15, 1981)Summer Night (May 15, 1981)Fast Food Service (May 15, 1981)Nothing (June 19, 1981)Summer Night (June 19, 1981)Sex Junkie (September 22, 1981)Squirm (September 22, 1981)Lunacy (September 22, 1981)Black Leather Monster (September 22, 1981)Monkey Suit (June 18, 1980)
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― dow, Monday, 1 May 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
Speaking of Motorhead, think Wendy O. did at least a single with them, or a track meant for one.
― dow, Monday, 1 May 2017 20:48 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, they duetted on "Stand By Your Man."
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 1 May 2017 21:55 (seven years ago) link
Just got deluxe 2CD reissues of Uriah Heep's Look At Yourself, Demons and Wizards, and The Magician's Birthday in the mail. Remastered, with the second disc of each a shit-ton of supposedly previously unreleased alternate versions (not sure about that; the Castle remasters from the early 2000s had a ton of alternates, too, and realistically, how many could there actually be?). I'm waiting for the publicist to send me the 2CD versions of Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble and Salisbury and then I'm gonna write a whole big thing about Uriah Heep for Burning Ambulance.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 1 May 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link
See Smog Veil site for more info, incl. orders:
Smog Veil Records is pleased to announce that the 2nd entry in our Platters du Cuyahoga series 2 releases, Allen Ravenstine's electronic sonata, "Terminal Drive" is now available for pre-order.
Terminal Drive is studio recording of a mythical piece of electro-acoustic music composed and performed in 1975 by Allen Ravenstine with assistance from Albert Dennis on string bass. Terminal Drive's significance in terms of Cleveland underground music cannot be understated and has been cited as partially responsible for Ravenstine's invitation to co-form the musical unit Pere Ubu in September 1975. Ravenstine gained recognition for his unusual and inventive synthesizer work in Pere Ubu, which he would also contribute to other groups such as Red Crayola and David Thomas & The Wooden Birds as well as his solo work.
Despite Terminal Drive's legendary status, it is a piece very few have heard in its complete state. Terminal Drive has never been officially released in its entirety and no complete recording of the piece could be located for many years. There have also been numerous inconsistencies as to what Terminal Drive's origins and sources were. The Pere Ubu box set Datapanik In The Year Zero (released on DGC in 1996) included a bonus disc of various Pere Ubu-related bands and projects - itself entitled Terminal Drive - that contains a 6:43 track called "Home Life" stated to have been extracted from Terminal Drive. This excerpt was all the world would hear of this fabled yet somewhat mysterious piece of music...until now.
The origins of Terminal Drive lie within the Cleveland band Hy Maya, which was centered around multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Robert Bensick, working most prominently and consistently with synthesist Ravenstine, bassist Albert Dennis, and drummer Scott Krauss. Despite playing only a handful of gigs, Hy Maya's purely experimental and highly improvisational nature working within the contexts of art rock and electronica were unlike anything that Clevelanders - used to the likes of Dragonwyck, Glass Harp, Left End, and Raspberries - had never really seen or heard before. Hy Maya, perhaps unconsciously, built upon the wilder aspects of Tonto's Expanding Headband, parts of the 1969 album An Electric Storm by White Noise, and the Sun Ra Arkestra, as well as the collective improvisation methodology of Oregon, prefiguring elements of the industrial music scene that Pere Ubu would later have considerable influence upon.
The single-sided LP is pressed on red vinyl and includes extensive liner notes written by Nick Blakey and never before published photos along with a free download card.
Hey--we recently cleaned our warehouse and found 3 (as in three and three only, if the link is bad that means they are all sold) sealed copies of the Easter Monkeys CD/DVD. First come, first served, nice price.
Smog Veil has a small limited number (we have 5 left and will not restock!!) of the Brad Warner (0DFX, Dimentia 13) directed documentary film double DVD set, "Cleveland's Screaming!" Our friends at Red Hour Records produced this release and also licensed to us The Guns double LP.
The numbers: double LP with free download code, 43 songs, 2nd press limited to 500 copies, black and red marble vinyl. Test pressings have been approved and we are waiting in line at the pressing plant. Details, song stream and special sale code are available from here:
sv109 Praise for the first of our Platters du Cuyahoga series 2 releases: the legendary and never before released 1967 studio demo from Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade "Sunday Morning Revival":
Want to order the entire series 2 at a discount? Here's the details:The three releases comprising Platters du Cuyahoga series 2 are: (1) Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade: "Sunday Morning Revival" (1967); (2) Allen Ravenstine: "Terminal Drive" (1975); and (3) a soon to be announced double LP release of studio and live recordings from the first and most influential improvisational electronic outfit that called Cleveland home (1972-1973 recordings). All the releases will be formatted on vinyl as well as CD and download/streaming. A hallmark of the series will be that each release contains extensive liner notes, all carefully crafted and researched.
― dow, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:28 (seven years ago) link
oh man i really want that ravenstine
hopefully there will be an opportunity to purchase it as a download without buying the vinyl
― gimmesomehawnz (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, and I want to check out some of his other solo releases, the ones on Spotify recently for inst.
More on the aforementioned Alice C. comp, and note at end about additional booklets etc.; this is from Soul Jazz Records' soundoftheuniverse.com
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Alice ColtraneWorld Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane TuriyasangitanandaLUAKA BOP
**Shipping this Friday**
Essential Alice Coltrane recordings issued for the first time on vinyl by Luaka Bop!
Alice Coltrane was a legendary pianist, composer, spiritual leader, and the wife of John Coltrane, the most venerated and influential saxophonist in the history of jazz. In 1967, four years after meeting John, he died of liver cancer, leaving Alice a widow with four small children. Bereft of her soul mate, Alice suffered sleepless nights and severe weight loss. At her worst, she weighed only 95 pounds. She had hallucinations in which trees spoke, various beings existed on astral planes, and the sounds of “a planetary ether” spun through her brain, knocking her into a frightening unconsciousness.
The critical event of this period was not that Alice fell into the nadir of her existence, but rather that she experienced tapas, a vital period of trial. These tapas (a Sanskrit term she used to describe her suffering) helped prepare Alice for the spiritual ally she found in Swami Satchidananda, an Indian guru, with whom Alice made her first trip to India. On her second trip there, Alice had a revelation instructing her to abandon the secular life and become a spiritual teacher in the Hindu tradition – so she moved out West – eventually opening the Shanti Anantam Ashram on 47 acres she’d bought in Agoura Hills, California.
Music was the foundation of Alice’s spiritual practice. From the mid 1980’s to mid 1990’s, Alice Coltrane self-released four brilliant cassette albums. These cassettes contained a music she invented, inspired by the gospel music of the Detroit churches she grew up in, mixed together with the Indian devotional music of her religious practice, and even finds Alice singing for the first time in her recorded catalog. Originally only made available through her ashram, they are her most obscure body of work and possibly the greatest reflection of her soul.
“World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda”, is the first-ever compilation of her recordings from this period, making these songs available to the wider public - well played Luaka Bop!
This First Pressing includes two extra booklets of essays, photos, stories and a hand painted first pressing stamp - Don't sleep!
*LP version only
2xLP + Download Code
CD
More Info & Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/world-spirituality-classics-1-the-ecstatic-music-of-alice-coltrane-turiyasangitananda
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Ethiopiques Box/7"
Many of the tracks were later included on the iconic Ethiopiques series of albums and compilations, which brought the treasures of the Ethiopian music scene of the 60s and 70s to a wider audience. Includes tracks by Mulatu Astatke, Getatchew Mekurya, Mahmoud Ahmedm Girma Bèyènè, and Alemayehu Eshete. The original 7"s are almost impossible to track down these days and sell individually for jaw-dropping amounts online, including one for over £600!More Info: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/ethiopiques-box
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Amos and SaraThe Private World of Amos
Originally released in 1981 as a cassette on the It's War Boys label - this is a precious, thrilling reminder of UK post-punk DIY at its most inspired! According to one of the performers, its themes are "moral negotiation, mistrust, social class, distress, comedy, wild adventure, chemical derangement, as well as anarchic joy, and love". Huge SOTU recommendation!More Info and Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-private-world-of-amos
― dow, Thursday, 4 May 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
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Like Nashville In Naija: Nigeria's Romance with Country Music, Yesterday and TodayCOMB & RAZOR SOUND
Country music is big in Africa. Yes, we realise how absurd that probably sounds to most ears, but it’s really true: American country & western records have been tremendously popular and deeply beloved across the continent for almost a century. The people of the West African nation of Nigeria have long been not only voracious consumers of country music, but fairly enthusiastic performers of it as well. Cowboy songs have remained a consistent part of most bands’ live repertoire, but relatively few artists have dedicated themselves to actually recording country music. They did exist, though; mostly in the1970s and 80s, but they were rarely heard outside the country, and in the intervening years, most of their output has fallen through the cracks of posterity, forgotten even by ardent music fans at home. Until now. Like Nashville in Naija: Nigeria’s Romance with Country Music, Yesterday and Today collects some of the best country recordings as a loving tribute to Nigeria’s cowboy troubadours of yore. To the best of our knowledge, only in Nigeria.More Info, Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/various-like-nashville-in-naija
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Function Underground: The Black And Brown American Rock Sound 1969-1974NOW-AGAIN RECORDS
This anthology – which has its origins in the Dante Carfagna bootleg Chains and Black Exhaust release - focuses on the Black & Latino American rock bands that spread their wings after Jimi Hendrix came to prominence, in unlikely locales such as Dayton, Ohio, Fort Wayne, Indiana and Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the music here is being reissued for the first time. Comes with an illustrated cover by French illustrator Sanghon Kim and a booklet detailing the history of Black and Latino contributions to American rock music by leading music historians and collectors. This collects private pressings from the late 60s / early 70s. There was a bootleg of many of these selections, but that was in 2002. It features 1984, Purple Snow, Jimi Macon, Ebony Rhythm Band, The Revolution, Black Maffia etc.More Info, Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/various-function-underground-the-black-and-brown-american-rock-sound-19
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Tewolde ReddaEritrea's Guitar PioneerDOMINO SOUND
Drawn from his six monumental singles for the Philips, Amha and Yared labels between 1970-73, revolutionising traditional Eritrean music via the innovations of amplified kirar, electric guitar and horns.Thick, deep declarations and considerations of love over a mixture of sombre and joyous tunes (with the hand-clapped beat often shifting into double-time near the end).Co-released with Mitmitta Musika in Addis Ababa; handsomely presented in a tip-on sleeve, with extensive liner notes, translations and exclusive photos. More Info, Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/eritreas-guitar-pioneer
― dow, Thursday, 4 May 2017 17:20 (seven years ago) link
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Golden Afrique: Highlights & Rarities From The Golden Era Of African Pop Music (1971-1983)VariousNETWORK
Rare treasures from the golden age of African pop music from 1956-1982. A comprehensive collection of the highly divers African music, originating from the independence-movements of the African continent in the mid 20th century. Featuring songs of legends such as Youssou N’Dour, Salif Keïta, Idy Diop and many more. Available for the first time on vinyl!!! More Info, Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/golden-afrique
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Carl CraigVersusINFINE
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Carl CraigVersusInFineCarl CraigVersusINFINEELECTRONIC , CLASSICAL
3×LP IF1042LPX£21.99In stockADD TO BAGCD IF1042£10.99In stockADD TO BAG1. Darkness2. Sandstorms3. At Les4. Desire5. Barceloneta Trist6. Domina7. The Melody8. Technology9. At Les (Acoustic Version)10. Desire (Acoustic Version)11. The Melody (Acoustic Version)12. Sandstorms (Acoustic Version)Monumental symphonic versions of Carl Craig’s classic material, reinforced and magnified by Les Siecles Orchestra. Iconic French conductor François-Xavier Roth is at the helm of the symphony whilst InFiné mainstay Francesco Tristano supports on piano. Support from Lefto and Gilles Peterson!Info (track listings for 3-LP and CD differ) https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/versus_2
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Hudson MohawkeDedsec - Watch Dogs 2 OST (RSD 2017)WARP RECORDS
2LP in printed inners in 5mm spine sleeve, download card insert. First time on vinyl. Following the maximalist hymns of 2015’s Lantern, HudMo once again proves his versatility, applying his signature style to the soundtrack of Ubisoft’s video game Watch Dogs 2. Cinematic melodies are at the heart of his 15 original compositions, bringing the action adventure’s open world to life. Between the gothic minor chord progression of Haum Sweet Haum and the playful glistening reverie of Balance, the Glaswegian producer has a real talent for conjuring a wide set of moods to fit different scenarios. The thick bass lines and syncopated rhythms of tracks like Eye For An Eye allude to his more beat-focussed earlier work. Yet, the intricacy of the percussion throughout sets this soundtrack apart from his albums and EPs – showing HudMo progress to the next level.More Info: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/hudson-mohawke-dedsec-watch-dogs-2-ost
― dow, Thursday, 4 May 2017 17:36 (seven years ago) link
The Rolling StonesThe Stones In The Park (Live 1969)NETWORKDVDA documentary record of the free Rolling Stones concert which took place in Hyde Park on 5th July 1969, two days after the death of guitarist Brian Jones. Includes interview footage and a number of classic performances.More Info: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-stones-in-the-park-live-1969
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Desert Blues: Ambiances Du SaharaVariousNETWORK2-LPFirst ever vinyl release of this classic, comprehensive collection of songs and music in the tradition of the Sahara, Sahel and the surrounding territories. Featuring artists such as Baly Othmani, Dimi Mint Abba, Youssou N’Dour and more.More Info, Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/desert-blues-ambiances-du-sahara
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MoodymannMahogany Brown (2017 Reissue)PEACEFROG RECORDS
Long awaited reissue of Detroit pioneer Moodymann's second LP from 1998 - 'Mahogony Brown'. This is laid back, deep grooved, Jazzy, funked out deep house at it's very best. Quite simply - Everyone should have one of these.More Info, Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/moodymann-mahogany-brown
― dow, Thursday, 4 May 2017 18:21 (seven years ago) link
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Television Personalities...And Don't The Kids Just Love It (RSD 2017)FIRE RECORDS
Ahead of its time, And Don’t The Kids Just Love It was Television Personalities’ influential debut album released in 1981 and features I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives. The legendary lo-fi release sees them produce British inspired 60s pop and post-punk that captured the period and ‘sounds remarkably prescient’ (Pitchfork’s Best 100 albums of the 1980s). With the formidable Daniel Treacy at its core, Television Personalities remain one of new wave’s longest serving and seminal artists with a career spanning over three decades.
14 tracks. Limited edition, black on white marbled vinyl, DL card, 1000 only. Single sleeve - download card included.More Info: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/television-personalities-and-don-t-the-kids-just-love-it
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Noise Addict10,000 Kids With Guitars (RSD 2017)NUMERO GROUP2-LP
What does teen spirit smell like, anyway? It might smell something like Noise Addict. Like the real life stars of some sort of choose-your-own-adventure book about pursuing rock stardom, few bands ever led a more charmed existence, springing from the Sydney suburb of Bondi into seemingly overnight international fame as friends and collaborators of Sonic Youth, Fugazi, and the Beastie Boys. Through a combination of relentless drive, luck, and an admirable lack of self-doubt, Noise Addict spanned puberty(?) to surpass the haters and join Radio Birdman and Nick Cave as a strange but permanent piece of Australian punk history. The entire sordid adolescent tale is covered in incredible detail inside the black and white 16 page zine. And finally, for the first time in the history of record pressing, and for no good reason at all, the cover for 10,000 Kids With Guitars doubles as a working chalkboard. 25 tracks. Limited to 2000 copies on black vinyl.More Info: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/noise-addict-10-000-kids-with-guitars
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Klaus Dinger2000! (RSD 2017)GRÖNLAND RECORDS
Previously unreleased album from German Kosmische Musik legend Klaus Dinger (NEU!, La Dusseldorf, et al). Beautifully manufactured LP sleeve with artistic ‘inside out’ paper. Released for Record Store Day because it's the last album of Klaus Dinger that isn't available yet. For this special recording, Klaus Dinger teamed up with various musicians in order to create a new recording experience, “turning documentary into art” would indeed be the best way to describe this album.More info:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/klaus-dinger-2000
If that's not truly old enough:
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Issue of the previously unreleased 'Documents 1975' tape that captured Moebius, Roedelius, Rother and Eno playing in a rare, live capacity.More Info, Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/harmonia-documents-1975
― dow, Thursday, 4 May 2017 18:43 (seven years ago) link
oh hey a standalone CD for Documents 75! That's awesome! Will buy.
― gimmesomehawnz (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 4 May 2017 20:46 (seven years ago) link
Raymond Scott - Three Willow Park: Electronic Music from Inner Space, 1961-1971
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In 2000, Basta issued Manhattan Research Inc., a 2-cd set of 69 tracks recorded 1953–69, spotlighting Scott’s groundbreaking electronica — a gallery of strange sounds seemingly beamed down from UFOs. MRI also presented some of the earliest TV & radio commercials to feature electronic music, as well as early film soundtrack collaborations with Jim Henson.
Basta is now releasing Three Willow Park: Electronic Music from Inner Space, 1961–1971, containing 61 previously unissued gems by Scott. Many feature hypnotic rhythm tracks played by Scott’s Electronium — an invention which composed and performed using programmed intelligence. That Scott produced beat-oriented proto-techno before the 1970s explosion of electronic music and rhythms on the pop charts is a significant achievement that should not be overlooked.
Willow Park Center was an industrial rental complex of offices and warehouses in a Long Island suburb. Following his 1965 marital breakup, Scott set up shop at WPC. He operated a musical lab — researching, experimenting, testing, and measuring. He twirled knobs, flipped switches, and took notes. He installed equipment and machines, and used them to build new equipment and machines. This makeshift compound remained Scott’s workspace and bedroom until 1971, when he decamped for L.A. to work for Berry Gordy at Motown.
Scott was a highly qualified engineer who also happened to be a conservatory-trained (Juilliard) musician. He could compose, arrange, perform, improvise and edit, but given a shelf of hardware and a soldering iron, he could also rig an appliance to further his musical aims. Like many visionaries, Scott foreshadowed the future. He developed technological processes which were pivotal in the evolution of the fax machine. He composed a “silent” piece years before John Cage‘s 4′ 33″. He predicted (in 1944) that composers would someday reach audiences via thought transference. He applied for and was awarded numerous patents. Foremost, he developed electronic and automated sound-generating technology to craft the elements of pop music at a time when circuit-made sound was largely a novelty, used in “serious” works, or cranked-up for special effects in science fiction films.
In 1946, while still leading jazz bands, Scott established Manhattan Research, Inc., billed as “Designers and Manufacturers of Electronic Music and Musique Concrète Devices and Systems.” By the 1950s, he was using his inventions to produce commercials with electronic soundtracks, as well as developing automated sequencer technology. His friend and colleague Bob Moog said, “Scott was definitely in the forefront of developing electronic music technology and using it commercially as a musician.”
Besides the Electronium, sounds heard on Three Willow Park were generated by the Circle Machine; Clavivox; Bass-Line Generator; Bandito the Bongo Artist (a drum machine); tone, melody, rhythm and sound effects generators (some controlled, others random); oscillators, sequencers, and modulators; tape montages; and acoustic instruments and voices. These recordings, like those on MRI, define and establish Scott’s legacy in electronic music history.
Produced by Gert-Jan Blom and Irwin Chusid; Associate Producer: Jeff WinnerRelease: June 30, 2017 (Basta Music)formats: 3-LP / 2-CD / Digital
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 13:03 (seven years ago) link
(Manhattan Research Inc. is now also available on vinyl btw)
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 13:04 (seven years ago) link
Awesome! Will def check that out, thanks!
Light In The Attic has several things for National Record Store Day:
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V/A - Ciao! ManhattanCiao! Manhattan Original Motion Picture Soundtrackvailable: April 22nd, 2017
Edie Sedgwick was the true “It Girl” of the Pop Art age; a woman who famously said she wanted “to turn the world on just for a moment”. Part of Andy Warhol’s Factory for a year in the mid-‘60s, she is widely believed to have inspired The Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale” as well as Bob Dylan’s “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat” and “Just Like A Woman”.
1973’s Ciao! Manhattan, the model and actor’s final film, gave some indication of why she inspired such devotion. Written and directed by Factory affiliates John Palmer and David Weisman, the movie tells a quasi-fictionalised account – a chronicle à clef in Weisman’s words – of Sedgewick’s journey from New York to Santa Barbara.
In the film, Sedgwick is Susan Superstar, a New Yorker who winds up living in a drained Santa Barbara swimming pool in a narcotic daze, life and art just a hair away from each other. Shot over a five year period, Sedgwick died of a barbiturate overdose at the age of 28 before filming wrapped in 1971.
For a movie starring some of rock’s great muses, the soundtrack fittingly features cult figures of the era: Richie Havens (“Shouldn’t All The World Be Dancing”, “To Give All Your Love Away”, “I Can’t Make It Anymore”), John Phillips (“Malibu People”) and Byrds/Flying Burrito Brothers member Skip Battin, who performs Kim Fowley’s “Citizen Kane”. Other artists are less well-known, including actor Kim Milford, who sings the stirring “Justice”, and Factory man Gino Piserchio, an artist and dear friend of Weisman, whose synthesizer compositions anchor the score.
Never before released in any format, this long-overdue pressing includes all of the above plus selected dialogue from the film, each snippet like a beat poem in its own way. The Village Voice once called Ciao! “The Citizen Kane of the drug generation"; deeply evocative of the era, the mood of the soundtrack captures the psychedelic spirit of the film, as well as the darkness and tragedy that characterized Edie’s life.CinewaxCINE809BUYING OPTIONSRelease NotesOfficial Record Store Day titleLimited to 3,000 copies on “Angel Shock” color waxNever before released in any formatAudio restored and remastered from original film transfersLP housed in a deluxe gatefold Stoughton tip-on jacketIncludes 20-page book with rare archive photos and liner notes Q&A with writer/director David WeismanMore infor, audio samples: http://lightintheattic.net/releases/3007-ciao-manhattan-original-motion-picture-soundtrack
Don't know her movies, but did read Jean Stein and George Plimpton's dark panorama, Edie: An American Biography; so did Megan Abbott, at an even more impressionable age:http://www.npr.org/2014/02/02/251651304/a-suburban-teen-saw-the-sparkle-of-edie-but-not-the-pain
― dow, Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:53 (seven years ago) link
THE CARS: EXPANDED EDITIONS
Remastered And Newly Expanded Versions Candy-O And Panorama Feature The Original Album Plus Rare And Unreleased Recordings
CD, Vinyl, And Digital Versions Available From Rhino On July 28
LOS ANGELES - Following the massive success of The Cars' multi-platinum debut in 1978, the band kept its platinum-album streak rolling with Candy-O and Panorama, releases that include memorable hits like "Let's Go," "It's All I Can Do" and "Touch and Go."
For the first time ever, the band has expanded those classics to create versions that include rare and unreleased recordings taken from the sessions for each album. Band member Ric Ocasek recently supervised the remastering of these albums for last year's boxed set The Cars: The Elektra Years, ensuring superior sound quality on these new versions.
Expanded editions of CANDY-O and PANORAMA will be available on July 28 for $14.98 (CD) and $24.98 (2LP). Presented in gatefold sleeves, the vinyl versions include music on three sides with an etching on the fourth. In addition, the music on these expanded editions will be released digitally and available via streaming outlets.
For the follow-up to its eponymous debut, The Cars teamed up one again with producer Roy Thomas Baker (Queen) to record Candy-O. The album was released in the summer of 1979 and became a huge hit, peaking at #3 on the Billboard Album Chart and eventually earned quadruple-platinum certification in the U.S. alone. One of the singles, "Let's Go," was the band's first Top 15 hit on the Billboard singles chart.
CANDY-O: EXPANDED EDITION goes beyond the original album's 11 tracks with seven bonus tracks. Among the highlights are unreleased alternate mixes of "Let's Go" and "Lust For Kicks," as well as the previously unissued song "They Won't See You (The Northern Studios Version)." The album's liner notes were written by David Wild and include a new interview with guitarist Elliot Easton.
The Cars returned in the summer of 1980 with Panorama, which became the band's third consecutive platinum album and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Album Chart. The album became a fan favorite thanks to songs like "Touch And Go," "Up And Down," and "Gimme Some Slack."
PANORAMA: EXPANDED EDITION builds on the original album's 10 songs with four bonus tracks. They include the B-side "Don't Go To Pieces," as well as unreleased songs like "Shooting For You," and "Be My Baby." For this release, Wild once again pens the liner notes, along with reminisces from keyboardist Greg Hawkes.
CANDY-OTrack Listing:
1. "Let's Go"2. "Since I Held You"3. "It's All I Can Do"4. "Double Life"5. "Shoo Be Doo"6. "Candy-O"7. "Night Spots"8. "You Can't Hold On Too Long"9. "Lust For Kicks"10. "Got A Lot On My Head"11. "Dangerous Type" Bonus Tracks12. "Let's Go" - Roy Thomas Baker Monitor Mix13. "Candy-O" - Northern Studios Version14. "Nights Spots" - Northern Studios Version15. "Lust for Kicks" - Roy Thomas Baker Monitor Mix16. "Dangerous Type" - Northern Studios Version17. "They Won't See You" - Northern Studios Version, Previously Unissued18. "That's It" - "Let's Go" B-side
PANORAMATrack Listing
1. "Panorama"2. "Touch and Go"3. "Gimme Some Slack"4. "Don't Tell Me No"5. "Getting Through"6. "Misfit Kid"7. "Down Boys" 8. "You Wear Those Eyes"9. "Running Up To You"10. "Up and Down"Bonus Tracks11. "Shooting For You" - Previously Unissued12. "Be My Baby" - Previously Unissued13. "The Edge" - Previously Unissued14. "Don't Go To Pieces" - "Don't Tell Me No" B-side
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 11 May 2017 20:01 (seven years ago) link
out June 9:
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Lynn CastleRose Colored Corner
Light In The AtticLITA 157
Available: June 9th, 2017
Though most of the world may not know the songs of Lynn Castle, she is an artist whose work stretches across seven decades. She has created a diverse and vast (albeit mostly unreleased) discography of pop, folk, country, gothic, rock, punk, blues, and children’s songs. Light In The Attic Records is very excited to continue its Lee Hazlewood Archive Series with Rose Colored Corner, a collection of intimate recordings Lynn Castle made with Jack Nitzsche in 1966 and her complete recorded output with Lee Hazlewood on LHI Records. For the first time ever Lynn is sharing recordings from her personal archive and telling her story.
In the 1960s Lynn became the first lady barber in LA just as long hair on men became hip. By day she was styling The Monkees, Boyce and Hart, Del Shannon, Sonny & Cher, the Byrds and countless others…by night she was writing songs. Despite lacking the desire to self promote and a crippling insecurity that made it hard to sing in front of anyone, her songs managed to bend the ears of such industry heavyweights as Phil Spector, Jack Nitzsche and Lee Hazlewood. “It was so hard to get me to sing,” explained Castle. “I had buried it so low, I didn’t think I was good at all. Lee heard my songs and thought I was fabulous. He said, ‘Oh my god, you’re really good! Let’s cut a record.’
Her sole 1967 45 “The Lady Barber" b/w "Rose Colored Corner,” released on Lee Hazlewood Industries is a slice of psychedelic pop heaven. A full length album was never completed, but her sparse demos with Jack Nitzsche give the listener a peek of what one might have sounded like. If you are familiar with Nitzsche’s mid-60s work with Tim Buckley, Bob Lind, and Buffalo Springfield…you can squint your ears and imagine her songs bejeweled with lush strings, finger cymbals, and delicate harpsichord. Instead, the songs remained unheard until now.
Just because her songs weren’t recognized at the time doesn’t diminish their magic. This music is meant to be found and heard. Though commercial success may remain elusive, sometimes strange premonitions are realized… “When I was young, making music in the ‘60s, I had this strange thought that one day I would be this old woman, and young people would come find me and tell me that my music meant something to them.” – Lynn CastleMore info, audio: http://lightintheattic.net/releases/3091-rose-colored-corner(also see those other LHI reissues at the bottom of the page, Lee Hazlewood and omg Honey Ltd)
― dow, Thursday, 11 May 2017 20:13 (seven years ago) link
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Release NotesThis bundle includes the following albums:
1. Paul Parrish – Forest Of My Mind (MAPACHE0010)2. Goldberg – Misty Flats (FDR612LP)3. Bert Jansch – Live In Australia (EARTH017LP)4. Sylvie Simmons – Sylvie (LITA122LP)5. Scott Fagan – South Atlantic Blues (CEC003LP)
Fagan is Stephin Merritt's father. The only one of these I've heard is Sylvie, by the journo/L. Cohen biographer. It's fine, just her searching voice and strings for the most part, with a few tweaks from Howe Gelb.
More info: http://lightintheattic.net/releases/3223-folksie-five
― dow, Thursday, 11 May 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
Keiji Haino's classic debut album Watashi Dake? will be available on vinyl for the first time since 1981 and for the first time ever as originally intended by the artist- in a special gold and silver edition.
Coming June 16
Over the last fifty years few musicians or performers have created as monumental and uncompromising a body of work as that of Keiji Haino. Through a vast number of recordings and performances Haino has staked out a ground all his own- creating a language of unparalleled intensity that defies any simple classification. For all this, his 1981 debut album Watashi Dake? has remained enigmatic. Originally released in a small edition by the legendary Pinakotheca label, the album was heard by only a select few in Japan and far fewer overseas. Original vinyl copies became impossibly rare and highly sought after the world over.
Watashi Dake? presents a haunting vision – stark vocals, whispered and screamed, punctuate dark silences. Intricate and sharp guitar figures interweave, repeat and stretch, trance-like, emerging from dark recesses. Written and composed on the spot – Haino's vision is one of deep spiritual depths that distantly evokes 1920's blues and medieval music- yet is unlike anything ever committed to record before or since. Coupled with starkly minimal packaging featuring the now iconic cover photographs by legendary photographer Gin Satoh, the album is a startling and fully realized artistic statement.
Produced in close cooperation with Keiji Haino as well as Gin Satoh, Black Editions is proud to make this masterpiece of underground music its inaugural release. Re-issued on LP for the very first time, it is also the first ever edition to feature the originally intended metallic gold and silver artwork. The release also presents the first ever translation of the lyrics and titles by Alan Cummings. Each album also includes a digital download with an extended bonus live track from that era.
This special edition was meticulously remastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters and cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Pressed to high quality vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI).
It comes housed in specially printed heavy Stoughton tip-on jackets with custom printed matte metallic gold and silver covers with black on black inserts and extras.
http://www.theblackeditions.com/
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 11 May 2017 23:07 (seven years ago) link
I just interviewed her for a podcast which will go live on Friday - we talked about that trio quite a bit.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 6 November 2017 03:06 (six years ago) link
King CrimsonEarthbound - 40th Anniversary EditionBoz Burrell: Vocals, Bass Robert Fripp: Guitar, MellotronMel Collins: Saxes, Flute Ian Wallace: DrumsEarthbound, originally released in 1972, was one of the earliest (if not the first) “official bootleg” released by a major rock band, consisting of a series of deliberately lo-fi live recordings of King Crimson’s Islands era line-up on tour in the USA. When issued, because of its mid-price it was excluded from the main album charts in the UK but topped the mid-price charts rubbing shoulders with Jim Reeves & Mantovani. Atlantic in the USA didn’t even bother to release it. By then, the band had broken up & the label had already been alerted to the likelihood of a new King Crimson line-up promised for later in the year. Like the later live album, USA, Earthbound remained unavailable in the early CD era, with both finally being released in 2002 on CD. Ironically this non-availability served to enhance interest in the album while DGM’s live releases made fans aware that there was a larger story to be told of this line-up’s history. When Robert Fripp was asked to guest on the second Grinderman project, Nick Cave noted: “I wanted to work with Robert Fripp because he has done some of the most uniquely unsettling guitar work I have ever heard along with some of the most delicate and finessed” explained Cave. “I grew up listening to a lot of the King Crimson stuff. The vinyl copy of the phenomenal live album Earthbound, is one of my most treasured possessions.” The new version of Earthbound features an expanded version of the original album on CD & DVD. As a series of stereo only/low-fi recordings, a 5.1 edition was neither possible nor appropriate. However, also included on the DVD of this release is the full performance from Summit Studios, captured on the same US tour in 1972, appearing in both new stereo & quadraphonic mixes, providing the only live surround recordings of this line-up. This release also features 15 minutes of material not included on the original mail order only CD of Summit studios as issued by DGM in 2000. The DVD also features the “Schizoid Men” sequence from the Ladies of the Road live album & a transfer of a 1972 vinyl edition of the Earthbound LP.• Earthbound – is the twelfth release in the acclaimed King Crimson 40th anniversary series. • The album has been expanded ON CD & DVD• CD features an expanded 12 track version of the original 5 track album.• DVD features the 12 track expanded album in 24/96 hi-res stereo audio.• DVD also features the Summit Studios performance in a new stereo mix & in quadraphonic.This is the only surviving multi-track performance from the 1972 tour.• DVD features the album length “Schizoid Men” sequence of edits of 21st Century Schizoid Men taken from the Ladies of The Road live album• A transfer of the original vinyl album completes the audio selections.• Presented as a 2 x digi-pack format in a slipcase with new sleeve notes by King Crimson biographer Sid Smith along with rare photos & archive material.• Continues the highly collectable King Crimson series.
Boz Burrell: Vocals, Bass Robert Fripp: Guitar, MellotronMel Collins: Saxes, Flute Ian Wallace: Drums
Earthbound, originally released in 1972, was one of the earliest (if not the first) “official bootleg” released by a major rock band, consisting of a series of deliberately lo-fi live recordings of King Crimson’s Islands era line-up on tour in the USA. When issued, because of its mid-price it was excluded from the main album charts in the UK but topped the mid-price charts rubbing shoulders with Jim Reeves & Mantovani. Atlantic in the USA didn’t even bother to release it. By then, the band had broken up & the label had already been alerted to the likelihood of a new King Crimson line-up promised for later in the year. Like the later live album, USA, Earthbound remained unavailable in the early CD era, with both finally being released in 2002 on CD. Ironically this non-availability served to enhance interest in the album while DGM’s live releases made fans aware that there was a larger story to be told of this line-up’s history. When Robert Fripp was asked to guest on the second Grinderman project, Nick Cave noted: “I wanted to work with Robert Fripp because he has done some of the most uniquely unsettling guitar work I have ever heard along with some of the most delicate and finessed” explained Cave. “I grew up listening to a lot of the King Crimson stuff. The vinyl copy of the phenomenal live album Earthbound, is one of my most treasured possessions.”
The new version of Earthbound features an expanded version of the original album on CD & DVD. As a series of stereo only/low-fi recordings, a 5.1 edition was neither possible nor appropriate. However, also included on the DVD of this release is the full performance from Summit Studios, captured on the same US tour in 1972, appearing in both new stereo & quadraphonic mixes, providing the only live surround recordings of this line-up. This release also features 15 minutes of material not included on the original mail order only CD of Summit studios as issued by DGM in 2000. The DVD also features the “Schizoid Men” sequence from the Ladies of the Road live album & a transfer of a 1972 vinyl edition of the Earthbound LP.
• Earthbound – is the twelfth release in the acclaimed King Crimson 40th anniversary series. • The album has been expanded ON CD & DVD• CD features an expanded 12 track version of the original 5 track album.• DVD features the 12 track expanded album in 24/96 hi-res stereo audio.• DVD also features the Summit Studios performance in a new stereo mix & in quadraphonic.This is the only surviving multi-track performance from the 1972 tour.• DVD features the album length “Schizoid Men” sequence of edits of 21st Century Schizoid Men taken from the Ladies of The Road live album• A transfer of the original vinyl album completes the audio selections.• Presented as a 2 x digi-pack format in a slipcase with new sleeve notes by King Crimson biographer Sid Smith along with rare photos & archive material.• Continues the highly collectable King Crimson series.
Out 11/17. I ordered one, because I have all the other 40th anniversary CD/DVD editions from Court through USA and wanted to complete the set. (I hate the Belew-era 80s version of the band, and the albums from the '90s and beyond bore me.)
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 9 November 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
Music on Vinyl is reissuing Dorothy Ashby's 1969 album Dorothy's Harp in a few weeks. It's a really killer funky jazz harp record.
https://lightintheattic.net/releases/3725-dorothy-s-harp
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Friday, 17 November 2017 07:01 (six years ago) link
Cool! last year's Rolling Reissues incl. Ashby reissues via Sound Of The Universe, Soul Jazz Records' store site. Also here: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/historical-jazz-releases-2016/ And Night Lights did a really good presentation of her music history: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/fantastic-jazz-harp-dorothy-ashby/
― dow, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
Tompkins Square label has reissued Meredith Monk's groundbreaking 1971 debut album, Key. Pitchfork named it "Best New Reissue" (8.7)
BUY LP
Composer, singer, director/choreographer, creator of new opera, musical theater works, films and installations, Meredith Monk is one of the most unique and influential artists of our time. Awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Obama in 2015, Monk has blazed her own trail through music and movement over the past 50 years. Pitchfork noted : "Meredith Monk's influence as a singer and composer extends through Björk, Joanna Newsom and beyond."
Key contains Monk's earliest compositions for voice, composed and performed from 1967-1970. In her words:"In Key I wanted to create a constantly shifting ambience. Each song dealt with a different vocal character, landscape, technical concern or emotional quality. I was trying for a visceral, kinetic song form that had the abstract qualities of a painting or a dance. I knew that I didn't want to set music to a text: for me, the voice itself was a language which seemed to speak more eloquently than words. I chose certain phonemes for their particular sound qualities. In a sense, each song became a world in itself with its own timbre, texture and impulse."
The Tompkins Square reissue faithfully reproduces the original 1971 LP on Increase Records, with textured cover and original insert images and notes.
TSQ5371 - Tompkins Square is distributed by INgrooves and Revolver in NA, Cargo UK for Europe.xgau:Dolmen Music [ECM, 1980]Monk has classical voice training, but I expect it was her folk and rock experience that taught her how to make these almost wordless songs sound so demotic, so literally unrefined--they obviously don't merely "express" emotion, but they don't merely distill it either. On record, the ostinato structures mean that the four shorter pieces composed between 1972 and 1975 come across better than the title work, which lasts 23:39 and features six voices with intermittent accompaniment. But anybody who wants to go further than Lora Logic and Pere Ubu will listen to it all. A-
― dow, Monday, 20 November 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
Been listening to the U-Men s/t anthology on Sub Pop a lot lately, highly recommended if you like scabrous Birthday Party/Grong Grong/Bloodloss style blues-garage-punk-abilly.
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 26 November 2017 13:14 (six years ago) link
+1. I'd heard a lot of the U-Men stuff at the time, but totally kind of forgot about 'em. Sort of a missing link between BP/Scientists and Gun Club/Scratch Acid. Great comp.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 26 November 2017 15:51 (six years ago) link
From Soul Jazz Records' storefront Sound Of The Universe:
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Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1971-81Soul Jazz Records
Available worldwide in all good retail and internet record stores this Fri 1 Dec or direct from us right now! Buy the 3xLP and get a free limited edition poster (direct from us only here). Buy the 2xCD and get a free limited edition badge (direct from us only here).
This latest instalment in Soul Jazz Records’ successful Deutsche Elektronische Musik series delves deeper into the German nation’s vaults to bring a fascinating new collection that again brings together a selection of classic German electronic and rock groups, including Neu!, Cluster, Popol Vuh, La Düsseldorf, Agitation Free, alongside a host of rare tracks by lesser known artists which includes Michael Bundt, Bröselmaschine, Dronsz, Achim Reichel and others.
The music of Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3 ranges from the introverted pastoralism of Hans Joachim Roedelius and Bröselmaschine, to the angular and futuristic electronic experimentations of Klauss Weiss, Pyrolator, Deuter, Michael Bundt and others, to the proto-punk of La Düsseldorf and the heavy space, progressive and cosmic rock of Missus Beastly, Niagara and Dyzan.
The music on Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3 was all recorded in the 1970s up to the early 1980s, at a time when forward-thinking German electronic and rock groups were searching for a new musical identity in order to separate themselves from both the cultural legacy of post-world war two Germany as well the ‘cultural imperialism’ of USA and UK rock. In this process German groups created some of the most unique and inspired music, the defining motorik beat alongside a host of ethno-musical influences from far afield – including Turkey, India, Brazil – as well as the musical and futurist possibilities of developments in electronics and technology itself.
Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3 is released as a heavyweight 3xLP, deluxe double CD pack and digital release. The new extensive sleevenotes are by David Stubbs, who is the author of the acclaimed book, ‘Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany’ (Faber & Faber).
Deutsche Elektronische Musik: “A near-definitive guide to some of the world’s most extraordinary music’’ ***** The Guardian
Release Date01 December 2017http://i3.cmail20.com/ei/i/DF/55B/410/210529/csimport/10126_2.jpg1 Klauss Weiss – Wide Open Space Motion2 A.R. & Machines – I'll Be Your Singer, You'll Be My Song3 Deutsche Wertarbeit – Deutscher Wald4 Dzyan – Khali5 Missus Beastly – Geisha6 Alex – Derulé7 Agitation Free – In The Silence Of the Morning Sunrise8 Georg Deuter – Pearls9 Michael Bundt – The Brain Of Oskar Panizza10 Popol Vuh – Ja, Deine Liebe Ist Sußer Als Wein11 Novalis – Dronsz12 Bröselmaschine – Schmetterling13 Neu! – Neuschnee14 Between – And The Waters Opened15 La Düsseldorf – White Overalls16 Klauss Weiss – Constellation17 Achim Reichel – Tanz Der Vögel In Den Winden18 Roedelius – Lustwandel19 Pyrolator – Die Haut Der Frau20 Cluster – Hollywood21 Streetmark – Passage22 Niagara – Rhythm Go23 Michael Bundt – Neon
More Info & Audiohttps://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/experimental-german-rock-and-german-music-197181
― dow, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 00:35 (six years ago) link
I got the Rhino deluxe 2 disc master of Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation which was only available in b&m stores for Black Friday. It's inexplicably missing "I'm Your Man," "All The Way," and the Ork single of "Blank Generation," even though it has the other track, "Another World." However, the liner notes are nice, and I just added the missing tracks to my flac folder, shrug.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 30 November 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
PET SHOP BOYS ANNOUNCE THE THIRD SET OF RELEASES INCATALOGUE: 1985-2012, THE LANDMARK SERIES OF REISSUESOF THEIR PARLOPHONE STUDIO ALBUMS
The Albums Please, Actually And Introspective Are Remastered AndReissued With "Further Listening" Albums Of Additional AndPreviously Unreleased Material
Reissues Out March 2 From Rhino
LOS ANGELES - Pet Shop Boys will release the third set of albums in their definitive CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 series of reissues of all their Parlophone studio albums. This third set sees the PSB albums Please from 1986, Actually from 1987 and 1988's Introspective, and will be reissued on March 2. The albums have been remastered and repackaged, and will be accompanied by "further listening" albums of master quality bonus tracks - including demos, extended mixes and remixes of tracks from the albums and others created in the same period as each record.
The three albums will be packaged with an extensive booklet in which Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe discuss each song, illustrated with many archive photographs. The entire project is designed by Farrow.
Please was the debut album by Pet Shop Boys and produced by Stephen Hague. Released in March 1986, the album hit Billboard's Top Ten, was certified Platinum, and has sold over three million copies worldwide. Comprising of ten tracks in its original release, the album's track-listing includes the duo's debut single "West End Girls" - PSB's first number one single in the USA. Singles "Love Comes Quickly," "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)" and "Suburbia" are also featured on Please. The CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 re-issue of the album features a remastered and repackaged vinyl and double CD, featuring 7" and 12" mixes and remixes of tracks from Please and the album's period.
In 1987, Pet Shop Boys released their second album Actually. The album was produced by Julian Mendelsohn, Stephen Hague, Shep Pettibone, Andy Richards and Pet Shop Boys. This period saw Pet Shop Boys reach new critical and commercial heights and included singles, "It's A Sin," "Always On My Mind And Heart," and "What Have I Done To Deserve This," their single featuring Dusty Springfield which climbed to number two on the US singles chart. The CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 re-issue of Actually includes the remastered original album, with the 2-CD version featuring bonus material including the Shep Pettibone mix of "Heart," and demo versions and alternative mixes of tracks including "One More Chance" and "Always On My Mind."
Also remastered, repackaged and re-issued as part of the CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 is Pet Shop Boys' 1988 release Introspective. This album has sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide to date and was the first to feature production by Trevor Horn, whose lavish orchestrations marked a new sonic direction for PSB. House music legend Frankie Knuckles created the mix of "I Want A Dog," while "Domino Dancing" was recorded in Miami with hit producer Lewis Martinée. Introspective also saw Pet Shop Boys introduce a new approach to the format of an album and its respective singles: each of the 6 tracks on the album's original track-listing is over six minutes in length, and they were later edited to fit the more traditional format of a seven-inch single. The CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 re-issue features, along with the newly-remastered original album, bonus material such as demo versions of "Don Juan" and "Domino Dancing," seven-inch and disco mixes of "Losing My Mind" and "Left To My Own Devices."
The CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 reissue series began earlier this year on July 28 with the release of Nightlife, Release, and Fundamental, followed by re-issues of Yes and Elysium, which were released on October 20. The series will continue until all PSB Parlophone albums have been released with "further listening" albums:
Behaviour/Further listening: 1990-1991Very/Further listening: 1992-1994Bilingual/Further listening: 1995-1997
The reissues of Please, Actually, Introspective, Behaviour, Very, and Bilingual were originally released with bonus "further listening" albums in 2001 and are being newly remastered with their original track-listings for these projects.
Please / Further Listening: 1984-1986
CD 1:1. Two Divided By Zero2. West End Girls3. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)4. Love Comes Quickly5. Suburbia6. Opportunities (Reprise)7. Tonight Is Forever8. Violence9. I Want A Lover10. Later Tonight11. Why Don't We Live Together?
CD 2:1. A Man Could Get Arrested (Twelve-Inch B-Side)2. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (Full Length Original Seven-Inch Mix)3. In The Night4. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (Twelve-Inch Mix)5. Why Don't We Live Together? (Original New York Mix)6. West End Girls (Dance Mix)7. A Man Could Get Arrested (Seven-Inch B-Side)8. Love Comes Quickly (Dance Mix)9. That's My Impression (Disco Mix)10. Was That What It Was?11. Suburbia (The Full Horror)12. Jack The Lad13. Paninaro (Italian Remix)
Actually / Further Listening: 1987-1988:
CD 1:1. One More Chance2. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (with Dusty Springfield)3. Shopping4. Rent5. Hit Music6. It Couldn't Happen Here7. It's A Sin8. I Want To Wake Up9. Heart10. King's Cross CD 2:1. I Want To Wake Up (Breakdown Mix) 2. Heart (Shep Pettibone Version)3. You Know Where You Went Wrong4. One More Chance (Seven-Inch Mix)5. It's A Sin (Disco Mix)6. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (with Dusty Springfield) [extended mix]7. Heart (Disco Mix)8. A New Life9. Always On My Mind (Demo Version)10. Rent (Seven-Inch Mix)11. I Want A Dog12. Always On My Mind (Extended Dance Mix)13. Do I Have To?14. Always On My Mind (Dub Mix)
Introspective / Further Listening: 1988-1989
CD 1:1. Left To My Own Devices2. I Want A Dog3. Domino Dancing4. I'm Not Scared5. Always On My Mind/In My House6. It's Alright CD 2:1. I Get Excited (You Get Excited Too)2. Don Juan (Demo Version)3. Domino Dancing (Demo Version)4. Domino Dancing (Alternative Version)5. The Sound Of The Atom Splitting6. What Keeps Mankind Alive?7. Don Juan (Disco Mix)8. Losing My Mind (Disco Mix)9. Nothing Has Been Proved (Demo For Dusty)10. So Sorry, I Said (Demo For Liza)11. Left To My Own Devices (Seven-Inch Mix)12. It's Alright (Ten-Inch Version)13. One Of The Crowd14. It's Alright (Seven-Inch Version)15. Your Funny Uncle
― dow, Thursday, 7 December 2017 01:12 (six years ago) link