Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Tazers - DON'T CLASSIFY ME LP 82 84


 O.K. finally made it to the main post this week for this excellent punk band from CA that I found in an old comment during a repost.  Great timeless title for me and that old CA punker sound but hey, not entirely classifiable since recorded in 1976.  This I think is still available on the website from back cover and wow you will want to know which bands are in the other volumes which are also listed.  Get it!

https://bestfile.io/HhFUAfwiQTLfhQ3/file

Oh yeah a little overloaded this week and since mr.Radio liked me posting all these re-Up's at once I will do it again here until I catch up which I am now (also at original post are the links):

Tony Carey:  https://bestfile.io/en/k3P92Tid7ELM0qZ/file

Ron Jacobs - A Child's Garden of Grass (a BIG THANKS to Nathan Nothin for posting this last weekend with the artist title as I couldn't find that on original post when I ripped it--I also added his inner sleeve pic of various types of bud plants)  https://bestfile.io/qzTU6VH6JWLTTKy/file

Divine Horsemen (love their new album not included here): https://bestfile.io/en/YUqSxbY61hSmxiT/file

The Romantics:  https://bestfile.io/xADbQgCyVaeDDNW/file

Max Webster:  https://bestfile.io/en/JDn8mZiNgxHAicM/file

Quicksilver Messenger Service (have made a few top band lists lately I just saw Josef Kloiber's list over at Kosta's essential blog Urban Aspirines he comments on every post there):

https://bestfile.io/en/uXPXMB8SUccTbFW/file

Anne Murray:  https://bestfile.io/gcskeMh92LfWea5/file

Bread:  https://bestfile.io/NdpXUOPdaH1rzUE/file

Chris Ducey w Penny Arkade w Satyz Maitreya Kali related bands added:

https://bestfile.io/xUpqp5ZNAA3l26B/file

Ray Davies:  https://bestfile.io/MNUSblsUvc4WTGu/file

Q-Feel:  https://bestfile.io/mGxD0ZWNtrhvByB/file

Rock Goddess:  https://bestfile.io/HgwaSgvieZg55gP/file

Orphan:  https://bestfile.io/SI8jll2TCAwp6b2/file

Suburban Lawns w Su Tissue 7:  https://bestfile.io/HFuklXigKcjYzSo/file

Tribes w The Young Lovers (per copycat band post this week these guys are the tops of genre with Woodstock background crowd even and announcements I separated out from songs finally to get file into shape!):  https://bestfile.io/en/NFszUKawwKKIyaH/file

Headstone:  https://bestfile.io/HllgBCc4y1FVt42/file

Lonnie Mack & Pismo:  https://bestfile.io/RSo4lxYJt3B5q2s/file

Mac McAnally:  https://bestfile.io/en/WpYaSuM1msfqrXv/file

VA - Alternative Distribution Alliance CD 96 (with Radio K perma-hit by Land of Loops band!):

https://bestfile.io/I6hyS0cxz0e8dPo/file


DU BLOG 7 inch group 3-11-2024 w old 7 & 12 EP posts

REPOST Request and ADD ON:  Well, I decided I needed to organize my 7" single posts in the past when I couldn't find a City Boy 7 I swore I had to add to the bigger artist post.  Thus, this post has the following new 7 inch rips that I added to bigger artist posts with links for you:
FIRST HERE IS NEW POST LINK PER BELOW:
https://bestfile.io/en/DYYAzjIY4FSKxjJ/file
American Tears - He Don't Want Your Money (Doctor Abreaction) 7 74
American Tears Re-upped link at post:  https://bestfile.io/gCF63302zQ53XPS/file
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Tom The Model 7 02
Portishead Re-upped link at post:  https://bestfile.io/lgpDiVXVI1VuqdL/file
Eastside Beat - Ride Like The Wind 7 91 (eat your heart out Christopher Cross!)
Eddy Grant - Romancing The Stone 7 84
Eddy Grant Re-upped link at post:  https://bestfile.io/22yiAA1wpLLVXSK/file
Gruppo Sportivo - Disco Really Made It 7 91 (tongue in check 'Magazine' - The Light's Come Out Of Me guitar riff...ha ha that's funny..lot's of parody on this)
Gruppo Sportivo Re-upped link at post:  https://bestfile.io/6QWhX5VfIuzr8yz/file
Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out 7 (didn't rip title as bad shape but flipside is new w Chinatown song!)
Joe Jackson Re-upped link at post:  https://bestfile.io/b7tiB1HvufzpY8X/file
Men At Work - Everything I Need 7 85
Men At Work - Re-upped link at post:  https://bestfile.io/en/cB7CT7PA5wQKMnK/file
Mick Jagger - Lucky In Love (Long Version) 7 85
Opus - Live Is Life  7 84 (this is legendary bar song that belongs in every collection..needs album!)
Styx - Mr. Roboto 7 80  (title track in bad shape so get past post...new tune 'Snowblind')
Styx Re-upped link at post:  https://bestfile.io/Rsr4AoCTU2k8PIO/file
The Vapors - Turning Japanese 7 80  (My old rip of band got replaced by CD 160 kb/sec mp3's someone had sent in long ago so good to have high quality rip of this song about beating off!)
The Vapors Re-upped link at post:  https://bestfile.io/yRdHHGsrwICNe6P/file
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - The Waiting 7 81
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Re-upped link at post:  https://bestfile.io/WFOv01YrwU7OVAR/file
Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know 7 83
Tracey Ullman Re-upped link at post:  https://bestfile.io/mdXrdbS22DhJHjm/file
Tricky - Hell Is Round The Corner 7 95
Tricky Re-upped link at post:  https://bestfile.io/jvbIWrxFHgFtx9T/file

Here are the old 7 inch files I added to help me organize and original posts may not be down.
The Soup Dragons - Mother Universe 12 EP 90
Ph.D - I Didn't Know 7 83
Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach 7 80
Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick 7 78
I Catch I - My Darlin' 12 EP 85

And for completists, here is the last 7 inch post link that I Re-upped for this post that has these artists:
April Stevens, Blondie, Chad And Jeremy, Charlie Monroe, Cheap Trick, Cliff Richard, Company B, ELO, Esco Hankins And Jackie, Hot Butter, Jim Salestrom, Jimmy Logdson, John Waite, Kenny Loggins, Kim Carnes, Les Crane, M, Moon Martin, Pat Benatar, Phil Collins, Pretenders, Quarterflash, Radio Stars, Rage, The Babys, The Brains, The Hues Corp., Human League, The Police, The Rattlers, The Rolling Stones

Here is the Re-upped link at post:  https://bestfile.io/en/FTPdxQH8fDsK4QS/file

STANLEY BLACK AHO - EXOTIC PERCUSSION LP 61


 Was taken aback slightly when I noticed song two was titled, "By The Waters OF Minnetonka' as that is a big chain of lakes/Minneapolis suburb and pro bass fishing spot in next suburb over from where I grew up in MN! Another minty 1961 vinyl and cover like the two posts below in this mini-theme (middle from 1967).  Ear candy.

https://bestfile.io/lfozbjxWzE3vfhK/file

LIVING BRASS - IN A LITTLE SPANISH TOWN LP 67


 Per the back cover:  "If the title of this album has you expecting soft, languid, strummed music in the romantic tradition of Old Spain, forget it!  You're in for a rollicking musical night on the town".  Every big song you can think of this type is one here with great versions.

https://bestfile.io/kRA2vLnumAk1zeC/file

XAVIER CUGAT AHO - VIVA CUGAT! LP 61


 One of three with above of great tropical music on great shape vinyl that will please your ears.  Per Discogs:  Real Name: Francisco de Asis Javier Cugat Mingall de Bru y Deulofeu

Profile:

Born: January 1, 1900, Girona, Spain.

Died: October 27, 1990, Barcelona, Spain.

Catalan-Cuban-American bandleader whom many consider to have been very influential in incorporating Latin music into popular music in the United States. Perez Prado followed in Cugat's footsteps.

Cugat was born in Girona, in Catalonia (Spain). He emmigrated with his family to Cuba when he was five, and trained as a classical violinist, playing with the Orchestra of the Teatro Nacional in Havana. On 6 July 1915, Cugat and his family arrived in New York. Entering the world of show business, he played with a band called “The Gigolos” during the tango craze. Later, he went to work for the Los Angeles Times as a cartoonist, and his caricatures were later nationally syndicated.

In the late 1920s, as sound began to be used in films, he put together another tango band that had some success in early short musical films. By the early 1930s, he began appearing with his group in feature films, and Cugat took his band to New York for the 1931 opening of Waldorf Astoria Hotel and it became the hotel's resident band. One of his trademarks was to hold a small Chihuahua dog while he waved his baton with the other arm. He shuttled between New York and Los Angeles for most of the next thirty years, alternating hotel and radio dates with movie appearances in films such as Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) and Neptune's Daughter (1949).

In 1940, he recorded the song Perfidia with singer Miguelito Valdés which became a big hit. Cugat followed trends closely, making records for the conga, the mambo, the cha-cha-cha, and the twist when each was in fashion. His first marriage was to Rita Montaner, his second to Carmen Castillo (1929 – 1946), his third to Lorraine Allen (1947 – 28 April 1952), and his fourth to singer Abbe Lane in 1952. He and Lane performed together until their divorce in 1964. He married salsa dancer Charo on 7 August 1966. The two were the first couple to marry in the newly opened Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip. Cugat did not lose sleep over artistic compromises: “I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.” Cugat died of heart failure at age 90 in Barcelona in his native Catalonia, Spain.

https://bestfile.io/wkSIGW0WBNWZly6/file

Valdy - The Best Of Valdy CD 80 06 w Valdy and the Hometown Band - st CD 76


 A big THANK YOU to ClassicMusic20 for sending in these two files for me to shred off all software associations that caused error on my system and make it uniform to DU high quality standards!  Being from Canada he had reacted to my Christmas time post with live Canada artists featuring a Valdy song.  Per Discogs:  Paul Valdemar Horsdal, CM (born 1 September 1945), commonly known as Valdy, is a Canadian folk and country musician whose solo career began in the early 1970s. He is known for "Rock and Roll Song", his first mainstream single.  Valdy is the winner of two Juno Awards for Folk Singer of the Year and Folk Entertainer of the Year and has received seven additional Juno nominations. His fourteen albums, including four which are certified gold, have achieved sales of nearly half a million copies.

https://bestfile.io/LpAyEJjRzAlFeCZ/file

JOHNNY LEE - Bet Your Heart On Me LP 81 w Hey Bartender LP 83


 A kick-ass request from Dion as I had the follow up album with his/our big song 'Hey Bartender" plus many other great tunes!  

https://bestfile.io/N4SRZbHBlhX2TDv/file

JOHNNY WINTER AND - st LP 70


 I had this vinyl without jacket from Goodwill and that after Kosta's excellent post of Johnny Winter late last year at his Urban Aspirine's blog (see blogroll lower right) that I had to convert this sooner than later so that you all could go supplement with his post since I was always bigger on collecting his brother Edgar.  I remember being at Banana's records once and a record collector was touting how awesome Johnny's stuff was with the dual guitars approach.  This here separate band is top notch and needs to be played nice and loud!

https://bestfile.io/SRLlDIWd7B2o40n/file



THE FUNNIES - SMILE! LP 73


 NEW BETTER RIP:  Thanks again to E.W. for cluing me into this one but that file he sent in was damaged beyond my repair capabilities and so, with 'I Woke Up In Love This Morning' cycling through my brain one day and afraid I would forget forever whose version I was singing, I decided to get one of the last 9 copies left on youtube for a proper rip.  Problem is while listening to it I couldn't help but think about that commenter on Discogs who wrote:  awhofan Feb 21, 2023:  This is NOT the Partridge Family nor Wrecking Crew. Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted has some of the most over the top backing vocals. Smile is one of the first records I had as kid. Sadly this is really bad.  

However, I do remember a Princess free ship cruise adventure with the large family I came from all singing that Partridge family song at karaoke on night after dinner so the song for me has some sentimental value.  This was during the time that Nirvana broke as I also remember my little brother and I dancing barefoot with a couple of girls we met on the dance floor to that hit song by them.  Ha Ha

https://bestfile.io/MVEXe3aEhx9sFZk/file

The Singing Nicholsons - OPEN MY UNDERSTANDING LP 79


 A decent Jesus Music release here from the Goodwill store that has a real gem in a children-sung tune called 'It's A Miracle' that will melt away the last of your winter blues.  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/AeYV1gC3LVbZYW4/file

The Sixth Station - Deep Night CD 82 cc


 COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  One more to lock in the new themes that I just downloaded each song this morning from youtube and a very cool and mellow Jesus Music special it is!!  You will enjoy.

https://bestfile.io/FGC79qtkltERcLN/file


Analogy - Analogy CD 72 - cc


 TOP 100 RARE COLLECTORS CHOICE:   Might as well start this series as well like below, the files will be marked with '- cc' in the WinRAR filename but this series I found online so list will be included of TOP 100 rare.  I will not be going after all on that list since I have a lot already like Misfits 'Legacy' and others that I've also posted before.  Maybe I can go for all the 7 inch singles on the list sometime but I doubt it as I tried a few and no luck.  Per Discogs:  The group was formed by four German musicians living in northern Italy, near Varese (three of them had grown up there, Thurn-Mithoff arrived in 1968), along with two Italians, keyboardist Nicola Pankoff (originating from Arona) and bassist Mauro Rattaggi. The initial name was The Joice, but it was changed by mistake by their record company to Yoice, and it was with this name that their first single was released by the small Produzioni Ventotto label, distributed by Messaggerie Musicali. In 1972, when Rattaggi quit and rhythm guitarist Schoene switched to bass, the group changed its name to Analogy, and had the chance to play some very important concerts like Caracalla Pop Festival in Rome (first concert with the new name) or the Be-In in Naples, though they remained totally unknown outside Italy, apart from Switzerland. Their only album, very rare and interesting, shows some rock-blues influences, with the nice voice of singer Jutta Nienhaus in strong evidence, and had a distinctive cover with the group members all naked.

In 1973 keyboardist Nicola Pankoff left the group, though he kept playing and also dedicating to painting, he was replaced by flutist Rocco Abate. The group split around 1974, after more than 250 concerts in Italy and around 60 in Switzerland. (Source: www.italianprog.com)

https://bestfile.io/pSXmFEbl0j9PEz3/file

Eyes Of Blue - The Crossroads Of Time CD 68 - cc


 COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Starting a new posting series here as I've been privy to some hot posting activity at one of my new meta vinyl groups.  I will put the "-cc" at the end of the WinRAR filename as well as above in the title so I know.  I'm starting this now as a big source for this material the 'Rockasteria' blogspot has many of the links but they are expiring fast like for this file, I had to go to Youtube and download the songs one by one via mp3convert.org.  I use their 320 kb/sec MP3 highest sample rate link and the youtube high setting is 256 kb/sec (I avoid the 128 kb/sec low quality youtube post) and it sounds great to my ears.  Per Discogs:  The Eyes Of Blue evolved during the mid-sixties from covers and R&B band The Mustangs, based in Neath, Wales, UK.

The early line-up consisted of Wyndham Rees (Vocals), Ray Williams (Guitar), Ritchie Francis (Bass), Melvyn Davies (Guitar) and David Thomas (Drums). Thomas had replaced Byron Phillips in October 1964 a month before the change of name, and before too long Melvyn Davies also decided to leave, reducing the Eyes to a four-piece. Starting out as a soul-based R&B band the Eyes quickly established a strong reputation in the South Wales music scene. In Early in 1966 drummer Thomas was off and away, and John Weathers was drafted in as a temporary replacement. From another Neath based band - the Smokestacks - came keyboard player Phil Ryan, and vocalist Gary Pickford-Hopkins.

L. Glas, short for Lygaid Glas, Eyes of Blue in Welsh, was used as writing credits on Apache '69.

https://bestfile.io/mL5QIFqFuXgDdab/file

Dave Edmunds - Rocker 2LP 77 w Tracks On Wax 4 LP 78 w Love Sculpture - Blues Helping LP 68 69 (2 rips)


 REPOST Request and ADD ON:  I only had the yellow album on bottom but turns out my other Love Sculpture album was the same one so I left in both rips--the new should be better as original.  Loved the double by Dave with a best ever version for opener of 'Sabre Dance'.  I had heard before 'Wang-Dang-Doodle' and of course "I Hear You Knocking' and his guitar playing I think deserves to give him a mention with great guitarists.  I had the 'Repeat' later album he did on cassette but will have to wait until I find a new tape player.  Not a lot of him on the web and that double album has top sound!!!!

https://bestfile.io/0nznJlDylocIqRz/file

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

THE NYLONS - ONE SIZE FITS ALL LP 82


 Now isn't that a cool cover!  This is their first but they have many more as an acapella group of singers with minimal instruments per the 'warning' on the back cover:  "This Album Contains Only Vocals and Percussion".  Interesting note on Discogs:  In October 24, 1992, The Nylons sang "O Canada" at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, preceding Game 6 of the 1992 World Series, in which their hometown team, the Toronto Blue Jays, won their first championship.

https://bestfile.io/hYytwRokqDsSMjz/file

The Nite-Liters - st LP 70 16 w Morning, Noon & The Nite-Liters LP 71 w Instrumental Directions LP 72 w Different Strokes LP 72 w A-nal-y-sis LP 73


 These orange RCA label vinyl were a pleasure to hear and see as the first one is bright colored with streaks on the vinyl reissue.  Got the idea after hearing them on the recent 5 record posted compilation called "Life of the Party' from 1972 but they were also on another I posted called 'Disco Express, Vol. 1 from 1975.  Not just instrumental but more so than similar band Mandrill.  Like the tune on their last album, it's a 'Serenade for a Jive Turkey' ha ha.

https://bestfile.io/en/g3eufnWHwNcED2r/file

Michael Deacon - Runnin' In The Meadow CD 75 08 w When You Know It's Home CD 77 10 w Vanity Press I & II 2LP 80 82


 My Italian anonymous friend requested this while sending in the earlier two CD rips for this troubadour from my grandparents old state of Nebraska.  As he mentioned there is something about his music that soothes the comforts the soul and I agree.  I ripped the double vinyl from 82.

The Sandwiches - Put Up Your Dukes 7 95 w Hey Cats We're The Sandwiches CD 97 w Rock On, Scubatron CD 98


 REPOST Request:  These guys were the darlings of our little Radio K scene in MN during this time and made the weekly top 7 @7 for weeks on end with their opener, '2222 Nicollet Avenue' about their cool place outside the Metrodome or Thunderdome as they used to call it.  "Get With You' also got lots of play and 'Good Morning (alright)" from the Scubatron follow up which I relate to having grown up in a family of ten with a swimming pool.  An old DU blog follower whose name I now forget told me once this was his favorite band that I had introduced him to.  Yes, I got them all to autograph my CD at one of the shows!  Love these guys!  Cheers to John Daly for having the initiative to request from background CD stack in my album cover pictures...you won the golden chocolate bar!

https://bestfile.io/yV4c4jnUoVeAWvz/file



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