Movin On !!

Decided to Start a New group on Facebook...if you have any good links to tunes you are more than welcome to come and join in the fun.
Find me and the Music Here
Bubblegum Pop Circus ™
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=161710220768&ref=ts
Cheers.

Some Images of Nancy Sinatra ♡

Defiantly one of the most iconic 60's female pop singers in my humble opinion so I thought I would post some pics I like.
I will post up some albums soon for your listening pleasure.

The In-Kraut - Hip Shaking Grooves Made In Germany 1966-1974

I don't know alot about these comps and I have not even heard them yet to be honest haha, but it looks like it is right up my street!
There are 3 volumes in total and I am just waiting on permission to use links to all three here's some blurb below and hopefully all 3 will be up here in a short space of time.

An amazing selection of German grooves from the 60s through to the early 70s.
There’s so many albums you wait an age for which inevitably let you down, then albums come from nowhere and knock you out. Such is the case with ‘The In-Kraut’, appropriately sub-titled ‘Hip Shaking Grooves Made In Germany 1966-1974’.

When you think of German music past, it’s hard to get past Kraftwerk and hair rock. But like all cultures, if you go past the obvious and scrape the surface, there’s some great stuff hidden down below. I first heard album opener ‘From Here On It Got Rough’ by Hildegard Knef on the radio, prompting me to seek out this collection. Like Nico does northern - incredibly quirky and catchy and a sign of things to come. Some tracks are cool and funky variations of the big band sound, like Guenter Noris’ ‘Gemini’ which operates in Ramsey Lewis territory and Fredy Brock’s ‘Beat It’, featuring a class JB style rhythm section. Best topping those is Orchester Helmuth Brandenburg’s ‘Moving Out’, not a far cry from the Starsky and Hutch theme! There’s the annoyingly catchy ‘Marihuana Mantra’ with its driving guitar and chant-like chorus or the fuzz-pop of Bill Ramsey’s ‘An Unknown Quantity’. And check out the breezy 60s pop of Marianne Mendt’s ‘Wie A Glock’n’ or the more sleazy ‘Pussy Baby’ by Bill Lawrence. Talking of 60s pop, I love Heidi Bruehl’s ‘Berlin’ - almost like a soundtrack piece, complete with great psych guitar solo (rumoured to be from Jimmy Page!). And for a piece of driving hammond, The Boots’ ‘Alexander’ hits the spot.

And there’s tracks that have already become sought-after collectors’ grooves. Check out ‘Why Don’t You Play The Organ, Man’ by Memphis Black - a monster funk piece. And feel the groove on the opening of ‘Sunday Love Affair’ by Orchester Frank Pleyer. More mainstream funk comes courtesy of Erwin Halletz, with ‘Das Stundenhotel Von St Pauli’ - a blue movie soundtrack inevitably! A track that has already been lifted wholesale is ‘Bodybuilding’ by Orchester Werner Mueller - re-worked by Bentley Rhythm Ace into a hit single a few years back. And no album of this nature would be complete without a bonkers covers version - enter Peter Thomas with his early synth and brass take on ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’.

20 tracks - no filler and one of the best booklets I’ve had the pleasure to read in a long time. A fantastic trip through the German underground of the 60s and early 70s and an album I just can’t recommend enough.

Just Playing Volume 1 and it is very good.
It reminds me of an amphonic library sort of sound mixed with the beat at cinecitta stuff...very groovy indeed.

Links posted without permission...so get these comps while they are hot!

Vol1http://rapidshare.com/files/201601009/In_Kraut_1.zip
Vol2 http://rapidshare.com/files/201602357/In_Kraut_2.zip
Vol3 http://rapidshare.com/files/201603716/In_Kraut_3.zip

The Magic Mixture - This is Magic Mixture Saga Records 1968

Here's the Magic Mixture Album from 1968

The liner notes on this reissue call the original 1968 album by the Magic Mixture "one of the most cherished artifacts of British psychedelia.” If you appraise records merely by their scarcity, then maybe that statement’s true. By all other standards, however, the sole release from this short-lived and largely unremembered band is mediocre.

At their best, as on "Urge to Leave,” the Magic Mixture summon up early Zombies comparisons, albeit without the pop sensibility. Prominent Hammond organ and earnest, amateur vocals by frontman/songwriter Terry Thomas rescue the 12 originals from stale city. Unfortunately, the songs themselves are mostly unremarkable, the production merely muddy rather than psychedelic, and the Clapton-lite guitar solos unnecessary. The latter sin tends to really drag down faster numbers like "You" that, with a lighter touch, could pass for a decent freakbeat single. Elsewhere, the dreamy ballad "Living on a Hill" meanders prettily but goes nowhere. The net result sounds less like a psych record than a performance by a mid-’60s stoned British bar band.

The album is chiefly remembered for "Motorbike Song,” a novelty number sung in what the liner notes take pains to tell me is a Somerset, rather than a Cockney accent. Though the comedic value is lost on this American, it’s notable that this is the only track on the album where the band sound like they’re having fun, exchanging their drug-addled haze for a deliberately primitive, almost Stooges sound.

The six hitherto-unreleased bonus tracks are interesting in that they showcase what the band were capable of doing with better material. In particular, organist Stan Curtis is given a chance to stretch out on covers of Spirit, Blood Sweat & Tears and Traffic, but Thomas sounds stretched. Rock historians may also note that two of the bonus tracks feature drummer Simon Kirke, who went on to dubious success in ‘70s bands Free and Bad Company.

Diehard collectors of ‘60s British rock will probably be happy that This is the Magic Mixture is back. Those looking for a classic timepiece worthy of mythic status, however, will surely be disappointed.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6557JX2M

Five Day Week Straw People - Saga Records 1967

One of the rarer and more expensive of the saga records bunch released in 1967 here's some background:
This CD is actually a reissue of the self-titled 1968 album by the Five Day Week Straw People, who, like the Attack, featured guitarist John Du Cann. However, it's also about as much an Attack album as a Five Day Week Straw People album, since nine of the 19 songs are 1967-1968 era Attack demos, added to the CD as bonus tracks. It's fair, but no more than fair, British mod-psychedelia, catching the very beginning of the moment when U.K. psych started to head in a consciously heavy direction. Two of the cuts, "Freedom for You" and "Feel Like Flying," would have been the fifth Attack single had they not been dropped by Decca, and "Freedom for You" is certainly one of the best things they recorded, with a breathless, hard pop tempo and pretty good minor-key harmonies. For the most part it's pretty standard period British pop-psych, with some of the more serious and louder numbers indicating that the group might have been pretty intense Cream fans. Occasionally, as on "Magic in the Air," there's that fruity, childlike British whimsy characteristic of many pop-psychedelic hybrids from that short but intense period of British pop. This shouldn't be taken as a definitive representation of the Attack sound, though, as it has nothing from their four 1967-1968 Decca singles; most of the tracks from those have shown up on various artist compilations. Incidentally, the Five Day Week Straw People album that precedes the Attack material on this disc is likewise average period British psychedelia. It's pretty similar to the Attack demos, but a tad artier, as the songs fit into a loose concept of vignettes in the lives of average British people during a typical weekend. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide


Get it Here http://www.mediafire.com/?3lzx5eyggag

Velvet Tinmine: 20-1970'S Junk Shop Glam Ravers and Glitterbest-20 Pre Punk and Glam Terrace Stompers

LINK http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DRXJ6SW5

Thanks to Cosmic Hearse for letting me share this quality rip !
Lots of Cheese here 70"s Junk Shop Style with a sprinkle of Glitter and Builders wearing Lipstick.
This is a great comp if ever I heard one. I have a link to another volume called Glitterbest which I will fish out possibly later.Summer wouldn't be complete without this..play loud and STOMP like it is going out of fashion,this gets ten cheese points and a thumbs up from me..Rock On!!
Enjoy !

Here is Review from Amazon
By A Customer
Arguably glam rock is the least regarded pop genre to emerge in the last 50 years or so (although folk rock might run it a close second) so how bad must be the glam rock records that bombed even when glam was king? The surprisng answer, after listening to this cheeky compilation, is actually not bad at all. The line notes are fun, and just the right side of tongue in cheek, to leave you unsure whether this entire project isn't meant as the most collosal joke. And yet, as is pointed out, these bands and tracks do represent some sort of pure pop ideal. They arrived overnight, no agenda, no tedious "development", no slick marketing (no marketing at all in some cases) and a do it yourself philosophy that is pure punk. The sleevenotes also give a scholarly history of glam, and the three "great" glam traditions: art school rock (David Bowie, T Rex, Roxy Music etc), the "Chinnichap" teeny bands (Suzi Quatro, Sweet) and most bizarrely, and disturbingly of all, the "brickies in mascara" phenomenon and the stomping "West Midlands Sound"(Slade, Mud). Junkshop examples of all three will be found on the compilation. I've always felt that glam rock principally developed to service the needs of the footwear industry. Viz, while wearing stack soles of any height, the wearer soon discovers that only two sorts of dancing are possible: a stepping forward and stepping back dance, and a dance where you stand still and stomp one foot on the ground. Glam tunes are perfect for these moves, but that is about all. I'm also reminded on the comment about the early 18th century "graveyard school" of English poets by Kenneth Clarke to the effect that within a few years of the fashion all possible combinations of owls, ivy and moonlight had been exhausted. Read the same for glam lyrics except substitute "rebels", "revolution" and "school". Overall, enormous fun and great for pricking the pomposity of muso-snob friends


Here's a link to the other volume I mentioned which is cool too...if you have links/rips to other volumes please post them in the comments.

http://ratb0y69.blogspot.com/2008/05/glitterbest-20-pre-punk-n-glam-tyerrace.html

Some Tunes I Dug Up Last Night-Will Rip the rarer ones soon.

Been a while since I dusted off some heavy duty records,so last night I got home and decided to have a rock and roll rummage through the archives haha.

From the top corner..MC5-Kick out the Jams a classic late 60's bonanza,The Who-BBC bootleg,Silver Chapter-Teenage Screamer on Sonic Booms Bop a Sonic label the 7"Artwork is even cooler,13th Floor Elevators-Bull of the Woods,Ultra Vivid Scene-Debut,British Psychedelic Trip Vol 3,Up All night-30 Northern Soul Classics,British Psychedelic Trip Vol 1,The Harry Roche Constellation-In Orbit,American Spring-Spring Plus (produced by Brian Wilson),The Stones-Aftermath,Nancy and Lee-Did You Ever,Nico-Chelsea Girl,Spacemen 3-Playing With Fire(Embossed Sleeve),Spacemen 3-Taking Drugs(Played Twice Still Shrink Wrapped),British Psychedelic Trip Vol 4,The First Impression-The Beat Club (on saga and has the saga inner bag which is pretty cool),Carolyn Franklin-Baby Dynamite (Aretha's Sister),Russ Sainty-Lennon and McCartney(On Saga so it has to be good),MC5-Back in the USA,Buddah In Mind-Various Buddah Artists from Bubblegum to Funk,The Button Down Brass feat Ray Davies and His Funky Trumpet,Nancy and Lee,Beach Boys-Pet Sounds,Loop-Heaven's End,Lee Hazelwood-Love and Other Crimes (Awesome Stuff),Alan Moorehouse and his Bond Street Brigade (Has a track called Funky Fever which is amazing),13th Floor Elevators-Psychedelic Sound Of,Swinging London featuring The Good Earth and First Impression on Saga (I love this record and the other pressing with Russ Sainty)MC5-High Time,Birdland-Hollow Heart (Promo),Ultra Vivid Scene-Mercy Seat
12".

For some reason some of the tunes on the edges have been squeezed off,Over the next few weeks I am going to rip a ton of records for your enjoyment.

Instant Garage Vol 1

Good Intro to Psych and 60's Punk and has one of my favorite tracks She-Outta Reach...that track is in my top 10 desert island discs,straight forward garage compilation no frills-most of these you will already know and love.

There's some real belters on here so play loud and "Kick out the Jams!"

(1) http://www.linkbucks.com/link/2baba5cd
(2) http://www.linkbucks.com/link/3be16780

Password is hangover

Tracks
1. Kick Out the Jams (MC5)
2. I Had Too Much to Dream (THE ELECTRIC PRUNES)
3. Psycho (THE SONICS)
4. Personality Crisis (NEW YORK DOLLS)
5. Shortnin' Bread (THE READY MEN)
6. To Die Alone (THE BUSH)
7. She Cracked (JONATHAN RICHMAN & THE MODERN LOVERS)
8. Wastin' My Time (THE EXPRESS)
9. My Daddy Walked in Darkness (GIL BATEMAN)
10. Seven & Seven is (LOVE)
11. Flash & Crash (ROCKY & THE RIDDLERS)
12. Outta Reach (SHE)
13. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - demo (RAMONES)
14. Milk Cow Blues (THE KINKS)
15. Black Winds (LITTLE JOHN & THE MONKS)
16. No reason to Complain (THE ALARM CLOCKS)
17. Psychotic Reaction (THE COUNT FIVE)
18. Trick Bag (ARTESIANS)
19. Jailhouse Rock (DEAN CARTER)
20. Again & Again (THE IGUANAS)
21. Open My Eyes (THE NAZZ)
22. Dirty Robber (THE WAILERS)
23. Just Like Me (PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS)
24. The Girl Can't Dance (BUNKER HILL)
25. Train Kept a Rollin' (BRAVE NEW WORLD)
26. Baby Please Don't go (THE AMBOY DUKES)
27. Rat's Revenge Part. 2 (THE RATS)
28. Sometimes You Just Can't Win (MOUSE & THE TRAPS)

45 rpm The The - The Singles Collection

The The 45 RPM Compilation of Singles and Remixes...so good it hurts!
Listening to the remixes is weird as the originals are so ingrained in my mind from my childhood it was difficult at first to get my ears around them, so you may need to play them a few times and recondition your ear drums a little bit.

The album is well worth a listen hope you enjoy it.


Disc one
1. Uncertain Smile (Original version)
2. Perfect (Original version)
3. Sweet Bird Of Truth
4. Infected
5. Heartland
6. Armageddon Days (are here again)
7. The Beat(en) Generation
8. Dogs of Lust
9. Slow Emotion Replay
10. Love is Stronger than Death
11. This is the Day
12. I Saw the Light
13. December Sunlight
14. Pillar Box Red
15. Deep Down Truth

Disc two
1. Uncertain Smile (12 remix)
2. Perfect (12 remix)
3. Sweet Bird of Truth (12 remix)
4. Infected (12 remix)
5. Armageddon Days (are here again) (12 remix)
6. Violence of Truth (12 remix)
7. Gravitate to Me (12 remix)
8. Dogs of Lust (12 remix)

http://rapidshare.com/files/104182530/The_The_disc_1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/104187058/The_The_disc_2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/104191699/The_The_disc_3.rar

Alien Dreamtime Space Time with Terence McKenna

This came out around 93 as a video and audio the video can be seen on google but it looks very dated in my opinion the graphics are like zx spectrum style.
However as an ambient audio this is perfect and hasn't dated at all and the lyrics about the IMF,the end of human history and the World Bank are pretty prophetic to say the least...so best hurry up and give it a listen before the whole shithouse goes up in flames ☺☠

Up there with UFOrb and other Ambient Classics from back in the day.

Here's a link enjoy http://rs224.rapidshare.com/files/62356654/BOEth300SC-Ad.zip
Alien Dreamtime
featuring:
Words - Terence McKenna
Visuals - Rose X
Music - Spacetime Continuum
Didgeridu - Stephen Kent

Alien Dreamtime was produced as a live multi-media event in San Francisco, on the evenings of February 26 and 27, 1993.

The performance is divided into three movements, each reflective of Terence McKenna's ethnobotanical theories: Archaic Revival, Alien Love and Time Wave Zero.
McKenna's presence is combined with the neo-psychedelic visuals of Rose X and ambient techno improvisations by Space Time Continuum and didgeridusita, Stephen Kent.
Take a trip without breaking the law.
about Alien Dreamtime:

(Alien Dreamtime)... would turn even Timothy Leary straight. - Billboard Magazine
Alien Dreamtime comes closer to replicating a psychedelic experience than anything else we've ever seen. - Brain Mind Bulletin
This video is a phenethylamine-drenched, techno-primitive extravaganza, par excellence. - Howard Rheingold in Whole Earth Review.
Event of the year. - Urb Magazine

Average. Amazon Customer Review: 5 Stars

"My friend gave me a warning before popping this tape in, that it might be a bit intoxicating. That was one of the biggest understatements I have ever heard."

"I highly recommend this video for anyone who needs a little vacation from reality & some
healthy affirmation of the spirit of mankind."

Captured live in San Francisco this event dissolves distinctions between performance art, rave, shamanic ritual, and inspired oratory. Terence McKenna pulls out his multimedia mojo bag and becomes raver, storyteller and psychedelic tourguide bringing all on a howling, transdimensional ride into some inexplicably weird territory. Backed by Stephen Kent's whirling didgeridoo, live video scratching by Rose X, and ambient loops by Spacetime Continuum, we are shuttled back 15,000 summers ago to the mushroom induced ecstasy on the African savannah, propelled into alien landscape of the DMT flash inhabited by hyperdimensional, self-transforming, machine elves, and left to ponder the mysteries of the psychedelic experience, the future of the human species, and its forward escape out of history. All in all, a wonderous, intensely trippy and enlightening adventure.

Reviews:
Hopeful, visionary, enlightened, stimulating, mind-expanding media upon which the viewer parks his ego/social games at the door and steps into wonderfully bizarre and edifying territory, indeed.

This dvd is a must have for anyone who trips. Watch this dvd while your peaking, its got so many visuals with Terence McKenna talking in the backround (this was also made live in san francisco) There is also a Diggereedoo in the backround (the australian instrument) and it really completes the package.

In a word - amazing, but like the psilocybin and dmt expereinces discussed, words cannot describe it. McKenna was an amazing man and will be sincerely missed. Alien Dreamtime is an adventure all its own - not only do we have one of Terence McKenna's vivid and insightful speaches, it is accompanied by the perfect didj music of Space Time Continuum and crazy trippy visuals - not the synthetic ... kind that look acid inspired, beautiful shroom inspired sights made me wonder whether or not they were in my head!

Great graphics, interesting music, brilliant narration. This is a live show. It might be too trippy for some. But I thought it was great.

For anyone interested in human consiousness, psychology, botany (study of plants), and for anyone who likes psychoactive plats. Awesome speaker I have watched this 5 times! I showed all my friends, this is like no other movie out there, cannot explain you must watch it, and pay attention to what he says. This is my new favorite movie!

This tape is not for everyone.
It is for people who have ventured into psychedelic spaces. The visuals are extraordinary, the music hypnotic. McKenna preaches some good sense and some of his wacky ideas (my opinion, of course; others might find his speculations convincing and I respect that even though I use a pejorative term)of time speeding up, etc.

But overall, it's quite an eye and ear feast for people who are... well, like me.

Viva la Psychedelia!

Cast:
Terence McKenna

Swinging London: The Accidental Genius of Saga Records 1968-1970

Here's a review of the Saga Accidental Genius Compilation featuring a few of my Saga records heros !
I will do a rip of the CD in a few days so pop back.

Review by Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

In the late 1960s and early '70s, the British budget label Saga recorded numerous albums designed to cash in on U.K. pop/rock-psychedelic trends. The LPs were quickie exploitation jobs, but as is often the case with such productions, some reasonably genuine stuff couldn't help sneaking through and finding status among serious '60s collectors decades later. This quite unusual compilation gathers 25 tracks that were scattered across numerous Saga releases, the common denominator being that all of them were plugged into British mod rock and psychedelia to some degree. It almost goes without saying that none of these songs were hits, and that very few of them are known even to veteran British '60s collectors, though some might be familiar with the Five Day Week Straw People, the Magic Mixture, and the Blackbirds (the last actually a German group whose material Saga managed to issue for the U.K. market). A few recognizable musicians do pop up here and there, even if the culprits most likely wouldn't mind having these relics buried deep within their résumés, including Mungo Jerry's Ray Dorset (here part of Good Earth), future Fairport Convention bassist Dave Pegg (as part of the Dave Peace Quartet), and original Fleetwood Mac bassist Bob Brunning (as part of Five's Company). As you also might expect, the actual music's not nearly as interesting as it is rare, since much of it's either heavily derivative and/or obviously trying to latch on to fashionable Swinging London-type grooves and the lighter side of psychedelia. Approached with the right level of expectations, however, that doesn't mean there aren't some fun or at least amusing moments along the way, if you're a fan of those genres and have at least a little irreverent humor about the styles' excesses and naïveté. With one exception, you wouldn't say that anything here is a lost gem, but a good number of the tracks are fairly groovy in different and sometimes off-the-wall ways. Those cuts would include the Blackbirds' downright creepy "She," with its horror movie organ and Dracula-like vocals; the Dave Moses Group's cool, Latin-tinged, organ-based go-go lounge instrumental, "Quite Fast"; Linda & Noel's quite accomplished slice of toy town psych pop, "Mr. Bantam's Fair"; New World's strange heavy psych adaptation of "Scheherezade"; Shake 26's hard-charging instrumental "Underground Set," which bisects mod rock and heavy psychedelia; Five Day Week Straw People's ridiculously echo-smothered "Sunday Morning" (not the Velvet Underground song!); and Magical Mixture's dreamy "Moon Beams," perhaps the one cut on the CD that can hold its own as a legitimate first-rate piece of U.K. psychedelic buried treasure. Others are just OK, or generic or even subpar, though sometimes in a manner that lovers of kitsch might appreciate. Stefan Granados' lengthy liner notes dig up more information about these obscure budget releases than anyone would have thought possible.

I got this CD yesterday and there is so many tracks I would have picked that don't get a mention on here...good to have Saga stuff on a CD though and it has quite a few tracks that I don't have on record yet.

Just fished out the Katch 22 lp and found a swinging london postcard inside which I had forgotten about here is a few cool saga records together.

My Love affair with Saga Records

My love affair with the saga records sixties sound happened over 20 years ago a when a friend of a friend had done a mix tape featuring some of the saga groups off Swinging London as well as pop sike gems like Happy Castle by Crochet Donut Ring and KidRock's Ice Cream Man from the Bam Caruso Rubble Series and that I suppose changed my outlook on music and opened up a whole new world of sounds,it was like nothing I had heard of before and I was hooked.

As far as I know the label originally released brass,bossa nova cover versions and that sorta thing and the records where not usually on sale in record stores...instead they had them on rails in chemists and newsagents...not sure why but thats what I read somwhere.

The music although slightly amateur just has a really quirky appeal that I can't explain.

First off I came across the swinging london compilations (I love the Artwork) these are a must have and came out around 1972 ish (When Swinging London was no more) both of these are just so cool and feature the likes off Russ Sainty,The Good Earth and The First Impression there is a slight variation in tracklistings this was down to Mungo Jerrys contractual obligations so he was replaced by Russ Sainty.

Next up I found the Katch 22 album Pop Rock and Allsorts which has a cool prototype Stone Roses style sleeve and later found Russ Sainty's Beatle covers LP and to top it of got The Beat Club by The First Impression...I am unsure why my fascination with SAGA records is still so strong but it just is, thanks SAGA Records.

I will do a pic of them all together one of the days I pasted these off the net : )

Here's my prized email from Russ Sainty
Hi Jason,
Thank you so much for your contact and kind words.
Yes its quite ironic really, since the origional recording session i did when doing those Beatles numbers has been used in so many different ways, and on different Albums, and in all have sold millions of copies all over the world, however, i was not able to get a hit with the many singles i did through the sixties. The sad thing for me is, that i only took a small fee for doing the six hour recording session, rather than a royalty ???? Oh dear, " yes i have regreted that, as you can imagin.
Did you know i have recently had my life story published ?
Its called " KING OF THE CALI " "A Lifetime In Rock n Roll", by Russ Sainty. Its published by www.book-castle.co.uk or can be ordered from any book shop, or via the net on Amazon Books. Its a quality book with around 250 photo etc. etc. its nostalgic and im told by feed back , a very interesting read !!
Thanks again Jason for your contact,
my very best wishes
Still Rockin !!! Russ Sainty

Giorgio Moroder-From Here to Eternity

This is a cool album of 70's Disco Madness,the Title track was stolen by Sonic Boom as a template for his Classic "How You Satisfy Me" and I think Sonic used to wear a Moroder badge If I remember rightly on the cover of his 1st album.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ncxqnwdddnl

From Here to Eternity is Moroder's quasi-instrumental masterpiece, a continuous mix of banging Eurodisco complete with vocoder effects and this statement on the back cover: "Only electronic keyboards were used on this recording." The metallic beats, high-energy impact, and futuristic effects prove that Moroder was ahead of his time like few artists of the 1970s (Kraftwerk included), and the free-form songwriting on tracks like "Lost Angeles," "First Hand Experience in Second Hand Love," and the title track are priceless.

Deep Throat Soundtrack-Anthology 1 & 2

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Pure Phase - Spiritualized

Been a fan of Spiritualized from day one and this has been on my mp3 constantly all week it is just an amazing album and worth tracking down if you didn't hear it first time round.

For me it's got the right mix of laid back songs as well as uptempo ones with a few drones stuck in between for good measure...stand out track for me is the slide song...the lyrics are class and the song has a simple melody to die for.

http://rapidshare.com/files/118906273/Spiritualized-Spiritualized_Electric_Mainline.rar.html

Toffee Sunday Smash 60's Psch Pop Radio

Check this guy out Andy Morten and his Toffee Sunday Smash podcasts...this man certainly knows his music and there's a whole library of previous podcasts that you can wade through Enjoy ! web.mac.com/andymorten/iWeb/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html

I ♡ DENIM

I was never a massive fan of Felt in the 80's but love the stuff that Lawrence has released as Denim.
Still missing Denim on Ice Album but love the Debut CD "Back in Denim" and "Novelty Rock" both are cool and so is his Go Kart Mozart stuff.
What I like about Denim is it is all so carefree,fun and doesn't take itself too seriously which to me is refreshing as most modern plop has non of the qualities I have mentioned. Novelty Rock has some real gems on there and has been on the gramaphone alot at sweetbeats manor,perfect summer fun.


http://sharebee.com/ceef81d7
Novelty Rock link

Nancy Sinatra

Been a big fancy of Nancy since I heard Sugar Town as a kid and that track takes me back to summers past.

Got quite a few original Albums of hers from the 60's mainly picked up at junk stores in the 80's my favourite is probably the "Movin' with Nancy"Lp which cost around 20p at the time,the sleeve weighs a ton and feels like a real record : )

Check her website out there's some cool pics of her from Back In the Day.

www.nancysinatra.com she does a fans chat online on a friday...hmmm not my bag but if it's yours say hello from me. I also have the Lee Hazelood Love and Other Crimes which is worth a listen.

Todays Listening

Pebbles 2...my fave in the Pebbles series loved this for many years and never get bored of it...there's a few of the pebbles comps that are average and run of the mill(not many)..this isn't one of them : )

I love every track on here and the classic "Vox Wah Wah Pedal" advert appears on this Lp courtesy of The Electric Prunes and also features some classic stompers from The Moving Sidewalks and The Road.

Every pebbles album can be found at http://faintlyblowing.blogspot.com/ as well as a host of other vintage psych delights while your there get the brit psych trips volumes 1-4.

He's back..He's Back in DENIM !!

Back after 3 years just need to figure how to share my tunage and we will roll together and have some fun along the way.

Charlatans Birmingham Academy Nov 2006

What can I say last night I was blown away by the sheer power of the Charlatans they rock !!
Been a big fan of these boys since back in the day and they are undoubtably the most underated band ever ever ever but hey who cares.
Kicking of the singles tour with the outstanding Forever,they bashed out the back catalogue with ferocity and assurance and almost a sense of pride..older tracks like indian rope,sproston green and wierdo seemed to shine as the boys kept stepping it up a gear.
If you haven't seen Tim and Co live its a must see..hand on heart they are one of the best live acts on planet earth and they just get better and better The Charlatans I salute You !!

Psychedelic Radio from Swinging London

Beamed direct from Swinging London Town this is the net radio station that Russ Sainty and the saga records crew like to bust some moves to !
Playing a host of beat favourites from The Stones right through a psych spectrum of obscure 60's unknows that will keep those hips shaking and toes tapping for hours.

You can find the site at http://www.techwebsound.com

As well as the radio it will also turn your head to an enviable list of featured artists and info...see you there.."at the love in" !!

Coney Island Cyclone.....Ride Ride Ride !!!

Ever ridden the world famous Cyclone at astroland...?
When next in NYC take an MTA train to Coney Island..the place itself is pretty run down which is a bit sad really but don't let that put you off..after the ride cross over the road to Nathans home of the world hot dog munching championship for a hot dog and a cool beer links below..with a Cyclone blog.

www.astroland.com
www.nathansfamous.com


Cyclone Facts and figure

In the period since it first opened on June 26, 1927, the Cyclone has emerged as the outdoor amusement industry's most famous, most influential, and most copied individual ride.
Brothers Jack and Irving Rosenthal commissioned Vernan Keenan to design, and Harry C. Baker to construct, a monumental wooden-tracked twister, which was forced to be exceptionally tight and steep because of the small ground space that was available to them. Construction then began on a site historically significant in the world of roller coasters -- the Cyclone occupies the space, which contained the world's very first roller coaster, LaMarcus A. Thompson's Switchback Railway, as well as the world's first successful looping roller coaster, Loop The Loop. With power supplied by the Eisenberg Brothers of Brooklyn, signs from Menheimer and Weiss of New York City, steel from the National Bridge Company, also of New York City, and lumber from Cross, Austin & Ireland, located in Long Island City, the Cyclone quickly became Coney Island's number one attraction, a status it maintains to this day.

When the Rosenthal Brothers left Coney Island to operate their newest property, Palisade Amusement Park, they turned over the operation of the Cyclone to Chris Feuchts, who lovingly maintained and ran the ride for decades. Eventually, ownership of Cyclone was acquired by the City of New York, and it was operated by the City's Parks Department.

On June 18, 1975, Dewey and Jerome Albert, owners of Astroland Park, received authorization to operate the Cyclone under a leasing agreement with New York City. The Alberts had teams of carpenters and iron workers completely rehabilitate the ride, which reopened to great fanfare on July 1st of that year. Since that time, Astroland Park has invested millions of dollars in the upkeep of the Cyclone -- today, it probably runs better than it did on the day it opened, and has the highest safety standards in the outdoor amusement industry.

The Cyclone has consistently ranked at or near the top of every roller coaster top ten list published. It has been proclaimed the world's greatest by a broad spectrum of media institutions and roller coaster aficionados. Time Magazine quoted Charles Lindbergh as saying that a ride on the Cyclone was more thrilling than his historic first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Emilio Franco, a mute since birth, regained his voice on the Cyclone, uttering his first words ever -- "I feel sick"! In April 2001, singer Nikki Lauren became the first person ever to present a live musical performance in the Cyclone's historic loading station.

An official New York City Landmark since July 12, 1988, Cyclone was listed in the New York State Register of Historic Places on June 31, 1991. National Historic Landmark status followed, on June 26, 1991. On April 14, 1992, Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden issued a citation to Jerome Albert and the late Dewey Albert for their operation of both Astroland and the Cyclone, saluting them for being the primary energizing force in the regeneration of the Coney Island Amusement District.

The Cyclone, now faster than ever, is the heart and soul of Coney Island, birthplace of the American amusement industry, and going strong for over 150 years!

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Black Belt Jones HHHHHAAA YAA !!

Just been watching black belt jones tonight.. I hadn't seen it for ages and it is a super funny blaxploitation film..loads of stupid one liners,cheesy kung fu moves and a funky soundtrack..what more do you need..Jim Kelly he is the Man !!

The Mafia learns that a new civic center will be built, and they buy all of the land for the site of the building—all except for one place: a karate school owned by Pop Byrd (Scatman Crothers). They arrange to have Pinky (Malik Carter) come by to force Pop to sell his land, but he is killed by them. It's up to the karate school's students to get the hero, Black Belt Jones (Jim Kelly), for help. Sydney (Gloria Hendry), the daughter of the late Pop Byrd, won't sell the building. Because both of them are martial arts experts, they join forces to "clobber the mob".

Guggenheim NYC

www.guggenheim.org

Super artists including jackson pollock an up and coming new painter p.picasso and the amazing english based architect Zaha Hadid showcasing her works to date..really space age designs, the building alone is a must see and it can be found across central park opposite national history museum...enjoy.

Times Square USA and The Naked Cowgirl too.

Times Square USA, busy,bright and worth a visit makes Piccadilly London look like Rotherham.
Check out the Ha! comedy club..girls go free, fellas $5's a ticket (bargain)and are on sale right next to TGI fridays Times Square.

http://www.hanyc.com/

Hulbert Waldrup USA TopMan !!

Check out this artists website www.waldroupart.com,met him in soho nyc and his paintings are fantastic..your apartment needs one of these masterpieces from the "Artist with Attitude", Top Man!

Bangkok Let It Rock-Bed Supper Club

www.bedsupperclub.com possibly the best house music club on planet earth..amazing sound system..check out thursday night "i love rehab",this is where I first heard princess superstars pop your pussy remix by dj's are not rockstars dropped by the futon dj's..incredible builder,techy squealchy,electo popper..worth tracking down...go there and love rehab !!

NYC DONT STOP !!

New York city 7 o'clock
Giving it up for the vintage look
Listening to the radio asking
What's the deal boys
We're into the wild unknown
A freakshow
A place we call home

We don't need to educate
We only want to stay up late
Looking for these broken joints
Take in a peepshow?
We need to be told the reason
We're all being sold

New York... say what!
I love you, I tell you,
There's no need to stop!
There's no need to stop!

Underground counter culture
Eat you up like a hungry vulture
Look at you half alive
Like Dr Jeckal and Mr Hyde
You'll never see what I seen
You do last night

New York... say what!
I love you, I tell you,
There's no need to stop!
There's no need to stop!
There's no need to..

New York City 7 o'clock
Giving it up for the vintage look underground
I love this raps
It's now or never
A reason to live
A reason to die

New York... say what!
I love you, I tell you,
There's no need to stop
There's no need to stop
There's no need to..

We all need to be told
We all need to be told (why)
We all need to be told

James Brown-git down !!

Meet the coolest Pooch !!

This is Antione the baby Lhasa Apso,making his first appearance on the world wide web..lets make him a star !!

Maybe a ltd run of antoine t-shirts if theres enough interest and maybe a cd of Scott Walker cover versions.

The Hong Kong Phooey Street Band.....

Currently the finest unsigned girl band in Hong Kong..the sound is a mixture of shonen knife meets pizzacto five somebody please sign this duo up Now !!

funkylondon.londonpodcast

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Check out these cool downloadable mixes from funkylondon they are top drawer,just click play,turn up that volume, all 5 mixes are very good indeed and can be saved to your mp3 without a problem and the sound quality is crispy.
Track of the day being played here(on continuous loop)is the plump dj's - electric disco remixed by d.ramirez..electrotech squelchness.. heard it droped in an amazing set by DJ Jon Slater this man is rockin' and shockin'!!
I will be putting some links so you can listen to his PODCAST's very soon.
Know of any good links PODCASTS etc pass them on by submitting them here.

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Hello everyone around the globe welcome to my Blog..whats it all about I hear you ask..?

The idea is simple really to share music,ideas,travel,art,links to cool sites anything that me or anyone else might find useful.

My interests include all of the above and if you would like to contribute your ideas,opinions and make this thing grow then feel free to have your say.