The Devil's Discotheque

2011-02-13T20:33:00.001Z

A night of Rock 'n' Roll and Burlesque in this very Newport, featuring Pussycat And THe Dirty Johnsons, who have just released their debut album "Exercise Your Demons", God Save The KInd, Martinez The Pig, and special performances from Belladonna Bliss!

All this for a fiver! You'd be mad to miss it!!!

Even More Sounds of The Testament!

2009-11-12T16:45:00.004Z

As a welcome back to myself I have decided to post the long awaited and third in the series of Testament compilations. So once again, another funky soulfest that's just waiting for your ears to love it!!

Tracks:

African Twist, Pt. 1 - Lonnie Youngblood
Everthing I do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On) - Lee Dosey
The Book - Eldridge Holmes
African Velvet - Black Velvet
Get Your Lie Straight - Bill Coday
I Think I'm Gonna Write A Song - Darrow Fletcher
Bring It On Up - Loleatta Holloway
Something's Wrong - Chris Clark
The Boo Boo Song Pt. 1 - King Coleman
Soul Dance No. 3 - Carl Holmes & The Commanders
Pop, Popcorn Children - Eldridge Holmes
Baby Please - Frankie Seay
So Far Away - Root & Jenny Jackson
Love You Save (May Be Your Own) - Joe Tex
Pin The Tail On The Donkey - The Soul Set
Boogaloo #3 - Roy Lee Johnson
Uhh Parts 1 & 2 - Dyke & The Blazers

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/306039297/Sounds_Of_The_Testament_Vol_3.zip.html

Not quite rockin', but always rolling!

2009-10-24T09:58:00.002+01:00

Sorry for the absence everyone. Been a hectic few months and only just starting go get life back in some sort of order!

Anyways, I'll be putting some new things up very shortly and also checking over the old links that don't work anymore!

So thanks for your patience and looking in!

sttomas

Love Music Hate Racism Newport Show

2009-04-28T18:52:00.002+01:00

Hey everyone, I'm pleased to announce that this years LMHR Newport gig will be on Saturday 16th May at

TJs
14-18 Clarence Place,
Newport,
Gwent,
NP19 0AE

I hope as many of you can make it!!

Cheers

Sttomas

Electric Frankenstein - The Time Is Now

2009-02-19T15:25:00.023Z

First, and highly infectious, album from New Jersey Rockers Electric Frankenstein. Their sound combines the raw and highly energetic sounds of Punk Rock and Garage Punk with elements of Hard Rock of bands such as The Wildhearts, MC5 and The Stooges. All I can say about this album is I wish I'd written it, I've been playing it all week!!

Tracks:

1. Teenage Shutdown
2. The Time Is Now
3. Superstar
4. Right On Target
5. I Want More
6. Demolition Joyride
7. E.F. Theme
8. Fast & Furious
9. Rise And Crash
10. We Are The Dangerous
11. Too Much For You
12. A Sweet Sickness

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/200013296/The_Time_Is_Now_.zip

Gary Numan - Telekon

2009-01-25T20:42:00.007Z

Gary Numan's fourth album and the last of his "machine" albums. Released in 1980 the album only gave one single, "This Wreckage", which reached number 20 in the singles chart, whilst the non-album releases, "We Are Glass" and "I Die: You Die" were more popular. The album, although still portraying Numan's view of a dystpoian future has a broad musical sound in contrast to the starkness of "The Pleasure Principle", with the return of guitars and strings to accompany the developing use of synthesizers.

During this time Numan toured extensively around the globe, culminating in sell out 3 night shows at Wembley Arena, with support from canadian violinist Nash The Slash and Tik And Tok, the shows were filmed and released on video as Micromusic. These shows marked the end of this phase in Numans career who would retire from touring until 1983.

Tracks:

1. This Wreckage
2. The Aircrash Bureau
3. Telekon
4. Remind Me To Smile
5. Sleep By Windows
6. We Are Glass
7. I'm An Agent
8. I Dream Of Wires
9. Remember I Was Vapour
10. Please Push No More
11. The Joy Circuit
12. I Die: You Die (Alternate Version)
13. Game Called Echo
14. Photograph
15. Down In The Park - (Piano Verison)
16. Trois Gymnopedies (First Movement)

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/189601220/Telekon.zip

Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle

2009-01-25T18:42:00.010Z

When released in 1979 this album was a milestone in rock history. A true electronic album, containing no guitar at all, this album presents Numan's own bleak view of the future and music to match. This album spawned two singles Complex and Cars. Cars has been remixed and re-released on several occasion and has appeared on almost all of Numan's live albums.

The bonus tracks on this release "Random" and "Oceans" are instrumental outtakes originally issued on vinyl with other previously-unreleased tracks in 1985; "Asylum" was the b-side of the "Cars" vinyl single; the live versions of "Me! I Disconnect From You" and "Bombers" made up the B-side of "Complex". "Remember I Was Vapour" and "On Broadway" were originally released as a promotional single shipped with early pressings of Telekon in 1980.

The Pleasure Principle still remains a highly influencial album being sampled by the likes of Basement Jaxx and Armand Van Helden, amongst others.

Tracks:

1. Airlane
2. Metal
3. Complex
4. Films
5. M.E.
6. Tracks
7. Observer
8. Converstaion
9. Cars
10. Engineers
11. Random
12. Oceans
13. Asylum
14. Me! I Disconnect from You (Live)
15. Bombers (Live)
16. Remember I Was Vapour (Live)
17. On Broadway (Live)

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/189323166/The_Pleasure_Principle.zip

Tubeway Army - First Album

2009-01-18T11:31:00.011Z

Tubeway Army consisted of Gary Numan on vocals, guitar, keyboards/synthesizers, Paul Gardiner on bass, occasional backing vocals and Numan's uncle Jess Lidyard on Drums.

Released in 1978, if memory serves originally pressed as 500o copies on blue vinyl with the blue cover (and known as the Blue Album) and re-released in 1979 following the success of it's follow up, Replicas. The songs on this album, as Numan has frequently admitted were punk songs in order to attain a record contract, which he very successfully did with Beggars Banquet, until 1984 when Numan launched Numa Records. The first single released being a cover of Venus In Furs by The , now late, Paul Gardiner who died of a heroin overdose in 1984.

This CD version is the 1998 reissue and contains a live concert from Tubeway Army, which later came to be reissued as Living Ornaments 1978.

Tracks:

1. Listen To The Sirens
2. My Shadow In Vain
3. The Life Machine
4. Friends
5. Something's In The House
6. Everyday I Die
7. Steel And You
8. My Love Is A Liquid
9. Are You Real?
10. The Dream Police
11. Jo The Waiter
12. Zero Bars (Mr. Smith)
13. Positive Thinking (Live)
14. Boys (Live)
15. Blue Eyes (Live)
16. You Don't Know Me (Live)
17. My Shadow In Vain (Live)
18. Me My Head (Live)
19. That's Too Bad (Live)
20. Basic J (Live)
21. Do Your Best (Live)
22. Oh! Didn't I Say (Live)
23. I'm A Poseur (Live)
24. White Light-White Heat (Live)
25. Kill St. Joy (Live)

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/185377026/Tubeway_Army.zip

Tubeway Army - Replicas

2009-01-18T11:06:00.008Z

What can I say about this album that hasn't already been said? Basically this has always been in my top 10 personal favourite albums of all time! Yes, I know there are more "classic" albums out there that I should be appreciating more, but this album, not only being a milestone in musical history, but in my own personal musical development. Back in 1979 after the punk explosion had fizzled away it was refreshing to watch totp with a track that Pan's People couldn't dance to for once (don't get me wrong I loved watching Pan's People!!).

Anyway, the second and final album from Tubeway Army, before Gary Numan pursued a successful solo career, spawning 2 singles "Down In The Park" and Are 'Friends' Electric? which reached number 1 in 1979 for 4 weeks, despite meagre airplay due to the track being over 5 minutes long. This is the 1998 re-release with extra tracks including "Do You Need The Service" which was the b-side from "Down In The Park", a number of demo tracks that were released in the mid 1980's and a vocal version of "I Nearly Married A Human"

Tracks:

1. Me! I Disconnect From You
2. Are 'friends' Electric?
3. The Machman
4. Praying To The Aliens
5. Down In The Park
6. You Are In My Vision
7. Replicas
8. It Must Have Been Years
9. When The Machines Rock
10. I Nearly Married A Human
11. Do You Need The Service?
12. The Crazies
13. Only A Downstat
14. We Have A Technical
15. We Are So Fragile
16. I Nearly Married A Human 2

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/185363827/Replicas.zip

The Catheters - Static Delusions And Stone Still Days

2009-01-15T12:24:00.008Z

Second album from Seattle's The Catheters. Great Garage-Punk which combines the raw power of The Stooges and the sludginess of Black Sabbath.

Tracks:

1. Been There Before
2. I Fall Easy
3. 3000 Ways
4. Nothing
5. The Door Shuts Quickly
6. Bleary Haze
7. Build A Home
8. Endless Avenues
9. Disguise Myself
10. Clock on the Wall
11. What Have They Done to You?

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/183622860/Static_Delusions_And_Stone-Still_Days.zip

The Pattern - Real Feelness

2009-01-15T12:21:00.007Z

Released in 2002, The Pattern's first full-length album Real Feelness is a blinder! Released during the New Rock Revolution of the early part of the naughties it had a lot to contend with up against the likes of The Datsuns, D4 and The Hives, however, Real Feelness has a different vibe completely, instead of copying the sounds of Led Zeppelin or AC/DC Real Feelness has the raw edge of some of the great Garage albums of the late 60's.

Tracks:

1. Fragile Awareness
2. You Or You
3. Nothing Of Value
4. Thunder Us
5. Mary’s Sister Margaret Jones
6. Selling Submarines
7. She’s A Libra
8. Last Night Called
9. Let’s Get Important
10. The Best Hate The Rest
11. Happy Sarong
12. Rangefinder

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/183618315/Real_Feelness.zip

Zakary Thaks - Face To Face

2008-12-18T17:04:00.002Z

One of the best Garage bands of the 1960's. Originating in Corpus Christi, Texas, their first single "Bad Girl", released in 1966, was a popular hit, which eventually led to them giving support to The Yardbirds. Their second single "Face To Face" was less successful, but the band continued to tour, supporting the likes of Jefferson Airplane and 13th Floor Elevators. Later recordings show the band taking on a more pop sounds and the band eventually split in the early 1970's.

Tracks:

1. Mirror Of Yesterday
2. Please
3. Face To Face
4. Bad Girl
5. I Need You
6. Won't Come Back
7. Weekdays Blues
8. Can't You Hear Your Daddy's Footsteps
9. Green Crystal Ties
10. My Door
11. Outprint
12. Everybody Wants To Be Somebody
13. Footsteps Jam
14. The Mirrors Reflection

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/174598696/Face_To_Face.zip

Big Audio Dynamite - No.10 Upping St

2008-11-09T21:53:00.005Z

This is a great album, sometimes overlooked by fans of Joe Strummer (Co-Producer and Co-composer on many of the tracks on this album) and Mick Jones in favour of Clash reissues and their progressive careers.

Tracks:

1. C'mon Every Beatbox
2. Beyond the Pale
3. Limbo the Law
4. Sambadrome
5. V. Thirteen
6. Ticket
7. Hollywood Boulevard
8. Dial A Hitman
9. Sightsee M.C.!
10. Ice Cool Killer
11. The Big V
12. Badrock City

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/162247712/No10UppingSt.zip

Cool comp to listen to with the lights low!!

2008-11-06T22:08:00.004Z

Tracks:

1. The Nervous Beat - Creed Taylor
2. Funky Blues - Charlie Parker
3. Real Gone - Sam "The Man" Taylor
4. St. Louis Blues - Slim Gaillard
5. Harlem Nocturne - Sam "The Man" Taylor
6. Sam's Blues - Sam "The Man" Taylor
7. Blue Prelude - Candido Camero
8. Honey Rock - Barney Kessel
9. St. James Infirmary - Creed Taylor
10. Slow Walk - Sil Austin
11. Purple Wail - Red Prysock
12. You Did It, You Did It - Roland Kirk
13. Toots Shor's Blues - Elmer Bernstein
14. The Stripper - David Rose

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/161322189/Tease__The_Beat_of_Burlesque.zip

More Mayhem...

2008-11-06T13:53:00.004Z

Even more of what you're begging for!!!

Tracks:

1. Sparkles - Hipsville 29 B.C.
2. Burning Bush - Evil Eye
3. Trespassers - Living Memories
4. Purple Underground - Count Back
5. Rain - E.S.P.
6. Fanatics - I Can't Believe
7. Humane Society - Knock Knock
8. Rainy Daze - I Can Only Give You Everything
9. Unrelated Segments - Where You Gonna Go?
10. Golliwogs - Brown Eyed Girl
11. The Clue - Bad Times
12. Bedlam Four - Hydrogen Atom
13. Moonrakers - Baby Please Don't Go
14. Ugly Ducklings - She Ain't No Use to Me
15. Showstoppers - If You Won't Go
16. Deepest Blue - Little Thing
17. Fountain of Youth - Witness People
18. Unknowns - Voodoo
19. Larry Knight and the Upsetters - Everything's Gone Wrong
20. The Spectrum - Confetti
21. Sentrificial Fours - You Put Me Through Changes
22. Swingin' Apollos - Slow Down
23. Oxfords - Don't Be a Dropout
24. Trippers - Takin' Care of Business
25. The Endd - Come On Into My World
26. Backdoor Men - Evil
27. Changing Tymes - Only Girl I Love
28. The Wanted - Sad Situation
29. The Tribe - Fickle Little Girl
30. Excells - Mary Jane

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/161200910/Mayhem___Psychosis_Vol.2.zip

Mayhem & Psychosis - Vol. 1

2008-11-06T10:47:00.005Z

Mayhem & Psychosis, just what you need in a Rock 'n' Roll Compilation!

Tracks:

1. Jelly Bean Bandits - Generation
2. Holocaust - Savage Attraction
3. Galaxies IV - Don't Lose Your Mind
4. Magic Mushrooms - I'm Gone
5. Monacles - The Spider and the Fly
6. Magic Plants - I'm a Nothing
7. Hysterics - Everything There
8. Bruthers - Bad Way to Go
9. Liverpool Set - 17 Years to the End
10. Leather Boy - I'm a Leather Boy
11. Front Line - Got Love
12. All Night Workers - Why Don't You Smile?
13. Cavemen - "It's Trash" (2:06)
14. Beatin' Path - Original Nothing People
15. Dirty Wurds - Why
16. Blue Things - Orange Rooftop of Your Mind
17. Chob - We're Pretty Quick
18. The Id - Boil the Kettle, Mother
19. Chocolate Moose - The Chocolate Moose Theme
20. Little Boy Blues - Great Train Robbery
21. Bare Facts - Bad Part of Town
22. Spades - You're Gonna Miss Me
23. Ravin' Blue - Love
24. Ruins - The End
25. Nobody's Children - Colors and Shapes
26. Third Stone - True Justice
27. Changing Tymes - Go Your Way
28. Barons - Now You're Mine
29. Young Men - Go!
30. Riders of the Mark - Electronic Insides of Doctor Krieg

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/161173711/Mayhem___Psychosis_Vol.zip

The united Stated of America

2008-10-22T14:13:00.009+01:00

Fueled by avant-garde twentieth Century minimalism sonic the United States Of America found a way to permeate their own particular style of electronic music into Rock 'n' Roll on their self-titled 1968 debut. This trip-out of an album has recently been reissued with the participation of the bandand contains 10 bonus cuts, new liner notes and a newly mastered sound from the original analog source tapes.

Tracks:

1. American Metaphysical Circus
2. Hard Coming Love
3. Cloud Song
4. Garden Of Earthly Delights
5. I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife For You Sugar
6. Where Is Yesterday
7. Coming Down
8. Love Song For The Dead Che
9. Stranded In Time
10. American Way Of Love Medley: Metaphor For An Older Man Part I/California Good-Time Music Part II

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/156460634/The_United_States_Of_America.zip.html

High Rise - Live

2008-09-04T18:00:00.010+01:00

If you like ear piercing/mind blowing guitar solos then this is for you!!

A legendary recording indeed!! It has been said that this live album rates with the like of Grateful Dead's Live Dead except that High Rise build are a hell of a lot louder!! The album kicks off with Sadame and well, let's just say, the guitar solos makes Jimmy Page sound like a tired old has-been. Ikon has the psychotic pace of some of MC5's best mayhems, amid huge and ferocious guitar distortions. Mira is an 8-minute showcase of Munehiro Narita's thunder and lighning guitar style over demonic drumming, utterly brilliant!!

We get a bit of a breather with the second half of the album. Outside Gentiles, an extended blues-rock song of the Cream/Hendrix tradition, doubled with the Creamish Door, whose blues groove can be easily recognised with the grandeur of Jack Bruce's whilst the guitar wails and screams in the best tradition of Clapton, when he was good!! We finish with a supercharged version of Mainliner, which leads into the great Rock 'n' Roll riff of Pop Sicle. PLAY LOUD PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!

Tracks:

1. Sadame
2. Ikon
3. Mira
4. Outside Gentiles
5. Door
6. Mainliner
7. Pop Sicle

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/142783466/Live.zip.html

Second in the Funk/Soul Testament series

2008-09-03T11:37:00.011+01:00

There was only going to be 2 to this series, but since the first one was so popular and I'm getting very lazy with having to try and think up new titles I thought I'd stick with this one for a while longer. Hope everyone enjoys this one!

Tracks:

1. Jerking The Dog - The Foundations

2. Broadway Freeze - Harvey Scales & The 7 Sounds

3. She's Looking Good - Rodger Collins

4. Let Me Be (A Stepping Soul) - Charles Spurling

5. Swamp Walk - Dyke And The Blazers

6. Whoop It On Me - Good Time Charlie

7. Bending Soul - The Soul Benders

8. Natural Song - King Herbert

9. I Got To have You - Little Ann

10. Hurtin' Inside - Barbara & Brenda

11. The Frog - Sir Guy

12. Whip It On Me - Sonny Raye

13. Soul Party, Pt 1 - Billy Clark & The Maskmen

14. Do What You Wanna Do - Frank Howard And The Continentals

15. Peter Rabbit - The Presidents

16. Sister Sue - The Soul Men

17. Take care Of Your Own Business - Dave Hamilton

18. Get Down With It - Bobby Marchan

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/142281463/Sounds_Of_The_Testament_Vol_2.zip.html

The Devils Discotheque

2008-08-31T22:32:00.002+01:00

Will return very shortly. I've had a few issues with my previous internet provider and the telecom company decided they were going to cut my phone line for some reason too. Not exactly been the greatest couple of weeks! Anyway, all going well, I should be back up and running by around the 3rd September.

See you soon!

2005 Debut from Demon's Claws

2008-07-22T15:55:00.006+01:00

First album by Montreal's demon's Claws. This really has a "homemade" sound to it and I think that really adds to the feeling of this album. To be honest I think anything different on this album would be an absolute ruination of it. I love this, check them out. They Rock!!

Tracks:

1. Blood On My Fangs
2. Feet In The Dark
3. For A Buck Or Two
4. Lost In The Desert
5. Laid Back
6. Demon's Claw
7. The Other Way
8. Who Needs A Girl
9. Hypnotize
10. Little Things
11. When You Walk Down My Street
12. Blood From The Beating

Get it here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/131625794/Demon_s_Claws.zip.html

MAD3 -Black Leather Blitz

2008-07-19T14:58:00.009+01:00

I came acroos MAD3 some time last year. If I remember they played Newport around springtime 2007. I never got the chance to see them, as I was doing something else somewhere else. Anyway, someone mentioned these and told me to give them a listen. Glad I did, these are great!! The music it's self, especially on this album is diverse to say the least, ranging from pop to full blown guitar mayhem. Give it a listen!!

Tracks:

1. Black Leather Blitz
2. Nosferatu
3. In The Shadow
4. She’s A Rebel
5. Ramones
6. Never Fall In Love Again
7. Tight Suit
8. Time For Revolution
9. Keep On Rockin’
10.London Dungeon

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/130874502/Black_Leather_Blitz.zip.html

Some of the finest garage you'll come across!

2008-07-05T10:01:00.008+01:00

The band formed in 1965 and went on to release several records before finally disbanding in 1971. They were among the first Canadian bands to achieve a moderate level of success in their musical genre, and they helped pave the way for early punk bands. Their influence is still being heard today, with the likes of Beck sampling some of their riffs.

The band's first big break came after winning a Battle Of The Bands contest. the prize was studio time that was used to record their first single, 1-2-5, and Eight O'Clock In The Morning as the B-Side. Early pressings of this record had the band name misprinted as "The Hunted". The single, however, achieved substantial local success, and moderate international attention which lead to the release of several more singles, as well as an album over the next two years, which served to increase their popularity.

By the time the band broke up in 1971, they had a fan club with thousands of members, and they had to cancel a year's worth of advance concert bookings.

Tracks:

1. 1-2-5
2. Shake
3. Horror Show
4. Untie Me
5. I Can Only Give You Everything
6. Eight O'Clock This Morning
7. 1-2-5 [Original Version]
8. Out of Time
9. Searching for My Baby
10. Message to Pretty
11. Twist
12. Montreal Blues
13. Porquoi (Talk, Talk)
14. Vapeur Mauve (Purple Haze)
15. Come on Home
16. I'm a Man
17. Run Down Every Street
18. Land of Make Believe
19. Act of Leisure
20. No More Lovin'
21. Mona
22. I'm Just Gonna Blow My Little Mind to Bits

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/127261784/The_Haunted.zip.html

Monks - Black Monk Time

2008-06-20T20:47:00.017+01:00

Sunlight grids quiver in the system. Read on! It's monk time - it's hop time. Don't read this. We said: don't read this. Let sapphires glide into the grooves. What is beat? What is beat today? And what is over-beat? And who the hell is going to melt the hot and cold world of tomorrow?

Listen, as Roger beats, Gary plucks, Dave pummels. And Eddie dreams hell's bass part. And Larry fingers the keys of the day after tomorrow. The monks believe in nothing. The monks believe that everything is possible. The monks give everything. Words are the outline of lies. Why do the monks produce their own words - for days on end, as the moon shines - until one word leads to another. Don't listen. Count from nine until blast off, then swim into the city's primeval forest. Black discs mirror colorful, shimmering illusions. This black circle, however, quivers within the system of our dear world - goodness gracious - the experiment, after all, is only beginning. Truth is habit-forming. Lying is the art of pleasing the other. The monks for their part, love . . .

Gary Burger plays guitar and was born in Minnesota. Roger Johnston, a Texan, gives his drums the works. Chicago boy: That is Larry Clark - crazy-fingers at the organ, for his father was no gangster, but a priest. And Dave Day has more than one banjo and more than one microphone built into each of his banjos. He claims that he was born in Washington. And Eddie Shaw, who hails from California, uses his bass guitar as he sees fit!

(From original liner notes of BLACK MONK TIME, 1965)

Monks were, five American GI's who, stationed in Germany decided to form a band. Calling themselves Monks, they shaved their heads, donned black robes and pounded out songs like "I Hate You", "Complication" and "Shut Up". Radical stuff for the audiences in the midst of their infatuation with the fab four; as expected, the album "Black Monk Time" got nowhere. This is brilliant, but insane music, as you may have guessed from the sleeve notes above.

Tracks:

1. Monk Time
2. Shut Up
3. Boys Are Boys And Girls Are Choice
4. Higgle-Dy-Piggle-Dy
5. I Hate You
6. Oh, How To Do Now
7. Complication
8. We Do Wie You
9. Drunken Maria
10. Love Came Tumblin' Down
11. Blast Off
12. That's My Girl
13. I Can't Get Over You
14. Cuckoo
15. Love Can Tame The Wild
16. He Went Down To The Sea

Geddit here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/123868750/Black_Monk_Time.zip.html

Pink Floyd, now in glorious MONO!!

2008-06-14T15:12:00.010+01:00

This was the first album released by Pink Floyd, way back in 1967, with original singer/songwriter/guitarist Syd Barrett. This is Barrett at his creative zenith, his guitar style (for those unfamiliar to his works) is superb, being both imaginitive and improvisational. Lyrically, some of his songs have been compared to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, being both full of whimsy and grace, whilst on the other hand he takes you to the darkest regions without making any effort whatsoever.

Tracks:

Astonomy Domine
Lucifer Sam
Matilda Mother
Flaming
Pow R Toc H
Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk
Interstellar Overdrive
The Gnome
Chapter 24
Scarecrow
Bike

Download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/122386839/The_Piper_At_The_Gates_Of_Dawn__Mono_.zip.html

New York Dolls - From Here To Eternity

2008-05-27T20:58:00.015+01:00

The Live Bootleg Box Set from everyone's favourite glam punkers. The recordings are pretty much bootleg quality (but then what did you expect) but make very good listening all the same, and a good insight into one of my favourite bands! Recorded live during 1973 - 1974, apart from the last 3 tracks on CD 3 which are taken from the Johnny Thunders solo tour of Sweden 1984. This show featured Sylvain Sylvain and Jerry Nolan.

Tracks:

Disc 1

1. Trash (Live In Paris, 23rd December 1973)
2. The Milk Man (Live In Paris, 23rd December 1973)
3. Puss 'n' Boots (Live in Paris, 23rd December 1973)
4. Intro/Personality Crisis (Live In Detroit, 31st December 1973)
5. Bad Girl (Live In Detroit, 31st December 1973)
6. Looking For A Kiss (Live In Detroit, 31st December 1973)
7. Who Are The Mystery Girls? (Live In Detroit, 31st December 1973)
8. Stranded In The Jungle (Live In Detroit, 31st December 1973)
9. Human Being (Live In Detroit, 31st December 1973)
10. Pills (Live In Detroit, 31st December 1973)
11. Trash (Live In Detroit, 31st December 1973)
12. The Milk Man (Live In Detroit, 31st December 1973)
13. Puss 'n' Boots (Live in Detroit, 31st December 1973)
14. Babylon (Live In Detroit, 31st December 1973)
15. Lone Star Queen (Live In Detroit, 31st December 1973)
16. Don't Start Me Talking (Live In Detroit, 31st December 1973)
17. Puss 'n' Boots (Live at my Fathers Place, Long Island, 14th April 1974/Wbab Radio Broadcast)
18. Looking For A Kiss (Live At My Fathers Place, Long Island, 14th April 1974/Wbab Radio Broadcast)
19. Trash (Live At My Fathers Place, Long Island, 14th April 1974/Wbab Radio Broadcast)
20. Stranded In The Jungle (Live At My Fathers Place, Long Island, 14th April 1974/Wbab Radio Broadcast)
21. Personality Crisis (Live At My Fathers Place, Long Island, 14th April 1974/Wbab Radio Broadcast)
22. Bad Girl (Live At My Fathers Place, Long Island, 14th April 1974/Wbab Radio Broadcast)
23. Pills (Live At My Fathers Place, Long Island, 14th April 1974/Wbab Radio Broadcast)

Disc 2

1. Hoochie Coochie Man (Live At My Fathers Place, Long Island, 14th April 1974/Wbab Radio Broadcast)
2. It's Too Late (Live At My Fathers Place, Long Island, 14th April 1974/Wbab Radio Broadcast)
3. Chatterbox (Live At My Fathers Place, Long Island, 14th April 1974/Wbab Radio Broadcast)
4. Human Being (Live At My Fathers Place, Long Island, 14th April 1974/Wbab Radio Broadcast)
5. Hoochie Coochie Man (Live In Vancouver 1974)
6. Great Big Kiss (Live In Vancouver 1974)
7. Don't Mess With Cupid (Live In Vancouver 1974)
8. Chatterbox (Live In Vancouver 1974)
9. Babylon Tell Me Your Name (Live In Vancouver 1974)
10. Showdown (Live In Vancouver 1974)
11. Mystery Girls (Live In Vancouver 1974)
12. Jet Boy (Live In Vancouver 1974)
13. Human Being (Live In Vancouver 1974)
14. Intro/Personality Crisis (Live In Dallas, September 1974)
15. Vietnamese Baby (Live In Dallas, September 1974)
16. Bad Girl (Live In Dallas, September 1974)
17. Great Big Kiss (Live In Dallas, September 1974)

Disc 3

1. Pills (Live In Dallas, September 1974)
2. Frankenstein (Live In Dallas, September 1974)
3. Lone Star Queen (Live In Dallas, September 1974)
4. Don't Start Me Talking (Live In Dallas, September 1974)
5. Red Patent Leather (Live In New York, 1973)
6. On Fire (Live In New York, 1973)
7. Something Else (Live In New York, 1973)
8. Daddy Rolling Stone (Live In New York, 1973)
9. Ain't Got No Home (Live In New York, 1973)
10. Girls Girls Girls (Live In New York, 1973)
11. Down, Down Downtown (Live In New York, 1973)
12. Pirate Love (Live In New York, 1973)
13. Pills (Live In New York, 1973)
14. Teenage News (Live In New York, 1973)
15. Personality Crisis/Looking For A Kiss (Live In New York, 1973)
16. Stranded In The Jungle (Live In New York, 1973)

Live In Sweden, 1984 From Johnny Thunders Solo Tour:

17. Personality Crisis
18. Don't Mess With Cupid
19. Great Big Kiss

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Man...Or Astroman? - Intravenus Television Continuum

2008-05-26T17:10:00.008+01:00

Released on the UK label One Louder in 1995 this album shows a lighter side of Man...Or Astro-man? with some tracks being TV themes (with the usual M or A touch) and some old classics where they obviously gained much of their influence. Highly enjoyable stuff. The hight light for me on this album has to be Invasion Of The Dragonmen, always brings to mind a few of their shows with everyone screaming "Draco" and going mad wen the fired this one up!!

Tracks:

1. Immersion Static
2. Put Your Finger In The Socket (Maximum Voltage Version)
3. Nitrous Burn Out 2012
4. Tetsuwan Atomu
5. Max Q (Neilson Rating Video Version)
6. ------------(Reverse Sync Moog Version)
7. Jetson's Theme
8. Invasion Of The Dragonmen (Alternate Universe Mosrite Version)
9. Bionic Futures Listen
10. Tomorrow Plus X (Time Travel Through Sleep Deprivation Mix)
11. Out Of Limits
12. Calling Hong Kong
13. Munster's Theme
14. Principles Unknown
15. Everyone's Favorite Martian
16. Deuces Wild
17. Cool Your Jets

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Man...Or Astro-man? - A Spectrum Of Infinite Scale

2008-05-25T16:36:00.012+01:00

Released in 2000 this was the 10th album and being post Star Crunch Era album offers a very different sounding Man...Or Astro-man? It's much darker and heavier than many of the previous albums.

Tracks:

1. Pathway To The Infinite
2. Song Of The Two-Mile Linear Particle Accelerator Stanford University, Stanford California
3. Preparation Clont
4. Curious Constructs Of Stem-Like Devices Which Now Prepare Themselves To Be Thought Of As Fingers
5. Um Espectro Sem Escala
6. Many Pieces Of Large Fuzzy Mammals Gathered Together At A Rave And Schmoozing With A Brick
7. /=\
8. Very Subtle Elevators
9. Within One Universe There Are Millions
10. Spectrograph Reading Of The Varying Phantom Frequencies Of Chronis, Incurable Tinnitus
11. A Simple Text File
12. Obligatory Part 2 Song In Which There Is No Presently Existing Part 1, Nor The Plans To Make One
13. Multi-Variational Stimuli of Sub-Turgid Foci Covering Cross Evaluative Techniques for Cognitive Analysis of Hypersignificant Graph Peaks Following Those Intersubjective Modules Having Biodegradable Seepage

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Les Razilles Denudes - '77 Live

2008-05-20T21:58:00.007+01:00

This is one of the ultimate Japanese guitar-psychedelic releases featuring long pieces of intense feedback and guitar distortion over simple repetitive rhythms...it's dark and extreme, surrealist and avante-garde.

Tracks:

Disc 1

Enter The Mirror
Yoru Anstsusya No Yoru
Kori No Honou
Kioku Ha Toui

Disc 2

Yoru Yori Fukaku
Yoru No Syuukakusyatati
The Last One

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Man...Or Astroman? - Return To Chaos (EP)

2008-05-18T14:32:00.007+01:00

7" EP released in 1995. The version of Special Agent Conrad Uno is an alternate version to that on Your Weight On The Moon.

Tracks:

1. ............ (Classified)
2. Secret Agent Conrad Uno
3. Point Blank
4. Goldfinger

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Man...Or Astroman? - Made From Technetium

2008-05-17T16:41:00.006+01:00

Released in 1997, this is a new sound for Man or Astro-Man? who had been releasing records since 1993. The four Alabamans--Birdstuff, Star Crunch, Coco, and now Dexter X this is a more grungy sound more like Sonic Youth than The Surfaris, without surrendering their space-age guise one bit with the usual vocal snippets from cheesy science-fiction movies, junior high science-class films, instructional tapes, and other sources from wherever.

Tracks:

1. Message From The CD
2. Lo Batt.
3. Jonathan Winters Frankenstein
4. Don't Think What Jack
5. Junk Satellite
6. 10 Years After World War 4
7. Saucerful Of Secrets
8. Breathing Iron Oxide
9. Muzak For Cybernetics
10. Structo [Mr. Microphone Mixup]
11. Sound Waves Reversing
12. Theoretical Sounds Of Slow Motion
13. Static Cling (Theme From)
14. Evert 1 Pipkin
15. Weightless At Zero Return

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Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond

2008-05-05T18:30:00.012+01:00

Tracks

Disc: 1
1. Making Time - The Creation
2. Father's Name Was Dad - Fire
3. I Can Hear The Grass Grow - The Move
4. My Friend Jack - The Smoke
5. My White Bicycle - Tomorrow
6. I'll Keep Holding On - The Action
7. When The Night Falls - The Eyes L
8. Sorry - The Easybeats
9. Imposters Of Life's Magazine - The Idle Race
10. How Is The Air Up There? - The La De Das
11. Mud In Your Eye - Les Fleur De Lys
12. Everything (That's Mine) - The Motions
13. Garden Of My Mind - The Mickey Finn
14. Take A Heart - The Sorrows
15. The Life I Live - Q'65
16. Midnight To Six Man - The Pretty Things
17. I See The Rain - The Marmalade
18. The First Cut Is The Deepest - The Koobas
19. You Stole My Love - The Mockingbirds
20. 125 (album version) - The Haunted
21. My Mind's Eye - The Small Faces
22. Going Nowhere - Los Bravos
23. All Night Stand - The Thoughts
24. War Or Hands Of Time - The Masters Apprentices
25. It's A Sin To Go Away - We All Together
26. A Dream For Julie - Kaleidoscope
27. I Read You Like An Open Book - The Tages

Disc: 2
1. Children Of The Sun - The Misunderstood
2. Save My Soul - Wimple Winch
3. Desdemona - John's Children
4. I Can Only Give You Everything - Van Morrison
5. Lost Girl - The Troggs
6. I Must Be Mad - The Craig
7. Say Those Magic Words - The Birds
8. Baby Your Phrasing Is Bad - Caleb
9. Daddy Buy Me A Girl - Golden Earrings
10. Exit Stage Right - Ronnie Burns
11. Gone Is The Sad Man - Timebox
12. I'm Rowed Out - The Eyes
13. You've Got A Habit Of Leaving - Davy Jones
14. Reflections Of Charles Brown - Rupert's People
15. Words Enough To Tell You - The Mascots
16. That's The Way It's Got To Be - The Poets
17. 14 Hour Technicolour Dream - The Syn
18. Walking Through My Dreams - The Pretty Things
19. You Said - The Primitives
20. This Life Of Mine - The Lost Souls
21. Shadows & Reflections - The Action
22. Friday On My Mind - The Easybeats
23. In The Land Of The Few - Love Sculpture
24. For Another Man - The Motions
25. Fire Brigade - The Move
26. Gaby - The Boots
27. Biff! Bang! Pow! - The Creation

Disc: 3
1. Your Body Not Your Soul - Cuby & The Blizzards
2. Cathy, Come Home - The Twilights
3. Circles - Les Fleur De Lys
4. Get Down From The Tree - The Matadors
5. Cry In The Night - Q'65
6. Changing The Colors Of Life - Los Chijuas
7. Social End Product - The Bluestars
8. Crawdaddy Simone - The Syndicats
9. Don't You Remember? - The Sound Magics
10. It's My Pride - The Guess Who
11. Magic Potion - The Open Mind
12. You're Driving Me Insane - The Missing Links
13. Who Dat? - The Jury
14. A Midsummer's Night Scene - John's Children
15. Listen To The Sky - Sands
16. How To Find A Lover - The Mockingbirds
17. Days Of The Broken Arrows - The Idle Race
18. By My Side - The Elois
19. Path Through The Forest - The Factory
20. Love Hate Revenge - Episode Six
21. Pictures Of Matchstick Men - The Status Quo
22. The Train To Disaster - The Voice
23. Sad - The (Australian) Playboys
24. Slaves Time - The Slaves
25. You Can Be My Baby - The Red Squares
26. I Wish I Was Five - Scrugg
27. Glendora - The Downliners Sect

Disc: 4
1. Rosalyn - The Pretty Things
2. Come On - The Atlantics
3. The Madman Running Through The Fields - Dantalion's Chariot
4. How Does It Feel To Feel - The Creation
5. I'm Just A Mops - The Mops L
6. Why Don't You Smile Now - The Downliners Sect
7. Nothin' - The Ugly Ducklings
8. Break It All - Los Shakers
9. The Bitter Thoughts Of Little Jane - Timon
10. Touch - The Outsiders
11. Vacuum Cleaner - Tintern Abbey
12. My Life - Thor's Hammer
13. Bad Little Woman - The Wheels
14. No Presents For Me - Pandamonium
15. Bat Macumba - Os Mutantes
16. Real Crazy Apartment - Winston's Fumbs
17. No More Now - The Smoke
18. No Good Without You - The Birds
19. Kicks & Chicks - The Zipps
20. Dance Around The Maypole - The Acid Gallery
21. Get Yourself Home - The Fairies
22. I'm Your Witchdoctor - The Chants
23. But You'll Never Do It Babe - The Boots
24. One Third - The Majority
25. Flight From Ashiya - Kaleidoscope
26. Here Come The Nice - The Small Faces
27. It's My Fault - The Rattles
28. When The Alarm Clock Rings - Blossom Toes

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Nuggets : Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965 - 1968

2008-04-29T21:46:00.019+01:00

Originally released as one album, reissued as a four CD box set

Tracks

Disc 1

1. I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night - The Electric Prunes
2. Dirty Water - The Standells
3. Night Time - The Strangeloves
4. Lies - The Knickerbockers
5. Respect - The Vagrants
6. A Public Execution - Mouse & The Traps
7. No Time Like The Right Time - The Blues Project
8. Oh Yeah - The Shadows Of Knight
9. Pushin' Too Hard - The Seeds
10. Moulty - The Barbarians
11. Don't Look Back - The Remains
12. An Invitation To Cry - The Magicians
13. Liar, Liar - The Castaways
14. You're Gonna Miss Me - The 13th Floor Elevators
15. Psychotic Reaction - The Count Five
16. Hey Joe - The Leaves
17. Romeo & Juliet - Michael & The Messengers
18. Sugar And Spice - The Cryan Shames
19. Baby Please Don't Go - The Amboy Dukes
20. Tobacco Road - The Blues Magoos
21. Let's Talk About Girls - The Chocolate Watchband
22. Sit Down, I Think I Love You - The Mojo Men
23. Run, Run, Run - The Third Rail
24. My World Fell Down - Sagittarius
25. Open My Eyes - The Nazz
26. Farmer John - The Premiers
27. It's-A-Happening - The Magic Mushrooms

Disc 2

1. Talk Talk - The Music Machine
2. Last Time Around - The Del-Vetts
3. Nobody But Me - The Human Beinz
4. Journey To Tyme - Kenny & The Kasuals
5. No Friend Of Mine - The Sparkles
6. Outside Chance - The Turtles
7. Action Woman - The Litter
8. Spazz - The Elastik Band
9. Sweet Young Thing - The Chocolate Watchband
10. Incense And Peppermints - The Strawberry Alarm Clock
11. I Ain't No Miracle Worker - The Brogues
12. 7 And 7 Is - Love
13. Time Won't Let Me - The Outsiders
14. Going All The Way - The Squires
15. I'm Gonna Make You Mine - The Shadows Of Knight
16. The Trip - Kim Fowley
17. Can't Seem To Make You Mine - The Seeds
18. Why Do I Cry - The Remains
19. Laugh, Laugh - Beau Brummels
20. The Little Black Egg - The Nightcrawlers
21. I Wonder - The Gants
22. I See The Light - The Five Americans
23. Who Do You Love - The Woolies
24. Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) - The Swingin' Medallions
25. Live - The Merry-Go-Round
26. Steppin' Out - Paul Revere & The Raiders
27. Diddy Wah Diddy - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
28. Strychnine - The Sonics
29. Little Girl - Syndicate Of Sound
30. Nothin' Yet, (We Ain't Got) - The Blues Magoos
31. Shape Of Things To Come - Max Frost & The Troopers

Disc 3

1. Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) - The Hombres
2. Fight Fire - The Golliwogs
3. At The River's Edge - New Colony Six
4. Jack Of Diamonds - The Daily Flash
5. Follow Me - Lyme & Cybelle
6. It's Cold Outside - The Choir
7. Beg, Borrow And Steal - The Rare Breed
8. She's About A Mover - Sir Douglas Quintet
9. Little Bit O'Soul - The Music Explosion
10. Put The Clock Back On The Wall - The E-Types
11. Falling Sugar - The Palace Guard
12. Run, Run, Run - The Gestures
13. I Need You - The Rationals
14. Knock, Knock - The Humane Society
15. Primitive - The Groupies
16. Psycho - The Sonics
17. So What!! - The Lyrics
18. You Must Be A Witch - The Lollipop Shoppe
19. A Question Of Temperature - The Balloon Farm
20. Maid Of Sugar-Maid Of Spice - Mouse & The Traps
21. You Ain't Tuff - The Uniques
22. Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White - The Standells
23. She's My Baby - The Mojo Men
24. Story Of My Life - The Unrelated Segments
25. I'm Five Years Ahead Of My Time - The Third Bardo
26. Mirror Of Your Mind - We The People
27. Bad Little Woman - The Shadows Of Knight
28. Double Yellow Line - The Music Machine
29. Optical Sound - The Human Expression
30. Journey To The Center Of The Mind - The Amboy Dukes

Disc 4

1. Are You Gonna Be There (At The Love-In) - The Chocolate Watchband
2. Too Many People - The Leaves
3. Her Big Man, (Would I Still Be) - The Brigands
4. Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl - The Barbarians
5. Wooly Bully - Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs
6. I Want Candy - The Strangeloves
7. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
8. One Track Mind - The Knickerbockers
9. Out Of Our Tree - The Wailers
10. I Think I'm Down - The Harbinger Complex
11. What Am I Going To Do - The Dovers
12. Codine - The Charlatans
13. Johnny Was A Good Boy - The Mystery Trend
14. Stop-Get A Ticket - The Clefs Of Lavender Hill
15. Complication - The Monks
16. The Witch - The Sonics
17. Get Me To The World On Time - The Electric Prunes
18. Mr. Pharmacist - The Other Half
19. Open Up Your Door - Richard & The Young Lions
20. Just Like Me - Paul Revere & The Raiders
21. You Burn Me Up And Down - We The People
22. I Live In The Springtime - The Lemon Drops
23. Mindrocker - Fenwyck
24. Hold Me Now - The Rumors
25. Love's Gone Bad - The Underdogs
26. Why Pick On Me - The Standells
27. Bad Girl - The Zakary Thaks
28. Blackout Of Gretely - Gonn
29. Voices Green And Purple - The Bees
30. Blues' Theme - The Arrows

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And to the sublime!

2008-04-28T21:41:00.014+01:00

Elliott Smith - XO

For those who've not heard Elliott Smith, may this be your introduction to some incredible music. I first came across him in 1998 with the release of Waltz #2. It received a lot of air play at the time and completely drew me in. Elliott Smith's style was very emotive and I won't mind admitting that this album really brings a lump in my throat.

During his life he battled with depression, alcoholism and drug addiction, and this often appeared in his lyrics. Aged 34, he died in Los Angeles, California from two stab wounds to the chest. The autopsy evidence was inconclusive as to whether the wounds were self-inflicted. At the time of his death, Smith was working on his sixth studio album, From a Basement on the Hill, which was released posthumously on October 19, 2004.

This is a beautiful album and, quite honestly anything I write won't do it justice, so I won't write anymore, I'll just let you make your own minds up. So turn the lights down, lay back, close your eyes and.....

Tracks:

Sweet Adeline
Tomorrow Tomorrow
Waltz #2 (XO)
Baby Britain
Pitseleh
Independence Day
Bled White
Waltz #1
Amity
Oh Well, Ok
Bottle Up And Explode
A Question Mark
Everybody cares, Everybody Understands
I Didn't Understand

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The Heads - At Last

2008-04-27T10:33:00.007+01:00

I've seen The Heads twice now. The first time I got to see this Bristol based band was in September 2005 supporting Brain Donor in Bristol at the Thekla. Unfortunately, can't remember too much about the gig due to some serious imbibing of alcohol going on. However, the friends who I went with that night were all blown away and quite rightly too!

The second time was replacing Brain Donor at the Cooler, also in Bristol. Julian Cope had cracked a rib, apparently trying to dig a tree root up a week before the gig. However, hotels and tickets had been paid for, plans had been made, so we all went anyway and I will freely admit to being blown away too!

Personally, I think the heads have a style of their own and this rehearsal recording, from 2002, captures the power of their live shows fantastically.

Tracks:

Dissonaut
Quad
Fuego
Troppo Ampio
Vibrating Digit
Filler
31st
Stodgy (Coke's Gone Flat)
The Ritual Is An Art Form. Is It_Pt 1
The Ritual Is An Art Form. Is It_Pt 2

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More loudness!!

2008-04-19T10:53:00.009+01:00

Too Good To Die For Volume. 2

Keeping in the same vein as Volume 1. The second and last part of this series.

Tracks:

Farmer John - The Premiers
002 - The Good, The Bad
Shaking Like A Dog - The Ferriday Fireballs
You'll Be Mine - The Undertakers
Cave Girl - The Texrays
Jack Ball - Mustang Lightning
Corpse Grinder Meter - Hot Rod Hearse
Why? - The Gondoliers
Let Me Down - The Spinns
Hedgecreeper - MMOSS
Crypt kicker - The Reducing Agents
Alcanza La Ola - Los Magnificos
You Loved Me Fast - The Venus Fly trap One Girl Band
Action - Lords Of Altramont
Heads Or Tails - The Negative jerks
Hey Cocksucking Johnny - Secret 9 Beat
Twenty One - The Freakouts
The Man For You - The Ravens
Whole Lotta Woman - The Buttshakers
Misfit - The Outsiders
Stay Out Of My World - The Preachers
Shot Down - The Sonics
Fingered - Goons Of Doom

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Man...Or Astroman? - Your Weight On The Moon

2008-04-12T12:29:00.012+01:00

One of the, if not THE, best bands of the '90's surf revival and, giving rise to bands such as Destination: Earth and Servotron, quite probably one of the best bands I've ever had the pleasure of seeing live. I wasn't planning on going to the night, it was the annual Cheap Sweaty Fun xmas show 1994 and this band were headlining. I'd never heard of them at the time, but my mate who I was out having a drink with persuaded me to go and I'm so glad he did. They were phenomenal!!!

This was the first time they'd played Newport and for many people packing TJ's that night it was the first time they'd seen anything like it! We'd all had a few drinks that night, and I remember listening to the supporting bands with my trusty beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Cigarette finished, beer still in hand, these guys came on and completely blew everyone away, shredded paper, which was strewn all over the floor, actually clogging up the instruments (who's idea was the shredded paper anyway?). Everyone was down the front going nuts, myself included, my trusty beer flying somewhere into the ether 'cos I had nowhere to put it. Not sure where it went but I'm hoping that whoever it ended up over won't hold it against me! Anyway beer's good for the hair!!

Anyway, I'm putting this album up as I brought it on that night and listened to it for most of the night too, and after a few more beers the neighbours were none too happy!! Originally released on the UK One Louder label on 10" pink vinyl and CD. The line up for those that are interested are Birdstuff, Starcrunch, Dr Deleto and Coco the Electronic Monkey Wizard

Tracks
Rocketship XL-3
Special Agent Conrad Uno
Electrostatic Brain Field
Shockwave
Taser Guns Mean Big Fun
F=GmM(Moon)
Space patrol
Happy Fingers
Destination Venus
Polaris

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Can - Monster movie

2008-04-08T22:10:00.012+01:00

The first and my favourite of all the Can albums. Released in 1969 this is in many ways a truly groundbreaking album from a truly inspirational band, led by the unmistakable voice of Malcolm Mooney who, heading for a breakdown, has been compared to "Can's version of Syd Barrett."

I first heard Can back in the early '90's when someone made me a compilation, of mostly Joe Meek tracks, and included at the end Yoo Doo Right, which, although, at 20.14 mins long hooked me straight away. Every track on this album is a gem, and I think that Outside My Door is one of the greatest songs ever written with one of the most exciting climaxes ever recorded, with a catchline of "Any colour is bad" who can argue!! Unfortunately this album gets overlooked in favour of later can albums such as Tago mago, or Ege Bamyasi, although themselves great albums, this one is a killer!

Tracks:
Father Cannot Yell
Mary, Mary So Contrary
Outside My Door
Yoo Doo Right

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Raw, noisy Garage/Punk. PLAY LOUD!!

2008-04-06T15:40:00.012+01:00

Too Good To Die For Volume. 1

The first of 2 garage/punk compilations that I have decided to bring to a close. Those who liked these will, I hope, forgive me, but there will be a new series on the way soon.

Tracks:
The Split - Lords Of Altramont
I Want My Caveman - The Pandoras
Curse Of The Wolfman - The Formaldebrides
Walk On Water - Monsters from mars
Get Along girl - The Sick Rose
You Got It - The Okmoniks
Tear It Up - The Mansfields
Kitten - The Malamondos
Let's Dance - The Hexxers
Outside Lookin' In - The Ravens
Graveyard Shift - Bob Urh & The Bare bones
Lovin' - The Spinns
Coming Down - The Fiends
Spider Zombie - The Creepy Creeps
Wild Teens - The Staggers
Lo Que Quiero - Wau Y Los Arrrghs!!
Intoxica - The Mantawrays
Fuzz On - Los Mustang 66
25th Hour - Lime Spiders
Baby What's Wrong - The Cynics
Get My Way - The Cynics
Can't Satisfy - The Omens
La Momia Surfer - Los Colosios Dead
I Want More - The Sonic Thrills
Slave Girl - The Coffin Lids
Have Love, Will Travel - The Sonics
Time Police - Goons Of Doom

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http://rapidshare.com/files/105336821/Too_Good_To_Die_For_Volume.zip.html

The Gospel according to sttomas Volume. 3

2008-04-05T13:37:00.007+01:00

The last part in this series. There'll be more stuff coming out in the future, don't know where, don't know when. Anyway, enjoy the final funky chapter of the Gospel.

Tracks

Clapp Your Fockin' Hands - Roger
Island - Pleasurebeach
I Know You Got Soul - Bobby Byrd
Cold Sweat - Albert King
Soul Feeling Pt. 1 - Eddy Giles
Blowing Up My Mind - The Exciters
Too Much For You - Bobby Angelle
Das Stundenhotel Von St. Pauli - Erwin Halletz
Whip It On Me - Billy Hawks
Cross The Tracks (We Better Go Back) - Maceo & The Macks
Love Is On Our Side - The Frank Popp Ensemble
Let The Groove Move You - The Boogaloo Investigators
Hector - The Village callers
Boogaloo No. 3 - Roy Lee Johnson
Chick A Boom - Joe Bataan
Beat.It - The Link Quartet
La Strada Della Moda - minivip
Humanize - Big Boss Man

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http://rapidshare.com/files/105053163/The_Gospel_according_to_sttomas_Vol_3.zip.html

The Gospel according to sttomas Volume.2

2008-04-04T18:16:00.010+01:00

The second of the series. This second compilation is a lot more soul based that Volume 1. I'll upload the final part as soon as I can. Enjoy!

Tracks:

Hold On To My Baby - The Cavaliers
He Made A Woman Out Of Me - Bettye LaVette
Sowed Love And Reaped the Heartache - Sandra Rhodes
So Deep In Love - Eddy Giles
Hey, Good Looking - Charlie Rich
Momma Momma - Betty Barney
Brother Ratt - Dave Hamilton
Don't Worry (If There's A Hell Down Below) - Lou Donaldson
What You See Is What You Get - Brenda George
Lots Of Love - Homer banks
Could It Be You - Sharon Scott
Lonely For you Baby - Sam Dees
I Need Your Love - The Dynamics
Express Yourself - Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythym Band
Sad Curtis - The Bongolian
Don't Touch My Popcorn - The Diplomats Of Solid Sound
Lonely Man - Johnny Soul
Dancing To The Beat - Clarence Murray
Bad Bad Whiskey - Big Boss Man

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http://rapidshare.com/files/104876653/The_Gospel_according_to_sttomas_Vol_2.zip.html

The Gospel according to sttomas Volume. 1

2008-04-03T18:24:00.010+01:00

The first of three jazz/funk/soul compilations made in 2006. Just for note this was the first time I'd attempted any sort of compilation whatsoever!

Tracks:

Wiggle Waggle - Herbie hancock
16th Century Troubadour - The Bongolian
laughter Ever After - Andy Lewis Ft. Bettye Lavette
Sliced Tomatoes - Just Brothers
The Worm - Jimmy McGriff
Beat It - Freddy brock
Listen Here - Richard 'Groove' Holmes
Blow Your Head - Fred Wesley & The JB's
I Want To Testify - Bobby Bryant
Shing-a-Ling - The Cooperettes
Baby Boy - Fred Hughes
Hip Teens Don't Wear Blue Jeans - The Frank Popp Ensemble
Why Don't You Play Organ, Man? - Memphis Black
Soul Mission - Brian Bennett
Mama Rufus - The Merced Blue Notes
Starsky & hutch - The James Taylor Quartet
Exile On Hammond Street - Andy Lewis Ft Reg King
TV 200 - Jarvis Humby
U.F.O. - Mike Painter & The Family Shakers
Soul Caravan - The Bongolian

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http://rapidshare.com/files/104865655/The_Gospel_according_to_sttomas_Vol_1.zip.html

Can - Peel Sessions

2008-03-30T18:19:00.011+01:00

Recorded between '73 - '75, the opening track to this collection is, quite probably, Can at their best while with Damo Suzuki while the rest of the tracks are from their more"progressive" era. One of many Peel sessions, but to my knowledge the only ones ever to have an official release.

Tracks

Up The Bakerloo Line With Anne
Return To BB City
Tape Kebab
Tony Wanna Go
Geheim (Half Past One)
Mighty Girl

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http://rapidshare.com/files/103594739/The_Peel_Sessions.zip.html

Unknown Passage - Tales From Prison (2001)

2008-03-26T17:47:00.011Z

Raw/fuzzy garage psycedialia heavily influenced by Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd. I know very little about this band, so if someone could shed some light about them that'd be great!! This album is a true gem though!!

Tracks:
Whisper
Crying Lonely Times
Little Bitch
I could Have Loved Her
Tears And Songs
Teddy Boy
Wondering
The Picnic
Lucifer Sam & White Rabbit

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http://rapidshare.com/files/102573017/Tales_from_prison.zip.html

Roky Erickson - I Have Always Been Here Before (Anthology)

2008-03-26T13:32:00.017Z

Can't say if there's ever been a "definitive" collection of Roky Erickson's music, but I do consider this 2cd set to be one that covers the length and breadth of Roky's musical career. Well worth checking out!

CD1

1. We Sell Soul - The Spades
2. You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators
3. Reverberation (Doubt) - 13th Floor Elevators
4. Tried to Hide - 13th Floor Elevators
5. Fire Engine - 13th Floor Elevators
6. She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) - 13th Floor Elevators
7. Slip Inside This House - 13th Floor Elevators
8. Splash 1 - 13th Floor Elevators
9. Dust - 13th Floor Elevators
10. I Had to Tell You - 13th Floor Elevators
11. Postures (Leave Your Body Behind) - 13th Floor Elevators
12. Right Track Now - Roky Erickson
13. Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog) - Roky Erickson
14. Starry Eyes - Roky Erickson
15. Bermuda - Roky Erickson
16. Interpreter - Roky Erickson & the Aliens
17. Mine Mine Mind - Roky Erickson & the Aliens
18. I Have Always Been Here Before - Roky Erickson
19. Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play - Roky Erickson & The Aliens
20. I Think Up Demons - Roky Erickson & The Aliens
21. Don't Shake Me Lucifer - Roky Erickson & The Aliens
22. White Faces - Roky Erickson & The Aliens

CD2

1. It's a Cold Night for Alligators - Roky Erickson & The Aliens
2. Creature with the Atom Brain - Roky Erickson & The Aliens
3. Stand for the Fire Demon - Roky Erickson & The Aliens
4. Bloody Hammer - Roky Erickson & The Aliens
5. Wind and More - Roky Erickson & The Aliens
6. If You Have Ghosts - Roky Erickson & The Aliens
7. Song to Abe Lincoln [Live] - Roky Erickson
8. Anthem (I Promise) - Roky Erickson
9. Warning (Social and Social-Political Injustices) [Live] - Roky Erickson
10. Beast - Roky Erickson
11. You Don't Love Me Yet - Roky Erickson
12. Clear Night for Love - Roky Erickson
13. Don't Slander Me - Roky Erickson
14. Nothing in Return - Roky Erickson
15. Burn the Flames - Roky Erickson
16. When You Get Delighted - Roky Erickson
17. True Love Cast Out All Evil - Roky Erickson
18. For You (I'd Do Anything) - Roky Erickson
19. Please Judge - Roky Erickson
20. We Are Never Talking - Roky Erickson
21. I'm Gonna Free Her - Roky Erickson

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http://rapidshare.com/files/102525167/Roky_1.zip.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/102535918/Roky_2.zip.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/102539570/Roky_3.zip.html

First of 2 new funk/soul compilations

2008-03-25T13:03:00.018Z

sttomas presents...
The Sounds Of The Testament

This is the first in a new series of compilations I'll be posting on the site. I'll also be posting the other series I've done in the past for those who missed them. Enjoy!!

1. Butterballs, Part 1 - Butterballs
2. You Said A bad Word - Joe Tex
3. Cool Strut - Bernie Hayes
4. Funky Four Corners - Jerry-O
5. Street Woman - The Dynamic Eight
6. I Live The Life I Love - Willie Parker
7. Delhi Discotheque - Johnny Pearson
8. You Gotta Change - Kitty Love
9. Try Me - Queenie Lyons
10. Mother Fuyer - Chick Willis
11. Live Your Own Life - Flip Flop Stevens & His Psychedelic Soul
12. Hey Sha-Lo-Ney - Mickey Lee Lane
13. Pass The Hatchet - Roger & The Gypsies
14. Late Date - The Parkays
15. Crab Cakes - The Soul Mysteries
16. The Moon Man Is Back - The Moon Man
17. My Baby Likes To Boogaloo - Don Gardner
18 Get Down - Harvey Scales & The 7 Sounds
19.

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http://rapidshare.com/files/105043538/Sounds_Of_The_Testament.zip.html

What's this about!!

2008-03-06T19:58:00.001Z

Well, it'll be mostly music, ranging from about the 1940's to the present day as well as occasional ramblings from myself and, hopefully, other contributors. I listen to a lot of Rock n' Roll, Garage, Punk, Funk, Jazz and Soul and most other stuff so there'll be plenty of variation to keep you popping back now and again!!