A Brief Return of XTC
This one was set to me after the XTC deluge was completed, but it is so exhaustive that huge fans of the band will want it as well....."Coat of Many Cupboards"is a 4-disc set of demo, live tracks,...
View ArticleJust to say......
THANKS to everyone who reads, listens, contributes, or even just visits here......YOU are what the blog is about, NOT me.....it's about sharing what we have, and sharing our lives........it's a...
View ArticleFearless Flush Sampler
A forgotten punk sampler (at least I had forgotten it) from 1997, lots of obscure and amatuerish punk sounds......hey if you are familiar with Glu Gun, Chuck, Dead Lazlo's Place, 30 Foot Tall, and the...
View ArticleSweet Water
One of the second/third string grunge bands that followed Nirvana, Pearl Jam, AIC, Screaming Trees, et al., out of Seattle in the ealy 1990's with the added twist of a reasonably legitimate comeback,...
View ArticleMotorhead Part 1
OK, Motorhead....perhaps you don't like em? Well, tough shit, cause I DO......for one they were the absolute LOUDEST fucking band I ever experienced live (not even close, the Who, Iron Maiden, the...
View ArticleMotorhead Part 2
OK here is some more of my Motorhead stash, really, what good would it do to go into a hell of a lot of detail on these? Ya KNOW what they sound like! They sound a LOT like the ones I posted yesterday,...
View ArticleMotorhead Part 3!!!!
Well, OK, I will clean off my Motorhead shelf today......once again, I have very little intention of waxing poetic about the Motorhead legacy...it's loud, it's fast, it's brutal, it's fucking UGLY and...
View ArticleTool, Part 1
I am pretty excited about this one, Tool is one of my very favorites, gloom-rocking, artistic metal geniuses of the1990's-early 2000's, taking Nine Inch Nails' self-loathing hatred and combining it...
View ArticleTool, Part 2
So, I gather we all agree that Tool are/were badass, artistic, intellectual metal monsters who cannot be compared to anyone (except perhaps Opeth, whom they are/were FAR superior to)....we went through...
View ArticlePuscifer
OK, as a supplement to the Tool stuff, here we have what I can offer up of Puscifer......as you can probably tell I am a huge fan of most of Tool's work, Puscifer, which is a side project of Maynard...
View ArticleReal quick like, another grunge anthology
Better than the one I put up a couple of weeks ago, which had so much "obvious" material it seemed like one of those 1970's K-Tel collections, this one ("The Grunge Years 1991") has at least a bit more...
View ArticlePsychedelic Portugal
A wonderful set this evening, can't remember from where I got it, back in the day I was collecting psych comps from various blogs almost daily, honestly don't recall the source for this one.....the...
View ArticlePortugese Nuggets
Staying in the Portugal groove for another day, here is a fine 4 disc set of "Nuggets"-style garage/psych/surf, most of which I assume will be little known to the English speaking listener (although,...
View Article7x7 is (Part 1)
You guys should appreciate this one, I'm pretty sure I've never put this one up before (if I have, sorry, but it would have to be a longtime ago)....."7x7 is" is a very fine, wonderful, set of US...
View Article7x7 Is (Part 2)
The final three discs of the magnficent "7 x 7 Is" set, with tons of GREAT garage rock singles (more of recent vintage in case you are wondering, doesn't matter, it's fucking kickass anyways, get over...
View ArticleMorningwood
Morningwood released one wonderful semi-classic perid piece of tremenedous, danceable, alterna-pop in the ealy 2000's, pretty much sank without much fanfare.......I thought it was REALLY good, they...
View ArticleIan Dury
Ian Dury was born the the same year as my father (!), 1942, hacked around the UK for a while before gaining some notoriety in the 1970's punk/new wave scene, most notably as leader of Ian Dury &...
View ArticleDucks DeLuxe
But a single album today, but a good and fairly scare one, from 1974 the self titled debut from Ducks Deluxe....The Ducks were guitarists Martin Belmont and Sean Tyla, bassist Ken Whaley, and drummer...
View ArticleOverground's 1980 Punk Compilations
Spider just sent me this one yesterday, and while I am fairly certain I already have one around here somewhere, and just to be sure it's available on the Bay, so it's readilly available, BUT it also...
View ArticleThis site may be down a few days.....
Having some computer issues I'm trying to resolve.....if I can't I will just have to buy a new one and we'll be back then....gonna try the repair route first, but it's a pretty old machine, so we'll see
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