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The PJ Harvey avalanche continues!
I hope you guys don't mind the heavy number of posts of late, my apologies if it's a bit excessive, I'm just trying to keep my thoughts off of......well, life, and this is something that I do enjoy...
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Wishbone Ash
Not a HUGE favorite of mine, somewhat (understandably) forgotten, but in dragging out these albums after years of not hearing them, they have their moments.Formed in the UK in the early 1970's,...
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The UP
These guys were pals with the MC5, the White Panthers, et al, but never recorded an album..."Killer UP!" is a collection of their singles, some demos, and some live tracks from the Agora Ballroom in...
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The Trashmen
Perhaps the ultimate one-hit wonder, this is certainly more of a curiosity than anything else......surf music from Minnesota? Well, one never knows.......I thought the Wikipedia blurb on the history of...
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Taste
Forgot to put this one with the Rory Gallagher overdose, this one is also pretty much an overlooked semi-gem, Gallagher's pre-solo career band. The band released a pair of albums, "Taste" (1969) and...
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3 for Thursday....Great Guest Submission #1
(Scott)-Three great guest submissions tonight from 3 of our best guests (ALL of our guest posters are great, don't get me wrong), including one who's been away for a spell....anyway, let's start with...
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3 for Thursday, Great Guest Submission #2
(Scott)-Well, Brian (king of ALL cover projects) started a world-wide trend with his fab Bowie covers project, which is still going strong with LOTS of traffic, one of the all time great posts, no...
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3 for Thursday...Great Guest Submission #3
(Scott)-Now, here's a name we haven't heard for a while, Cliff from the UK, my personal reggae "go to guy"....his been out of action for a while, he promises some more of his great reggae stuff soon,...
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And one from me...The Grodeck Whipperjenny
Here's an obscurity for you (again, I REALLY TRULY hope no one finds all of the posting I've been doing lately to be excessive, it won't go on forever)....from Cincinnati, 1971 we have soul/psych...
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A variety of stuff for your weekend....from me and some guesters!
Jon S. must sit up nights compiling all these mega-awesome huge posts.....today he throws me a curveball worthy of vintage Bret Saberhagen with a band called Protomartyr......I don't know them, he...
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Terminal Gods
John N sends me the latest album from Terminal Gods, with whom I am only slightly familiar with...I did check out the Bandcamp link, and they really do rock it hard....sort of post punk/alt, I guess,...
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So, anyone up for some Kurt Vonnegut?
There are other things to do but listen to music, burnout......I am presenting here a partial collection of works from my favorite author, Kurt Vonnegut Jr......if you are unfamiliar with him (?) I...
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Fifty Foot Hose
So here's another psych/experimental curiosity...from San Francisco, ca. 1967, they were somewhat ahead of the curve, fusing standard rock n roll with avant garde "noise"....I really enjoy this album...
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The Doors Part 10 (Of MANY)
So, the next part of the Doors onslaught is kind of interesting, this is a three disc effort featuring various television appearances from the band, thus the name "Television Skies".....it's no "future...
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The Cars (part 1)
Long ago, I posted a bunch of WAY cool Cars rarities (don't worry, they will turn up here as well), but never did I post their original albums.....I think it'll be ok to do so now, after all, these are...
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Lee Michaels
Keeping variety at the forefront as is my custom, allow me to present another of my late father's faves, Lee Michaels...this is his self titled debut LP (a tasty vinyl rip at that), which rocks like a...
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The Cars, Part 2
How to do this, how to do this? Well, yesterday, we posted the studio efforts of The Cars, from the debut (5 stars) through "Door to Door" (1 star).....like I did with Elvis Costello, I want to get...
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Lesbians on Ecstasy
From Montreal Canada, this band was part of the Le Tigre circle of gay/lesbian bands that circulated in the early 2000's. They made a couple of other discs that I've never been able to locate, this is...
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Killimanjaro
Straight outta Barcelos Portugal comes Killimanjaro, who cranked out (at least) a pair of good old-fashioned power trio hard rock.....almost impossible to find any information on them, except that this...
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Malignus Youth
This one is fairly rare, the self titled debut EP from Malingus Youth who hailed from Sierra Vista Arizona. Fast tempo'd hard core punk, I know they released at least one full length (read about it) on...
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