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Youngbloods - High On a Ridgetop

Tuesday, 7. March 2006, 02:04:57

Hans and a couple of mates have started an 'everyman's blog' and I think its a pretty great idea where anyone can post requests or shares. I just posted this to fill a request so go to lostand foundalbums now to check out the site and download this album if you want it.

Youngbloods - 1972 - High on a Ridgetop

01 - Speedo
02 - She Caught The Katy
03 - Going By The River
04 - Running Bear
05 - I Shall Be Released
06 - Dreamboat
07 - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
08 - Donna
09 - La Bamba
10 - Kind Hearted Woman

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Planet X celebrates

Monday, 6. March 2006, 07:04:06

Planet X is just about to celebrate 400,000 visits and in honour of that feat I give you 22 tracks featuring the word 'planet' in their title.

You will be entranced, you will be mesmerised and you will gag at the sheer awfulness of these tracks err scrub that last one.

From the eerie prototype bleepings of Messrs Perrey and Kingsley to the cacaphonic shrieks of Forbidden Planet to the sheer brilliance of Escape From Planet of the Apes by the master Jerry Goldsmith and the mellifluous tones of Mr Leonard Nimoy you'll be wishing you could escape to ......... Planet X.

Sandgropers Surfspot will also be hosting a companion volume called The Beaches of Planet X so go there too, if you dare!

The Alien Planet
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01. Jean Jacques Perrey - The Alien Planet
02. Nintendo Symphony Orchestra - Planet Corneria
03. Roger Roger & Nino Nardini - War Of The Planets
04. Marty Manning - Forbidden Planet
05. Jean Jacques Perrey - Music Of The Planets
06. Nik Raicevic - Blue Planet
07. Disco & Co - Silver Planet
08. Vincent Lopez - Swinging Planets
09. Louis And Bebe Barron - Main Title Forbidden Planet
10. Nintendo Symphony Orchestra - Planet Venom
11. Peter Thomas - Gods From Strange Planets
12. Russ Garcia - Birth Of A Planet
13. Leonard Nimoy - A Visit To A Sad Planet
14. Frank Talley - Lonely Planet
15. Out Of This World - Interplanetary Journey
16. Jerry Goldsmith - Planet Of The Apes Main Title
17. Perrey-Kingsley - Carousel Of The Planets
18. Pierre Arvay - Le Planete Noire
19. Jerry Goldsmith - Escape From Planet Of The Apes Main Title
20. Joby Talbot - Planet Factory Floor
21. Delia Derbyshire - Planetarium
22. John Keating - Unknown Planet

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Guitar Twanglers

Monday, 6. March 2006, 00:21:38

Loads of twangy guitar twirlers at Sandgropers Surfspot so go there now. Twango!

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Klaus Wunderlich - Sound 2000 2

Sunday, 5. March 2006, 11:55:27

Well there's been a few requests for Volume 2 of Klaus' experiments with moog and prepared piano. The results are always interesting and this is my own rip. This features the electric piano rather than the moog featured in Volume 1.

Sound 2000 2 (1975)

01 - Liebestraume
02 - Manha De Carnaval
03 - Winchester Cathedral
04 - Whiter Shade Of Pale
05 - Lover
06 - Oh Happy Day
07 - Happy Wienerwald
08 - Sommerwind
09 - Fascination
10 - Chopin Bossa
11 - Java
12 - Es Fahrt Ein Zug

And here's Volume 1 if you haven't got that yet.

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True Voices (1990)

Friday, 3. March 2006, 03:08:35

This album is a slightly morbid one in that versions were done by living artists in tribute to ones that had passed away. In a symbol of sad irony Gene Clark did a very moving version of Phil Och's song Changes and he himself passed away a few years later.

In tribute to Hans Gene Blog's Gene Clark memorial I present this as a tribute to Gene and to all the other artists represented here.

True Voices

1. Changes (Phil Ochs) by Gene Clark
2. Devil Eyes (Tim Buckley) by Jackie Lomax & Juke Logan
3. Lady Came from Baltimore (Tim Hardin) by John Stewart
4. (Thank You) For Being There (Brian Jones) by Krysai Kristianne & Robin Williamson
5. Simple Song of Freedom (Bobby Darin) by P.F. Sloan
6. Which Will (Nick Drake) by Lucinda Williams
7. To Love Someone (Del Shannon) by Pat Robinson
8. At the End of the Day (Sandy Denny) by Susan Cowsill & Eric Johnson
9. Loving Arms (Tom Jans) by Stephen McCarthy & Carla Olson
10. Across the Great Divide (Kate Wolf) by Michael Nold
11. The Dreamer (Sonny Criss) by Ed Black, Pieter Meijers and Brian Barnett

Recorded 1990 PRODUCED BY GEORGE CALLINS & SAUL DAVIS
Recorded by David Benson at SMV, Studio City
Mixed by David Benson and George Callins at Producers Workshop, Hollywood

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Hey Joe Where You Goin' With That Gun .....

Friday, 3. March 2006, 02:25:25

My tribute to that ubiquitous song synonymous with the Byrds and Jimi Hendrix. There's 19 versions here but apparently there are over 1,000 versions out there.

It looks like there's some duplication but there's three Byrds versions the studio, live on radio and live at Monterey. I've lost track of which is which when I tidied up the tags so have fun guessing which is which. Jimi has a studio version, live at Woodstock and live on BBC. The Shadows of Knight two versions includes a live version that has a nice Byrds pastiche I presume in tribute to their heroes.

There's even a web site entirely devoted to that song and this from that site:

Hey Joe - Who recorded first?

Michael Hicks states in his book: Sixties Rock Garage, Psychedelic & Other Satisfactions': The first group to record "Hey Joe" was apparently the Surfaris, who were best known for their surf songs. including "Surfer Joe" (1962). They recorded "Hey Joe" in September 1965, but, perhaps out of loyalty to Crosby and the Byrds, did not include it on their November 1965 folk rock album, It Ain't Me Babe.'

However I have no hard evidence of this. Fact is that the version of the Leaves was released first.

The Surfari's version is on this compilation, by the way the Surfaris are my second favourite group next to the Byrds what does that say about my head? It might have something to do with the fact the first album I ever bought was the Surfaris play Wipeout and my heart was broken when it was stolen shortly after I bought it. I later found out only two songs were done by the Surfaris and the others by the Challengers, it all sounded good to me though. Now I have two good compilation CDs of the Surfaris put out by Varese Sarabande of all labels and lots of compilations filched from various sources.

HEY JOE
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01. Byrds - Hey Joe
02. Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe
03. Ant Trip Ceremony - Hey Joe
04. Robert Plant - Hey Joe
05. The Shadows Of Knight - Hey Joe
06. Cryan' Shames - Hey Joe
07. The Standells - Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go!
08. Love - Hey Joe
09. The Stillroven - Hey Joe
10. The Leaves - Hey Joe
11. Byrds - Hey Joe
12. The Music Machine - Hey Joe
13. The Byrds - Hey Joe
14. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe
15. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe
16. Shadows Of Knight - Hey Joe
17. The Litter - Hey Joe
18. Creation - Hey Joe
19. Surfaris - Hey Joe Where Are You Going

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This splendiferous album is being shared here.

Friday, 3. March 2006, 00:33:08

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This splendiferous album is being shared here.

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The Great Byrds Conspiracy

Thursday, 2. March 2006, 08:54:38

In the spirit of Hanszunblog's recent Gene Clark shares and the Byrds tribute Eight Miles High Uncut and other blogs sharing Gene Clark's stuff I present my own tribute to the greatest group that ever walked the Earth (other points of view respected but completely rejected). Hopefully I haven't repeated too many tracks from mine or other people's shares.

So we start with the pre Byrds Beefeaters with their Beatlesque Gene Clark track You Won't Have To Cry, early Beau Brummels with that staple of folk rock ( and the tune that started it all?) Mr Tambourine Man and followed up with many versions of tracks on various Byrd albums and bootlegs or tracks which just remind me of the Byrds somehow.

Special mention is made of the Flying Machine (Australia's Byrds) with So You Wan't To Be a Rock n Roll Star ( on the shortlist of my all time fave Byrds tracks) this is a group I saw live in Melbourne in the early seventies and though they started out as a bubblegum group they graduated to a fully fledged dinky di version of the Byrds with good songwriters and great songs (If enough people request I'll post a compilation of their stuff). Australia is also represented by Country Rock influenced stars like Little River Band, the Church and the Go Betweens not to mention Perth's own best kept secret the Sleepy Jackson. So I hope that everyone can find something interesting in this share in tribute to country rock Byrds style.

I have to mention also that I saw my hero Roger McGuinn live in a local guitar shop demonstrating his own model of twelve string guitar (I can't remember the brand now but I think it was Ovation but I know he's played Rickenbacker and Martin guitars). He was very shy and still young and handsome looking (this was the eighties) and he just made the twelve string talk when he played.

Volume 1

01. Beefeaters - You Won't Have To Cry
02. Beau Brummels - Mr Tambourine Man
03. Cryan' Shames - She Don't Care About Time
04. Dillard & Clark - Train Leaves Here This Mornin'
05. Flying Circus - So You Want To Be A Rock N Roll Star
06. Jackson Browne - Mae Jean Goes To Hollywood
07. Knickerbockers - Love Is A Bird
08. Lee Mallory - Wild Mountain Thyme
09. McCoys - All I Really Want To do
10. Lemon Pipers - I Was Not Born To Follow
11. Nancy Sinatra - It Ain't Me Babe
12. Paul Revere & Raiders - The Great Airplane Strike (Columbia Single 4-43810)
13. Bobby Darin - Jingle Jangle Jungle
14. Gene Parsons - Melodies From A Bird In Flyght (For Clarence)
15. Rotary Connection - We're Going Wrong
16. Turtles - We'll Meet Again
17. P F Sloan - Simple Song of Freedom
18. The Association - Reputation
19. McKendree Spring - John Wesley Harding
20. Poco - Drivin' Wheel

Volume 2

01. Gene Clark - Tambourine Man
02. Firefall - Mexico
03. Roger McGuinn - Dreamland (1976)
04. America - Donkey Jaw
05. Flying Burrito Bros - To Ramona
06. Little River Band - Down On The Border
07. Talking Heads - The Big Country
08. The Searchers - Almost Saturday Night
09. Smithereens - Behind the Wall of Sleep
10. Church - Almost With You
11. Records - Hearts In Her Eyes
12. Vulgar Boatmen - Don't Mention It
13. Go Betweens - Streets of Your Town
14. Long Ryders - Mason-Dixie Line
15. Revolver - Real Thing
16. REM - MTV Unplugged 1991 - Disturbance At The Heron House
17. House of Love - Shine On
18. Tom Petty - Feel a whole lot better
19. Sleepy Jackson - Vampire Racecourse
20. Andrew Gold - Somewhere in Space and Time

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Ames Brothers - Destination Moon

Monday, 27. February 2006, 14:21:24

A wonderful vocal album this shares the same cover backdrop as Esquivel's Other Worlds album.

The Ames Brothers were one of the top paid group in nightclubs and supperclubs everywherein the 50s and their popularity on television was nationwide. In 1956 they starred in their own show, The Ames Brothers Show, which was seen on Friday nights. It was the first syndicated television show to be shown in foreign countries.

In 1958 they recorded this memorable album.

SIDE 1
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Ames Brothers - Destination Moon - 01 - Destination Moon
Ames Brothers - Destination Moon - 02 - Clear Out Of This World
Ames Brothers - Destination Moon - 03 - Moonglow
Ames Brothers - Destination Moon - 04 - East Of The Sun
Ames Brothers - Destination Moon - 05 - Count Every Star
Ames Brothers - Destination Moon - 06 - No Moon At All

SIDE 2
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Ames Brothers - Destination Moon - 07 - I'm Shooting High
Ames Brothers - Destination Moon - 08 - Music From Out Of Space
Ames Brothers - Destination Moon - 09 - Stella By Starlight
Ames Brothers - Destination Moon - 10 - It's Only A Paper Moon
Ames Brothers - Destination Moon - 11 - The Starlit Hour
Ames Brothers - Destination Moon - 12 - Beyond The Blue Horizon

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Bongomania 3

Saturday, 25. February 2006, 01:55:43

Well with Bongomania 1 and 2 both approaching 500 downloads you knew there just had to be a volume 3 and here it is.

Many rare and unusual treats here including the Boomtown Rats (yes Sir Bob's old band), the Incredible Bongo Band doing Satisfaction, and for the ladies that cool latino Xavier Cugat, some cool latiny bongo numbers and as a special surprise a cool track from that wonderful flick Kung Fu Hustle.

So draw up your yak covered lounge chair, put on your leopard skin fez, sip your flaming moe and sit down and enjoy Bongomania 3.

SIDE 1
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01.80 Drums Around The World - Caravan
02.Ajo Y Su Organo Oriental - Black Is Black
03.Baldwin Organ & Bongos - Frenesi
04.Bobby Montez - Jungle Sunset [Bolero]
05.The Boomtown Rats - Mood Mambo
06.Buddy Collette - Bongosville
07.Charles Foxx - Mysterioso
08.Combustible Edison - Strange Brew
09.Enoch Light - Fascinating Rhythm
10.Enoch Light - Taboo

SIDE 2
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11.Eric Delancy - Lucky Mambo
12.Esquivel - Jungle Drums
13.Incredible Bongo Band - I Can't Get No Satisfaction
14.Los Admiradores - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
15.Ramon Marquez - Mambo Negro
16.Raymond Wong - Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
17.Roberto Delgado - Spanish Harlem
18.Skip Martin - Baubles, Bongos And Brass
19.The Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble - The Sacrifice
20.Xavier Cugat - Hang On Sloopy

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