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Norton Records | Single/EP | 6.00 € |
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| Sonics - The Witch EP As the revitalized Sonics traverse the globe thrilling audiences with their visceral brand of rock'n'roll, Big Beat presets a very special vinyl-only release from this the legendary Northwest garage band. The Witch EP collects four gems from the group’s quintessential Etiquette catalogue, and features for the first time on wax, the rare “switchblade” version of ‘The Witch’, with Larry Parypa scraping metal across his guitar strings to menacing effect. Also making its vinyl debut is the full-length recording of the band’s bloodcurdling ‘Psycho’ direct from the studio master tape. In recent years the Sonics’ pounding take on Richard Berry’s ‘Have Love Will Travel’ has become their biggest box-office item, having appeared upon countless TV commercials and soundtracks around the world. Rounding out this very special Witch EP is the original, classic take of the title cut. Housed in a handsome sleeve featuring a rare colour picture from an unused session intended to promote the original Witch single, shot by famed Northwest photographer Jini Dellaccio, The Sonics’ Witch EP is an essential item for any fan of this unsurpassed rock’n’roll combo. By Alec Palao (Ace Records) |
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Ace Records 2013 | CD | 15.00 € |
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| Sonics / Wailers - Louie Louie Sonicsien ja Wailersien versiot Louie Louie klassikosta. Juke Box Series |
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Norton Records | Single/EP | 6.00 € |
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| Stud Cole - Burn Baby Burn raging unknown L.A. recordings 1963-1968 |
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Norton Records 2002 | CD | 17.00 € |
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| Tandoori Knights - Gomper / 2120 South Michigan Avenue |
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Norton Records 2010 | Single/EP | 6.00 € |
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| The Bo-Keys / The Royal Pendletons - Congratulations / Tell Me |
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Norton Records | Single/EP | 6.00 € |
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| The Gaye Blades / The Girls At Dawn - Ruby Tuesday / That Girl Belongs To Yesterday |
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Norton Records 2010 | Single/EP | 6.00 € |
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| The Ideals - The Gorilla / Mo Gorilla Five star 1963 Chi-Town Simian Stomper b/w the original followup fracas! Be zorch, daddy-o – GO APE! On banana yellow wax! |
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Norton Records 2011 | Single/EP | 6.00 € |
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| The Wheels - Road Block Rave ups don’t come any wilder than ‘Road Block’ by the Wheels, who keep the party going on this CD of their complete output, 1965-1966. Tough, shouting R&B vocals and crunching riffs from Belfast’s other great combo. ‘Road Block’ and ‘Bad Little Woman’ are garage-beat classics of which anyone raised on American “Pebbles” albums will be very familiar. The Wheels, however, were not American; they were from Northern Ireland. Yet their band original ‘Bad Little Woman’ was picked up by Chicago garage deities the Shadows Of Knight, and in contrast they covered Paul Revere & the Raiders’ ‘Kicks’. Don’t even get me started on the feral intensity of their beat-punk opus ‘Road Block’. Big Beat’s new Wheels collection comprises the A and B-sides of their three singles, released across 1965 and 1966, plus the remaining sessions they cut at Regent Sound; this is their album, its great period design making up for the fact that these talented young men didn’t get to release one first time round. Like many who have bought Big Beat releases over the past 20 years, I came to the label knowing I would find great garage, beat and psych. Now the Wheels are in the company of the Beau Brummels, the Chocolate Watchband, the Zombies and Thor’s Hammer. And by heck, they deserve it. Anyone who has bought releases by those artists will adore the Wheels. Steaming out of Belfast’s Maritime Hotel (an R&B hotbed on par with the Crawdaddy in Richmond and Newcastle’s Club A’GoGo), where they graced the stage with friend Van Morrison and his similarly clued-up Them, before moving on to an obsessive following in the glamorous environs of Blackpool. The Wheels lived their lives to the full, playing wild shows, popping pills and adapting R&B to their own means. Under the tutelage of industry bigwig Phil Solomon and producer Tommy Scott, they issued singles on Parlophone and turned heads with their long hair (or, in Brian Rossi’s case, bald head). It looked as if the charts would be theirs. Unfortunately, their sound and songbook may have shared too much with Them’s; Van and his gang stole the Wheels’ thunder and fashions changed fast. In hindsight, the magnificent punk/R&B attack of ‘Road Block’ rivals anything the toughest US garage bands recorded, ‘Bad Little Woman’ was a really decent song, their choice of covers was inspired and there’s no denying their musicality or Rod Demick’s wild-but-soulful vocals. Okay, the Wheels were a beat band versed in R&B and they didn’t make an album like “Revolver” or sell many records, but by Jove they were exciting. The 12 tracks here are testament to that. By Jon “Mojo” Mills (Ace Records) |
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Big Beat Records 2012 | LP | 18.00 € |
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| Trashmen / Wailers - Church Key / Wailin' souvenir of Las Vegas Grind 1999. coloured vinyl. original 60s tracks. |
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Norton Records 1999 | Single/EP | 6.00 € |
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| VA: - 2131 South Michigan Avenue 2CD Though the ’60s garage band explosion was felt in every corner ofthe country, the local uprising of talent in Chicago thrived unlike anywhere else. The Windy City had the perfect infrastructure in place; from a booming population of teenagers, to hip music stores in every suburb, a proliferation of teen clubs willing to take their money, and a powerhouse radio station (WLS) equally up to promoting local bands. When it came to giving local groups a shot at 45 rpm fame, no Chicago label—not even the hallowed Dunwich Records—was more prolific than USA Records. USA’s Jim Golden was such a strong supporter of Midwest talent that he started up a second label focused solely in this area, Destination Records. A quarter century into the CD age, it’s hard to believe these pivotal labels have never been properly anthologized. Until now, that is! Sundazed once again arrives to the rescue with an exhaustive dive into the pure, undiluted garage side of USA and Destination Records; tapping into everything from priceless artifacts from the Lost Agency, the Foggy Notions, and Park Avenue Playground to label hitmakers the Buckinghams, the Cryan’ Shames, and the Flock at their most rockin’. There’s so much impossibly great music on these labels, we had to expand this collection to 40 tracks. The album artwork is stuffed with rare photos, band bios, and an interview with the legendary Jim Golden. For a full course of Chicago ’66 garage at its finest, look no further than 2131 South Michigan Avenue: 60’s Garage & Psychedelia from USA and Destination Records! |
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Sundazed Music 2009 | 2-CD | 35.00 € |
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| VA: - A-Square (Of Course) The Story Of Michigan's Legendary A-Square Records. 25 tracks |
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Ace Records 2008 | CD | 18.00 € |
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| VA: - Ain't I Hard ! Sunset Strip 60s Sounds ! Garage & Psych from Viva Records. |
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Sundazed Music 2007 | CD | 18.00 € |
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| VA: - Back From The Grave Vol. 1 raw and crude mid-60s garage |
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Crypt Records | CD | 18.00 € |
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| VA: - Back From The Grave Vol. 2 16 Garage Punkers |
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Crypt Records | LP | 15.00 € |
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| VA: - Back From The Grave Vol. 2 raw and crude mid-60s garage |
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Crypt Records | CD | 18.00 € |
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| VA: - Back From The Grave Vol. 3 16 crazed frantic, mid-60's garage punkers |
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Crypt Records | LP | 15.00 € |
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| VA: - Back From The Grave Vol. 3 Raw and Crude mid-60s garage |
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Crypt Records | CD | 18.00 € |
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| VA: - Back From The Grave Vol. 4 16 crazed wild and frantic mid-sixties garage punk screamers. 100% psychotik reaction ! |
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Crypt Records | LP | 15.00 € |
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| VA: - Back From The Grave Vol. 5 16 crazed frantic bone crunchin mid-60s garage punkers ! |
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Crypt Records | LP | 15.00 € |
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| VA: - Back From The Grave Vol. 6 |
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Crypt Records | LP | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Back From The Grave Vol. 7 2LP 34 primitive, raw, wild & loud mid-60's punk-rock thumpers |
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Crypt Records | LP | 23.00 € |
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| VA: - Back From The Grave Vol. 8 32 tracks of utter snarling mid-60s garage |
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Crypt Records | CD | 18.00 € |
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| VA: - Baltimore's Teen Beat A Go Go |
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Get Hip 1997 | CD | 9.90 € |
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| VA: - Before The Fall - 24 Prelapsarian Cuts f evidence were needed that all music is connected, this collection could well be it. You might think Australian punk, proto-Krautrock and Sister Sledge could only co-exist on a compilation called “Now That’s What I Call Utterly Unrelated”, but actually, beyond “Before The Fall”’s basic conceit, a few fragile connections start to present themselves. Henry Cow acted as support on a Captain Beefheart tour. Beefheart’s style was significantly influenced by bluesmen such as Leadbelly. Leadbelly and Pete Seeger hung out in 40s New York. What else? ‘There’s A Ghost in My House’ and ‘Jungle Rock’ were both hits years after their original release. Fall fans wouldn’t automatically associate ‘The Mummy’ and ‘Transfusion’, yet listening to the originals reveals both as satire at the expense of the beatniks. ‘Transfusion’, like ‘Kimble’, owes much of its uniqueness to the innovative use of sound effects. ‘Kimble’ and ‘People Grudgeful’ are connected thanks to the fractious relationship between the artists concerned. ‘Grudgeful’ and ‘$ F--oldin’ Money $’ both play parts in stories of apparently unscrupulous label bosses. ‘$ F--oldin’ Money $’, ‘Rollin’ Danny’, ‘Transfusion’ and ‘Pinball Machine’ were all the work of artists who died before their time, some a little more before their time than others. It’s fun to spot these connections but, as a Fall fan, I wouldn’t pin too much significance on them. Mark E Smith covered Monks’ tracks without even knowing their titles. He’s covered others without, by his own admission, being able to track down the publishing rights, knowing all the lyrics, or in the case of ‘War’, even remembering the tune. So while in some cases these originals will seem very familiar to Fall fans – the relative commercial success of ‘There’s a Ghost In My House’ and ‘Victoria’ is probably attributable to the fact the Fall didn’t muck about with the originals too much, while Smith’s vocal on ‘Mr Pharmacist’ is remarkably similar to Jeff Nowlen’s original – others are interesting as starting points for very different Fall readings. These originals also demonstrate a lack of Smith snobbery towards music to which other contemporary bands would rapidly turn up their noses. Pop, blues, prog and daft novelties are all accorded the same respect, or lack of it. As a fan of 60s garage, the Monks, Other Half and Sonics cuts on this collection were very familiar to me, but the journey into other genres has been a bit of a revelation. The habit of lifting rocksteady/reggae melody lines for retooling on other tracks led to a diverting trip which started with ‘People Grudgeful’ and took in related tracks such as ‘Longshot’, ‘Jackpot’ and ‘People Funny Boy’. Comparing versions of ‘Bourgeois Blues’, dipping a toe into the ocean of trucking music – all of this I would never have found myself doing had it not been for the cross-genre nature of Mark E Smith’s eclectic tastes. By Dan Maier (Ace Records) |
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Ace Records 2011 | CD | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Best Of Twist-A-Rama New York Carage Bands Vol 1. 16 tracks: Galaxies, Andy & The Classics, The Brix, Patty & The Hangmen, Reveres etc |
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Norton Records 2000 | CD | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Big Deal ! This album kinda pays like a tribute in reverse. All the tracks have been covered (or reworked) by "THE 5,6,7,8's!" . The Rockin' Geishas chose these songs (even to blend and bend out of shape) means the originals are obviously amongst the great rock and roll tracks. |
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Mademoiselle Records | CD | 18.00 € |
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| VA: - Bo Diddley Is A Songwriter In his long and illustrious career, the late Ellas McDaniel portrayed his alter ego Bo Diddley as many things – a lover, a gunslinger, crazy, even a lumberjack would you believe (and as this is Bo we’re talking about, you would…) One thing that Bo seldom if ever proclaimed himself to be is ‘A Songwriter”. But over a period of 10 years, Bo crafted some of the most memorable songs of the rock ‘n’ roll and R & B era, including numerous Hall Of Fame perennials which many will be unaware are his songs. For instance, there can be few on this planet who’ve never heard at least one version of “Love Is Strange” – it was featured in ‘Dirty Dancing’, one of the most popular and biggest grossing films of all time, for goodness sake! How many of the thousands of young people who own that soundtrack album also know that the same man who wrote it also wrote “Mona” a 1990s UK chart topper for Craig McLachlan, and “No No No”, a Top 10 hit in 1993 for reggae artist Dawn Penn (both songs appear here, in other versions, under their real titles ‘I Need You Baby’ and ‘She’s Fine, She’s Mine’ respectively…). Not many, I’ll wager. Bo is so well known and loved as an R & B legend that his songwriting skills tend to get overlooked in comparison with his fabulous recordings. He may be seen by some as a left field entry in Ace’s ongoing ‘Songwriter Series’, but once the CD popped into the player, it won’t take but a few minutes (as his Chess colleague Chuck Berry once wrote) to realise that he’s here on merit, and not just because everyone at Ace loves Bo Diddley. Of course, anyone who lived through the R&B and British Beat boom will be familiar with any number of E. McDaniel copyrights – both those Bo wrote, and those that were written for him by others. And there’s considerably more variety to Bo’s songwriting than some might initially think. OK, so he did put together more numerous variations on the ‘shave-and-a-haircut, six-bits’ rhythm. But Bo’s catalogue of compositions also embraces doo-wop (‘I’m Sorry’), teen pop (‘Love Is Strange’, ‘Mama Can I Go Out’) proto-surf (‘Bo’s Bounce’), humour (‘Pills’) 12 bar blues (‘Before You Accuse Me’) straight ahead R&B (‘I Can Tell’, ‘Diddy Wah Diddy’) and so much more besides. As well as recording his songs, many of our stellar cast of artists were major league Bo fans and, indeed, most of those who are still around continue to be. The fact that the recordings on our CD span a period of 50 years gives a strong indication of the timelessness of his work as a writer – hardly surprising when his own early recordings still sound like they were recorded yesterday. If there’s still any shadow of doubt in your mind that Bo Diddley IS a songwriter, buy this CD immediately and let its contents rid you henceforth of such foolish supposition! By Tony Rounce (Ace Records) |
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Ace Records 2010 | CD | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Burghers Vol. 1 Classic 60s Sounds From Steeltown |
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Big Wink Records | LP | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Desert Island Treasures Previously unreleased surf & garage from '63-'66. Also features tracks by The Velvetones and James Burton Band. |
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Bacchus Archives 1997 | LP | 15.00 € |
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| VA: - Destroy That Boy ! More Girls With Guitars “Destroy That Boy!”, the sequel to 2004’s “Girls With Guitars”, delves into the world of garage femmes and all-girl bands in a quest to prove that females of the species do indeed rock, roll and even snarl. In the post-Beatles beat boom, many an impressionable lass was inspired to take guitar in hand and toe the line with their male counterparts, with at least 160 touring female bands in the USA alone. A select few hit the recording studio to leave their aural mark on the decade, from which Ace has melded the cream of crop with some solo sisters to create another healthy 24-track dose of girl garage goodness. This time old Blighty has its share of representatives, including fully-fledged female groups She Trinity and the Liverbirds. She Trinity – whose original members hailed from the UK, Canada and the USA, hence their somewhat confusing moniker – appear with their first and last (and most acclaimed) singles. The Liverbirds’ success was limited to their adoptive home of Germany, where they recorded two albums of R&B and rock’n’roll covers, three of which are showcased here. Schoolgirl duo the Termites get their pincers into a Stones classic, while South African ex-pat Sharon Tandy and Coventry’s Beverley Jones give out some gutsy performances too. From across the Atlantic, alluring society girls the What Four open proceedings. The cover shows the Debutantes from Detroit, whose talents and glamorous image scored them a far-eastern tour and gigs alongside Motown’s finest. Another pivotal group was the Feminine Complex, formed by lead guitarist and songwriter Mindy Dalton, who achieved the rare feat of releasing an LP, but here we’re treated to two demos, including their wonderfully lo-fi version of the Monkees’ ‘(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone’, cut in their first incarnation as the Pivots. Elsewhere come the Starlets with an attitude-soaked take on ‘You Don’t Love Me’, Swedish bombshell Ann-Margret with both decks of her single for Lee Hazlewood’s LHI label and Raylene Loos and her cohorts the Blue Angels, who contribute a rollicking rendition of ‘Shakin’ All Over’. The Girls (nope, not the same gang as on “Girls With Guitars”) debut with an unreleased cut produced by Sly Stone, while woe betides the man on the receiving end of Aussie Toni McCann, who let’s rip with ‘No’. Jack Nitzsche protégée Karen Verros kicks off the mid-section with, a fuzz-laden mind-blowing gem written by Donovan. Project X (whose line-up included Scott McKenzie) delights with a jangly folk-garage affair and Cheryll & Pam wax lyrical in ‘That’s My Guy’. British Invasion off-shoots the Lady Bugs’ ode to the American fraternity is a hilarious romp and the wiggy Fondettes pay tribute to the mop-headed boys who started it all. Much more info on these artists is to be found in the glossy feature-packed booklet, which includes interviews with Jan McClellan of the Debutantes and Beverley Jones. So let the girls blow the dust of their guitars yet again and take a trip down to the tougher side of girl-groupsville. By MATT MEEK (Ace Records) |
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Ace Records 2009 | CD | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Don't Press Your Luck 60s Connecticut sounds. Garage and psych howlers from the vaults of Trod Nossel Studios 1966-1968. |
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Sundazed Music 2008 | CD | 18.00 € |
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| VA: - Drink Beer Yell Dance |
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| VA: - Fort Worth Teen Scene 1964-67 Vol 1 24 biisiä Texas garage Rock And Rollia mm Cynics, Jades, Larry & Blue Notes, Wyld, Tracers jne |
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Norton Records 2004 | CD | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Fort Worth Teen Scene 1964-67 Vol. 2 sarjan toinen osa… samaa meininkiä mm. Visions, Bards, Jack & The Ripeprs, Barons, Jades jne |
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Norton Records 2004 | CD | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Fort Worth Teen Scene 1964-67 Vol. 3 kuin kaksi edellistäkin.. mm. Gentlemen, Chocolate Moose, Roots, Trycerz, Jinx jne |
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Norton Records 2004 | CD | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Fort Worth Teen Scene! Volume One Cynics, Jades, Larry & Blue Notes, Wyld, Tracers |
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Norton Records 2004 | LP | 13.00 € |
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| VA: - Fort Worth Teen Scene! Volume Two Visions, Jades, Bards, Jack & The Rippers, Barons jne. |
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Norton Records 2004 | LP | 13.00 € |
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| VA: - Friday At The Hideout - Boss Detroit Garage 1964-67 Four Of Us, Underdogs, Pleasure Seekers, Fugitives.. |
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Norton Records 2001 | CD | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Garage Beat ' 66 Vol. 1 Like What, Me Worry ? Check out the artists and song titles on this disc. They'll serve as a once 'n' final warning for anyone thinkin' they've just scored some nostalgic good vibrations from the feelin' groovy sixties (Congratulations, you're about to buy the wrong collection, bub). No, what we have here is the untold, bad-attitude underbelly of that decade's rock 'n' revolution; a teenage nation that churned out thousands of raging garage records that rarely escaped Hometown U.S.A. obscurity. These are the 45 rpm singles too extreme for their time… |
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Sundazed Music 2004 | CD | 19.00 € |
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| VA: - Garage Beat '66 Vol. 4 - I'm in Need 20 tracks |
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Sundazed 2005 | CD | 19.00 € |
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| VA: - Garage Punk Unknowns Part 1 31 tracks |
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Crypt Records | CD | 18.00 € |
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| VA: - Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 8 18 rockin' mid-60s punk thumpers! |
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Crypt Records 1995 | LP | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Garage, Beat and Punk Rock 20 tracks |
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Ace Records 2005 | CD | 10.00 € |
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| VA: - Garagemental Cuca Records Story Vol. 2. 26 tracks sixties garage punk rockers |
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Ace Records 2006 | CD | 17.00 € |
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| VA: - Get Off My Back ! - Unissued Sixties Garage Acetates Vol. 1 these originally unreleased recordings present a treasure trove of garage killers! All selections were recorded 1964-67 but none were released at the time. |
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Norton Records 2009 | LP | 13.00 € |
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| VA: - Get Ready To Fly 26 mindbending late 60s tracks produced by Norman Petty You’d better fasten your seat belts because once this flight takes off, you’ll never come down! So you’re wondering why Norman Petty, producer extraordinaire and champion of rockabilly music in the 1950s has his name on a “psychedelic” compilation? The simple answer is that although Petty's main interest and focus was on music that may have been a little tamer, he still had a hand in just about every genre possible. If you were lucky enough to take the trek to Petty’s Clovis, New Mexico studio, Norman would make you sound… GREAT! He took his incredible production, arranging and editing skills and transferred them with amazing precision into the psychedelic realm. With bands like the Frantics, Hooterville Trolley, Group Axis, Butter Rebellion, Intricate Blend, Apple-Glass Cyndrom and The Cords, how can you go wrong? Get Ready To Fly isn’t just a cameo collection of psychedelic tunes with Petty’s production as the common thread. And although the term “pop-psych” spans a pretty wide realm, this particular collection features a mind-boggling selection of 26 phenomenally-crafted songs with a bit of a hard-edged fuzz appeal. Get Ready To Fly truly doesn’t have a bad cut on it, and the overall quality of the selections is well… unbelievable! Alec Palao has done it again, culling master tapes from another darkened vault and turning them into a highly polished audio eargasm, equipped with the requisite fuzz guitars, sitars, backwards tracking and haunting vocals required for a 73 minute flight like this. With full access to Petty's archives, the candidate list for this volume was immense, the net result being that about two thirds of the entire collection has never appeared on any compilation before. And about half of those were NEVER even released, just collecting dust in the Petty vaults for almost 40 years. Get Ready To Fly has something for every lover of late 1960s psychedelic music, whether you're a grizzled collector or a novice, so don’t hesitate for a second to pick this one up. It’s been a long time since a collection this solid has been released. By Ben Chaput (Ace Records) |
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Ace Records 2012 | CD | 18.00 € |
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| VA: - Girls In The Garage Part 3 23 tracks |
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Romulan Records | CD | 18.00 € |
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| VA: - Girls In The Garage Vol. 12 14 charming french swinging ladies |
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Saperlipotte Records | LP | 18.00 € |
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| VA: - Got The Go!!! Vol. 2 60s soul, garage, rock and roll |
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La Classe Internationale | LP | 18.00 € |
