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El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles November 5 1998

2008-06-04T09:13:00.004+10:00

John Cale & Company 11-5-98

Here's a bootleg audience recording of the man himself, John Cale performing at the El Rey Theatre, LA.
Quite good quality and a very nice performance from "John Cale and Company". The personnel are not specified on the rather basic cover (scans included), but there is reference on the net to Mark Deffenbaugh and Lance Doss being a part of this show.
There are some unusual elements, including jews harp on Cable Hogue, mouth harp and flute...

tracklist
1. The Endless Plain of Fortune
2. On A Wedding Anniversary
3.Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
4. Child's Christmas in Wales
5. Buffalo Ballet
6. Chinese Envoy
7. Antarctica Starts Here
8. You Know More Than I Know
9. Set Me Free
10. Cable Hogue
11. Dying On The Vine
12. So Much For Love
13. Heartbreak Hotel
14. Style It Takes
15. Hallelujah
16. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend

part1 part2 @320kbps

The Moffs Demo Cassette

2008-04-02T22:18:00.006+11:00

Here's a rare treat from 1984:
This was Sydney psychedelic mop-tops The Moffs first tentative foray into the recording studio...raw and unembellished, with a kind of naivety in keeping with their 1960s influences.

Included in the archive is a high resolution pdf of the band Bio that accompanied the original cassette.

Never officially released, these tracks were ripped from the master audio files @320kbps

tracklist
Left Side:
01 Horto
02 Ship in the Sky
03 Get the Picture

Right Side:
04 Tombstone
05 Tomorrow Never Knows
06 Confusion
enjoy!

Lee Live!

2008-03-06T16:20:00.006+11:00

Here's another fantastic rarity from the great man:
Lee Hazlewood Live in Darmstadt 18.09.2002

apparently not a bootleg, despite appearances...

tracklist
01 I'm glad I never owned a gun / The performer
02 You look like a lady
03 I move around
04 My autumn's done come
05 Poet, fool or bum
06 Rosacoke street
07 The girls in Paris
08 The house song
09 She comes running
10 Dirtnap stories
11 Strangers, lovers, friends
12 For my birthday
13 So long, babe
14 After six
15 All I've ever lost
16 Drinking Kölsch in Cologne
17 Pray them bars away
18 If it's monday morning
19 These boots are made for walking
20 Whole lotta shakin' goin' on
21 Trouble maker

part 1 | part 2 [192kbps]

a huge thanks to Gerhard and I'm sorry it took so long mate...

Soviet Surfectant

2008-03-03T13:49:00.003+11:00

Valery Prikazchikov: Electron & New Electron Quartets - Surf (1965-1970)

After another long and inexcusable lapse in activity:
Here's another Soviet gem of instrumental easy listening, re-presented on this Melodya compilation as "Surf".
I suspect you will agree that the waves could not have been very large on the Black Sea in the 1960s...

[poorly] translated from liner notes:
In 1963, Radio Yunost announced a new young group - quartet Electron. "We decided to call our ensemble so, - wrote the head of "Electron" Valery Prikazchikov - not only because it is based on electric tools. We want to make sure that the execution is modern. Thus I thought the name "Electron" expressed our desire." Today Electron - a popular variety of ensembles, has performed successfully in many cities of the country with programmes and recitals with famous artists of pop. True, its composition has changed over the years, hence the different name - "The new electron." The artistic director - still Valery Prikazchikov (electric guitar), the other members: - B. Gerkulenko (rhythm guitar), Vladimir Pankratov (drums), Vladimir Zaikin (bass guitar). The main repertoire of the New electron: "- pop - dance music, with a vivid and clear rhythm and original instrumentation. So hear "The New Electron" - performing dance pieces by Soviet & foreign composers with arrangements by Valery Prikazchikova. (1969)

Tracklist:
01. Electron Quartet - Return (2:33)
02. Electron Quartet - Melody of to-fax "Bum" (2:37)
03. Electron Quartet - Sundial (2:35)
04. Electron Quartet - Cheerful tourists (2:02)
05. Electron Quartet - Four orbit (1:42)
06. Electron Quartet - Evening shadows (2:42)
07. Electron Quartet - Melody of to-fax Sherburgskie "umbrellas" (3:09)
08. Electron Quartet - View (1:46)
09. Electron Quartet - The House of the Rising Sun (2:17)
10. Electron Quartet - New Dance (2:22)
11. Quartet New Electron - Svetlana Lullaby (3:24)
12. Valery Prikazchikov - Watussi (2:57)
13. Quartet New Electron - Grez (3:49)
14. Quartet New Electron - Steps in the night (1:59)
15. Quartet New Electron - Faster audio (2:11)
16. Quartet New Electron - Ten thy smiles (3:37)
17. Quartet New Electron - Solar blink (2:08)
18. Valery Prikazchikov - Continuous motion (1:42)

As with previous Soviet posts, I have taken care to retain the original cyrillic track tags.
If you want English translations, run them through Google Language Tools - as I did with the tracklist above...
Enjoy!

an exceptional artifact of the 60s

2007-07-15T22:44:00.000+10:00

Here's something a little different, a recording from 1967 by English based blues artist Gerry Lockran. Even if you're not into blues I recommend giving this a listen, it's a wonderful product of its time...
I think that such a cultural artifact says far more about its own place and time than the culture that it refers to. Like a "historical"movie, once a few years have past, the time of its production overwhelms the time in which it's set...
This music is no exception; the multicultural sensibility and open sexuality is that of 1960s Britain and it belongs in the UK Folk milieu of the time, with groups like The Incredible String Band.

biography:
Born in India of Irish & Indian parents, his family emigrated to England in 1953, living in South London. His major influences were Josh White, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Leadbelly, Brownie McGhee and most of all Big Bill Broonzy.

'Blues Vendetta' was his second LP, and featured his powerful fingerpicking style on self -penned compositions like 'Guitar Boogie' and 'Jason's Blues' (written for his three year old son).

During his lifetime Lockran recorded thirteen albums, all of which are now 'deleted'. He continued to write, record and release records up to the end of his career in 1981. While on tour in Belgium and Holland he developed heart problems, culminating in a heart attack and stroke, depriving him of the use of his left hand and sadly ending his career as a professional musician He fought the effects of his stroke, hoping eventually to regain use of his left hand, but sadly this never happened. After six years struggle he suffered a fatal heart attack on 17th November 1987.

Whilst perhaps derivative in style this music is unique in its form; his voice has a richness and depth of tone and the solo guitar playing is delivered with exceptional dexterity and power.
These tracks were restored from a tape made from a very worn and much loved LP.
There is a little distortion but generally the sound is more than acceptable.
One listen and you'll surely recognise a major talent here.
So where are the re-releases?

tracklist:
SIDE ONE
1. Goin Down The Road (Guthrie, Hays, arranged by Lockran)
2. The Riddle Song (Traditional, arranged by Lockran)
3. Jason's Blues (Lockran)
4. You Don't Learn That In School (Traditional, arranged by Lockran)
5. Get Back (Broonzy)
6. Automechanic Blues (McGhee)
7. Trouble In Mind (Jones)

SIDE TWO
1. Summertime (G & I Gershwin, Heyward)
2. Guitar Boogie (Lockran)
3. Cocaine Blues (Arnall, Nicholls)
4. Work Song (Adderley, Brown Jr)
5. Goodmornin' Blues (Lomax, Leadbetter)
6. Careless Love (Traditional, lyrics by Koenig & Williams, arranged by Handy)

Blues Vendetta [160kbps mono]

ignite me, baby.

2007-07-09T15:34:00.000+10:00

So here is the long awaited sequel to Light My Fire Volume One:
For all those lovers with pyro-immolative aspirations.
Some burn brightly, others smoulder & occasionally fail to catch alight at all...
You be the judge!

tracklist:
01 Tony Hatch 2:32
02 Nancy Sinatra 3:07
03 Johnny Harris 4:49
04 Jose Feliciano 3:11
05 Instrumental Magic 3:45
06 Booker T. And The M.G.'s 4:18
07 Ebony Rhythm Band 6:01
08 Eleazar Martinez Y Su Conjunto 3:12
09 Tokyo's Coolest Combo 4:48
10 Young-Holt Unlimited 2:42
11 Richy Kicklighter 3:29
12 The Larry Page Orchestra 2:49
13 The Free Design 4:39
14 Tony Christie 3:17
15 Pan Pipes 3:15
16 Horace Andy 3:51
17 Isaac Hayes 3:29
18 Avid 4:55
burn, baby burn
file problems fixed!

back behind the lamé curtain...

2007-05-30T13:58:00.000+10:00

FUNK!
The most outspoken music in the Soviet Union

here's another surprise from the soviet era:

tracklist
1 Мгновенье, стой (For what it`s worth) – Оркестр «Диско», руководитель И.Петренко
2 Приглашение, вокальная импровизация (скэт) – И.Петренко и «Диско»
3 El condor pasa (If I cold) – Е.Дриацкая и В.Артюх
4 Путешественник – Ансамбль п/у А Тартаковского
5 Зелье приворотное – Н.Бродская
6 Час пик – Оркестр Ленинградского радио
7 Хороша была любовь – А.Иванова
8 Devil woman – ВИА «Здравствуй, песня»
9 Маугли – Ансамбль п/у А Тартаковского
10 Калина – ВИА «Оризонт»
11 Скорый поезд № 5 – ВИА «Эстрадные мелодии» п/у Ю.Тишкуса
12 Тогда летим – Е.Дриацкая и В.Артюх

ФАНК! [192kbps]

never enough by any name

2007-05-21T15:52:00.000+10:00

Here's a rare promotional B-side from 1962:
Mark Robinson sings "I've made enough mistakes today"

Note the label credits:
Hazlewood & Lee Productions, plus arrangement by Jack Nitzsche (the man largely responsible for what we think of as the Hazlewood sound).
Sylvester was in fact one of Lee's labels...
And Mark Robinson?
Hint: he released his first single "Pretty Jane" in 1958 on Jamie [1103]
judge for yourself [96kbps mono]

PS: anyone seen the A-side "Can't Let Her See Me Cry"?

a few more drops of honey...

2007-05-21T13:19:00.000+10:00

Here are a tantalising two tracks from the elusive Honey Ltd. album mentioned in my last post.
Brilliant music (i.e. intelligent and luminous), it just makes me want to hear the full album so much more!
The Warrior has a dark anti-war message wrapped in pure harmonic sunshine. Remarkable to think these babes toured Vietnam for the US troops whilst expressing these sentiments!

on stage in 'Nam, December 1968

These slightly murky examples are from the Boyd Rice compilation "Music for Pussycats" and were mastered from worn vinyl.
I've cleaned them just enough to get rid of the snap, crackle & pop.
The Warrior/Silk and Honey
two tracks [192+VBR LHI-12002]

limited honeys

2007-05-17T22:42:00.000+10:00

here’s a promotional single from Honey Ltd. an all-girl group that recorded on Lee’s label LHI. There’s an excellent and detailed article on this group's history at Perfect Sound Forever. You can find photos and more material here.

Note for completists!
Now included in the zip file are both sides of this single:-
with Lee Hazlewood's spoken intro (A-side),
and without it (B-side):

Louie, Louie [96kbps mono LHI-1216]

A self-titled album was apparently recorded and pressed but remains frustratingly elusive — even to the group members themselves!
If anyone has access to this please feel free to make it available!

Thanks to Hunter, the album by subsequent band Eve: Take It and Smile is available in the comments, along with more goodies!

a stray track

2007-05-17T15:06:00.000+10:00

For those that don’t read the comments, thanks to Cooper here’s another treat, Lee Hazlewood’s B-side from the single Greyhound Bus Depot, 1969:
Trouble Maker [320kbps LHI-20 B-side]
another classic of Hazlewood irony
This file has been carefully de-clicked from the original posted by Cooper,
hence the different link...

another USSR hidden classic...

2007-05-11T15:01:00.000+10:00

La Musique Sovietique - From Palanga to Gurzufa - L’ete 69

Summer 1969
In the summer of 1969, in the USSR a collection of “beach music” was produced specifically for Intourist - the Soviet Tourism agency. Titled "From Palanga to Gurzoufa - Musique Sovietique. L'ete 69. " it was not intended for sale in the USSR, but to be the soundtrack of summer holidays for visitors from abroad. Whilst the word "beach" doesn’t appear on the cover, it is in the air in all respects : in the title, we see today the erotic subtext (69!), and in the selection of tracks, which was surprising.
As with all Inturist aesthetics with its restaurants, and hotels for foreign visitors, the main challenge "From Palanga to Gurzoufa" was to motivate and elicit a foreign audience, with sunny, open, half instrumental, half vocal music. But since this record was the first of its kind, there was guesswork involved. Hence the unusual colours musical material some of which are clearly outside the beach aesthetic.

Decree No. 319
The compilation never saw the light of day however (or should that be ‘the light of dusk‘?). May 20, 1969 the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic passed Resolution No. 319, declaring "The chief of Russian culture" should dissolve the entertainment community. In 1970, with huge celebrations of the anniversary of Lenin, the USSR would be entering a new era, whereas beach music conveyed a "message of bourgeois values" and were no longer desirable.

In 2004, at Melodia a team was set up to recover archival tapes of the rarest recordings that were in danger of complete disintegration - an undertaking of monumental proportions. The process was taking its course when in the winter of 2005 a tape box was found with the inscription "concert of Klezmer Festival Rural Folk performances. Third plate. " When the master tape inside was heard, there was confusion: Instead of rural folk it was vivid, original material. Melodia Editors Andrei Troshin and Dmitry Sanagursky investigated further and identified it as this record "From Palanga to Gurzoufa." It turned out that the editor entrusted to destroy the tape in 1969 decided not to follow the infamous decree. To steal the tape was tantamount to suicide, so what has been identified as an excellent compilation of music was hidden in the above box with a description unlikely to attract any negative attention. The finally-released collection is unchanged, all songs are in the order in which they were originally planned, uncompromised by the decrees of Soviet good taste or the whims of more recent fashion.

enjoy!

tracklist
01 Квартет «Электрон» – Мелодия из к/ф «Бум»
02 Капиталина Лазаренко – Офанона
03 Ансамбль И. Зевина – Хали-гали (Т. Руффо)
04 Анна Герман – Солнечный день
05 Юрий Мухин – Юмореска]
06 Ансамбль «Рококо» – Ленивый шейк
07 Джаз-ансамбль «Балалайка» – Дыхание юга
08 Анна Герман – Дай мне помечтать
09 Квартет «Электрон» – Вернись (М. Домингес)
10 Нина Пантелеева – Продавщица бананов
11 Гюли Чохели –Танцуем вместе (М.Суббота–Л.Дербенев)
12 Валерий Приказчиков – Вечное движение
13 Юрий Мухин – Клен ты мой опавший
14 Джаз-ансамбль «Балалайка» – Тульский самовар
CCCP’69 [192kbps]

Bossa Nova USSR #4

2007-05-11T00:15:00.000+10:00

"Life is beautiful music in the USSR"

tracklist
01 Прогулка (Ю.Касаткин) ВИА «Кобза» п/р О.Зуева
02 Аэлита, из сюиты «Любимые сказки» (А.Быканов) Инструментальный ансамбль п/у А.Корнеева
03 Тайный знак (А.Быканов – А.Горюшкин) М.Магомаев, в сопровождении эстр.-симф. оркестра п/у Ю.Силантьева
04 Воспоминание (Б.Рычков) Ансамбль п/у А.Тартаковского
05 Цветы москвичам (И.Якушенко) Трио И.Якушенко: И.Якушенко (ф-но), И.Кантюков (к-бас), А.Симоновский (ударн.)
06 Синей Ночью (В.Рубашевский – Л.Дербенев) Мария Лукач в сопровождении ансамбля п/у В.Рубашевского
07 Chega de Saudade (No More Blues) (A.C.Jоbim, V. de Moraes) Ансамбль «Вариола»
08 Лирическая босса-нова (М.Семенов) Ансамбль п/у А.Тартаковского
09 Свидание с сентябрем (Ю.Мосеичев) Трио Ю.Мосеичева
10 Антенны (В.Купревич – Н.Турлай) В.Лыньковский в сопровождении ансамбля п/у В.Купревича
11 День рождения (А.Тартаковский) Трио А.Тартаковского: А.Тартаковский (ф-но), И.Виноградов (к-бас), В.Макеев (ударн.)

Босса Нова 4 [192kbps 1963-1976]

Bossa Nova USSR #3

2007-05-10T23:52:00.000+10:00

"More of the most beautiful music in the USSR"

tracklist
01 Дождливая осень - ансамбль п/у А.Тартаковского
02 Грустные дожди - Оркестр п/у В.Людвиковского
03 Только «да» - Валерий Ободзинский
04 Manha De Carnaval - Ансамбль «Мелодия»
05 Возможно - Ансамбль «Миниатюр»
06 А снег идёт - Инструментальный ансамбль
07 Когда идут дожди - Лев Барашков
08 Над кромкой леса - Инструментальный ансамбль
09 Пусть знает ещё кто-нибудь – «Голубой ансамбль» п/у Петара Сана
10 Zeme zeid - Женский вокальный октет и Рижский эстрадный оркестр
11 Голубая мечта - Оркестр п/у В.Игнатьева
12 Лето проходит - Инструментальный ансамбль п/у В.Клейнота
13 Insensatez – п/у А.Тартаковского
14 The shadow of you smile - Вокальный джаз п/у Г.Зарха

Босса Нова 3 [192kbps 1962-1973]

even more lee — realy!

2007-05-07T10:22:00.000+10:00

We interrupt the Soviet broadcast to bring you three (3!) more precious pieces of the Hazlewood OOP puzzle, thanks to the selfless efforts of our good friend Henrik:
and I must say these have already become some of my favourite Hazlewood recordings.
There are a few familiar tracks here but they are different recordings, and to finally get to hear Lee live is a delicious treat — his dry irony glows forth.

I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
[1973 224kbps VIF 5004]
tracklist
01 - Lone Ranger Ain't My Friend Anymore
02 - She Comes Running
03 - Stone Lost Child
04 - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (feat. Ann-Kristin Hedmark)
05 - Urge For Going
06 - Taxi
07 - Paris Song
08 - A Better Place To Be

The Stockholm Kid - Live At Berns
[1974 224kbps CBS 80534]
tracklist
01 - The Performer
02 - You Look Like A Lady
03 - It Was A Very Good Year
04 - Hello In There
05 - Medley: Jackson / Summer Wine / Sugar Town / Some Velvet Morning / Houston / These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
06 - Fire And Rain
07 - Come Spend The Morning
08 - She Comes Running
09 - A Better Place To Be

A House Safe For Tigers
(Må Vårt Hus Förskonas Från Tigrar)
[1975 224kbps CBS 80383]
tracklist
01 - Soul's Island
02 - A House Safe For Tigers
03 - Our Little Boy Blue
04 - Absent Friends (Instrumental)
05 - Sand Hill Anna And The Russian Mouse
06 - Lars-Gunnar And Me
07 - Soul's Island
08 - Las Vegas (Instrumental)
09 - The Nights
10 - A House Safe For Tigers (Choir)

All Hail Our Glorious Benefactor Henrik!

Bossa Nova USSR #2

2007-05-06T01:28:00.000+10:00

"Still the most beautiful music in the USSR"

tracklist
01 Босса-нова - Ансамбль А. Полякова
02 День рождения - Ансамбль А. Тартаковского
03 Босса-нова - Ансамбль Р. Грабштаса
04 Manha De Carnaval - Венера Майсурадзе
05 Босса-нова - Оркестр п/у В. Людвиковского
06 Совсем как на земле - Оркестр п/у В. Клейнота
07 Ave Maria - Анна Чернявская
08 Летний день - "Гайя", Оркестр п/у Р. Бабаева
09 Счастливого пути - Ансамбль "Граммафон"
10 Bossa Nova USA - Ансамбль В. Федорова
11 Девушка и кувшин - Ансамбль "Мелодия"
12 Босса-нова - Ансамбль Р. Грабштаса
13 Bossa Nova USA - Ансамбль "Камертон"
14 Осенний свет - Николай Никитский
15 Осень - Ансамбль А. Тартаковского
Босса нова 2 [192kbps]

Bossa Nova USSR #1

2007-05-03T22:23:00.000+10:00

"The most beautiful music in the USSR"

continuing on the soviet theme,
more easy-listening treasures from the vaults:

tracklist
01 Garota De Ipanema (A.C. Jobim) – Трио Александра Тартаковского
02 Manha De Carnaval (L.Bonfa, автор французского текста неизвестен) – Эдита Пьеха
03 Manha De Carnaval (тема из музыки к фильму «ORFEU NEGRU») (L.Bonfa) – Квартет Р. Бабаева
04 Samba De Uma Nota So (A.C. Jobim) – Ансамбль "Миниатюр" п/у В. Чижика
05 Бocca-Нова (В. Ганелин) – Эстрадно-симфонический оркестр п/у Ю. Силантьева
06 Песня в платочке (В. Купревич-В. Семернин) – Анатолий Горохов
07 На рассвете (А.Абрамов) – Ансамбль народных инструментов п/у М. Шейнкмана
08 Тихий вечер (В.Миронов)– Московское трио гитаристов
09 В осеннем лесу (А. Цфасман) – Александр Цфасман
10 Desafinado (A.C. Jobim , N.Mendonca) – Ленинградский вокальный джаз п/у Г. Зарха
11 Ноктюрн (Я.Дубравин) – Ансамбль п/у В. Игнатьева
12 Босса-Нова (В.Зильберт)– Эстрадный оркестр Литвы п/у Ю. Тишкуса
13 Desafinado (A.C. Jobim , N.Mendonca) – Аби Зейдер
14 Прости меня (А.Мажуков) – "ВИО-66"
15 Древние словa (мелодия из к/ф «УЛЫБНИСЬ СОСЕДУ») (Л. Гарин) – Зоя Харабадзе, Вадим Лыньковский
Босса Нова 1 [192kbps]

out of the cold [war]

2007-04-30T13:10:00.000+10:00

and into the cool...

More classic sounds from the cultural archives
of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
—this time for the holiday you can take—in your mind...

Music for Holidays
Музыка для отдыха
01 "ВИО-66", Эстрадный оркестр, Алексей Мажуков - Парафраз на темы песни И Дунаевского из к-ф "Волга-Волга" (5:20)
02 "ВИО-66", Эстрадный оркестр, Алексей Мажуков - Забыть нельзя (6:16)
03 "ВИО-66", Эстрадный оркестр, Алексей Мажуков - Парафраз на темы песни Ю Милютина из к-ф "Сердца четырех" (4:52)
04 "ВИО-66", Эстрадный оркестр, Алексей Мажуков - Луна над Майями (4:29)
05 "ВИО-66", Эстрадный оркестр, Алексей Мажуков - Парафраз на темы песни Л Лядовой "Старый друг" (5:12)
06 "ВИО-66", Эстрадный оркестр, Алексей Мажуков - Прости меня (4:04)
07 "ВИО-66", Эстрадный оркестр, Алексей Мажуков - Это так на вас похоже (4:45)
08 "ВИО-66", Эстрадный оркестр, Алексей Мажуков - Парафраз на темы популярных песен И Дунаевского (6:40)
09 А Кузнецов, Эстрадный оркестр, Алексей Мажуков - Посвящение (Bonus) (5:45)
10 А Кузнецов, Эстрадный оркестр, Алексей Мажуков - Босса-нова ("Алеша") (Bonus) (4:42)
11 "ВИО-66", Юрий Саульский - День за днем (Bonus) (3:55)
check out [192kbps]

the lounge behind the [iron] curtain

2007-04-30T13:01:00.000+10:00

You may be surprised
what a smooth soothing groove
is being piped to the waiting-room behind that iron curtain:

Lazy Shake — “Soviet Easy Leastining”
Ленивый шейк
01 Инструментальный ансамбль "Рококо" - Рококо (2:18)
02 Инструментальный ансамбль "Рококо" - Дюны (3:46)
03 Вокальный квартет "Аккорд" - Эхо (2:40)
04 Инструментальный ансамбль "Рококо" - Лесной ручей (3:30)
05 Инструментальный ансамбль "Рококо" - Галантная пьеса (3:30)
06 Инструментальный ансамбль "Рококо" - Ленивый шейк (3:06)
07 Вокальный квартет "Аккорд" - Пингвины (2:04)
08 Джаз-ансамбль "Балалайка" - Зеленый горошек (2:41)
09 Инструментальный ансамбль "Рококо" - Ветерок (3:39)
10 Джаз-ансамбль "Балалайка" - Дыхание юга (3:19)
11 Анатолий Горохов и джаз-ансамбль "Балалайка" - Дальних звезд огни (3:46)
12 Инструментальный ансамбль "Рококо" - Долина цветов (2:27)
13 Инструментальный ансамбль "Рококо" - Танец влюбленных (3:01)
14 Джаз-ансамбль "Балалайка" - Дедушкина свирель (4:24)
15 Джаз-ансамбль "Балалайка" - Тульский самовар (2:11)
check in [192kbps]

Lee again

2007-04-24T11:17:00.000+10:00

Here's another piece of the Lee Hazlewood puzzle, with many thanks to Henrik!

Here Lee heads out on the Highway in that classic 1970s country genre, the Truckin' album.
This one's particularly idiosyncratic — there's even a Kung Fu number here!

Movin’ On [1977 128kbps]
tracklist
01 Mother Country Music.mp3
02 I've Got To Be Movin'.mp3
03 The Rising Star.mp3
04 Come On Home To Me.mp3
05 It's For My Dad.mp3
06 Let's Burn Down The Cornfield.mp3
07 Hello Saturday Morning.mp3
08 Wait Till Next Year.mp3
09 L.A. Lady.mp3
10 Paris Bells.mp3
11 Kung Fu You.mp3
12 It Was A Very Good Year.mp3

Now if anyone can point us to "A house safe for tigers" and "I'll be your baby tonight" we would all be thoroughly appreciative...

Gems of the Soviet Space Age #2

2007-04-23T15:55:00.001+10:00

Here's phase two of Vyacheslav Mescherin's mesmerising musical marvels with some extra tracks not on the CD.
If only there were more of this...
There will be some other wonders of the Soviet Era to follow however!

01 Фарфоровая статуэтка - Porcelain Statuette - Porcelain Statuette - 1979
02 Сибирская мелодия - Siberian Melody - 1979
03 Вологодские кружева - Vologda Lace - 1978
04 Лютня - Lute - 1975
05 Медвежонок - Bear Cub - 1976
06 Упрямый робот - Persistent Robot - 1986
07 Погожий день - Fine Day - 1975
08 Прялка - Spinning Wheel - 1977
09 Ойе – ухажер - Oh, Philanderer - 1980
10 Задумчивый танец - Deep Thought Dance - 1967
11 Цветы - Flowers - 1976
12 Навязчивый мотив - Haunting Melody - 1973
13 Вечерняя Босса-Нова - Evening Bossa-Nova - 1979
14 Мансарда - Garret - 1982
15 После дождя - After The Rain - 1974
+ bonuses from vinyl and collections - no dates (VBR):
16 Я вижу звёзды - I See Stars
17 Белое золото - White gold
18 Укротитель змей - Snake Charmer
19 Гавайский вальс - Hawaiian Waltz
20 В дальний путь - In a distant way
21 Мелодия из к/ф «Путь к причалу» - A melody from "the Way to a mooring "

Easy CCCP Part 2 [@192kbps/vbr]

Gems of the Soviet Space Age #1

2007-04-22T21:18:00.000+10:00

now a real treat for lounge-lovers and
those with an interest in Space-Age Pop:
some genuine Soviet electronic exotica!

Here’s the first volume of a compilation of the work of Russian composer, arranger and orchestra leader Vyacheslav Mescherin. This brilliant combination of conventional and electronic instrumentation is what I’d describe as quirky, nerdy and a perhaps just a little off-centre.
If you like your cocktails with a vodka base and prefer exploring the cosmos to mere astronomy, slip on some larger glasses and get set for take off! And with titles like "On the Kolkhoz Poultry Farm" and "Dancing Dwarves" how could you stray off course?

from the CD booklet, the only passage in English:
"One way to call it is "Russian Exotica" or "Soviet Incredibly Strange Music". Vyacheslav Mescherin's "Ensemble of Electro-Musicai Instruments" has been the USSR'S space-age answer to Esquivel, Martin Denny, Joe Meek and other sonic travellers and explorers.
Throughout the thirty plus years long career, this small orchestra has left an enormous heritage of more than a thousand recorded tracks. A lot of them sound very mainstream, some are obviously cloned from Western donors, but many are truly unique thanks to both obscure Soviet-made instruments and some
unlikely sources of musical inspiration (from Siberian folklore to Communist propaganda songs).
Not surprisingly, the work of Mescherin was considered totally kitschy and outdated by rock and modem pop audiences, and has been completely forgotten up until very recently. Now, re-discovered by the new generation of electronica lovers, Vyacheslav Mescherin's weird music once again serves for fun, dance and—this time—sampling!"
—Artemy Troitsky
— author of "Back In the USSR ": The True Story of Rock In Russia"
and "Tusovka: Whatever Happened to the Soviet Underground Culture".

Tracklist:
01 По дороге в школу - On the Way to School - 1967
02 Юмореска - Sketch - 1974
03 Танцуем шейк - Dancing Shake - 1964
04 На даче - At the Summer Cottage- 1967
05 Царевна-лягушка - Froggy The Princess- 1969
06 Как заяц лису перехитрил - How a Hare Cheated a Fox - 1969
07 Куба, моя Куба - Cuba My Cuba - 1973
08 Последний год в школе - The Last Year in School - 1964
09 Эль Бимбо - El Bimbo - 1979
10 Танец эфиопского шута - Ethiopian Joker’s Dance - 1968
11 Танец пингвинов - Penguin Dance - 1967
12 На колхозной птицеферме - On the Kolkhoz Poultry Farm - 1961
13 На пляже - On the Beach - 1969
14 Танцующие гномы - Dancing Dwarves - 1973
15 На берегу лазурного залива - On the Azure Gulf Coast - 1973
16 Когда на улице мороз - When It’s Frosty in the Street - 1968
17 Лягушки - Frogs - 1980
18 Ночная мелодия - Night Melody - 1969
19 Галоп №2 - Gallop - 1970
20 Фантазии на перуанские темы - Fantasies on Peru Themes - 1962
21 Музыкальный ящик - Music Box - 1969
22 Воздушная кукуруза - Popcorn - 1979

Yes the track titles and tags are all in Russian.
There is plenty more to come in the Soviet Easy Listening genre — keep those attic crystal sets tuned — the Party will approve!
easy CCCP [192kbps]

Re-Lee Cool Re-Cap

2007-03-03T21:47:00.000+11:00

I am re-posting a definitive list of all the OOP Lee Hazlewood albums I have had the honour to hear and colate so far (various bitrates), with new download links, since all the old rabidshite.de links have expired. I hope there is continued interest in these remarkable recordings so the links don’t expire...

solo albums

N.S.V.I.P.s (NOT SO VERY IMPORTANT PERSONS) Reprise RS-6133 1964
tracklist:
01 First Street Blues
02 I Had a Friend
03 I'm Gonna Fly
04 Go Die Big City
05 I Ain't Gonna Be
06 Have You Made Any Bombs Today?
07 Everybody Calls Me Something
08 Save Your Vote for Clarence Mudd
09 I Might Just Break Even
10 Just Bluesin'

FRIDAY'S CHILD Reprise RS-6163 1965
tracklist:
01 Friday's child
02 Hutchinson Jail
03 By The Way (I Still Love You)
04 Four Kinds Of Lonely
05 Houston
06 Sally Was A Good Old Girl
07 Since You're Gone
08 A Real Live Fool
09 I'm Blue
10 The Fool
11 That Old Freight Train
12 Me And Charlie

98% AMERICAN MOM & APPLE PIE 1929 CRASH BAND 1967
instrumental
tracklist
01 Summerwine
02 These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
03 Friday's Child
04 Sugartown
05 Shades
06 So Long Babe
07 How Does That Grab You Darlin'
08 In Our Time
09 Not The Lovin' Kind
10 Leave My Dog Alone
11 Houston

LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES Reprise RS-6297 1968
tracklist:
01 Love And Other Crimes
02 Morning Dew
03 She Comes Running
04 Rosacoke Street
05 She's Funny That Way
06 The House Song
07 Wait And See
08 Forget Marie
09 Pour' man
10 Love and other crimes (reprise)

FORTY LHI S-12009 1970
tracklist
01 It Was A Very Good Year
02 What's More, I Don't Need Her
03 The Night Before
04 The Bed
05 Paris Bells
06 Wait Til Next Year
07 September Song
08 Let's Burn Down The Cornfield
09 Bye Babe
10 Mary

20TH CENTURY LEE RCA YSPL-575 1976
tracklist
01 Long Haired Country Boy
02 That's How I Got to Memphis
03 In a Young Girl's Mind
04 The Ballad of Lucy Jordan
05 An Old Lullaby
06 The Fool
07 Indian Summer (L'été indien)
08 My Girl Bill
09 Crazy Mama
10 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
11 To Ramona
12 Brevet Fràn Lillan

SINGLES:

Rare 45rpm Extras
archive includes:
1 Ode to Billy Joe
2 Charlie Bill Nelson
3 Rainbow Woman
4 I Am, You Are
5 Trouble Promo - Autobiography narated in the style of the introductions on Trouble and N.S.V.I.P.s

(Why Must I Die) The Girl On Death Row
- Released May 1960 on Jamie [320kbps Cat#1158]
Lee Hazlewood & Duane Eddy
B side: Words Mean Nothing

collaborations:
The Shacklefords -

Until you've heard the Shacklefords, you ain't heard nothin' yet 1963
tracklist
01 Mama Was a Cotton Picker
02 (There Goes) The Big Boss Man
03 Sweet Mollye (Life can be so Cruel)
04 Golden Bells
05 If The World Don't End Tomorrow (I'm Coming After You)
06 A Stranger In Your Town
07 Our little Boy Blue
08 Caro-Lyn
09 Big River
10 After That
11 Stand Up
12 You'll Never Have My Love So True

The Shacklefords Sing 1966 - 4 tracks only from this album - anyone have the whole LP?
01 The City Never Sleeps
04 Mansion of Tears
05 Muddy, Muddy River
10 Five Feet High And Risin'

I’m still hoping these will turn up some day - any offers?

DID YOU EVER w. Nancy Sinatra RCA Victor LSP-4645 1972
I'LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT Viking VIF-5004 1973
A HOUSE SAFE FOR TIGERS CBS 80383 1975
MOVIN’ ON 1977

If you haven’t heard, Lee Hazlewood is on his way out, suffering from renal cancer with perhaps a year to live, philosophically preparing for what he calls his “dirt nap”...
read more here

His final album, Cake or Death was released last month.

"I'm 77. I've been around long enough now.
I've lived a pretty interesting life - not too
much sadness, a lot of happiness, lots of fun.
And I didn't do much of anything I didn't want to do."
— Lee Hazlewood

a long weekend at Hotel Easy

2007-01-29T20:12:00.001+11:00

Here is the complete known Hotel Easy series of library cuts released by Virgin in 1996-97 and now seemingly impossible to find.
I presented volume 3 as one of Realm of |X| earliest posts.
The rest are here as received; unfortunately the Artist tags are missing on Vols 1 & 2.
If anyone has the complete information I would be very happy to make the corrections...

Golden Cavalcade Casino
hotel Easy Volume 1

tracklist
1. Grandstand
2. Competitors
3. Thrills And Spills
4. Where The Action Is (Aka Mono Ski)
5. Guitar Gambler
6. Tycoon
7. Jackpot
8. Top Chrono
9. Dangerous Assignment
10. Go Getter
11. Action Line
12. Risk Business
13. Syndicate
14. City In The Sun
15. Hot Property
16. Sporting Highlights
17. Ill Winds
18. Hollywood Scene
19. Hot Module
20. Organ Blower
21. Trombones In The Night
22. Calender Girl
23. French Kick
volume 1 [192kbs]

La Scandale Discotheque
hotel Easy Vol 2

tracklist
1. Boogie Juice
2. Hot Pants
3. Espresso Bongo
4. Young Generation
5. Jet Setters
6. Pulsator
7. Cutting The Funk
8. Friday Feeling
9. Trend Setters
10. Pop Package
11. Freak Out
12. Thunderbird
13. Crime Squad
14. World Cup
15. On The South Side
16. 49th Street Shakedown
17. Soul City
18. Making It
19. Soul Organ Impromptu
20. Thunder Thighs
21. Night Fever
22. Disco Disco
23. Mission Just Possible
volume 2 [192kbs]

Playmates Penthouse Hotel Easy Volume 3
tracklist
01 Penthouse Suite (Aka Man Friday) - S Dale - 1969
02 Secret Service (Aka Bill Sykes) - S Dale - 1969
03 Butterfly - J Haider - 1971
04 Florida Playboy - J Hawksworth - 1969
05 Good Thing Going - Alan Hawkshaw - 1968
06 Club 69 (Aka Close Down)
- Alan Hankshaw/D Gould - 1968
07 Teen Lovers (Aka A Big Moody)
- B Martin/P Coulter - 1967
08 Call Me (The New Classic Singers) - T Hatch - 1966
09 Beat Me Till I'm Blue - Alan Hankshaw - 1969
10 Time For Romance - G Rees - 1985
11 Gingerbread - Alan Hankshaw - 1973
12 Theme For A Dream - Sam Fonteyn - 1969
13 Satin Sounds - D Walter - 1994
14 Je Reviews - K Mansfield - 1969
15 Solitaire - Alan Parker - 1975
16 Summer Love - J Danksworth - 1969
17 Young Emotions - Alan Hankshaw - 1969
18 First Affair - Alan Hankshaw - 1973
19 Girl With The Beautiful Hair - M Moran - 1975
20 Half Forgotton Daydreams - J Cameron - 1973
21 A Kiss In The Moonlight (Aka Sophisticated Sell)
- J Pearson - 1968
22 Pussycat (Cy Coleman) - Cy Coleman/B Sckluger - 1964
23 Bed Of Roses - J Pearson - 1971
volume 3 [192kbs]

Paco's Poolside Bar
Hotel Easy Vol 4

tracklist
1. Girl In A Sports Car - A. Hawkshaw 1973
2. Eurotrash - Peter Moore 1995
3. Fun In The Sun - H. Richardson 1969
4. Riviera Affair - H.Richardson/G.Ross 1969
5. Lazy Day - Peter Moore 1973
6. Sandals In The Sand - John Shakespeare 1969
7. Clear Waters - A. Parker/A. Hawkshaw 1973
8. International Playground - R.Tibley 1969
9. The Millionaires - A.Hawkshaw 1973
10. Never A Dull Moment - J.CLarke 1973
11. Beauty Parade - S.Dale 1965
12. New Image - K.Mansfield 1970
13. Going Places - James Clarke 1973
14. Holiday Commercial - A.Hawkshaw 1970
15. Travelling Free - L.Johnson 1965
16. Pacific Playground - S.Dale 1967
17. Caribbean Cruise - W.Toatz 1970
18. Montego Bay - L.Johnson 1965
19. Brazil Brazil - Sam Fontega 1969
20. The Free Life - J.Clarke 1969
21. Sunny Speed - J.Cameron 1973
22. Summer Convertible - R.Tibley 1969
23. Scooter Girl - A.Hawkshaw 1973
volume 4 [m4a files@128kbs]
alternative [mp3 converted from above files @104-178vbr]

old links will be repaired

2007-01-29T17:04:00.000+11:00

Due to the expiration of my old Rapidshare.de account most of the files are no longer available. I will be re-uploading them in due course.
If you find a broken link to a particular file you're after, let me know and I'll make that one a priority. Please stay tuned...

Merry Xmas From The Space Age Realm of X Bachelor Pad

2006-12-20T12:35:00.001+11:00

OK to make up for my shameful lack of shares lately, here’s one that is mysteriously OOP:
The inimitable Esquivel with his Christmas favourites.
Originally recorded in 1959 as one side of “The Merriest of Christmas Pop” (Ray Martin did the other side), these were re-released in 1996 and filled out to 29 minutes of fandangled Christmas fun with the addition of "Snowfall", "Sun Valley Ski Run", "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" and "I Feel Merely Marvelous". The collection was book-ended with new recordings by Combustible Edison: Jingle Bells & Auld Lang Syne, with cute voice-overs by Señor Esquivel himself.

"What holiday cocktail party would be complete without some zooma-zoom-zoom and doo-doo-doo to add to all of the ho-ho-hos? Take some Christmas classics, add a little retro sci-fi, hand it off to Señor Juan Esquivel and let him shake. (Or stir.) The result is still the same, as Merry Christmas from the Space Age Bachelor Pad turns every lounge into a swingin' Santa joint. The real highlight here is a reworking of "Jingle Bells" as only a masterfully hip maestro like Esquivel could achieve, with the help of some latter-day cocktailors from Combustible Edison. There's also a surprise cut, not a holiday classic per se, but a festive tune all the same: "I Feel Merely Marvelous," an old B side from Esquivel's heyday that was all but forgotten until now. Who knows--with the right mix of mistletoe and martinis, "I Feel Merely Marvelous" could become a seasonal favorite yet". –Steve Gdula, amazon.com

Juan Garcia Esquivel died in 2002, after living long enough to see his music find favor with a new generation.

tracklist
01. Jingle Bells (Greetings From Esquivel!)
02. White Christmas
03. Here Comes Santa Claus
04. Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers
05. The Christmas Song
06. Frosty The Snowman
07. Snowfall
08. Sun Valley Ski Run
09. Blue Christmas
10. Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
11. I Feel Merely Marvelous
12. Auld Lang Syne (Adios From Esquivel!)

Ho Ho Ho [192kps]

Cha Cha Cha!

2006-12-17T12:34:00.000+11:00

Not exactly maraca-less...
– a frivolous recording of questionable significance:

A Dutch release on the Carmen label, from Vroom & Dreesmann.
Light and fluffy, perfect for warming the winter nights for those north of the equator, or for that up-coming pool party for those lucky enough to reside on the summer end of the globe.
Hardly compensation for my appalling lack of attention to the Realm of X, but check back soon for an imminent Christmas present of far greater value...

Kant A
01 Le Gusta Su Chocolate
02 Despedida De Cuba
03 Everybody's Cha Cha Cha
04 Labios Rojos
05 Arroz Con Pollo
06 Hasta Mañana

Kant B
07 La Cantina De Salvador
08 Rayos De Luna
09 Conchita Bonita
10 Mi Sueño De Amor
11 Papillon Negro
12 Mujer Bonita

shake it! [192kbps stereo Carmen LP afspeelbar 3503082/undated]

emphatically fanatical-Lee country

2006-08-24T23:03:00.000+10:00

The Shacklefords
Until you've heard the Shacklefords, you ain't heard nothin' yet

Produced by Lee Hazlewood & Marty Cooper, and named after Naomi Shackleford - Lee Hazlewood's first wife and high school sweetheart. Lee wrote much of the material on this record, the first of two Shacklefords albums and his sonorous voice can be heard singing backup vocals on most tracks and in the foreground on a couple. The band also released a number of singles, their first being A stranger In Your Town (track 6).
If the liner notes are to be trusted, Lee Hazlewood was breaking new ground here in defining the crossover genre of Country Folk:

"The Shacklefords have come up with just about the doggonedest sound you've ever heard. And I'm surprised that no one thought of it before, because the idea of combining two of America's distinct native musical heritages—folk music and country music—is a natural.
After all, the roots are basically the same—southern and southwest in origin— and the blend of the two is like putting together steak and potatoes."
— Jack Tracy, Mercury Recording Director

Richie Unterberger from All Music Guide, is not so kind:
"An interesting combination of folk and country music presented in an honest, warm and appealing manner" boasts the banner on the back sleeve... To "honest, warm and appealing" they could have added "bland." That's even though most of the songs were written, together or separately, by Lee Hazlewood and his sometime cohort Marty Cooper. And, yes, even though ace session men like James Burton, Hal Blaine, Billy Strange, and Al Casey play on the album. It's wholesome, pretty sterile whitebread folk-country, in the manner of many early-1960s folk LPs that were trying to be variety-show entertainment more than they were a vehicle for personal expression, or steeped in authentic folk music. Just one song, "Our Little Boy Blue," has the sort of eccentricity typical of much of Hazlewood's stranger work, with his dust-dry narration of a lyric impossible to pigeonhole as either cornball or put-on satire. Hazlewood's unmistakably deep, debauched-Johnny Cash-style vocals are heard from time to time (usually in the background), but only Hazlewood fanatics will want this in their collection."

Well, Ritchie, I must be one of those fanatics!
After repeated listenings in the process of cleaning up this rip I'm hooked on this sound - there's an optimism and vitality there that keeps me humming... clearly it never claimed to be "authentic" but if you like the sound of Country before it disappeared up it's own fundamental orifice in the latter decades of the twentieth century, give it a listen... To me this is catchy country pop at it's simplistic and sentimental best!

tracklist
01 Mama Was a Cotton Picker
02 (There Goes) The Big Boss Man
03 Sweet Mollye (Life can be so Cruel)
04 Golden Bells
05 If The World Don't End Tomorrow (I'm Coming After You)
06 A Stranger In Your Town
07 Our little Boy Blue
08 Caro-Lyn
09 Big River
10 After That
11 Stand Up
12 You'll Never Have My Love So True

Come 'n' get it! [160kbps mono Mercury LP MG 20806/1963]
scans & full album text included in archive

now for some Light relief:

2006-08-13T22:40:00.000+10:00

Project 3 presents The Enoch Light Singers:
Dream A Little Dream of Me

from the back cover:
Exciting new winds are blowing through popular music these days. The musical revolution set off by the success of such singing groups as the Beatles, Herman's Hermits and other rock groups has spread out and left its touch on every aspect of contemporary music.

The style and approach originally formulated by small singing groups has been picked up by instrumentalists so that a completely new view of instrumental music has appeared. Musicians playing in dance bands and orchestras, whose concepts had stayed more or less the same since the great days of the big bands, have found a wonderfully freshening excitement in the musical ideas that they hear the small singing groups putting out.

Listening to this development — the progression of influences from the small singing groups to the instrumentalists — Enoch Light perceived at least one direction in which it was leading: The next step, the next progression of influence, would be a large group of singers whose attack and phrasing picked up the drive and intensity of a big band even while it reflected the basic singing styles of the small groups.

That was why he organised and trained the Enoch Light Singers — sixteen superb, well drilled voices, eight girls, eight boys, who phrase and sing in the same way as today's most advanced musicians.

What he undertook was a kind of choral work that had never been attempted before. To get his new group to sing just the way today's musicians play, Light first had them study the musicians' attack on a song very closely. Then he drilled them to phrase in the same way the musicians did, using a fall-off or whatever stylistic devices might occur.

The arrangements of the twelve big hits with which Enoch Light introduces his Singers start from the original small group treatment and are developed through the use of all the elements that have given contemporary music its great popularity. The instrumentation, the styling in both playing and singing, the use of dynamics — all are part of Light's broadened concept.

For Enoch Light, this is one more step in the extraordinarily exploratory direction in which he has always moved. It was Enoch Light who first gave stereo a musical meaning. His records have consistently pointed the way that others have followed, whether he was reaching back into the fun and music of the 20's, popularising the big band cha cha or the bossa nova or the big band discotheque.

With the creation of the Enoch Light Singers, he's still moving with the times - and, as usual, he's out front, pointing the way.

This one's on the Australian Universal Summit Records label.

tracklist
01 I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight
02 I Say A Little Prayer
03 Green Tambourine
04 It Must Be Him
05 Love Is Blue
06 Ode To Billy Joe
07 People Got to Be Free
08 Whoever You Are, I Love You
09 Hello I Love You
10 Dream a Little Dream of Me
11 Harper Valley PTA
12 Lady Willpower

dream on [192kps Undated-196? SRA250 031]

another singular Lee single

2006-07-14T14:58:00.000+10:00

Thanks to Asclepius here is a high quality vinyl rip
of the excellent Lee Hazlewood/Duane Eddy 45:

(Why Must I Die) The Girl On Death Row
B side: Words Mean Nothing

Released May 1960 on Jamie [320kbps Cat#1158]

Soft Machinations

2006-07-08T19:01:00.000+10:00

Here's Soft Machine's first single:

A-Side: Love Makes Sweet Music (Ayers)
Recorded January 1967 at Advision
Produced by Chas Chandler
B-Side: Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin' (Ayers)
Recorded January 1967 at CBS London
Produced by Kim Fowley

This rip was made from the Triple Echo compilation 3 LP boxed set [March 1977]
There is a remastered CD out there somewhere with these songs on it...
Released 17 February 1967 [96kbps mono]

The Gomelsky Demos:

Recorded in London in April 1967 and produced by the legendary Giorgio Gomelsky (Yardbirds manager and one-time associate of Gong and Magma, also see Julie Driscoll post below), these nine demos feature the original Soft Machine line up of Robert Wyatt (vocals & drums), Kevin Ayers ( bass & vocals), Mike Ratledge (piano & organ) and Daevid Allen (guitar). Although never intended for release, these rough but accomplished performances show the band at their most pop oriented.
There's a great interview with Daevid Allen, describing this early period of the Soft Machine here.

These tracks were not released until 1971, on Rock Generation Volumes 7 & 8 by French label BYG. Subsequently turned up on various vinyl and CD issues as 'Jet Propelled Photographs'
This rip was made from a German self-titled release on Metronome 200.137 [1973]

tracklist
01 That's How Much I Need You Now
02 Save Yourself
03 I Should've Known
04 Jet Propelled Photograph (a.k.a. Shooting At The Moon)
04 You Don't Remember
05 When I Don't Want You
06 06 Memories
08 She's Gone
09 I'd Rather Be With You
Soft Demos [96kbps mono]

Velvets' Black Side

2006-07-07T19:34:00.001+10:00

Here is my third and final contribution to the Velvet Underground's bootleg back-catalog:
more tracks that I haven’t heard elsewhere, but a lot less information this time...
Once again the sound is mono and a little murky
(hey, it's a bootleg)
but well worth the price of admission!

tracklist
01 Sister Ray (Bottom Line, NY 1970)
02 White Light-White Heat (Max's Kanzas City NY July26 1970)
03 Candy Says (Max's Kanzas City NY August23 1970)
04 Do It Again (studio outtake -no date)
05 I'm Set Free (Philadelphia 1970)
06 Pale Blue Eyes (Philadelphia 1970)
07 Heroin (Lou Reed & John Cale practice before Bataclan Concert, Paris January25 1972)
08 I'm Waiting For My Man (Lou Reed & Patti Smith Group, CBGB's NY May4 1977)
incredible Recordmakers, Australia [160kbps mono 1983]

Velvet Underground - "and so on..."

2006-07-05T09:47:00.001+10:00

Here's the second LP treat, this time from 1982, another Australian bootleg of (at the time) previously unreleased material!
More rare gems here for the VU fanatic that as far as I know don't appear anywhere else:
Pale Blue Eyes — this version is my favourite VU song of all, with completely different lyrics to the officially released recordings. Recorded October 2, 1968 at La Cave...
Radio Ad — an amusing promo for their 3rd album
Loop — controlled distortion and feedback looped in the minimalist tradition of Terry Riley et al.
From the liner notes:
"Loop" first appeared as a flexi-disc enclosed in Aspen magazine, in the issue dated December 1966. Aspen was a sort of multi-media magazine, all sorts of things — usually with a common theme — enclosed in a decorative box. Volume one, issue three was coedited by David Dalton and Andy Warhol. It included, besides "Loop," an article by Lou Reed appraising the state of pop radio of the day. The "songwriting" credit on "Loop" went to John Cale, making it the only thing the V.U. ever released that Lou did not have a hand in writing. In fact, Cale is the only person playing on "Loop."

As per the previous post, this LP was issued in mono and many of the other tracks appear on official releases with superior sound quality, although some sound to me like alternative mixes. Again I've included them here for the sake of completeness. Full and detailed liner notes (this time by "Philip Milstein, Editor, What Goes On magazine, President, Velvet Underground Appreciation Society") included.

tracklist
01 Guess I'm Falling in Love
02 It's Alright (The Way That You Live)
03 Pale Blue Eyes
04 One Of These Days
05 Radio Ad
06 Black Angel's Death Song
07 I'm Not Too Sorry
08 Stephanie Says
09 Loop

Plastic Inevitable Records SECOND-1 [160kbps Mono 1982]

Velvet Underground - "-etc"

2006-07-05T09:20:00.001+10:00

I'm pleased to be able to offer you a treat from 1979, an Australian bootleg of (mostly) obscure Velvet Underground material!
There are some rare gems here for the VU fanatic that as far as I know don't appear on any current releases, including the following pre-VU recordings made when Lou Reed worked as a song writer for Pickwick Records:
Cycle Annie — as the Beachnuts
The Ostrich & Sneaky Pete — as The Primitives
You're Drivin' Me Insane — as the Roughnecks
These tracks are full of raw exuberance and ironic humour, essential listening if you liked the first official Velvet Undergound release!

Conversation — a 1966 time-capsule snippet released as a picture-flexi-disc with Andy Warhol's Index.
Noise — a VU sound montage, part of a record produced by the East Village Other (a vogue paper of the time) to commemorate the marriage of Luci Johnson, daughter of then president Lyndon Johnson.

The LP was issued in mono and the other tracks appear (more recently) on official releases with superior sound quality. I've included them here for the sake of completeness.
The sound quality is not fantastic, but where else can you hear this stuff?
The full and detailed liner notes (by C. Walker) are included as a text file.

tracklist
01 Cycle Annie
02 The Ostrich
03 Sneaky Pete
04 You're Drivin' Me Insane
05 Conversation
06 Foggy Notion
07 Inside Your Heart
08 I'm Sticking With You
09 Ferryboat Bill
10 Noise

Plastic Inevitable Records FIRST 1 [160kbps mono 1979]

another one for the list:

2006-07-02T11:27:00.000+10:00

Thanks to an anonymous benefactor, here is Lee Hazlewood's Forty [LHI S-12009 - 1969 - 128kps] to add to your collections!

tracklist
01 It Was A Very Good Year
02 What's More, I Don't Need Her
03 The Night Before
04 The Bed
05 Paris Bells
06 Wait Til Next Year
07 September Song
08 Let's Burn Down The Cornfield
09 Bye Babe
10 Mary

If you like Lee you'll probably be familiar with this.

Re-Lee: Lee Hazlewood revisited

2006-06-08T11:37:00.001+10:00

One of my first posts was Lee Hazlewood's
98% AMERICAN MOM & APPLE PIE 1929 CRASH BAND.
I asked for other Hazlewood albums that are unavailable and was kindly sent several gems that I had never heard. The original links to those records have expired so I am re-posting them for your edification:

N.S.V.I.P.s (NOT SO VERY IMPORTANT PERSONS)
Reprise RS-6133 1964 [128kps]
tracklist:
01 First Street Blues
02 I Had a Friend
03 I'm Gonna Fly
04 Go Die Big City
05 I Ain't Gonna Be
06 Have You Made Any Bombs Today?
07 Everybody Calls Me Something
08 Save Your Vote for Clarence Mudd
09 I Might Just Break Even
10 Just Bluesin'

FRIDAY'S CHILD
Reprise RS-6163 1965 [192kps]
tracklist:
01 Friday's child
02 Hutchinson Jail
03 By The Way (I Still Love You)
04 Four Kinds Of Lonely
05 Houston
06 Sally Was A Good Old Girl
07 Since You're Gone
08 A Real Live Fool
09 I'm Blue
10 The Fool
11 That Old Freight Train
12 Me And Charlie

LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES
Reprise RS-6297 1968 [192kps]
tracklist:
01 Love And Other Crimes
02 Morning Dew
03 She Comes Running
04 Rosacoke Street
05 She's Funny That Way
06 The House Song
07 Wait And See
08 Forget Marie
09 Pour' man
10 Love and other crimes (reprise)

Rare 45rpm Extras
1 Ode to Billy Joe
2 Charlie Bill Nelson
3 Rainbow Woman
4 I Am, You Are
5 Trouble Promo
- Autobiography narated in the style of the introductions on Trouble and N.S.V.I.P.s

Other deleted Lee Hazlewood albums I would love to hear:
DID YOU EVER w. Nancy Sinatra RCA Victor LSP-4645 1972
I'LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT Viking VIF-5004 1973
A HOUSE SAFE FOR TIGERS CBS 80383 1975
20TH CENTURY LEE RCA YSPL-575 1976
MOVIN' ON Polydor 2379147 1977

If you're lookin' for it, you can find Trouble here

pyrotechnical potentiality

2006-06-02T00:36:00.001+10:00

Here it is:
This is what your relationship has been waiting for!

A definitive collection – sixteen versions of the Doors classic Light My Fire...
I hope there is something in here to entertain and en-light-en every single one of you!
Who knows, maybe someone might even leave some feedback...?
Of course if anyone has what they feel is a superior version please don't hesitate to let me know or even upload it for the greater good.
The Tracklist includes the titles of the albums that I took these versions from, not necessarily the original records they were released on.
A big thanks to all the big boys of blog for making most of these records available to me.
Its all your fault, you know...
tracklist
01 Woody Herman – Unknown Album
02 Koichi Oki – Yamaha Superstar!
03 Julie London – Yummy, Yummy, Yummy
04 Edmundo Ros – In FLiGHT Entertainment
05 Astrud Gilberto – Sounds From The Verve Hi-Fi
06 Shirley Bassey – The Later Lounge
07 Ted Heath & his Music – The World of Phase 4 Stereo Vol.2
08 The Mike Flowers Pops – A Groovy Place
09 Zacharias – Ultra-Lounge: On the Rocks, Part 1
10 Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity – Streetnoise
11 The Burbank Philharmonic – First Album (Maybe The Last)
12 The Enoch Light Singers – Whoever You Are, I Love You
13 Mae West – Unknown Album
14 Hbp Mix – Mood Mosaic 8 [Funky In A Minor Mode]
15 Nancy Holloway – Hello Dolly
16 John Andrews Tartaglia – The Sound Gallery Volume Two

light wick & stand clear

Turn me on Bacharach

2006-06-01T19:52:00.000+10:00

Switched-On Bacharach - Christopher Scott
Well, you've probably heard Switched On Bach,
now it's time to give Bacharach the treatment...

The title says it all really, and the switch is connected to an electric chair, in which Mr. Bacharach is slumped, heavily sedated...
The cover image is a high point of this unforgiving recording, but even that looks like a fire hazard. The back cover text of my copy has been damaged and is mostly illegible, but the surviving last paragraph is worth retyping:

"Burt Bacharach is going to enjoy hearing this album because, like his songs, it is done with taste and artistry and real feeling.
And, electronic or no, switched-on or turned-down, you just don't hardly get that kind of musical integrity anymore these days.
This is a today album that will be around tomorrow and quite a few days after".

Well there's no information on whether Burt ever did enjoy hearing it but my gut feeling is NOT!
After spending the time and effort preparing this recording for posting I should add something positive at this point: It is a prime example of how the synthesizer can be deployed: taking beautiful and sensitive music and transforming it into relentlessly unemotional muzak for robots (and they will surely enjoy it -provided they have a warped sense of humour- especially track 10). As such it should be in every self-respecting music lover's time capsule, if only to ensure that it will indeed "be around tomorrow and quite a few days after".
As they say, you just don't hardly get that kind of musical integrity anymore these days...

tracklist:
01 The Look Of Love
02 Alfie
03 Walk On By
04 This Guy's In Love With You
05 Wives And Lovers
06 Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
07 What The World Needs Now Is Love
08 I Say A Little Prayer
09 The April Fools
10 What's New Pussycat?

flick that switch now!

Listen: DIG IT! The Sound of Phase 4 Stereo

2006-05-25T14:57:00.000+10:00

Here is another excellent (and hard to find) compilation from the Karminsky Experience, presented as a Stereo Sampler complete with cute verbal introductions to "The Wonderful World of Stereo".
One of four Karminsky compilations that I know of, the others can be found here:
Inflight Entertainment
Further Inflight Entertainment
Espresso Espresso

tracklist
01 Route 66 - Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra
02 Ticket To Ride - John Keating Sound
03 Make Like Shake - Shake Keane
04 Got My Feet On The Ground - Larry Page Orchestra
05 Coming Home Baby - Trax 4
06 Tequilla - Edmundo Ross And His Orchestra
07 Soul Sauce - Kenny Baker And Roland Shaw Orchestra
08 Spinning Wheel - Ted Heath And His Music
09 These Boots Are Made For Walking - Alan Tew Orchestra
10 Chain Of Fools - Shake Keane
11 Don't Cha Hear Me Calling Ya - Ted Heath
12 Twisting With James - Roland Shaw
13 Big M - Des Champ
14 Mas Que Nada - Chris Waxman
15 Venus - Claud Denjean
16 Girl In The White Coat (General Hospital) - Ray Martin
17 Soulful Strut - Ronnie Aldrich

dig it here [192kbs]

Mod groooves from swinging London

2006-05-14T22:50:00.000+10:00

Don't let the cover scare you off!

Here's an outstanding collection of tracks that capture the swinging Mod groove of London in the mid sixties, re-released by Charly Records at some unspecified time, possibly the early eighties.
The recordings on Side A date from 1967 and feature the exquisite and powerful voice of Julie Driscoll with some heavy duty orchestral accompaniment. I know You Love Me Not (track 1) was arranged and conducted by Reg Guest and recorded on a simple 4-track (remarkable considering it's depth). The production (by Giorgio Gomelsky) is grandiose and melodramatic and I say that most enthusiastically!
Side B dates from 1964 and features Brian Auger playing some sizzling Hammond R&B grooves. The standout tracks to me are Tiger (complete with Hammond-simulated big cat noises) and Fool Killer, with the instrumental Kiko coming a close third. Auger really makes his keyboard fry!
While presented separately on this LP, Driscoll and Auger were partners at the time, both personally and musically. By all accounts they were at their best performing live...
Most of these tracks appeared on an earlier album also in my possession titled Jules/Brian — Julie Driscoll/Brian Auger and released on EMI's Music For Pleasure label.

Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger London 1964—1967 [192kbs]

tracklist
01 I Know You Love Me Not
02 I Don't Want To Have To Do It
03 If You Should Ever Leave Me
04 Don't Do It No More
05 I Don't Know Where You Are
06 Shadows Of You
07 Kiko
08 Foolkiller
09 Let's Do It Tonight
10 Tiger
11 Come Back To Croydon
12 Own Up Lady Astor

getting EASYer

2006-05-12T22:25:00.000+10:00

Here is the second volume in the EASY Project series, courtesy of the prolific but now sadly defunct endlessmike.

tracklist:
01 Fear Is the Key (Main Theme) - Roy Budd and His Orchestra
02 Out of This World - Tony Hatch
03 Funko - The Saint Orchestra
04 West End - The Laurie Johnson Orchestra
05 Mr. Rose - Roy Budd and His Orchestra
06 Sportsnight - The Tony Hatch Orchestra
07 Pinball Wizard - The Harry Roche Constellation
08 Wana Nana Wana Nana - The John Schroeder Orchestra
09 Turnpike Lane - Pete Moore's Orchestra and Chorus
10 Love Today, Cry Tomorrow - Cyril Stapleton
11 Man Alive - The Tony Hatch Sound
12 Blue Streak - Jerry Allen and His Trio
13 Sleep Walk - Killer Watts
14 The Virgin Soldiers March - The John Schroeder Orchestra
15 Le Blon - The City of Westminster String Band
16 Colditz March - The Alyn Ainsworth Orchestra
17 Peter Popgunn - The John Schroeder Orchestra
18 Limehouse - The Laurie Johnson Orchestra
19 London Life - Anita Harris
20 The Bird Has Flown - The John Schroeder Orchestra
21 The Car Chase - Roy Budd and His Orchestra
22 We Can Work It Out/Hey Jude - Killer Watts
23 unlisted - uncredited

The Easy Project II—House of Loungecore [ 1996 ]

the first volume can be found below:
The EASY Project - 20 Loungecore Favourites [ 1995 ]

history of de-evolution Part 3

2006-04-11T21:06:00.000+10:00

one more defunct devoid delight for your de-satisfaction:

Devo Live: The Mongoloid Years
Part A Part B

tracklist
1. Satisfaction (I Can't Get No)
2. Too Much Paranoias
3. Praying Hands
4. Uncontrollable Urge
5. Mongoloid
6. Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
7. Gut Feeling Slap Your Mammy
8. Sloppy
9. Come Back Jonee
10. Clockout
11. Soo Bawls
12. Space Junk
13. Blockhead
14. Subhuman Woman
15. Bamboo Bimbo
16. Beulah
17. Jocko Homo/I Need A Chick

history of de-evolution Part 2

2006-04-11T08:56:00.000+10:00

here is the second volume of this series for all you under-nourished spuds:

DEVO Hardcore Vol.2

tracklist
1. Booji Boy's Funeral
2. Can U Take It?
3. Bamboo Bimbo
4. A Plan For U
5. The Rope Song
6. Goo Goo Itch
7. Be Stiff
8. All Of Us
9. Baby Talkin' Bitches
10. I Need A Chick
11. U Got Me Bugged
12. Chango
13. Fraulein
14. Dogs Of Democracy
15. '37'
16. Bottled Up
17. Working In A Coalmine
18. I Been Refused
19. Fountain Of Filth
20. Clockout
21. Let's Go

a special thanks to Chester for providing this share!

devolver

2006-04-01T11:30:00.000+11:00

Now for a slight change of key:
In response to a request on the sadly terminated lostandfoundalbums, here's a hard-to-find release from 1990, a fantastic (if you like their early crude and rude sound) collection of unreleased tracks from the masters of de-evolution themselves:

DEVO Hardcore Vol.1

tracklist
1. Mechanical Man
2. Auto Modown
3. Space Girl Blues
4. Social Fools
5. S00 Bawls
6. Satisfaction
7. Jocko Homo
8. Golden Energy
9. Buttered Beauties
10. Midget
11. I'm A Potato
12. Uglatto
13. Stop Look And Listen
14. Ono
15. Mongoloid

stereo steriods workout

2006-03-15T14:10:00.000+11:00

Leo Addeo & His Orchestra
"The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round"
Here’s an aural treat for your ears and eyes!

from the LP cover:

The Sound Your Eyes Can Follow
Stereo Action is a new concept of music in motion; a new dimension in recorded sound. Stereo Action brings you unmatched fidelity through the full sound spectrum, plus the exciting new illusion of sound in motion. Soloists and entire sections of the orchestra appear to move thrillingly back and forth across the room. Stereo Action is musical movement so real, your eyes will follow the sound.

watch out for that string section!
listening may induce eye-strain...

tracklist
01 The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round
02 Dancing Tambourine
03 Let's Take a Walk Around the Block
04 The Doll Dance
05 Don't Fence Me In
06 Stumbling
07 Love Is Just Around the Corner
08 Then I'll Be Happy
09 Would You Like to Take a Walk
10 Elmer's Tune
11 I Found A Million Dollar Baby
12 You'd Be Surprised

Leo Addeo [192kbs]

Read more about Addeo here

take it EASY baby...

2006-03-11T14:29:00.000+11:00

Here's another one a bit like the other one...
the EASY Project - 20 loungecore favourites:

tracklist:
01 The Shake - Laurie Johnson Orchestra
02 Kinda Kinky - Ray McVay Sound
03 Mas Que Nada - Sounds Orchestral
04 Lunar Walk - Johnny Hawksworth Orchestra
05 Walk On The Wildside - Alan Tew Orchestra
06 It's Murder - Johnny Hawksworth Orchestra
07 Theme From Sam Benedict - Johnny Keating
08 House Of The Rising Sun - Synthesonic Sounds
09 Blue 'n' Groovy - Paraffin Jack Flash Ltd.
10 The Clown - Johnny Keating Orchestra
11 Echo Four Two - Laurie Johnson Orchestra
12 Mucho Mexico Seven-O - John Shakespeare Orchestra
13 On The Scene - The Les Reed Piano
14 Staccato - The Eliminators
15 Ironside - Alan Tew Orchestra
16 A Little Waltzin' - Keating, Johnny & The Z Men
17 Superfly - Synthesonic Sounds
18 Revenge - Ray McVay Sound
19 But She Ran The Other Way - The John Schroeder Orchestra
20 Spiral - The Harry Roche Constellation

smooth [192kbs]

auxiliary blog power:

2006-03-03T10:33:00.000+11:00

I've just launched a separate blog for individual tracks I feel are worthy of a listen, for whatever reason...
be they entertaining, enlightening, or just plain weird!

tender morsels

check in and check out...

2006-03-02T20:55:00.000+11:00

Playmates Penthouse
Hotel Easy Volume 3

a hard-to-find compilation of mostly KPM cuts.
tracklist:
01 Penthouse Suite (Aka Man Friday) - S Dale - 1969
02 Secret Service (Aka Bill Sykes) - S Dale - 1969
03 Butterfly - J Haider - 1971
04 Florida Playboy - J Hawksworth - 1969
05 Good Thing Going - Alan Hawkshaw - 1968
06 Club 69 (Aka Close Down)
- Alan Hankshaw/D Gould - 1968
07 Teen Lovers (Aka A Big Moody)
- B Martin/P Coulter - 1967
08 Call Me (The New Classic Singers) - T Hatch - 1966
09 Beat Me Till I'm Blue - Alan Hankshaw - 1969
10 Time For Romance - G Rees - 1985
11 Gingerbread - Alan Hankshaw - 1973
12 Theme For A Dream - Sam Fonteyn - 1969
13 Satin Sounds - D Walter - 1994
14 Je Reviews - K Mansfield - 1969
15 Solitaire - Alan Parker - 1975
16 Summer Love - J Danksworth - 1969
17 Young Emotions - Alan Hankshaw - 1969
18 First Affair - Alan Hankshaw - 1973
19 Girl With The Beautiful Hair - M Moran - 1975
20 Half Forgotton Daydreams - J Cameron - 1973
21 A Kiss In The Moonlight (Aka Sophisticated Sell)
- J Pearson - 1968
22 Pussycat (Cy Coleman) - Cy Coleman/B Sckluger - 1964
23 Bed Of Roses - J Pearson - 1971
volume 3 [192kbs]

InstrumentaLEE

2006-02-17T00:59:00.001+11:00

Here's a bizarre recording from 1967:
Lee Hazlewood conducts the 98% AMERICAN MOM & APPLE PIE 1929 CRASH BAND, performing a selection of his compositions in the style of a vauderville or music-hall band.
When I found this gem in a local second-hand store, I thought it was either a hoax or a contractual obligation release, but the tunes are expertly executed and it certainly sounds like they were having fun in the studio. The seller's description on the price sticker erroneously reads "WEIRD!! Lite Surf 196?" He got the first bit right, but I've yet to hear surf music played like dixie on a honkytonk piano!

The musicians names are cunningly disguised with cryptic pseudonyms. I have read here that Al Casey plays kazoo. Perhaps "Duane Goldfarb - King of the Pluckers" might be Duane Eddy. The liner notes are reproduced below for your enlightenment:

Side One:
01 Summerwine
02 These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
03 Friday's Child
04 Sugartown
05 Shades
Side Two:
06 So Long Babe
07 How Does That Grab You Darlin'
08 In Our Time
09 Not The Lovin' Kind
10 Leave My Dog Alone
11 Houston

Featuring
Lester Lanolin______“And his Pennsyldelphinians”
Pauline Pure_______“Defender of Good, Beater of Drums”
Duane Goldfarb_____”King of the Pluckers”
Ho-Ho-Ho Chi Minh__“Second Abacus Player”
Minny Tonka_______“Guess Which Hand Has the Dandruff Cure”
Sam Ponderosa_____“And His Magic Comb”
Miss Kitty_________“And her Stick Shift Auto Harp”

“My fellow 98* Per Centers:
Music are good. Music are good for you. You should eat at least three songs a day. In a recent government survey we discovered nothing. Chivas drinkers arise... you have nothing to lose but your equilibrium. ‘54-40 or fight’ means as much today as it will next week. Albums is good. Albums is good for you. You should eat at least three albums a day. This album you could eat six... it couldn’t hurt you.”
Lee Hazlewood

*98%... Because nobody is pure, darlin’!

enjoy! 192kbs

postscript:
Lee Hazlewood fans know that there are numerous albums that have never been re-released and are impossible to come by...
If anyone can point me to any of these LPs (listed here) I would be eternally grateful (within the limits of my mortality).
N.S.V.I.P.s (NOT SO VERY IMPORTANT PERSONS) Reprise RS-6133 1964
FRIDAY'S CHILD Reprise RS-6163 1965
LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES Reprise RS-6297 1968
FORTY LHI S-12009 1970
DID YOU EVER w. Nancy Sinatra RCA Victor LSP-4645 1972
I'LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT Viking VIF-5004 1973
A HOUSE SAFE FOR TIGERS CBS 80383 1975
20TH CENTURY LEE RCA YSPL-575 1976
note:
for pw check comments

welcome...

2006-02-08T13:07:00.000+11:00

to the realm of X!

In this occasional blog I hope to share a few musical gems that I can't find elsewhere and so have spent far too much time converting from various analog formats.

I'm not a collector or music expert, just an appreciator of many styles of what I call music.
I can't hope to match the superb service that so many bloggers provide in sharing scarce and endangered music from days-of-yore, so I'll provide links to my favourites.

As my inaugural post I present a couple of obscure tracks from Lou Reed's pre Velvet Underground days, which have all the raw exuberance and humour of that band's previously released "previously unreleased" material:

These songs are from an Australian vinyl bootleg titled "the velvet underground -etc." and as far as I know have never been released officially. One day I hope to share the entire album plus a companion release titled "the velvet underground (and so on)" although a number of the tracks have subsequently turned up on various Velvets compilations...

Cycle Annie by the Beachnuts
You're Drivin' Me Insane by the Primitives
(more details here)

These two tracks were ripped from a well worn tape. If anyone out there can point me to a better quality rip of this record, the world will be a better place (and we all know it needs to be)!