Liquid Sunshine - Easy Listening From The KPM 1000 Series (1970-78)

because it's summertime

and the sunshine is liquid

come, get on board this

sweet easy listening express

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Various Artists - New Wave Dance Music From South Africa

rocky sayeth --

title of this 'lil comp provides sufficient descrip of contents

this came my way via Seedy Brew a few months back

and it's been growing on me ever since:

fucking chugging hyperbeats

(think electric thumb piano

on super speedy good acid)

but, if that don't do it for ya

check out the funky videos...

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Pop Goes Your Summer - Various

The End of Summer approaches.

As my kids pruned themselves in the pool for the last time this year and I sipped my way through a couple of Sierra Nevadas, I spun up some old mixed discs. I fell back in love with this one from 2003 that I remember mixing for a friend's 40th birthday that year. It is composed of purely disposable pop - exactly as a summer disc should be. I don't usually throw mixed discs up in the Forest, but what the hell.

There's an abundance of Rooney from their debut, and a couple from a nice, but overlooked pop band, Feel.

I should warn you - the tracks are NOT individual. I mix as one continuous track, so suffer the whole thing or blow it off.

Rooney - Stay Away
Pernice Bros - One Foot In The Grave
Sea And Cake - Hotel Tell
Stampeders - Sweet City Woman
Chuck Prophet - Summertime Thing
Rooney - Sh Sh Sh Shakin
EELS - Saturday Morning
Azure Ray - Beautiful Things Come From The Dark
Smog - Our Anniversary
Fountains Of Wayne - Hailey's Waitress
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
Liz Phair - H.W.C.
Feel - Got Your Name On It
Them - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Rilo Kiley - With Arms Outstretched
EELS - Numbered Days
Rooney - Blueside
Feel - Won't Stand In Your Way
Fountains Of Wayne - Stacy's Mom
Sorry Bout Dresden - Sick And Sour
Feel - I Am The Summertime
Sea And Cake - Sound And Vision

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Various Artists - (what I'm listening to now)

(a little taste you said you'd bring to me...)

for yr wknd

esp if you like

midwest 60s

bands

(shit. wtf is up w joanne swanson?!)

once again, just forwarding link

to m pal's radio show. loved this

past week's broadcast. real fine.
he split this one right down the

Perineum

~~~~

TRACK LISTING:
Hitch-Hikers - Someday Baby - Phalanx
Little Boy Blues - I Can Only Give You Everything - IRC
Travel Agency - Jailbait - Zordan
The Innsmen - Things Are Different Now - Wheels 4
The Baroques - Iowa, A Girls Name - Chess
The Dags - Watching The Clouds Roll By - Decade
Mijal & White - Reflections - Zatop
Joanne Swanson - Round Wooden Table - (no label)
The Endd - Come Into My World - Seascape
Crystal Image - No One Take The Time - Dream

[talk talk]

Lee Moses - Got That Will - Maple LP
Joyce Williams - The First Thing I Do In The Morning - Act IV
Ruby Andrews - Didn't I Fool You - Zodiac
Ike & Tina Turner - Bold Soul Sister - Blue Thumb
Almeta Latimer - Tobacco Road
Lee Moses - Time And Place - Maple LP
Al Williams - The Other Side Of Your Love - Crajon
Creations - Oh Baby - Globe
Vontastics - I'll Never Say Goodbye - Satellite
Poets - She Blew A Good Thing - Symbol
Louise Brown - Son-In-Law - Witch
Little Johnny Taylor - Somewhere Down The Line - Galaxy
The Robins - Riot In Cell Block #9 - Spark

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Various Artists - Survival Sampler SR-1A (1984)

"Warner Bros. Records' Survival Sampler SR-1A is a portable compendium of the best of British and Australian new music. The complete version, commercially available only on cassette, is 56 minutes in length and features twelve artists from eight different labels. Designed to enhance and perhaps extend human life, the Survival Sampler comes in a can."

this came our way via one BobAvocado:

Guys of ForestRoxx,

I thought you night be interested in an almost all digital source copy of the 1984 Warner Music Survival Sampler SR-1A Sound Rations - I get the sense from your blog that you are approximately my age and might recall this sampler that came in a cold war appropriate army drab can.

I cobbled this together from my CD's except for The Assembly song which seems never to have been released in North America digitally - so its an audio rip from a You Tube video. I do have a vinyl version of the song on a 6 track radio station promotional EP for said sampler (no ability to rip from the vinyl at the moment).

Regards,
BobAvocado



Track List:
01. The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make
02. The Church - Electric Lash
03. China Crisis - Wishful Thinking
04. Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
05. Carmel - More More More
06. King Crimson - Sleepless
07. Aztec Camera - Pillar To Post
08. The Cure - The Caterpillar
09. The Bluebells - I'm Falling
10. Modern English - Rainbows End
11. The Assembly - Never Never
12. Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

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(password: survival)

[link removed per DMCA complaint 10/10/10]

Various Artists - Midwest 45s 1968-1973

via ma whacky waxhound pal, we proffer these gems

plus a bunch more for which no art liveth on the web

go look up any of these bands: crazy good stuff.

check out these smokin acts, for instance...

Ebony Rhythm Band

The Detroit Sex Machines

The Rhythm Machine

Hunt's Determination Band

The Kickin' Mustangs

TRACK LISTING

01. Symphonic Four - Who Do You Think You're Fooling Part 2
02. Lee Moses - Bad Girl Part 1
03. Ebony Rhythm Band - Drugs Ain't Cool
04. The King James Version - He's Coming
05. The Fabulous Originals - It Ain't Fair But It's Fun Part 1
06. Snooky Pryor - Boogie Twist
07. Otis Rush - Keep On Loving Me Baby
08. Sunnyland Slim - Highway 61
09. The Scott Singers - When The Saints Go Marching In
10. The Prophet and His Disciples - You Fool You Fool Part 2
11. The Detroit Sex Machines - The Stretch Part 1
12. The Kickin' Mustangs - Kickin'
13. Everyday People - Life
14. Darrell Banks - Beautiful Feeling
15. The New Concepts - Give Me Another Chance
16. Rhetta Hughes - You're Doing It With Her
17. The Charmaines - Smile
18. Brenda Holloway - Just Look What You've Done
19. The Valentinos - Sweeter Than The Day Before
20. Mel Britt - Love Invented Misery
21. Dave Hamilton - The Deacons
22. The Rhythm Machine - Freakish Love
23. Mr Gee and The Fifth Generation - We've Got a Funky Feeling Pt 1
24. Hunt's Determination Band - I Need Love Part 1
25. Oliver Sain - St. Louis Breakdown
26. Robert Lee and The Exquisites - Tears Are Falling
27. Robert Starks and The Geniuses - Space Traveling Part 1
28. Billy Ball and The Upsetters - Sissy Walk

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Right on for the Darkness

Guy I work with loves collecting old 45s

from Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana

(says he gets a lotta grief from Wisconsin)

you can catch him sunday afternoons

@ R&B Flashback on WNUR 89.3 FM.

(all this mixing done with real 45s!)

check out one of his shows...

1. Eldridge Holmes - Gone, Gone, Gone - Jetset


2. Gloria Bouschell - Find Yourself Another Man - Mercury


3. The Trends - If You Don't Dig The Blues - ABC-Paramount


4. Lee Dorsey - Four Corners Pt. 1 - Amy


5. The Gospel Songbirds - Rain Rain - D-Vine Spirituals


6. Curtis Mayfield - Right On For The Darkness - Curtom


7. Johnnie Mae Matthews - Mama Didn't Lie - Big Hit


8. Hollidays - Easy Living - Groove City


9. Gene Chandler - (I'm Just a) Fool For You - Constellation


10. Billy McGregor - We've Been In Love Much Too Long - Palos


11. O.C. Tolbert - Goodness - New Day


12. RAPA House Writers Association Of Downtown Detroit - Why - Ink And Soul


13. The Detroit Sex Machines - The Stretch Pt. 1 - Soul Track


14. John & The Peppers - Doing The Natural - Summit


15. Len & The P.A.'s - Soul Block (Of Rocking People) - Rush


16. The Travel Agency - Jailbait - Zordan


17. The Expos - Your Best Friend And Me - Stall


18. Prodigal Sons - No Sunshine In A Storm - Richburg


19. The Scott Singers - No Need To Worry - Alma


20. The Travelers Of Zion - I Want You To Help Me - Cash


21. Marie Queenie Lyons - See And Don't See - Deluxe


22. The Sisters Love - Give Me Your Love - Mowest


23. Hot Chocolate - Good For The Gander - Co-Co


24. Webb People - I'm Sending Vibrations - TCB


25. James Knight & The Butlers - Save Me - Cat


26. Sweet & Innocent - Express Your Love - Active

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Various - Mass. Ave. - The Boston Scene (1975-83)

Rhino put together some great compilations about 20 years ago of scenes in the UK and US. The 9 discs were part of the DIY project and the last one covered Boston. Although uneven (some songs are just weak), this last disc in the group adds a dimension that goes beyond the usual suspects of NY, LA and the UK, and that alone makes it worthwhile.

Real Kids, the Lyres, the Del Fuegos, Nervous Eaters mix nicely with the Mission of Burma classic and a choice early demo of the Cars. A scene that's often overlooked, but which really influenced a lot of what came out of the same locale in the late 80s and early 90s.

The whole DIY series is out of print and pretty hard to find, so enjoy this one.

01. Mass. Ave. - Willie Alexander
02. Do The Boob - Real Kids
03. Loretta - Nervous Eaters
04. They Saved Hitlers Brain - Unnatural Axe
05. Better Off Dead - La Peste
06. You're All I've Got Tonight (Demo) - The Cars
07. No Place Like Home - The Neighborhoods
08. Jackie Onassis - Human Sexual Response
09. I'm Talking To You - The Maps
10. That's When I Reach For My Revolver - Mission Of Burma
11. 1+1<2 - Classic Ruins
12. I Want To Help You Ann - The Lyres
13. 6 - Neats
14. Hey! (Not Another Face In The Crowd) - Thrills
15. When Things Go Wrong - Robin Lane & The Chartbusters
16. Lonelyhearts - The Atlantics
17. Alpha Romeo - Dangerous Birds
18. I Always Call Her Back - Del Fuegos
19. Knock Me Down - The Outlets

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Stiff Records - Various

Stiff was, without a doubt, the quirkiest record label of them all. It picked up the outsiders and the outcasts. It was fearless and damned goofy. It barely made money and any time one of its acts made good a major showed up and whisked them away. Its short history was a potpourri of musical choice, some good and some not, but it made for one hell of a ride.

Any hipster band worth their cred could mine these four discs for covers and put a shine on their act with ease. There's just so much here. Try Wreckless Eric's Whole Wide World, or the power pop of Rachel Sweet - I promise there is something here that will ring your bell.

amg:

Stiff Records was a maverick among British independent record labels, partially responsible for starting the punk and new wave revolution of the late '70s. Under the guidance of house producer Nick Lowe, Stiff turned out an enormous number of seminal punk and new wave singles in their first years, including classic tracks by the Damned, Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, the Adverts, Ian Dury, and Lowe himself. But what really gave the label its wild, original flavor were minor artists like Ian Dury, Wreckless Eric, Tenpole Tudor, the Yachts, Lene Lovich, Rachel Sweet, and Mickey Jupp, who turned out a series of raw pop gems that were everything good rock & roll singles should be — catchy, energetic, and memorable. Over 100 of Stiff's finest tracks are collected on this wonderful four-disc box set. While most of these songs weren't hits, they are classic rock & roll. The first three discs are excellent; the fourth disc contains some bright moments, but by that time, their artists were pretty much spent. However, the box remains one of the most compulsively listenable sets ever assembled, providing the definitive retrospective of arguably the most important and influential British record label of the late '70s.


Disc 1
1. So It Goes - Nick Lowe
2. Heart of the City - Nick Lowe
3. Between the Lines - The Pink Fairies
4. Cincinnati Fatback - Roogalator
5. Styrofoam - Sean Tyla
6. New Rose - The Damned
7. Blank Generation - Richard Hell
8. Stab Your Back - The Damned
9. Less Than Zero - Elvis Costello
10. England's Glory - Max Wall
11. Maybe - Jill Read
12. One Chord Wonders - The Adverts
13. Alison - Elvis Costello
14. Jo Jo Gunne - Dave Edmunds
15. Whole Wide World - Wreckless Eric
16. Kill - Alberto y los Trios Paranoias
17. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - Ian Dury
18. Razzle in My Pocket - Ian Dury
19. Suffice to Say - The Yachts
20. Let's Loot the Supermarket Again (Like We Did Last Summer) - Mick Farren
21. Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello
22. My Old Man - Ian Dury
23. Police Car - Larry Wallis
24. Yankee Wheels - Jane Aire
25. Back to Schooldays - Graham Parker

Disc 2
1. I Love My Label - Nick Lowe
2. Marie Provost - Nick Lowe
3. What a Waste! - Ian Dury
4. I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself - Elvis Costello
5. Whoops-A-Daisy - Humphrey Ocean
6. I Think We're Alone Now - Lene Lovich
7. Jocko Homo - Devo
8. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury
9. Semaphore Signals - Wreckless Eric
10. I'll Get by in Pittsburgh - Jona Lewie
11. B-A-B-Y - Rachel Sweet
12. Lucky Number - Lene Lovich
13. Solitary Confinement - Members
14. Frozen Years - The Rumor
15. Take the Cash (K.A.S.H.) - Wreckless Eric
16. They Don't Know - Kirsty MacColl
17. You'll Never Get Me Up in One of Those - Mickey Jupp
18. Who Does Lisa Like? - Rachel Sweet
19. Drive Friendly - Motor Boys Motor
20. Win or Lose - Lew Lewis & Reformer
21. Hop - Theatre of Hate Listen
22. One Step Beyond - Madness
23. Emotional Traffic - The Rumour
24. Inbetweenies - Ian Dury
25. Lucky Seven - Lew Lewis & Reformer

Disc 3
1. My Girl - Madness
2. Israelites - Desmond Dekker
3. Buena - Joe "King" Carrasco
4. Stupefaction - Graham Parker
5. You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties - Jona Lewie
6. Trouble With Love - Any Trouble
7. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted - Dave Stewart
8. Mercury Poisoning [*] - Graham Parker
9. Let Go - Dirty Looks
10. Baggy Trousers - Madness
11. It's My Party - Dave Stewart
12. Green, Green Grass of Home - John Otway
13. Three Bells in a Row - Tenpole Tudor
14. Stop the Cavalry - Jona Lewie
15. Going Left Right - Department S
16. Is Vic There? - Department S
17. If You Need Me - The Equators
18. Wunderbar - Tenpole Tudor
19. Allamana - Desmond Dekker
20. Pretend - Alvin Stardust
21. Loud Music in Cars - Billy Bremner
22. Throwing My Baby Out With the Bathwater - Tenpole Tudor
23. Just One Cornetto - Pookiesnackenburger
24. Who Likes Jazz? - Via Vagabond
25. You Broke My Heart in 17 Places - Tracey Ullman

Disc 4
1. Sign of the Times - Belle Stars
2. Sweet Memory - Belle Stars
3. Language Problems - Electric Guitars
4. Breakaway - Tracey Ullman
5. Like Dust - Passion Puppets
6. Dangerous Dreams - Jakko
7. Destination Lululand (Humdiddlededumhoowahayha) - King Kurt
8. Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn - The Pogues
9. Pick Me Up - Inspirational Choir of the Pentecostal First-Born Church of the Living God
10. Here Is My Number - Makin' Time
11. Dark Streets of London - The Pogues
12. Wild Child - The Untouchables
13. New England - Kirsty MacColl
14. Pretty One - Jamie Rae
15. Free Yourself - The Untouchables
16. Sally MacLennane - The Pogues
17. Brilliant Mind - Furniture
18. Don't Wait Up - Dr. Feelgood
19. Killer Joe (Right Cross) - Tommy Chase
20. Shake Like Judy Says - Furniture
21. Hunting Shooting Fishing - Dr. Feelgood

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Dunedin Double EP - Flying Nun Comp [1982]

Able Tasmans and 3Ds both inspired a Kiwi bent of late which led me to this incredible slice of early 80's Dunedin Sound. The pacing and indexing is outstanding for a comp, it really reads as an album instead of just a collection. Not much else need be said, if you don't have this it's sort of a must. I think this is still out of print, someone should rerelease this.

Fly with the Nun

Wookie sez:

The Dunedin Double EP was a seminal record in New Zealand music. An unusual format, it contain two 45rpm 12" discs, and at nearly 50 minutes length, it is longer than many albums.

Released in 1982, the compilation was one of the first releases from the newly formed Flying Nun Records label (catalogue number DUN-1), which over the course of the next ten years was to become the biggest independent record label in New Zealand. Many of the label's top groups came from the South Island city of Dunedin, and established that southern city's music scene as the leading source of guitar-based bands in New Zealand throughout much of the decade. The bands from the city which had music released on Flying Nun were grouped under the loose banner of Dunedin Sound, and several of them went on to not only national but also international success.

The Dunedin Double EP established the names of four of these groups, each of which was represented on the double EP by one side. The four bands concerned were The Chills, Sneaky Feelings, The Stones, and The Verlaines. The Chills' song Kaleidoscope World in particular became very popular, gaining considerable airplay for the band (It later provided the title for the band's first album, a compilation of their early singles and EP tracks.

Though the sound quality of the Dunedin Double EP was distinctly lo-fi (it was recorded on portable 4-track by Chris Knox), the release of this record provided a major impetus both for Flying Nun records and for the four bands involved, as well as providing inspiration and momentum to the music scene in Dunedin.

Various Artists - Not So Quiet On The Western Front

I've had zerofuckingpatience lately. This represents and coddles that.

_______________________


AMG: Originally issued as a two-LP set in 1983, this is one of the defining documents of the West Coast punk scene. (A pronouncement like that would have made most of these 47 bands throw up, but it's still true.) As such, it was also hardcore punk's swan song, arguably the last relatively unselfconscious expression of a naively nihilistic and homogeneously noncomformist youth subculture that was designed to fall apart. Of the bands represented here, which ones still exist? None, although Flipper and the Dead Kennedys have secured a place in pop music history and there may still be shreds of Millions of Dead Cops (aka Multi-Death Corporation, aka Millions of Dead Christians, aka More Dead Cops) touring around. It would go against the communalistic spirit of the thing to point out highlights, of course, but Bad Posture's charmingly acronymic "GDSMFSOB" is worth noting, as are Flipper's sludgy "Sacrifice"and M.A.D.'s "Holocaust." "Collapse," by Ribsy, clocks in at a nice, succinct 48 seconds. Try not to feel guilty for getting nostalgic.

Tracks

				Title	Performer	Time
		1		Intensified Chaos	Intensified Chaos	:56
		2		Their Mistakes	Social Unrest	2:26
		3		Dan With the Mellow Hair	Wrestlers, Naked Lady	2:20
		4		Holocaust	MAD	1:03
		5		Rich Plastic People	Killjoy	1:44
		6		Fun With Acid	Fang	2:07
		7		El Salvador	Capitol Punishment	1:11
		8		Collapse	Ribsy	:48
		9		Annihilation	Crucifix	1:13
		10		I Don't Wanna Die for My Country	Square Cools	1:30
		11		Pay Salvation	Los Olvidados	2:06
		12		What Price Will You Pay?	Code Of Honor	1:58
		13		Fuck Your Amerika	Seven Seconds	:49
		14		Race War	Unaware	1:35
		15		Turmoil	Frigidettes	2:05
		16		Don't Conform	Fifth Column	1:30
		17		Shrunken Heads	Ghost Dance	2:35
		18		A Child and His Lawn Mower	Dead Kennedys	:55
		19		All I Know	Rebel Truth	1:10
		20		Learning Process	Pariah	2:01
		21		Reagum	Lennonburger	1:11
		22		Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!	Impatient Youth	2:27
		23		G. D. M. F. S. O. B.	Bad Posture	1:31
		24		Assassination Attempt	Demented Youth	1:22
		25		The Only Good Cop...	Millions Of Dead Cops	:58
		26		The Few, the Proud, the Dead	Karnage	:40
		27		Scare	Domino Theory	1:20
		28		Dead Porker	NBJ	3:03
		29		Human Farm	Whipping Boy	1:07
		30		Worker Bee	Angst	:54
		31		Premature Enlistment	Free Beer	1:57
		32		Sacrifice	Flipper	4:35
		33		No One Listens	Vengeance	2:00
		34		S/M Nightmare	Juvinel Justice	1:49
		35		Fat, Drunk & Stupid	Section Eight	:51
		36		Libyan Hit Squad	Tongue Avulsion	1:02
		37		Off to War	Maniax	3:31
		38		Strike Out	Vicious Circle	:38
		39		Breakout	UXB	1:42
		40		Shitcan	Scapegoats	1:13
		41		The Oven Is My Friend	Church Police	2:40
		42		Systems Suck	Deadly Reign	1:31
		43		Dead Men Tell No Tales	No Alternative	2:03
		44		Punk Is an Attitude	Wrecks	1:10
		45		SLT	Urban Assault	1:31
		46		No More Riots	Bent Nails	2:49
		47		New Left	MIA	:45

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