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Ennio Morricone | Triello | Per Un Pugno Di Dollari; Per Qualche Dollaro In Piu; Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo | RCA | 1989 | CD | from 1966 on the soundtrack to "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly." This CD compiles the three original soundtracks for Sergio Leone's three classic "spaghetti westerns." Check out the awesome final scene featuring this track right HERE! | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |||
Buffalo Springfield | Broken Arrow | Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield | Atco | 1989 | CD | originally on 1967's "Buffalo Springfield Again" LP | 0:04:47 (Pop-up) | |||
Tintern Abbey | Beeside | VA: The Great British Psychedelic Trip Vol. 1 1966-1969 | See for Miles | 1988 | CD | originally from a 1967 Deram single. | 0:10:46 (Pop-up) | |||
Life 'n' Soul | Peacefully Asleep | VA: Rubble Vol. 6 - The Clouds Have Groovy Faces | Bam Caruso | 1987 | LP | originally from a 1967 Decca single. | 0:14:09 (Pop-up) | |||
Sandy in Motion | I'm A Walking Dream | VA: The Electric Sound Show, Vol. 1 - We all Live on Candy Green | Elastic Cat | 2010 | CD | From a 1968 acetate. This new series of CDs will feature "rare and obscure sounds from the British Psychedelic Era." | * | 0:17:45 (Pop-up) | ||
Morgen | Of Dreams | VA: 30 Seconds Before the Calico Wall | Arf! Arf! | 1995 | CD | From 1969. Long Island! | 0:19:29 (Pop-up) | |||
Blue Effect | Sun Is So Bright | VA: Hen's Teeth, Vol. 3 -- Catherine on the Wheel | Hen's Teeth Records | 1999 | CD | from 1970. Czechoslovakia! Check out this awesome video right HERE! | 0:22:53 (Pop-up) | |||
Backgrounds | The Day Breaks at Dawn | VA: Fuzz, Flaykes, & Shakes, Vol. 2 | Dionysus | 1999 | CD | From 1967. Great series from the late '90s that compiles a lot of '60s US garage-rock tracks. | 0:26:01 (Pop-up) | |||
Jimmy Thomas | Springtime | VA: Le Beat Bespoke 2: 20 Tailor Made Cuts | Circle | 2006 | CD | from 1969. This CD/LP series compiles great groovers! Currently, there are four volumes. Meticulously compiled by Rob Bailey from the UK's New Untouchables DJ team. | 0:28:39 (Pop-up) | |||
Stained Glass | Lady in Lace | VA: Book A Trip - The Psych Pop Sounds of Capitol Records | Now Sounds | 2010 | CD | from 1968 | * | 0:35:20 (Pop-up) | ||
Pretty Things | She Says Good Morning | S. F. Sorrow | Snapper | 2003 | CD | from 1967. Stereo mix. | 0:42:39 (Pop-up) | |||
Blues Project | Wake Me, Shake Me | Projections | Verve Folkways | 1966 | LP | featuring Al Kooper. | 0:45:53 (Pop-up) | |||
Gli Evangelisti | Sensazioni | VA: 60's Beat Italiano Vol. 1 | Get Hip | 1997 | CD | from 1968. | 0:51:06 (Pop-up) | |||
Four Leaved Clovers | Alright Girl | VA: The Story of Oak Records | Wooden Hill | 1999 | CD | from 1966. This CD features tracks cut at R.G. Jones' Morden studios. | 0:54:05 (Pop-up) | |||
Spider | The Comedown Song | VA: Impossible But True: The Kim Fowley Story | Ace | 2003 | CD | from 1966. "Spider" is James Barbour -- a UK hairstylist for whom Kim Fowley wrote and produced this song. He could be England's answer to Mouse (from Mouse & the Traps) -- the vocals fall somewhere between Dylan and Dick Dodd of the Standells! | 0:56:48 (Pop-up) | |||
Iron Butterfly | Iron Butterfly Theme | The Best of Iron Butterfly: Light and Heavy | Rhino | 1993 | CD | from 1968. The b-side of "In A Gadda Da Vida"! | 1:09:36 (Pop-up) | |||
Toni McCann and the Fabulous Blue Jays | Saturday Date | VA: Punkville | Canetoad | 1999 | CD | From 1966. Australia! | 1:14:08 (Pop-up) | |||
Saturday's Children | Born On Saturday | VA: If You're Ready! The Best of Dunwich Records... Volume 2 | Sundazed | 1994 | CD | from 1966.The second volume collecting singles from this mid-1960s Chicago-based label. | 1:16:02 (Pop-up) | |||
Lawson & 4 More | Halfway Down the Stairs | VA: Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol. 7 | Purple Lantern | 2001 | CD | from the UK in 1967. | 1:18:14 (Pop-up) | |||
Darlings | Saturday Town | va: Fairytales Can Come True: UK Popsike from the late 60's | Psychic Circle | 2007 | CD | from 1967. An Eddie Tre-Vett production. This CD was the first in a continuing series compliled by Nick Saloman (of the Bevis Frond). | 1:20:44 (Pop-up) | |||
Billy J. Kramer withThe Dakotas | Trains and Boats and Planes | VA: The British Invasion - The History of British Rock, Vol. 4 | Rhino | 1988 | CD | from 1965. A Bacharach/David composition. Billy J's version actually precedes Dionne Warwick's more popular version of the tune.Check out Billy J performing the tune "sort of" live on "Shindig!" right over HeRe! | 1:22:39 (Pop-up) | |||
Swinging Blue Jeans | What Can I Do Today | Hippy Hippy Shake: The Definitive Collection | Imperial/EMI | 1993 | CD | from 1966. One of the earliest groups to play the Cavern Club during Liverpool's early '60s beat boom. | 1:25:06 (Pop-up) | |||
Five Day Week Straw People | Five Day Week Straw People | The Five Day Week Straw People | Angel Air | 2000 | CD | from 1967. A one-off LP project for Saga (a small independent UK label) that wanted some psychedelic product in its catalog. John DuCann of the Attack plays on the tracks. | 1:36:49 (Pop-up) | |||
Jago Simms | Conventional Fella | VA: Piccadilly Sunshine, Part Four -- British Pop Psych and Other Flavours 1967-1969 | Past & Present | 2010 | CD | from 1968. Originally a Fontana single. This voulme is the latest of a continuing series. | * | 1:40:08 (Pop-up) | ||
Twilights | Take Action | VA: Datura Dreamtime - Further psychotropic experimentation in the Forest of Goldtops | Boobsalot | 1999 | CD | This comp focuses on obscure Australian psych from the late '60s. | 1:43:08 (Pop-up) | |||
Jeff Beck | Tallyman | The Best of | EMI Gold | 1995 | CD | from 1967. Beck's second solo single after leaving the Yardbirds. | 1:45:08 (Pop-up) | |||
Ronnie Milsap | Denver | VA: Sweet Inspiration - The Songs of Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham | Ace | 2010 | CD | from 1969. | * | 1:47:50 (Pop-up) | ||
Renaissance | The Sea | Renaissance | Esoteric Recordings | 2010 | CD | from 1970. A bonus track on the recent CD release of the band's first LP. This track was the b-side of the band's first single. | * | 1:51:07 (Pop-up) | ||
Jake Holmes | Dazed and Confused | The Above Ground Sound of Jake Holmes | Radioactive | 2004 | CD | from 1967. Holmes is the original writer of the track that Led Zeppelin "co-opted." as it were. Check some really rare footage of Holmes performing in Greenwich Village in '68 right HERE! | 1:54:07 (Pop-up) | |||
Black Hollies | Benevolent Beacon | ? | 2011 | WAV | The Black Hollies latest single is being pressed to vinyl with the help of the fans. Check out this link right HERE! | * | 2:07:32 (Pop-up) | |||
Ride | Twisterella | Going Blank Again | Sire/Reprise | 1992 | CD | 2:12:02 (Pop-up) | ||||
Dead Boys | Hey Little Girl | Young Loud and Snotty | Sire | 1977 | LP | recorded live at CBGB! A cover of the Syndicate of Sound's 1966 hit. | 2:15:53 (Pop-up) | |||
Mojos | Until My Baby Comes Home | VA: Mix a Fix - UK Floor Fillers, Volume 2 | Psychic Circle | 2007 | CD | from 1968. The Mojos' last single. | 2:18:35 (Pop-up) | |||
Human Instinct | Pink Dawn | VA: The Freakbeat Scene | Deram | 1998 | CD | from 1967. New Zealand! | 2:21:40 (Pop-up) | |||
Monkees | 99 Pounds | Changes | Rhino | 1987 | LP | from 1970. The last Monkees' LP on Colgems -- it features only Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones. This LP, the least popular of the Monkees' LPs in its time actually charted upon reissue in the '80s. | 2:23:32 (Pop-up) | |||
Insomniacs | For the Last Time | Just Enjoy It! | Blood Red | 2011 | CD | * | 2:25:50 (Pop-up) | |||
Surrealists | D Train | Where's Dada | Vagrant | 1989 | EP | A six-song vinyl 12" EP featuring Erik 4-A. Engineered by Conrad Uno. | 2:28:23 (Pop-up) | |||
Montanas | Dr. Nero | VA: Rare Mod, Vol. 3 | Acid Jazz | 2010 | CD | from 1969. Previously unreleased. A third volume of 60s' underground rhythm 'n' blues, psych & soul. | * | 2:40:10 (Pop-up) | ||
Hitmen | My Baby Smiled | Dancing Time '78-'79 | Savage Beat | 2010 | CD box set | From Australia. Comprehensive release of material by legendary Radio Birdman spin-off band. | * | 2:42:58 (Pop-up) | ||
Roger Young | Sweet Sweet Morning | VA: Purple Pill Eaters - Sixteen British Freakbeating Fuzz Monsters from the Sixties | Paranoid | 1998 | CD | from 1966. | 2:45:45 (Pop-up) | |||
Paul & Barry Ryan | I Can't Make A Friend | VA: Electric Sugarcube Flashbacks - Rare British Brain Candies from the Psychedelic Sixties!!! | AIP | 1993 | CD | from 1967. Covering a track first cut by the Vagrants. | 2:48:15 (Pop-up) | |||
Vagrants | The Final Hour | I Can't Make a Friend 1965-1968 | Light In The Attic | 2010 | CD | From Long Island, NY. Featuring Leslie West, later of Mountain. | * | 2:50:33 (Pop-up) | ||
Neil Diamond | You Got to Me | The Bang Years 1966-1968 | Columbia/Legacy | 2010 | CD | This CD rounds up 23 tracks from Neil D's days with Bang records. | * | 2:52:59 (Pop-up) | ||
Chris Farlowe and the Thuderbirds | Buzz with the Fuzz | VA: Take My Tip: 25 British Mod Artefacts from the EMI Vaults | Zonophone | 2007 | CD | from 1965. Recorded as a Columbia single but withdrawn at the time. I guess the BBC didn't take too kindly, at the time, to jocular references to smoking marijuana, cavorting with underage women, and throwing dice at illegal gambling joints. | 2:55:44 (Pop-up) | |||
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Good on you, gumby! Strolling to work just before daybreak this fine virgin spring time morn thru suburban Brighton here in the UK, I was positively seranaded by robins, blackbirds, thrushes and other winged creatures great and small. Green buds abound and the magnolia is peaking. Bring it on.
They'll soon catch up, up north here too!
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@ MIke Just got here, missed the PThings but am listening to Sickle Clouds off Parachute (1970) as I tip toe thru the keyboard. Man, it could have been written last week!
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