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A sight for sore ears. Power pop, freakbeat, and psychedelic songs for all six senses.
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Format | Comments | New | Approx. start time | ||
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Velvet Underground |
Rock & Roll
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Loaded | Rhino | 1997 | CD box set | 1970. alternate mix from "Fully Loaded" edition of album! | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |||
Beastie Boys |
Sure Shot
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Ill Communication | Capitol | 1994 | CD | RIP Adam Yauch. | 0:03:04 (Pop-up) | |||
Jeremy Steig |
Howlin' for Judy
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VA: Look into the Flower: Trip on Psychedelic Grooves with Blue Note | Blue Note | 2003 | CD | 1969. Originally from his LP "Legwork." From which the sample used in the Beastie Boys' "Sure Shot" originates. | 0:06:32 (Pop-up) | |||
Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes |
Call of the Wild
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Call of the Wild | Enigma Retro | 1989 | CD | 1974 | 0:11:05 (Pop-up) | |||
Mount Carmel |
Swaggs
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Real Women | Siltbreeze | 2012 | CD |
Playing the Brighton Bar in Long Branch, N.J., Friday, May 11! Playing live on Terre T's show, Saturday, May12! |
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Strange Haze |
Let Me Hear the Dropping Pin
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b/w Test Driver | Strange Haze Music | 2010 | 7" | Also playing the Brighton Bar in Long Branch, NJ, Friday, May 11! | 0:19:24 (Pop-up) | |||
T2 |
Highway
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VA: Look at the Sun - Precious Seconds Thought Gone From the British Underground 1967-1970 | Top Sounds | 2010 | CD | 1970 | 0:23:28 (Pop-up) | |||
Titanic |
Sing Fool Sing
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b/w "Rain 2000" | Epic | 1973 | 7" | 0:26:58 (Pop-up) | ||||
Kevin Coughlin |
I Gotta Be Me
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VA: I Gotta Be Me: 20 Garage Missiles from the USA, Who Needs Tomorrow Vol. 2 | Psychic Circle | 2008 | CD | 1969 | 0:30:17 (Pop-up) | |||
C.C.S. |
Whole Lotta Love
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b/w "Boom Boom" | RAK Records | 1970 | 7" | 0:32:51 (Pop-up) | ||||
Poppees |
I Need Your Love
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Pop Goes the Anthology | Bomp! | 2010 | CD | 1978 live at CBGB's | 0:46:35 (Pop-up) | |||
The Limit |
Uh Oh
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The Limit | Cheap Rewards | 2012 | LP | this cut from 1981 | * | 0:49:35 (Pop-up) | ||
Dwight Twilley |
You Were So Warm
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b/w "Sincerely" | Shelter | 1975 | 7" | 0:51:38 (Pop-up) | ||||
Rockin' Horse |
Yes It Is
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Yes It Is | Sing Sing | 2012 | LP | from 1971 -- featuring Billy Kinsley, formerly of the Merseybeats | * | 0:54:08 (Pop-up) | ||
Scientists |
Atom Bomb Baby
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VA: Do the Pop! Australian Garage-Rock Sound 1976-87 | Shock | 2002 | CD box set | 1985 | 0:56:32 (Pop-up) | |||
M-80s |
Myun's
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VA: You Only Get One Shot at the Big Time: Obscure Powerpop & Punk 1979-1985 | Wizzard in Vinyl | 2006 | CD | 1981 from Connecticut | 0:59:29 (Pop-up) | |||
Laughing Sky |
Moonstars
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Divine | Tripwave | 2012 | CD | * | 1:02:25 (Pop-up) | |||
Bevis Frond |
I Can't Get Into Your Scene
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Bevis Through the Looking Glass | Rubric Records | 2005 | CD | tracks from 1987 | 1:06:13 (Pop-up) | |||
Twin Guns |
Safe
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Scene of the Crime | Twin Guns Music | 2011 | CD | * | 1:09:27 (Pop-up) | |||
Le Chelsea Beat |
Taj Mahal Noir
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Mesdames et Messieurs ... | Killer Diller | 2012 | LP |
from Montreal. |
* | 1:12:05 (Pop-up) | ||
Standells |
Mr. Nobody
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The Live Ones! | Sundazed | 2001 | 10" | Recorded live at Michigan State University, 1966 | 1:26:09 (Pop-up) | |||
Brentwoods |
Babe, You Know
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VA: Wyld Sydes, Vol. 7 | Retro Gene Records | 2008 | CD | 1967 | 1:28:59 (Pop-up) | |||
Mynah Birds |
It's My Time
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b/w "Go On And Cry" | V.I.P. | 2012 | 7" | 1966 - unreleased at that time. Featuring Rick James, Neil Young, and Bruce Palmer. A Record Store Day 2012 release (previous released only on "The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 6: 1966" box set) | * | 1:31:01 (Pop-up) | ||
Fun and Games |
The Grooviest Girl in the World
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Elephant Candy | Uni | 1968 | LP | 1:33:12 (Pop-up) | ||||
Bloos Magoos |
The People Had No Faces
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b/w "So I'm Wrong and You Are Right" and "Wild About My Lovin'" | Verve Folkways | 2012 | 7" | 1965. Record Store Day 2012 reissue 45 with bonus track. | 1:35:58 (Pop-up) | |||
Nova Local |
Games
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VA: Die Today - '60s Garage USA | Tombstone | 2008 | CD | 1967 | 1:38:42 (Pop-up) | |||
Grifs |
Keep Dreamin'
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VA: Michigan Mayhem! Vol. 2: 29 More '60s Michigan Garage Gems | No Label | 2001 | CD | 1967 -- from North Carolina | 1:40:44 (Pop-up) | |||
Easybeats |
Not in Love With You
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Volume 3 | Albert Records | 2004 | Boxed set | 1966. From the six-CD boxset "The Complete Easybeats." | 1:42:50 (Pop-up) | |||
The Outside In |
You Ain't Gonna Bring Me Down to My Knees
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VA: Green Crystal Ties, Vol. 4 - Mind-Expanding 60s Psychedelia | Collectables | 1998 | CD | 1967 | 1:45:24 (Pop-up) | |||
Love Society |
You Know How I Feel (and Why)
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VA: It's Zimmerman's World...We Just Live in It | Pet Records | 2012 | CD | 1966 | * | 1:48:32 (Pop-up) | ||
Nouvellas |
Baby You Change Your Mind
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Nouvellas | Ernest Jenning Record Co. | 2009 | CD | 2:04:33 (Pop-up) | ||||
Crystal Mansion |
Somebody Oughta Turn Your Head Around
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The Crystal Mansion | Rare Earth | 1972 | LP | 2:08:13 (Pop-up) | ||||
Ray King Soul Band |
Knock On Wood
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VA: Soul Direction | Direction | 1968 | LP | 1968 UK soul comp | 2:11:40 (Pop-up) | |||
Motherlode |
Hard Life
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b/w "When I Die" | Buddah | 1970 | 7" | 2:15:13 (Pop-up) | ||||
Asfalto |
No Se Que Pensar
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VA: Diggin' Down Argentina: Nuggets from the Rioplatense Scene 1969-1975 | Crazy Apple Boutique | 2010 | CD | 1970 | 2:18:55 (Pop-up) | |||
Hot Soup |
You Took Me by Surprise
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Openers | Rama Rama | 1968 | LP | From NYC | 2:21:16 (Pop-up) | |||
Sweet Feeling |
Sherry Cherie
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VA: Electric Sound Show - An Assortment of Antiquities for the Psychedelic Connoisseur | Particles | 2011 | Boxed set | 1969 | 2:23:58 (Pop-up) | |||
Sorrows |
Baby All the Time
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The Sorrows | Sequel Records | 1991 | CD | previously unissued track from 1966 | 2:26:22 (Pop-up) | |||
The Onyx |
You Gotta Be With Me
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VA: Ready Steady Stop! Doin' the Mod Vol. 4 | Sanctuary Records | 2004 | CD | 1965 | 2:28:47 (Pop-up) | |||
Neighb'rhood Childr'n |
Feeling Zero
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Long Years in Space | Sundazed | 1997 | CD | 1967 | 2:37:17 (Pop-up) | |||
Mike Stuart Span |
Children of Tomorrow
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Timespan | Wooden Hill | CD | from a BBC session 1968 | 2:40:27 (Pop-up) | ||||
Black Hollies |
Don't Be Afraid to Ask
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Softly Towards the Light | Ernest Jenning Record Co. | 2009 | CD | 2:43:37 (Pop-up) | ||||
Miller |
Baby I Got News for You
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VA: A Perfumed Garden, Volume Three | Past & Present | 2003 | CD | 1967 | 2:46:55 (Pop-up) | |||
Tremeloes |
Let your Hair Hang Down
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What A State I'm In: The Psych-Pop Sessions | Sanctuary Records | 2003 | CD | 1967 | 2:49:55 (Pop-up) | |||
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