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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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Yardbirds | Smokestack Lightning | Five Live Yardbirds | Rhino Records | 1989 | CD | originally from 1964! Recorded at the Marquee Club in London. | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |||
Generation X | Ready Steady Go | Perfect Hits 1975 - 1981 | Chrysalis | 1991 | CD | from 1978 -- originally off their self-titled first LP. | 0:05:02 (Pop-up) | |||
Pistol Whip | Untouchables | Terminal | Smog Veil | CD | from 1977 -- Cleveland! | * | 0:07:58 (Pop-up) | |||
Off Broadway USA | Stay in Time | VA: DIY: Shake It Up! American Power Pop II (1978-80) | Rhino | 1993 | CD | from 1980. | 0:10:58 (Pop-up) | |||
Jags | She's So Considerate | Evening Standards | Island | 1980 | LP | 0:13:44 (Pop-up) | ||||
Utopia | Take It Home | Deface the Music | Bearsville | 1980 | LP | Todd Rundgren and crew's tongue-in-cheek homage to each stylistic period of The Beatles, working chronologically track by track. | 0:16:29 (Pop-up) | |||
Sorrows | Bad Times | Teenage Heartbreak | CBS | 1980 | LP | from New York -- members were originally in the Poppees. | 0:19:10 (Pop-up) | |||
Anderson Council | Love Bomb | b/w Don't You Think | Sinclair | 7" | * | 0:21:28 (Pop-up) | ||||
Original Sins | Why You Love Me So | The Hardest Way | Psonik | 1989 | CD | from Bethlehem, PA. | 0:25:37 (Pop-up) | |||
Creeps | Down At The Nightclub | Enjoy the Creeps | Tracks on Wax | 1986 | LP | from Sweden! | 0:27:55 (Pop-up) | |||
Twisted | Sheez Wycked | The Fuzztones: Creatures That Time Forgot | Skyclad Records | 1989 | CD | from 1984 -- preceded by an interview by Bill Kelly on WFMU at that time! | 0:39:47 (Pop-up) | |||
Jay Reatard | Feeling Blank Again | Singles 06-07 | In the Red | 2008 | CD | RIP Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr. | 0:42:26 (Pop-up) | |||
Jay Reatard | I Know a Place | Singles 06-07 | In the Red | 2008 | CD | 0:45:33 (Pop-up) | ||||
Fleshtones | My Kind of Lovin'/The Cross Roads Are Coming | More Than Skin Deep | Telstar/Ichiban | 1998 | LP | 0:46:32 (Pop-up) | ||||
Forty-Fives | My Kind of Girl | VA: The Coolest Songs in the World, Volume 1 | Wicked Cool | 2006 | CD | originally from the 2002 Yep Rock album "Fight Dirty" | 0:49:20 (Pop-up) | |||
Kenny and the Kasuals | Money | The Impact Sound of Kenny and the Kasuals | Impact | 1977 | LP | 1977 reissue of a rare 1966 LP -- a live recording at the Studio Club in Dallas, TX. | 0:52:27 (Pop-up) | |||
Remo Four | Live Like a Lady | Smile | Repertoire | 1996 | CD | from 1967 | 1:00:59 (Pop-up) | |||
Nouvellas | Baby You Change Your Mind | The Nouvellas | Ernest Jenning Record Co. | CD | playing tonight at Southpaw (Brooklyn, NY)! | * | 1:03:41 (Pop-up) | |||
Gold | Summer Dresses | VA: World in Sound Tracks - Episode I | World of Sound | CD | from 1971 | * | 1:07:06 (Pop-up) | |||
Brilliant Colors | Short Sleeves at Night | Introducing | Slumberland | CD | * | 1:09:09 (Pop-up) | ||||
Shannon and the Clams | Blast Me to Bermuda | I Wanna Go Home | 1-2-3-4 Go! | CD | * | 1:11:16 (Pop-up) | ||||
Tribute to Mick Green! R.I.P. |
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Pirates | My Babe | VA: Rhythm & Blues at Abbey Road, 1963-1966 | EMI | 2002 | CD | from 1964. | 1:15:44 (Pop-up) | |||
Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas | I'll Be Doggone | VA: Mix a Fix -- UK Floor Fillers, Volume 2 | Psychic Circle | 2007 | CD | from 1965 | 1:18:34 (Pop-up) | |||
Pirates | Can't Understand | VA: Nothing Comes Easy: 20 Hard-Edged Stompers From the British Beat Era | Psychic Circle | 2007 | CD | from 1965 | 1:21:11 (Pop-up) | |||
Dakotas | 7 Pounds of Potatoes | VA: English Freakbeat, Volume 2 | AIP | 1996 | CD | from 1966. Thank you Mr. LyNcH for "remastering" this track properly to mono! | 1:23:11 (Pop-up) | |||
Dakotas | The Spider and the Fly | VA: Rare 60's Beat Treasures, Volume 3 | Gone Beat | 1995 | CD | from 1967 | 1:25:34 (Pop-up) | |||
The Above | Bollywood Woman | 3 Song sampler | self-released | CD-R | promo sampler for an upcoming album. | * | 1:32:17 (Pop-up) | |||
The Escorts | C'mon Home Baby | From the Blue Angel | Edsel Records | 1983 | LP | from 1965 | 1:35:10 (Pop-up) | |||
Keith Shields | Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness) | VA: The Freakbeat Scene | Deram/Decca | 1998 | CD | from 1967 - a cover of a Donovan song. | 1:36:55 (Pop-up) | |||
Ravin' Blue | It's Not Real | VA: Psychedelic States: Mississippi | Gear Fab | CD | from 1966 | * | 1:38:56 (Pop-up) | |||
Magical Mixture | I'm So Sad | VA: Swinging London: The Accidental Genius of Saga Records 1968-1970 | RPM | 2007 | CD | from 1968 | 1:41:30 (Pop-up) | |||
Phil Ochs | Tape From California | Rehearsals For Retirement/Gunfight at Carnegie Hall | Collectors' Choice | 2000 | CD | recorded live in 1970. This version is quite different from the studio version that appeard in 1968. Bob Rafkin on guitar. "Gunfight at Carnegie Hall" was originally released only in Canada in 1975. | 1:45:30 (Pop-up) | |||
Grodes | I Won't Be There | VA: Let's Talk About Girls! Music from Tucson 1964-1968 | Dionysus | 1997 | CD | from 1966 | 1:49:07 (Pop-up) | |||
Shrubs | Big Lie | Forgotten How to Fall | Not | CD | produced by the Feelies' Glenn Mercer | * | 1:51:10 (Pop-up) | |||
Dutchess and the Duke | Reservoir Park | She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke | Hardly Art | 2008 | CD | Hear them live on the Cherry Blossom Clinic on 1/23! | 2:03:29 (Pop-up) | |||
Paley Brothers | Magic Power | b/w You're the Best | Sire Records | 1978 | 7" | 2:07:04 (Pop-up) | ||||
Squeeze | Goodbye Girl | 6 Squeeze Songs Crammed Into One Ten-Inch Record | A&M Records | 1979 | 10" | fantastic album cover | 2:10:12 (Pop-up) | |||
Barnaby Bye | Tumblin' Inn | Touch | Atlantic | 1974 | LP | features Peppy Castro (formerly of the Blues Magoos) and the Alessi brothers. | 2:12:55 (Pop-up) | |||
David Bowie | Wild-Eyed Boy From Freecloud | Space Oddity (40th Anniversary Edition) | Virgin | CD box set | from 1969. | * | 2:15:38 (Pop-up) | |||
Yummy Fur | Policeman | b/w 70's Car Crash | Guided Missile | 1996 | 7" | The band has reunited and they will be playing live on the Cherry Blossom Clinic sometime in February! | 2:19:47 (Pop-up) | |||
Knaves | Inside Outside | Leave Me Alone! | Sundazed | 2001 | 10" | from 1967 | 2:23:27 (Pop-up) | |||
14 | Drizzle | 14 in a Bunch and More | EMI | 1998 | CD |
from 1966. Sweden! Thanks to Bill for sending this CD my way! |
2:23:34 (Pop-up) | |||
Listen | Everybody's Gonna Say | VA: Visions of the Past #3 | Disc de Luxe | 1991 | CD | from 1966, featuring Robert Plant before joining Led Zeppelin. | 2:25:34 (Pop-up) | |||
Lindsay Muir's Untamed | Daddy Long Legs | VA: The Best of Planet Records | RPM | 2000 | CD | From 1966 -- a Shel Talmy production. This compilation rounds up tracks from Talmy's Planet record label. | 2:29:25 (Pop-up) | |||
The Illusion | Talkin' Sweet Talkin' Soul | The Illusion | Steed / Dot | 1969 | LP | 2:30:28 (Pop-up) | ||||
Edwin Starr | Easin' In | VA: Can You Dig It? The Music and Politics of Black Action Films 1968-75 | Soul Jazz Records | CD box set | From the movie "Hell Up in Harlem" (1973) | * | 2:33:04 (Pop-up) | |||
Johnny Hallyday | Voyage au Pays des Vivants | Johnny Hallyday | Philips | 1969 | LP | "secretly" featuring members of the Small Faces. | 2:44:51 (Pop-up) | |||
Crickets | Song of the Crickets | VA: Psychedelic Super Pjotr | Past and Present | CD | from 1967. Poland! | * | 2:48:24 (Pop-up) | |||
Rob Storme Group | But Cry | VA: Tony the Tyger Presents: Shout, Shake & Go | No Label | 2001 | CD-R | from 1966 | 2:51:25 (Pop-up) | |||
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