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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Cat Stevens - Blue Monday

Previous released on the bootleg "Beatles - Sink In The Can". A very strange compilation of tracks. There's even a bootleg of this bootleg with the original Lee Dorsey song "working in the coalmine"credited to the Beatles.

Everything what should not be on that album is omitted to create a fine Cat Steven Album.

The sessions of Cat Stevens with Ringo have now been compiled in the correct order.

Blue Monday (3:08). / If I Have to work for you (3:03). / Tuning (0:58). / Blue Monday Eins Zwei (2:07). / Blue Monday One Two (2:06). / Tuning (0:44). / I just Want To Make Love To You (4:31). / Working In The Coal Mine (4:36). / Baby I Have Some Love For You (1:18). / Looking For The Sailor (8:16)

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Harry Nilsson

Pussycats

source: http://invisiblerecordarchive.blogspot.com/

When the Walkmen did a note for note rerecording of this, it reminded me to pop it off the shelf and give it a listen. If you can get past the mid-70's production sheen, especially the way the horns sound (shudder), it's a damn fun spin.

1. Many Rivers To Cross Listen / 2. Subterranean Homesick Blues Listen / 3. Don't Forget Me Listen / 4. All My Life Listen / 5. Old Forgotten Soldier Listen / 6. Save The Last Dance For Me Listen / 7. Mucho Mungo-Mt. Elga Listen / 8. Loop De Loop Listen / 9. Black Sails Listen / 10. Rock Around The Clock Listen
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Sunday, June 10, 2007

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Saturday, June 09, 2007

Pat Boone

In A Metal Mood

Fifties recording star Pat Boone has become a headbanger ... performing heavy-metal ditties.

Pat Boone has taken flak from fans as well as foes of heavy-metal music since the release of his new album, Pat Boone in a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy in which he covers the "metal classics" of groups such as Alice Cooper, AC/DC, Judas Priest and Guns 'N' Roses. After the squeaky-clean teen idol of the fifties appeared in a leather vest sporting tattoos, dog collar and earring, a religious-broad-casting network yanked his weekly gospel show because some viewers were convinced Boone had gone to the devil.

1. You've Got Another Thing Comin' Listen / 2. Smoke On The Water Listen / 3. It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N Roll) Listen / 4. Panama Listen / 5. No More Mr. Nice Guy Listen / 6. Love Hurts Listen / 7. Enter Sandman Listen / 8. Holy Diver Listen / 9. Paradise City Listen / 10. The Wind Cries Mary Listen / 11. Crazy Train Listen / 12. Stairway To Heaven Listen .
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Sunday, May 27, 2007

NEAL SMITH

Platinum God

[New coverscans here]

In 1976, The Alice Cooperband broke up. Alice made his "Welcome To My Nightmare", Bruce made "In My Own Way" and Neal started recording an album but didn't finish it. And that's a pitty because although it aint as good as Alice's album it's much better than Michael Bruce's. Well, he did finish it in 1999.

Neal gets help from Dennis Dunaway, Michael Bruce and Mike Marconi. Together they started Billion Dollar Babies, see a previous post. Also playing is long time friend Richie Starlet who also did play at the last concert of Glen Buxton in 1997. Jack Douglas produced the album.

Tracklisting: Maneater, Deadly To Her Prey / Baby, Please Don't Stop / Every Day's A Holyday / French Quarter Cook'in / Rock And Roll Radio / Set Me On Fire / The She's A Maneater / Platinum God

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Some Dutch Beauties.

1. Tere 2. The Sun 3. Scaraboushka 4. Nathalie 5. Tango Tamara 6. T'kylab II 7. T'kylab 8. Megalomania 9. My Heart Is In Your Hands 10. Mr. 1999 11. Gaia 12. 1997

[DOWNLOAD]

Desolation (1966)

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Groeten uit Grollo (1967)

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Trippin' thru' a Midnight Blues (1968)

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Praise the Blues (1967)

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Kid Blue (1976)

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5 albums on a 3 0n 1 CD, isn't that a little bit too much?

Yeah well, I just wanted to give a bonus :-)

Progressive Metal Rock, Rock Opera, Symphonic Metal from the Netherlands

1995 - The Final Experiment
Pt.1 Pt.2

1996 - Actual Fantasy
Pt.1 Pt.2

1998 - Into the Electric Castle
CD1-1 CD1-2 CD2-1 CD2-2

2000 - Ayreonauts Only
Pt.1 Pt.2

Sunday, May 06, 2007

Billion Dollar Babies - Battle Axe

In 1977, three of Alice Cooper's former sidemen recorded a little known album without the influential shock rocker and called themselves the Billion Dollar Babies. That year, ex-Cooper employees Mike Bruce (guitar, vocals), Dennis Dunaway (bass) and Neal Smith (drums) teamed up with keyboardist Bob Dolin and guitarist/ singer Mike Marconi and named themselves after Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies album of 1973, which was his biggest seller. Offering competent but unremarkable hard rock and arena rock that wasn't nearly as distinctive or as interesting as Cooper's own music, the Billion Dollar Babies recorded Battle Axe for Polydor in 1977.

The LP bombed commercially, and the Billion Dollar Babies never recorded a second album. Battle Axe has been out of print since the late 1970s and is unlikely to ever officially be reissued on CD.

Tracklisting: Too Young / Shine Your Love / I Miss You / Wasn't I The One / Love Is Rather Blind / Rock And Roll Radio / Dance With Me / Rock Me Slowly / Ego Mania / Battle Axe (Sudden Death) / Winner

Friday, April 27, 2007

The Masked Marauders - The Masked Marauders

This spoof LP, produced following a spoof review in Rolling Stone, was recorded by The Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band .

The fictitious review, by Greil Marcus, was of a bootleg album by The Masked Marauders, supposedly featuring a super group that involved, among others, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. It claimed that the album was released without any information as the participants wanted to remain anonymous.

The joke though backfired as many readers of the review believed it and started searching for the album. Rather than admitting the truth at this point Marcus and Langdon Winner got the musicians of the Berkeley group, The Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, to record songs with titles used in the review and to make it 'convincing' by imitating the various supposed famous participants.

A single and LP were released by Warner Brother / Reprise but issued as if on the Deity label - the non-existent label that was cited in the review. Though at this point Rolling Stone did publicise the fact that it was a spoof release.

Album Tracks: I Can't Get No Nookie / Duke of Earl / Cow Pie / I Am the Japanese Sandman / The Book of Love / Later / More or Less Hudson's Bay Again / Season of the Witch / Saturday Night at the Cow Palace

Added as bonustracks the single wich was released in conjunction with this album.
I Can't Get No Nookie / Cow Pie (both mono versions)

Monday, April 16, 2007

Yoko Ono - Every Man Has A Woman

These are the original Yoko Ono recordings of the tracks from my previous post.
Now you can compare the title track and "now or never" with the John Lennon versions yourself. I like this album but I think I do because it reminds me of the other one.

Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him / Silver Horse / I'm Moving On / Nobody Sees Me Like You Do / Dogtown / Goodbye Sadness / Walking on Thin Ice / Wake Up / Dream Love / Now or Never / Loneliness / It's Alright

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Every Man Has A Woman - John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, Eddie Money, Rosanne Cash, Alternating Boxes, Roberta Flack, Elvis Costello, Trio, Spirit Choir, Sean Ono Lennon

This started out in 1979 as a hobby project from Harry Nilsson who wanted to record some of Yoko's songs. John Lennon sugested to make it a 50th birtdaypresent for Yoko. John recorded only one song; Now Or Never with The Spirit Choir (using the original Yoko Ono music tape). An imbecile shot John before he could record more. After John's murder Elliot Mintz and Samuel Havadtoy completed his work.

So this album featured songs which were written by Yoko Ono and recorded by other artists. Don't let the fact that Yoko wrote the song scare you off. The Harry Nilsson versions are great and the Alternating Boxes' "Dogtown" and Elvis Costello's "Walking on Thin Ice" are more than okay too. Among these tracks was this unreleased John Lennon track. But later it was made known that this track is the same song as on Double Fantasy (where Yoko sings lead and John did the backingvocals). They just made a remix with Yoko's lead vocal mixed out.

Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him (John Lennon) 3:32 / Silver Horse (Harry Nilsson) 3:07 / I'm Moving On (Eddie Money) 2:47 / Nobody Sees Me Like You Do (Rosanne Cash) 3:23 / Dogtown (Alternating Boxes) 3:26 / Goodbye Sadness (Roberta Flack) 3:22 / Walking On Thin Ice (Elvis Costello and the Attractions) 3:46 / Wake Up (Trio) 2:22 / Dream Love (Harry Nilsson) 3:46 / Now Or Never (Spirit Choir) 3:44 / Loneliness (Harry Nilsson) 3:42 / It's Alright Sean (Ono Lennon) 2:27

Friday, April 13, 2007

Keith Moon - Two Sides Of The Moon

Released and dropped in 1975. This is the one and only solo album of The Who's drummer Keth Moon with a little (understatement) help from his friends; Harry Nilsson, Ringo Starr, Flo & Eddie, David Bowie, Joe Walsh, Ronnie Wood, Ricky Nelson, Steve Cropper, John Sebastan, Dick Dale, Spencer Davis, Jim Keltner, Bobby Keys, Klauss Vorman and various members of Jo Jo Gunne. So should you expect a great album? Well, Keith chose to sing instead using the album as a chance to showcase his legendary drumming skill and I don't think he could win "idols" with that voice but it's a fun album and if you like the Ringo Starr albums you'll probably like this one too.

CRAZY LIKE A FOX (Al Staehely) 2:06 / SOLID GOLD (Nickey Barclay) 2:47 / DON'T WORRY BABY (Brian Wilson/R. Christian) 3:29 / ONE NIGHT STAND (Dennis Larden) 3:36 / THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT (Peter Townshend) 3:02 / MOVE OVER MS. L (John Lennon) 3:11 / TEENAGE IDOL (J. Lewis) 2:17 / BACK DOOR SALLY (John Marascalco) 2:31 / IN MY LIFE (John Lennon/Paul McCartney) 2:40 / TOGETHER (Harry Nilsson) 3:03

Harry Nilsson - Monkees Demos

March 17th, 1967

RCA Studio C, Hollywood, Producer: Chip Douglas, Engineer: Hank Cicalo

Harry Nilsson wrote "Cuddly Toy" and "Daddy's Song" for The Monkees and appears as an instrumentalist or singing backing vocals on a few of their songs.

These are the demo songs from 1967: 01. I Live In A World / 02. Signs / 03. Counting / 04. Counting / 05. Cuddly Toy / 06. Hey Little Girl / 07. Good Times / 08. Superman / 09. This Could Be The Night / 10. The Story Of Rock And Roll

Monday, January 22, 2007

I get questions about the password for the archivefiles quite frequently. I figured out why sometimes the archive seems to have a password protection.

Two possibillities:

1: Your download is corrupt, download it again.

2: You're using WinRar, probably an older version. Use WinAce or Peazip or 7Zip instead.
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I don't use passwords!

If there is a password I will mentioned it in the post. This will only happen when the original link is dead and I've found a mirror. The mirror-links and the password will be in the comments.