The Bachelor Pad - The Albums Of Jack

 

Artist: The Bachelor Pad
Title: The Albums Of Jack
Released: 1987
Label: Warholasound
Catalog#: WST THREE MINS
Country: UK
Style: Psychedelic, Indie Rock 


Tracklisting:

A1. The Albums Of Jack (2:26)
A2. Jack & Julian (2:10)
B1. Norwegian Wood (3:00)
B2. Albert Hofmann (3:28)
B3. Jack & Julian (Demo) (2:21)

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 "A head-on collision between The Buzzcocks and Syd Barrett."

 Biography:
The Bachelor Pad (1986 - 1991) left a legacy on their wake. The vinyl output started with the famous Sha La La flexi via “Simply Thrilled” and “Are You Scared to Get Happy” fanzines, before 2 singles with Leeds based Warhola Sound records, a LP with Imaginary Records and 3 releases with Egg Records. The Egg releases included a LIVE EP distributed with several fanzines in the UK, US, Japan, Germany and France. The second Egg release was a 7” single “Smoothie” before the 5 track “Jenny Brown” EP single.

 The Bachelor Pad started life as: Vocals/Guitars - Tommy Cherry, Vocals/Guitars - Martin Cotter, Keyboards - David Harris, Bass - Willie Bain, Drums - Graham Adam. Christine Gibson replaced Willie at some point around 1989. Tom Donnelly (ex The Close Lobsters) replaced Martin around 1990.

The Bachelor Pad gigs where plentiful and memorable. Some of the highlights were supporting The Wedding Present at the Barrowlands, Glasgow (with the go go dancer), the debut gig in Edinburgh (with Baby Lemonade and Jesse Garon) and the first show without Martin at King Tuts.

Flour - Flour

 

Artist: Flour

Title: Flour   

Released: 1988   

Label: Touch And Go   

Catalog#: T&GLP#33   

Country: USA   

Style: Rock, Alternative, Indie Rock

Tracklisting:

A1. Love (4:55)
A2. Red (2:11)
A3. Accordion (2:59)
A4. Fade to Grey (2:34)
A5. Coffee (3:14)
B1. Intro (3:37)
B2. One by One (2:11)
B3. There's Blood in My Food (3:34)
B4. Mirror on the Ceiling (2:00)
B5. Outro (3:52)
B6. Starts a Fire (3:03)

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As bassist for two of the finest post-punk/guitar noise bands of their era, Breaking Circus and Rifle Sport (the latter also contained Todd Trainer, later of Brick Layer Cake and Shellac), Pete "Flour" Conway had a hand in shaping both the harsh Chicago sound of the mid-'80s and its more loosely defined Minneapolis counterpart. He also released four consistently good solo albums of claustrophobic noise, of which Fourth and Final is, as the title suggests, the last. Flour toured as a live band twice with a lineup that featured Steve Albini on bass and former Breaking Circus percussionist Todd Trainer on drums before they went on to form the band Shellac.

Slovenly - Riposte

 

It's been some time since my last comp, and will probably be a while until my next. So, to fill the gap, I shall post some more of the vinyl I have converted to FLAC/mp3. I will start with this hard to find album from one of my favourite 80s bands, Slovenly.

Artist: Slovenly
Title: Riposte
Released: 1987
Label: SST Records
Catalog#: SST 089
Country: USA
Style: Rock, Alternative Rock

Tracklisting:

A1. The Way Untruths Are
A2. Old / New
A3. On The Surface
A4. Prejudice
A5. Emma
B1. Enormous Critics
B2. Myer's Dark
B3. Not Mobile
B4. As If It Always Happens
B5. A Little Resolve


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 review by Patrick Foster:

Slovenly's third album doesn't quite pack the wiry power of its predecessor, Thinking of Empire, but it is nonetheless a potent blend of the quintet's offbeat insightfulness and guitar majesty. The band takes a softer tack on Riposte (the title meaning a quick, sharp return in speech or action), mixing acoustic guitars with their staple electric lines and succeeding spectacularly on the memorable instrumental "Emma," though songs like "Enormous Critics" (in which singer Steve Anderson advises "Don't take yourself too seriously") still prick the skin with enough force to make goosebumps appear. Riposte is the first indication that Slovenly was beginning to be drawn to longer, more abstract washes of sound -- an approach that would manifest itself on the two efforts that would follow, 1989's We Shoot for the Moon and 1992's Highway to Hanno's -- but their still-strong attraction to the straightforward art-punk of bands like Wire keeps the record from slipping down the hill of indifference. The tangling guitars of songs like "The Way Untruths Are," "Not Mobile," and the record's highlight, the stinging "Prejudice," make this album a close second to Thinking of Empire within the Slovenly canon, and a must-own for serious fans of 1980s indie guitar scholars.

 

Post-Punk Mix - Volume 3

Continuing the theme from the first 2 volumes, covering the peak years of the post-punk movement. As usual featuring quite a few bands who should have been more widely heard, amongst more familiar names. Enjoy!

  1. Wah! - The Death Of Wah! (5:45)
  2. Girls At Our Best! - This Train (2:57)
  3. Second Layer - In Bits (3:04)
  4. Mission of Burma - Weatherbox (3:26)
  5. This Heat - S.P.Q.R. (3:25)
  6. The Turquoise Swimming Pools - Burst Balloons (3:59)
  7. Delta 5 - Triangle (3:18)
  8. The Happy Family - Puritans (3:13)
  9. Scars - She's Alive (2:58)
10. Guerre Froide - Peine Perdue (3:21)
11. Savage Republic - When All Else Fails... (3:04)
12. Bilders - Alien (2:31)
13. Pink Military - Back On The London Stage (3:04)
14. 23 Skidoo - IY (5:01)
15. The Wake - Patrol (3:31)
16. Mo-Dettes - Sparrow (4:12)
17. Blurt - Get (3:42)
18. Modern English - The Token Man (6:31)
19. Nikki Sudden - Knife My Heart (2:12)
20. Commando M. Pigg - Om Nej (2:12)
21. Josef K - Drone (3:06)
22. Crispy Ambulance - Bardo Plane (3:32)

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Psychedelic Obscurities Volume 5

 

It's been much too long since I compiled volume 4 in this series, so I hope this new one is worth the wait!!

  1. Welfare State - Silence Is Requested In The Ultimate Abyss (4:47)

  2. Lincoln St. Exit - Sunny Sunday Dream (3:21)
  3. Earth Island - Ride The Universe (3:21)
  4. Puff - Vacuum (2:12)
  5. The Little Boy Blues - Mr. Tripp Wouldn't Listen (3:41)
  6. Friendsound - Joyride (4:21)
  7. The Aggregation - White Light (2:04)
  8. Buffy Sainte-Marie - Adam (5:06)
  9. Flat Earth Society - Shadows (1:54)
10. Le Stelle Di Mario Schifano - Molto Lontano (A Colori) (2:47)
11. Graffiti - New Life (2:51)
12. The Happenings - Don't You Think It's Time (3:57)
13. The Bermuda Jam - Good Trip Lollipop - An Antihystahimn (4:32)
14. The Litter - Breakfast At Gardenson's (3:01)
15. Autosalvage - Land Of Their Dreams (3:07)
16. Mortimer - Life's Sweet Music (2:23)
17. Index - Yesterday And Today II (4:07)
18. Art Boys Collection - Stoned Wall (4:35)
19. Truth - Thoughts (3:30)
20. The Mystery Trend - What If I (2:43)
21. Afterglow - Morning (2:02)
22. Damin Eih, A.L.K. and Brother Clark - Take Off Your Eyes (5:47)

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New Millennium Psychedelia, Vol. 3

At long last, almost 2 years after the 2nd volume of this series, we have Volume 3. As mentioned before,  this series of compilations is named in honour of Dale Simpson's facebook group, also named New Millennium Psychedelia. Ever growing, there are now over 1600 members of this group, so if you haven't joined in the fun, do it now! Every day, members post wonderful YouTube (or soundcloud, bandcamp...) clips of modern psychedelic music. Some of the bands featured are well known, but most are pretty obscure, just waiting to be discovered...

Once again, many thanks to Dale who provided the great artwork, and helped out with a few band suggestions. You can find his group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/245395615520771/


  1. The Koolaid Electric Company - Distraction (3:39)
  2. Temples - Test of Time (3:52)
  3. The White Kites - Love Doctor (3:22)
  4. Mugstar - Today is the Wrong Shape (6:02)
  5. Tales of Murder and Dust - Desert Flower (4:34)
  6. Secret Colours - Lava (3:30)
  7. MMOSS - So Below (3:14)
  8. Blondi's Salvation - Just a Puppet (6:25)
  9. Morgan Delt - Beneath the Black & Purple (2:57)
10. The Limiñanas  - Alicante (3:48)
11. Kingdom of the Holy Sun - Julie Says (3:42)
12. Elephant Stone - Strangers (3:30)
13. The Cult Of Dom Keller - Nowhere to Land (4:04)
14. My Sleeping Karma - Ahimsa (5:12)
15. The Sufis - See the Way (2:03)
16. The Electric Peanut Butter Company - Mono Man (3:32)
17. Oscar Suave - Love (5:27)
18. Ty Segall - The Hill (2:39)
19. The Selfish Cales - Black and White Rainbow (6:22)

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Best of 2013 mix, Volume 2

 

  1. The Fauns - Seven Hours (4:49)

  2. Wheat Fields - Cheshire Cat Blues / Big Lizard Jam (4:34)
  3. The Fall - Jetplane (3:08)
  4. Night Beats - Outta Mind (2:37)
  5. Fuchsia - The Waves (3:17)
  6. Frankie Rose - The Depths (3:21)
  7. Bill Callahan - Javelin Unlanding (3:42)
  8. Jastreb - Mother Europe (3:23)
  9. The Chills - Molten Gold (3:21)
10. Buried Feather - In the Sun (2:55)
11. Cate Le Bon - Mirror Me (3:46)
12. Sunken Seas - Asylum (4:58)
13. Lee Ranaldo and The Dust - Ambulancer (6:16)
14. Throwing Muses - Static (2:39)
15. Ian Skelly - Paper Sky (3:30)
16. Elephant Stone - Looking Thru Baby Blue (3:01)
17. The Flaming Lips - Always There In Our Hearts (4:35)
18. Soon - For You (4:27)
19. Psyche Tongues - VL (3:56)
20. The Black Angels - The Day (2:36)
21. The Telewire - Loud As Rain (5:04)

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Best of 2013 mix

 

Again, another fine year, possibly even better than last. 3 stand out albums for me were The Ex & Brass Unbound's "Enormous Door", The White Kites' "Missing" and The Invisible Hands' self-titled. Once more, I think I'll need to do another volume, but as the year isn't quite done yet, I'll post that in the new year.

    1. The Invisible Hands - The Same (3:41)

   2. The Asteroid #4 - Revolution Prevail (3:30)
   3. Thee Oh Sees - No Spell (4:24)
   4. Matt Elliott - Again (4:07)
   5. Secret Colours - Who You Gonna Run To (3:49)
   6. Wire - Adore Your Island (2:46)
   7. SPC ECO - Make Me Stay (3:27)
   8. Steve Mason - Lie Awake (4:14)
   9. Bailterspace - Films Of You (2:22)
  10. Lumerians - Dogon Genesis (5:53)
  11. Ty Segall - The Man Man (3:17)
  12. Neils Children - Edward the Confessor (3:58)
  13. Melt-Banana - Left Dog (Run, Caper, Run) (1:52)
  14. Wooden Shjips - In The Roses (5:08)
  15. Euros Childs - Give The Girl A Hand (2:12)
  16. The White Kites - Should You Wait For Me (3:15)
  17. The Selfish Cales - State Of Eternity (3:19)
  18. Dead Meadow - In the Thicket (2:56)
  19. Still Corners - Going Back to Strange (2:27)
  20. Mikal Cronin - Am I Wrong (2:32)
  21. It Hugs Back - Big Sighs (1:51)
  22. The Ex & Brass Unbound - Bicycle Illusion (7:04)

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The Worst Prog Album In The World!

For many people, the idea of progressive rock is the likes of Emerson Lake and Palmer, Yes, Gentle Giant and early Genesis. But if you were to dig deeper, you'd find many other bands who never broke through to major success. Bands like the ones on this compilation, who had their roots in  psychedelic music, but took as influence many different genres to accomplish what, for me, is truly progressive rock. One thing I can guarantee,  there are no excess guitar/drum/keyboard solos to be found here! So, for a slightly different take on prog rock, and to hopefully draw in those who shy away from it, here is "The Worst Prog Album In The World!". I hope you enjoy...

  1. Baba Scholae - Half Day (3:56)

  2. Burnin Red Ivanhoe - Avez-Vous Kaskelainen? (4:45)
  3. Locomotive - Rain (3:22)
  4. Visitors - Visitors (3:34)
  5. T2 - J.L.T. (5:50)
  6. Earth and Fire - 21st Century Show (4:14)
  7. Stackridge - Teatime (5:48)
  8. Oho - Brown Algae Is Attractive (2:18)
  9. Goblin - Profondo Rosso (3:41)
10. Shuttah - Imjin (5:00)
11. My Solid Ground - Devonshire Street W1 (3:26)
12. Hot Thumbs O'Riley - Harmless Vibration (2:35)
13. Culpeper's Orchard - Teaparty For An Orchard (6:11)
14. Message - When I'm Home (7:44)
15. East of Eden - Northern Hemisphere (5:04)
16. Food Brain - Liver Juice Vending Machine (3:18)
17. Galliard - In Your Mind's Eyes (6:28)

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The Mono Men - Took That Thing (1992)

Artist: The Mono Men
Release: Took That Thing
Released: 1992
Label: Sympathy For The Record Industry
Catalog#: SFTRI 164
Format: Vinyl, 7", Single, 45 RPM
Style: Garage Rock

Tracklisting:

A. Took That Thing (2:12)
B1. Shakin' All Over (2:13)
B2. Mr. Eliminator (2:03)

About two hours from Seattle, in the seaside town of Bellingham, WA, the Mono Men pursued their campy retreat to '60s rock revivalism via the Sonics, the Wailers, and loads of teen exploitation flicks, but don't be fooled -- their music is loud, fast, and aggressive.

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