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| Savoy Brown - A Step Further
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(Decca SKL.5013 UK-7? VG+ 375:-)
An English rhythm and blues band that debuted in '67, Savoy Brown always found more of an audience with the American crowd, who rarely turn down Boogie Rock of any kind. Their swampy blues style peaked in the early '70s, but they've continued their exploration of Electric Blues by releasing a record at least every other year.
A special split LP from Savoy Brown – one side live, and one side studio – both produced to blues rock perfection by Mike Vernon! The live set features one 22 minute long medley, titled "Savoy Brown Boogie".
UK mid-70's pressing on the "boxed" Decca label.
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| Savoy Brown - Boogie Brothers
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(Decca SKL-5186 UK-74 VG+ 300:-)
This incarnation of Savoy Brown is mainly ony blistering romp from start to finish. The line-up features three strong guitarists; mainstay Kim Simmonds, ex-Chicken Shacker Stan Webb and former Keef Hartley-member Miller Anderson.
On this guitar-dominate album, Simmonds stays surprisingly in the background, leaving most of the songwriting and vocal chores to Anderson.
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| Savoy Brown - Looking In
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(Decca SKL-5066 UK-70 VG+ 600:-)
An English rhythm and blues band that debuted in '67, Savoy Brown always found more of an audience with the American crowd, who rarely turn down Boogie Rock of any kind. Their swampy blues style peaked in the early '70s, but they've continued their exploration of Electric Blues by releasing a record at least every other year.
"Looking In" is a very nice piece of British blues and boogie to get you through the weekend. Lonesome Dave strums and tells the tales and the rest of the boys provide the atmosphere. Powerful at times and quiet at others it's a ride down that gravel road that parallels the highway.
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| Scott, Linda - Linda
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(Congress LP-3001 US-62 VG+ 300:-)
Linda Joy Sampson was active in the early to mid 1960s.
Her biggest hit was the 1961 single, "I've Told Every Little Star". She went on to place twelve songs on the charts over the next four years.
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| Scruffs - Wanna meet the Scruffs
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(Power Play HLPP-5050 US-77 VG/VG+ 500:-)
Power pop bands who worship at the altar of Big Star are a dime a dozen today, but the Scruffs were doing that long before Alex Chilton became a cool name to drop, and "Wanna Meet the Scruffs?", the sole album they released during their lifetime, is that late-'70s rarity, a slice of classic power pop that doesn't sound "new wave," unlike most of smart pop's class of 1978.
Using Big Star and the Raspberries as a starting point, vocalist and songwriter Stephen Burns blended an Anglophile's sense of melody with a very American feel for crunchy guitars and the occasional power chord.
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| Shades of MacMurrough - Carrig River
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(Polydor 2908.007 Ire-73 VG+ 1250:-)
Hailing from Ferns in Co. Wexford Shades of MacMurrough formed in 1971. Comprised of Mary and Josephine O'Neill and Paul Kavanagh they specialised in close harmonies and accompanied themselves on 6 & 12 string guitars, spinet, autoharp, tin whistle and bodhran.
Released in 1973 "Carrig River" has been long held as an acid folk holy grail and is a mellifluous blend of sublime vocal harmonies and subtle instrumentation.
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| Shok Paris - Steel and Starlight
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(IRS Records ILP-460452 Hol-87 375:-)
Shok Paris was a blip on the 80s metal radar, managing three albums that were decent but definitely second-tier in the grand scheme of things.
They’re most famous for the over-the-top vocals of frontman, Vic Hix. The man sounded like Blackie Lawless hopped up on discount Super Soldier Formula and 5 Hour Energy while trying to channel Danzig and Messiah Marcolin simultaneously.
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| Simon, Paul - Negotiations and Love Songs
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(Warner Bros 925789-1 EU-88 SS 500:-)
In his career, Paul Simon has had an impeccable ability to bring together melody and lyric with various global styles, creating some of the smartest pop around. Ever since he left behind the rigid musical borders of Simon & Garfunkel's folk-rock, Simon has built upon that fertile base. And as NEGOTIATIONS AND LOVE SONGS, a Warner Brothers-era greatest hits compilation, clearly shows, Simon expanded his cultural horizons and sent his musical appetite into overdrive to separate his compositions from those of his contemporaries.
Rare promotional vinyl in a single pocket picture sleeve and housed in a custom title printed cloth sleeve which remains stitch sealed around the edges - an unusual promo rarity!
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| Simple Minds - Ghost Dancing
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(Mixeye 198-60128 Bel-86 VG+ 300:-)
From their beginnings as a raw, glammed-up New Wave band in 1977 to their complex Alternative Rock of the present, Simple Minds has maintained a dramatic flair and a deep complexity in their constantly changing sound.
Side A to E: Copenhagen, Tuesday 28th Jan. 1986.
Side F: Sydney, Friday 9th Dec. 1981.
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| Smith, Patti - Horses
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(Arista AL-4066 US-75 VG/VG+ 400:-)
Patti Smith's first album and one of greatest rock albums of the 70s! Pure, driving passion powers Patti as profoundly as it ever would here on "Horses". The musicianship is famously top notch, too, making for one of those amazing moments in rock when a great voice – not just a great sounding singer, but uniquely visionary presence ultimately proves to be more forceful than the players. Produced by John Cale, with great guitar from Lenny Kaye!
Transitional pressing, issued in second jacket version with "Horses" printed in black lettering on the cover. First state light blue labels with white Arista logo, no TM next to it, and no warning about Unauthorized duplication.
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| Smiths - Louder than Bombs
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(Rough Trade ROUGH-255 UK-88 VG+ 800:-)
A special collection done for the US market after the first great run of albums by The Smiths – a double-length set that's partly a best-of, and mostly a collection of all the wonderful songs the group issued on their various singles and EP releases in the UK – none of which were originally released in America!
As such, the album's a crucial component to the group's catalog – especially if you weren't buying their singles back in the day – and is filled with as much greatness as all their other albums of the period.
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| Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
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(Armageddon ARM-1 UK-80 VG+ 800:-)
Robyn Hitchcock got his start in the Soft Boys in 1976, at the onset of the Punk blowout -- not that they were really a part of it. It was more the aftershocks of Punk that allowed the Soft Boys to make their (then) minor waves.
Hitchcock's absurd, Syd Barrett-esque images, folk strumming, and revved-up Power Pop still seemed an anomaly during the time of gob-smacking and pogo-ing, but "Underwater Moonlight" very much influenced a new wave of nonsense-slinging guitar psychedelia from R.E.M to Pavement.
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| Springsteen, Bruce - Rendesvouz
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([unofficial] Ger-86 VG+ 500:-)
No rock performer has spoken with more authority on the human fallout of the American Dream than Bruce Springsteen. His songs deals with star-crossed lovers and noble souls hag-ridden by fate into crime, depression, and worst of all, ordinariness. But lest we forget, the original denim rocker has also written some of the most uplifting songs in AOR.
This 2LP set on GREEN MARBLE VINYL contains outtakes from The Record Plant / Atlantic studios between 1975 and 1979.
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| Springsteen, Bruce - Streets on Fire
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([unofficial] VG+ 500:-)
This 2LP set was actually recorded during the second leg of the "Born to Run Tour" at the Civic Center in Springfield, MA, on August 22, 1976.
This would be the final performance of of eight by the Miami Horns Quartet, who had to re-join Southside Johnny on tour. The Jukes had been off the road while Johnny recovered from a throat infection.
"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" includes Roy Bittan playing a minute of Bach's "Prelude No. 1 In C Major" from "The Well-Tempered Clavier" in the band introductions and a snippet of "Theme From Shaft" in the midsection.
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| Stewart, Rod - Storyteller
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(Warner Bros 925987-1 EU-89 800:-)
Rod Stewart once sat at the right hand of nearly every critic, enjoying the fulsome praise due a rock 'n' roll wunderkind. After an incredibly productive stint from 1960 to 1975, in which Stewart matched Faces releases with solo albums, he left the band to explore new currents in the mainstream.
This 7-LP box set covers all phases of this rooster-coiffed rocker in appropriate style, with a 24-page booklet/discography and all the hits.
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