Part One - The Millenium At Last (8 Disc Box) Artwork & Lee Mallory - Many Are The Times mp3@320

Hello, i want post the Box of  the Curt Boettcher project ''The Millenium''. It's a 8 disc box, but now i will post only the complete box artwork (nearly 500mb) and the first of the eight discs. Today it is ''Lee Mallory - Many are the times''. That means not that i will upload every disc separate. I think two more posts and it will be done. I hope you will enjoy the box, because there is a lot of great stuff on it. Okay enough prated. Three cheers for you 'Mädele und Buben' and have fun.

Es grüsst
               Frank

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Piccadilly Line - The Huge World Of Emily Small (1967) FLAC

The Picadilly Line's sole album is one of the recordings that most epitomizes what has been retrospectively dubbed the "toytown" school of British psychedelia by collectors. That is, the songs bounce along daintily; the vocal emphasis is on high harmonies; the lyrics are sometimes populated with observations of British everyday life and characters, sprinkled with a coat of whimsy; and the arrangements benefit from touches of baroque orchestration. It's executed here, however, with a fey, twee touch that makes the Zombies' Odessey and Oracle, for instance, sound rough 'n' ready by comparison. It's thus going to be too light even for some British psychedelic pop enthusiasts, but it's not quite the most saccharine entry in the genre, though it's undeniably precious.

There's a folky lightness that keeps this from being too wide-eyed and childish, sometimes sounding a bit like Simon & Garfunkel gone toytown, though with some similarities to both the 1967-era Beatles and '60s California pop in the vocals and arrangements. The covers of Bob Dylan's "Visions of Johanna" and the Everly Brothers' "Gone, Gone, Gone," however, seem misplaced in these surroundings. The CD reissue adds ten bonus cuts of a similar nature (though they're sometimes marginally gutsier) and the same level of professionalism, including all three of their non-LP cuts that appeared on singles in 1968. Of these, the one of most interest is "Yellow Rainbow," as it was written by Graham Nash, then of the Hollies. Unsurprisingly, it sounds much like a Hollies song given a lighter treatment than the Hollies themselves would have; also unsurprisingly, to be a little uncharitable, it's by far the best track on the CD.(R.Unterberger)

Here is an earlier effort by Rod Edwards and Roger Hand.This is the cd reissue with the bonus tracks in flac.
Hope you will enjoy
                                Frank
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Edwards Hand - First Album 1969 (great psychedelic pop!) mp3@320

Because Edwards Hand were one of the few pop/rock acts other than the Beatles who were produced by George Martin in the late 1960s, their obscure self-titled debut album has generated some rough comparisons to the Beatles' own work. It's true that the harmonies, melodies, and orchestrations bear some similarity to those heard on the very most pop-oriented of the Beatles' productions, though in truth there's a stronger resemblance to the ornate pop-psychedelia of the late-'60s Bee Gees. Throwing those names into the hat so quickly, though, is a little misleading and might spark hopes for a buried treasure that's better than it is. For the actual songs are certainly coyer and more saccharine than the compositions of the Beatles, and even make the Bee Gees' late-'60s stuff sound melancholy and a little hard-edged. It's more something of a combination of Beatles/Bee Gees-lite with poppier, soaring, sometimes fruity orchestral arrangements -- most likely Martin's strongest contribution to the record -- and more of a middle of the road/sunshine pop/toytown psychedelic influence than the Bee Gees (and certainly the Beatles) admitted. Certainly some of the lyrics make one blanch a bit on the printed page, with their fey references to picture books, kings and queens, bringing flowers in the morning, walking down London's Charing Cross Road, magic cars, and the like. If you like those elements, of course, there are things to enjoy about this record. It has reasonably catchy though not stunning melodies, good duo vocal harmonies, and an ambience that captures something of the most innocuous side of the Swinging London/flower power era. It does sound best, however, when it gets most serious and Bee Gees-like, "If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind" and "Orange Peel" being two examples.


For me this two guys was for around a little more than two years in the sixties the most impressive musicians/songwriters in the mid/late sixties psychedelic (baroque) pop scene. They was very ''light'', that's true, but that's it what i love in the sound of Edwards Hand. Enjoy it

Frank

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Rollercoaster - Rollercoaster (1999)

Rollercoaster were a band from Perth with members of musicians which were well known from popular bands in Australia.  Duane Smith (The Chevelles), Craig MacLean(Superscope), Grant Ferstat (Flavour Of The Month), and Dave Shaw (The Stems). The album was recorded around '97 and released 1999. It was released in Spain and is the one and only album by the band. The songs are written by Smith and MacLean as far i know. If you like australian power pop in the tradition of the Chevelles (but not only) you are right here. It's in mp3@320.
Good night girls and boys

Cheers
           Frank
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