Wreckless Eric - Wreckless Eric 1978 (1991 Repertoire Records) Flac & mp3

Wreckless Eric's eponymous debut is a ragged, endearing collection of crude rock & roll. In a way, crude doesn't even begin to describe Eric's music. A muddle of scratchy guitars, pounding drumming, and snarled, indecipherable vocals, the record is pure, primal garage rock in the old-fashioned sense. Although Wreckless Eric has the demeanor of a punk, his music is straight-out rock & roll in the old-fashioned sense -- there's even saxophones and organs popping out of the mix. What makes Wreckless Eric such fun is its combination of catchy hooks, spirited playing, and downright rudeness.
 

Only a handful of songs are fully formed, and those -- "Whole Wide World" and Ian Dury's "Rough Kids" -- are punk-inflected pub rock classics, pure pop songs in every sense of the term. The remainder are off-kilter, idiosyncratic pop songs -- about everything from "Personal Hygiene" and "Waxworks" to "Telephoning Home" and "Brain Thieves" -- performed with sloppy, drunken abandon. Too punk for pub rockers, too straightforward for punk, and too weird for everybody else, Wreckless Eric's debut album is one of the small gems of the punk era.(allmusic.com)

This guy have done a lot of fine albums with a very own kind of pop songs.

Enjoy
          Frank

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Psychedelic Pop from the Netherlands: Zen - Hair 1969 (2002 Rotation) Flac & mp3@320

Zen was a band from the Netherlands. They released their only album, called ''Hair'' in 1969. It is a beautiful album of psychedelic pop/rock. I highly recommend it if you like this kind of nederbeat or nederpop. This is the ''Rotation'' release from 2002 with eleven bonus tracks.

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Garage Pop, Rock, Folk: Those Guys - Behind The Glasses 1967 ( 2009 60sgaragebands.com) Flac & mp3@320

Realizing a good thing when one came along, Those Guys David Owens, Jimmy Owens and Bill Dabbs hooked up with Bob Barnes and Eddie Deaton shortly after that duo's own rock band--the legendary Elite--broke up. This line-up of Those Guys would soon become one of the most popular groups in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. The band scored a regional hit in 1967 with their version of 'People Say' but reached their peak behind the incredibly strong songwriting of David Owens. Over forty years later, their 'Stereopis Of A Floret' and 'Lookin' At You Behind The Glasses' have become recognized as garage rock and psychedelic classics.

This collection of Those Guys recordings includes the complete recorded output of the core group, including their four single sides, six unreleased recordings enginnered by T-Bone Burnett and four bonus tracks recorded for the Sump'n Else TV show.

Very nice 60's popfolkpsychedelicgarage album. The band deserved more attention and success in my opinion. If you like it you can buy it here

Frank

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Sunshine/Harmony Pop The New Colony Six - Treat Her Groovy 1968/69 (2005 El Records) Flac & mp3@320

Though it's not obvious from the cover, this 22-track CD compilation is basically a reissue of the New Colony Six's third and fourth LPs (1968's Revelations and 1969's Attacking a Straw Man), presenting the albums one after the other with their original track sequences. This was the era in which the Chicago band, which started off with a rawer garage pop sound, softened its approach considerably and found some modest national commercial success.

Those who swear by the group's earlier work (particularly the excellent 1966 debut, Breakthrough) are likely to be disappointed by the far more mainstream harmony pop/rock of these records, though on the other hand, fans of groups like the Association might favor this era more than the previous one. Including the hits "I Will Always Think About You," "Can't You See Me Cry," "Things I'd Like to Say," "I Want You to Know," "Barbara, I Love You," and "I Could Never Lie to You," it's on the mild and indistinctive side of the style, sometimes incorporating light orchestration and brass, and making an unlikely venture into country on "Just Feel Worse." 

On Revelations, there's perhaps a slightly brasher, less slickly produced feel than numerous somewhat similar California sunshine pop acts had, as well as a greater British Invasion influence, though the baroque touches common to much late-'60s baroque rock are present. The British rock elements recede and jazzier ones (especially "Ride the Wicked Wind") rise more to the fore on the more middle-of-the-road Attacking a Straw Man, concluding with the maudlin recitation "Prairie Grey."(allmusic.com)

Although I like the band's first album very much, I am more a fan of the band's more pop-oriented stuff. This is also due to the fact that the later works of the band were arranged much more sophisticated than the early stuff. In any case it is undisputed that there was a band at work here with an environment who knew exactly what they wanted. I really like this compilation very much and all of you who are into sixties pop music should give it a listen.

Have fun
               Frank

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