My express request...

URGENT...

 Hello folks, all of you friends and lovers of music. My concern is the urgent request not to post links from this blog to other sites or blogs. I love to share music and you can do with the music i post naturally whatever you want, but i want to ask you not using the links from here. If you want share it, feel free but if you do use your own links please. That's all i want to ask. I hope you all can give me your sympathy. Okay that's it. Wish you all a nice sunday/sunday evening

Greetings
                Frank

Bob Segarini - Gotta Have Pop 1978 (1996)

While Bob Segarini has often been called "the Canadian Nick Lowe," in many respects he seems more like the Great White North's answer to Don Dixon. Like Dixon, he has a soul man's voice but also possesses a wicked sense of humor, and though he likes tough, hooky rockin' pop tunes served straight up, the former Wackers man goes for a more elaborate production approach than Lowe, and the eclecticism of his first solo album, Gotta Have Pop! recalls Lowe's superb debut, Pure Pop for Now People (not to mention Dixon's Most of the Girls Like to Dance but Only Some of the Boys Do). Gotta Have Pop! boasts ten great songs ranging from the purposefully smarmy "Don't Believe a Word I Say" and the punky "Dressed in the Dark" to the melodramatic "Hide Away" and the twisted high school lament "Steady Eddie," and at every turn Segarini hits a bullseye as a songwriter and vocalist wherever he aims. Segarini can sound honest and sincere on "I Don't Want to Lose You" and transform himself into the ultimate sleazeball a few moments later on "Don't Believe a Word I Say" with equal skill, and while he gets a polished, widescreen sound out of his band on these sessions, the album is admirably free of clutter, with a limited number of instruments going a long, long way. And perhaps the only Beatles fan to sing about the Fab Four's breakup with the same care and intelligence as Segarini manages on "Love Story" was one Ringo Starr, on his B-side "Early 1970." It's hard to imagine anyone who likes rock & roll not finding something to love on Gotta Have Pop! It's a tribute to the dear old days when hooks ruled the airwaves and evokes a number of lost eras without sinking into nostalgia, sounding as vital as anything recorded last week. This guy is a cult hero because he's smart, funny and talented, but in a better world, his cult wouldn't be the only ones paying attention.(allmusic.com)

I will show more music from Bob Segarini and his projects here in the near future because he's just great. Imho Nick Lowe is ''the british Bob Segarini'' but that's my point of view. Hope you will like this album as well.

Greetings
               Frank

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Seven Long Years - Always Two Steps Ahead Of The Heartbreak (ep) 2014

Here is a six song ep of ''Seven Long Years'' from 2014. Great 60's retro pop garage as always from this belgium crew. All songs written by Eric Knox. Produced by Sonic Spaceboy.

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Viel Spass beim hören!
                                     Frank

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Seven Long Years - Chained To Your Love (2012) mp3

Seven Long Years is a 60's pop garage project from Belgium. Try it!
Okay, i have to go to the cinema now with my beauty. Wish you a nice Friday evening.
Cheers
          Frank
p.s.: I try another hoster and hope it works :-)

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Orgone Box - Centaur

Orgone Box's classic debut album retweaked and perfected for 2014 - a Beatlesque psych pop classic.

Recommended if you like: The Beatles, Cotton Mather, XTC, Beaulieu Porch - (The Active Listener)


"there is a pretty strong case for arguing that it is the definitive psych-ish power pop album of that, or indeed any decade..." ' Popjunkie London


This is the pristine album from 1996, which in 2001 became the selftitled ''The Orgone Box''.

''The Active Listener'' wrote this:

 The Active Listener published this review of the vinyl release before we were offered the digital rights:

The convoluted and frustrating path that led to the recording and release of 2001's self titled "Orgone Box" album (actually recorded in 1996) makes a fascinating read, and the resulting album is an acknowledged lost classic - heard by few, but cherished by that small number.
So when Sugarbush Records boss Markus Holler decided it was time that the world had another chance to digest this exquisite psychedelic pop treat, Orgone Box mainman Rick Corcoran took the opportunity to give things a bit of a tweak, resequencing, remixing and re-recording (vocals mostly I gather) to make an album that I initially thought was untouchable even better.
Strictly speaking this isn't exactly the "Orgone Box" album. The sequencing is completely new, a few tracks have departed, and there's a new one in it's place.
It is however the definitive statement of what the Orgone Box was, and promisingly enough appears to still be about - Beatley pop tunes with cleverly subversive verses and gloriously soaring choruses. And while the original mixes of these songs sound very much like psychedelia as remembered in the nineties (think a more psychedelicized Cotton Mather), with the clean and occasionally sterile sheen that comes from a mostly home-recorded affair, these new mixes sound both startlingly contemporary and far more authentically vintage sixties at the same time. The overall effect is that what was once a slightly-delic power-pop album of fantastically well observed Beatlesque pop moments, is now a kitchen-sink psychedelic baroque pop extravaganza. Regular readers of this rag will have found themselves instructed often to investigate the recorded works of Beaulieu Porch - anyone who has investigated that catalogue and been impressed should follow up immediately with "Centaur" sight unseen. You'll love it.
"Mirrorball (When I Want To Feel)" is a personal favorite, with a chugging "I am the Walrus" cello section, chiming Harrisonesque guitar arpeggios and effects laden vocals and guitar parts sweeping through on a solar breeze. The anthemic "Judy Over The Rainbow" benefits similarly from it's retweaking with a slightly slower tempo and added chorus harmonies finally realizing its full regal splendour.
In Corcoran's own words: "Centaur is very important to me now not just as an artist, but emotionally, and I think it's self-defining now. There was a disconnect before in many ways, but now I think that collection of songs have caught up - to the best we could do anyway without re-recording the whole thing, which would have been a disaster! That story is now complete as far as I'm concerned and it's time to move on.

For me this is a really great album and one of my ''Top 200'' (and that means a lot) . Okay enjoy this masterpiece and i hope you have the same fun like i feel if i listen.
Cheers
           Frank

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Millenium The Third And Final

Hello Folks, here comes the last Millenium. Inside the discs 1, 3, 5, and 6. Hope you enjoy !
Greetings
               Frank
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Chris Jameson? Bobby Lucey? Protest? Anti Protest? mp3@320

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

                      
Wie versprochen, poste ich hier das erste Bobby Jameson (aka Chris Lucey) Album. Das Album und seine Entstehung hat ja eine mehr oder weniger obskure Geschichte. Ich denke, jeder ist damit mitlerweile vertraut, so dass ich das hier nicht nochmal aufwärmen muss. Für mich ist es das beste seiner drei Alben. Mich hat überrascht, wie modern es für seine Zeit (1965) klingt, als ich es das erste Mal hörte. Für mich unglaublich, wie gut produziert es klingt, wenn man die äußeren Bedingungen für die Aufnahmen kennt. Jamesons gesanglicher Ausdruck ist 1a und auch die Songs sind klasse arrangiert. Glaubt man Jameson, so war er auch hieran (aufgrund der Umstände) beteiligt. Und warum sollte man ihm das nicht glauben? Jeder, der mit ihm gearbeitet hat und darüber sprach, bezeichnete Bobby als äußerst talentierten Musiker und Interpreten.

2002 hat Rev-Ola die Platte wiederveröffentlicht. Jameson erhielt nach eigenen Angaben 1000 U.S. Dollar dafür,wie er in seinem Blog schreibt. Er sagte, das wäre das einzigste Mal gewesen, dass er jemals für seine Musik bezahlt worden wäre. Und wirklich spricht vieles dafür, dass die Musikindustrie ihn ziemlich besch..... hat. Aber das ist zwar keine andere Geschichte, denn es ist die Geschichte von Bobby Jameson, aber wer möchte, kann diese Dinge in seinen eigenen Worten auf Jamesons Seite nachlesen ( link). Ach so, in England erschien das Album unter ''Bobby Jameson - Too Many Mornings'' mit anderem Titel, eigenem Namen und anderem Cover.

West Coast folk-rocker Bobby Jameson is best known -- or, perhaps, not known at all -- for Songs of Protest and Anti-Protest, the sought-after cult LP he recorded under the alias Chris Lucey. Born Robert Parker Jameson in Geneva, Illinois, Jameson cut his debut single, "I Wanna Love You," for the Talamo label in early 1964. The record was a regional hit, and even earned him an appearance on American Bandstand.

Although the follow-ups "Okey Fanokey Baby" and "All Alone" went nowhere, Jameson nevertheless captured the attention of Rolling Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham, and in late 1964 he flew to London to record the Decca single "All I Want Is My Baby," co-written by Oldham and Stones guitarist Keith Richards.
(The B-side, "Each and Every Day of the Year," credits authorship to Richards and Mick Jagger.) After a 1956 one-off for the Brit imprint, "I Wanna Know," Jameson returned to Los Angeles, where he befriended producer Marshall Lieb.

At this time Lieb was in the midst of helming the debut Surrey Records release by folkie Chris Ducey, but with the album covers already printed and the disc ready to ship, contractual snafus forced the project into limbo. Lieb coerced Jameson into writing and recording a new batch of tunes based on Ducey's existing song titles, and after some creative tinkering with the cover art, Songs of Protest and Anti-Protest -- now credited to Chris Lucey and, for reasons unknown, featuring a photo of Rolling Stone Brian Jones -- finally hit retail. Promoted via what was then the most expensive and lavish Billboard advertising supplement ever printed, the album -- a deeply idiosyncratic psych-folk opus closely resembling the classic early LPs by Arthur Lee and Love -- nevertheless proved a commercial flop; in the U.K., it appeared under Jameson's own name and a different title, Too Many Mornings, but still stiffed.
Jameson did not resurface until mid-1966, releasing "Gotta Find My Roogalator" -- arranged by Frank Zappa, and recorded with L.A. session virtuosos including Carol Kaye on bass and Larry Knechtel on piano -- on Pat Boone's Penthouse label. He then signed to Verve, where the Our Productions team of Curt Boettcher, Jim Bell, and Steve Clark helmed his 1967 LP Color Him In.
That same year, Jameson also appeared in the infamous American International Pictures documentary Mondo Hollywood, sharing the screen with Zappa, sex goddess Jayne Mansfield, health-food pioneer Gypsy Boots, and Manson crony Bobby Beausoleil. A 1969 album for GRT, Working!, proved Jameson's swan song. allmusic.com

 Ich würde mich freuen, zu hören wie Euch die Scheibe gefällt. Also ran an's kommentieren.
Wir hören uns          Cheers!
                      Frank
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Second part of The Millenium - Disc 2, 4, 7

Hello music lovers, like promised the second part of the Millenium Box. And there is some fine music inside today. I think you will enjoy it. Today i post ''The Millenium - Pieces'', ''Curt Boettcher - Another Time'' and ''Sandy Salisbury - Do Unto Others''.
Okay see you later

Cheers
            Frank
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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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