Psychedelic Pop/Rock from The Morning Dew - Second Album 1967-1970 Flac & mp3@320

The Morning Dew were formed from the remains of a collapsed folk-rock band called The Toads. Two early single releases, "No More" and "Be a Friend," were local successes in 1967, and the group was signed to Morris Levy's Roulette label in early 1969, for which they cut an entire album of material before disbanding later that year. Collectables has reissued a CD collection, and Gear Fab has released the folk-like "Sing Out" from their unissued late 1968 sessions.(allmusic.com)

Great band from the Kansas area. Nearly all what the guys released is really well done. I will post the first album in the next days as well. By the way, Morning Dew was inducted into the Kansas Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. Not bad guys!

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         Frank    Flac   &  mp3@320

Psychedelic Pop By United Travel Service - Wind And Stone 1966-1970 (2010 Break-A-Way Records) Flac

Dateline 1966 - the Pacific North West of the USA - a hotbed for numerous local and regional bands following the tradition of the renowned North West Fratrock of the Kingsmen or the uncompromising Rock & Roll of The Sonicsand Wailers. Not so the United Travel Service.
Additionally there is an excellent 2009 re-recording of an old track capturing again the old magic and authenticity of the group. The CD comes with a 12 page booklet including a detailed history of the band with photos from the members scrapbook. At last, here is the long overdue legacy of one of the Northwest's finest psychedelic bands.

They were sadly overlooked at the time but are now revered for their two brilliant, killer folkadelic 45 releases 'Wind And Stone' b/w 'Drummer Of Your Mind' and 'Gypsy Eyes' b/w 'Echo Of You'. The UTS were mainly influenced by the San Francisco scene, Garage Rock and the Byrds.

Their high quality repertoire written by guitarist Ben Hoff and produced by New Tweedy Brothers producer Rick Keefer would have made a classic local psychedelic album if released back then. But it was not to be. Break-A-Way present for the first time, a collection of the bands rare 45s, along with four more, until now unreleased studio recordings, plus five home demos, of which four were not part of the LP version.

I posted this album already in January but only in mp3 format. Here it comes now in Flac. This is the cd release but i added the lp artwork as well. The cd was released in 2010, the lp one year earlier in 2009. The lp have only 12 tracks but two of them ( Crystal Land & Plastic Paradise) are not on the cd.This is a very fine psychedelic pop album i highly recommend.
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         Frank   Flac p1   &   Flac p2     


You can buy the album and the cd here

The Sanctions & Jim and the Lords - Then Came The Electric Prunes 1965 (2000 Heartbeat Productions) Flac & mp3@320

35 years on.... and Heartbeat has come up with more Prunes rarities. 'Then Came The Electric Prunes' unearths pre-Prunes Audiodisc acetates recorded chez Russ Bottomley - 12 tracks from 27th March 1965 by The Sanctions (James Lowe, Ken Williams, Mark Tulin and Mike Weakley) and 4 tracks from 29th September 1965 by Jim And The Lords (with Dave Hargrave added to the previous line-up).
The Sanctions' sound is of a garage band with surf roots performing popular covers including 'Long Tall Sally', 'Money', 'Moon Dog', 'Love Potion Number Nine', 'What'd I Say', 'Jack The Ripper' and of course 'Louie Louie'.

On the Jim and The Lords tracks - 'Little Olive', 'I'm Free', 'I'm Down' and 'Too Many People' - the surf influences are replaced by raw harmonica and a raucous punk style ala Stones and Seeds. A folk-rock lilt on 'I'm Free' marks another development since the March sessions.
The sound quality is surprisingly good considering the source. With previously unseen photos this is a must-have for any Prunes fan.(Vernon Joyhnson/Max Waller in Fuzz, Acid And Flowers)

This is surely for fans of the band but it's interesting to see the development of the band from this to the songs of her debut album.

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         Frank    Flac & mp3@320

The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) (1967) (2000 Rhino Special Products, Collectors' Choice Music) Flac & mp3@320

As the throbbing buzz of Ken Williams' tremolo-laden fuzztone guitar creeps from one side of the stereo spectrum to the other, the Electric Prunes kick off their debut album with their first (and biggest) hit single, and if Electric Prunes: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) never hits the high point of its title track again, the next 11 songs confirm that these guys were in the first echelon of American garage bands of the '60s. In the grand tradition of most garage rock albums, the best tracks on this disc are the singles, which along with the title track include "Get Me to the World on Time" and the surprisingly effective B-sides "Luvin'" and "Are You Loving Me More (But Enjoying It Less)," but the other tunes are more than just filler.

On nearly every song, Williams and fellow guitarists Weasel Spagnola and Jim Lowe spin a web of gloriously strange sounds, making the most of a battery of stomp boxes, and bassist Mark Tulin and drummer Preston Ritter provide a solid, percolating backdrop for their faux-psychedelic soundscapes. Producer David Hassinger would in time become a bad guy in the Electric Prunes' story, but on these sessions he gives them a great studio sound, specious but full of details, and at its best this album does as well by its three-guitar team as Moby Grape's epochal debut. And if songs like the weepy soft rock number "Onie," the phony Brit-folk of "The King Is in the Counting House" and the goofball nostalgia of "Toonerville Trolly" suggest Hassinger didn't always know what sort of material to fit with the band (who were only allowed to record two of their own songs), the Prunes rise to the occasion no matter what's thrown at them (and Jim Lowe's vocal suggests he knew just how ridiculous "Toonerville Trolly" would sound). While the Sonics and the Litter made more consistent albums, few if any bands from the '60s garage came up with a sound as distinctive as the Electric Prunes, and they got it on tape with striking success on I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night). [The album was also released with two bonus tracks: "Ain't It Hard" and "Little Oliver."]

As you see this is not from the ''Original Album Series'' (5 disc release by Rhino from 2013). I posted ''Underground'' some days ago from that series and will post the other four as well. Just for information.
This is the debut album and it is a very strong effort. To me only two weaker songs here ( ''About a quarter to nine'' and ''Tunerville Trolley''. Too much Vaudeville in my taste.) Both bonus tracks "Ain't It Hard" and "Little Oliver" are very good stuff as well.
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          Frank  Flac  &  mp3@320

Randy & The Radiants ‎– Memphis Beat - The Sun Recordings 1964-1966 (2007 Big Beat) Flac & mp3@320

Randy Haspel was a 16-year-old kid whose band the Radiants played dances and frat parties in Memphis, TN when one day, a fan at a show offered to introduce the band to his father. The fan was Knox Phillips, and his father, Sam Phillips, happened to run Sun Records, the legendary independent label that gave the world Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and many other trailblazing acts. Randy & the Radiants recorded for Sun during the label's waning days in the mid-'60s, with Sam Phillips producing most of their sessions, and Memphis Beat, which collects two dozen of the band's Sun sides, documents a curious time and place where the influences of the British Invasion and the garage rock explosion were being felt at the house that rockabilly built.

On record, Randy & the Radiants sounded significantly tighter and more professional than the average teenage band of the era, and they had an outstanding songwriter in guitarist Bob Simon, though Phillips occasionally prodded them to cover the likes of "Boppin' the Blues" and "Blue Suede Shoes," and they also tackled a few blues numbers and British Invasion hits.

 Haspel and his bandmates had a strong knack for harmonies, and there are moments on Memphis Beat where the Radiants sound like the lost middle ground between blue-eyed soul and the Hollies, but oddly enough Phillips' production, for which the band is best remembered today, doesn't often suit the band especially well, making them sound looser and less disciplined than they really were and sometimes making the group vocals sound mushy.

Still, as a document of Memphis' Anglophile underground in its infancy, this is fascinating stuff, and the best tunes -- the local hits "My Way of Thinking" and "Truth from My Eyes" -- suggest they could have matured into one of the great bands of the garage era if college and the draft hadn't stalled their progress in 1966.(allmusic)

These guys were really great. A lot fine stuff on this recordings. ''Nobody Walks Out On Me'', Be Good While I'm Gone'', To Seek And Then Find'' just to name three of a bunch of songs who shows what had could be. Highly recommend!
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          Frank   Flac p1   &  Flac p2     - mp3@320

Tim Buckley - Greetings from L.A. 1972 (1990 Rhino) Flac & mp3@320

Stepping back from the swooping avant-garde touches of Starsailor for a fairly greasy, funky, honky tonk set of songs, the opening lines of Greetings from L.A. set the tone: "I went down to the meat rack tavern/And I found myself a big ol' healthy girl." Sassy backing vocalists, honking sax, and more add to the atmosphere, while Tim Buckley himself blends his vocal acrobatics with touches not unfamiliar to fans of Mick Jagger or Jim Morrison. The studio band backing him up might not be the equal to, say, War, but in their own way they do the business; extra touches like the string arrangement on "Sweet Surrender" help all the more. The argument that this was all somehow a compromise or sellout doesn't seem to entirely wash. While no doubt there were commercial pressures at play, given Buckley's constant change from album to album it seems like he simply found something else to try, which he did with gusto.

"Get On Top," one of his best numbers, certainly doesn't sound like something aimed for the charts. The music may have a solid groove to it (Kevin Kelly's organ is worth a mention), but Buckley's frank lyrics and improv scatting both show it as him following his own muse.(allmusic)

Surely one or maybe that most commercial album of his career. But what it means to use the word ''commercial'' together with the name of Tim Buckley? Anyway it's one of my three favourite albums by Tim Buckley.
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          Frank   Flac p1  & Flac p2    - mp3@320

Jacqueline Taieb - Jacqueline Taieb LP 1967 (Debut album RCA Victor France) Flac & mp3@320

Taïeb arrived in France with her parents at age eight. She began composing songs with her guitar at 12 and in 1966 was discovered by a talent scout while Taïeb was singing with friends. After arriving in Paris, she was signed to Impact Records and released the song "7 heures du matin" in 1967, which became her biggest French hit. She was subsequently voted Best Newcomer at the inaugural Midem music festival in Cannes for the song. The song was about a teenage girl who fantasizes about Paul McCartney.
In the early 1970s, Taïeb took a break from recording. In 1988, she penned the song "Ready to Follow You", which became an international hit for American singer Dana Dawson. The single sold more than 500,000 copies, and the album sold 300,000 in France alone.

The album is very fine french female pop from the sixties. If you like sounds like this
grab it.
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         Frank                  Flac p1  & Flac p2    -   mp3@320

Sixties Psychedelic by The Electric Prunes - Underground 1967 ( 2013 Rhino) Flac & mp3@320

According to Electric Prunes members Jim Lowe and Mark Tulin, producer Dave Hassinger enjoyed enough success as a result of the group's early hit singles and their subsequent debut album that he was too busy to spend much time with them as they were recording the follow up, and that was arguably a good thing for the band. While Underground didn't feature any hit singles along the lines of "I Had to Much to Dream (Last Night)," it's a significantly more consistent work than the debut, and this time out the group was allowed to write five of the disc's twelve songs, allowing their musical voice to be heard with greater clarity. As on their first LP, the Electric Prunes' strongest asset was the guitar interplay of Jim Lowe, Ken Williams and James "Weasel" Spagnola, and while they became a bit more restrained in their use of fuzztone, wah-wah and tremolo effects, there's a unity in their attack on Underground that's impressive, and the waves of sound on "Antique Doll," "Big City" and " "Children of Rain" reveal a new level creative maturity (though they could make with a wicked, rattling fuzz on "Dr. Do-Good"). If Underground ultimately isn't as memorable as the Electric Prunes' first album, it's a matter of material -- while the outside material that dominated the debut was sometimes ill-fitting, it also gave them some stone classic tunes like "I Had Too Much to Dream" and "Get Me to the World on Time," and the band themselves didn't have quite that level of songwriting chops, while the hired hands didn't deliver the same sort of material for Underground. Still, the album shows that the Electric Prunes had the talent to grow into something more mature and imaginative than their reputation suggested, and it's all the more unfortunate that the group's identity would be stripped from them for the next album released under their name, Mass in F Minor.

The album is from the Rhino original albums series box released in 2013. I will post more albums from the box in the next days if there is any interest.
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              Frank                       Flac p1  & Flac p2          mp3@320

The Jam - Direction Reaction Creation (1997 Polydor 5 Disc Collection) Disc 1 Flac & mp3@320

Okay folks, here comes the last disc. With disc one the collection is complete. I hope you will have fun with the box. Unfortunately i can't find the booklet neither on the web nor my own. But i will search furthermore in my boxes here at home. If i find it i will post it. It's really a very fine book.

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              Frank               Flac p1  &  Flac p2  & Flac p3         mp3@320

The Jam - Direction Reaction Creation (1997 Polydor 5 Disc Collection) Disc 2 Flac & mp3@320

Disc 2 of the Jam collection and as always: Listen LOUD!
Have fun with the Jam

Frank   Flac p1 & Flac p2 & Flac p3     - mp3@320

The Jam - Direction Reaction Creation (1997 Polydor 5 Disc Collection) Disc 3 Flac & mp3@320

Here is disc three of the great five disc collection by british mods The Jam.

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               Frank        Flac p1 & Flac p2 & Flac p3    -   mp3@320

CHANGED !!! The Jam - Direction Reaction Creation: Disc 4 link is wrong !!! CHANGED !!!

Hello folks, Chris from Australia send a comment that the links for mp3 disc four and five have the same songs. I changed the link for mp3 disc 4 in the post from yesterday. You can dowmload now the correct mp3 disc 4. Sorry for that folks! And thank you Chris!

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                    Frank