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| Babybird Ugly Beautiful 1996 Echo Records |
Goodnight Candy Girl Jesus is My Girlfriend I Didn't Want to Wake ..... ..... ..... ..... You Up Dead Bird Sings Atomic Soda You're Gorgeous |
Bad
Shave Cornershop King Bing You & Me 45 & Fat Too Handsome to Be Homeless July Baby Bird |
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| A
wunderkind of sorts, Steven Jones holed himself up in his bedroom
flat in England and recorded an enormous amount of songs. This is a collection of his best stuff, amazingly released in the US. Will wonders never cease? |
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| Badfinger The Best of Badfinger 1995 Apple Records |
Come
and Get It Maybe Tomorrow Rock of Ages Dear Angie Carry On Till Tomorrow ___________ |
No
Matter What Believe Me Midnight Caller Better Days Without You ___________ |
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| Take
It All Money Flying The Name of the Game Suitcase |
Day
After Day Baby Blue When I Say Icicles I Can Love You Appleof My Eye |
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| With
mentors like Paul McCartney,
how can you lose? Well, for a while Badfinger didn't - they scored
some hits that are still vital today. However, living in the shadow of The Beatles (they were dubbed the 'Next Big Thing') forced them to breakup, and also led to Pete Ham's suicide years later. |
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| Barely
Pink Last Day of Summer 2003 Not Lame Records |
Girl
in the Crowd Do What You Like Sixteen's Gone Simple Enough Hurt You Anyless |
Mercury
Girl Mood Meter Maid California Strongest One Firebug |
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| Great
Power Pop band from Florida with fantastic hooks that rock like few others
in this pre-packaged era. A wonderful breath of fresh air. |
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| Barenaked
Ladies Gordon 1992 Reprise Records |
Hello
City Enid Grade 9 Brian Wilson Be My Yoko Ono Wrap Your Arms Around Me What a Good Boy |
The
King of Bedside Manor Box Set I Love You New Kid (On the Block) Blame It On Me The Flag If I Had $1,000,000 Crazy |
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| A
fun record. Unfortunately over the years, the joke has worn thin and they've
turned themselves into the Weird Al Yankovic of the power pop set. Still, this first album is pretty good. |
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| Beatnik
Beatch Beatnik Beatch 1988 Atlantic Records |
Beatnik
Beatch Lonesome Town Maria Love On Your Side Harlem Welcome Sgt. Lasard |
How
Much Does Your ............. ....... Love Cost Worthless Heart Watchin' the Rain Turnaround Same War Secret Pier One Thousand Voices Beatnik Beatch (reprise) |
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| The
precursor to Jellyfish.
Really only a must have if you're a die hard Jellyfish fan. Otherwise, save
your money for official and bootlegged Jellyfish stuff. It's way better than this. |
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| Chuck
Berry The Great Twenty-Eight 1984 MCA Records |
Maybellene 30 Days You Can't Catch Me Too Much Monkey Business Brown-Eyed Handsome Man Roll Over Beethoven Havana Moon School Days Rock and Roll Music Oh Baby Doll Reelin' & Rockin' Sweet Little Sixteen Johnny B. Goode Around and Around |
Carol Beautiful Delilah Memphis Sweet Little Rock and Roller Little Queenie Almost Grown Back in the USA Let It Rock Bye Bye Johnny I'm Talking About You Come On Nadine No Particular Place to Go I Want to Be Your Driver |
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| The
TRUE King of Rock 'n' Roll! Sure, Elvis
brought rock to the white masses, but if it wasn't for Chuck, Elvis would have been just another country and western balladeer. |
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| The
Bible Eureka 1988 Chrysalis Records |
Skywriting Honey Be Good Skeleton Crew November Brides Cigarette Girls White Feathers |
Crystal
Palace The Wishing Game Red Hollywood Tiny Lights Blue Shoes Stopping Up in Smoke |
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| I
LOVE THIS RECORD!!! Plus, it's difficult to describe! British, a jazz-pop,
soft-rock, Britpop kind of thing going on. They released a few other albums after tthis one, but the Chrysalis records (in their infinite wisdom) decided to pass on the rest of the Bible's catalog, citing poor sales of this release. Morons. |
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| Big
Audio Dynamite Planet Bad - Greatest Hits 1995 Columbia Records |
The
Bottom Line E=MC2 Medicine Show C'Mon Every Beatbox V. Thirteen Sightsee M.C.! Just Play Music |
Othr
99 Contact Free Rush The Globe Looking for a Song Harrow Road I Turned Out a Punk |
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| Mick Jones brilliant group after The Clash imploded. Hit after hit, this is the one to have. | ||||||||
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| Big
Bad Voodoo Daddy Big Bad Voodoo Daddy 1998 Coolsville Records |
The
Boogie Bumper Mr.Pinstripe Suit King of Swing Minnie the Moocher You & Me & the Bottle ... Makes 3 Tonight (Baby) Jump with My Baby |
Maddest
Kind of Love Go Daddy-O Please Baby Mambo Swing Jumpin' Jack So Long-Farewell-Goodbye |
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| Swing
had a resurgence in the late 90's, thanks to the movie Swingers,
which features Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. This is their debut album, and it does swing, Daddy-O! (sorry) |
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| Big
Star The Best of Big Star 1999 Big Beat Records |
September
Gurls When My Baby's ... ... ... ... ... Beside Me Feel The Ballad of El Goodo O My Soul What's Going Ahn In the Street |
Thirteen Mod Lang Back of a Car Watch the Sunrise Daisy Glaze Give Me Another Chance I'm in Love with a Girl |
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| What
a wonderful band! It's criminal that they were so overlooked. Only now are
people realizing how fantastic Big Star was. Power Pop hooks with a Beatle-y feel and a 70s innocence. Doesn't get much better than this. |
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| The
Bizarros From Akron 1977 Clone Records |
Lady
Doubonette I, Bizarro Jackson's Pride Ice Age White Screen Movies |
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| In
the mid-late 70s, there was this crazy little thing called 'The Akron Sound.'
Devo and Rachel
Sweet were born of this, and eventually Chrissie Hynde would form the Pretenders as a result of this. A couple of other quasi-famous groups that came from this region were The Bizarros and The Rubber City Rebels. This release is actually side one of the album From Akron, with the Rebels on side two. Very cool late 70s punk. |
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| Black
Grape It's Great When You're Straight, Yeah . . . 1995 Radioactive Records |
Reverend
Black Grape In the Nameof the Father Tramazi Parti Kelly's Heroes Yeah Yeah Brother |
A
Big Day in the North Shake Well Before Opening Submarine Shake Your Money Little Bob |
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| Sean Ryder's attempt at re-capturing the magic of Happy Mondays. Didn't succeed. | ||||||||
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| bleu redhead 2003 Aware / Columbia Records |
Get
Up I Won't Go Hollywood That's When I Crash We'll Do It All Again Searchin' for the Satellites Could Be Worse |
Watchin'
You Sleep Somethin's Gotta Give Somebody Else You Know, I Know, You Know Trust Me 3's a Charm |
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| A
brilliant debut fromthis very talented singer-songwriter. At times Beatle-y,
a touch ELO, and with the help from Andy Sturmer (Jellyfish), you can't go wrong. |
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| Blind
Faith Blind Faith 1969 Atco Records |
Had
to Cry Today Can't Find My Way Home Well All Right Presence of the Lord |
Sea
of Joy Do What You Like |
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| A
one-off supergroup that actually toured for a bit! Imagine that ! Steve
Winwood, Eric Clapton, and Ginger Baker offer up a nice slice of mellow, late 60's head rock. Pretty cool stuff. |
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| The
Bluetones Expecting to Fly 1996 A & M Records |
Talking
to Clarry Bluetonic Cut Some Rug Things Change The Fountainhead |
Carnt
Be Trusted Slight Return Putting Out Fires Vampire A Parting Gesture Time & Again |
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| A
guitar-oriented BritRock band that came out at the height of BritPop. Took
awhile, but I finally got into this and it is good. Give it a try. |
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| The
Boo Radleys Wake Up, Boo! 1995 Creation Records |
Wake
Up Boo! Fairfax Scene It's Lulu Joel Find the Answer Within Reaching Out from Here |
Martin,
Doom! It's Seven O'Clock Stuck on Amber Charles Bukowski is Dead 4 am Conversation Twinside Wilder |
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| Another great BritPop band that just didn't have the stamina to last. This was a great record, though. | ||||||||
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| Boston Boston 1976 Epic Records |
More
Than a Feeling Peace of Mind Foreplay / Long Time |
Rock
& Roll Band Smokin' Hitch a Ride Something About You Let Me Take You Home Tonight |
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| Ah,
the start of corporate rock. Actually a very good record, despite its antiseptic
feel to it. I'd enjoy it much more if classic readio didn't play a track off this thing every 5 seconds. |
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| Boys
Brigade Boys Brigade 1983 Capitol Records |
The
Passion of Love Melody Exodus Saigon The Cut-Up (Breaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Glass) |
Into
the Flow Africa Mannequin Anger (The Hunter) |
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| Unfortunately,
this was the only album Boys Brigade put out. A great pop-rock album,
it had two hits with 'The Passion of Love' and 'Melody.' Big surprise that Geddy Lee of Rush produced the record - this band has as much to do with Rush as Boy George, but obviously Geddy knew a good thing when he heard it - this is one of my desert island discs. |
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| Martin
Briley One Night with a Stranger 1983 Mercury Records |
The
Salt in My Tears Just a Mile Away Put Your Hands On ..... ......... .... the Screen Maybe I've Waited ..... ......... ..... Too Long She's So Flexible |
A
Rainy Day in New York City I Wonder What She Thinks of Me Dumb Love One NIght with a Stranger |
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| Essentially
a studio musician who ventured onto the pop scene of the 80s. Although Briley
has recorded several albums, he's best known for the MTV hit, 'The Salt in My Tears,' which is found here. |
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| Jon
Brion meaningless 2000 Flywheel Records |
Gotta
Start Somewhere I Believe She's Lying Meaningless Ruin My Day Walking Though Walls Trouble |
Hook,
Line and Sinker Dead to the World Her Ghost Same Mistakes Voices |
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| As
a member of The Grays
and as part of Aimee Mann's
backing band, Jon Brion has quietly created a reputation as a musician's musician. His first solo album proves that reputation is warranted. This man is extremely talented; and anybody that covers a Cheap Trick tune, (with respect), is alright by me. |
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| Ian
Brown Golden Greats 1999 Interscope Records |
Gettin'
High Love Like a Fountain Free My Way Set My Baby Free So Many Soldiers |
Golden
Gaze Dolphins Were Monkeys Neptune First World Babasonicos CD Bonus Tracks: Love Like a Fountain (US Version) Dolphins Were Monkeys ..... (UNKLE vs. SOUTH Remix) |
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| After
The Stone Roses
called it a day, John Squire formed The
Seahorses and tried the BritPop thing. Waiting another year former lead singer Ian Brown released this, his first solo album. Pseudo-dance, pseudo-industrial, Brown makes a very good argument for being a talented singer. |
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| James
Brown 20 All Time Greatest Hits 1991 Polygram Records |
I
Got You (I Feel Good) Get Up (I Feel Like Being . . . . .a) Sex Machine, Pt. 1 I Got the Feelin' Mother Popcorn, Pt. 1 Give It Up or Turnit Loose Make it Funky, Pt. 1 Papa's Got a Brand . . . . . . . . New Bag, Pt.1 Think It's a Man's Man's . . . . . . . . Man's World Try Me |
Night
Train Cold Sweat, Pt. 1 Get On the Good Foot Papa Don't Take No Mess, Pt. 1 The Payback Say it Loud (I'm Black and . . . . . . . . . . . . . I'm Proud), Pt. 1 Super Bad, Pts. 1 & 2 Hot Pants, Pt. 1 Get Up Offa That Thing Please, Please, Please |
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| The best of The Godfather of Soul. No collection is complete without some James Brown . . . | ||||||||
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| Buffalo
Springfield Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield 1969 Atco Records |
For
What It's Worth Mr. Soul Sit Down, I Think I Love You Kind Woman Bluebird On the Way Home |
Nowadays
Clancy Can't ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... Even Sing Broken Arrow Rock and Roll Woman I Am a Child Go and Say Goodbye Expecting to Fly CD Bonus Track: Do I Have to Come Right ..... ..... ..... ..... Out and Say It? |
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| A
fantastic example of how great country rock can be. Giving birth to (or
furthering) the careers of Stephen Stills and Neil Young, the Springfield was an extremely influential band despite its short life span. This is a must have for any collector. |
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| Buggles The Age of Plastic 1980 Island Records |
Living
in the Plastic Age Video Killed the Radio Star Kid Dynamo I Love You (Miss Robot) |
Clean,
Clean Astroboy (and the Proles ...................... On Parade) Johnny On the Monorail |
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| The
band that changed the face of television. Or something like that. Yes, the
first video ever aired on MTV is 'Video Killed the Radio Star.' Boy, did it ever! But from 1981 - 1997, MTV still played good music. And it all started with this New Wave band. |
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| Butterfly
Jones Napalm Springs 2001 Vanguard Records |
Napalm
Springs Suicide Bridge Anywhere But Now Sophie Alright Are We in Love Again Wonder |
Sunshine
and Ecstacy Blue Rosses The Systematic Dumbing Down ..... .... of Terry Constance Jones When People are Mean It's Cool Dude Dreamtime Please |
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| From
the ashes of dada, springs this great new group from
Michael Gurley. As you'd imagine, this album leans heavily on Gurley's dada-esque songs, but that is a good thing. His were always more pop-oriented, more radio friendly anyway. A very good start. Hope there's alot more. |
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| The
Buzzcocks Operator's Manual - Buzzcock's Best 1991 IRS Records |
Orgasm
Addict What Do I Get? I Don't Mind Autonomy Fast Cars Get On Our Own ____________ |
Sixteen Fiction Romance Love You More Noise Annoys Ever Fallen in Love? Operators Manual ____________ |
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| Nostalgia Walking Distance Nothing Left ESP Promises Lipstick |
Everybody's
Happy Nowadays Harmony in My Head You Say You Don't Love Me I Don't Know What to Do ... ... ... ... ... ... ..with My Life I Believe Are Everything Radio Nine |
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| The
Byrds 20 Essential Tracks from the Boxed Set 1965-1990 1992 Columbia Legacy Records |
Mr.Tambourine
Man I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better All I Really Want ot Do Turn! Turn! Turn! 5D (Fifth Dimension) Eight Miles High Mr.Spaceman So You Want to Be a ... ... ... Rock 'n' Roll Star Have You Seen Her Face Lady Friend |
My
Back Pages Goin' Back Ballad of Easy Rider Jesus is Just Alright Chestnut Mare I Wanna Grow Up to Be ..... ..... ..... ..... .... a Politician He Was a Friend of Mine Paths of Victory Froma Distance Love That Never Dies |
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| The
American Beatles . . . for awhile, at least. I
was never a big Byrds fan, but you have to have some of stuff to complete any collection. They got a bit too psychedelic-country for my tastes, but this album is a nice one to have. All the hits that you need . . . plus it serves as a great intro to Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, and Nash. |
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