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FOUR PENNIES-2 SIDES OF THE FOUR PENNIES/MIXED BAG
some nice beat songs and ballady stuff nice if you were about at those times has date a tad like me but ive enjoyed em
VAN DER GRAAF-H TO HE ETC[PLUS BONUS] really enjoying this album outstanding sounds like prog with a psychey edge works well ..any fans for this album?
lol only one which i really enjoyed thx
um wally i have Olive must dig it out and follow the progmeister
its EDDIE COCHRAN - SOMETHING ELSE great rock n roll and a early nite im cream crackered
After someone's recommendation a while back (sorry, but I can't remember who it was... but I would like to say "Thank You!"), I recieved the Japanese import of Bobak, Jons, Malone 'Motherlight' yesterday, and I'm spinning it right now. Really happy with what I'm hearing so far... nice psych with a bit of a proggy touch, but not too much. Standouts for me are 'On a Meadow-Lea' and 'House of Many Windows'.
re wallys mention of jazz and fusion i find it hard to listen to jazz on cd/record but really enjoy live jazz is this a juxtaposition? [wot ever that means]
CUDDLY TOYS-TRIALS AND COSSES double cd..it said glam but seems to be more new wave but has some nice moments..not a keeper tho
I'm currently working on a new compilation series for the U-Spaces group called 'Pop Sike Lyte'...
I've been sifting through 250+ potential candidates today (editing, normalizing, declicking etc.). Some very good stuff, some pretty okay and a few that - to be kind - suck pretty bad. But overall it's been an eye and ear opening experience listening to so many bands and songs that have been gathering dust for the last 40 years or so.
Should be areal treat when I get it finished (unless of course you're a Pwog Mastermon that is...) 
Been spinning:
Bob Downes Open Music-Electric City( a fusion of horn led jazz and prog rock,but imo more rock than jazz)
The Flow- Greatest Hits(this US group had no hits,from 1972,pretty decent hard rock with a few stoner things going on)
Van Der Graaf Generator-The least we can do is wave to each other(this is my fave album from them,i love the more pastoral and mellow parts on here)
Human Beinz-In Japan(Live album recorded and released in japan without the groups knowledge,good live album as live albums go,i dont usually enjoy most live recordings but this shows a harder side of this fine US group whos "Evolution" album is recommended)
Bread Love and Dreams-s/t(the first and imo the best album they did,from Edinburgh too,which kinda makes me smile)
The Alan Bown-Outward Bown(the new double cd of this fine uk pop and psych album in stereo and mono)
Graham Nash-Songs for Beginners(lovely and heartfelt first solo album by ex Hollies man,and CS&N member,a very good album but imo not as good as his fellow band members David Crosby "If i could only remember my name")
Well an eclectic listen ive had over the last few days,but very enjoyable!!Today im going to listen through the first box set of Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers"a fab collection of old and some newish songs.
just bought myself a rega rp1 so on a vinyl kick for the first time in twenty years so i have been listening to
mad river-mad river(sundazed)
beach boys-the smile sessions
the new nadir-uncovered(feathered apple)
the sevens-the sevens(feathered apple)
the zipps-kicks and chicks(pseudonym)
the third bardo-i,m five years ahead of my time (sundazed
i must say i am enjoying being back on the vinyl as well
VAN DER GRAAF-PAWN HEARTS superb album really enjoying the vibe to this album
thanks for the heads up guys
Lp or cd, Phil?
If you got the UK-press lp, then you dont want it. Unlike Leutonian press, it didnt have the incredible "Theme One" track.
Send the UK -press to me.
N.P. :
JULIE DRISCOLL & BRIAN AUGER "JOOLS & BRIAN"
early Auger lp, considered mod period, organ sounds tinny-thin , so I figure at this point he didnt have a Hammond??
Awful "Duophonic" mix to "enrich irreplaceable mono". So then why did they duo-fy it with the emphasis on mainly one channel?
Your better to get the Auger "Mod Years" cd which improves the sound and cuts off most all of the dated vocal tracks with Driscoll.
The lp back cover notes praise the lp so much as to mis-name "Green Onions" as "Green Things".
Driscoll is a very beautiful woman, but...
...here are some (non-Driscoll) nips:
cd at mo wal rare coat hangers there
ADRIAN BELEW-DESIRE OF THE RHINO KING dble cd
nice tracks sound abit elo ish or am i mistaken know nothing of this guy must look him up
ha seems this guy has been about abit!
Nice Wallace 
MAXIMUM SITAR comp nice compilation curious about FOLKSWINGERS output any worth looking for?
packaging for this cd could have been better..looks cheap
virgin sleep absolutely beautiful psyche track
ELOISE-DAMNED 12" one of my fav covers[next to TAINTED LOVE]
Right which of you lot prefer the Damned version and which prefer Paul & Barry ryan version?
wally hates em all so doesnt need to answer
V/A Piccadilly Sunshine Vol.8 CD
V/A Electric Psychedleic Headswirlers Vol.11 CD
Chubby Checker - Chequered CD (Sunbeam)
V/A Front Room Masters - Fairview Studios 1966-73 (2xcd)
McGough & McGear CD
V/A - I Buried Paul - The Paul McCartney Death Rumour Singles CD
The Move - Live At The Filmore 19679 2xcd
West Coast Natural Gas - Two's A Pair (RD Records LP) - Seattle band sounding west coast from 1968)
Jungle - S/T LP West Coast private press reissue from '68
V/A - Cool Aid benefit 2xLP (Light In The Attic) - Vancouver 1970
Janis Joplin - Live At The Carousel 1968 - Columbia 2 xLP
And over Easter I listened to...
The Beatles In Stereo box
The Betales In Mono box
The Beatles - Let it Be Naked LP
PM
Cool Aid is pretty good. The CD edition has more track apparently. I could do without the 7 + minute poetry reading that is the last track on side 4. There's a certain CSN vibe on a number of tracks (it was 1970) but they're all quite good, some realtively mellow but no snooze fests. Better / harder tracks are by Black Snake (especially 'Catfish' - excellent guitar work in the first half - it's 10 mins long), Spring, Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck and Nancy (that's a group not a girl). One or two experiemental bits and pieces (again, it's 1970). It's also a set of songs all recorded in one take so 'live' in the studio, lacking any production values, but all very well delivered. I dig it anyway.
PM
hi paul whats the west coast natural gas album like would u recommend it
Hi Robbie,
I would definitely recommend it for the first 8 tracks (all 7 on side 1 and the first track on side 2). These are all band compositions. There's two versions of one of them called 'A Favor' which are not that different to each other, but all 8 of these tracks are excellent period US psych-rock tracks (they reminded me a bit of The Brain Police actually).
On Side two you get a radio commercial for Levis and a club ad from radio which are interesting but not essential. You also get a 4 track acetate of cover songs they did at what sounds like a somewhat earlier stage (Mr You're A Better Man Than I, Younger Girl, You make Me Feel So Good, He Was A Friend of Mine. These I think, are just fillers, they're nowhere as good as the other tracks, but I guess it makes a full document out of their output.
The sleeve is a nice orange gatefold with liners and an email interview with the band by the guy that started the U Spaces egroup in the USA. So overall I would say yes, buy it because those first 8 cuts are pretty hot and the rest whilst not as interesting are not unlistenable.
Paul
thanks paul may well buy it
Yeh i just got this cd the other day West Coast Natural Gas are very good imo,i cant really add much to Pauls post,yeh those 8 tracks are good,i only have 1 complaint,if youre buying this on cd,you'll find theres no liners or photos in a booklet,you have to play the cd in your PC to see the liners and stuff,but then i must say the liners are exhaustive and tell the story of this group along with posters and photos.I just like my liners to be in booklet form!!Gripe over!!Well worth getting Robbie!!
LEE HAZLEWOOD-LHI YEARS brilliant cd well pleased