THE SILENCERS - ROCK'N'ROLL ENFORCERS (1980)

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Hailing from Pittsburgh, The Silencers relesaed their debut album, "Rock 'n' Roll Enforcers," in 1980 on Precision/CBS, spawning four local radio hits - "The Peter Gunn Theme," "Modern Love," "Head On Collision" and "Shiver and Shake". The Silencers made two solid albums — "Romanic" (still available on PPC) is significantly superior - with some good songs (like "Illegal" on the first and "1 of Those Girls" on the second) before vanishing. Too bad. These guys coulda been contenders. Trouser Press.

Special note: The album was ripped in 24bit/96khz and then converted to FLAC 24bit/44.1Khz and mp3(320). Full artwork included.

Peter Gunn Theme / Remote Control / Illegal on YouTube


Songs
Modern Love / Head on Collision / Remote Control / Illegal / Johnny Too Bad / Peter Gunn Theme / Shiver and Shake / Take Out Service / Cold Sweat / I Can't Believe It

GREGG SWANN - FEVER DREAM (1996)

Hailing from New-York and right after the release of the CDEP "Blue in The Face" (1995), Gregg Swann was signed to the spanish label Bam Balam and "Fever Dream" was released in Spain only. Three promo videos for the album, "On The Outside", "More Than Ever" and "Bored To Tears" were supposedly shot but i don't know much more about that. After a second album "Dizzy at The Door", released in 1999, Gregg Swann experienced a long hiatus which led him to release in 2006 the amazing "Everybody's got To Be Somewhere". Available at CDBaby.

Prior to the release of “Everybody’s Got To Be Somewhere” Gregg was selected by the Songwriters Hall of Fame for a "Best of The New Writers" CD. He has had his music videos featured on ABC's "All My Children” as well as several songs featured on NBC’s Homicide as well as other network television shows. His song “Spinning” was Top 20 on the Gavin Magazine A/C Chart and was runner-up in the International Songwriting Competition.

Lossless: ZS1 + ZS2 + ZS3 (389 mb) 

Songs
April Fools / Wake Up Love / Present From The Past / Wait Here / Snap Shot / Going Through The Motions / Last Time / Honey / Begin / Pure / Enough / On The Outside / More Than Ever / Holiday / Bored To Tears

EPIC SOUNDTRACKS - RISE ABOVE (1992)

Perhaps best known as a co-founder of British post-punkers the Swell Maps, Epic Soundtracks reinvented himself as an eccentric, critically acclaimed piano balladeer during the ’90s. Epic Soundtracks (born Kevin Paul Godfrey and brother of Nikki Sudden) writes affecting piano ballads and mid-tempo pieces with an ease that belies how good these songs are. Though J. Mascis (drums on two tracks) and Kim Gordon (voice on “Big Apple Graveyard“) do contribute, this is Epic’s show; he provides most of the music and all the magic. Many songs have a traditional feel and sound strangely familiar. AMG

Songs
Fallen Down / Farmer’s Daughter / Ruthless / Everybody Else Is Wrong / I Feel Good / Big Apple / Graveyard / I Don’t Know / Meet Me On The Beach / Sad Song / She Sleeps Alone_Love Fucks You Up / Wild Situation / She Sleeps Alone

HECTOR PENALOSA - MUSIC FOR CATS (1996)

Released on the spanish label Bam Balam eight years after the excellent "Hector", Hector Penalosa (of Zeros and Flying Color fame) had home recorded 15 songs which exhibited an intimate feel with a classic pop spirit. The album is crafted to make impression. Think of Blue Ash, Badfinger, Shoes, The Toms or even John Lennon in many parts. A collection of great beauty and great dividends across the board.

Songs
Are You Just My Love / Tell Me, Tell Me / Does Anybody Know / Caressed In Rhyme / Saving My Love / Missing You / Make Me Feel Alright / No Time / Dirty Realism / Who Can Remember / Going Away / Reap What You Sow / For Ruth / Ariel / Mi Vida Cambiaste

TRUE BELIEVERS - HARD ROAD (1994)

After a major label bought out their contract and paid for a significantly more polished and powerful second album, the band was dropped following a corporate reorganization, and a potential breakthrough album was left collecting dust in the vault. "Hard Road" finally gives this great band their due, bringing together the True Believers' self-titled debut and their previously unreleased follow-up on one compact disc.The True Believers deserved better than the hand they were dealt, and one listen to "Hard Road" provides all the proof you need. AMG

Lossy (ZS): 320 lame 3.98 (187 mb)
Lossless (netkups): FLAC 8 (492 mb)

Songs
Tell Her / Ring the Bell / So Blue About You / Rebel Kind / Train Round the Bend / Lucky Moon / Hard Road / We're Wrong / I Get Excited / Sleep Enough to Dream / The Rain Won't Help You When / It's Over / She's Got / All Mixed up Again / One Moment to Another / Who Calls My Name / Outside Your Door / Wild Eyed and Wound Up / Nobody's Home / Only a Dream / Home / Please Don't Fade Away

A DOUBLE DOSE OF POP! (1995)

"A Double Dose Of Pop". Two bands, two releases on one CD. The Rooks (NYC) expressively channeling The Byrds, Beatles and Hollies. Twenty Cent Crush (L.A) deftly weaving a pop quilt from axis powers Big Star, The Who and Paul Westerberg. Twenty Cent Crush is led by Phil Rosenthal and has released another EP in 1997 "Word Of Mouth". The band can also be heard on many I.P.O volumes. One of 1995's most important pop releases. Bruce Brodeen

The Rooks
Praises / Reasons / Music Sound Sensation / Waiting / Love Said To Me / Glitter Best / On A Pinwheel Spin / Steeplechase / Colors

"A Double Dose of Pop" is now long OOP, but most of the Rooks songs are available on the "Encore Echoes" (USA Edition) compilation except the following ones:

1. Music Sound Sensation: the mix on "Encore Echoes" has not the original pre-song metronome & followed by Elliot Easton’s dialogue, it was restored to its originally intended placement. NOTE: This was mistakenly edited onto "Waiting" on "Double Dose Of Pop")
2. Glitter Best: the mix on "Encore Echoes" has a shorter fade-out
3. In A Pinwheel Spin: the mix on "Encore Echoes" has a shorter fade-out
4. Colors: this is the original mix available here only, it was remixed for "THE WORLD’S BEST POWER POP COMPILATION...REALLY!" and the new mix was included on "Encore Echoes".
   

Twenty Cent Crush
Don't You Know / A Little Fortune And Fame / Sunday Girl / Tuesday Morning (Let's Just Stay In Bed) / She's Sooo Cool / Life's So Strange / Eye To eye / Lessons In Love

THE BLONDES - THE BLONDES (2002)

When The Blondes formed back in 1998, they weren't called the Blondes. They were called "Eagle", and they released a 7-song CD with an L.A. label called Shipwrecords (all of which are available on their first full-length) Don Henley of the EagleS wasn't too happy with this and threatened to sue other people with the flick of a gold pen. Eagle---or, pardon me, The Blondes received a cease and desist letter, and they had to take all the CDs out of all the stores in L.A.
Anyway, Middle Class Pig owner Erik Bauer got a copy of the Eagle CD. Bauer loved the CD, and struck a deal with the band to reissue it adding two new tracks (the cover of Mud's "Dyna-Mite" produced by Ward Dotson and "Tokyo Angel" produced by Jason Falkner. This is how you get an album which is top-notch hard-edged glam rock, with more hooks than a box of fishing tackle.

Songs
High-Five Suicide / Dyna-Mite / Teenage Foxes / California Sunshine / Viking Albatross / Suzi Quatro / American Doctor / Tokyo Angel / Igen

THE DIGGER$ - MOUNT EVEREST (1997)

Formed in Scotland in the early '90s, the Digger$ hailed from Glasgow and consisted of Chris Miezitis (vocals, guitar), Alan Moffat (vocals, bass), John Eslick (guitar) and Hank Ross (drums). "Mount Everest" was once mooed as a Beatles album title. "Circles" and "Peace Of Mind" were familiar '68 Beatles titles from bootlegged cuts and the closing "Up Against It" took its title from Joe Orton's Beatles movie screenplay. Produced by Charlie Francis (of High Llamas' fame), this album is in the TFC/Velvet Crush vein and is an absolute treasure, one of the finest British albums of the era. Badfinger, Klaatu, Kinks and of course the Fab Four are the references here. Highly recommended.

Songs
Circles / Peace Of Mind / Waking Up / Nobody's Fool / Come On Easy / Downbeat / East Coast / O.K. Alright / Hormonious / Passport To Rec. / They Said I'd Know / Up Against It

VARIOUS - THE BEST OF BOMP VOLUME ONE (1978)

Bomp started in 1974 for the purpose of recording and releasing music for the "hard core" rock & roll fans who made up the readership of BOMP magazine. This album "The Best of Bomp Volume One" included the highlights of the first four years, plus some unreleased gems for collectors. Some of the tracks included things by well-known bands that would otherwise never have been issued - The Wackers, The Choir, and Stooges material came to the label as such - and the rest, a majority of the artists discovered and originally produced by BOMP had gone to a greater fame.

You can order the limited edition on pink vinyl reissue here or there

Bands (Songs)

20/20 (Giving It All) / The Flamin' Groovies (Him Or Me) / The Poppees (If She Cries) / The Wackers (Captain Nemo) / The Choir (I'd Rather You Leave Me) / The Rockfield Chorale (Jingle Jangle) / Venus & The Razorblades (Punk-A-Rama) / Iggy & The Stooges (I Got A Right) / Snatch (I.R.T.) / The Weirdos (A Life Of A Crime) / Willie Alexander & The Boom Boom Band (Kerouac) / Shoes (Tomorrow Night) / The Zeros (Wimp) / DMZ (Busy Man) / Iggy & The Stooges (Gimme Some Skin)

THE NEW CHRISTS - PEDESTAL (CDEP) (1995)

Three years after the release of "Distemper" Rob Younger and Christian Houllemare, bass player of Happy Hate Me Nots and French punkers Bad Brains, formed a nucleus of what was to evolve into the current band. Still with Citadel, they released the EP "Pedestal" (also released on the french label H2P) and mini-album "Woe Betide". Both are now out of print, but they were fully re-mixed and remastered for the compilation "These Rags" (2002).

Songs
Pedestal / The Way You Suck Me Down / She Comes In Colors / The Seeker

GIGOLO AUNTS - THE ONE BEFORE THE LAST (2000)

"The One Before the Last" was released only in Spain around 2000 just between two of their best albums "Minor Chords and Major Themes" (featuring the hit "Everyone Can Fly" (1999) and "Pacific Ocean Blues" (#88 in the Shake Some Acton list) (2002). It was a collection of rare and unreleased material including their famous cover of Nacha Pop's "Chica De Ayer".

Songs
The Girl from Yesterday / Kay and Michael / The Shift to Superoverdrive / To Whoever / Sulk with Me / Hey Lucky / Kinda Girl / Wishing You the Worst / Sway / Sloe / Rocking Chair / The Sun Will Rise Again