KURSAAL FLYERS - IN FOR A SPIN (1983, CD Reissue 1988)

Anthology first released in Germany (1983) and then reissued in the UK by Edsel (1985), it was finally available in CD format in 1988.

"In for a Spin" is a comprehensive overview of the band's brief and underappreciated career, comprised of highlights from their three albums, plus the terrific non-LP single "Television Generation" and five previously unreleased tracks. "Girls That Don't Exist" will be re-recorded by Will Birch and John Wicks with The Records and "Everything But A Heartbeat" covered by The Searchers.

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Songs
Speedway / Pocket money / Yellow sox / Cruisin' for love / Palais de danse / Hypocondriac / Walking to School / Hit records / Little does she know / Radio romance / The questionnaire / The sky's falling in on our love / Television generation / Girlfriend kinda guy / Everything but a heartbeat / Girls that don't exist

THE SOFT BOYS - TWO HALVES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE (1981)

Re-upped and first posted here (26th May 2008)

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Never reissued on CD

MU - CHILDREN OF THE RAINBOW (1985)

Reuniting with Jeff Cotton in 1970, Fankhauser then formed the group MU. In 1971 their first album was released and became a radio hit. Increasingly fascinated by legends of the lost continent of Mu, Fankhauser then relocated to the Hawaiian island of Maui in Feb. 1973. A second MU album, without Cotton, was recorded in 1974, but not released until the 1980s. Fankhauser then recorded a solo album, "Maui", issued in 1976.

"Children Of The Rainbow" was a 1985 US limited edition 15-track vinyl LP recorded live in studio on the island of Maui, Hawaii in 1974.

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Songs

1. Birds / 2. Children Of The Rainbow / 3. Merrell Playing With Odd TV Occurance / 4. Calling From A Star / 5. I Saw Your Photograph / 6. It's Love Tha Sings the Song / 7. The Love We Bare / 8. The Awakening / 9. Daybreak Sunshine / 10. Space Song / 11. Showering Rain / 12. You're Not The Only One / 13. Rainbow Instrumental / 14. Lew Irwin Interviews Mu / 15. The Clouds Went That Way

THE SOMELOVES - KNOW YOU NOW (1988)

7" mix exclusive to this limited edition single

until it was included on the anthology "Don't Talk About Us" (2006)

ZS (77mb)

STRANGE THINGS ARE HAPPENING Vol 1 Number 5
(April-May 1989)

Re-upped by request

British magazine "Strange Things Are Happening" was launched in March 1988 and had only 7 issues until Spring 1990.

Originally posted here (2010, November 26)

PDF (50 pages) (16 mb)

THE VANDALIAS - BUILD THIS HOUSE (1992)

Originally posted in 2007 on PPC

but first time in lossless today 

ZS (61 mb)

Songs

1. Build This House (02:56)
2. I'd Be A Boy (04:03)

GENERATION X - YOUR GENERATION (1977)

Test Pressing released by the band. White label
1000 copies. the versions are different from the regular single.

Songs

A – Your Generation
B – Listen

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THE VIBRATORS - WE VIBRATE (1976)

Rare French edition of the first Vibrators single

Songs

A – We Vibrate (02:09)
B – Whips And Furs (02:21)

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THE BOYFRIENDS (& The Poppees) - LOST TREASURES (2005)

Originally posted in 2013 on PPC

 

The collection is now fetching ridiculous prices

here it is in lossless format

 

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THE SNIVELLING SHITS - TERMINAL STUPID (1977)

This is the edition with a jukebox centre and injection-moulded labels stating Made in France.

Issued on Ghetto Rockers, a reggae subsidiary of Island Records used to circumvent EMI's control over Island's product, an earlier UK pressing on solid-centre paper labels ran to only a maximum of about 1500 copies as the plant supposedly raised reservations over the band's name.
Thanks to fellow New Musical Express journalist Monty Smith, the record became single of the week on the weekly's 6th August 1977 edition and was hurriedly re-pressed in France in greater quantities and distributed in October, this time with large centre-hole plastic labels and in the same picture sleeve.

Songs

A – Terminal Stupid (02:54)
B – I Can't Come! (06:20)

Lossless: ZS (67mb)

JOHNNY MOPED - DARLING, LET'S HAVE ANOTHER BABY (1978)

One of the best power pop songs of the era

(different version from the LP)

Songs ("Chiswick" red letters label)

A – Darling, Let's Have Another Baby
B1 – Something Else / B2 – It Really Digs

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THE TEXTONES - MIDNIGHT MISSION (1984)

It exists 3 different reissues in CD format (1996 on Varèse Sarabande, 2001 on Acadia and 2015 on Omnivore) every release being more and more brickwalled...). The original LP was released in 1984 but this one differs from the other vinyl editions because of a sticker "Album Remix by Jimmy Iovine and Thom Pannunzio except "Midnight Mission" by Jimmy Iovine".As far as i know, this edition has never been reissued.

Songs

1. Standing In The Line (03:56) / 2. Hands Of The Working Man (04:06) / 3. No Love In You (03:22) / 4. Running (03:34) / 5. Number One Is To Survive (04:31) / 6. Midnight Mission (04:20) / 7. Upset Me (03:37) / 8. Luck Don't Last Forever (04:37) / 9. Clean Cut Kid (05:29) / 10. See The Light (05:08)

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Lossless: ZS1 + ZS2 (340 mb)

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017

May this New Year brings you better hooks than ever

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VARIOUS - SO LONG CHRISTMAS (2016)

As you know, this year i wasn't able to bring the annual AWoS, due to various reasons. But i did my best to compile a new volume of Christmas songs.

"So Long Christmas" is the 11th collection brought to you by PPC.

Enjoy the spirit of Christmas...Merry Christmas everybody

Full artwork included

  ZS (320 lame 3.99) (192 mb)

Click on pix below for details of the bands involved

 Only the 2015 collection is still available

21st Century Santa

SILLY BOYS - WANT YOU! (1982) (MLP)

Jordan Oakes review, Yellow Pills #6
Undoubtedly, these Silly Boys were part of the powerpop hard core, otherwise how can explain they released this kind of record ... in 1982 ? First off, the sleeve showed two guys in vintage '70s (three-piece) suits... Not quite a treasure perhaps, but sort of a buried... uh, silver dollar, this five-songer is pure new wave-era (but not new wave in sound) power-pop, which means Knack-like pounces of guitar, and gooey/lovey lyrics epitomized by the titles : "High School Crush","Corner Telephone" and "Subway Romance" (and two others). This two-man band had obviously spend some time listening to the great pop groups of the day (Shoes, Records, L.A. power-pop et al), and went about trying to recreate the magic of those bands without knowing exactly how the trick is done. And of course it wasn't a trick after all, but that other "t"-word talent, which wasn't in abundance in the Silly Boys' repertoire. Still, The EP is full of catchy hooks and the sort of specific power-pop fun -- early eighties style -- that can never, and will never, be created again.

Lossless: ZS (100 mb)

Songs
1 High School Crush 3:10
2 Corner Telephone 2:52
3 Subway Romance 2:48
4 Better Than Blue 2:57
5 Knock 'Em Rock 'Em 2:30

CONCERTS

CONCERTS

Some concerts from the Alta Tension Association

previously shared on PPC
with jewel case custom artwork by PPC

(artwork sometimes inspired by some classic ones)

MYRACLE BRAH

LANDS ON THE SALA MATISSE (2004)

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FARRAH

LIVE AT THE SALA MATISSE (2004)

ZS

DANIEL WYLIE

SALA MATISSE, VALENCIA (2008)

ZS

SPLITSVILLE

PRESENTS THE GREENBERRY WOODS (2001)

(An Acoustic Show)

ZS

 

CHRIS VON SNEIDERN

COLEGIO LUIS VIVES, VALENCIA (2001)

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YELLOW PILLS ISSUE #9 (1998)

Jordan Oakes began publishing his seminal power pop 'zine, "Yellow Pills" in the summer of 1990 out of pure teenage puppy love for riffing, jangly guitars, fake British accents and harmonizing voices that ache with pimply adolescent yearning. Issue #9 was the last one to be printed

PDF (12 pages, 400dpi scans) complete with bookmarks

 

ZS (4,1 mb)