THE ULTIMATE POWER POP GUIDE (2008) (new rips)

As some of you may have noticed, all the UPPG links were mostly dead. So, instead of re-upping the old rips previously posted in 2008, i've made some brand new rips and converted them to mp3 (320) using the lame 3.98 codec. For the first time, the whole collection is also available in FLAC (the lossless links are on RS as MF doens't accept files over 200 mb).

Between 2008 and today, a lot of the items featured on the list have been reissued on CD (Candy, The Late Show, D.L. Byron, Clovis Roblaine and more...), though some other albums remain tricky to find.

In 2008, John Borack and Not Lame published "Shake Some Action - The Ultimate Power Pop Guide". According to the list of the Top 200 of the best Power Pop albums, i made these nine (unauthorized) compilations. Click on the links below to read all the details about this popular collection.

Volume 1: details here

mp3 / 192 mb
ZS

FLAC / 599 mb
RS (link down)






Volume 2: details here

mp3 / 191 mb
ZS

FLAC / 603 mb
RS (link down)




 


Volume 3: details here

mp3 / 192 mb
ZS

FLAC / 599 mb
RS (link down)

Volume 4: details here

mp3 / 192 mb
ZS

FLAC / 609 mb
RS (link down)

Volume 5: details here

mp3 / 193 mb
ZS

FLAC / 597 mb
RS (link down)

Volume 6: details here

mp3 / 193 mb
ZS

FLAC / 603 mb
RS (link down)







Volume 7: details here

mp3 / 190 mb
ZS

FLAC / 616 mb
RS (link down)

Volume 8: details here

mp3 / 193 mb
ZS

FLAC / 603 mb
RS (link down)

Volume 9: details here

mp3 / 192 mb
ZS

FLAC / 595 mb
RS (link down)

VARIOUS - HOOKS ON THE BEACH (2012)

 

After the volumes posted in 2009, 2010, and 2011, here's another set of Summer songs. For the first time, this sunny collection is available in lossy and lossless formats.

mp3 (320): ZS

FLAC: RS (not re-upped)

Special note: I made a complete set of artwork including full details of each release featured in this collection.

Click on pix for details of the bands involved

BRUCE JOYNER - PRELUDES AND NOCTURNES (1993)

 

By the end of 1982, Bruce Joyner decided to quit The Unknowns in order to work on giving people a more easy approach to his music. He formed the Plantations (recording period 1983-1986). Four full albums and some singles have been released in France between 1987 and 1993. He also toured a lot in France at that time. His last album (as Bruce Joyner) hawas released in 1993 : "Preludes and Nocturnes", produced by Peter Buck.

After some health problems, Bruce Joyner was back at work with a new band in 2009. His current ensemble is dubbed The Reconstruction, featuring Joyner's longtime guitar-slinging foil Tom "Possum" Byars (Out Of The Fire) helping to lead the charge. Elements, featuring production and engineering work from both Don Fleming (who played in a band with Joyner in the late ?70s before going on to fame with Gumball and as an in-demand NYC producer) and Mitch Easter, is indeed a worthy addition to the Joyner canon, a sleek though stripped-down cauldron of driving garage and hard-edged pop. Throughout, Joyner sings with a deeply-felt passion, one moment unleashing a sneer or a snarl, the next crooning romantically like a punk Sinatra. Among the highlights: thumping, swaggering opening track "Invisible Smile," which is aggro punk with a melodic edge; "Swamp Fox Foxy," anthemic garageadelica, featuring lead guitar by Fleming; "Evil Smile," Southern goth-pop that'd make Lux Interior smile; and "Hot Georgia Nights," which with its underlying surf-y vibe wouldn't be out of place on an Unknowns record.". Click here to purchase.

RS

Songs

Rainy Grey Day / The Dragonfly / The Grind / The World Needs A Little More Love (1994) / Twitch & Writhe / Night Surf / Honey Drenched Kiss / Cat's Meow / Time Machine / They Were Expendable / The Emotional Side (I Spy Love) / Dreaming of Oz

Put together 12 years ago and gathering cobwebs ever since, The New Sell Out is finally out! Dedicated to Rick McBrien, the soul of Futureman. Thanks to every contributing artist and everyone who worked on this! Full liner notes and artwork included in download.

A terrific new release from Futureman Records. Some of these songs were featured on the "Tributes or not Tributes" series. But this is the real deal, "Sell Out" was the best Who album and it has been completely revisited with all the commercial breaks.

Full details of the digital download here on bandcamp.

$7 USD only in FLAC with full artwork. A huge thank you to Keith from the Phenomenal Cats who got released this terrific album.

Here's the smashing opener complete with the commercials by Parallax Project
Monday – Parallax Project
1. Armenia City In The Sky - Paranoid Lovesick
Whoopie - Parallax Project

HEARTBREAKERS - ONE TRACK MIND (EP) (1977)

Even though the label says "One Track Mind" is from L.A.M.F., the mix sounds different from the one that can be heard on L.A.M.F.

This is a brand new rip of the Heartbreakers 7" EP made in 24bit-96khz.. The 24bit version has been dithered and resampled to 16bit/44.1khz with iZotope RX 2 for mp3 and FLAC. So, it is now shared in 3 formats.

mp3 (320 lame 3.98): 36 mb (RS)

FLAC: 75 mb (RS)

FLAC 24bit: 203 mb (RS)

BEN VAUGHN - MONO (French Edition) (1993)

Mono was released in 3 different countries with 3 different track lists and 3 different sleeves. This is the French edition.

The album was a labor of love, collecting four years worth of eight-track home recordings from Vaughn's basement studio, each of them lovingly recorded in mono, with Vaughn playing all the instruments himself. The result is a trip to the wrong side of the early-pop-music tracks -- trashy surf, adrenalized rock & roll, unhinged rockabilly, blues both rollicking and brooding, beer-soaked honky tonk, galloping cowboy tunes, weepy pop ballads, country, and R&B nuggets -- with nary a roots genre bypassed.

Some of the names covered on Mono are familiar (Dion, Link Wray, Willie Nelson), some are cult artists (Lee Hazlewood, Neil), some have remained obscure despite having a measure of success (Lobo, Henson Cargill, Tom T. Hall), and some are just plain obscure (Jody Chastain, Ersel Hickey).

mp3 (320) lame 3.98 : RS

Songs

1 Daddy Rollin' in Your Arms 5:05 / 2 Cross Ties 1:24 / 3 Goin' Down the Road 2:56 / 4 Sundown Sundown 3:01 / 5 Our Favorite Martian 3:05 / 6 Strange Desire 2:20 / 7 Jailbait 3:26 / 8 Exploration in Fear 2:19 / 9 Just a Little Bit of You 3:28 / 10 Dark Glasses 2:59 / 11 Magdalena 4:03 / 12 I Waited Too Long Too Late 3:09 / 13 Out of Control 2:17 / 14 Skip A Rope 3:08 / 15 I'll Come Runnin' 2:40 / 16 That's How I Got to Memphis 3:10 / 17 Sheba 2:50 / 18 We Belong Together 2:25