Thursday, July 20, 2017
New World Act II - One Man's Love
New World Act II - One Man's Love/Anywhere -Har-Money DG-102 (1968 US)
Apart from Har-Money being a small Hollywood label, I couldn't find any more on this amazing heavy gem. The year is 1968 and One Man's Love is a bestial dirge featuring whips and chains accentuating the thudding beat on a tune that sounds like an S&M Blue Cheer covering Feathered Fish with a vocalist sounding like a Cro-Magnon Arthur Lee or Sean Bonniwell...Totally incredible
Hear a full version of One Man's Love
Thursday, July 06, 2017
Huge ebay listing with 55 singles from Glam to Psych to Bonehead and beyond
Summer is definitely here, so I have posted a gargantuan (well for me) list of singles running the whole gamut of all that I love.
All singles have a low start, no reserve, they're up for 10 days, most have sound clips, so you will have plenty of time to discover the ones you might not know
You can go to the listing here:
PUREPOP1UK ebay Listings HERE
I should point to, among others, the Proto Punk ineptitude of Central Pacific, the Cowbell glory of Diehard (off Brown Acid -The Third Trip, the song Poem Bonehead collision that is the Melodiers (off Bonehead Freaks)...
As part of this sale there in a batch of rare and unusual Equals picture sleeves from across Europe
Anyhow here is the menu -have fun and enjoy the weakness of the pound...
Central Pacific - Rockin' Detroit - Crude US Proto Punk -RARE Private 1975
After Shave -WARMAKER- Bonehead Crunching Glam UK issue! 1973
Paul Ryan -Natural Gas - Hypnotic GLAM Classic- 1972
Jeff Britton Spitfires -Rub Out -BREAKS - Glam- Assault Precinct 13 – Demo
Neil Christian - She's Got The Power -Heavy Fuzz Glam Pounder – 1974
Iron Virgin - Rebels Rule - Junkshop GLAM Classic-French Pic sleeve 1974
Galahad -Rocket Summer-GLAM/PSYCH Fuzz Groover- 1973
Kansas Hook- Nervous Shakin UK FUZZ FREAK Glam 1971
Jets -YEAH! - Killer Glam Cruncher UK- 1973
Herd -Beauty Queen/ The Game -Proto Glam Groover 1969 UK issue
Smoke- My Lullaby- Creeping T. Rex UK Junkshop Glam 1974
Gene Clark – Echoes - US ORIGINAL Promo Byrds EX condition 1966
Easybeats -Good Times -Rousing FREAKBEAT Rocker 1968 UK DEMO issue
Alexander Bell - Alexander Bell Believes -Stunning UK Popsike 1967
Four Fuller Brothers -GROUPIE -Bubblegum Rocker 1969 UK issue
Bonnie St.Claire - I Surrender-Cult Soul MOD Dancer Danish issue TOP sound
Bonnie St.Claire (Bonny) -Tame Me Tiger -Top MOD Dancer 1968 German issue
Dennis Wilson and Rumbo -Sound of Free - Top UK Copy Beach Boys 1970
Laughing Gravy - Vegetables -1967 Brian Wilson SMILE!!! (Dean Torrence)
Rag Dolls -My Old Man's a Groovy Old Man -Unreleased Easybeats DEMO 1968
Status Quo – Make Me Stay a Little Longer - DUTCH Pic sleeve RARE VG+
Honeybus -Story -Sumptuous Popsike -French pic sleeve 1970
Children of The Morning -Hey Hey America Protest Psych with F word... 1973
Bilbo Baggins -Run With Devil /Sha Na Na UK pic sleeve Crunching Glam 1974
Bilbo (Baggins)- She's Gonna Win - Japanese picture sleeve- 1978
Bilbo Baggins -It's a Shame/ Please Sir -Belgian picture sleeve 1976
The Knees -Day Tripper/ Slow Down - MAN Deke Leonard & Co- Demo 1975
Kindness -Light of Love - Chris Norman/ SMOKIE - Their first single - 1970
Kindness -Make It Better - Chris Norman/ SMOKIE - Demo – 1973
Kindness -Oh Yea/ Let The Good Times - Chris Norman/SMOKIE - Stomping Glam
My Dear Watson -Have You Seen Your Saviour -Elton John - No reserve – 1970
Josuha -Jenny -Weirdo Dutch Freak GLAM 1973
Sir Lord Baltimore -Master Heartache -Heavy Stoner Hard Rock US Promo Rare
Diehard -Heartbreak - Posae RARE!!! US Proto Metal Hard Rock -Brown Acid
Hustutler -Complications - Obscure US Glam Hard Rock Cruncher
It's All Meat -You Don't Notice The Time -Rare Heavy Psych Pic sleeve 1970
Hard Meat – Rain- Heavy Psych Beatles cover 1969 UK issue
Melodiers -Thinking of You -Bonehead meets Song Poem - US FUZZ !!!!! Rare
Nightmare –Witch Woman –UK HORROR HARD ROCK GLAM
Alan Blakley -Lost Without You/Gimme Rock n Roll Great Glam 2- sider 1976
Sylvester's Jukebox - Guess It's Because -Rare UK issue -Kim Larsen- 1973
Jerry Williams -Crazy 'Bout You Baby - Heavy Bonehead Cruncher US 1971
Listen -Astral Boogie -Obscure UK Glam crossover - Demo 1973
Funky Family -Clap Your Hands and Stamp Your Feet Stomping GLAM 1973
Frenzy- Poser - Proto Punk Glam Cruncher - 1976
Equals -I Get So Excited/ The Skies Above -German Pic sleeve
Equals -Laurel and Hardy -Belgian Pic sleeve
Equals -I Can See But You Don't know -Italian Pic sleeve
Equals -Hang Up My Rock & Roll Shoes/ She Lives for Today -German Pic sleeve
Equals -Rub a Dub Dub -Spanish Pic sleeve
Equals -Have I The Right -German Pic sleeve
Equals -Beautiful Clown - German Pic Sleeve with Promo Card
Equals -Lonely Rita/Softly Softly -Spanish Pic sleeve
Equals - I Won't Be There/Fire-Spanish Pic sleeve
Equals -Police on My Back -Belgian Pic sleeve
Equals -Police on My Back -Belgian Pic sleeve
Monday, July 03, 2017
Sarawest –Saturday (Hot & Heavy)/ Space Rider –Canadian Heavy Freak (1974)
Sarawest –Saturday (Hot & Heavy)/ Space Rider –Vintage Records SCV 2024 (1974 Canada)
Sarawest was a Toronto band who played around clubs at the time and released this lone single distributed solely through the Record Villa record store on Yonge Street
It’s a cracking double-sider with Saturday (Hot &Heavy) being the outright rocker and Space Rider, as it title indicates, the heavy psych excursion. Both sides are full to the brim with stunning heavy freak guitar moves, transposing 1969 into 1974, which indicates they must have been a blinding live act.
Hear a full version of Saturday (Hot & Heavy)
Hear a full version of Space Rider
It seems all copies came in this Record Villa bag
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Dyaks –Gutter Kids/Blow My Dreams Away (Unreleased Punk Acetate 1977)
Dyaks –Gutter Kids/Blow My Dreams Away (Unreleased Punk Acetate 1977)
It was a mystery unnamed acetate, but no longer. This is the Dyaks AKA Chris Reeves who was also behind Jabberwock who produced the majestic Proggy Glamster Sneakin’ Snaky around the same time http://purepop1uk.blogspot.co.uk/2007/08/jabberwock-disturbance-sneakin-snaky.html
The earlier version of Gutter Kids presented here (probably recorded at Pathway Studios in July 77) is so much better than the released version. Here the guitar slash and crash in an updated 66 Who windmill fashion, while the song structure wins out by debuting the rousing chorus earlier than in the released version with the harmonies bringing a nice Powerpop sprinkling to proceedings
The B side, (totally unreleased) starts off in Clash mode before going nice and melodic, with an end betraying their pre-punk musicianship
The Dyaks/Jabberwock were really stuck in the middle of Year 0, unsure which bus to take, but as exemplified here; the superior chops and melodic core they possessed were in stark contrast to other more “credible” and run-of-the mill bandwagon jumpers
Here a Full version of Gutter Kids
Hear a full version of Blow My Dreams Away
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Purepop Set Sale 1 week only
SALE NOW CLOSED
First come first served! This set sale will be live for 1 week only (from the 12th of June 2017)I am updating as soon as I can, you will notice the ones in red have already sold as I have sent the list to previous buyers
You can either email me (email on profile page), leave a comment or message on Facebook if you want the full list with prices
Thanks!
Part 1: Heavy Psych, Garage, Hard Rock and Bonehead
ArtistTitle Label Country Condition Notes Clip* Price
*Clips not from the records for sale
1. 3's (Threez) -Do You See -Tranceporter US -EX From Bonehead Crunchers Vol 1 -Classic murky deep psych https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfdQHEvcdgI
2. AppleTree -You're Not The Only Girl /(The ballad of Pencil) -Wacks Records US EX Although the A side is not much cop, the B side is a fine gritty Hard Rock belter driven by a gleaming cowbell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJZRnSYRFeE
3. Benedict -Gonna Have a Good Time (Vanda & Young)Earth –US EX Rousing Hard Rock version of the Easybeats classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8hNchZ87tc SOLD
4. Big Brother –ESP All American US EX Different and heavy version of the Pretty Things £sd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXTs1cQifOg
5. Brethren - New Day/Heather Ruda Bega US EX Basic US Psych double sider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Yfrg8BpDg
6. Clockwork-Cybernaut/Mean Lady test pressing Canada EX Top growling Hard Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btj2VJYkTw
7. Columbus - Standing on The CornerMill Records US VG+ (plays EX, pen mark on label) Great but inept Hard rock as comped on Ultimate Bonehead Vol 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7W1LrX5J6Q
8. Darkseid - Ground Zero/ Land of The Darker Sun Brooks US EX Cracking Heavy Psych double-sider. Land of The Darker Sun was comped on Ultimate Bonehead Volume 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QhCC1bgF-g SOLD
9. Diehard Heartbreak Posae US EX As comped on Brown Acid vol 3, a fine specimen of cowbell led Heaviness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tqvc2EmVNM
10. Dynamite Butch Hung Over You/ Freedom Song Dynamite Butch US EX Great Heavy Hard Rock on one side, with a greased Buckskin belter on the other https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgL2YP_pcS0 SOLD
11. Finch - Nothing in The Sun Montage US EX (minimal label damage on edge of label)Top shelf late 60s Heavy Psych. Totally wild fuzz guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alcfOIzwohM
12. Flight -Space Creators Cavern Custom US Top Hard Rock recorded at "The Cavern", the B side is a weird Startrek tribute…stoners
13. Forum Who Needs You Solar US EX Top Texan Heavy Psych SOLD
14. Foxfire Hard Luck Mary Polaris US VG+ (slow warp not affecting play) X on labelGreat unkwnown Psych as comped on Voyages Into... Psychedelia (Vol. 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYMpGGt803g
15. Grump Heartbreak Hotel Magic Carpet US VG+ (plays EX) Bonehead cover The Elvis hit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ca4H_1jDE
16. Hog -Cop Killer You US EX As comped on Ultimate Bonehead Vol 2, what more can be said about this shambolic piece of Biker Proto Punk…
17. Hot Lucy Kid Stuff Whale Records US EX Prime Proto Punk winner http://purepop1uk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/hot-lucy-kid-stuff.html
18. Hustutler You'll Feel Better When You Know/Complications Kendall/Lee Records US EX Screeching US Hard Rock http://www.heavy45s.com/hustutler
19. Image -Witchcraft 71 ( Hot Blood -same label both sides) Chaparral US EX Doom Heavy Pysch instrumental madness as comped on Ultimate Bonehead Volume 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rckK35TNmW4 SOLD
20. Inside Experience -Be on My Way/Tales of Brave Ulysses CEI US VG+ (plays EX) The B Side is a prime example of late Garage meets Bonehead. As comped on Ultimate Bonehead volume 5 and Brown Acid vol 3. The A side is an OK cover of the Cream tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o78ZCvke6rc SOLD
21. Jumbo- Classified Love Swingin US EX Raucous riffarama as comped on Ultimate Bonehead volume 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3VpT0QKo_s SOLD
22. Koke Gunfighter/Popeye Markus US EX Lo-fi Psych on the A side ,whereas the B side is basically the Popeye tune which in turn goes heavy then fast and wild…bizarre
23. Luke and The Apostles - Not Far Off/ You Make Me High True North Canada EX Not Far Off is an abosulte monster on the B side of a good, but more commercial slab of Psych https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLBz5-UjxyU
24. New Wing - I need Love Pentacle Canada VG+ (plays EX) Late Garage screamer -a monster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdeLEpU-fJ8 SOLD
25. Pendulum - Bring it On Home Pendulum US EX Heavy shambolic Hard Rock as comped on Ultimate Bonehead Volume 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2A3R_uIAB0 SOLD
26. Raving Maniac Driving Me Crazy Cricket US EX Great NW Hard Rock -reminds me on Kiss sans make up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EVjreZCy9g SOLD
27. River Styx Bike Writer Joey –Lu US EX Terrific Heavy Psych with top Sky Saxon-like vocals and continuous fuzz guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHG3HVNzyaY
28. Salem Witchcraft Witchcraft/ Mr Money Private Label US VG+ (plays EX) Overall the best 2 sider this band released https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgREUbYfP_E SOLD
29. Serpent- Midnight Shakedown H.B.L US EX Kick ass Hard Rock as comped on Bonehead Freaks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng2oxMaxvMQ SOLD
30. Sir Lord Baltimore –I Got A Woman/Master Heartache –Mercury US Promo EX. Classic two-sider and the pnly 45 release from their killer first LP
31. Stone Axe - Slave of Fear/Snakebite Rampart Street Records US EX Ex Josefus, the killer B side is comped on Bonehead Crunchers volume 1. In perfect condition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nCV1Ze-6Ug SOLD
32. Stone Men-The Superdude Party Flatbush US EX Very strange weirdo Hard Rock/Heavy Psych https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNeDI6EsDXo
33. Sweet Cherry - Eight Day Blues Stop US VG+ (plays EX) Cavernous and heavy Garage gems comped on Michigan Mixture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jArWd6l-l34
34. T.M.L - Should Have Done Better Mare US VG (scratch but only light interference)Comped on "Some songs stuck in my mind", heavy Psych with great guitar
35. The Devil Himself -The Devil Himself North American Industries US EX Strange Heavy Psych screamer from 1974, Hard rock with clavinet? Yep…
36. The What The Devil's Game Mite US EX Top shelf Heavy Satanic Rock as comped on Ultimate Bonehead vol 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YRhSQb2eAQ
37. Truth - Being Bad Honest US VG+ (Label signed by the whole band!) Totally Heavy Freak monster as comped on Michigan Meltdown Volume 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYPZM-NCVPI
38. Truth & Janey -Under My Thumb/Midnight Horseman Sound Communications US VG+ (minor click on first few revolutions of B side) The B side is a great heavy thumper from this famed power trio released in 1972. Nice cover of Under My Thumb similar to Pentagram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDtKARXimPw
39. Truth (Truth and Janey) Around and Around/Straight eight Pontiac Driving Wheel US Confusingly this is the 2nd Truth and Janey single covering the Chuck Berry nugget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXE-JhhEVLM
40. Twitch- Messin' With The Bull/Mr. Spunk Astro Records Canada EX Original copy of the 1975 single re-released recently by Supreme Echo. So rare…
41. Wizard Kozmick Dream Stardust US EX Kozmick Dream is a driving mix of late Psych and Hard Rock. Heavy Freak basically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S05X4Nem9gs SOLD
Part 2: Sixties Freakbeat, Beat and Psych
1. Alexander Bell - Alexander Bell Believes CBS UK EX From 1967. Totally underated but brilliant piece of UK popsike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0KScKmToic
2. Easybeats- Good Times UA Demo UK VG+ The Classic Vanda & Young penned floor filler. Nice in its UK demo format £
3. Four Fuller Brothers - Groupie MCA UK EX Great lewd Bubblegum Groover "to others you are nothing but a groupie, but to me you will always be groovy…" in rare pristine UK edition
4. My Dear Watson- Have You Seen Your Saviour DJM UK EX Close to my heart for their cover of The Shame Just Drained, this single is way more collectable as it features a certain Reginald Dwight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8uqHZNH1sw
5. Rupert's People - Prologue to a Magic World/Dream on My Mind Columbia Demo UK VG
(hear full sound clips taken from the record) Featuring the Freakbeat Killer Dream On My Mind SOLD
Part 3: Junkshop Glam, Bubblegum, Proto Punk, Powerpop and oddities
1. Andy Bown – Supersonic GM UK EX (small sticker on label) Glam TV masterpiece…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ2ZnwE-TkA SOLD
2. Arrows- I Love Rock 'N' Roll/Broken Down Heart RAK UK EX (sample sticker on A side) Something no one should do without…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KASgOFvIQVc SOLD
3. Equals - Diversion President NL EX/EX Lovely Dutch pic sleeve on this rampant and raUcous cruncher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhKd1Vzr-YQ SOLD
4. Buster Superstar Bradleys UK EX Top UK Crunching Glam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLX6b-_gUew SOLD
5. Johnny Palermo Silly Old Songs Hans Belgium EX/EX Infectious second Proto Punk single from Johnny. Melodic and powerful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC2eXVqHt3M SOLD
6. Kindness - Light of Love RCA UK EX A pre Smokie affair featuring Chris Norman and pals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUZ7D8_U4C8
7. Listen- Astral Boogie Parlophone Demo UK EX Interesting female fronted near Glam tune featuring some weird brass honking…
8. Smoke - My Lullaby/Looking High Decca UK EX This is very similar to Sugar Man and none the worst for that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwz7WuScOG4
9. Sylvester’s Jukebox -Juke Box/ Guess It's Because CBS UK EX Kim Larsen's Gasolin offshoot. Very rare especially in its UK issue. The A side is a cool instrumental while Guess It's Because is a wonderful Kinks impersonation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSxF0LTame4
10. Tales- Rockin' Suzanna MAM UK EX Great Rolling Stones cop! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlD5HZs8Jdo SOLD
11. Tracey Dean -Moonshiner/Boy On The Ball Decca Demo UK EX (Number on Label) Top Glam double-sider stompers by Giorgio Moroder and Peter Bellotte. UK issues are harder to locate than ther European counterparts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKND95SFWvA SOLD
Monday, June 05, 2017
Heavy Gun –High Class Woman
Heavy by name, Heavy by nature, Heavy Gun’s sole single is a real sludge-fest of a dirge further emphasised by its murky mix. However it is rather splendid in its lo-fi obscurity with all the ingredients of a Heavy Bonehead classic including cowbell, fuzzed-downer guitar and dumbed down vocals. Out of Illinois, this is one of the hardest singles to find on the Golden Voice label, and may be a duff pressing as there is quite a lot of surface noise when the copy of the record itself is pretty much unmarked. Anyone else got a copy?
Hear a full version of High Class Woman
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Bitter Sweet Orange –Aimless Lady - Heavy Psych Monster
From Springdale Arkansas comes this Heavy Fuzz double-sided Bone Crunching release that ticks all the boxes in terms of primal Neanderthal thudding with the vocalist Ken Wade mastering a snotty growly delivery across the 2 sides. Aimless Lady is NOT the Grand Funk tune, but a lesson in how to not stray away from a groove once it’s been launched. The B side is slightly more aimless but with some killer guitar and caveman-like vocals. The recording took place at John’s Recording Studio in Russellville, it seems the studio is still in business, but looking at the Google Maps satellite pic, it appears to be a large barn with some of the roof missing!
Hear a full version of Aimless Lady
Hear a full version of I Could Love You
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Hot Rocks –All Night Long/ Down on 42nd Street –Unreleased Proto Punk/Glam acetate
Hot Rocks –All Night Long/ Down on 42nd Street –Unreleased Proto Punk/Glam acetate
Here is a long awaited update to the post I featured 9 years ago, it also gives me an opportunity to make the sound files of this amazing Proto Punk gem available once again
What is new is that we now have a name for the band as Hot Rocks was a real entity even supporting Savoy Brown at the time. The singer was Valerie Hunter - ex 'Pepsi Girl', and model who moved to London along with guitarist John Christian (Ex Shady Lady), Bass player John (Insect) Weir (ex Curtis Knight and T2), and drummer Graham (The Kid) Waxman. No information who played the rockin’ piano though. See the promo scan for more information on the band with a big thanks to Bob Stannard for getting in touch and for providing these scans
Here is the original review, as vital now as it was then…
Here are full versions of two wild slabs of Proto Punk Glam just oozing ATTITUDE. All Night Long was initially recorded by LA Glamsters Shady Lady and the original recording of All Night Long can be heard here: myspace.com/shadyladyrocks along with other tracks from their album that was unreleased at the time.
The track was written by singer Stefen Shady with guitarist John Christian. John left the band in 1973 and went to London where these two tracks were recorded in 73/74. The sassy vocals are handled by John’s wife Valerie. Both tracks are equally as good and are great examples of NY Dolls sleaze (with a bit of Quatro thrown in) and would have fitted in well with the burgeoning NY Punk scene, but definitely 3 years too early for the UK…
Hear a full version of All Night Long
Hear a full version of Down on 42nd Street
Hot Rocks press scans © B.Stannard 2016
Tuesday, May 09, 2017
Artist – Every Lady Does It
Artist –For The First Time/ Every Lady Does It –Peppermint Presents PP1132 (1977 US)
Every Lady Does It is a hard and meaty Midwestern cruncher. It’s a real though performance balancing quite tuneful lead parts with a metronomic Cowbell and driving drums that keep proceedings focused on the ultimate crunching ride. The vocals are also spot on and never venture into any dodgy histrionics. The A side is more of a grower as it’s less instantly startling, but the feel and tasteful musicianship makes it a worthwhile detour to take with an unexpected vocal delivery and surprising chord changes
Recorded at Peppermint Studios (Youngstown OH), Artist were probably local however calling the band “Artist” makes Googling rather pointless. Anyone know any more about this one?
Hear a full version of Every Lady Does It
Hear a full version of For The First Time
Tuesday, May 02, 2017
Purepop Set Sale
SALE IS NOW CLOSED
Hi
I am selling the following 45s as a set sale on a first come first served basis.
The sale is up for 1 week only (until 9th of May)
I am updating as soon as I can, you will notice the ones in red have already sold as I sent the list early this morning to previous buyers
You can either email me (email on profile page), leave a comment or message on Facebook if you want the full list with prices
Thanks!
Part 1:
Sixties Freakbeat, Beat and Psych
The Accent –Red Sky at Night/ Wind of Change –Decca UK VG+
Fantastic meaty UK Psych
classic. The A side is fine and plays EX, however the B side has a mark that
can be heard half way through the side, so I would grade the B side as VG- SOLD
Angel Pavement –Baby You’ve Gotta Stay/Green Mello Hill
–Fontana UK EX
Their first of 2
singles. The B side features their best moment, the delightful popsike of Green
Mello Hill SOLD
The
Answers –It’s Just a Fear/You’ve Gotta Believe Me –Columbia UK G
Terrific Freakbeat monster by Tony
Hill and associates. Now the single has some issues, vinyl has marks and there
is a small edge lift. However, audio-wise the A side plays VG+, the B side is noisier
and plays VG-. The condition is reflected in the price, but the A side plays
great SOLD
Brincos –Nobody Wants You Now/The Train –Page One UK EX
Perfect seemingly
unplayed copy of the Spaniards’ best moment, stands with the best of all that
Rubbles/Circus Days stuff…what a production! SOLD
Dave
Dee, Dozy, Beaky Mick and Tich –Frustration/ Hard to Love You –Fontana Dutch
VG+/VG+ (small name of cover)
Holland seems to be the only place
where their most raucous track (Frustration) came out on a single. Both sides
play EX SOLD
The
Game - It’s Shocking What They Call Me/Help Me Mummy’s Gone –Parlophone UK Demo
VG+
Killer Freakbeat double sider. A
few lights marks and some low level crackle. Audio is somewhere between VG and
VG+. Initials on B side label.SOLD
Grapefruit
–Sha Sha/Universal Party –Deram –Germany EX/VG+
By this time Grapefruit was but a
name, however both sides of this release were recorded by George Alexander,
George Young and Harry Vanda no less. Great under-valued single!
Laughing
Gravy –Vegetables/Same –White Whale –US VG+
Dean Torrance’s (Jan and Dean) contemporary Smile recreation.
Dean got to hear the unfinished track during the Smile sessions and with the
project being shelved saw the opportunity of being the first to release Smile
material.
My
Dear Watson –The Shame Just Drained/Elusive Face –Parlophone NL VG+
The first and only version of
Vanda and Young’s masterpiece released when the
Easybeats Good Times album got
shelved. Although relegated to the B side, it’s another testament to the genius
of Vanda & Young who produced both sides of the single. Plays EX, slight
rubbing on B side label. SOLD
Rag
Dolls –My Old Man’s a Groovy Old Man/They Didn’t Believe Me –Columbia UK Demo
EX (small number on label)
Another outlet to release a great
Vanda and Young gem that was poised to appear on the Easybeats’ unreleased Good Times LP
Shadows of Knight –My Fire Department Needs a
Fireman/Taurus-Hansa Germany EX/G
German issue of the
Knight’s monster. Record is fine, but the sleeve has seen better days…SOLD
Part 2:
Junkshop Glam, Bubblegum, Proto Punk, Powerpop
and oddities
Airship –Get Out, Take Your Mother With You/Gimme a Can of Spray Paint
Decca Demo EX
Great demo copy of this frenetic
Punk Boot Boy Cruncher. It has recently been reissued, but this is the original
issue SOLD
American Jam Band –American Jam/Nature’s Child –Parlophone UK
Demo
Pristine copy of the
phased Junkshop Cruncher SOLD
Antilope –Down on Your Feet/Goodbye –BASF NL EX/VG+
Cracking Crunching
NederGlam double-sider not to be missed SOLD
Bitch –Good Time Coming/At The Party WB Germany –EX/VG+
The original version of
Good Time Coming from the NZ band who made the trip to London hoping to make
it. Great track, great performance. Not too sure why the German cover features
a pig though…SOLD
Buggies –Julie July/ Allright
She Said –Philips –NL EX/EX
Produced by the great Peter Koelewijn (Bonnie St Claire etc…), Julie
July is a great popsike tune, somewhere between The Hollies and Smyle. The B
side is more raucous SOLD
Children – Movin’ On/Montana –BASF –DK EX/EX
Not their best single,
but 2 sprightly uptempo pop ditties from the Danish Teen/Glam sensations SOLD
Children of The Morning –Hey America, America/Children of The Morning
–Hansa Germany EX/EX £10
Why in 1973 would an Italian based
Brit write about the Kent State Campus killing from 3 years previous?
Sound-wise you could think of a protest infused John
Kongos with Donovan tendencies over the mother of all slapping
Gunshot beats. Great Pic sleeve.
Tracey Dean –Moonshiner/Boy On The Ball –Decca Demo UK EX (Number on Label)
Top Glam double-sider stompers by
Giorgio Moroder and Peter Bellotte. UK issues are harder to locate than ther
European counterparts
Eddie Kidd –Motorbike Kid/Big Jump Decca UK Demo EX
The A side is a 50s
pastiche, however the B side is a crunching semi-instrumenal with hand claps
and a driving beat punctuated by shouts
of “Big Jump”. The same B side is on Leave It To The Kid…SOLD
Eddie Kidd - Leave it To The Kid/Big Jump 1978 UK Decca Demo
EX
Leave It To The
Kid is a bone-crunching-13-double-decker-hopping-semi -smash-stomper by
the UK’s own Evel Knievel: Eddie Kidd. Of the Decca singles I have,
this is by far the greatest as it’s a truly rousing performance featuring Eddie’s
unmistakable vocal range along with a great driving string section. SOLD
Fluff –Sunny Honey Girl/Walking Alone –DJM Belgium issue VG+/VG+
Infectious UK uptempo Bubblegum.
As was sometimes the case in Belgium, the pic sleeve is just one-sided SOLD
Funky Family-Clap Your Hands and Stamp Your Feet/Allright –Vogue –French
EX/EX
It’s hard to beat a blonde in hot
pants clutching a sub-machine gun especially when within you have a stomping
Male sung cover of the Bonnie St. Claire classic
Funny Dog –One, Two, Three/Momo’s in Two –CBS Promo cover EX/VG+ Germany
Fun BubbleGlam from Mr Chirpy
Cheep Cheep himself (Lally Stott), the B side is more chugging in approach
Ricky Gordon- Get Around 1974 Belgium Vogue EX/EX
A strange one. Moving from
Mud/Elvis turns to Beach Boys/Four Seasons style with an ever present distorted
guitar, this one certainly doesn't know what it is…Weird
Hammersmith Gorillas –You Really Got Me/Leavin’ Home –Penny Farthing
–German EX/EX
Near perfect copy of this great
cruncher from Jesse housed in the coveted Man in Gorilla suit cover. The sleeve
has a tiny date neatly written on the top of one side of the cover (both sides
have the same picture) SOLD
Hogback 'n' Pig If You Can't Be Good…Be Bad/Good Old Rock n’Roll UK CBS EX
Not quite Glam, not quite Hard
Rock, not quite Pop, but it's catchy, all good …no bad
Josuha –Jenny –Magic Carpet CNR NL VG+ (2 inaudible scratches on side 1)
/VG+
Now, here’s a real treat. Jenny starts off in the mode of
the sleeve at a trot but then the riff kicks in and the track turns into a
fab Bubblegum/Rock tune with lyrics playing
around with old chestnut (mare?) double-entendres about “going for a
ride”...It’s all great fun and a top tune. Magic Carpet is nice n’ heavy and here they sing about the
magical tripped out properties of cheap plonk.
Libido Hold on To Your Fire/Weren't Born A Man Mooncrest UK VG+
(name on label)
Like a lush Badfinger song, the track then builds into subtly
orchestrated track with some fine lead guitar. The vocals by Dana Gillespie are
gorgeous conveying both sweetness and sass SOLD
Mo-i-Rana –So My Daddy Says/Alone Polydor –DK EX/EX
Great copy of this
Danish Crunching Glam scorcher SOLD
Mo-i-Rana –You Really Got Me /Since You Been Gone Polydor –DK EX/VG+
Great Take on the Kinks’ hit.
Heavy and rocking SOLD
Pony- It’s Gonna Be So Easy/ ‘Til I Met You –Pye UK Demo EX
Only released with a B
side in the UK, this is all that come out from these US Powerpop pathfinders. An
unreleased album remains in the vaults. Archive copy SOLD
Randy and The U Turns - 99 Octane Girl/Roll On Roll Off UK UA EX/VG+
Not KBD as has been listed elsewhere, but a fine Pub
Rock/Punk crossover with harmonies recorded down in Rockfield. Demo in picture
sleeve SOLD
Rescue Co. No. 1 - It's Only Words/Look Out 1973 JAM Demo UK EX (Sticker on B side)
Demo copy of this great
Garage meets Glam cruncher. SOLD
Rescue Co. No. 1 - I Want to Save You/Amanda JAM Demo UK VG+
Brilliant Move sound alike
from the Rescue SOLD
Rescue Co. No. 1 – Life’s Too Short/Then I Think About You –RAK UK VG+
Another quality single from Rescue
Co. No. 1. This one showcases their knack in delivering infectious Pop. Small
tear on B side label
Rubber Band - Moonwalker/Wichita 1973 UK Youngblood Demo EX
Overlooked Glam cruncher, it’s
surely going to break through sooner rather than later. Total KILLER! Why is
this one still under the radar? Check out the Youtube clip! SOLD
Paul and Barry Ryan –Won’t You Join Me/ Glad to Know You
Polydor France EX/EX
Glad To Know You is a
totally fab piece of Psych-Bubblegum-Glam. Hidden on the B side of the full
blown heart string-puller Won’t You Join Me, it’s another choice example of the
brothers aptitude of coming up trumps on the B side. The song twists and turns,
the orchestration is understated, the guitars have real oomph, and production
touches like the vocals through the leslie cabinet make this an imaginative yet
totally accessible winner. SOLD
Skid –I Saw her Standing There/Endless Sleep –Hansa –Germany EX/EX
Perfect condition on this sought
after Proto Punk double-sider housed in the smart German picture sleeve
featuring the mystery group SOLD
Skyband –Bang! Ooh! Ya Got Me/Cold Light of Day –RCA UK EX
(Stamper on label)
Underated Gem with mixes
Junkshop Glam drive with neat pop overtones, not to mention silly head
gear…(See their LP cover!) SOLD
Smoke - My Lullaby/Looking High 1974 UK Decca EX
Super rare late (1974) Glam
release by The Smoke. This is very similar to Sugar Man and none the worst for
that.
Smoke – Sugar Man/ That’s What I Want –BASF –Germany VG/VG
Cracking early 70s
effort by The Smoke, that brings my Friend Jack right into a Glam setting. The
B side is also marvelous. Not a perfect copy, but looks and plays fine SOLD
Sparks Girl
From Germany/ Beaver
O'Lindy Bearsville Germany EX/EX
Lovely
German picture sleeve on this great early Sparks classic
Stephen - Right on Running Man/ Epitath Antic UK VG+
Mutt Lange in cracking
Glam stomper shocker! SOLD
True Adventure Where The Roxy Used to Be/ Outlaw Love 1974 UK
Decca
Unplayed demo. The B
side is an outright Glam Cruncher, while the A side is a glorious piece of emotive
70s nostalgia SOLD
Walkers – Strip Tease/ This Boy This Girl –Philips DK EX/EX
One of the best Walkers
single as both sides fully deliver in the Junkshop department SOLD
Whistle –When The Lights Go Out on Broadway/Lincoln Lullabies –York Demo UK EX
Hard to find second single by
Whistle (The Party Must Be Over). It’s hard Glam and shares many similarities
with their previous single but includes production flourishes straight out of
the Bob Ezrin’s bag of tricks. Demo copy housed in York Company sleeve. SOLD
Part 3: Heavy
Psych, Hard Rock and Bonehead
Blackbirds 2000 –Preludium/Let’s Do It Together Cornet German
EX/EX
As featured on Bonehead
Crunchers Volume 4, Germany’s BlackBirds 2000 deliver one of the stupidest but heaviest
examples of Neanderthal crunch known to man on Let’s Do It Together. (number
sticker on sleeve and label) SOLD
Duffy- Running Away/The Joker- Chapter One UK Demo EX £
Demo copy in pristine
condition of this great UK Hard Rock
double sider SOLD
Hard Meat –Rain/Burning Up Years –Island UK VG+
Great heavy cover of the Beatles
track. I know I said great already but it is really very good!
It’s All Meat – You Don’t Notice The Time You Waste/ If Only –Columbia
Canada EX/EX
Perfect copy of the pic sleeve and
record of this heavy Canadian Psych Groover
Gorgon Medusa – Sweet Child/Situation –Apocalypse –US EX
As featured on Numero’s Warfaring
Strangers comp a few years back. Gorgon Medusa’s private release features two
Heavy Psych mixing guitar driven heavy rock with more languid psych
explorations. SOLD
Jeremy B - Come on Little Pretty/ I Wanna Be Loved By You Bacillus Germany
EX/EX
Rare and obscure Kraut rocker of
the highest calibre
Kansas Hook- Nervous Shakin/ Mr Universe UK
Decca VG+
Double whammy of top UK Hard Rock
belters by the American Jam Band guys!
Mushroom - This is It/Cosmic
DanceUS Vulcan EX
Great obscure near Bonehead Hard Rock/Psych SOLD
New Lords –We Go Out In The Sunshine/Country Fever –Columbia
–German EX/EX
The A side is a fine
uptempo Bubblegum Pop number, but it’s the B side where the action is at.
Country Fever is no country outing, but a great example of Loud and raucous 70s
Heaviness SOLD
Ray Owen’s Moon –Hey Sweety/Free Man –Polydor UK VG+
Absolute killer 2 –sider
by Juicy Luicy singer. A side is a bit crackly and audio grades VG, B side
plays EX. Writing on A side label. Hence low price
Sensory System –Red Man/Winter’s Over Now –EMI DK EX/EX
Killer Danish Bonehead
Cruncher –Really heavy stuff…SOLD
Sunchariot - Rosemarie/Do you Want to know (1972 UK Decca
Demo EX £
Great UK tough hard
rocker on the B side of this super condition UK Demo. The A side is chugging UK
Pop,more like Christie with balls SOLD
Monday, April 17, 2017
PVC Record Sleeves -A warning
I had heard some faint rumblings about PVC potentially provoking some kind of chemical reaction giving the record a milky hazy look or sometimes streaks. It was only last week in Utrecht that I was warned and directly advised to replace them with Polythene.
On Friday I bought 400 Polythene sleeves and today, I have gone through the PVC clad part of my collection and replaced them all with Polythene. Although the overriding majority of the records had no issues, some did. My Allen Pound’s Get Rich has a dull look (it was housed in an old PVC that the dealer sent the record in). Thank God, it sounds fine. I have owned this record for around 4 years and I know when I played it last year, it looked fine, so the effect happens over time.
2 records where I used new PVC sleeves had issues (so it's not just with old ones) - a Swedish Decca pressing of the T Boones as well as the MC5. Both have dull patches with a bright streak at one end. Again they play fine. (the photos for these two don’t really show the effect).
This Equals single has a similar issues to both the MC5 and The T-Boones
The Our Plastic Dream might have the beginning of some kind of a reaction, but this is inconclusive.
The biggest proof that chemical reactions can occur with PVC is on the Fancy acetate.
Thank god this was the only acetate I had in a PVC...
Anyhow, to avoid any further risk (I am sure there are exceptions), I will no longer be using PVC. If you have heard rumblings or read stuff on forums or had doubts, I hope this helps you TO decide. It’s a shame to have to do this, but better safe than sorry.
Bye Bye PVC…
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