Stiff Little Fingers 40th Anniversary Post - All The Best CD w Inflammable Material LP 79 w Nobody's Heroes LP 80 w Go For It LP 81 w Now Then... LP 82

• Congratulations to SLF on a banner 40th Anniversary show for their locals last week!!  Still putting out essential material (I have a slew of CD's leading up to when I finally saw them on 'Guitar and Bass' tour) that you will want to hear after hearing this classic material.  Probably the most listened to album I had was 'All The Best' and really wore it out before I got the CD.  At least back in the early eighties the needle stylus cartridges were light enough to not heat up and deform the grooves (have to file those down with sandpaper and lots of water) so my really old records like these four have pops near the start of the songs or albums where I didn't use the dampened lever arm on the stylus put just plunct 'er down and started jamming in my room.  Fortunately I taped these four and listened mainly to the cassettes on my walkman so they didn't get too much damage at all.  However the Now Then... LP has factory damage that you can hear where I cut it out but those were songs on my All The Best CD so you can substitute them and delete the other few songs if you want. After Led Zeppelin, this is the first band I strived to collect all their releases and sold off or traded a few like the Live Loud 2LP or Hanx or whatever thinking tapes were O.K.  I first heard them in junior high school when a friend made me a tape with the single version of  'Gotta Gettaway' and Minor Threat's 'It Follows' tricking me and telling me the new thing was punk with bands who yodeled!  Well he didn't need to sell me any further as these songs comforted me growing up and make up my being to such an extent that when I put on Nobody's Heroes and really started hearing those new frequencies I was missing in the past due to cheap equipment, for some reason I started crying?!!?  Some buried pain from loveless parents I guess.  I converted my roommate in college to this band as my friend did to me before and he bought all these CD's.  Coincidentally my older sister's old favorite local band and one that was big on my old youtube channel has their 40th Anniversary show in a few days--the Flamin' Oh's Hooray!!!

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The Scene Is Now - Total Jive LP 86

I am definitely liking this one after grooving on Always August lately and hey they got a song for me, 'Engineer'.  Part of the wave of bands that Meat Puppets (recently honored in their native AZ along with Nils Lofgren) influenced when they turned 'country--humming w intricate radical guitar'.
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NEVER BLUE - Freak City EP 85

This is fave this week of the new-to-me stuff, just wish they had made more! 
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OUT OF MY BRAINS - ILZE EP 86 Bang Zoom

Kind of looks like Gwyneth Paltrow on the cover LOL but this is some great tribal kind of drumming sound with female singer and not bad at all.  Biggest surprise is that this is on BANG ZOOM who I thought only made those classic tape/band interview/zine tapes out of NYC.  I think I need to look at what other vinyl they made and we are still looking for more of those zine tapes so send rip if ya got!
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VA - Music From FREE CREEK 2LP 73

This was like a festival I'm guessing as I read a little of it saying the artists all improvised songs on the spot with some covers and some originals.  I saw young Linda Rondstadt was on it and since I posted her early Stone Poneys it got me on the way back machine to this release and it IS out there!
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VELVASCURGE - Human Element EP 85

Synthy goth type stuff.
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DIRE STRAITS - st LP 78 w Communique LP 79 w Making Movies LP 80 w Love Over Gold LP 82 w Brothers In Arms LP 85

Their debut st LP is considered one of the best in rock 'n' roll as they really were in 'dire straits' and had leveraged their credit to the max.  I post this now and sell this stuff off as it is outside the scope of the blog because I remember 'Skateaway' was the AOR radio hit song going when I completely switched off all mass produced rock 'n' roll and found Stiff Little Fingers! (see above) ha ha
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NINA SCOTT - Don't Follow Me LP 83 Colonna Sonora Del Film Invito Alviaggio

REPOST:  Decided to repeat a mini-theme from a couple of weeks ago with 1994 and Cherry Bombz of female rockers!  I think Nina deserves to be up front.  Enjoy!
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Headpins - Turn It Loud LP 82 w Line Of Fire LP 83 w Head Over Heals LP 85

REPOST Request:  Thanks to Angstytimelord for the request as she got me continuing the 'female rocker' mini-theme from a few weeks ago.  Cool!
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Ruggedy Annes - Jagged Thoughts EP 84

REPOST:  Part of the mini reposted theme of female fronted rock n' roller/ punk rockers!
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Shakin' Street - st LP 80

REPOST:  Part of my selection for repost of the rock'n female vocalists mini-theme.  Also 2 weeks ago I mentioned a slew of talented bands like 1994, Cherry Bombz, etc.
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SPIDER (AKA SHANGHAI) - st LP 80 w Between The Lines LP 81 w Shanghai - st LP 82 w X-Ray Vision EP 82

REPOST:  Part of the 'female rocker repost' mini-theme thanks to Angstytimelord!
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Linda Lewis - Fathoms Deep LP 73 w Lark LP 73 w Heart Strings LP 74 w Not A Little Girl Anymore LP 75

REPOST:  O.K. this one not quite leather rock 'n' roller but dang do these songs rock in their own way.  Had the high falsetto waaaay before Mariia Karey (sp??)
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FOXY - Get Off LP 78 w Hot Numbers LP 79 w Party Boys! LP 79 w LIVE FOXY LP 80

Five guys from Cuba who left after Castro took power.  Special mid-week rip here as I had to hear this after someone posted a video of their hit song 'Get Off' yesterday--finally describing this band who I had blindly collected and their intricate complex songs blew me away!
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THE LOCAL BOYS - Moments Of Madness LP 83

REPOST Request:  I think with the number of upload requests, this one has become a classic!
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The Squirrels - What Gives LP 90

Thanks to Jungle Jim for sending me the link to this file!
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Bongos & The Groovies - Something Good LP

REPOST:  I was wanting to hear this again one of my favorite African groups next to Fela Kuti.
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ZZZANG TUMB - st LP 83

REPOST Request:  Even though I don't understand the words, I like this release as it kept my neighbors dog calm...LOL I will also add on this repost that this is definitely the last file in my hardrive so easy to find!
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