LOLAS - ELECTRIC CANDLELIGHTS (2015)

 (Odds & Sods)

 As a request, a lossless re-up of this "unofficial" Lolas anthology brought to you by PPC

LINK (509 mb)

Original post 09.09.2015: here

 

Now i'd like to say this is not really "funny" to see some of the PPC compilations (specially this one) or even some vinyl rips (Crash Street Kids) sold on an "offer" site.

STRANGE THINGS ARE HAPPENING Vol 1 Number 2 (May-June 1988)

Second issue of this splendid (but short-lived) British magazine. Only 7 issues were printed between March 1988 and Spring 1990.

 

Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Country Rock, Alan Moore, Giant Sand, The Shamen, Smoke, Silver Surfer, Wire and of course Krazy Kat are featured in this excellent issue.

 

Here's Volume 1, Issue 2 (52 pages) printed in PDF, the bookmarks have been added for direct access to the articles featured.

JON BRION - MEANINGLESS (2000)

First and so far only solo album from ex-Grays member. The album was self-released and didn't take off, so this might be the reason why getting a physical copy is not exactly easy (or cheap). A lost gem desperately in need of a CD reissue.

Lossy: ZS (118mb)

Lossless: ZS1 + ZS2 (305mb)

Songs

Gotta Start Somewhere / I Believe She's Lying / Meaningless / Ruin My Day / Walking Through Walls / Trouble / Hook, Line And Sinker / Dead To The World / Her Ghost / Same Mistakes / Voices

STRANGE THINGS ARE HAPPENING Vol 1 Number 1 (March 1988)

First issue of this splendid (but short-lived) British magazine. Only 7 issues were printed between March 1988 and Spring 1990.

The Kinks, Syd Barrett, Robyn Hitchcock, The Dukes of Stratosphear and more are featured in this wonderful issue.

Here's Volume 1, Issue 1 (52 pages) printed in PDF, the bookmarks have been added for direct access to the articles featured.

VARIOUS - SUMMER TAKES IT ALL (2017)

One more year, one more Summer compilation brought to you by PPC

 

Again, this sunny collection is available
in lossy and lossless formats

with the usual PPC set of artwork

 

Summer 2017

320 lame 3.99 (198 mb): here

FLAC 8 (563 mb): 1 - 2 -3

 

Click on pix for the details of the bands involved

All the previous PPC summer compilations

are still available (320 mp3)

you can visit the pages linked

2009 Summer Songs (details here): 1 + 2

2010 Summer Songs Vol. 2 (details here): 1

2011 Back To The Summer Of... (details here): 1

2012 Hooks On The Beach (details here): 1

2013 In Search For The Perfect Hook (details here): 1

2014 Summer PowerPop Man! (details here): 1

2015 Lonely Summer (details here): 1

 2016 Summer Party! (details here): 1

 

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.

Lossless: ZS1 + ZS2 (338 mb)

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)

Lossless: ZS1 + ZS2 (267mb)

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.

Lossy: ZS

Lossless: ZS1 + ZS2
 
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

Lossless: ZS (42 mb)

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)

Lossless: ZS (40mb)

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

 

Lossless: ZS1 + ZS2  (290 mb)

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)