Elvis Costello - 12 Stiff EP 77 w DZ EP 85 w Live Toronto LP 78 w Pump It Up 7 78 w The Very Best Of CD 94 w Armed Forces CD Bonus 79 93 w Blood And Chocolate CD

REPOST Request and ADD ON:  I still remember staying up late watching Saturday Night Live on the small kitchen TV and seeing him do 'Pump It Up'.  It was 1979 and I already had recorded Gary Numan's 'In Cars' on a box tape player held up to a multiband radio--listening to it a million times and then seeing Elvis solidified my migration from AOR radio with this song I also fetished on incessantly!  Got his first EP from Longy over at his defunct blog in U.K. and I cleaned out the pops expertly with no ill effects (at least not like the start of a couple ELO albums below that were thrashed) so do enjoy!  (P.S. had the car in the shop this week so posts were delayed by a few days).  Thanks also to Isksp defunct blog for the Armed Forces CD at variable bit rate with bonus tracks.  I actually have a copy of that album in 24 bit high resolution copy but it is a very large file with no bonus tracks.  If you NEED it I can bring in and add link in comments.

https://gofile.io/d/eI4paT

Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado LP 74 w A New World Record LP 76 w Ole ELO LP 76 w Out Of The Blue 2LP 77 w Discovery LP 79 wFirst Move (Best of the Move) 2LP 73 w st LP 70 w The Greatest Hits Vol. 1 LP 70 w Split Ends LP 72 w Shazam! + Something Else Live CD

 Thanks to Antonio from Rocket Star Records for letting me rip and return Eldorado LP and for being a good record store owner who knows his ELO enough to suggest what to rip.  Thus I have all the 'hit' tunes my older sister used to play in her room such as an old favorite, 'Sweet Talkin' Woman' and many more.  Also with the Move's 'Split Ends' transitioning the band into ELO, I decided to lump in all the previous Move stuff as a link in this post as it is too hard to search for such a generic word.  High pitched goodness for a guy like me who likes high pitches singin'!  Forgot to mention in our old MN scene we had an ELO cover band called EL-No! also a band with Kosta that covered Sade tunes called Solid Gold.  Quite a cool scene revolving around Radio K.

ELO;  https://gofile.io/d/jRHgTV

The MOVE:  https://gofile.io/d/Eqhzld

TIM THORNEY - THORNEY'S LATEST ALBUM LP 77

 Thank you thank you CLASSICMUSIC20 for this request to buy as you have fine taste in music!

https://gofile.io/d/PSMME4

ATLANTIS - 7's 86 87

Found an old search post it note for my wallet where someone had requested these two back in the Oughts and they were worth it but no more from this band.  I had posted another Atlantis album from a different band that I really liked too and they do have more so we'll see.  Per the older Eastern horoscope I am from the Age of Atlantis. can't you tell...LOL

https://gofile.io/d/mFbJyi

DEPARTMENT S - Going Left To Right - EP 81

 Wow, kick ass punk title track will really get you going!!        https://gofile.io/d/M7asIA

Steppenwolf - st LP 68 w At Your Birthday Party LP 68 w For Ladies Only LP 71

So lucky to have a good copy of the first album appear before me in such killer shape where you can really crank up the fuzzy guitar!!  Still missing many albums such as the second with 'Magic Carpet Ride' but that song has been played so much on AOR radio that I really couldn't care less.  These three albums are all very good and give good background to the John Kay stuff I had posted from this L.A. band.  Enjoy!!            https://gofile.io/d/zvOPpp
 

DAVID BLUE - st LP 66 w These 23 Days In September LP 68 w Nice Baby And The Angel LP 73 w Com'n Back For More LP 75

REPOST and ADD ON:  YES!!  Found the 73 album with his awesome hit tune 'Outlaw Man' that Bob Dylan liked and was big in their NY Folk Scene.  Next week is Bob's 80th Birthday so you will see some of his material next week in my special post.    https://gofile.io/d/Ussjvm

LESLEY GORE - GIRL TALK 2LP

 Well, heck!  Wiki doesn't know when this was release and neither do I but it IS A DOUBLE album!

https://gofile.io/d/5FXaoP

THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND - A NEW LIFE LP 74 w Carolina Dreams LP 77

REPOST Request:  Well shucks, I just missed them playing last weekend but will try to catch them again.  Added the gatefold with some kick ass Southern Rock!     https://gofile.io/d/9NMn02

FM - Head Room LP direct to disc 77 w Black Noise 78 LP w Surveillance LP 79 w City of Fear 80 LP w No Contest LP 85

 REPOST Request:  Here it is, the band that launched Nash the Slash to a solo career.

https://gofile.io/d/sTjvkX

THE LOCAL BOYS - Moments Of Madness LP 83

REPOST Request:  A classic around here at the blog!  

https://gofile.io/d/tl0gnK

MARTHA AND THE MUFFINS - Metro Music LP 79 w Trance And Dance LP 80 w Saigon 7 80 w This Is The Ice Age LP 81 w DANSEPARC LP 82 w Mystery Walk LP 84

REPOST Request:  There were actually two Marthas in this band at one point.  Search for solo works.

https://gofile.io/d/08fPEG

URBAN VERBS - st LP 80 w Early Damage LP 81

REPOST Request:  I am going to borrow the comment to describe this band:  The Urban Verbs were from DC. They practiced in what later became the original location of the 930 Club. Roddy Frantz, the front man, was the brother of Talking Head's Chris Frantz. These guys were always a bit too art for me at the time (I was immersed in DC's Hardcore scene during those days). I bought the first album at Record & Tape, played it once and shelved it.  Later in the 80s I dusted off and it has remained a favorite since then.        https://gofile.io/d/89eqJ7                                    

Dumptruck - d is for Dumptruck LP 83 w Positively Dumptruck LP 86 w for the country LP 87

REPOST Request:  Search in the upper left box for more from compilations, etc.

https://gofile.io/d/k25pDJ

T.S.O.L. needs your help to fund their film

 Hey guys, special post here.  My buddy Jack Grisham from T.S.O.L. (True Sounds Of Liberty) is seeking contributors for the film he made with all the original members and how they roll...it is NOT a documentary as he says in the clip here:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ignoreheroes/ignore-heroes

and is called 'Ignore Heroes'.  Getting near their goal and if you donate $200 you get your name in the credits AND in a book regarding the film that you get.  If you've enjoyed my posts of the band in the past this is a great way to work with them.  Cheers!   Viacom

BLUES BROTHERS - Briefcase Full Of Blues LP 78 w Made In America LP 80 w OST tape 80

Thanks for the request on this one as I had only heard the 'Briefcase' album long ago in my sisters' room in our old playroom downstairs so it was an old favorite I had forgotten about and now really sounded good in my car on the way to work today.  A lot of their cover tunes are in my collection from years later not remembering I had heard them first on TV from the BLUES BROTHERS...MISSION ACCOMPLISHED Jake and Elwood, love you guys for keeping it alive and yes in 2006 instead of back of the record store section, I was buying had seen more than a few times R.L. Burnside and his crew at First Ave. after his hit tune lasted most of the year on Radio K...I will post him soon...and how about old Lightning' Hopkins and Professor Longhair or Robert Johnson for that matter.

https://gofile.io/d/UAnMuB