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Genesis / Peter Gabriel |
From Genesis to Revelation was the initial Decca album, with a
Jonathan King as producer I think. It STILL sounds good over
30 years on! The band moved to Charisma in 1970, and the first two
singles (The Knife and Happy the Man) are rated at a mere £300.00
in picture sleeves! |
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Genesis
initially produced tracks of a similar dimension to fellow bands, but
soon wrote longer ones so that 3 to an LP side became more likely.
This culminated in the epic so called "concept album"
"The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" which is virtually a rock
opera or suite. lyrics such as "hovering like a fly, waiting for
the windshield on the freeway", or the "Carpet
Crawlers" are typical. Out of the ordinary indeed! |
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Germany |
Clear Vinyl album "Faust" |
Faust |
They are currently touring the UK, |
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The band date
from the 1970s as experimentalists, breaking up in '74 but reunited
in the late 80's. Oddly they sold better here than in Germany, on
Polydor and Virgin. Polydor backed them with both a contract and
studio equipment, without even hearing a note! Eventually though the
deal failed and Virgin stepped in, with an almost free album,
"The Faust Tapes" at 48p! All 100,000 copies sold out! For
more, see Record Collector Nov.2000 page 54. www.recordcollectormag.com |
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Ireland |
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U2 |
Long established band, with a string of hits. They have begun 2000
with yet another strong album success. |
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Comeback |
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UK |
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Van Der Graaf Generator / Peter Hamill. |
Like Genesis they were on the Charisma label and were a
"progressive" band. "The Least We Can Do"
includes single "Refugees" the really angry track "Killer"
which still impresses is on H to He. They had a wider instrumental
makeup than usual at the time, including Saxophones and flute. |
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Just Dug out
"H to He Who Am The Only One". "Killer" still
excels. This is 30, yes Thirty years on too. All done on an 8 track
as well. Well worth looking it up! |
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UK |
Suntreader a very interesting album. Details to follow.
Recorded at Marquee Studios, London, February 1973. |
Zin Zin |
A budget release on Island records. Not sure if they did any others.
Morris Pert percussion, Peter Robinson Piano and Alyn Ross Bass. |
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Track 2 side 2 |
"From The
Region Of Capricorn". Now available here as a 320kbs MP3.
*'...there is a strong source of radio signals in the region of
the constellation Capricorn which have a wholly unexplainable
regularity in their pulse and pattern. No visible object coincides
with their source-point.` 'Sky Probe` Report. Aug.'72. This is
the starting point for one of the tracks. |
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Scottish band. |
Whiteout.
Kickout (1998)
Heaven Sent
Selling Up
Through All The Rain
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I Don't Wanna Hear About It
Running For Cover
Out On The Town
Take It With Ease
Get Back Whatcha Give
Back Where I Used To Be |
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From Greenock, originally on the Silvertone label and tipped as the
"Next Big Thing" some time ago. So far they have not been!
The album illustrated is on the YOYO label YOLP 01 based in Greenock.
I suspect it is an own label effort, as goes for the recent singles. |
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Scottish band with a punk related style - at least they were originally. |
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Idlewild
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Roddy Woomble is a great character and a good writer too. The band
are rather underrated in my opinion. They could give Green Day a good
run! Sleeves "Troubled Teens" and "Chandelier." |
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In a recent interview for Planet Sound (UK Channel 4 Teletext)
Roddy states he is a huge Patti Smith fan and that her guitarist
Lennie Kay, who he respects very highly is producing the new album,
alongside Stephen Street. Seems the band were influenced by Lennie,
so much so that they restarted the album in the Highlands at
Ichnadamph Lodge! Dave Eringa was the producer, as for 100 Broken
Windows. (interview text available by e. mail). Also now at Yahoo! |
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New Album Out Now! |
The Remote Part is now out. I met the band today at a
"signing" in Manchester. Most impressed! Played the album.
Varied styles hang together very well. There does not seem to be a
single weak track.
Roddy has also had a hand in the artwork, and there is common ground
artistically with the band site, the album and the first two singles.
Incidentally, "American English" has very strong new B
sides. None of that "remix" crap here to pander to the
"dance" crowd! I'm adding comments on all of these on the
new page here on the album itself. |
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Five Thirty |
Very vigorous onstage.I have a compilation video somewhere. |
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UK |
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Airhead (Jefferson Airhead) |
They had to drop "Jefferson" as a result of the US band Jefferson
Airplane. |
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UK |
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Bridewell Taxis |
Included Brass in the lineup.The music was released on a minor label
in Indie style. |
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UK |
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Cast (LA's) |
Recently absent for some reason, but have a number of good singles
and albums. "There She Goes",a track by the LA's was
recently covered by a "girl band" |
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UK? |
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Ben Folds Five |
There has been a lot of comment on Teletext etc. since the split. So
far I have not heard them. An omission I intend to amend. One point.
If theres three of 'em, why Five in the name? |
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Germany? |
German Collective? Not sure who
this band are! |
other link |
Murphlink |
