What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it?

[The Swyne]

I recently bought Pebbles Volume 11 CD and was surprisingly impressed by the sound quality throughout.

The liners are a bit scary and some of the tracks outlined in the liners for the set don't even show up on the CD. What happened there?

I can remember this release being discussed on the old Forum but I didn't pay much attention. With my memory I would have forgotten by now anyway!

The absolute winner for me is 'Prince Of Dreams' by The Family Tree.



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I remember getting this a few years ago along with one Psychedelic States volume, 'Alabama' I think? I wondered the same thing when I read the booklet. Underrated Pebbles volume if you ask me!

Most of the tracks are decent in my opinion. My favorite being "You" by The Just VI.

"Strange One" by The 4th Street Exit ain't bad either!

 

[The Swyne]

Speaking of the Psychedelic States series. Yesterday I received my copy of "New York Vol. 3" in the mail finally.

So that's what I'll be hearing today!

 

[ian]

godlike.

 

[EXPO67]

godlike.

I think you have forgotten that G45 is a Forum that 'zooms in on '60s garage sounds'.....there's a section elsewhere to post vids... He's a good singer but it doesn't change my opinion that country music is for old blokes and sounds boring...zzzzzz

 

[ian]

I think you have forgotten that G45 is a Forum that 'zooms in on '60s garage sounds'.....there's a section elsewhere to post vids... He's a good singer but it doesn't change my opinion that country music is for old blokes and sounds boring...zzzzzz

i'm french so i don't get it.

 

[EXPO67]

i'm french so i don't get it.

That's no excuse for your bad behaviour ian.

Now you're a naughty boy...get to bed.

 

[Frantic]

I think you have forgotten that G45 is a Forum that 'zooms in on '60s garage sounds'.....there's a section elsewhere to post vids... He's a good singer but it doesn't change my opinion that country music is for old blokes and sounds boring...zzzzzz

whatever!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nJUWFKQ9Xo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Ygm9bvjUE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkNsqdGm0wo&feature=related

are you shittin' me????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsryzCWqrLg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onfce-UNmmE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERW8z8Y6MHk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZbSkCKlrHU&feature=related

 

[EXPO67]

nope...not for me....

 

[Michael W]

 

[Frantic]

cool...but hardly country.

 

[axel]

Browsing through some of the country clips on youtube I came across a bluegrass outfit with two hip looking blondes on banjo and mandoline called the Stone-something Family or so. I just wanted to send it to a friend, but can't remember the name. Can anyone help?

Besides introducing me to a lot of stuff I didn't know, the G45Central sometimes helps me revaluate stuff I didn't think a great deal of.
First example:

I like the sound/mix especially. And of course the tongue-in-cheekness. "Is It My Body?" remains my favourite tune. I'm planning to play it on a 60s garage night next weekend (for a change).

Second example:

My problem with the Stones was that I had most of their early stuff on crappy 80s pressings. It is really astonishing how badly vinyl pressings of Beatles and Stones were done in the 70s/80s.
I got the 2nd Stones album recently. It's a strange pressing on yellow (!) vinyl, but I compared it to one of those crappy pressings in the record shop and it was twice as loud and crisp as the stupid muddy 80s (70s?) pressing. Great!!!
My favourite tune is "Down The Road Apiece" and I will surely play it next Saturday.
Bill Wyman quotes John Lennon saying: "The album's great, but I don't like five-minute numbers." That sure is funny, but John Lennon wasn't always right (as we all know).

 

[axel]

Here they are: The Stoneman Family.
Well, the girls don't look as hip as I remembered (although my friend might think so), but they surely know how to pick. And who might be the group in the background right at the start?

 

[axel]

Any country fan must think I'm a total idiot, but sorry, music history is just too vast. I never heard of Ernest V. Stoneman before, an essential figure in country music as it seems.
(By the way the above clip seems to be taken from Shindig.)

Sorry for the digression...

 

[axel]

Yesterday I listened to the Beau Brummels' second album with great pleasure. It's amazing how they seem to deliberately avoid all catchy-ness and hit potential. Also dropping all beatlesque-ness of the former album.
A strangely uncommercial approach for 1965.
But what it gains is great originality and character. I'd almost call it "deep", a term not often applicable for pop music before 1966. You might think its mood is perfect for rainy days (not because it's on Autumn), but yesterday the sun was shining bright, chilly early autumn breezes only blowing round the edges, ultra-fluffy clouds sailing by. The perfect music for Indian summer maybe? Listening to one song after another I got into a state that can only be described as the definite folk-rock mood, naturally stoned, crows and squirrels being the epitome of cool, out to buy a pair of sunglasses and a suede leather jacket...

 

[reyes]

This T Rex record I bought in Spitalfields art market in London last year, and can't really get enough of, this was the first T-Rex comp out there to give exposure to Marc Bolan late 60's work before his glam years, this record I think it came out in 71, probably I am mistaken. And its dirt cheap too, I got it for 2 pounds.
Tracks i have in constant rotation "Deborah"

And that Axel post about the Rolling Stones made me dig out my Rolling Stones NOW! album.

"There've been so many girls that I've known
I've made so many cry and still I wonder why..."

Weird... never realized that they were two different tracklistings for the uk Decca and the us version on London.

 

[ian]

This band was from Berlin, Germany, and although they mostly issued crap, they were sometimes quite inspired.

Dig those prince Valiant haircuts!

 

[beccabear67]

Yesterday I listened to the Beau Brummels' second album with great pleasure. It's amazing how they seem to deliberately avoid all catchy-ness and hit potential. Also dropping all beatlesque-ness of the former album.
A strangely uncommercial approach for 1965.
But what it gains is great originality and character. I'd almost call it "deep", a term not often applicable for pop music before 1966. You might think its mood is perfect for rainy days (not because it's on Autumn), but yesterday the sun was shining bright, chilly early autumn breezes only blowing round the edges, ultra-fluffy clouds sailing by. The perfect music for Indian summer maybe? Listening to one song after another I got into a state that can only be described as the definite folk-rock mood, naturally stoned, crows and squirrels being the epitome of cool, out to buy a pair of sunglasses and a suede leather jacket...

Definitely still underrated, the criticisms of imitating the Beatles were effecting them I guess. Ron Elliott wrote songs Butch Engle & The Styx recorded around that same time if you don't already have a collection by that group, really kewl sounds! Suede jackets were pretty big among the English r&b groups circa 1965-66, really like the pics of Keiths Richards and Relf in one from then...

 

[13 O'Clock]

Heart So Cold ! - The North Country 60's Scene - Baccus Archives/Dionysus LP - Now playing..............Move It ! - "Wild" Bill Kennedy & The Twiliters.
As the liner notes enthuse and the vinyl proves...........There was mucho rockin' out all over between Elvis going in the Army and the Mop Tops hittin' the charts - it was simply more oriented toward regional locales.

 

[Andreas]

Yesterday I listened to the Beau Brummels' second album with great pleasure. It's amazing how they seem to deliberately avoid all catchy-ness and hit potential. Also dropping all beatlesque-ness of the former album.
A strangely uncommercial approach for 1965.

While this is indeed a really great album, the claim that they deliberately tried to do is speculative to say the least. Unless there is a source that confirms this? I wouldn't call 'Don't Talk To Strangers' anti-commercial, a straight rip-off of the quasi-hit 'Bell of Rhymney'. But agreed, as a pop album it is quite introspective and even melancholic for its time. But so was Beatles For Sale?

 

[Mr.Segment]

I wouldn't call 'Don't Talk To Strangers' anti-commercial,

This song is, for me, one of the greatest songs of the 60s. I never tire of it. Both vocals and songwriting is as damn near perfection anybody ever will get.