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mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 04 Jan 22 9.54am

Leitstrahl - Chromium Dioxide

01. Telemark
02. Chevrolee
03. Orbit Anthem
04. Europa Supersaw
05. Albatross
06. Long Lines
07. Girotti
08. Kyoto Protocol
09. Swift Creek
10. White Tail
11. Sierra
12. Daylight Comet

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mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 05 Jan 22 10.54am

Deerhoof - Actually, You Can

1. Be Unbarred, O Ye Gates of Hell
2. Department of Corrections
3. We Grew, and We Are Astonished
4. Scarcity Is Manufactured
5. Ancient Mysteries, Described
6. Plant Thief
7. Our Philosophy Is Fiction
8. Epic Love Poem
9. Divine Comedy

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mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 06 Jan 22 10.53am

This got a great review in The Week magazine. Marks out of 10..

Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend

01. The Beach
02. Delicious Things
03. Lipstick On The Glass
04. Smile
05. Safe From Heartbreak (if you never fall in love)
06. How Can I Make It OK
07. Play The Greatest Hits
08. Feeling Myself
09. The Last Man on Earth
10. No Hard Feelings
11. The Beach II

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mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 07 Jan 22 10.18am

Pop Evil - Versatile

01. Let The Chaos Reign
02. Set Me Free
03. Breathe Again
04. Work
05. Inferno
06. Stronger (The Time Is Now)
07. Raise Your Flag
08. Human Nature
09. Survivor
10. Worst In Me
11. Same Blood
12. Fire Inside

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mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 07 Jan 22 1.55pm

Still Wish You Were Here: A Tribute to Pink Floyd adds Crayola-colored emotion into the distant spaces that were obvious in the original conceptual construct of a classic album.

Case in point: The opening of “Shine on You Crazy Diamond,” in contrast to the slow pulse of original, dances with Mel Collins’ flute work that recalls the beauty on King Crimson’s “Lady of the Dancing Water” or “Formentera Lady.” He also adds additional warmth with his saxophone grace and ups the jazz buzz of the Pink Floyd original. Two minutes on, the distinctive David Gilmour guitar enters – here provided by Steve Hackett(!) – while that flute continues to haunt this song. Geoff Tate provides the vocals; Billy Sheehan is on bass; Geoff Downes hovers and pulsates with keyboards, and Ian Paice (of Deep Purple fame) is in the engine room. Let’s just say this is 13 minutes of sonic-prog ecstasy that certainly deserves the title of really great “Jugband Blues” because, as “crazy diamond” Syd Barrett once sang: “It’s awfully considerate of you to think of me here.”

“Welcome to the Machine” continues to up the dramatic heartbeat, with the talents of newly minted Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Todd Rundgren, Rick Wakeman, and Tony Levin. Look, I love the original Wish You Were Here album, and have often cited it as my favorite by Pink Floyd, but these guys shift to a sudden prog rock Land of Oz colorization. Perhaps, despite all these superstars, after all these years, the isolation of these songs has finally found some sort of reconciliation.

Now, “and I mean this most sincerely,” how does any band follow the bread-crumb trail of multi-platinum supernova success of Dark Side of the Moon? But, you know, I recently found a Jethro Tull Adult Activity Book by Kelly Grant for sale on line. Indeed! Jethro Tull has always been about “adult activity” what with “Cross-eyed Mary” and the “fly button, feel” of “Baker Street Muse,” and of course (though I blush to mention this) 14-year-old Julia Fealey, Gerald “Little Milton” Bostock’s “chum with who he writes poems.”

Well, Pink Floyd penciled in a rough Wish You Were Here sketch of isolation, madness, deceit, and cynicism – all gift wrapped with a Roy Harper guest vocal and a blue wrapper that camouflaged the actual cover as it rested in the record store new-releases rack. Heck, even the guitar into to the title tune was phoned in like a postcard from some distant thought. And Still Wish You Were Here covers that original classic sketch with prismatic Hipgnosis album-cover light.

Just so you know, in his brilliant book A New Day Yesterday, Mike Barnes writes about Wish You Were Here, “it’s a more open record than the dark inner landscapes of Dark Side of the Moon. But in the mixed bag of reviews it prompted, many pointed out the fact that excitement levels were low.” And, of the final recapitulation of the epic “Shine on You Crazy Diamond,” he adds: “All sense of dynamics had been bled out of the group by their obsessive tidiness.” Ouch!

It’s just an idea, but I really love the album because it somehow deflated the cosmic big bang of Dark Side into a tough kernel of latent rock ‘n’ roll frustration that perhaps is always looking (with way too much money on the line!) for a safety pin or two to jab into the “machine” — a “machine” that will always tell “you what to dream.” Ouch (because of that safety pin!) again!

But, of course, there’s the sublime “Have a Cigar.” Yeah, I’ll always love Roy Harper’s anything. And his guest vocal certainly fits with the absentee theme of the record. But James La Brie, Steve Stevens, Patrick Moraz, Rat Scabies, and bass guitar guru Jah Wobble push the tune into a rather nice “interstellar overdrive.”

You know, this whole tribute album is laced with the irony of Pink Floyd’s The Wall fake band of Andy Bown, Snowy White, Andy Roberts, Willie Wilson, and Peter Woods who played pretend personas to prove the whole symbolic rock ‘n’ roll disconnect between reality and audience ignorance. Perhaps this particular record was made for someone else to play. But, thankfully, all that irony and artistic fol-de-rol aside, Still Wish You Were Here: A Tribute to Pink Floyd stands on its own musical (and quite melodic!) importance.

Sometimes, it’s important to simply connect a few dots, (to see, perhaps, exactly whom Thick as a Brick’s “Fluffy the duck talking to this week”; then chalk it all up to weird circumstance, sing “it’s high time Cymbaline,” and then leave it at that! And, by the way, those Jethro Tull coloring books bring hope for old prog guys, who in our confined senility may well get to spend our time putting color to Ian Anderson’s Minstrel in the Gallery bejeweled cod piece – in certain preference to, say, listening to the Accordion Lady while learning the art of crocheting pot holders at the local senior center.

That said, the title tune, “Wish You Were Here,” still in keeping with the long-distance ethos, gets phoned in – but what a party line it is, with Carmine Appice on drums, Joe Satriani on sinewy guitar, Rik Emmet on vocals, David Ellefson on bass, and (holy cow!) Tangerine Dreamer Edgar Froese on keyboards and electronics! Again, this glance at the classic tune (with its profound lyric!) ups the colorful drama. And, yeah, Satriani’s guitar work, once again, plugs into that “interstellar overdrive.”

And then it’s Bootsy Collins’ funky bass that drives the reprised “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” and proves Einstein’s theory that heavy gravity (with the aid of Ian Paice’s percussion!) can indeed bend spacetime. Not only that, but Rod Argent’s keyboards and Steve Hillage’s “octave doctoring” guitar manage to warp the original into a courtly space dance ritual. Oh, “by the way,” Syd Barrett is the much needed response to the question, “which one’s pink?”

Sometimes, these tribute albums don’t work and end up as disparate songs sung by solo performers. Perhaps, Pink Floyd’s original is something like that, yet it valiantly (with great sonic purpose!) grasps at Roger Waters’ Atom Heart Mother lyric: “If I were a good man, I’d understand the spaces between friends.”

And, where the original LP suffers fame brilliantly, Still Wish You Were Here colors in those sketched spaces with vibrant musical hues of “Arnold Lane” and his love for “clothes” on a “moonshine washing line.” Ultimately, this tribute, like Floyd’s own thank you, just thinks of that “crazy diamond” Syd, who once upon a time long ago simply sang: “It’s awfully considerate of you to think of me, here.” And then he added, “And the sea isn’t green and I love the queen, and what exactly is the dream? And what exactly is a joke?”

Still Wish You Were Here: A Tribute to Pink Floyd loves that dream, and it laughs at that joke. So, indeed, “set the controls for the heart of the sun” – because this is a lovely listen.

Various - Still Wish You Were Here

1. Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5)
2. Welcome to the Machine
3. Have a Cigar
4. Wish You Were Here
5. Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9)

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mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 07 Jan 22 2.21pm

Various - I Think I'm Going Weird

All Along The Watchtower (Mono)
Another Vincent Van Gogh (Demo)
Apple - Buffalo Billycan (Mono Single Version)
Barclay James Harvest - Mr. Sunshine (Film Version)
Blossom Toes - What On Earth (Single Mix)
Canto - Come Over Stranger
Circus - Yes Is A Pleasant Country
Dantalian's Chariot - World War Three
Family - See Through Windows
Felius Andromeda - Cheadle Heath Delusions
Fire - Boys And Girls Together
Genesis - Image Blown Out (Rough Mix, 196
Grapefruit - Elevator
Green
J.P. Sunshine - Hey Girl
Jabberwock
Jason Crest - Charge Of The Light Brigade
John Bryant - I Bring The Sun
John's Children - Sara, Crazy Child (Extended German Single Version)
Life Does Not Seem What It Seems
Louise - Toymaker's Shop
Mandrake Paddle Steamer - Pandemonium Shadow Show
Mike Stuart Span - World In My Head
Mother's Magazine
Octopus - In The Park
One In A Million - Fredereek Hernando
Phantom Eye
Plastic Aeroplane
Plastic Daffodils
Plastic Penny - Mrs. Grundy (Mono)
Rainbow Ffolly - Sun Sing (Early Force Four Demo)
Ron Geesin - Psychedelia
Rust - Please Return
Sands - Mrs Gillespie's Refrigerator
Scene Of The Lemon Queen
Sleepy - Rosie Can't Fly
Smile At The Sad Sun
Strawbs - Tell Me What You See In Me (Alternative Version)
Tales Of Justine - Sitting On A Blunestone
Tales Of The Brave Ulysses
The Action - Brain
The Blue Man Runs Away
The Deviants - Bun
The Hi-Fi's - You're Haunting Me
The Human Instinct - Death Of The Seaside
The Mirage - Is Anybody Home
The Misunderstood - Children Of The Sun (IBC Acetate 1)
The Moody Blues - How Can We Hang On To A Dream_
The Motives - I Can Hear Colours
The Picadilly Line - I Know, She Believes
The Shame - Don't Go 'Way Little Girl (Single Mix)
The Sorrows - Which Way
The Spencer Davis Group - Taking Out Time
The Syn - Flowerman (Demo Version, Marquee Studios)
Third Ear Band - Cosmic Trip
Tintern Abbey - My Prayer (Early Version)
Turquoise - Flying Machine
Venusian Moonshine (Live At Middle Earth)
Waterways (Demo Version)
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Forest Hillbilly Flag in a hidey-hole 08 Jan 22 5.49am

The Struts

You kindly re-posted their album Strange Days.

Any chance of either of the other two ? Everybody Wants, or Young and dangerous ?

 


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mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 08 Jan 22 10.43am

Blossom Toes - We Are Ever So Clean

01. Look at Me I'm You
02. I'll Be Late for Tea
03. The Remarkable Saga of the Frozen Dog
04. Telegram Tuesday
05. Love Is
06. What's It For
07. People of the Royal Parks
08. What on Earth
09. Mrs. Murphy's Budgerigar
10. I Will Bring You This and That
11. Mister Watchmaker
12. When the Alarm Clock Rings
13. The Intrepid Balloonist's Handbook, Volume One
14. You
15. Track for Speedy Freaks (or Instant LP Digest)

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mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 09 Jan 22 10.28am

Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly

The Struts

You kindly re-posted their album Strange Days.

Any chance of either of the other two ? Everybody Wants, or Young and dangerous ?

The Struts - Everybody Wants

01. Roll Up
02. Could Have Been Me
03. Kiss This
04. Put Your Money On Me
05. Mary Go Round
06. Dirty Sexy Money
07. The Ol' Switcheroo
08. She Makes Me Feel Like
09. Young Stars
10. Black Swan
11. These Times Are Changing
12. Only Just A Call Away
13. Where Did She Go

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Forest Hillbilly Flag in a hidey-hole 09 Jan 22 11.12am

The Struts,....much appreciated

 


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Deleagle Flag "Bubba's bar 'n' grill" 09 Jan 22 2.28pm

Afternoon mr. a.

With the Struts being dropped on here for Ali has reminded me to ask for:-

The Snuts - W.L. (Live from Stirling Castle)

if you please

 


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When I touch it it gives forth a sound.



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mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 10 Jan 22 12.14pm

Originally posted by Deleagle

Afternoon mr. a.

With the Struts being dropped on here for Ali has reminded me to ask for:-

The Snuts - W.L. (Live from Stirling Castle)

if you please

The Snuts - W.L

01. Top Deck
02. Always
03. Juan Belmonte
04. All Your Friends
05. Somebody Loves You
06. Glasgow
07. No Place I'd Rather Go
08. Boardwalk
09. Maybe California
10. Don't Forget It (Punk)
11. Coffee and Cigarettes
12. Elephants
13. Sing For Your Supper
14. Blur Beat
15. 4 Baillie Street
16. Microwave
17. Waterbirds

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Deleagle Flag "Bubba's bar 'n' grill" 10 Jan 22 6.34pm

Originally posted by mr. apollo

The Snuts - W.L

N 1 N

Edited by Deleagle (10 Jan 2022 6.34pm)

 


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mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 11 Jan 22 9.40am

The Dropouts - The Dropouts

1. He Said She Said
2. Likes of Me
3. Us Against the World
4. Live for the Moment
5. Wouldn't Know Me
6. Battle
7. Every Dog

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mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 13 Jan 22 8.44am

Cosmic Rough Riders - Too Close To See Far

01. Justify The Rain
02. For A Smile
03. Because You
04. There's Nothing Wrong
05. Life In Wartime
06. Sunrise
07. Tomorrow May Never Come
08. She's Never Around
09. Kill The Time
10. Blind
11. The Need To Fly
12. Now That You Know
13. Stupid You
14. Smile

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mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 13 Jan 22 10.32am

RIP Ronnie , watch this space for Ronnettes...

Ronnie Spector - English Heart

01. Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby)
02. Because
03. I'd Much Rather Be With The Girls
04. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
05. Tired Of Waiting
06. Tell Her No
07. I'll Follow The Sun
08. You've Got Your Troubles
09. Girl Don't Come
10. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
11. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart

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mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 13 Jan 22 10.45am

Here's some Ronettes plus a lot more...

Various Artists - Phil Spector, Back to Mono

CD11 - Teddy Bears - To Know Him Is to Love Him
CD12 - Ray Peterson - Corrine, Corrina
CD13 - Ben E. King - Spanish Harlem
CD14 - Curtis Lee - Pretty Little Angel Eyes
CD15 - Gene Pitney - Every Breath I Take
CD16 - The Paris Sisters - I Love How You Love Me
CD17 - Curtis Lee - Under the Moon of Love
CD18 - The Crystals - There's No Other (Like My Baby)
CD19 - The Crystals - Uptown
CD110 - The Crystals - He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)
CD111 - The Crystals - He's a Rebel
CD112 - Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
CD113 - Alley Cats - Puddin' N' Tain
CD114 - The Crystals - He's Sure the Boy I Love
CD115 - Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans - Why Do Lovers Break Each Others Hearts
CD116 - Darlene Love - (Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry
CD117 - The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron
CD118 - The Crystals - Heartbreaker
CD119 - Veronica - Why Don't They Let Us Fall in Love
CD120 - Darlene Love - Chapel of Love
CD121 - Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans - Not Too Young to Get Married
CD122 - Darlene Love - Wait 'Til My Bobby Gets Home
CD123 - Crystals - All Grown Up

CD21 - The Ronettes - Be My Baby
CD22 - The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me
CD23 - Darlene Love - A Fine, Fine Boy
CD24 - The Ronettes - Baby I Love You
CD25 - The Ronettes - I Wonder
CD26 - The Crystals - Girls Can Tell
CD27 - The Crystals - Little Boy
CD28 - The Treasures - Hold Me Tight
CD29 - The Ronettes - (The Best Part of) Breakin' Up
CD210 - The Ronettes - Soldier Baby (Of Mine)
CD211 - Darlene Love - Strange Love
CD212 - Darlene Love - Stumble and Fall
CD213 - The Ronettes - When I Saw You
CD214 - Veronica - So Young
CD215 - The Ronettes - Do I Love You-
CD216 - The Ronettes - Keep on Dancing
CD217 - The Ronettes - You Baby
CD218 - The Ronettes - Woman in Love (With You)
CD219 - The Ronettes - Walking in the Rain

CD31 - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
CD32 - The Ronettes - Born to Be Together
CD33 - The Righteous Brothers - Just Once in My Life
CD34 - The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
CD35 - The Ronettes - Is This What I Get for Loving You-
CD36 - Darlene Love - Long Way to Be Happy
CD37 - (I Love You) For Sentimental
CD38 - The Righteous Brothers - Ebb Tide
CD39 - Modern Folk Quartet - This Could Be the Night
CD310 - The Ronettes - Paradise
CD311 - Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep, Mountain High
CD312 - Ike & Tina Turner - I'll Never Need More Than This
CD313 -Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocki
CD314 - Ike & Tina Turner - Save the Last Dance for Me
CD315 - The Ronettes - I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine
CD316 - The Ronettes - You Came, You Saw, You Conquered
CD317 - Sonny Charles & The Checkmates, Ltd. - Black Pearl
CD318 - The Checkmates - Love Is All I Have to Give

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mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 14 Jan 22 10.07am

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Barn

01. Song Of The Seasons
02. Heading West
03. Change Ain't Never Gonna
04. Canerican
05. Shape Of You
06. They Might Be Lost
07. Human Race
08. Tumblin' Thru The Years
09. Welcome Back
10. Don't Forget Love

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kayjaybee Flag orpington 14 Jan 22 1.05pm

Hi Mr A, hope all is well with you and yours. Might be obscure but was hoping that Avalanche by Imar is available anywhere,as always no problem if not but thanks anyway kjb

 

Deleagle Flag "Bubba's bar 'n' grill" 14 Jan 22 1.46pm

Afternoon mr. A.

Alex Lifeson has moved on to a new project since the end of Rush.

He's a new group called 'Envy of None' who are releasing a self titled album in April so if it turns up in the meantime I'd be grateful

 


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