From: Bomp-Digest-Sender To: bomp-digest@bolis.com Subject: Bomp V96 #98 Reply-To: Bomp@bolis.com Precedence: bulk Bomp Saturday, 21 September 1996 Volume 96 : Number 098 In this issue: Essential garage/psych albums West Coast, etc. (was re: Reissues) Essential garage/psych albums(howzabout...?) Re: Essential garage/psych albums RE: Bomp V96 #96 Re: Essential garage/psych albums Q65 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rhimes@surf.metro.net.au Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 20:03:15 +1000 Subject: Essential garage/psych albums G'day everyone, I'm new to the list and thought I'd say howdy! I'd be interested to hear anyone's opinions/ideas/thoughts on what they consider to be the top ten(or more) essential garage/psych albums that would form the basis of a decent collection of this type of music. Thanks a lot! Tim ------------------------------ From: dcoyle@bright.net (David J. Coyle) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 05:21:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: West Coast, etc. (was re: Reissues) Oakiedog@aol.com said: >Electric Prunes comp with never before heard songs from the original >sessions as well as other amazing surprises. After, I am wanting to do >something with our Fugs catalogue and that of The West Coast Pop Art >Experimental Band. We also have some Link Ray crap from EARLY on >when we were still doing single deals. >It takes time, so bear with me. >.... >David Is this someone at Sundazed? I recently read in Billboard's holiday reissues feature that a West Coast Pop Art Experimental comp was due from Billboard in October. I haven't heard anything more about it except I think ICE magazine said it was pushed back to November or something... That said, what can anyone tell me about this band? Will they be worth checking into if this CD ever comes out? _________________________________________________________________________ || DAVID COYLE // E-Mail: dcoyle@bright.net || || Chillicothe, Ohio // "A touch of the writer's cramp || || "Paranoia Strikes Deep" // will soon sort you out..." || ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: hagar@mindspring.com (Brian Phillips) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 07:23:22 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Essential garage/psych albums(howzabout...?) The Monks - Black Monk Time A consistent and wonderful album which not only features great vocals and wild keyboard work, but rhythm banjo! Wait until the reissue on Onion(?); right now it is a pricey import. The Misunderstood(Cherry Red) - Rarities I do not know whether this album is in print or not. This was an American band that featured Glenn Ross Campbell(no relation to the very talented, but scarring-of-my-memory with the Goodtime Hour Glenn Campbell) who played his guitar like a pedal steel. They mentioned early in their career that they preferred playing "Blues and Weird Stuff"; their latter recordings lean more towards weird stuff, however it is great weird stuff. The Q'65 - Greatest Hits(Decca) A band that was very popular in the Netherlands, lasting well into the 70's. If they had only recorded "I Get Nightmares", I would have listed them here. I only have a tape of this; hopefully someone will reissue this. The Remains(Fanclub) One of Boston's best. They could play well and sing harmony AND write great songs. The album is so good, one wonders if this was a greatest hits collection(it isn't). A minor carp, a mopey version of "My Babe" (buy Little Walter's) and a droopy rendition of "Lonely Weekends"(buy Charlie Rich's and see if you can find the alternate take without the oo-WAH chorus). Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk HIs first album(although he did record earlier for A&M), which features Ry Cooder. Not a bad song to be had on it and rumor has it that you can hear Beefheart(Don Van Vliet) bust the microphone on "Electricity" Is it Psychedelic? I dunno, I guess. Trying to classify his music is both hard and unnecessary. The 13th Floor Elevators - The 13th Floor Elevators One cut on "Nuggets" just won't do, you should hear the album(I don't own any of the others, so I cannot recommend them personally, any thoughts?). Wild sounds from Texas(which had many great bands, so I am told), featuring Roky Erickson. If you must know what that odd noise on most of them tracks is, it is an amplified jug. Tommy Hall sings "dooga-dooga-dooga-do" into it. Mr. Erickson has recently(within the last two years) issued an album( I have not heard it) and he has a Web site dedicated to him, which you should read before you buy any Elevators albums. The first Elevators album features "Reverberation", "Fire Engine" and "You're Gonna Miss Me" There is even a slow ballad, which he sings Various Artists -Pebbles Vol 6, The Roots of Mod(BFD) If you would like to know the beat scene in the UK at the time, this is a wonderful album. This may still be available through Bomp Mail-Order. It has one American track(Bill & Will); it fits in well. By the way, if you do buy this, Erkey Grant(yes, I said Erkey) and the Eerwigs(that too, is not a typo) was a side project of Grant's; he was a popular UK stand-up comedian. This is not garage or strictly Psych, however it is still one of my favorites of this series. Also, Volumes 9 & 10 of this series I enjoy, as well as the "Highs in the Mid-Sixties" LA '65 volume. I have a soft spot for this series, since it was issued near the start of my collecting days. I bought the first 10 and I still enjoy them. Various Artists - Back from the Grave, Volume 4(Crypt) All of the albums in this series have something to recommend on them, make sure you buy them on vinyl, Mr. Warren issues CD's, he just hates them is all and he shaves off tracks. This has "I Know Why" by the Hallmarks, "Night of the Sadist" by Larry and the Blue-Notes, as well as "The Girl Can't Dance" by Bunker Hill, a Little Richard-style record featuring the Wraymen(don't know whether Link Wray was on the record or not). All albums feature photos, and not-for-the-squeamish cover art and liner notes. Various Artists - Nuggets(Original Artyfacts from the Psychedelic Era 1965-1968) Compiled by Lenny Kaye This is a seminal collection of this era of music, which still has a lot to recommend about it. Incidentally, when it was reissued in 1977 on Sire, I could not go to a single collector's record shop without someone saying something about the fact that Lenny Kaye was the former lead guitarist fot the Patti Smith Group (see how that is to fall into?). This was my official introduction to garage/psych, although it does encompass a lot of styles; Psych(the hilarious "It's A-Happening" - Magic Mushrooms), R&B (Farmer John - Premiers) and pseudo-British ("Sugar and Spice" - The Cryan Shames) I apologize if my opinions offend, I apologize to what I left out; if anyone has corrections to the previous, please post. Happy listening and welcome aboard the list! "Her JAW went down to her KNEEheehehehees!" - from "Hot Skillet Mama" by Yochanon and Sun Ra ------------------------------ From: "Andrew Fergus Wilson" Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:46:11 -0000 Subject: Re: Essential garage/psych albums > I'd be interested to hear anyone's opinions/ideas/thoughts on > what they consider to be the top ten(or more) essential > garage/psych albums that would form the basis of a decent > collection of this type of music. > Thanks a lot! > Tim in no order and only for this instant: v/a - pebbles vol.3 vibrasonic - vibrasonic 13th floor elevators - psychedelic sounds of 13th floor elevators - easter everywhere seeds - web of sound sundial - other way out polyphemus - scrapbook of madness v/a - rubble vol.1: the psychedelic snarl pink floyd - piper at the gates v/a - fun with mushrooms now, this is entirely subjective and probably skewed by an english perspective, AND is a mix of 60s/80s/90s stuff, but hey, that's what i'm thinking today andrew a.wilson@derby.ac.uk "walking through heather centre for social research "you gotta watch the weather uni of derby "when you got salt hair" gorky's zygotic mynci ------------------------------ From: Hitomi I Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 18:25:44 +0900 Subject: RE: Bomp V96 #96 >>I said about one more new CD which was performed by themselves! (The sound of >>1965 solid record CDSOL1031) >>This is something strange ,but I think this is a oldest garage stuff >>in Japan. > I didn't know this! Is this any good? I may buy a copy the > next time I'm in Japan (maybe in January). ********************************************************************* Hi Glenn It is much better than formar 4 song CD. As garage stuff,it may be odd and something different. But It has reality of Japanese '65 before Beatles came to Japan. And it is apart from commercialism . It is amazing for me Japan had garage sound before GS era. (GS era started in '66!) It is sold 1500 yen. But I love U.S. garage more. Hitomi * from tokyo * hitomi@kiwi.co.jp ------------------------------ From: Al Caveteen Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 19:31:58 +0200 Subject: Re: Essential garage/psych albums At 20.03 21/09/96 +1000, you wrote: >G'day everyone, > I'm new to the list and thought I'd say howdy! > >I'd be interested to hear anyone's opinions/ideas/thoughts on >what they consider to be the top ten(or more) essential >garage/psych albums that would form the basis of a decent >collection of this type of music. > > >Thanks a lot! > >Tim. In a decent garage & psychedelics collection the following LP's can't miss: The Creeps- "enjoy the.." The Miracle Workers- "Inside out" The Fuzztones-"Lysergic emanations", "Live in Europe" The Gravedigger 5- "All black & hairy" The Prisoners- "Rare & unissued" The Sick Rose- "Faces" Back from the grave vol. 1 & 8 Get primitive (best of pebbles vol.1) Battle of the garage vol 1 & 2. No ?! Al. ------------------------------ From: Hitomi I Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 22:28:21 +0900 Subject: Q65 Hi Brian Duch Phonogram released Complete collection of Q65 as 2CD in'93. 31songs +4bonus truck. MERCURY 514 980-2 I love their You're the Victor,The life I live,I got nightmeres, Sour wine,From above('80s great, Tell Tale Hearts played the number!) Where is the key!! I love Remeins too. Hitomi - ---------- The Q'65 - Greatest Hits(Decca) A band that was very popular in the Netherlands, lasting well into the 70's. If they had only recorded "I Get Nightmares", I would have listed them here. I only have a tape of this; hopefully someone will reissue this. ------------------------------ End of Bomp V96 #98 ******************* You have been reading Bomp-digest. For subscription requests, send a message to majordomo@bolis.com containing "subscribe Bomp-digest" or "unsubscribe Bomp-digest"