Showing posts with label rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rock. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Sweet Smoke - Just a Poke

Sweet Smoke were a 1960's and 70's progressive jazz-rock band. They incorporated many different influences such as jazz, funk and island rhythms. They were originally formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1967, although the band moved to live as a commune in Germany before the decade was out. They have a large underground following even to this day.

Just a Poke
is the first album by the band Sweet Smoke, released in 1970, engineered by Conny Plank.

The song Baby Night is the perfect introduction to the band, displaying their progressive jazz fusion style at the time. The song can be divided into three main sections, the highlights being the instrumental sections.

Track Listings

1. Baby night (16:24)
2. Silly Sally (16:22)

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Video of 'Baby night'

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

The Doors

Infamous show where Morrison allegedly exposed himself.

Track List
1. Back Door Man Five To One
2. Touch Me
3. Love Me Two Times
4. When The Music's Over
5. Wake Up Light My Fire

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Ultra rare footage of these classic bands. The footage is in black & white, and the quality is very good for the rarity of this item. Both performances are from somewhere in Europe, probably Denmark or Germany. This was taken from The Doors one and only European tour. This is a must have item for the collector of these incredibly talented rock bands.

1. Communication Breakdown
2. Dazed And Confused
3. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
4. How Many More Times

Download here

The Doors

Track List
CD 1
01.Roadhouse Blues/Medley
02.Alabama Song/Back Door Man/Five To One
03.When The Music's Over
04.Love Me Two Times
05.Little Red Rooster
06.Money*
07.Rock Me Baby*
8.Who Do You Love*

CD 2
01.Petition The Lord (poem)
02.Light My Fire/Fever/Summertime/St. James Infirmary/Fever/Light My Fire
03.The End
04.Interview (Oswego,NY 1967)

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"This is the complete recorded show, taped in Seattle on Jun 5th, 1970 for radio broadcast. The encore "Wake Up/Light my fire" was not taped. All the previous CD releases of this concert were taken from the edited radioshow, containing two songs from the Doors' Toronto Pop festival '69 appearance and a cut-down-to-a-few-minutes version of "Train Jam". This CD contains, published for the first time, the unedited tapes."

Track List
01 - Hitler (Poem) (2:22)
02 - Roadhouse Blues (4:52)
03 - Backdoor Man (7:28)
04 - When The Music's Over (20:05)
05 - Someday Soon (4:17)
06 - Train Jam I (Incl. People Get Ready - Baby Please Don't Go) (7:14)
07 - Train Jam II (Incl. Mystery Train - Crossroads) (20:17)
08 - Five To One (6:03)
09 - Break On Through (5:19)

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Thanks goes out to the original uploader and to 'the ultimate bootleg experience'.

Monday, June 23, 2008

The Smashing Pumpkins

Siamese Dream is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on July 27, 1993 on Virgin Records. The album fused diverse influences such as shoegazing, dream pop, classic heavy metal, and the ornate mainstream rock of the 1970s and 1980s.

Despite recording sessions fraught with difficulties and tensions, Siamese Dream debuted at number ten on the Billboard charts, sold over four million copies in the U.S. and over six million worldwide,and cemented The Smashing Pumpkins as a major force in the alternative rock movement.

Track list
1. "Cherub Rock" – 4:58
2. "Quiet" – 3:41
3. "Today" – 3:19
4. "Hummer" – 6:57
5. "Rocket" – 4:06
6. "Disarm" – 3:17
7. "Soma" – 6:39
8. "Geek U.S.A." – 5:13
9. "Mayonaise" – 5:49
10. "Spaceboy" – 4:28
11. "Silverfuck" – 8:43
12. "Sweet Sweet" – 1:38
13. "Luna" – 3:20

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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is the third album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on October 24, 1995 on Virgin Records. Produced by Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, Flood and Alan Moulder, the 28-track album was released as a two-disc CD and triple LP. Led by the single "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", the album debuted at number one on the Billboard charts, a first for the group. The album spawned four more singles over the course of 1996 and has been certified nine times platinum.

Praised by critics for its ambition and scope, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness earned the band seven Grammy Award nominations in 1997. The album was voted the 29th greatest album of all time in 1998 by Q magazine readers. In 2003, the album was ranked number 487 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Track List
1. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" – 2:52
2. "Tonight, Tonight" – 4:14
3. "Jellybelly" – 3:01
4. "Zero" – 2:41
5. "Here Is No Why" – 3:45
6. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" – 4:18
7. "To Forgive" – 4:17
8. "Fuck You (An Ode to No One)" – 4:51
9. "Love" – 4:21
10. "Cupid de Locke" – 2:50
11. "Galapogos" – 4:47
12. "Muzzle" – 3:44
13. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" – 9:21
14. "Take Me Down" (Iha) – 2:52
15. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" – 4:22
16. "Bodies" – 4:12
17. "Thirty-Three" – 4:10
18. "In the Arms of Sleep" – 4:12
19. "1979" – 4:25
20. "Tales of a Scorched Earth" – 3:46
21. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" – 7:38
22. "Stumbleine" – 2:54
23. "X.Y.U." – 7:07
24. "We Only Come Out at Night" – 4:05
25. "Beautiful" – 4:18
26. "Lily (My One and Only)" – 3:31
27. "By Starlight" – 4:48
28. "Farewell and Goodnight" (Corgan/Iha) – 4:22

Download Part I Here and/ or Download Part II here. Like it? Buy it!

Machina/The Machines of God is The Smashing Pumpkins' fifth studio album, released on February 29, 2000. A concept album,[1] it marked the return of drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and was intended to be the band's final official LP release prior to their first breakup in 2000. A sequel album—Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music—was later released independently via the internet.

Track List
1. "The Everlasting Gaze" – 4:00
2. "Raindrops + Sunshowers" – 4:39
3. "Stand Inside Your Love" – 4:14
4. "I of the Mourning" – 4:37
5. "The Sacred and Profane" – 4:22
6. "Try, Try, Try" – 5:09
7. "Heavy Metal Machine" – 5:52
8. "This Time" – 4:43
9. "The Imploding Voice" – 4:24
10. "Glass and the Ghost Children" – 9:56
11. "Wound" – 3:58
12. "The Crying Tree of Mercury" – 3:43
13. "With Every Light" – 3:56
14. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" – 5:45
15. "Age of Innocence" – 3:55

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Friday, June 20, 2008

DiG!

Language: English
IMDB rating: 7.8/ 10


Plot: Tracks the tumultuous rise of two talented musicians, Anton Newcombe, leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre; and Courtney Taylor, leader of the Dandy Warhols; dissecting their star-crossed friendship and bitter rivalry. Both are hell-bent on staging a self-proclaimed revolution of the music industry. Through their loves and obsessions, gigs and recordings, arrests and daeht threats, uppers and downers--and ultimately to their chance at a piece of the profit-driven music business--how each handles his stab at success is where the relationship frays and burns (IMDB).


Gimme Shelter

Language: English
IMDB Rating: 7.8/ 10

Post: In December of 1969, four months after Woodstock, the Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane gave a free concert in Northern California, east of Oakland at Altamont Speedway. About 300,000 people came, and the organizers put Hell's Angels in charge of security around the stage. Armed with pool cues and knifes, Angels spent the concert beating up spectators, killing at least one. The film intercuts performances, violence, Grace Slick and Mick Jagger's attempts to cool things down, close-ups of young listeners (dancing, drugged, or suffering Angel shock), and a look at the Stones later as they watch concert footage and reflect on what happened (IMDB).

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Black Sabbath

This is for a good friend of mine, who complained that I did not have any metal on my site. Well for him it is plain and simple, here are four albums from Black Sabbath.

As one of the most influential heavy metal bands of all time, Black Sabbath helped define the genre with releases such as 1970's quadruple-platinum Paranoid.[1] Black Sabbath has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide,[2] and were ranked number one on MTV's Greatest Metal Bands countdown.

Black Sabbath

1. "Black Sabbath" – 6:16
2. "The Wizard" – 4:18
3. "Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Bassically/N.I.B." – 10:40
4. "Wicked World" – 4:42
5. "A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning" ("Warning" written by Aynsley Dunbar et. al.) – 14:20

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Paranoid

1. "War Pigs/Luke's Wall" – 7:57
2. "Paranoid" – 2:52
3. "Planet Caravan" – 4:32
4. "Iron Man" – 5:58
5. "Electric Funeral" – 4:52
6. "Hand of Doom" – 7:07
7. "Rat Salad" – 2:31 (Instrumental)
8. "Jack the Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots" – 6:15

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Master of Reality

1. "Sweet Leaf" – 5:05
2. "After Forever" (Iommi) – 5:27
3. "Embryo" (Iommi) – 0:28
4. "Children of the Grave" – 5:17
5. "Orchid" (Iommi) – 1:30
6. "Lord of This World" – 5:26
7. "Solitude" – 5:02
8. "Into the Void" – 6:13

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Black Sabbath Vol 4

1. "Wheels of Confusion/The Straightener" – 8:01
2. "Tomorrow's Dream" – 3:11
3. "Changes" – 4:44
4. "FX" – 1:43
5. "Supernaut" – 4:49
6. "Snowblind" – 5:33
7. "Cornucopia" – 3:54
8. "Laguna Sunrise" – 2:55
9. "St. Vitus Dance" – 2:29
10. "Under the Sun/Every Day Comes and Goes" – 5:52

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Monday, June 16, 2008

Deep Purple - Deep Purple

Deep Purple is the third studio album by English hard rock band Deep Purple, released in 1969 on Harvest Records in the UK and on Tetragrammaton in the US. It was to be the last album with the original lineup.

Track List
1. "Chasing Shadows" (Jon Lord, Ian Paice) – 5:34
2. "Blind" (Lord) – 5:26
3. "Lalena" (Donovan) – 5:05
4. "Fault Line" (Ritchie Blackmore, Nick Simper, Lord, Paice) – 1:46
5. "The Painter" (Rod Evans, Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) – 3:51
6. "Why Didn't Rosemary?" (Evans, Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) – 5:04
7. "Bird Has Flown" (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) – 5:36
8. "April" (Blackmore, Lord) – 12:10

Download (40 MB) to be found here, if you like the music... buy it!

Update: yes, the album cover is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

The Golden years of The Moody Blues

Sunday grey afternoon..... yep it is time for some Moody Blues.


The Moody Blues are an English rock band originally from Birmingham. Founding members Michael Pinder and Ray Thomas performed an initially rhythm and blues-based sound in Birmingham in 1964 along with Graeme Edge and others, and were later joined by John Lodge and Justin Hayward as they inspired and evolved the progressive rock style.

The following albums were recorded in the prime years of the band (1967-1973), albeit remastered in either 2006 or 2007. Thanks goes out to the original uploader!

Important I: Please note that when opening the rar files you might encounter an error about the pathway being too long, if that is the case just unrar to the shortest path possible.

Important II: if you like the music, buy it!

The Days of Future Passed, The Moody Blues' second official album (released in 1967 and remastered in 2006), was their first of what would be a succession of concept albums.

The concept of both the stage show and the album was very simple, tracing an "everyman's day" from dawn to night, from awakening to sleep. The seven tracks spawned two hit singles: "Tuesday Afternoon", which on the album was actually titled "The Afternoon: Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?)", and "Nights in White Satin" which hit No. 2 five years after the LP's original release. Both remain commercial radio mainstays across various formats and de rigueur performances in concert.

Side I
1. "The Day Begins" (Peter Knight & The Moody Blues) / "Morning Glory" (Graeme Edge) (unlisted track) – 5:51
2. Dawn: "Dawn is a Feeling" (Mike Pinder) – 3:49
3. The Morning: "Another Morning" (Ray Thomas) – 3:56
4. Lunch Break: "Peak Hour" (John Lodge) – 5:29

Side II
5. The Afternoon: "Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?)" (Justin Hayward) / "(Evening) Time to Get Away" (Lodge) – 8:23
6. Evening: "The Sunset" (Pinder) / "Twilight Time" (Thomas) – 6:40
7. The Night: "Nights in White Satin" (Hayward) / "Late Lament" (Graeme Edge) (unlisted track) - 7:39

Additional SACD Deluxe Edition tracks
1. "Tuesday Afternoon" – 4:20 alternate mix
2. "Dawn Is A Feeling" – 2:19 alternate version
3. "The Sun Set" – 2:49 alternate version without orchestra
4. "Twilight Time" – 2:27 alternate vocal mix
5. "Night In White Satin" – 4:26 mono mix from single released November 1967
6. "Fly Me High" (Hayward) – 2:54 Recorded March 30, 1967; released as single May 1967
7. "I Really Haven't Got The Time" (Pinder) – 3:07 Recorded March 30, 1967; released as b-side May 1967
8. "Love & Beauty" (Pinder) – 2:23 Recorded July 17, 1967; released as single September 1967
9. "Leave This Man Alone" (Hayward) – 2:58 Recorded July 17, 1967; released as b-side September 1967
10. "Cities" (Hayward) – 2:23 Recorded July 17, 1967; released November 1967 as b-side to "Nights in White Satin"
11. "Long Summer Days" (Hayward) – 3:12 Recorded May 19, 1967 and released on Caught Live + 5
12. "Please Think About It" (Pinder) – 3:40 Recorded June 29, 1967 and released on Caught Live + 5
13. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (Bennie Benjamin/Gloria Caldwell/Sol Marcus) – 2:23 live May 9, 1967 for BBC Saturday Club
14. "Love & Beauty" – 2:12 live September 20, 1967 for BBC Easybeat
15. "Leave This Man Alone" – 2:52 live September 20, 1967 for BBC Easybeat
16. "Peak Hour" – 3:22 live September 20, 1967 for BBC Easybeat
17. "Nights in White Satin" – 3:48 live January 1, 1968 for BBC Dave Symonds
18. "Fly Me High" – 2:45 live January 1, 1968 for BBC Dave Symonds
19. "Twilight Time" – 2:08 live January 1, 1968 for BBC Dave Symonds

Part I is to be found here, here, here or here. Part II is to be found here and Part III one could find here. If you like the album try to buy it here.

In Search of the Lost Chord, released in 1968 (remastered in 2006), was the third album by The Moody Blues, and the second to feature Justin Hayward and John Lodge.

The album peaked at #23 on the U.S. album charts upon release in July 1968.In the UK, the album reached #5. Neither of the two singles from the album, "Ride My See-Saw" and "Voices in the Sky," charted in the top 40 on the Billboard charts, although the latter reached #27 on the UK singles chart.

1. Departure Edge 0:45
2. Ride My See-Saw Lodge 3:39
3. Dr. Livingstone, I Presume Thomas 2:58
4. House of Four Doors, Pt. 1 Lodge 4:13
5. Legend of a Mind Thomas 6:36
6. House of Four Doors, Pt. 2 Lodge 1:47
7. Voices in the Sky Hayward 3:28
8. The Best Way to Travel Pinder 3:14
9. Visions of Paradise Hayward, Thomas 4:15
10. The Actor Hayward 4:39
11. The Word Edge 0:48
12. Om Pinder 5:50
13. Departure [Alternate Mix] Edge 0:56
14. The Best Way to Travel [Additional Vocal Mix] Pinder 4:04
15. Legend of a Mind [Alternate Mix] Thomas 6:45
16. Visions of Paradise [Instrumental Version] Hayward, Thomas 4:31
17. What Am I Doing Here? [Original Version] Hayward 3:56
18. The Word [Mellotron Mix] Edge 1:03
19. Om [Extended Version] Pinder 6:09
20. A Simple Game [Justin Hayward Vocal Mix] Pinder 3:27
21. King and Queen Hayward 3:55
22. Doctor Livingstone I Presume [#] Thomas 2:59
23. Voices in the Sky [#] Hayward 3:54
24. Thinking Is the Best Way to Travel [#] Pinder 3:39
25. Ride My See Saw [#] Lodge 3:50
26. Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon) [#] Hayward 3:26
27. A Simple Game [Single 'B' Side] Pinder 3:44

Part I is to be downloaded here, Part II can be done here and Part III is to be found here. If you want to buy the album, please do it here.

On the Threshold of a Dream (released in 1969 and remastered in 2006) is the fourth album by The Moody Blues and was released on the Deram label in 1969. Like the band's preceeding two albums, On the Threshold of a Dream follows a concept. The album explores dreams, especially on the second side, which climaxes with the "Voyage" suite, inspired in part by Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra.

On The Threshold of a Dream provided The Moody Blues with their first UK #1 album, and also increased their American fortunes by becoming their first Top 20 album there

1. In the Beginning 2:08
2. Lovely to See You 2:34
3. Dear Diary Thomas 3:56
4. Send Me No Wine 2:20
5. To Share Our Love 2:54
6. So Deep Within You 3:07
7. Never Comes the Day 4:43
8. Lazy Day Thomas 2:43
9. Are You Sitting Comfortably 3:29
10. The Dream Edge 0:58
11. Have You Heard, Pt. 1 1:28
12. The Voyage 4:11
13. Have You Heard, Pt. 2 2:31
14. In the Beginning [*] 3:28
15. So Deep Within You [*] 3:29
16. Dear Diary [*] 4:05
17. Have You Heard [*] 3:52
18. The Voyage [*] 4:19
19. Lovely to See You [*] 2:26
20. Send Me No Wine [*] 2:40
21. So Deep Within You [*] 3:08
22. Are You Sitting Comfortably 3:38

Part I can be downloaded here, while part II is here. The album can, of course, also be bought here.

To Our Children's Children's Children was first issued in late 1969 and later remastered (in 2006).

It is the fourth of what are popularly considered the group's "core seven" albums from 1967-72, and as such represents the peak of their career to some. While the song chosen for the single, "Watching and Waiting," by itself was not a major hit, taken as a whole the album is remarkably balanced, featuring strong songwriting contributions from all five band members.

1. Higher and Higher 4:06
2. The Eyes of a Child, Pt. 1 3:23
3. Floating Thomas 2:58
4. The Eyes of a Child, Pt. 2 1:23
5. I Never Thought I'd Live to Be a Hundred 1:05
6. Beyond 2:58
7. Out and In 3:49
8. Gypsy 3:33
9. Eternity Road 4:19
10. Candle of Life 4:14
11. Sun Is Still Shining 3:39
12. I Never Thought I'd Live to Be a Million 0:33
13. Watching and Waiting 4:16
14. Gypsy [#] Hayward 4:17
15. Candle of Life [#] 4:58
16. Sun in Still Shining [#] 4:06
17. Gypsy [#] Hayward 3:21
18. Sunset [#] Pinder 3:53
19. Never Comes the Day [#] 4:42
20. Are You Sitting Comfortably [#] 2:53
21. The Dream [#] Edge 0:57
22. Have You Heard/The Voyage/Have You Heard [#] 5:50
23. Nights in White Satin [#] 3:12
24. Legend of a Mind [#] 4:37

Part I can be downloaded here, Part II is to be found here and Part III is to be found here. The album can of course be also be bought here.

The band's sixth (but fifth concept album) album is A Question Of Balance (1970 and remastered in 2006). The album was an attempt by the group to strip down their well-known lush, psychedelic sound in order to be able to better perform the songs in concert. In order to be able to play as many new songs as possible from their new album live, the group decided (temporarily) to abandon their method of heavy overdubbing for A Question of Balance.

For the first time, The Moody Blues used political strife as a basis for songwriting with the UK number two hit in May 1970, "Question", which dealt with the controversy resulting from the ongoing Vietnam War.

Side I (click to download)
1. "Question" (Justin Hayward) – 5:40
2. "How Is It (We Are Here)" (Mike Pinder) – 2:48
3. "And The Tide Rushes In" (Ray Thomas) – 2:57
4. "Don't You Feel Small" (Graeme Edge) – 2:40
5. "Tortoise And The Hare" (John Lodge) – 3:23

Side II (click to download)
1. "It's Up To You" (Hayward) – 3:11
2. "Minstrel's Song" (Lodge) – 4:27
3. "Dawning Is The Day" (Hayward) – 4:22
4. "Melancholy Man" (Michaël Pinder) – 5:49
5. "The Balance" (Edge/Thomas) – 3:33

You can buy the album here.

The band next album is the Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, which was released in 1971 and remastered in 2007. The album reached #1 on the UK album charts, in addition to a three week stay at #2 in the U.S., and produced one top-40 single, "The Story In Your Eyes."

1. "Procession" 4:40
2. "The Story in Your Eyes" 2:56
3. "Our Guessing Game" 3:34
4. "Emily's Song" 3:42
5. "After You Came" 4:38
6. "One More Time to Live" 5:41
7. "Nice to Be Here" 4:23
8. "You Can Never Go Home" 4:14
9. "My Song" 6:24
10. "The Story in Your Eyes" (Original Version) 3:33
11. "The Dreamer" 3:42

You can download the album here or buy it here.

The seventh and last concept album, The Seventh Sojourn, released in 1972 (and remastered in 2007), was the eighth album released by The Moody Blues.

The Seventh Sojourn managed to reach #5 in the UK, and became the band's first U.S. chart topper, spending five weeks at the summit to close out 1972.

1. "Lost in a Lost World" (Mike Pinder) – 4:42
2. "New Horizons" (Justin Hayward) – 5:11
3. "For My Lady" (Ray Thomas) – 3:58
4. "Isn't Life Strange" (John Lodge) – 6:09
5. "You and Me" (Hayward, Graeme Edge) – 4:21
6. "The Land of Make-Believe" (Hayward) – 4:52
7. "When You're a Free Man" (Pinder) – 6:06
8. "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)" (Lodge) – 4:18
9. "Isn't Life Strange (Original Version)" (Lodge) – 8:10
10. "You and Me (Beckthorns Backing Track)" (Hayward, Edge) – 6:33
11. "Lost in a Lost World (Instrumental Demo)" (Pinder) – 4:41
12. "Island" (Previously Unreleased) (Hayward) – 4:30

Part I (94 MB) download links are here, here, here, here or here, Part II (79 MB) links can be found here, here, here, here, or here*. If you like the album, you could buy it from here.

Friday, June 13, 2008

The Wall

"Long you live and high you'll fly and smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry and all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be." This is Pink Floyd!


Pink Floyd the Wall Redux

Plot: The life of the fictional rock star 'Pink' is the subject of the visually evocative cult film based upon the music and visions of the group Pink Floyd as portrayed in the album of the same title. Relationships, drucks abuse, sesx, childhood, WWII and fascism combine in a disturbing mix of episodic live action and lyrical animation drawn by British caricaturist Gerald Scarfe (IMDB).




For real fans of David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, please find their legendary concert at Pompeii below.

Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii

Japrocksampler

One more music post today. You can find everything on the Internet, but sometimes you find little treasures which you wouldn't soon find in your local music store around the corner.

One of those small gems is a very cool compilation of psychedelic Japanese rock tracks. Incredible hard to find, but thanks to the wonderful Internet (and with a bit of luck), I am able to offer you something quite unique.

The title of the compilation, Japrocksampler, actually derives from Julian Cope's book on the history of Western music's arrival on Japanese shores after World War Two. The book is an exploration of the clash between traditional, conservative Japanese values and the wild rock'n'roll renegades of the 1960s and '70s. It tells the tale of key artists in Japanese post-war culture, from itinerant art-house poets to violent refusenik rock groups with a penchant for plane hijacking, and rounds up the seminal japrock albums.

Anyways, the fitting soundtrack of the book (with thanks to and courtesy of Grown Up All Wrong):

CD I
01 - The Jacks • Marianne (Vacant World, 1968)
02 - Love Live Life + One • Shadows of the Mind (Love Will Make A Better You, 1970)
03 - Masayuki Takayanagi and Kaoru Abe with New Direction • untitled [excerpt from side one] (Kaitaiteki Kokan, 1970)
04 - Flower Travellin' Band • Satori, part II (Satori, 1971)
05 - Speed, Glue & Shinki • Run and Hide (Speed, Glue & Shinki, 1971)
06 - Masahiko Satoh with Soundbreakers • untitled [excerpt from side one] (Amalgamations, 1971)
07 - Blues Creation • Sorrow (Demon & Eleven Children, 1971)
08 - Datetenryu • Harugeshiki (Unto, 1971)
09 - Lost Aaraaff • Hell of Screams (Genya Concert, 1971)
10 - People • Shomyo, part I (Ceremony: Buddha Meet Rock, 1971)

CD II
01 - Taj Mahal Travellers • untitled [excerpt from track 2] (July 15,1972, 1972)
02 - Akira Ishikawa and Count Buffaloes • Pigmy (Uganda, 1972)
03 - J.A. Seazer • Echigo Tsutsuishi Oyashirazu (Kokkyou Junreika, 1973)
04 - Acid Seven Group • untitled [track 6] (Oz Days Live, 1973)
05 - Yonin Bayashi • Omatsuri (Isshoku Sokuhatsu, 1974)
06 - Karuna Khyal • untitled [excerpt from side one] (Alomoni 1985, 1974)
07 - Geinoh Yamashirogumi • Osorezan [excerpt] (Osorezan, 1974)
08 - Magical Power Mako • Jump (Jump, 1977)
09 - Les Rallizes Denudes • Enter the Mirror (’77 Live, 1991)
10 - Far East Family Band • Timeless Phase (Tenkujin, 1977)

To download, click CD 1 and/or CD 2. To see/ listen to an example, check the Youtube video below.

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