George Thorogood and The destroyers : Maverick 1985

George Thorogood is forever consistent and Maverick is more of the blues/rock driving sound the journeyman guitarist is known for. John Lee Hooker's "Crawling King Snake" is what you expect from this crew while "Memphis, Tennessee" bursts at the seams with George's trademark slide and Hank Carter's saxophone. Recorded at the legendary Dimension Sound Studio in July of 1984 on the outskirts of Boston, the earthy sound catches all the band's primal energy from opener "Gear Jammer" to the wailing sax of "Long Gone."

There are only four originals from Thorogood, the album chock full of Johnny Otis, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, John Lee Hooker and others. It is territory that the group has covered on pretty much every previous record, but it's done with the artistic passion that makes it real. The vocal on "What a Price" full of torment, it's a nice contrast to the rocking numbers.
( Review by Joe Viglione)

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Format : Vinyl LP
Label : Capitol - EMI
Made in : USA
Genre : Rock
Style : Blues Rock
Year : 1985
MP3 : Size : 102 MB
Flac : Size : 271 MB

Tracks

     01. Gear Jammer     4:39    
    02. I Drink Alone     4:35    
    03. Willie And The Hand Jive     4:09    
    04. What A Price     2:48    
    05. Long Gone     4:32    
    06. Dixie Fried     3:46    
    07. Crawling King Snake     4:02    
    08. Memphis/Marie     5:54    
    09. Woman With The Blues     3:34    
    10. Let's Go Go Go     3:32    
    11. Maverick            2:08

Moon Martin : Escape From Domination 1979

Born in Oklahoma in 1950, Martin gained recognition in the 1970s as a pop artist and composer. Originally a rockabilly artist, he wrote the songs "Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)", made famous by the English singer Robert Palmer, and "Cadillac Walk", made famous by the American singer Willy DeVille.

Martin scored two minor hits of his own with "Rolene" (#30 Billboard Hot 100) and "No Chance" (#50), both in 1979. His 1982 song, "X-Ray Vision" was an MTV hit music video.

He was given the nickname "Moon" because many of his songs had the word "moon" in the lyrics.

Singer/guitarist/songwriter Moon Martin issued several critically acclaimed yet commercially underappreciated releases from the late '70s through the early '80s, before reappearing in the mid-'90s.

By 1978, Martin (who by this time was known simply as Moon Martin) was finally ready to launch his solo career with his look and music often compared to such new wave hit makers as Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. A total of five albums in a five-year span followed, including such titles as 1978's Victim of Romance EP (whose track, "Bad Case of Lovin' You," would become a hit when covered by Robert Palmer), 1979's Shots From a Cold Nightmare/Escape From Domination (which scored Moon his sole hit single, "Rolene"), 1980's Street Fever, and 1982's Mystery Ticket, all of which were issued on the Capitol label .

Martin then dropped out of the music scene for the rest of the '80s and early part of the '90s, before resurfacing in 1995 with a pair of releases, Cement Monkey and Lunar Samples. The same year, the British label Edsel reissued Martin's first four full-length releases as two for one CDs (Shots From a Cold Nightmare being paired with Escape From Domination, while Street Fever was combined with Mystery Ticket).

Initial plans to record a solo album in 1974 with noted producer/arranger Jack Nitzsche failed to pan out, but several of Martin's original compositions began to be used by other recording artists, including the Nitzsche-produced Mink DeVille (the track "Cadillac Walk" subsequently became a moderate hit)

         TRACKS

     01.I've Got A Reason     2:59    

    02.She Made A Fool Of You     3:36    

    03.Dreamer     3:02    

    04.Gun Shy     3:02    

    05.Hot House Baby     3:15

    06.The Feeling's Right     3:54    

    07.Rolene     3:35    

    08.No Change     2:40    

    09.Dangerous     2:53    

    10.Bootleg Woman 2:59

This is a very nice unknown alboum of this great artist .
Great Rock' n' Roll and pure sound as simple as it is .

Αυτό το άλμπουμ Γαμάει και Δέρνει Παιδιά . Λίγοι το ξέρουν και λιγότεροι το έχουν !

Πάρτε το .

MP 3  Size  :  76 MB

 FLAC  Size  :  208 MB    New Link , cause track No 1 was missing

You can find The Best Of Moon Martin Here

Dirty Fuse at Blue Bar

Το Blue Bar, ένα από τα σημαντικότερα στέκια της Αθήνας, στο Χαλάνδρι, συμπληρώνει 21 χρόνια λειτουργίας και τα γιορτάζει παρέα με τους Dirty Fuse!

Το κύμα χτυπάει το Χαλάνδρι... Την Πέμπτη 12 Δεκ. οι Dirty Fuse surfάρουν στο Blue Bar
(Γρ. Γυφτοπούλου 8 Χαλάνδρι).
Ένα Live Surf Party για τα 21 χρόνια του πιο ιστορικού Rock bar στο Χαλάνδρι.
Special guest on Dexx... Ladydust !!! Καλοκαιρινή διάθεση απαραίτητη !!!
 Ώρα, 21:30 Είσοδος ελεύθερη Surf`s up !!!

Genesis : Many Too Many 45 Rpm Single 1978

"Many Too Many" is a song performed by Genesis and released as a single from the album  "And Then There Were Three". in 1978.

The single peaked at number 43 on the UK Chart. Its B-side had two non-album songs, "Vancouver" and "The Day the Light Went Out", both of which were released on compact disc on the Genesis Archive 2: 1976–1992 box set.

This is the Italian 45 Rpm Single .

The song includes the last use of a Mellotron on any Genesis studio recording, though Tony Banks ( The keybordist ) did use one (albeit very sparingly) on his solo album "A Curious Feeling", released in 1979.

Released     30 June 1978
Made in Italy
Label : Charisma Records 6079 467
Format : Vinyl 45 Rpm Single

Members :

Phill Collins

Tony Banks 

Mike Rutherford

Many Too Many  Lyrics

Many too many have stood where I stand
Many more will stand here too,
I think what I find strange is the way you built me up
Then knocked me down again.

The part was fun but now it's over,
Why can't I just leave the stage?
Maybe that's because you securely locked me up
Then threw away the key.

Oh mama,
Please would you find the key.
Oh pretty mama,
Please won't you let me go free.
I thought I was lucky
I thought that I'd got it made.
How could I be so blind?

You said good-bye on a corner
That I thought led to the straight.
You set me on a firmly laid and simple course
Then removed the road.

Oh mama,
Please help me find my way.
Oh pretty mama,
Please lead me through the next day.
I thought I was lucky
Oh I thought that I'd got it made.
How could I be so blind? Oh no...

Take it Here Flac  69 MB

Morphine : Best Of

Morphine was an American alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman, Dana Colley and Jerome Deupree in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1989.

Low-fi but hight-brow, Mark Sandman's outfit was obstinately oddball .
Here was a band into Blues and Rock with no electric guitar. Insteaded, the three-man line-up
sported a drummer, Sandman on a bass with only two strings, both tuned to the same note, and Dana Colley on meaty baritone Sax.

Morphine combined blues and jazz elements with more traditional rock arrangements, giving the band an unusual sound.

Unerpinning the leader's world-weary vocals , often put through a distortion unit, Morphine
packed an appropriately addictive punch on numbers like " Honey White " and " Cure For Pain ", a sound they dubbed " Implied Grunge ".

The band preffered to play smaller clubs, and remained loyal to the Boston - Cambridge area,
even when they signed to DreamWorks .

Marc Sandman was a graduate of UMass Boston who only launched a music career in his mid-thirties with the Punk-Blues group " Treat Her Right " before forming Morphine.

Their fiercely devoted funs were deeply shocked when Sandman died after suffering a heart attack while on stage in Rome in July 1999 .

Within a year of Sandman's death, Colley and Conway created " Orchestra Morphine ", a group of Sandman's friends and colleagues who toured to celebrate the music of the band and to raise funds for the Mark Sandman Music Education Fund.
 
TRACKS

European edition

01. Have A Lucky Day       Good     3:27
02. You Look Like Rain       Good     3:38
03. You Speak My Language       Good     3:25
04. Thursday      Cure for Pain     3:26
05. Buena       Cure for Pain     3:19
06. Cure For Pain      Cure for Pain     3:13
07. Honey White      Yes     3:06
08. Super Sex      Yes     3:52
09. Whisper       Yes     3:28
10. Eleven O'Clock       Like Swimming     3:18
11. Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer       The Night     5:42
12. The Night       The Night     4:48
13. Jack And Tina       previously unreleased     8:32
14. Pretty Face       previously unreleased     4:47
15. Shame       B-Sides and Otherwise     2:44
16. Sexy Christmas Baby Mine        previously unreleased     2:05 

Released     February 18, 2003
CD Rip
MP3 : 148 ΜΒ
Flac Part 1 : 193 MB      Flac Part 2 : 210MB

Studio albums

    Good (1992)
    Cure for Pain (1993)
    Yes (1995)
    Like Swimming (1997)
    The Night (2000)

Members

    Mark Sandman : 2-string slide bass, vocals, organ, tritar (3-string slide guitar), guitar,     piano        (1989–1999)
    Dana Colley : baritone sax, tenor sax, double sax, triangle (1989–1999)
    Jerome Deupree : drums, percussion (1989–1991, 1991–1993, 1998–1999)
    Billy Conway : drums, percussion (1991, 1993–1999)

Dirty Fuse Live

Οι Dirty Fuse Surfάρουν πάνω στα Surfbetika!
Στο Gorilla 11 την Κυριακή 1 Δεκεμβρίου.
 Ένα 60`s style Live Party πλημμυρισμένο από ηλεκτρικές διπλοπενιές και τόνους Reverb, υπόσχεται να φέρει την παραλία στα Βόρεια Προάστια !!!
Το Live αρχίζει στις 21:30, Είσοδος ελεύθερη !!!

www.dirtyfuse.com

Medium Medium – The Glitterhouse

Medium Medium – The Glitterhouse
Label: Music-Box – B RED 19
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Greece
Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul
Style: New Wave, P.Funk, Pop Rock, Funk, Experimental
Year: 1981   [from discogs]

Tracklist
Hungry So Angry 3:54
Serbian Village 4:47
The Glitterhouse 2:11
Guru Maharaj Ji 8:48
Further Than Funk Dream 5:56
Mice Or Monsters 5:40
That Haiku 5:44

Vinyl Rip
flac & scans 202 MB  here  or here
wav & scans 260 MB  here

http://www.mediummedium.com


Post-punk/funk pioneers Medium Medium have reformed. Best known for "Hungry, So Angry," the 1981 dance club hit that paved the way for the current new wave of early 1980s-influenced bands, Medium Medium is working to put together a series of special reunion shows before the end of 2004

Formed in Nottingham, England just one year after the Sex Pistols' last show, Medium Medium's self-styled "extreme dance music" and "searing Zen funk" merged dance rhythms and staccato guitar with squawking sax and found sounds to create a "free-blown dubbed-up white funk" (NME) that positioned the band "at the forefront of the post punk funk movement" (Cashbox).

In February 1981, Medium Medium signed to Cherry Red and released "Hungry, So Angry," the band's second single. Dave Henderson (Sound International) wrote prophetically, "It could be one of the most important records of the type to emerge this year and will doubtlessly be revered as a classic after the group have long since departed." At the end of the year, influential music critic Robert Christgau (Village Voice) included "Hungry, So Angry" in his "Dean's List" of top singles for 1981.

The band released one studio album, The Glitterhouse, in late 1981. Its stark, stripped-down dub and dance rhythms and chiming, funk guitar with occasional saxophone and other sounds, failed to attract a large following.

John Rees Lewis, the lead singer and saxophone player, left at the start of 1982 to form C Cat Trance with the original drummer Nigel Stone, who had left shortly before the release of "Hungry, So Angry". The remaining members, Andy Ryder (guitar/vocals), Alan Turton (bass guitar), Graham Spink (offstage special sounds) and the replacement drummer Steve Harvey, continued to tour and were later augmented by, first, Leslie Joachim Barrett (guitar/keyboards), then Julie Wood (keyboards). Forays into a fuller, more produced sound failed to earn the band a new record deal and Medium Medium split up in late 1983.

Inspired by a Cherry Red retrospective CD release in 2001 and the subsequent dance-punk revival, Medium Medium reformed in late 2004 for several live shows, including a showcase at the CMJ Music Marathon in New York. No longer a full-time venture, the band has stated plans to continue to write, record and perform.   [wiki]

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Στην λίστα με τα πιο αγαπημένα μου άλμπουμς αυτό των Medium Medium.
Βέβαια, ο ήχος δεν είναι και ο καλύτερος, βλέπε και τα περισσότερα της Music Box τότε, αλλά και ο δίσκος πολυπαιγμένος, σκρατς θα βρείτε , ιδιαίτερα στο τέλος της 2ης πλευράς, αλλά το περιεχόμενο είναι αυτό που μετράει τελικά.
Δεν είναι μόνο το "hit" Hungry So Angry αλλά και όλα τα άλλα κομμάτια που λένε..Ακούστε το σχεδόν 9λεπτο Guru Maharaj Ji ή το Mice Or Monsters για να δείτε το μέγεθος και την αξία τους.Ήδη το έγραψα σε cd και το ακούω συνέχεια.
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