Aerosmith - Rock In A Hard Place [Japanese Ed.] (1982)

Year: August 1, 1982 (CD Nov 21, 1996)
Label: Sony Music (Japan), SRCS 9052
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Time: 40:17
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 280 Mb

It is the only Aerosmith album not to feature guitarist Joe Perry, following his departure from the band in 1979. Fellow guitarist Brad Whitford also left during the recording in 1981. The band spent $1.5 million on the recording of this album, which saw them reunited with producer Jack Douglas.
Aerosmith had released six studio albums during the 1970s. But as the decade concluded, multiple problems arose. Guitarist Joe Perry had left the band in 1979 after incidents at the World Series of Rock in Cleveland, Ohio and was replaced by Jimmy Crespo. Meanwhile, Steven Tyler's drug abuse increased. After recording the single "Lightning Strikes", guitarist Brad Whitford also left Aerosmith in 1981 and was replaced by Rick Dufay.
Guitarist Dufay recalls the difficulty in completing the album in a 2008 interview: "They tried to make that album for two years but Steven couldn't finish stuff and they had trouble with their original producer but once they got Jack and me on board, we were just pushing it. When we went down to Florida, Steven was way too fucked up to do anything, he was nodding off when he was trying to write lyrics and I said to Jack that we had to get him out and get him together. It took about two or three months and we pretty much nursed him back to health. We got him off the hard stuff, sat in the sun and had some laughs and I established a bond with him. It's pretty well documented on the Behind the Music show. He was pretty sick and I just took care of him and even had to wipe his ass for him!!
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_in_a_Hard_Place)

01. Jailbait (04:38)
02. Lightning Strikes (04:26)
03. Bitch's Brew (04:13)
04. Bolivian Ragamuffin (03:32)
05. Cry Me A River (04:06)
06. Prelude To Joanie (01:20)
07. Joanie's Butterfly (05:34)
08. Rock In A Hard Place (Cheshire Cat) (04:45)
09. Jig Is Up (03:09)
10. Push Comes To Shove (04:29)

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Mahavishnu Orchestra (John McLaughlin) - Birds Of Fire [Japanese Ed.] (1973)

Year: March 29, 1973 (CD Feb 1, 1997)
Label: Sony Records (Japan), SRCS 9177
Style: Jazz Fusion, Progressive Rock, Jazz Rock
Country: New York City, U.S.
Time: 40:16
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 255 Mb

Charts: US #15, AUS #38, GER #29, NOR #18, UK #20. US: Gold.
This is an absolute masterpiece!. For those who love (like me) progressive fusion jazz/rock will need to get your hands on this masterpiece. Without a question the first few MAHAV albums are some of the most aggressive and mind stretching albums of all time. The MAHAV's output from the Trident Studio days are to treasure in your collection for sure. Once again here we get a fantastic collaboration of musical instumentation and musical ideas. John McLaughlin's guitar solos are simply killer and being back by Hammer (keyboards), Laird (bass), Cobham (drums) and Goodman on violin makes this a real keeper. At times "Birds Of Fire" identifies a quasi - KING CRIMSON feel with lots of originality and musical sophistication. If you have high blood pressure, you may not want to plug in this album to your stereo. Absolutely stunning musicanship and one of the best fusion/prog albums your money can buy... Even a Miles Davis tune to boot.
(progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3357) Review by memowakeman. March 22, 2005

01. Birds Of Fire (05:46)
02. Miles Beyond (Miles Davis) (04:42)
03. Celestial Terrestrial Commuters (02:53)
04. Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love (00:23)
05. Thousand Island Park (03:22)
06. Hope (01:58)
07. One Word (09:56)
08. Sanctuary (05:05)
09. Open Country Joy (03:56)
10. Resolution (02:10)

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Quintessence - Dive Deep (1971)

Year: March 1971 (CD Jan 10, 2005)
Label: Repertoire Records (UK), REPUK 1063
Style: Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: Notting Hill, London, England
Time: 42:07
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 278 Mb

Lead by Australian-born violinist and flutist Rothfield (AKA Raja Ram), keyboardist Phil Jones (Shiva Shankar) and Shambu Babaji on bass, this North-London group had very strong spiritual Indian classical music influences. Their first two albums, In Blissfull Company and their eponymous second album (they had much success riding on the popular sudden passion provoked by the BEATLES) are filled with Indian Sacred Chants and Psalms, but also much more accessible jazz-filled rock tracks full of delightful moments. Their third album Dive Deep was less spiritually oriented and contained more jazz-influenced improvisations with longer intrumental interplay tracks. After the partially live album Self some key members left to form the similar KALA, and QUINTESSENCE released on last album that was simply not quintessential anymore.
At their top , QUINTESSENCE was a magnificient group playing some superb Indian-laced psychadelic rock and are fondly remembered by all etnic fusion music afficianados and old hippies around the world.
(progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1507)

01. Dive Deep (04:44)
02. Dance For The One (10:45)
03. Brahman (04:17)
04. The Seer (06:00)
05. Epitaph For Tomorrow (08:21)
06. Sri Ram Chant (07:58)

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Man - Be Good To Yourself At Least Once A Day (1972)

Year: November 1972 (CD 1991)
Label: BGO Records (UK), BGOCD 14
Style: Progressive Rock, Rock
Country: Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
Time: 36:04
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 198 Mb

Be Good to Yourself at Least Once a Day is the sixth album by the Welsh rock band Man. Issued just two months after the previous album, Live at the Padget Rooms, Penarth, it features a radically different line-up. Martin Ace having left, and Deke Leonard having been fired, Clive John returned, bringing with him Phil Ryan and Will Youatt, with whom Clive had formed Iorwerth Pritchard and the Neutrons when he left Man in 1971. This is the only studio album by this particular line-up, which also recorded the live Christmas at the Patti before Clive John left again.
The LP had a prize-winning gatefold sleeve that, when opened, unfolded a 2' by 2' (61 cm by 61 cm) cartoon map of Wales, showing the origins of numerous Welsh bands, including Man, and other places of interest. The country was shown as an island, separated from England by a large channel of water, and being pushed away from her neighbour by ten men using long poles.
The inner sleeve featured 'Man's Family Jungle', Man's family tree, similar to those prepared by Pete Frame, but in a scrawled version drawn by Leonard, despite him having been recently fired from the band, as is acknowledged on the chart. On the earlier CD issues (prior to 2007) the map was unreadably small and the 'Family Jungle' was missing. Due to the complications of a previous publishing contract, newly arrived bassist Will Youatt did not appear in the writing credits despite allegedly making a significant contribution to the songs.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Good_to_Yourself_at_Least_Once_a_Day)

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01. C'Mon (11:03)
02. Keep On Crinting (08:18)
03. Bananas (09:28)
04. Life On The Road (07:13)

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Brand X - Masques [Japanese Ed. SHM-CD] (1978)

Year: 8 September 1978 (CD July 30, 2014)
Label: Universal Music (Japan), UICY-76415
Style: Jazz Rock, Instrumental, Progressive Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 49:07
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 307 Mb

After a couple of really well-working Brand X releases, the band went on a bit different path than before with "Masques". This album can be seen as a tighter, quirkier and harder release but still with the usual Brand X playfulness and the amazingly solid instrumentation. Phil Collins was too busy with Genesis at the time for this release that he got replaced by Chuck Burgi, a superb drummer who does a mind-boggling performance here, up to pair with Collins I would say. Collins returned after this release.
This might be the most complex Brand X album, stuffed with odd time signatures. The songs are well composed and structured with a great sense of melody too, in Brand X' usual quirky style, of course! There are no really weak tracks here, with the possible exception of the minimalistic noodling title track. Otherwise, "Masques" reminds on of their best releases in their discography!
(progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3476) My rating: 4.5/5, rounded up to 5 for being so underrated. Review by Bj-1. March 19, 2005

01. The Poke (05:11)
02. Masques (03:16)
03. Black Moon (04:49)
04. Deadly Nightshade (11:21)
05. Earth Dance (06:09)
06. Access To Data (08:02)
07. The Ghost Of Mayfield Lodge (10:16)

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Gong - You - Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 3 (1974)

Year: 4 October 1974 (CD ????)
Label: Virgin Records (UK), CDV 2019
Style: Canterbury Scene, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: Paris, France
Time: 44:39
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 258 Mb

It is the last album by Daevid Allen's iteration of the group until 1992's Shapeshifter. Recorded at Virgin's Manor Studios in Oxfordshire, England, side 1 was mixed at Pye Studios, Marble Arch, London, while side 2 was mixed at The Manor. It was produced by Simon Heyworth and Gong "under the universal influence of C.O.I.T., the Compagnie d'Opera Invisible de Thibet", and also engineered by Heyworth.
You is the third of the "Radio Gnome Invisible" trilogy of albums, following Flying Teapot and Angel's Egg. The trilogy forms a central part of the Gong mythology. The structure of the album mixes short narrative pieces with long, jazzy instrumentals (such as "Master Builder", "A Sprinkling of Clouds" and "Isle of Everywhere"), building to a climax/conclusion with "You Never Blow Yr Trip Forever".
The group had undertaken a gruelling tour from October 1973 through to May 1974 taking in Britain, France, Germany and Netherlands. As the tour progressed, they would compose and improvise new themes as a group for this album, subsequently all pieces are credited to the entire band under the pseudonym COIT (Compagnie d'Opera Invisible de Thibet). Allen felt "[t]here was a mystical, occult agreement between us: on the You album, we managed to create geometrically and mathematically perfect pieces of music that seemed to be totally improvised".
In June 1974, with the same line-up as the previous Angel's Egg album, they entered Virgin Records' Manor Studios to record this album. On 29 June they performed for free in Hyde Park, London.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_(Gong_album))

01. Thoughts for Naught (01:32)
02. A P.H.P.'s Advice (01:47)
03. Magick Mother Invocation (02:06)
04. Master Builder (06:07)
05. A Sprinkling of Clouds (08:55)
06. Perfect Mystery (02:26)
07. The Isle of Everywhere (10:20)
08. You Never Blow Yr Trip Forever (11:22)

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Orianthi - Rock Candy [Japanese Ed.] (2022)

Year: 14 October 2022 (CD Oct 14, 2022)
Label: Ward Records (Japan), GQCS-91240
Style: Garage Rock, Punk, Hard Rock
Country: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (22 January 1985)
Time: 33:58
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 252 Mb

Orianthi Penny Panagaris (born 22 January 1985), known mononymously as Orianthi, is an Australian guitarist, singer and songwriter. Her 2009 debut single "According to You" peaked at No. 3 in Japan, No. 8 in Australia and No. 17 in the US; her second album, Believe, received a worldwide release in late 2009. The same year, she was named one of the "12 Greatest Female Electric Guitarists" by Elle magazine. She also won the "2010 Breakthrough Guitarist of the Year" award hosted by Guitar International magazine.
Orianthi started working on her major label debut Believe in 2007, which was released in October 2009. The album produced the worldwide hit "According to You", which was the Single of the Week on iTunes on 27 October 2009, reached number 2 on US radio airplay and charted to number eight in Australia, three in Japan, and achieved platinum status in the US and Australia. The charismatic rock instrumental "Highly Strung" featuring Steve Vai became a popular YouTube video with millions of views and climbing, and her song "Suffocated" was featured on Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock as a playable song.
Orianthi appeared on several late-night shows; most notably, she appeared on American Idol results show, which aired on 26 March 2010. In 2010, she toured extensively, with headlining shows in the US, Japan, Australia, and Malaysia. She also opened for other artists including John Mayer, Mika, Kid Rock, Daughtry and over 30 dates for Adam Lambert's Glam Nation Tour with former Idol contestant Allison Iraheta. Orianthi performed at various music festivals and charity functions most notably at the Stand Up to Cancer telethon.
(full version: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orianthi)

01. Illuminate (Part 1) (00:56)
02. Light It Up (03:48)
03. Fire Together (03:23)
04. Where Did Your Heart Go (02:57)
05. Red Light (02:45)
06. Void (03:24)
07. Burning (02:48)
08. Living Is Like Dying Without You (03:59)
09. Witches & The Devil (01:59)
10. Getting To Me (02:52)
11. Illuminate (Part 2) (02:04)
12. Where Did Your Heart Go (Piano Version) (02:57)

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Yes - Heaven & Earth [Japanese Ed. SHM-CD] (2014)

Year: July 16, 2014 (CD Jul 16, 2014)
Label: Avalon (Japan), MICP-30060
Style: Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Symphonic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 56:03
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 400 Mb

Heaven & Earth is the twenty-first studio album by the English progressive rock band Yes. It was released on 16 July 2014 on Frontiers Records and is the first album with lead vocalist Jon Davison and the final album to feature founding bassist Chris Squire before his death in 2015. The group started preparing new material for an album during the 2013 leg of their Album Series Tour. Davison took an active approach with the songwriting, travelling to the homes of the other band members to collaborate on songs. Yes enlisted producer Roy Thomas Baker (who had previously worked with the band during recording sessions in 1979) and future Yes bassist Billy Sherwood to complete the mixing. This is the last production credit that Baker received before his death in 2025.
Heaven & Earth received mixed reviews. It reached No. 20 on the UK Albums Chart and became their highest charting album on the chart since their 1994 album Talk. It reached No. 26 on the US Billboard 200.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_%26_Earth_(Yes_album))

01. Believe Again (08:02)
02. The Game (06:51)
03. Step Beyond (05:34)
04. To Ascend (04:43)
05. In A World Of Our Own (05:20)
06. Light Of The Ages (07:41)
07. It Was All We Knew (04:13)
08. Subway Walls (09:03)
09. To Ascend (bonus track) (04:33)

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Hollywood Vampires (Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp, Joe Perry) - Hollywood Vampires [Japanese Ed. SHM-CD] (2015)

Year: September 11, 2015 (CD Sep 11, 2015)
Label: Universal Music (Japan), UICY-15428
Style: Hard Rock
Country: U.S. / UK
Time: 51:13
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 380 Mb

Hollywood Vampires is the self-titled debut studio album by American rock supergroup Hollywood Vampires, formed in 2015 by Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Joe Perry to honor the music of the rock stars who died from excess in the 1970s. Released on September 11, 2015 for Republic Records, the album features guest appearances by Paul McCartney, Robby Krieger, Orianthi, Dave Grohl, Christopher Lee, Slash, Brian Johnson, Joe Walsh, Perry Farrell, and Zak Starkey amongst others.
At his shows, Alice Cooper often performs cover songs as a tribute to his drinking buddies The Hollywood Vampires. For an album of covers based on the latter, Cooper wanted songs specific to their early 70s era. "Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix of course were before the Vampires," he conceded. "But they were, like, early, early-breed Vampires. They would have been there every single night."
The songs duly hail from acts who fit the original group's "lore", with the exception of two new tracks by Cooper and Depp titled "My Dead Drunk Friends" and "Raise the Dead". "My Dead Drunk Friends" is named after Cooper's recent favorite turn of phrase. Of that, Cooper says "'My dead drunk friends', they would have laughed at that. It was their sense of humor."
Of McCartney's appearance, Depp recalled: "We're recording live… Alice looks at me with this befuddled little look and he's mouthing the words, 'Oh my god, that's Paul McCartney!' to me… Then I look over at Joe Perry – one of my guitar heroes from when I was a kid – and he looks at me and he says, mouthing it, 'Jesus – look, man, it's Paul McCartney!' It was great to see those two huge stars being starstruck."
The lead track is a spoken word piece titled "The Last Vampire" voiced by Christopher Lee, in which he recites a passage from Bram Stoker's Dracula. This was Lee's final recording for a musical album before his death in June 2015.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Vampires_(Hollywood_Vampires_album))

01. The Last Vampire (01:35)
02. Raise The Dead (03:31)
03. My Generation (02:47)
04. Whole Lotta Love (04:13)
05. I Got A Line On You (02:48)
06. Five To One - Break On Through (To The Other Side) (04:17)
07. One - Jump Into The Fire (05:07)
08. Come And Get It (02:59)
09. Jeepster (02:42)
10. Cold Turkey (03:07)
11. I'm A Boy (02:37)
12. Manic Depression (02:43)
13. Itchycoo Park (02:55)
14. School's Out - Another Brick In The Wall part 2 (05:14)
15. My Dead Drunk Friends (04:30)

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The Joe Perry Project (Aerosmith) - Let The Music Do The Talking (1980)

Year: March 1980 (CD 1980 ????)
Label: CBS Records (US), CK 36388
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Lawrence, Massachusetts, U.S. (September 10, 1950)
Time: 38:04
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 263 Mb

Let the Music Do the Talking is the first of three studio albums by The Joe Perry Project, released in 1980. It was the band's most successful, selling approximately 250,000 copies in the United States. The title track was later re-recorded in by Aerosmith on their 1985 reunion album Done With Mirrors, albeit with a slightly different melody and Steven Tyler-penned lyrics.
Fed up with the slow pace of the recording of Night in the Ruts and frustrated with the band's precarious financial situation, Perry left Aerosmith in the spring of 1979. He recruited Aerosmith's former producer Jack Douglas and chose Ralph Morman for lead singer, who Perry had previously heard performing in a band called Daddy Warbux. The group was rounded out by bassist David Hull and drummer Ronnie Stewart. "The contrast between the tortuous ordeal of recording Aerosmith and the seamless groove that characterized the Project was remarkable," Perry later recalled.
Considering Aerosmith's struggles, Columbia Records was initially hesitant to give Perry a solo deal, but he assured them he could turn in an album in "five or six weeks." In his 2014 autobiography Rocks, the guitarist states that the songs were largely autobiographical:
"Let the Music Do the Talking" – the title track – spoke for itself. It was just how I was feeling. I didn’t need to talk. Didn’t need to explain how much I wanted to be on my own timetable, free to work at my own speed, which was pretty fast. "Conflict of Interest" was inspired by my feelings about the shady side of the record business. I was going straight back to my roots, as demonstrated by the R&B-heavy "Rockin’ Train." Songs like "Life at a Glance" and "Ready on the Firing Line" were constructed around riffs that had been bouncing around my brain for months.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_the_Music_Do_the_Talking)

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01. Let The Music Do The Talking (04:42)
02. Conflict Of Interest (04:43)
03. Discount Dogs (03:42)
04. Shooting Star (03:39)
05. Break Song (02:06)
06. Rockin' Train (06:02)
07. The Mist Is Rising (06:30)
08. Ready On The Firing Line (03:54)
09. Life At A Glance (02:41)

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Aerosmith - Night In The Ruts [Japanese Ed. BSCD2] (1979)

Year: November 16, 1979 (CD Oct 9, 2013)
Label: Sony Music (Japan), SICP 30373
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Time: 35:43
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 267 Mb

The title of Aerosmith's 1979 album Night in the Ruts was more than just a clever spoonerism for "right in the nuts." It encapsulated the dire state of affairs for the drug-addled, feuding rockers, whose underrated sixth LP was nonetheless doomed to fail.
The Boston quintet had been knocked from its mid-'70s perch by the end of the decade, hobbled by escalating substance abuse and exhausted from touring relentlessly in support of 1977's underperforming Draw the Line. This incessant tour schedule interrupted the sessions for Night in the Ruts, and Aerosmith's performances grew increasingly erratic as they ramped up their drug usage even more.
This exhaustion and debauchery worsened the friction between Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. The tension came to a head backstage after a show in Cleveland on July 28, 1979, and the guitarist quit the band following a cataclysmic argument. Aerosmith replaced Perry with Jimmy Crespo, who served as an official member of the band from 1979 through 1984.
Night in the Ruts' commercial performance reflected the band's burnout. The album debuted at No. 14 on the Billboard 200 but quickly fell down the charts and was panned by critics. Its only single, a cover of the Shangri-Las' "Remember (Walking in the Sand)," fizzled at No. 67 on the Hot 100.
Still, Night in the Ruts is far from the unmitigated disaster some critics made it out to be. From the autobiographical rocker "No Surprise" to the sleazy, riff-driven "Bone to Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy)," the record features some of Aerosmith's most fiery performances, harking back to their mid-'70s glory days of Toys in the Attic and Rocks. Still, the album was relegated to the dustbin of history when Aerosmith made their miraculous, MTV-fueled comeback in the late '80s.
(ultimateclassicrock.com/aerosmith-night-in-the-ruts-doomed-to-fail/)

BSCD2: When a standard CD is mastered, an Infared beam is used to make the digital notches on the master disc (mother matrix). With the Blu-spec master, a blue laser is used which is a finer etching process. With this technology, the notches are therefore more precise which reduce playback errors. The notches on a Blu-spec CD have a width of 125 nm compared to the 500 nm width on a standard CD.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-spec)

01. No Surprize (04:25)
02. Chiquita (04:24)
03. Remember (Walking In The Sand) (04:04)
04. Cheese Cake (04:15)
05. Three Mile Smile (03:41)
06. Reefer Head Woman (04:01)
07. Bone To Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy) (02:59)
08. Think About It (03:34)
09. Mia (04:15)

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Rockpile (Dave Edmunds) - Seconds Of Pleasure [7 bonus tracks] (1980)

Year: October 1980 (CD April 27, 2004)
Label: Columbia Records, Legacy Recordings (US), CK 63983
Style: Power Pop, Rockabilly, Pub Rock
Country: Cardiff, Wales (15 April 1944)
Time: 54:17
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 384 Mb

Seconds of Pleasure is a 1980 album by Rockpile, a band consisting of guitarists/vocalists Dave Edmunds and Billy Bremner, bassist/vocalist Nick Lowe, and drummer Terry Williams. The band had played together on various solo albums by Edmunds and Lowe in previous years, but Seconds of Pleasure would be the first (and only) album released under the Rockpile name.
The album's opening track, "Teacher, Teacher", became a minor hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was written by Kenny Pickett and Eddie Phillips, both of whom were former members of the 1960s British rock band The Creation. The song appears in the opening credits of the 2011 film, Bad Teacher.
"(Wrong Again) Let’s Face It” is a cover of the Squeeze song that was given away as a flexi-disc on the cover of the 4 October 1979 edition of Smash Hits.
A four-song EP, Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds Sing the Everly Brothers, was included in the first pressings of the LP; the songs were later included on the album's various CD versions.
The front cover is a painting by the designer Barney Bubbles, who used pseudonyms and rarely signed his work. This is signed "Dag".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconds_of_Pleasure)

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Raw Material - Raw Material [4 bonus tracks] (1970)

Year: 1970 (CD 1993)
Label: Background Records (UK), HBG 123/2
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 44:20
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 253 Mb

Raw Material was an English post-psych band that released a self-titled album in 1970 on small-press Evolution, followed in 1971 by Time Is… on RCA Neon.
Raw Material had its roots in a musical partnership between keyboardist Colin Catt and bassist Phil Gunn, classmates at Norwood Technical College during the mid-1960s. They commenced jam sessions as a trio with drummer Paul Young and employed their first in a series of guitarists just prior to leaving school. Inspired by Cream, Catt and Gunn made their initial forays into songwriting. Gradually, elements of blues and jazz crept into their R&B style. As Raw Material, they toured Germany in early 1969.
Raw Material rerecorded their first a-side and second b-side (as “Fighting Cock”) for their self-titled debut album, produced by Welch and released in 1970 on Evolution. Welch co-wrote two additional songs for the album: one with Linda Hatchard (“I’d Be Delighted“) and another with ex-Les Fleur De Lys Phil Sawyer (“Pear on an Apple Tree”).
Catt and Gunn co-wrote “Future Recollections” and collaborated on “Destruction of America” with session bassist Herbie Flowers (Rumplestiltskin, Hungry Wolf). Green co-wrote “Traveller Man” with beat producer Larry Page (The Kinks, The Knack, Riot Squad, The Troggs) and Yash Klodzinski (co-writer of “Willow Tree” by Fruit Machine, a precursor to Rare Bird).
Raw Material was engineered by 20-year-old Albuquerque-associate Robin Sylvester, a recent member of Ora who also worked on 1970 albums by Caravan, East of Eden, The Fox, Black Cat Bones, and the Mike Westbrook Concert Band. The cover depicts an ancient robed flutist, watched at a distance by dark beasts as smoke billows overhead from an out-of-frame volcano (possibly Vesuvius), obscuring the orange sky.
After the 1969 self-titled album by psych-rockers Arzachel, Raw Material was the second and final album released on Evolution, which ended its two-year run with a pair of early 1971 singles by popsters the Black Abbots.
Raw Material returned to Germany as a top-billed act. In July 1970, they played the Aachen Open Air Pop Festival, a three-day event at the Hauptstadion that also featured performances by Amon Duul II, Golden Earring, Edgar Broughton Band, Taste, the Keef Hartley Band, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, If, Quintessence, Pink Floyd, Krokodil, Can, and Kraftwerk.
In 1971, Raw Material appeared there on Vogue Schallplatten with an alternate cover that shows the five members standing in an overgrown meadow in hippie attire. The album also appeared on CBS (Italy) and Zel Records (Spain). The Spanish issue sports colorful psychedelic art in the vein of Peter Max.
The six-minute “Traveller Man” was split across two sides of a 7" single (Part 1+2) in the UK (Evolution), Germany (Ariola), and Belgium (Fever).
(jazzrocksoul.com/artists/raw-material/)

01. Time And Illusion (07:31)
02. I'D Be Delighted (05:07)
03. Fighting Cock (03:49)
04. Pear On An Apple Tree (03:00)
05. Future Recollections (03:55)
06. Traveller Man (06:14)
07. Desrtuction Of America (02:20)
08. Time And Illusion (Different Version) (03:11)
09. Hi There Hallelujah (02:46)
10. Bobo's Party (03:13)
11. Days Of The Fighting Cock (Different Version) (03:08)

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Gomorrha - Trauma [9 bonus tracks] (1971)

Year: 1971 (CD 2013)
Label: Long Hair (Germany), LHC00131
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: Germany
Time: 76:54
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 505 Mb

Formed at the end of the 60's, Gomorrha rised from the German progressive rock scene thanks to the help of the producer and sound engineer Conny Plank. The band original line up includes Helmut Pohl (drums) and Eberhard Krietsch (ogan, bass) with Ad Oschel and Ali Claudi at the guitars. They released their first album in 1970. The second recording "trauma" (1971) really marks a new step in the development of Gomorrha's original song. They distinguish with a dense heavy psych rock experience punctuated by organ dominated sequences. It now includes lyrics in English and a lead singer in the name of Peter Otten. In 1972 they release what will be considered as their summit "I Turned To See Whose Voice It Was"; An adventurous album featuring catchy instrumental jams, krautrock's original psych / spacey mood, pastoral flute parts and heavy guitar riffs. The concept of this release is focused on the apocalypse theme and the book of revelation. They suddenly split up in 1973 after the publication of two memorable documents of German independent rock.
(progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2131)

01. Journey (03:11)
02. Trauma (13:12)
03. Yesterday (03:45)
04. Lola (04:26)
05. Dead Land (03:28)
06. Summer (02:49)
07. Rainbowlight (02:42)
08. Dance Of Circles (03:07)
09. Firehands (03:14)
10. Lola (Bonus German version) (04:02)
11. Totes Land (Bonus-German Version) (03:26)
12. Flammenhande (Bonus-German Version) (03:11)
13. Reise (Bonus-German Version) (02:38)
14. Regenbogenschein (Bonus-German Version) (03:03)
15. Gestern (Bonus-German Version) (03:21)
16. Kreiseltanz (Bonus-German Version) (04:11)
17. Sommer (Bonus-German Version) (03:49)
18. Trauma (German Version) (09:13)

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Leaf Hound - Growers Of Mushroom (1971)

Year: October 1971 (CD 2005)
Label: Repertoire Records (UK), REPUK 1079
Style: Hard Rock, Blues Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 48:06
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 365 Mb

Growers of Mushroom is the debut studio album by English hard rock band Leaf Hound. It was originally released in 1970 as Leaf Hound by Telefunken in Germany only. It was re-released in 1971 in the UK by Decca as Growers of Mushroom. It is the only album by the original line-up of the band. Consisting of original material, the album is often cited as a pioneering example of heavy metal, hard rock, psychedelic rock and stoner rock.
Leaf Hound came together in 1970. They signed a contract with management agency Lynton Maitland, who arranged an album deal with Decca and one day of studio recording time. Growers of Mushroom was recorded in one 11-hour session at Spot Studios in Mayfair, London.
All but one of the tracks were composed by members of the band. Most of the material was written by vocalist Pete French and lead guitarist Mick Halls, who were cousins. According to French, late in the recording session they realised that they had run out of songs and time was limited, so he and Halls composed "With a Minute to Go" on the spot. According to an interview with French in 2019, the impromptu composition was "Sawdust Caesar". Another telling has it that "With a Minute to Go" and "Sawdust Caesar" had their titles mistakenly swapped on the record, and were left that way. The title track "Growers of Mushroom" was named after a story from the Pan Book of Horror Stories, about a woman slowly poisoning her husband with toadstools, although the lyrics were more about having a hallucination. The song not composed by the band was "Drowned My Life in Fear", written by Peter Ross.
(full version: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growers_of_Mushroom)

01. Freelance Fiend (03:10)
02. Sad Road To The Sea (04:16)
03. Drowned My Life In Fear (03:00)
04. Work My Body (08:11)
05. Stray (03:48)
06. With A Minute To Go (04:18)
07. Growers Of Mushroom (02:17)
08. Stagnant Pool (03:58)
09. Sawdust Caesar (04:30)
10. It's Gonna Get Better (bonus track) (03:05)
11. Hipshaker (bonus track) (03:32)
12. Too Many Rock 'N Roll Times (special bonus track) (03:56)

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Leaf Hound - Unleashed (2007)

Year: 2007 (CD Nov 12, 2007)
Label: Repertoire Records (UK), RAR 1020
Style: Hard Rock, Blues Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 48:00
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 332 Mb

After Repertoire Records reissued the 1971 debut Growers of Mushroom from British hard rock legends Leaf Hound a few years back, it was only appropriate that they also release the first new recordings from this band in 36 years. 2007's Unleashed, which sees original singer Peter French fronting the new line-up of guitarist Luke Rayner, bassist Ed Pearson, and drummer Jimmy Rowland, successfully hones in on that bluesy heavy rock style that the original Leaf Hound spearheaded all those years ago. It's modern sounding, but still containing those classic elements that are near and dear to so many fans.
French, who also went on to play with both Atomic Rooster and Cactus after leaving Leaf Hound, is in surprisingly very good form vocally here, and he has quite the find in young guitar stud Rayner. Heavy rockers like "The Man With the Moon in Him", "One Hundred and Five Degrees", and "Stop, Look and Listen" contain plenty of beefy, snarling heavy rock riffs that will appease any fan of the original Leaf Hound album, as well as other acts like Humble Pie, Bad Company, Mountain, and Foghat. "Barricades" and "Nickels and Dimes" have a fun, blues-rock vibe to them that's not unlike some of the Rolling Stones '70s output, while "Too Many Rock 'N' Roll Times" mixes Cream & Ten Years After styled swagger thanks to French's great vocal and some scorching blues-rock riffs from Rayner. The band even does a great heavy cover of the Atomic Rooster song "Breaththrough", paying tribute to the late Hammond organ master Vincent Crane, with Rayner tossing in some massive riffs and solos to cover all the original organ parts.
Honestly, this is as pure a '70s styled heavy rock album as you are going to get in this day and age. French, who I must once again stress, sounds fantastic here, has done a great job assembling a red-hot band of younger guys to help him carry out his current vision of Leaf Hound. If you like this sort of thing, don't miss out on Unleashed, and we can only hope the band have something else new up their sleeves, as this one is now six years old. Word has it that they are working on a live album to be released sometime in late 2013, which should really be something to look forward to.
(seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=14443) Review by Pete Pardo. 4/5. April 25th 2013

01. One Hundred And Five Degrees (04:36)
02. Barricades (04:55)
03. The Man With The Moon In Him (05:31)
04. Nickels And Dimes (05:49)
05. Stop Look And Listen (06:01)
06. Overtime (03:23)
07. Too Many Rock N Roll Times (03:59)
08. Deception (06:14)
09. Breakthrough (07:26)

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