RICHARD "DICKEY" BETTS [R.I.P.] - Highway Call LP 74 w Night CD 81 w The Dickey Betts Band - Pattern Disruptive CD 88 w Betts, Hall, Leavel & Trucks - Geneva, NY CD 83

 Want to thank a new Southern Rock blog to me called Skydog Elysium for the CD files and old blog sponsor store in Sarasota, FL (near Osprey where he lived many years) for selling me his first solo album which I might add I had on very loud last weekend enjoying how good it is after learning about Dickey's Allman Brother's token dual guitar sound which of course I loved already as 'Ramblin' Man' played constantly on our MN AOR-originally radio station.  That is his voice singing.  Oh sure, now the blogs have more in my search today!  I ordered the 'VA - Hotels, Motels and Road Shows' double vinyl that has a live tune by Dickey that I will add to the 'Alive' comp. at Skydog Elysium.  R.I.P.

https://bestfile.io/LNdj1Nv3xHVS1Ee/file

WET WILLIE - The Wetter The Better LP 76 w Manorisms Live/Studio Promo LP 77 78

 REPOST and ADD ON:  Well, we gotta surround Dickey above with some of his Southern USA friends so pulled out the Live promo album to add to previously posted.  I thought it would be a whole live album but has same songs on side 2 but as studio versions pulled from the album.

https://bestfile.io/vXV9clMG2bVeJJQ/file

PAUL HARDCASTLE - RAIN FOREST LP 85

 This Goodwill find really impressed me, it is on RUN DMC's label Profile and is a loud rockin' affair!  Per Discogs:  Real Name: Paul Louis Hardcastle

Profile: British electronic producer, multi-instrumentalist musician, songwriter, and artist.  Born: 10 December 1957 in Kensington, London, England, UK.

Hardcastle enjoyed success on the underground dance scene in the early 1980s before, under the management of Simon Fuller, breaking into the mainstream with his hit single"19", an international smash which spent five weeks at number one in the UK. In the latter half of the 1980s he specialised in TV soundtrack work, and now records mainly under the pseudonym The Jazzmasters.

Due to contractual restrictions he was unable to release music under the Hardcastle name. So under the pseudonym The Deff Boyz, he released a 12" single entitled "Swing" (1990), which crashed in at #4 on Billboards 12" sales chart and was a massive hit all over Europe. Another project under the name LFO also saw massive sales.

In 1997, Paul did some work for the movie "Spice World", later working as a radio presenter in the US. He has sold over 20 million records worldwide.

He is married to his teenage sweetheart Dolores Hardcastle (born Dolore Baker) and together they have 3 children: Maxine Hardcastle, Paul Hardcastle Jr., and Richard Hardcastle.

His younger sister is Susan Hardcastle, who lent her voice to the backing vocals for the song "Fooling Yourself".

https://bestfile.io/g4JmgvOJdDl7SS7/file

Steve Taylor - I Want To Be A Clone EP 83 w Meltdown LP w Remixes CD 83 84 w On The Fritz LP 85 w Liver CD 95

 Well, since the vinyl from Goodwill of the Meltdown album was sketchy (I put at end of songs) I went and got the two CD's for cheap to add to this post.  This guy clicks all the categories starting with 80's electronic, religious lyrics on some songs and prog rock believe it or not as that is how he is listed.  Per Discogs:  Real Name: Roland Stephen Taylor

Profile: Controversial Christian musician, songwriter, producer and director, born December 9, 1957 in Brawley, California, USA. Founded Squint Entertainment.

Yeah, I can see the controversial as he calls out 'retards' back when we were given detention for using this word back then.  But hey as Mark Underground always said 'this blog is NOT P.C."  I think he gets for the award for best song title that applies today, "Meat The Press".  Ha ha and all this after being literally flattened and then coaxed back in with such natural phrasings…I compare this radical prog to belong with right now on 25 Gb back up folder random song play of of course Jonesy of which I speak prog all over started by Aura as we posted and took over Yes but to a good degree  I think from Laura Nyro free form song structure as it were later with Gentle Giant who can really be the wiser to when Prog Rock started  https://bestfile.io/pyULIzV4Sf9F2LD/file

Forever Amber - The Love Cycle CD 69 - cc

 TOP 100 RARE LIST:  O.K. got a very cool one here as I know a collector trying to get a copy and was offering up an unopened Bent Wind for it.  It made his top 3 with 'Dark - Round the Edges from 1972 along with I think it was the Bachs or maybe It's All Meat from 1970.  I've mentioned him before as the guy who brought The Pagans to our town and taped me all the Misfits singles as the very first bootlegs were coming out.  My first trade with him at his old record store was for the Dogmatics 7 inch.  Anyhoo, per Discogs:  

Forever Amber from Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, was a young, British six piece pop band that lacked the money and resources to make it big. Apparently, only 99 copies of their sole album The Love Cycle were manufactured to avoid tax. Originally known as "The Country Cousins", they changed their name to Forever Amber in response to the rise of psychedelia in 1967. They were founded in 1967 and broke up in 1969.

https://bestfile.io/reY2Z2vDvE3KkXp/file

MOSE ALLISON - The Best Of LP 70 w The Seventh Son LP 73 w I Don't Worry About A Thing CD 99

 REPOST and ADD ON:  Adding the Best Of which I had missed the first time from the Goodwill finds.  What I wrote before:  Happy to find some Mose on vinyl to add.  This guy I think of as a Jazz lounge act that influence 'Stuff' era Alex Chilton.  Singing voice a little like John Hammond and he was highly regarded in the blues rock scene.

https://bestfile.io/en/veJT9MOOL17jdYJ/file

PAGES - st CD 78 w Future Street CD 79 w st CD 81

 Our own ClassicMusic20 gifted us with these three last year and must have got lost in the shuffle as I had the file all ready to post so now here it is.  Per Wiki:  Pages was an American pop rock band active during the late 1970s and the early 1980s. The band consisted of Richard Page and Steve George on vocals and keyboards supported by various studio musicians, some of whom from time to time were considered part of the band. Although Pages was highly regarded for its well-crafted pop and jazz-fusion sound, the group did not achieve commercial success, and disbanded after recording three studio albums. Pages is perhaps best known as the launching pad for the recording careers of Page and George, who later formed the band Mr. Mister who topped the charts during the mid-1980s with the hits "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie".

https://bestfile.io/PIAIRGAPSHDbooa/file

https://bestfile.io/PIAIRGAPSHDbooa/file

CISSY HOUSTON - THINK IT OVER LP 78

 This one from Goodwill was surprise...Whitney Houston's mom and she also sings on it!  Per Discogs:  Real Name: Emily Houston, formerly Garland, née Drinkard

Profile:

American soul and gospel singer (b. 30 Sept. 1933), Newark, New Jersey. Was a prolific background vocalist before becoming a solo artist. Released a handful of disco recordings as well. She is also the mother of Whitney Houston, and the aunt of Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick.

https://bestfile.io/X6FojJnMcsHLG5x/file

PAT FARENGA - THE TIME IS NOW LP

 Well, I think you know by now that I like those obscuro crooners in the past like Brian French or Chip Hand as long as they cheese it up ha ha.  Pat here only had this one vinyl  and a 7 from 1984 and it was found on a Goodwill trip during lunch break long ago.

https://bestfile.io/UbkHQIVoNxSzSYi/file

MAGICAL STRINGS - [PHILIP & PAM BOULDING] SPRING TIDE LP 82

 Have several of these 'strings' records from Goodwill from various groups and was going to post them as a mini-theme all at once but accidentally pulled this one for the glorious spring we are having in the South USA and so will try trickle them out one by one over the coming weeks.  Discogs for Philip: American multi-instrumentalist and instrument maker. Married to Pam Boulding and father of Morgan Boulding, Marshall Boulding, Geoffrey Boulding, Brenin Boulding, and Brittany Boulding.  And for Pam:   American multi-instrumentalist. Married to Philip Boulding and mother of Morgan Boulding, Marshall Boulding, Geoffrey Boulding, Brenin Boulding, and Brittany Boulding.

https://bestfile.io/TiWBPMSD7o3NUdp/file

AGITATION FREE - MALESCH CD 72 - cc

 COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  A pretty cool one for this week.  Per Discogs:  Agitation Free was formed in Berlin, Germany, in 1967 by Lutz 'Lüül' Ulbrich, Michael 'Fame' Günther, Lutz 'Ludwig' Kramer and Christoph Franke. Initially, the group "The Agitation" was formed at the end of 1966 by the merger of members of the Berlin rock bands "The Centries" (Lutz Ulbrich, Christoph Franke) and "The Ugly Things" (Lutz Kramer, Michael Günther). The group had to change the name because there was already another band with the same name. Based on a poster for a promo gig with free admission, "Agitation Free" was chosen.

Famous for their multimedia light shows, they became the house band for the infamous Zodiac club in Berlin. In 1968, they were joined by vocalist John L., who was fired within in the year, possibly for his naked stage antics. In 1970, Ludwig Kramer left and was replaced by Ax Genrich. Likewise, Christoph Franke left this year to join Tangerine Dream (who, like Ash Ra Tempel, shared practice space with Agitation Free). To replace these losses, the group recruited Jörg Schwenke and Gerd Klemke. Klemke was not to last long though, and the group finally stabilised in 1971 as a quintet with the addition of Michael Hoenig and Burghard Rausch. In 1972, the group toured Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Greece, during this time they made a recording which appeared on their first LP Malesch (released June 1972). In March 1973, Schwenke left the group and was replaced by Stefan Diez. At the same time, a second drummer, Dietmar Burmeister joined the group. This line up was featured on the posthumous release Last, and without Diaz the group recorded their 2nd LP in Munich in July 1973. Shortly after this Diez quit and was replaced by Gustl Lutjens. The group made their final studio recordings in 1974 and then disbanded after a goodbye concert in Berlin in November 1974. (Material from 1974 would later appear on the Last LP, on the Fragments album and on The Other Sides Of CD.) However, the band would return with original members, releasing a comeback album in 1999 with River Of Return, and in recent years the band has played live concerts, e.g. in Tokyo in 2007 or in Berlin in 2013.

https://bestfile.io/pyaAt0ucfM7Rmwh/file

PLATINUM BLONDE - Hey Hey You 7 80 w Standing In The Dark LP 83 w 7 85 w Alien Shores LP 85 w Contact LP 87 w Seven Year Itch CD w Best Live CD 86

 REPOST Request:  I have a treat for you PB fans on this particular repost, I found the unopened Hey Hey You 7 80 rip file I had downloaded from defunct Brazilian blog isksp as done by Felipe who is still a meta friend.  This one is way early--just look at that black and white picture right above!

https://bestfile.io/en/kMCeoj6xuKIIn5p/file

SHRIEKBACK - Tench CD 82 w Care CD 83 w Jam Science CD 84 w Oil & Gold CD 85 w Big Night Music CD 86 w Go Bang! CD 88 w Sacred City CD 92

REPOST Request:  What I had written before:  Now this one is definitely my oldest request and I just happened to find all these from the defunct blog 80sonspeed as I am relabeling all my old zip files that most blogs had coded in the title such that I could never find anything.  Enjoy this great band! (only up to 1992).  Looks like I only have the one pictured from my home vinyl collection.

https://bestfile.io/rcaHTatbfPRXdnl/file

SWEARING IN THE BUSHES - A SHOCKING RECORD FOR MEN LP 62

 The closest I could get to our little blog posts below for Australia was this comedy record that has an Aussie in some of the bits but mainly this is a New England area piece of work with a bunch of players.  Was a little beat up in some areas losing a word or two may gum up the meanings but only a little bit in a couple of zones...mostly the words are clear.  Have a laugh!

https://bestfile.io/WnN3N4cPHiKQK83/file

Player [1] - Game Over CD 80

 Well it seems even ClassicMusic20 wants to celebrate the Australians this week per Rixboy's requests below.  This is the only album they did around the time of Space Invaders.  Per Discogs:  "Space Invaders" is a song by Australian songwriters Russell Dunlop and Bruce Brown, recording under the band name Player One (commonly stylized as Player [1]) in 1979. The song is based on the hugely successful 1978 video game Space Invaders. It was a novelty hit in Australia, peaking at No. 3 on the Kent Music Report charts, and ending up as the fourth best selling single in Australia for 1980.

The arcade game of the same name, Space Invaders, was released by Japanese company Taito in 1978 and had become a global phenomenon by 1979. The Warner Music office in Sydney had its own arcade cabinet of the game, which prompted the idea of a song cashing in on the game's popularity. They took the project to Sydney producer duo Russell Dunlop and Bruce Brown, who took inspiration from the Space Invaders game to create the song's bassline. According to Brown: "We actually went out with a machine before we did the record and recorded all the sound effects of it and had a little fiddle around with it".

Dunlop and Brown also released an album as Player One, Game Over. Dunlop recalled: "We sat down and wrote a bunch of space songs, but instead of sticking to the concept of the hit, we wandered off into the 'clever' musical genre with fancy time signatures, radical chord progressions and so on. The reply came back for the States that this was intended for 13- to 14-year-olds: 'You've lost us.'"

The single and album were released in the US under the band name Playback, which Brown and Dunlop had used for other projects, to avoid confusion with the US band Player. The US version of the album was titled Space Invaders.

The song was released internationally but failed to chart outside Australia. It was, however, influential in the history of electronic dance music, being sampled by Jesse Saunders for the bassline of what is commonly held to be the first Chicago house record, "On and On" (1984). The "Space Invaders" bassline was thus influential in the early history of house music.

https://bestfile.io/pZpen3FY463Hb0w/file

HUNTERS AND COLLECTORS - Talk To A Stranger EP 82 And EP 83 w Judas Sheep EP 83 w The Jaws Of Life LP 84 w Human Frailty LP 86 w Back On The Breadline EP 86 w What's A Few Men LP 87 w Fate LP 88

 REPOST Request:  Hunters & Collectors are an Australian rock band formed in 1981. Fronted by founding mainstay, singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Seymour, they developed a blend of pub rock and art-funk. Originally influenced by Krautrock and productions of Conny Plank, featuring strong percussive influences, noisy guitar, and driving bass lines. Their sound was in the vein of Talking Heads' 1980 album Remain in Light. They became one of the best live acts in Australia and according to musicologist Ian McFarlane, their "great achievement was to lay bare human emotions in the intensely ritualistic milieu of the pub-rock gig".

https://bestfile.io/dH2RuvzijkEKV96/file

ANGEL CITY - Face To Face LP 76-80 w Darkroom LP 80 w Night Attack LP 82 w Two Minute Warning LP 84 w The Angels From Angel City bw Beyond Salvation LP 89

 REPOST Request:  What I wrote before:  Just listened to my old favorite radio hit that our local MN punks at the time RIFLE SPORT covered so well--their hit song ''Marseilles" biza biza BOO!  A special song for me that took me away to exciting destinations and snarling shouted vocals that I like!  Much harder than for instance The Kings similar overplayed hit so right down my alleyway, ENJOY!

https://bestfile.io/jleAhnx3nWosQvw/file