Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Black Lotus Records – BLRCD100
Format:
CD, Album, Promo, Slim Jevelcase
Country:
Released:
2005
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Heavy Metal
Tracklist
1 Tonight 3:26
2 Axes 2 Axes (Instrumental) 3:21
3 Please Remember 3:37
4 Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles Cover) 2:13
5 Evil Duz (What Evil Knows) 4:11
6 Crosstown (Instrumental) 2:53
7 Senorita Knows 3:39
8 Love Power 3:26
9 Funky Monkey (Instrumental) 2:26
10 The Reason 5:22
11 Living Free 4:01
Credits
Bass – Eddie Ojeda (tracks: 4)
Bass, Backing Vocals – Chris McCarvill
Drums – Joe Franco
Vocals – Dee Snider (tracks: 4), Joe Lynn Turner (tracks: 11), Ronnie James Dio (tracks: 1)
Vocals, Guitar – Eddie Ojeda (tracks: 3, 5, 7, 8, 10)
DESCRIPTION
When Alan Bishop becomes obsessed with something, he often goes to great lengths (and travels great distances) to turn that obsession into an essential artifact. Such is the case with his latest group's Sub Pop debut, Koes Barat, a sincere, gripping tribute to a band of Indonesian brothersâ€"the Koeswoyosâ€"whose instantly catchy garage-rock songs and ridiculously charming ballads caused a sensation in their homeland, Singapore, and Malaysia. They also made their government very uneasy: Basing your look on Western musicians and covering Beatles songs were considered subversive activities in mid-'60s Indonesia. Back in 2010, Sun City Girls legend Bishop asserted his fandom of Koes Bersaudara (aka Koes Plus) with two archival releases of their music on his and Hisham Mayet's Sublime Frequencies label. But that noble gesture wasn't enough to sate Bishop's appreciation of this music that flourished from the mid '60s to 1970. He also felt an overwhelming urge to interpret what he felt to be the best Koes tunes. To that end, he enlisted some of his favorite musicians in the Spoilsâ€"guitarist Milky Burgess, drummer Don McGreevy, and bassist Jim Davisâ€"all of whom also play or played with Seattle’s Master Musicians Of Bukkake, and producer Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Marisa Nadler) to work the boards. Koes Barat was cut in less than a week of sessions, and the results hit your ears with a revelatory smack. It is the most immediate, fun collection that the prolific Bishop has ever led. “I just wanted to do it without thinking of it as an album, †Bishop says. I brought rough mixes of the songs to Jakarta and played them on various radio stations and then I played them for Koes Plus. All my Indonesian friends were very supportive (laughing at/charmed by my 'creative' pronunciation of the Bahasa lyrics), even the Koeswoyos were amazed how vintage the production sounded. †While Bishop admires and is inspired by the Koeswoyo brothers' courage to make this kind of “forbidden†music while in the grip of an oppressive government, he ultimately returns to the band's “amazing songs, their longevity in continuing to challenge themselves to continue producing/recording album after album over decades. â€What does Bishop think 21st-century listeners can gain from this music? “I think this music stands the test of time. Their Indonesian fan base turns over from generation to generation, always increasing in number. They are perhaps the most popular and recognizable Indonesian music group of all time. Whatever can be learned or gained from this music is not my concern. People either get it or they don’t. I love them to death and if this album can turn more people on to the Koes Bersaudara/Koes Plus legacy, even better. â€This album is a Record Store Day 2015 exclusive, limited to 3, 800 worldwide.
Notes
Issued for Record Store Day 2015 in an embossed sleeve with printed inner sleeve.
Limited to 3,800 worldwide.
WEA
Vinyl LP pressing. 2016 release from the legendary vocalist. English Heart is Ronnie's lovingly crafted and highly personal love letter to Britain in the 60s (where she and The Ronettes were one of the earliest American pop/rock artists to tour to major acclaim). The album sports a collection of her hand-picked favorites by The Beatles, Gerry & the Pacemakers and the first single to radio – Keith Richards' penned treasure, "I'd Much Rather Be with the Girls" featuring The Ronettes. Includes classic songs like "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstoond", "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart", "Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying", "I'll Follow The Sun" and more.
UNI
Tracklist
Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby)
Because
I'd Much Rather Be With The Girls
Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
Tired Of Waiting
Tell Her No
I'll Follow The Sun
You've Got Your Troubles
Girl Don't Come
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
2015 release, the first internationally available new album from Ireland's Pugwash. Features guest appearances from Ray Davies (The Kinks), Heil Hannon (The Divine Comedy), Andy Partridge (XTC) and a cameo from Jeff Lynne (ELO). Pugwash is an Irish pop band fronted by Drimnagh-born musician Thomas Walsh. Influences on the band's sound are regularly cited as including XTC, Electric Light Orchestra and Jeff Lynne, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, Honeybus and The Beatles, though Walsh dismisses the Beatles comparisons as "lazy". Play This Intimately (As If Among Friends) is the band's long awaited follow-up to their critically-adored 2011 album The Olympus Sound. Then again, all of their albums have been critically adored by critics and guitar pop fans alike
Andy Gabbard – Fluff
Label:
Alive Records – ALIVE0167-1
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:
US
Released:
24 Mar 2015
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Brimming with creativity, “Fluff” is the debut album from singer-songwriter Andy Gabbard (Buffalo Killers). This is “Modern Grunge Fuzz Pop with 60’s aura”. On “Fluff” you can hear the deeply-solid effects of the grunge genre and mid-90’s ‘alternative music’ in a sonic gestalt. Exhibiting characteristics of fairly recent genres, as well as some classics that surrounded him during his youth, the album breaks barriers of seemingly comfortable, unthreatening music cultivating a physical embodiment of Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr, latter Beatles and even Brian Wilson!
Tracklist
A1 Fluff
A2 Side B
A3 Home Suite
A4 Supernational
A5 Everything She Does
A6 Octoman
B1 Lonely Girl
B2 LYSM
B3 More
B4 Look Not Sound
B5 Dreams I Can't Remember
B6 D.D.S.