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Fancey – Fancey
Fancey are masterminded by one Todd Fancey, a Vancouverite who has done time in Limblifter and the New Pornographers, thus the presence of Kurt Dahle as his right-hand man on this project (with his left-hand […]
Month: July 2005
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Various Artists – Pop Scenes From Perth
On their own Zip offers this sampling — 11 bands — from the environs around their Australian office, the very warm (all right, let’s just say it, “it gets damn hot there”) coastal city of […]
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Various Artists – Pop Greetings Volume 4, Sweden
This one also dates back a bit. Sweden’s Yesterday Girl label has, as the volume number in the title implies, been doing a series of these built around little scenes. The previous volumes were Minnesota, […]
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Various Artists – What A Concept!
– A Salute To Teenage Fanclub – At 24 cuts in over 79 minutes this thing is so stuffed that the last tune, Near You via Joyride gets cut off after the first 30 seconds, […]
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Martin Luther Lennon – Redux
Anyone aware of the L. A. power-pop scene of the last ten years or so must be familiar with the name of Tony Perkins, hiding behind the Martin Luther Lennon monicker, which then again, just […]
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Various Artists – Hit The Hay Vol. 7
A man with more drive and stamina than I’ve ever demonstrated is Jerker Emanuelsson. He’s been putting out these compilations, the more recent ones being double disc sets too, plus the other odd releases, for […]
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The Beatstalkers – Scotland’s No.1 Beat Group
This is another one of those LONG overdue re-releases, and also being the first ever compiling the complete works of these Glasgowian beatsters. All it took was an enthusiastic fan, which happens to be the […]
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J.D. Blackfoot – The Ultimate Prophecy
Regarded as one of those long-lost psych albums, praised by some and criticised by others, J.D.Blackfoot’s The Ultimate Prophecy, originally released in 1971, is here again for another re-evaluation episode. Besides the original physical division […]
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Gary Puckett And The Union Gap – Young Girl + Incredible
Though they weren’t really a “one hit wonder”, the first, and in most cases probably the only song that the name of Gary Puckett & The Union Gap brings to mind is the orchestrated soft […]
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Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart – I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonite
Always kinda lurking behind their “Monkeesidemen” role, Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart actually had their own moment of fame, which might’ve taken them way beyond the “classic songwriting duo” section, alongside such luminaries as Goffin/King, […]