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Peter’s Twenty Favourite Albums 2024

January 18, 2025 0

As tradition calls for since 2015, here’s twenty personal favourites among newly recorded albums released in 2024. Each album comes with a commentary and a featured track as a taster. Most artists have been around […]

The Gories – Cry Girl

December 16, 2024 0

SinglesGoingSteady#04: The Gories – Cry Girl [Wild Honey Records; 2024] 04 is both a new and old sensation. Although recently released, The Gories recorded Cry Girl in Memphis back in 1990. Cry Girl has previously […]

Thee Cha Cha Chas – Rock’n’Roll Till I’m Dead

October 31, 2024 1

SinglesGoingSteady#03: Thee Cha Cha Chas – Rock’n’Roll Till I’m Dead [Folc Records; 2023] Thee Cha Cha Chas’ approach to music can best be summed up as “good clean fun”. Unpretentious, straightforward garage punk rock’n’roll with […]

The Fevers – Don’t Tell Me It’s Wrong

October 8, 2024 1

SinglesGoingSteady#02: The Fevers – Don’t Tell Me It’s Wrong [Get Hip Recordings, 2005] The Fevers churned out some really good power pop stuff between 1998 and 2006; two albums, two singles and one EP. Their […]

Randells – Seven Inch

September 9, 2024 1

SinglesGoingSteady #01: Randells – Seven Inch [Jarama 45RPM Recs.,2022] What could be better than starting this series of highly recommended – but perhaps not so well-known – songs with one that celebrates the 7″ format […]

Bo-Dogs – Bad Bad Dog! [Low Impact Records; 2014]

February 22, 2024 0

My music heart has a special place for albums where all the songs are under three minutes. The concept becomes more packed that way, and you thus avoid a lot of wasted time. No detours, […]

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The Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man" [Columbia, CS 9172], 6/1965.

In "360 SOUND" STEREO "360 SOUND". Note the black lettering on the label.

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The Moondogs "Who's Gonna Tell Mary" / "Overcaring Parents" [Real Records, ARE 13], 10/1980.

Good vibrations from the Northern Irish power pop band.

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The Beach Boys "Do It Again" / "Wake The World" [Capitol, F 2239], 1968.

Swedish release with a not quite up-to-date photo..

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is #nowplaying Lloyd Cole And The Commotions "Rattlesnakes" (12") [Polydor, COLEX 3], 11/1984.

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Sheet music the Move "Fire Brigade".

Westins not-klubb. Polydor, 1968.

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is #nowplaying Elvis Costello "This Year's Model" [Radar Records, RAD 3], 3/1978.

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As time goes by, here I go again with:

The Hollies "Here I Go Again" / "Baby That's All" [Parlophone, R 5137], 1964.

Swedish release.

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Sad to read about Svenne Hedlund's passing. The times I met him, he was always happy, humble with a nice subtle sense of humor.

We had an interview with Svenne in Now & Then #8 where he talks about Swedish pop life in the 60s and of course mainly about Hep Stars. He had lost his copy of the magazine so I was happy to give him some new copies. You can see him holding it in the slightly blurry picture.

Thanks for the music and memories Svenne.

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This Ramones book and its photos look fantastic. Really looking forward to reading it. "Ramones in Sweden", and in Swedish.

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My music heart has a special place for albums where all the songs are under three minutes. The concept becomes more packed that way, and you thus avoid a lot of wasted time. No detours, […]

Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders – Tells Us All A Story/Prison Of Love (single)

March 11, 2022 0

Even though the album … There’s Pretty Things in Palookaville … from last year, by Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders, was fully packed, there are even more recordings in the pipeline waiting for release. Pat […]

Jeremy Scott – Bear Grease (album)

February 23, 2022 1

Jeremy Scott is best known from his work with Harlan T. Bobo and the Memphis-based bands The Toy Trucks and, maybe foremost, Reigning Sound – currently in the spotlight with the album A Little More […]

Alan Vega – After Dark (album)

September 24, 2021 0

This second unearthing in 2021 from the late Alan Vega (1938–2016) archive, the posthumous After Dark (In The Red Recordings), is very reminiscent of Alan Vegas’ two-day improvisation with Alex Chilton, which materialized as Cubist […]

Reigning Sound – A Little More Time with Reigning Sound (album)

June 17, 2021 0

As Jeremy Scott, the bassist of Reigning Sound, commented a while ago on PopDiggers’ announcement of Merge Records’ re-issue of Abdication…For Your Love – Plus, Reigning Sound had an album underway – seven years after […]

He’s Bad! 11 Bands Decimate The Beats of Bo Diddley (6×7” box, various artists)

May 22, 2021 0

Slovenly Recordings’/Black Gladiator‘s limited edition box set contains six 7” with Bo Diddley-related material – all are covers of Elias McDaniel’s or his co-conspirators originals. Some of them are well known while others are rare. […]

Bad Nerves – Bad Nerves (album, 2020)

February 22, 2021 0

Bad Nerves is an East London quintet with three singles in the baggage before this self-titled debut album was released in late 2020. It’s full throttle from start to finish with twelve songs in less […]

Olofssons Lost Treasures – Vol. 2

June 13, 2019 0

Efter ytterligare tolv artiklar och två specialartiklar är det ännu en gång dags att summera dem med en spellista. Det är också dags att ta en längre paus, efter att under drygt sju intensiva månader […]

Finnkampen i sextiotalspop

May 30, 2019 0

Olofssons Lost Treasures erkänner villigt att kunskaperna i finländsk pophistoria lämnar mycket övrigt att önska. Men nu, när Finland vann Hockey-VM och den första Finnkampen i sextiotalspop, är det hög tid att sätta sig i […]

The Outer Limits – klassisk engelsk sextiotalspop

May 17, 2019 1

För några veckor sedan skrev Olofssons Lost Treasures om staden Leeds i samband med artikeln om Christine Quaite. Varför inte ta och återvända dit för att berätta om mannen bakom en av pophistoriens stora landsplågor. […]

Hedge & Donna – det vackraste!

May 10, 2019 0

I förra veckan beskrev jag Smokey and His Sisters melodier som hänförande och fjäderlätta, med stämmor som nästan bad om ursäkt för sin existens. Denna vecka återanvänder jag temat men går ytterligare ett steg längre. […]

A Genius and His Music

May 3, 2019 0

Nej, veckans Olofssons Lost Treasures ska inte handla om A Man And His Music, men väl om ett annat musikaliskt geni, vars hänförande och fjäderlätta melodier med klassiska förtecken får hin håle själv att bli […]

Christine sixteen – and Quaite charming

April 12, 2019 0

Två av mina guilty pleasures är The Moody Blues (perioden 1967–1972) och The Carpenters, men de som redan börjar skruva på sig av rädsla för att Olofssons Lost Treasures ska vidröra någon av de grupperna […]

Hugh Barker and Yuval Taylor – Faking It

August 13, 2020 0

I finally got to read Faking It after all these years. But this time gap matters less, since the framed topic is still valid and maybe even more relevant today. The question of authenticity is […]

Dogmatics are back for sure!

February 8, 2020 0

What a pleasant surprise it was to reconnect with Dogmatics after so many years through their 2019 7” release She’s The One; a 1m44s pop knockout that Buddy Holly should have been proud of. The […]

The Third Wave of Big Stir Singles

September 12, 2019 0

It is easy to sympathize with the fact that Big Stir Records has taken its name to pay tribute to Big Star, which also indicates what output is expected from Big Stir. Big Stir Records […]

Gabba Gabba Hey Ho

August 9, 2019 0

The Ramones are among the strongest proofs of a mismatch between long time impact and records sold. Their slow burner debut album Ramones acquired status of US gold (500,000 copies) as late as 2014 – […]

Reigning Sound: Abdication…For Your Love – plus

August 3, 2019 2

Superstitious people may say that Greg Cartwright’s lucky stars must have been aligned when he was approached by the car company Toyota’s US “Generation Y brand” Scion in 2011 to make a promotion record. All […]

Ugly Things # 50 – Fifty Reasons to be Cheerful

June 9, 2019 0

This landmark release # 50 of Ugly Things is certainly a very good reason to celebrate its editor Mike Stax and at the same time congratulate all readers of this exquisite music magazine. Mike Stax […]

Lenny Kaye – Lightning Striking

July 9, 2022 0

Lenny Kaye is a household name to most of us through his dedicated commitment to music; either on the stage as guitarist with Patti Smith or occupied behind the desk writing articles in many music […]

DEAD MAN’S CURVE: Mark A. Moore relives The Rock ‘n’ Roll Life of JAN BERRY

April 8, 2022 0

I must confess that prior to the red-hot July of 1964, I’d never ever heard anything quite like Tommy Morgan’s harmonica solo on The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena) …Dylan vinyl having not yet infiltrated […]

Seth Bovey – Five Years Ahead of My Time

February 22, 2020 0

I am not the first to congratulate Seth Bovey for writing a book that fills an important gap in the music history. Garage rock is for some reason sadly under-represented compared to other genres when […]

Gene Clark – The Byrd And The Best (Del 6 av 6)

September 23, 2020 1

Några avslutande ord från skribenten: Det är dags att avsluta en fantastisk resa, som inleddes den 11:e december i fjol. Men jag kanske återvänder med djuplodande biografier om mina andra favoritartister i framtiden. Trots att […]

Gene Clark – The Byrd And The Best (Del 5 av 6)

July 1, 2020 0

Hösten–vintern 1974–1975: Gene Clark inser att senaste skivan, No Other som han lagt ner hela sin själ i, har floppat. Gene tvingas ge sig ut på turné, för det finns räkningar och huslån som måste […]

Gene Clark – The Byrd And The Best (Del 4 av 6)

June 3, 2020 0

När Gene Clark avslutade samarbetet med Doug Dillard berodde det inte enbart på att duon ville gå skilda musikaliska vägar. Sent omsider hade Gene börjat inse att han inte kunde fortsätta att misshandla kroppen. Han […]