Month: September 2008

If The Outsiders have most usually been referred to as the Dutch Pretty Things, as far as I’m concerned, in case of Q65 the closest pair of references are most definitely The (British) Birds and […]

Fred Cole, the lead singer of The Lollipop Shoppe, left quite an impression on two different kinds of generations. Their You Must Be A Witch is considered for one of THE nuggets that started the […]

On her ’69 sophomore longplayer, Dana takes over the songwriting credits, taking full advantage of it. With Savoy Brown behind her, and Mike Vernon in the producer’s chair, one would guess that the result must’ve […]

While waiting for a chance to get themselves out of the DIY concept and right into the middle of the corporate world of mainstream pop, where they obviously belong, the Clark brothers keep churning out […]

– The Complete 1 2 6 & Taboo Recordings, 1966-68 – Combining “verbal paintings” of Dylan-ish surrealism with the Northerners’ “extreme sense of humor”, unlike most of their continental contemporaries, these Norwegian beatsters opted not […]

Scandipop as if played from the top of the Scottish Highlands, with an occasional synth or two, thrown in just for the twee of it. Even though the superb cover-art suggests a kind of a […]

Not much is known about the guys responsible for this “vanished masterpiece of charming rural innocence” from ’69, except that they’re supposed to come from the west coast. Still, they throw in enough of New […]

– The Complete Recordings – However derivative the tag may sound, every now and then a Beatlesque album from the ‘60s pops up, that amazes the shit out of me. I’ve known about them thanks […]