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TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 8:51 am
Probably won't bee TOO active, sicne I don't buy CDs, but I'll put stuff in here from time to time, especially bands I like that are more or less forgotten/overlooked.

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Illiterate Beach - No Polyester Please

A good, forgotten indie psych from Minneapolis, recorded this album in 1984 (released in 1985). Very much influenced by first-lineup Jefferson Airplane and early Fairport Convention. Dual male/female vocals (the female singer souds like Grace Slick with a cold), jangly, Byedsy guitar parts, overall dark, downer sound. Recommended. shows up in record stores for less than $5 from time to time.
QuickSam - 9/22/08, 8:52 am
good good great

in for albums
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 8:53 am
Sorry, that should read "recorded in 1986, released in 1987"

Just in time to miss the peak of the 80s psych revival and fizzle out.

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TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 9:04 am
Huh, the first Google hit for Elias Hulk Unchained is The Phoenix's On The Download! The entry it links to is down, though. If it really was up there, I'd like to think that it was my constant talking-up of this album (which is quite possibly my favorite forgotten masterpiece of all time) that got it on there.

Anyhow, it's almost a personal mission to get people to hear this album, so here it is again!

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Haha, here's a google cache of the Phoenix review:

So many of these bands/albums I find myself describing as "retarded", is that a musical turn-off? I dunno, I don't find any of this stuff any more lunkheaded than "The Lemon Song", you know? Right? Anyway, this record is fucking retarded, in the best way. Drum solos. Riffs on top of riffs. Ugly British dudes back then must have felt like they were on top of the world or something. This sounds like if the dancer from Happy Mondays went back in time and cloned himself and formed a metal band in 1970, or something like that.

Looks like it was part of a feature on 70s proto-metal, but I still take full credit for its inclusion.

If you appreciate Sir Lord Baltimore, you will probably like this album.
davidlopan - 9/22/08, 9:05 am
this dude sends good albums
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 9:14 am
I've sent a lot of these before, bu not for quite a while.

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Black Sun ensemble (1986 private press s/t debut)

Fantastic entry about this on the Mutant Sounds blog

This is the CD version, which is a lot different from the original (two or three different songs, and the eliminate the weird edits that are all over the original LP - every 4 or 5 minutes on the LP it sounds like someone randomly cut 6" of tape out of the master and spliced it back in backwards) but it is equally good. If you're familiar with Popol Vuh's soundtrack for Herzog's Nosferatu, and like the acoustic guitars and sitar, raga-rock type song that's used early in the movie (the goodbye on the beach scene, I think), imagine an entire album that has a veryy similar feel, except with (very slow, almost doom) drumming, walls of overtubbed, open-tuned acoustic guitar drones, and quite possibly the best extended psych guitar solos of the 80s. this is one of a handful of albums that literally were turning points for me as a musician when I first heard them. Brilliant, and easily worth the $50-$100 to buy an original (it's one of less than 10 records I've spent that kind of money on in my life).
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 9:21 am
Nick Haeffner - The Great Indoors

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THE folk-psych album of the 1980s, bar none. Julian Cope meets Nick rake. I read a press clip from a known UK reviewer that unironically claimed it was better than Sgt. Pepper at the time of release, and I'd be inclined to agree.

TONS of information and an interview with Nick here

That's all for today.
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 9:22 am
The Nick Haeffner's from the CD reissue. I've only heard the original, I don't know if the CD is different.

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TheStallion - 9/22/08, 9:23 am
wow i want this hulk thingy
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 9:29 am
Elias Hulk is better than Zeppelin.
andeet - 9/22/08, 9:42 am
Elias Hulk and that Black Sun have been favorites since you dubbed those tapes for me. found the other s/t Black Sun LP (from 1988, with the goldfish in outer space on the cover) and it's pretty good but that debut is where it's at for mellow desert sunset psych
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 9:49 am
The blog I linked to has some interesting stuff. I guess the main guy was diagnosed schizophrenic in '92 and spent a bunch of time in hospitals. Apparently he also had a resurgence in popularity around 2000, got himself together mentally, reformed the Black Sun Ensemble, plays SXSW regularly and had an album scheduled for release in late 2006 (not sure if it came out, and the Black Sun Ensemble domain is completely dead now, so who knows). I kind of wish I'd bought the 1988 s/t at In Your Ear (I think yours is that very copy, right? It was in and out of my hold bag for ages, but I never bought it because even thoughy it was good I kept comparing it to the original - which I ahdn't gotten an LP of yet - and being disappointed). Soemtime I'll do a vinyl rip of the original version of the 1986 album.

Also, Theodore Adonomo - a Night At thje Beachcomber, whicb is completely forgotten, ignored, obscure, amazing guitar instrumentals that sound like a prototype of surf rock, but were recorded by some kind of self-taught Hawaiian guitar virtuoso who played hotel lobbies in Hawaii in the 1950s and released one live album (recorded in NYC) on Decca. Nobody cares about it at all, but it's really good. He uses all kinds of weird tunings and plays an amplified acoustic guitar with tons of reverb. Nothing at all shows up on google and I'm pretty confident he's going to remain completely ignored, but I'll definitely do a vinyl rip this week, because people should hear it.
andeet - 9/22/08, 10:22 am
Black Sun Ensemble is on myspace. looks/sounds like they have continued down the ethno-psych fusion path

I found the other s/t at Stereo Jacks the other week for $4. it's really not as good as the private press thing. i realized I had been flipping past it for a long time, and didn't make the connection until I had been revisiting that tape you made me (the same as sent above? it's backed with Steamhammer) while driving around
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 10:25 am
Cromagnon - Orgasm

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Who would of thought that in 1968, two successful bubblegum pop writers from Conneticut would release an album whose first track sounds like a combination between Mayhem and early (Drawings of O.T. period) Neubauten, only with bagpipes? The rest of the album is timeless and incredible, too. the least dated music I've ever heard. This thing ages better than music that hasn't even been written yet.
andeet - 9/22/08, 10:29 am
T-Kail- Sometime Somewhere

not sure if you've heard this...there is one *terrible* disco track, but Acid Archives sez "After Bobb Trimble's work, this is the best 80s psych album. In fact, at least for side one I'd go out on a limb and rank it the very best co-ed San Francisco-style psych album, regardless of era." It's pretty cool.
andeet - 9/22/08, 10:39 am
relistening to that now, I'd say that's a bit hyperbolic, but it is an interesting release for 1980...Grace Slick style vox mixed with synths of the era, some good guitar moments
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 10:39 am
Some sample lyrics:



CALEDON IA



madonna light
the hyper speeding
caressed the newborn
with a tear

of misty windfields
crystal plains
and all the magic of daybreak

the virgin dream
a haunting taste of
celtic love joys
warm at court

withered rivers
painted streams
cut deep the sweet vagina

a yes the lords
the monied merchants
the feudalistic jester slave

walk deep between
these walls of stone
in a fading sky pulsation

descended vail
of resurrection
agrocola's granite tomb

the blood of pict
in all it's fury
died by a thousand eyes

and deadly is
the stage which stagnates
calm before a raging storm

the hands and nails
frozen black
by twilight stripped of sinew

sinew splintered
splendor crackled
swirling forest castle ride

funneled through
magenta hallways
hell was but the froth

toth the isis child new
as mothers milk
had come the magic
pipes of spice and firefly
diamonds of lightning

lightning diamond festival
of dragon fire
cricket strings
leaf percussion
looking glass

far beneath the
overground man.


review on Head Heritage (which also makes the "Neubauten gone black metal" comparison I always make with this album - nice):

Yeah sure-- everybody prattles on about these so-called "fucked up" records alla time to the point where the term loses it's edge entirely. Is it REALLY fucked up, or does it just offend the same twits who have built a little Ikea record collection based on MTV or "hipness"? Shit, some people think Ween or Pavement is/was way out there, wheareas I find them to be disposable pap that stole it's soul from early Zappa (former) or early Fall albums (latter).Which brings me to an album that truly IS fucked up: CROMAGNON's ORGASM. Before I go too deep into scribing here, for history's sake I'll point out that this sucka appeared in 1968 on ESP-disk-- mavericks among mavericks in the musick biz. They brought us Sun Ra's HELLIOCENTRIC WORLDS, the first two FUGS platters, ALBERT AYLER's SPIRITUAL UNITY, and of course, the entire catalogue of proto-punk heroes, the GODZ.Now, when you stick the needle into the groove that is opener, "Caledonia", you'll immediately think you're listening to Einsturzende Neubaten gone black metal, then you'll realize you're WRONG and that there was no reference points such as that available in 1968. Wow-- the next track, "Ritual Feat of the Libido" is simply "Caledonia" slowed down to 1/3 speed you may notice; it makes your hands kinda clammy... music shouldn't scare you right? Especially not the kind made by two guys who useta write bubblegum hits that would make Herman's Hermits blush??! Ooops! Shouldn't listen to those voices in your head-- not only is it possible, that's exactly what's happenin'. And who are these mantra-chanting freaks cryptically referred to as their "Connecticut Tribe"? OK, you can't see me, but I'm shrugging my shoulders nervously....

http://jakethepope.blogspot.com/
mikep - 9/22/08, 10:42 am
I can't stand that T-Kail album, but the Black Sun Ensemble record is pretty cool.
QuickSam - 9/22/08, 10:59 am
the cromagnon rar is acting all fucked up
andeet - 9/22/08, 10:59 am
yeah I wouldn't call T-Kail a masterpiece by any stretch, but Morgan at least should check it out!
Acid Archives definitely likes to back some iffy stuff as total genius, like Marcus- House Of Trax
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 11:01 am
I'll definitely have a listen.

QuickSam, I ahven't tested the Cromagnon rar, but I downloaded it. I'll see if it works on my computer. I don't make these, since most of this is stuff I got into after I stopped buying CDs, so I only have vinyl.
QuickSam - 9/22/08, 11:01 am
actually the elias hulk one isn't working either, though the nick haeffner did. the problem might be on my end...
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 11:02 am
Sorry, the cromagnon had a password, psoted in the comments on the blog I found it at.

Try unraring again with the password sln2008
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 11:03 am
it just worked fine for me. I'll see if the Elias Hulk one is protected, too, it was still downloading when I posted the link.
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 11:07 am
<a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/48260892/elhul70.rar">http://rapidshare.com/files/482 60892/elhul70.rar</i>

Try this version of the Elias Hulk album. I'm downloading it now to test.
QuickSam - 9/22/08, 11:09 am
thanks! I'm not sure if the problem is with my unrar program or what
andeet - 9/22/08, 11:10 am
huh this Black Sun Ensemble you put up is yet another BSE- s/t I haven't heard. you must have dubbed me the original version, it's way more acoustic with mandolin and stuff. this is pretty produced
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 11:15 am
Hmm, let me double check. That SHOULD be the CD reissue (which IS different from the original, but is essentially the same music, jsut slightly different mixes and a few different songs from the same sessions swapped in). he one I dubbed you was the vinyl original, so it IS different, but I don't remember the mix being too different.

Yeah, looking at the song titles, it's the reissue. But listening to it, it sounds WAY different than I remember, and not in a good way. Huh. I'll do a rip of the vinyl version. I have no idea what's going on here, this doesn't sound anything like the CD I have.


So yeah, disclaimer, this is NOT the version of the BSE s/t I like, this one's kind of awful. there are bad vocals on it! And terrible, soft-rock saxophone overdubs. What the hell?

This is not good.
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 11:16 am
Stay tuned for the REAL version of this later today or early tomorrow.
andeet - 9/22/08, 11:19 am
weird...it's confusing because they recorded some of those song titles for the 1988 s/t! it might be a more recent BSE release mislabeled
QuickSam - 9/22/08, 11:19 am
oh I think the version posted in this thread is the one I have already. I wasn't totally sure, but the sax overdubs sounds like the version I have. I'm curious to hear the other one.
andeet - 9/22/08, 11:22 am
yeah the "true" version is an inoffensive melange of drums, mandolin and fuzz guitar!
andeet - 9/22/08, 11:36 am
to tide you over..

Bachdenkel- Lemmings

This is a really solid album. British group who moved to France. A little bit of Canterbury prog, a little bit of Syd-era Pink Floyd, but played by a band capable of writing memorable songs and some really haunting lyrics as well as laying on the guitar heaviness when needed. it's not overly trippy or conceptual or wanky, but has a really epic sense of drama throughout. don't listen to this while sitting at your computer, it deserves better
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 11:36 am
yeah, the sax overdubs are not on the CD I have, that's really strange. I have a copy of the Camera Obscura reissue CD (so far as I know the only one, and the one that these are supposed to be ripped from) and it's basically the same mix as the original vinyl version, not at all like this. This one sounds like they used the original guitar tracks and rerecorded the other instruments, then overdubbed sax and vocals. I HATE it!

I've got the original digitizing right now. Won't be the owrld's greatest rip of it (I've got a pretty cheap needle on the turntable I use for sampling - which is itself a poorly set up bottom of the line Stanton direct drive with a grounding problem) but it should do until I can make a better one.

The version I posted above gives me very little hope for the new BSE stuff being good.
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 11:38 am
Wow, I feel slightly dirty having posted that version of the album with such a glowing endorsement.
andeet - 9/22/08, 11:40 am
haha
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 11:42 am
I mena, really, if you know what the other two versions sound like you can hear them buried in there, but if you'd never heard them this would sound like something they advertised on the Bravo network at 1:00 AM in 1992.

DEEP MOODS
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 11:44 am
I'd still have been OK with paying like 46 for it and fling it away as a "real people" type oddity with stuff like DICK SUMMER: Lovin Touch, but it wouldn't have had any musical impact on me whatsoever.
andeet - 9/22/08, 11:47 am
total Skinemax sax jams
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 12:04 pm
Side 1 is on the hard drive, side 2 just started, then I'll have to do a little work to get rid of the hum and crackle (I didn't clean the A side), split it into individual tracks, tag them, and upload a zip. Should be ready by 5:00.
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 1:21 pm
REMINDER FOR EVENING CREW:

http://rapidshare.com/files/482 60892/elhul70.rar

non-password Elias Hulk


Verified password for Cromagnon RAR is: sln2008


The Black Sun Ensemble album linked above is a terrible reissue version with a bunch of bad overdubs. DO NOT download it, it SUCKS. I've got the original LP versioon - one of my favorite albums of all time - uploading RIGHT NOW. Should be available in about half an hour.
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 2:01 pm
OK, here it is: the original, LP-only version of the first Black Sun Ensemble album, 320kbps mp3s ripped from vinyl at 24 bit 44.1 kHz. It actually came out pretty well, despite the less-than-stellar turntable I used.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/m0qj6p

This is the version of the album that changed how I play guitar, not the previously posted version that sounds like music from The Red Shoe Diaries.
TheLustyGhost - 9/22/08, 4:58 pm
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TheLustyGhost - 9/23/08, 4:38 am
Tommy Flanders - The Moonstone
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Excellent, recently reissued solo album by the original singer from The Blues Project (who quit before their first studio album). Quiet, depressive psychedelic folk with a strong country influence. Seems like a major prototype for Beck's Sea Change, actually. Excellent rainy day album.
andeet - 9/23/08, 5:24 am
you've redeemed yrself ;)
digger - 9/23/08, 5:25 am
send me something I have heard of, ghoast.
TheLustyGhost - 9/23/08, 5:31 am
Digger, where's the fun in that?
digger - 9/23/08, 5:32 am
Well then, at least offer some convincing rhetoric outside of "It actually came out pretty well," or "excellent rainy day album." MAKE ME WANT IT.
TheLustyGhost - 9/23/08, 5:35 am
If you don't want it, why are you reading the thread? It's not like it takes any effort to download and listen!
TheLustyGhost - 9/23/08, 5:35 am
This isn't a thread for me to review albums, reviewing albums is dumb.
digger - 9/23/08, 5:36 am
those who can't review albums write them, ghoast.
TheLustyGhost - 9/23/08, 6:19 am
DAVID BOWIE - THE DERAM COLLECTION 1966-1968

All his early stuff, which is still my favorite by far. The Laughing Gnome, Sell Me A Coat, Please Mr. Gravedigger, and the mighty Gospel According To Tony Day alone are worth the download.

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tylerforpants - 9/23/08, 6:37 am
no dice on the sin2008 password.
digger - 9/23/08, 6:38 am
Whoah, thank you ghoast!
TheLustyGhost - 9/23/08, 6:42 am
tylerforpants, I uzipped it with that password, it worked fine. Did you have capslock on? I'll rezip it and upload again.
TheLustyGhost - 9/23/08, 6:42 am
oh, it's not sin2008 it's sln2008

that's an L not an i
TheLustyGhost - 9/23/08, 11:47 am
Kaleidoscope - full discography (torrent)

I am not familiar with their later stuff, but the first three or four albums by Kaleidoscope are essential west coas psych. Very distinctive sound, with elements of pure psych in the early Country Joe vein, a heavy Turkish influence (lots of electric baglama), with a bit of country-folk and Pentangle/Fairport type British folk rock thrown in. VERY good, especially their second album A Beacon From Mars.
TheLustyGhost - 9/23/08, 1:04 pm
Morning Dew

One of the greatest overlooked west coast psych albums.

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TheLustyGhost - 9/24/08, 9:44 am
Shadoks Music - all releases (torrent)

The Shadoks label reissued some excellent (and a few not so excellent) obscure psych bands in the last 10 years. I haven't heard all of these, but I can say that The Spoils Of War are a solid entry in the United States Of America school of psych rock with electronics, and Fingletoad, Siho & Strange put out one of the best dwoner-psych albums I've heard - definitely a Neil Young influenced slab of teenage angst, but not in a derivative way. Worth the download for their albums alone.
TheLustyGhost - 9/24/08, 9:45 am
The Shadoks torrent contains 105 albums!
TheLustyGhost - 9/24/08, 10:09 am
Sample lyrics from Fingletoad, Siho & Strange:


Artificial toys cause the child to scream
And the spaceman smiles his sign
The clown in the church falls into a dream
Because he knows he's had to much wine
And the president of the United States
Sitting so sadly on the john,
Wondering what it was that his wife ate
To make her feel so all alone. So all alone!


this song especially sounds like Crazy Horse, only with a part in the middle that sounds a little like the percussion breakdown from Supernaut with two simultaneous feedback guitar solos over it.
treatyourself - 9/24/08, 11:22 am
BSE awesome
TheLustyGhost - 9/24/08, 11:23 am
Yeah, I love that album so much.
dan g - 9/24/08, 11:32 am
I never got super into Kaleidoscope since the content my Dad liked was way too bluesy and just wishy washy. They would have one amazing song and a bunch of boring stuff.
I plan to check this out though because he may have been listening to the wrong stuff along!
TheLustyGhost - 9/26/08, 11:37 am

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Fresh Maggots

This cult classic folk-psychedelia album was recorded in 1971 when Mick Burgoyne and Leigh Dolphin from Fresh Maggots were just 19 years old. Released on RCA. Pressed in only 6000 copies, this is an extremely hard to find album. Worth £200-£300 for a mint copy.
TheLustyGhost - 10/4/08, 9:20 am
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Soft Cell - This Last Night In Sodom

Forget about Tainted Love, this is the real shit. The result of a year-long speed binge. Raw, melodramatic, gay and psychotic. One of my favorite albums of the 80s.


PASSWORD PROTECTED ZIP! PASSWORD IS:
http://karlatheblood.blogspot.com/
(yes, the entire URL is the password)
thedeathofsid - 10/4/08, 9:22 am
you're the man
TheLustyGhost - 10/4/08, 9:28 am
Such a good album. There's hardly a synthesizer on it. Not at all what you'd expect from Soft Cell.
ParkerPosi - 10/4/08, 9:30 am
TheLustyGhost - 09/22/08 - 1:04 pm (72.82.13.55)
Huh, the first Google hit for Elias Hulk Unchained is The Phoenix's On The Download! The entry it links to is down, though. If it really was up there, I'd like to think that it was my constant talking-up of this album (which is quite possibly my favorite forgotten masterpiece of all time) that got it on there.

Haha, here's a google cache of the Phoenix review:

So many of these bands/albums I find myself describing as "retarded", is that a musical turn-off? I dunno, I don't find any of this stuff any more lunkheaded than "The Lemon Song", you know? Right? Anyway, this record is fucking retarded, in the best way. Drum solos. Riffs on top of riffs. Ugly British dudes back then must have felt like they were on top of the world or something. This sounds like if the dancer from Happy Mondays went back in time and cloned himself and formed a metal band in 1970, or something like that.

Looks like it was part of a feature on 70s proto-metal, but I still take full credit for its inclusion.

If you appreciate Sir Lord Baltimore, you will probably like this album.

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hah. morgan, this was a blog thing on the phoenix site i did this summer on overlooked 70's hard rock, here's an actual link to the whole thing:

http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/onthedownload/archive/2008/07/08/achieving-satori-at-192-kbps-flower-tra vellin-band-and-the-slow-overturning-of-the-classic-rock-lexicon.aspx

..and yes, your recommendation of this album was key. great great fucking record-- which makes sense since i love sir lord baltimore.
TheLustyGhost - 10/4/08, 9:30 am
Also, props to Marc Almond & co for releasing an album where all of the packaging is metallic gold printing on red, so that it's almost impossible to read.
Aarne - 10/4/08, 9:52 am
awesome albums in this thread... really I'm just posting in here so I can find the thread later to download all this..........
iheartlawyers - 10/4/08, 9:52 am
i bought that cro-magnon back when that italian label was doing all the ESP reissues back in the mid-late 90's. completely insane stuff.
TheLustyGhost - 10/4/08, 9:56 am
It's so good. there was another recent reissue (on Get Bakc, I think) that's really good, too, even though there are no master tapes, so it's vinyl-sourced (like most stuff from the 60s and early 70s that wasn't a major act).
tylerforpants - 10/4/08, 10:14 am
thanks for this thread, lusty, especially for the Comus-like out-there-ness of Cromagnon.

you should recommend some less obscure awesome psyche for me to check out. my knowledge is very limited in that area despite having a stupid enormous prog collection.
peter - 10/4/08, 10:22 am
Hooray! Good stuff from TLG!
TheLustyGhost - 10/4/08, 10:23 am
Huh, I only have a moderate prog collection (some Egg, Eloy, Jade Warrior, Henry Cow and a couple of others) but know psych pretty well.

Some good well-known-but-obscure type bands you should definitely check out:

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
Fever Tree
Electric Prunes
Wizards From Kansas
Fat (self-titled only)
Lollipop Shoppe
Josephus
Incredible String Band (of course)

there are a bunch more, I'll post them as I think of it.
PARTICIPATOR - 10/4/08, 10:27 am
cool thread, I will ravage it later
tylerforpants - 10/4/08, 11:39 am
damn. we should trade knowledges, lusty.
iheartlawyers - 10/4/08, 12:13 pm
caledonia was a staple on my radio show for a long time
peter - 10/5/08, 6:33 am
Wow.
The good version of Black Sun Ensemble is fucking AMAZING, Morgan!
TheLustyGhost - 10/5/08, 8:00 am
Yeah, I don't knwo what's up with the bad version. the CD release I have sounds just like the album, except three of the songs are replaced with different songs from the same sessions, and the weird edits on the LP where the tape backs up are removed. As far as I know there has only been one legitimate CD release, on Camera Obscura in maybe 1999, and that is the version that I have on CD. It's also the version that the shittty mp3s higher up in the thread claim to be, but that version sounds like the took the original version, overdubbed all new instruments on it and then left it in the mix really low.

Tyler, I'd do that. I'm a little on the fence about prog, but what I like is pretty great.

I still need to tackle swedish psych, but it's really hard t get ahold of that stuff on vinyl, even in reissue, and Ir ealyl like to have things on vinyl, so Iv'e been putting off the temptation of hearing all kinds of amazing swedish bands that I want to spend too much money on. There's a REALLY good book about Swedish psych, I forget the title. It's a lot like Crack In The Cosmic Egg (which you are required to buy if you don't have it already, ti's THE reference for German psych, krautrock, German prog and other related German genres), only it's hardcover and basically looks like a college textbook, except about Swedish psych.

Speaking of German, I need to track down mp3s of German Oak again and post them. I lost the ones I had before.
TheLustyGhost - 10/5/08, 8:03 am
Well that was quick. This is a great, slow, doomy, lo fi Krautrock private press album from 1972:

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(the Megaupload link is tested OK, not sure about the others)

In the strange Olympic summer of 1972, the Dusseldorf instrumental group German Oak entered the Luftschutzbunker, or Air Raid Shelter, in order to record their eponymous first LP. A free form rock band founded by a small community of 5 German hippies / "avant garde" artists back at the beginning of the 70's. Their self title effort was recorded in a WWII air raid bunker. The cover of their self title album (a militaristic image which is a portrait of the third Reich military force) provides an illustration of anger expressed by the WWII’s young generation against their parents. By consequence German Oak's music is very tortured, dark and weird, dominated by heavy, "distorted" guitar solos & rhythms. The background creates "painful" & "ambient" sequences thanks to delay echoes, electronic "fuzzy" noises & repetitive bass lines. A funkadelic/jazzy felt punctuates with discretion this grandiose, "creepy" instrumental album. A first CD reissue was offered by Witch And Warlock in 1991. Today this album is re-edited by Radioactive records (2005). In a rather discretion they also released the moody, cloudy and experimental epic-kraut "Niebenlungenieg"

Following in the footsteps of the percussive and organic Organisation and the remarkable Dom, German Oak had every reason to believe that this 3rd LP to be recorded by a Dusseldorf band would be warmly received. Unfortunately, German Oak were not only wrong in their assumptions that locals would embrace their music, but even local record shops rejected all the group's attempts to sell the albums in city outlets. Such was their lack of success that 202 of the original 213 copies were stored in the basement of the group's organist until the mid-1980s, when a thirst for undiscovered Krautrock finally brought German Oak back from the dead.
(Year of Release: 1972)

Track List:
1. Airalert
2. Down In The Bunker
3. Raid Over Dusseldorf
4. 1945 - Out of the Ashes
dan g - 10/5/08, 8:17 am
hummina. It appears Sharebee is not only pretentious calling themselves the ONE AND ONLY file sharing site, but is also completely faulty. Just me?
whitney - 10/5/08, 8:21 am
everyone in this thread should download mind garage's record.
dnorsen - 10/5/08, 8:45 am
hey lusty ... not sure if you have this but kind of curious about this album after having read about it yesterday. i guess john cale, pete townshend, keith moon, elton john and others are on it. haven't been able to find a copy online to preview ...

mike heron - Smiling Men With Bad Reputations
TheLustyGhost - 10/5/08, 9:42 am
Yes, that album is good. When I first got it, I didn't like it because I wanted it to sound like Incredile String band, and it's actually kind of a rock album. If you don't expect ISB, you'll probably like it, even though I remember one track having questionable horns.

I only have vinyl, or I'd uplad it.
TheLustyGhost - 10/5/08, 9:43 am
Sharebee works fine for me, but here's a direct link to the megaupload URL:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ABWZYIIQ
PARTICIPATOR - 10/5/08, 10:02 am
I am currently downloading every single record in this thread.
TheLustyGhost - 10/5/08, 12:02 pm
I should download the complete, 100+ album Shaddoks torrent, but I'm afraid I'd find stuff I'd want on vinyl, and all of those Shaddoks LPs were $50 back when they were in print like 10 years ago.
dnorsen - 10/5/08, 12:12 pm
interesting i will have to dig deeper to find it. i wasn't anticipating it to be rock-ish. i am hoping to hit up other music while in nyc this friday/saturday so maybe i will come across a copy.
TheLustyGhost - 10/6/08, 7:22 am
It's not totally rockish, but it has electric guitar solos and stuff. It also has at least one sitar-laden thing that's like an electric ISB, too.
meaghan - 10/6/08, 7:24 am
this is so good
TheLustyGhost - 10/6/08, 7:25 am
Thanks!
brianct - 10/6/08, 8:03 am
dot for later!
PARTICIPATOR - 10/6/08, 2:42 pm
top so I don't have to keep going to lusty's thread list
TheLustyGhost - 10/6/08, 2:45 pm
I really looked for "Cat Mother" by Cat Mother (formerly Cat Mother and the All-Night Newsboys), but even their earlier, somewhat less forgotten albums aren't online or available on CD (ever). The 3rd one is pretty great if you want music that sounds like living in a rural hippie town in Oregon in 1972, only without the smell. The B side has sone excellent 70s rural hippie jamz if you're into that kind of thing.

LPs turn up at In Your ear for $8-$10 every so often.
TheLustyGhost - 10/6/08, 2:53 pm
KAK first album + bonus (part 1)
Part 2
megaupload direct:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9ICZTRGO
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EAZ55AVE

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This is an absolutely killer '68 psych album featuring a future member of blue Cheer. Really great stuff, some of the hooks will haunt you forever (Disbelievin' in particular, even though it's not even the best song on the album over all).

Blog
TheLustyGhost - 10/6/08, 3:02 pm
I need to come up with more new stuff, most of these are things I've already posted in the last year.
TheLustyGhost - 10/6/08, 3:07 pm
Okay, a bit of a change since it's a video not an album, but it's still mandatory:

Motorhead Live in Toronto, 1982


Amazing concert, very well filmed. I can't even imagine being in front of the stage at this. Lemmy rules.
dan g - 10/6/08, 4:58 pm
I kind of love you Morgan!
luba - 10/6/08, 5:34 pm
reviews so far:
black sun ensemble: soothing pretty background music.
elyse: SO PRETTY. i can't concentrate on drawing while doing this plus my hand is going numb. i'm just going to listen to this for a while.
luba - 10/6/08, 5:55 pm
tommy flanders: a little more country than i like usually, so far, but it sounds like soothing AM radio and is kind of growing on me.
luba - 10/6/08, 6:15 pm
fresh maggots: this is rad.
luba - 10/6/08, 6:31 pm
morning dew: also rad.
luba - 10/6/08, 6:39 pm
morning dew: now favorite so far.
TheLustyGhost - 10/7/08, 10:34 am
Huh, I didn't figure you'd be as in to it! Great album. Never really hear much about it, it's jsut another psych band, nev er really gets singled out as anything special.
TheLustyGhost - 10/7/08, 11:20 am
H.P. Lovecraft II
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No big secret, but absolutely mandatory west coast psych album. You've heard this before and liked it, Luba.
TheLustyGhost - 10/7/08, 12:34 pm
Fever tree - first two albums (s/t and Another Time Another Place)

Excellent fuzz psych, ghostwritten by the husband and wife team who wrote all the songs for Mary Poppins. The first album has a pretty amazing lead guitar tone on it and great, relentless songs. The second album, which I might like even better, is slower and occasionally approaches proto-doom territory. Both of them are classics if you like complex, technical, theatrical heavy psych.
TheLustyGhost - 10/7/08, 12:42 pm
Euphoria - A Gift From Euphoria (medifire download!)
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Words cannot describe how much this album rules, so I'll ctrl+v someone else's inadequate description.

From the usually dead-on Acid Archives of Underground Sound:
Is this the rarest actually released major label psych album? Well, maybe it never *was* legitimately released (has anyone ever seen a non-promo copy?), which means that yet again Capitol squandered a ridiculous production budget to create a masterpiece that no one would ever hear. If they’d only known enough to save a thousand copies for themselves, maybe they could have made back their investment thirty years later by selling them for a few hundred dollars a pop. Admittedly, it’s easy to see how they would have had trouble marketing the thing. Who would expect the public to latch on to an album that alternates heavily orchestrated dream-state music with country rock with fuzz-guitar freakouts, not to mention lyrics that are equal parts spirituality and suicide? Once again, we have to thank the crazy man at Capitol who OKed this project, because there’s nothing else like this. The orchestration is as heavy as on the Food and Common People albums, but sounds completely different. The country songs sound “authentic,” but also don’t really sound like any other country or country-rock artist. The fuzz-guitar blowouts manage not to sound “heavy.” The piano playing is equal parts Paul McCartney and honkytonk.

There’s hardly a more jarring shift of tone anywhere than from this album’s first song, the dark, lushly orchestrated “Lisa,” to its second, the goodtimey country knee-slapper “Stone River Hill Song,” to its third, “Did You Get The Letter,” which interrupts about twenty seconds of further country noodling with the words “change it,” then some screeching fuzz-guitar. But eventually the method to these guys’ madness appears. “Did You Get The Letter” is an utterly remarkable song, with a middle section combining backwards guitar, explosions, crying children, goofy spoken sections (not all of which are in English), cuckoo clocks, and more weirdness, none of which seem out of place sandwiched between the killer fuzz guitar riffs and lovely melody. And if you think that a piano/acoustic guitar rhythm track would sound out of place here, you’d be proven wrong. This is one instance where two madmen threw everything they had against the wall, and it all stuck. It’s when I hear an album like this one for the first time that I remember why I’m so into psychedelic music in the first place—there’s so much originality, so much willingness to experiment, and so many ideas here that whether it all works or not it’s bound to be a completely fascinating listen.

This is one disturbing record. The lyrics hint at double meanings, and the song that mentions suicide in its title has a muffled vocal line that sings no dechipherable words, yet a sense of dread permeates. “Lady Bedford” has a straightforward acoustic backing, and a relatively upbeat chord progression, but the vocals quiver with something—excitement? fear? It’s hard to tell. The cryptic, quasi-religious liner notes (including thanks to the Bee Gees!) don’t answer any questions. The album starts with “take my hand/take my life” and ends with the singer saying good bye to the “World,” as backwards guitar gives way to chirping birds. The upbeat country tunes only add to the unsettling nature of everything because they seem so heartfelt. “Did You Get The Letter” is not without its share of bitterness, and the comedy in the middle of it (including a doofus-like impersonation of a Mountie) instantaneously disappears in favor of sounds of death and destruction. This album could either signal the apocalypse or treat suicide as a joke, and either way it’s riveting. (By the way, most reviews of this album mention lyrics about drugs, but unless I’m totally misinterpreting something, I don’t see them.)

It’s easy to be overwhelmed by this listening experience, and overrate it. The vocals get a bit samey after a while—a harmony or two wouldn’t have hurt, and the good stuff is good enough to make me kind of forget that only about half of the album is up to that standard. But, still, after many listens I notice that “Sunshine Woman” could have been a hit if the vocals started sooner than 46 seconds into it, and that the French vocals on the opening “Lisa” have a bizarre, unexplainable power to them. And repeated listens have me absolutely savoring the sound of the guitar on “Did You Get The Letter” and beyond. I also think that if it had been recorded by an established popular artist critics would have barfed all over themselves to be the first to proclaim it a masterpiece of epic proportions. I don’t think they would have been 100% right, but I’ll take it over SGT. PEPPER or TOMMY right now. I bet most of you would, too.

- review by Aaron Milenski




From the always disappointing Allmusic:
"This album -- which was "produced in Hollywood, Nashville and London by Messrs. Watt and Hamilton" (aka Hamilton Wesley Watt and William Lincoln) -- is today considered a cult classic among those who find themselves trekking across the West Coast rock tundra, circa 1969. Psychedelic country-rock, folk-rock, and bluegrass -- abetted by lushly downcast orchestral arrangements and the occasional sound effect -- are combined here in a heady and confident manner. The opening track, "Lisa," is a sweeping orchestral piece which is eventually brought to a resounding end with the crash of a tympani drum. Then, the listener is abruptly hustled into a barrelhouse bluegrass-style romp, "Stone River Hill Song," which wouldn't sound too out of place on an album by Dillard & Clark, or, perhaps, even the Grateful Dead. Banjos, tack piano, and fuzz guitars collide in "Did You Get the Letter," which veers into Beatlesque White Album territory -- replete with backward guitars, cuckoo clocks, TV audience laughter, gunshots, explosions, someone speaking in Vietnamese, crying babies, and various sonic effluvia -- before returning to the song's main theme. Whispered vocals and a regal harpsichord elevate the stately and sublime "Lady Bedford." "Sunshine Woman" (covered in 1971 by Bernie Schwartz on his fantastic solo album, The Wheel) is another of the album's more memorable moments. It ends with a suicide note to the "World" and existence itself ("I hope we meet again someday"). In fact, it seems fair to point out that much of the moody lyrical content herein seems to be about drug use and acts of suicide. There's no real dross or dead weight on this overlooked work of ambitious scope that reveals the considerable talents of its two songwriters/producers. Originally released by Capitol, this album remained out of print for many years until it was reissued on CD by See for Miles in 1996." -- Bryan Thomas, AMG
andeet - 10/7/08, 12:53 pm
Morning Dew and Kak LPs are great

I think the Fresh Maggots record is good for a few listens, it's a great "breakfast tyme" psych/folk record and the fuzz outbursts rule, but it's also pretty schmaltzy in the lyrics and orchestration departments
TheLustyGhost - 10/7/08, 12:59 pm
The lyrics and orchestration are kind of questionable for some of the fever tree stuff (primarily the first LP) too, but that comes with the territory, to some degree.

Pretty amazing, in depth interview with the Fever Tree guitarist, conducted in 2002 a year before he died.
TheLustyGhost - 10/7/08, 1:13 pm
Torrent: 23 albums by J.J. Cale

Download, wait 6 months, drink beer on your porch and listen to J.J. Cale every evening for a month next spring.
PARTICIPATOR - 10/10/08, 4:58 pm
the soft cell record rules
PARTICIPATOR - 10/10/08, 5:07 pm
best line:

"we could go out to dinner, but we're always on drugs"
peter - 10/10/08, 5:10 pm
Thank you for the (not saxophone-y) Black Sun Ensemble.
It is ruling my ears lately.
danshea - 10/10/08, 5:11 pm
santa claus of threads!
crowjane - 10/10/08, 6:19 pm
send anything by the dicks. specifically peace? or hate the police
crowjane - 10/10/08, 6:20 pm
tankx
meaghan - 10/10/08, 6:21 pm
every time i see this thread topped, it makes my day
TheLustyGhost - 10/10/08, 7:06 pm
PARTICIPATOR - 9:07 pm (151.199.49.229)
best line:

"we could go out to dinner, but we're always on drugs"


YES

The year before itwas recorded, Marc Almond did a double LP of him doing kind of maudlin torch songs with sparse acoustic accompaniment. It got a bad review and he literally went to the critic's office in some kind of amphetamine haze and destroyed it with a fire axe in front of the guy.
hashshashin - 10/10/08, 7:09 pm
I love everything
hashshashin - 10/10/08, 7:09 pm
I love everything about Marc Almond, is what I meant to post.
TheLustyGhost - 10/10/08, 7:10 pm
crowjane, I don't have anything by the dicks, but I'll try to find something.

This blog has "Kill From the Heart" and lots of good photos
hashshashin - 10/10/08, 7:11 pm
Also thanks for the HP Lovecraft. Lost it in a hard-drive crash, and they're easily in my top 5 favorite psych albums.
TheLustyGhost - 10/10/08, 7:12 pm
eah. The first one and the posthumous live one from a 1968 concert are good, but for me II is the definitive one.
hashshashin - 10/10/08, 7:14 pm
Their version of "Wayfaring Stranger", when I'm tripping on LSD, is the most menacing-but-energizing things I've ever heard.
crowjane - 10/10/08, 7:16 pm
wow. its like christmas on lemmingtrail tonight
TheLustyGhost - 10/10/08, 7:30 pm
I can't believe I haven't posted Mighty Baby's magnificent 1971 sophomore release "a Jug Of Love" yet! Their first album (which I haven't listened to yet) is apparently seminal West Caost influenced UK heavy psych, but in the intervening two years, they had all become praciticng Sufis and sworn off drugs of all kinds. between session work (notably robin Scott's fantastic "Woman From the Warm Garss," which I'll track down later, and the strange, quiet experiment with non-western instruments that was The Habibiyya), the put out a second (and final) album of quieter, slightly country influenced music. It has superficial resemblenes to some of the Grateful Dead's more atmospheric stuff from around the same period (69-71) but the songs are much more unconventionally structured and the guitar work is more intricate yet reserved than anything that mde it onto a legitimate Dead release. anyhow, it is very much worth listening to.

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Rapidshare (I don't think it has a password, but I haven't finished downloading. If it does, it should be hidden somewhere on here)
FLAC encoded lossless torrent


One of the most unabashadly glowing reviews I ahve read for any album, from my personal favorite review site lysergia.com:

Despite its upbeat, friendly nature, it took many years for “A Jug Of Love” to attract attention among fans of vintage sounds. When it finally began to receive praise it wasn’t from the mods-on-acid who loved the Babe’s 1969 debut, but from fans of American 70s psychedelia and westcoast. It seems that the band’s transition into the music they loved – such as the country-rock Byrds and the “American Beauty”-era Grateful Dead – had been so complete that the umbilical cord that connected them with their earlier Brit-psych fans simply snapped. Having it released on a “collectable” but inappropriate prog-rock label enhanced the alienation. So, “Jug Of Love” floated around for decades, disowned by many and heard by few.

Listening to it in 2008, this all seems pretty weird. “A Jug Of Love” is a terrific album; warm, versatile and engaging, drawing the best elements of vintage westcoast music while charging it with a strong personality. There is a spiritual, thoughtful undercurrent that may derive from the band’s religious orientation, and serves the music and above-average lyrics well. While there’s no point in denying the influence from the “born-again” early 70s Dead, Mighty Baby wisely choose to retain the extended acidrock guitar interplay that the Dead abandoned on their studio albums. With all six tunes crossing the 5-minute mark, the British band proved that you can both have the cake (well-written, melodic songs) and eat it (long terrific jams).

People who know more about music theory than me have pointed to the unorthodox structure of the music on “A Jug Of Love”, despite its inviting and playful nature. Maybe this explains, along with the rare warmth projected across the board, why it sounds so damn good and why I keep returning to it. Much as I love the first Mighty Baby album, this is their masterpiece to me, an opinion that was unthinkable 20 years ago, but seems more common these days. It's also a very good recording, with a full, well-rounded sound and lots of presence.

The Sunbeam CD is the first ever legit reissue of the album, and an impressive effort as usual from the label. In addition to the album we get a rare and excellent 45-only track, and some enjoyable unreleased recordings from the same timeframe.

- review by Patrick the Lama. Previously published in UGLY THINGS magazine, issue #25.
TheLustyGhost - 10/10/08, 7:32 pm
<i.hashshashin - 11:14 pm (24.60.188.43)
Their version of "Wayfaring Stranger", when I'm tripping on LSD, is the most menacing-but-energizing things I've ever heard.</i>

One of the few times I have taken salvia, the A side was playing, and it kicked in just at that quiet part in the middle. Very, very nice, even though noise and music are usually more of an annoyance with that stuff.
hashshashin - 10/10/08, 7:36 pm
Yeah salvia needs ambient, instrumental stuff to be fun. On acid though I can get down with some heavy rock.
TheLustyGhost - 10/10/08, 7:37 pm
I never really felt like listening to music, although I played it sometimes.
hashshashin - 10/10/08, 7:39 pm
Last time I tripped I got really psyched on the Seeds and then Black Sabbath, of all things.

I mean, I know the dudes in Sabbath were heads, but I was getting SO pumped on "Children of the Grave".
hashshashin - 10/10/08, 7:40 pm
I tried to play once or twice, but just wound up bashing my E string over and over again and bending the neck in and out as it fed back.
TheLustyGhost - 10/10/08, 7:42 pm
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This is a good salvia album, though maybe not so good for regular listening. I bet The Wind arp would be worth a shot, too.

Bhaghavan Das' second album is pretty excellent, and even has some electric guitar.

Also, I respect the fact that nowadays he looks a bit like El Topo:

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TheLustyGhost - 10/10/08, 7:43 pm
Mighty Baby rapidshare doesn't need a password, download away.
hashshashin - 10/10/08, 7:45 pm
I've also tried writing lyrics, which were good actually but WAY too honest. I'd lose friends if I used them.
TheLustyGhost - 10/10/08, 7:49 pm
I have a cd of me and the drummer from Mouthus tripping and overdubbing onto a tape of him talking while on some crazy mix of psychedelics (he was way more into that world than me) that was recorded earlier. maybe I'll share.
TheLustyGhost - 10/13/08, 8:59 am
Another change of pace:

about 1500 Nintendo NSF sound files and two winamp NSF plugins
TheLustyGhost - 10/13/08, 9:35 am
John Martyn - Solid Air

I'm not into most of his stuff, but this album is an excellent downer 70s singer-songwriter album, easily one of the high points of the genre.

sounds NOTHING like James Taylor, so download without fear.
TheLustyGhost - 10/13/08, 10:29 am
Beau Brummels - Triangle (seeded torrent)

Another mandatory album. "The Painter Of Women" alone is worth the download. Pastoral west coast psychedelic folk-rock.
kbg484 - 10/13/08, 6:20 pm
Man Man - Discography

includes Six Demon Bag, The Man in a Blue Turban with a Face, a single and/or cover or two
RyanMcGinty - 10/13/08, 7:00 pm
really into this nsf collection!!
TheLustyGhost - 10/13/08, 7:26 pm
I think it may be every single NES soundtrack. It's definitely most of them. When I was in college, NES sound emulation was dreadful, but it's gotten really good since then. Sounds almost exactly like the real thing.
TheLustyGhost - 10/13/08, 7:28 pm
Just in case you aren't familiar with them, each NSF file is ALL the music for the game, not just one track, but each track will loop continuously until you advance to the next one in the file. Depending on which plugin you use, you can either click the play button to advance to the next track in a file or use the little horizontal slider thing that's added to the winamp interface. There are usually 6-12 songs per file.
TheLustyGhost - 10/16/08, 12:10 pm
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Roy Harper - Stormcock

I can't believe I didn't post this yet. Seminal 70 UK progressive folk, without which the B side of Led Zeppelin 3 would never have been written.
TheLustyGhost - 10/16/08, 12:29 pm
The zip of Stormcock above is missing the left channel for the first few seconds of the first song.

Here's a torrent of the complete Roy Harper discography. It all pretty much rules as far as I know. I even like "What Ever Happened To Jugula?"
http://fenopy.com/torrent/Roy_Harper___Collection/NTExOTMz/index.html
TheLustyGhost - 10/17/08, 6:12 am
<a href=http://www.btmon.com/Other/Unsorted/incredible_string_band.torrent">http://www.btmon.co m/Other/Unsorted/incredible_string_band.torrent</a>

Incredible String Band - full discography through mid 70s. the last two albums aren't so good, and there are a couple of inconsistent ones before that, but the first five (s/t; The 3000 Spirits; The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter; Wee Tam; the Big Huge) are essential, and the four after that are OK, and all have some really good moments.
TheLustyGhost - 10/18/08, 8:47 am
http://www.btmon.co m/Other/Unsorted/incredible_string_band.torrent



And a new one:

Sewer Zombies - Reach Out And...

From Ron Johnson:
Sewer Zombies - Reach Out And...
12" LP released 1988

Search Too Many Police Executive Execution They Died With Their Willie Nelson TShirts On Never Reach Out From Below Message To The Christian Church They Had No Right I Got Something To Say Piss Zheeta

recorded at Swamp Studio in the US, 1985 I think.

labelled as "psychotic hardcore" it's not a good record. Worst on RJ? Probably.



Recommended!
TheLustyGhost - 10/18/08, 8:50 am
The original Crucial Youth 7" "Straight & Loud" is available here.
TheLustyGhost - 11/4/08, 12:48 pm
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I've been meaning to put this up for a while, but kept putting it off. Lucky for me, it's not as unknown as I thought it was, and a few people have already done vinyl to digital transfers of it. Dorothy Carter was a hammered dulcimer player from Cambridge, and came out of the folk and early music scene (apparently she was a founding member of Medieval Babes, even). This album is excellent psychedelic folk in the least pop-influenced sense. Mostly reworkings of traditional music, with occasional vocals (if you liked the Elyse record posted above, you will like the singing on this album).

Mutant Sounds review:
Dorothy Carter was a very talented folk musician, born in the late 30s(i think 1937 ) and sadly died in 2003.Playing hammered dulcimer and psaltery and some flutes she is creating excellent contemporary folk with much medieval elements .But in my opinion what is outstanding is her voice,that gives in all the otherwise traditional folk songs a very weird feeling that sometimes touches the weirdness found in Comus recordings!This is her first LP .IMHO highly recommented to fans of folk/acid folk music.

From the Play It Again Max blog:

Now as for this excellent record, Dorothy Carter was (she passed away in 2003) primarily a hammered dulcimer player (although she also sings and plays flute on this record). She was a founding member of the Mediaeval Baebes & also performed on records as diverse as Sun Electric's Via Nostra & the Serious Solid Swineheard is Better Than Homecooked Clapham Junction album. This record is a beautiful collection of folk melodies from diverse times and places performed on dulcimer, psalter &/or flute (by Carter) and accompanied by Sally Hilmer on tamboura & Connie Demby of Ch'in. Carter also sings on a couple numbers. The accompaniment adds a nice Eastern vibe that will strengthen the appeal to fans of acid folk.


Rapidshare

stolen from the Mutant Sounds blog.

Her 1978 album Wailee Wailee sounds really good too, but I haven't tracked it down. Troubador turns up at IYE in the $1-$3 range from time to time, so keep an eye out.
TheLustyGhost - 11/4/08, 12:50 pm
I hadn't made the connection myself, but the Mutant Sounds comparison to Comus is definitely valid. The mood this album evokes is very similar.
TheLustyGhost - 11/6/08, 6:11 am
J.K> & Co. - Suddenly Last Summer

Jsut in time for the fall, a fantastic summer record.

From redtelephone66:

The above album of dreamy soft psychedelia is something of an undiscovered gem for pop-psych enthusiasts. Recorded in Vancouver, Canada, until recently, nothing was known about the identity or true location of the band.
Housed in a delightful pop-art cover, this concept album was meant to "depict musically a man's life from birth to death" - it was written by Jay Kaye who was just 15 years old at the time. Heavily orchestrated with lush arrangements, silky vocals, backward effects and found sounds, it is dreamy soft-rock that caresses psychedelia and flirts with the 'baroque'. It occupies a hazy territory somewhere between Sgt. Pepper and The Magical Mystery Tour, the Left Banke's second album and The Zombies' Odessey And Oracle. Highlights include the delightful Eastern-influenced Magical Fingers Of Minerva, some superb, melodic slices of pop-psych like Fly and Little Children, the guitar-driven instrumental Speed and the prog-psych finale Dead which gives way to the opening bars of the album at the end. The yearning vocal style is appealing and evident throughout but particularly evident on Crystal Ball and Nobody.
Until recently nothing was known to collectors about the history behind the record or the artist - now thanks to Sundazed, Efram Turchick and the parties involved it can be told: - Las Vegan Jay Kaye was born into a musical family. His mother was pioneering guitarist Mary Kaye, of the Mary Kaye Trio and who had a Fender Stratocaster named after her. His uncle was famed ukelele player Johnny Ukelele.
Both Jay and his cousin John Kaye were bitten by the Beatle bug. Jay led a band called the Loved Ones and started to write his own material. In 1968 he accompanied his mother to Vancouver where she was making some appearances. On a visit to a studio, who wanted to record some tracks with his mother (she turned them down), a 15 year-old Jay proffered his material and played a couple of his songs to producer Robin Spurgin.
Spurgin had a great track record, from our retrospective perspective(?!) anyway, having produced the likes of the Collectors, Painted Ship, United Empire Loyalists and One Way Streets. He was impressed enough with Jay to start work on an LP and agreed also to look after him (his mother was returning to Vegas). First off he brought in Robert Buckley from local band Spring, whom he'd also produced. Buckley was another prodigiously talented teenager who played numerous instruments; he took on the role of arranger. With the help of various session musicians, including members of Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, the project was realized over the next few months.
The completed tape was touted around L.A. labels in the Summer of '68. It was jumped on by White Whale, whose president Ted Feigin christened it Suddenly One Summer. With the release imminent, Jay quickly assembled a trio to play live and promote it - his cousin John and drummmer Rick Dean (son of jazz drummer Jack Dean).
A period of heavy local promotion followed and it started to gather playtime on underground radio stations. At this point White Whale decided to release a 45. Strangely they didn't choose the stand-out Fly; instead they opted for the album's opener Break Of Dawn, a sound collage of barely half a minute. The 45 may only have made it to the promo stage... at that point the momentum sank without a trace, as did the 45 and the label's interest. The band carried on performing on the local teen circuit but were too young to go on tour or do nightclubs. Their brief moment in the limelight was gone.
Some tracks from the LP were creatively recycled by White Whale, appearing on an album credited to Zager and Evans - The Early Writings Of Zager & Evans & Others (White Whale WWS-7123) - in 1969.
The young trio went on to various other bands. Latterly Jay Kaye moved to Majorca, Spain in 1987 where he plays blues guitar, sings and writes. John Kaye is back in Las Vegas with a band called The Overlords.
Two of the LP's many highlights have turned up elsewhere - the superb dream-like Fly is on A Heavy Dose Of Lyte Psych (CD), and Magical Fingers Of Minerva graces Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol. 1 (CD).
(Max Waller/Vernon Joynson w/thanks to Efram Turchick) /Fuzz, Acid & Flowers
TheLustyGhost - 11/11/08, 6:02 pm
Sam Gopal - Escalator

British raga-fuzz monster from 1969 with Lemmy on guitar and vocals. One of my all time favorites.
TheLustyGhost - 12/12/08, 9:20 am
Malachi -Holy Music

Acoustic guitar and jaw harp improv album from 1966. Believed to be the first album released under the "psychedelic music" banner. Not something I'd listen to constantly, but well worth putting on from time to time.

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TheLustyGhost - 12/12/08, 9:22 am
Oh yeah, the jaw harp is played by Steve Cunningham of The Red Krayola.
iangustafson - 12/12/08, 10:49 am
This Cromagnon album kind of rules! Thanks for the music, ghost man.
TheLustyGhost - 12/12/08, 11:32 am
Cromagnon is really good.

Check out the Elias Hulk and the vinyl rip fo the original Black Sun Ensemble (the second version I posted - the CD version is completely different), those are probably my two favorite things in this thread.
QuickSam - 12/12/08, 11:39 am
do you have the first crawling chaos record?
TheLustyGhost - 12/12/08, 11:40 am
No, I don't know that one!

So much to listen to.
QuickSam - 12/12/08, 11:42 am
bummer. I've been looking for it, and I've found copies of it but they're all out of my current price range. if I end up finding it on the internet somewhere I'll post it
TheLustyGhost - 12/12/08, 11:45 am
Definitely do that.

I want the original Steven & the Farm Band LP, but it's like $100. I have the second one, which is pretty good early 70s commune rock jams, but the first one's supposed to be way better.
iangustafson - 12/12/08, 2:04 pm
I see what you mean about the sections where it sounds like they spliced chunks of the master in backwards.

This rules. Golden Rays sounds like drugz!
TheLustyGhost - 12/12/08, 2:07 pm
Yeah, one of the best albums ever.
TheLustyGhost - 12/18/08, 8:03 am
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Parrish & Gurvitz

1971 album produced by George Martin, sort of a mixture of West Coast psych, downer singer songwriter stuff in the Ron Elliot vein, and George Martin's chamber-rock thing. Very produced without sounding OVERproduced. with members of 3 Man Army, Spooky Tooth, Badger, and others.

Original British LPs are fetching around $100 these days, and as far as I know the only reissue has ben on CD.

http://rapidshare.com/files/45450462/Parrish___Gurvitz.zip
TheLustyGhost - 12/18/08, 8:10 am
Oh yeah, Paul Gurvitz was also in The Knack.

The original Knack from the 60s:

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Never heard them.
TheLustyGhost - 1/16/09, 9:02 am
Parameter - Galactic Ramble

I guess this is a love-it-or-hate-it type album, but I love it. Very primitive, low fidelity visionary basement psych folk from 1971. Every once in a while it will have brief flashes of sounding kind of like home recordings of, like, lou reed jamming with the Incredible String Band or something, but not much.

Definitely mandatory for fans of commune bands, basement psych, Charles Manson.
TheLustyGhost - 1/16/09, 9:05 am
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Alternate covers:

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(this is also the back cover of the red-on-black LP reissue.


I'd say if you like solo Syd Barrett or the Sam Gopal and Fresh Maggotsalbums I probably posted earlier, you'll love this.
TheLustyGhost - 1/16/09, 9:11 am
Accurate Parameter endorsement by Sarada from that band Stone Breath:

"Along with the Moths and that one Axe album and a couple other things, this is my favorite kissing spell release...
I think I agree with Tony's description of why it is appealing. Little hints of pastoral early Floyd recorded in secret in a small, empty room and flashes of a pink moon...just a wonderful, cobbled-together lo-fi feeling. Actually the album I have by Joshua (Life Less Lost? It's the one in an odd-shaped cardboard sleeve) has the same feeling to me, and that's why I love that so much. Sparse, distant, slightly sad with a peaceful glow and a smile. It sounds like music made for the joy of making it, with no pretense and no formula...just making it for themselves."
Drana - 1/16/09, 11:12 am
I wish some of these weren't torrents. :(
depechechoad - 1/16/09, 11:15 am
wow. cant believe i never saw this thread.
cheers mate.
meaghan - 1/18/09, 11:41 am
that J.K. & Co. record is fucking awesome
TheLustyGhost - 1/19/09, 6:26 am
Drana, some are. The full discography ones are.
NathanZ - 1/19/09, 3:42 pm
toptop!
TheLustyGhost - 1/22/09, 12:38 pm
The Cryan Shames - A Scratch In the Sky
This is not a rare album by any means. There's a vinyl copy at In Your Ear in Harvard Square for $4 right now, if you like that stuff.

I've had it for a while, but I didn't really give it a proper chance until recently. It's a VERY, VERY good pop-psych album. If you liked the J.K. & Co, you'll like this. Very produced, very accessible and pretty, but still GOOD. If you like jangly harpsichord parts, tons of echo, Byrds harmonies and occasional tasteful fuzz, this is for you. Get ready for summer.

Lost In Tyme review:

Just like scientists posturing the existence of an unknown particle or detecting a planet through its gravitational pull, you knew this had to exist - a Chicago psychedelic pop-rock album. Okay, maybe you did not know it, but it does exist and if you can accept the fact that the Cryan' Shames never had an original idea in their entire lives, you'll enjoy A Scratch in the Sky. The album succeeds because Fairs and new bassist Larry Kerley did a great job writing hooks, coming up with catchy melodies, and getting the group's vocal harmonies into shape. Instead of the Byrds, the Chicagoans now echoed West Coast harmony groups like the Beach Boys and the Association, as well as British psychedelia. So, the group gathered up every conceivable instrument they could play, and went on a psychedelic pop-rock binge. A Scratch in the Sky is not a masterpiece by any means, but it was more cutting edge than Paul Revere and the Raiders ever got. The band's flexibility is apparent, from happy little tunes like "The Town I'd Like to Go Back To" and the cosmopolitan "In the Cafe," to more Beach Boys influenced songs like "It Could Be We're In Love." The group had enough chops to successfully venture into more rock territory ("Sunshine Psalm" and the humorous "Dennis Dupree from Danville") and their psychedelic jams are rather, erm, pretty (the intricate "The Town I'd Like to Go Back To"). Fairs and Kerley just cranked out a pile of fine pop songs such as "A Carol for Lorelei", "In the Cafe", "Cobblestone Road" and the tripped out "The Sailing Ship," among those already mentioned, and the band's playing is credible and detailed enough to enable the Fairs/Kerley songwriting team to present all this without it coming off as crude. Sure, there is plenty of outright copying: "Mr. Unreliable" is a fine Beatles knockoff and "I Was Lonely When" is a dead-on impression of a Marty Balin led Jefferson Airplane track, and there's an unnecessary cover of the Goffin/King "Up on the Roof". Still, if you like psychedelic pop-rock (or think you might) check this out - it's rather good, even if unoriginal. (Isaac Guillory (guitar) replaced Stone as well.)


Torrent at thepiratebay (untested)
TheLustyGhost - 1/22/09, 12:41 pm
(tont tell hardcore psych dorks if you like The Cryan Shames album, though. I'm betting it doesn't reflect well on you to like it. I like it a lot.)
lopan - 1/22/09, 12:42 pm
nice
TheLustyGhost - 1/22/09, 12:43 pm
If any of these are dead, let me know! I saved some of the best ones, and can probably find the others again.
TheLustyGhost - 1/29/09, 2:51 pm
Finally someone uploaded Tarot by the Tom Constanten band Touchstone. It's never been reissued and originals are pretty tough to find. I've been meaning to make mp3s from my record, but hadn't gotten around to it. Great early 70s instrumental psych, kind of chamber-acid-blues-folk.

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Download

Review from Redtelephone66:

Touchstone "Original Cast Album From 'Tarot' " (1972 United Artists Lp)


Tom Constanten of Grateful Dead fame plays on this
1972 release. This record is music from the Off-Broadway play "Tarot", which played at the Chelsea Theater in Brooklyn, New York during the Fall of 1970 and featured the mime troupe Rubber Duck. Recorded in New York in April, 1971.

Constanten became more active in the early 1990s, releasing an album of classical sonatas, as well as two albums mixing original material with a few Dead songs, and one album (Dead Ringers) entirely composed of Dead and Bob Dylan songs. In 1994 he released an album with Jorma Kaukonen which included 11 different versions of Embryonic Journey taken from the studio sessions for Morning Dew. T.C. has toured several times over the last ten years.

Les Kippel, founder of Relix Records, felt that Tom Constanten had a lot to say musicially, and worked with him to release a series of his projects over the years — Nightfall of Diamonds (1992), Morning Dew (1993), Embroyonic Journey (a 1994 project which was an outgrowth of getting Kaukonen and Constanten together for a recording of "Embroyonic Journey" to be used on Morning Dew), and Grateful Dreams (2000). Constanten was a favorite of Relix Records, and can be found on many of their releases, including the Dead Delites series, the Gathering on the Mountain series, and Dead Ringers.

As of 2006, Constanten plays keyboards in the current line-up of Jefferson Starship, and in 2007 appeared as a guest with Grateful Dead tribute bands Terrapin Flyer and World Within. He has also sat in with other "Bay rock" bands, including Juggling Suns and Solar Circus. (Internet Sources)



Tom Constanten began his career as a classical musician in 1961. He shared an apartment, and worked with Phil Lesh (the bassist), and met Jerry Garcia (guitar) and Robert Hunter (lyricist), before they formed the Grateful Dead.
TC (as he likes to be known) joined the band in 1968 after a short spell in the US Air Force. During his time with the band they released 3
classic psychedelic albums, ‘Anthem Of The Sun,’ ‘Aoxomoxoa’ and ‘Live Dead.’ The avant-garde influence TC brought to the band can be heard most clearly on ‘Anthem’ an album that merges bold new ideas with fluent, archetypal acid-rock.


After his departure the band combined more traditional American musical roots into their style and of course went on to rock ‘n roll immortality. TC’s contribution was not forgotten, though, and in 1994 he was inducted into the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame along with the other founding members of the band.
He has had a long and illustrious career as a solo artist working with such worthy names as Robert Hunter, Mickey Hart, Jorma Kaukonen, and Henry Kaiser, to name but a few, in the band Touchstone (with ex-Country Joe and the Fish drummer, Gary ‘Chicken’ Hirsh)

Joe McCord, aka Rubber Duck, had been doing gigs around the Bay Area, and I wound up in the “backup” band to his mime show. The “Rubber Duck Company.” Sometimes I was the entire band. A student of Étienne Decroux, he was developing a mime play at the time, based on the characters in the Tarot. The “ride” then moved to New York, and I went along. Touchstone had "evolved" a bit betwen the Tarot show (1970-71) and the KEMO-TV appearance (September, 1972). Guitarist Paul Dresher and Bassist Wes Steele were still with me, but we'd added Bill Ruskin on guitar (I saw him a couple of years ago - he's a fire chief now!) and Gene Reffkin on drums.

Touchstone moved to Los Angeles after the NYC Tarot run. Michael Butler, whose show Hair was running (and raking it in) in six cities at the time, was contemplating taking Tarot on. When that project ran into problems, he came up with a concept for a musical version of Frankenstein, and signed me to do the music. Aside from preparing for that, Touchstone did a few shows as an instrumental band in California. United Artists Records was cool to instrumental bands, though, so they didn’t promote the album a whole lot. The fact that the show didn’t catch fire during the New York run didn’t help. So the second album our contract mentioned (and we had material for) evaporated into the fog on the Hollywood hills. (Compiled from Pooterland Interviews)
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Trying again
TheLustyGhost - 1/29/09, 2:53 pm
Weird, that space is definitely not there when I paste it in.

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TheLustyGhost - 1/29/09, 2:53 pm
Huh, typing it by hand doesn't work either. I give up.
TheLustyGhost - 1/30/09, 5:15 am
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TheLustyGhost - 2/11/09, 11:29 am
Chuggo - Act Like You Might Know

C'MON FUCK A GUY
TheLustyGhost - 2/11/09, 11:29 am
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luba - 2/11/09, 3:18 pm
having issues with Nick Haeffner and Soft Cell. repost?
TheLustyGhost - 2/11/09, 4:25 pm
I don't think I have either of those, actually. Except on vinyl.
TheStallion - 2/11/09, 5:19 pm
this thread!
TheLustyGhost - 2/11/09, 6:24 pm
Fuck the rest of this, just download Chuggo.

Nick Haeffner again
luba - 2/11/09, 6:26 pm
i can't figure out how to upload on that site. is there a button somewhere on that page?
TheLustyGhost - 2/11/09, 6:26 pm
Here's a FLAC version of the Soft Cell you can try:

http://www.torrentportal.com/torrents-details.php?id=1078610&filelist=1
TheLustyGhost - 2/11/09, 6:28 pm
luba - 10:26 pm (24.34.201.31)
i can't figure out how to upload on that site. is there a button somewhere on that page?


???

If you mean downloading from megaupload, you enter the threeletter CAPTCHA thing, click through, then wait for the 45 second countdown and click the free download button.
TheLustyGhost - 3/31/09, 11:58 am
Roky Erickson - Never Say Goodbye


Incredible, devastating recrodings done during and immediately following his stint in the mental hospital in the early 70s. Some of the best songs ever written.
TEX - 3/31/09, 12:18 pm
Oooooh! I can't wait to get home tonight!!!

I'm interested in the Touchstone and the Roky.
andeet - 3/31/09, 12:22 pm
thanks for that Roky dude
TheLustyGhost - 3/31/09, 12:22 pm
Some of the older ones might be down, but I have some of them on the hard drive still, so if something's dead post and I'll se what I can do.
meaghan - 3/31/09, 2:12 pm
sweet
TEX - 3/31/09, 2:52 pm
'nother bump so I don't have to keep hunting for this thread.

Thanks again!
TEX - 3/31/09, 3:01 pm
Found this link last night, i've owned this on vinyl for about 15 years, but it's nice to have on CD too.
Heavy pyschedelic noisy funk stuff, first two tracks rips my head off every time.
I'd swear Jimi Hendrix produced this record, or passed his tricks along to whomever did.

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Buddy Miles Expressway to Your Skull

Here's a quickie review from Dusty Groove:
A super tripped-out blend of rock, funk, and soul -- easily one of Buddy Miles' most mindblowing albums -- and a classic that never lets up at all! Buddy's leading the whole group on drums -- really kicking things large from behind the kit -- while the rest of the group jams in a heavy style that's got plenty of fuzzed-out guitar and jazzy horn riffs -- virtually a blueprint for countless other rock funk groups that copped Buddy's style in years to come. The drums alone are worth the price of admission -- but the whole album's so right, tight, and outta sight that it's been a favorite in our crates for years!
TEX - 4/1/09, 11:39 am
This thread is awesome.

I got about 6 albums last night ...

HOORAY FOR MUSIC!

FUCK THE BULSHIT!
TheLustyGhost - 4/1/09, 11:41 am
Oh shit, I don't have that Buddy Miles! Thanks!
TheStallion - 4/1/09, 11:44 am
that looks awesome!
luba - 4/1/09, 5:06 pm
I am bumping this thread just so i can go back to it later tonight.
TheLustyGhost - 4/5/09, 5:38 pm
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Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill

Instead of a description or a review, here is a personal reminiscence somebody posted as a comment on the blog I lifted this link from:




Anonymous said...

Many many years ago, a group of 6 teenagers (including myself) dropped a couple hits of "new world. Then, timed to perfection, we dropped this trippy dish on the turntable.

We grooved out for the first couple of tracks, and just when it got interesting, we opened the album cover.

Completely lost on the CD version of Cottonwoodhill, is the fold-open style inner cover art, and when opened has this intense smeared fractal graphic which managed to completely engulf ones entire reality.

The real "brainticket" only comes to the surface once during the album, it is the word "brainticket" repeated over and over again. In the middle of the last track, it fades in and the rest of the music fades out, until the only thing you hear is "brainticket" repeated several times. As it fades into the background music, it *almost* completely disappears. It is then that you realize, it was there the whole time!

Half an hour later, we were all completely tweaked. We put some Aerosmith on to chill the mood, and in the background of "Dream On", we could all hear it... Braaaainticket, Braaaainticket, Braaaainticket...

20 years later... I somewhat expect to hear that sound again someday, as I realize I have been there the whole time ;)
May 17, 2008 7:02 PM
TheLustyGhost - 4/5/09, 5:39 pm
Anonymous said...

Dood is a trippy cat.

dood took too much acid yeah.
March 19, 2009 6:59 PM
TheLustyGhost - 4/5/09, 5:47 pm
The Brainticket sound remastered, there's too much high end and not enough low end compared to the vinyl. I suggest turnign the bass up when you listen.
ahungbunny - 4/5/09, 6:06 pm
that brainticket album is supergood and i really dislike most psyche.
TheLustyGhost - 4/5/09, 6:35 pm
If you like it, check out German Oak
TheLustyGhost - 4/6/09, 7:30 am
Mandatory atmospheric Krautrock soundscapes.

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Popol Vuh - In den Gärten Pharaos (1971)

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Popol Vuh - Einsjager Siebensjager (1974)
TheLustyGhost - 4/6/09, 8:52 am
Part 2 of "In Den Garten"

Oops!
TEX - 4/6/09, 8:59 am
I keep meaning to come back to this thread ... tonight!
TheLustyGhost - 4/8/09, 7:15 pm
Reupload of the Elias Hulk album with the songs in the original LP order (the first songs on sides A and B wire swapped for the CD reissue).
TheLustyGhost - 5/11/09, 2:23 pm
Cosmic Invention - Help Your Satori Mind

Amazing Japanese psych supergroup from 1997, with members of Ghost, White Heaven, etc.

Track 2 is one of my all time favorite songs.
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