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Member	Item		Review/Comment
sladesounds 8th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Bees Make Honey - Music Every Night (1973)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 7th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album The Cramps - Smell Of Female (1983)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 7th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album The Cramps - Smell Of Female (1983)	Review One gets the feeling from the title and cover art alone that if the Cramps could have released this live document in Glorious Smell-o-rama they would have jumped at the chance. Even without it one can almost sense the whiffs of perspiration and energy the group was cooking up; recorded at New York's Peppermint Lounge with Powers on guitar, the quartet slams out a then mostly entirely new set of songs with, as expected, appropriate covers as needed. The wonderfully profane take on Hasil Adkins' "She Said" surfaces here, with Interior sounding like he's about to die more than once. The Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction" and the perfectly appropriate "Faster Pussycat," taken from the legendary Russ Meyer film of the same name, also give the band more than a little something to chew on. As for the originals, the usual mess of swampy rockabilly and industrial strength noise comes together in just the right way from the start. "Thee Most Exalted Potentate of Love" gives Interior the chance to do his undead but still wired loveman thang right from the start, while Ivy and Powers hit the twang hard and Knox keeps everything going just right. "Call of the Wighat" is another highpoint, with Knox showing that he's up to more involved pounding and percussion when the need arises. A studio cut, "Surfin' Dead," surfaces as a ringer at the end; if not quite the Cramps go Beach Boys, it arguably forecasts the Jesus and Mary Chain's "Kill Surf City" just enough. AllMusic Review by Ned Raggett ✔︎ Helpful Review?
sladesounds 1st Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino (1975)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 13th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Risky Blues (1976)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 13th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Risky Blues (1976)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 27th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Re-Machined A Tribute To Deep Purple's Machine Head (2012)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 28th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Goodbye Cruel World (1984)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 3rd Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - A Poke In The Eye (With A Sharp Stick) (1976)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 1st Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Elvis Costello - Armed Forces (1979)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 22nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant (1969)	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] Not to be confused with Guthrie's 1967 debut album Alice's Restaurant, the soundtrack to Arthur Penn's 1969 film (as well as the movie itself) is built around Guthrie's 16-minute folk-rock talking-blues narrative "Alice Restaurant's Massacree," which is included here -- though this is a different recording from the classic one on Reprise Records, with slightly altered nuances and production, and every bit as funny (the original album had the title track in two parts, which have been reassembled here). The original soundtrack album was one of the finest non-orchestral soundtrack records of its era -- no surprise, since Guthrie also helped play and write much of the instrumental background music in the film (Garry Sherman did some composing and arranging as well), much of which is pleasant, unassuming instrumental folk and folk-rock with some blues and country accents, broken up by a group a cappella version of "Amazing Grace" and a Joni Mitchell soundalike (Tigger Outlaw) singing Mitchell's "Songs to Aging Children." All Music Guide review by Bruce Eder
sladesounds 22nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Curtis Amy And Dupree Bolton - Katanga! (1963)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 22nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Black Uhuru - Black Uhuru (1981)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 18th Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Zoey Van Goey - Propeller Versus Wings (2011)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 16th Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time (1997)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 16th Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time (1997)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 13th Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare (1978)	[YouTube Video] As you can see from my high ratings this remains one of my favourite albums some 40 years after first hearing. Steven ..... isn't that our mom calling [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Sergio Mendes And Brasil '77 - Primal Roots (1972)	[YouTube Video] All Music Guide Album Review
sladesounds 25th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album John Coltrane And Don Cherry - The Avant-Garde (1978)	Quite a hard cover to scan - very shiny silver foil cover
sladesounds 25th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Commodores - Commodores Live! (1977)	[YouTube Video] One of my favourite live albums - up there with Thin Lizzy Live & Dangerous and AC/DC If You Want Blood...
sladesounds 25th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album John Coltrane - My Favorite Things (1961)	My copy & scans above are from the 1975 re-issue.
sladesounds 22nd Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Bell Gardens - Hangups Need Company (2010)	[YouTube Video] This is one of those funnies, a 12" EP or album? 33rpm one side, 45rpm other. Have gone at this stage with album even though the sleeve states extended play but happy to move if required.
sladesounds 21st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Mud - Mud Rock Vol. 2 (1975)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 17th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Commodores - Greatest Hits (1978)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 16th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Widsith - Maker Of Songs (1972)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 16th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Widsith - Maker Of Songs (1972)	Originally issued in 1972, my copy shown here was a 2012 repressing.
sladesounds 15th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Angelo Spencer Et Les Hauts Sommets - World Garage (2011)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 10th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Sympathetic Sounds Of Detroit (2001)	My copy signed @ The Forum London 6th Dec 2001 by The White Stipes (Jack & Meg White), The Von Bondies and Ko (Ko & The Knockouts).
sladesounds 1st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Cat Mother And The All Night Newsboys - The Street Giveth And The Street Taketh Away (1969)	[YouTube Video] The association with Hendrix came through the band meeting him in New York City. Cat Mother was initially managed by Michael Jeffrey, who also managed Hendrix. Cat Mother opened for Hendrix on several occasions, as a result.
sladesounds 29th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Mugwumps - An Historic Recording (1967)	Oxford Dictionary Better writing skills :grin:

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