Pharaohs - Real things (1985) Mini Album LP vinyl-rip

First 6 songs MiniAlbum from this british psychobilly combo.

Tracklist

A1 Car Crash
A2 Real Things
A3 Brainstorm
B1 Inner Wealth
B2 Don't Stab My Picture
B3 All Around Me

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Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - 88 (1988) LP Vinyl-Rip

One of Jonathan Richman's better '80s efforts, and certainly one of the most basic, performed in an acoustic trio format. It's nonetheless quite rocking, with heavy debts to doo wop and Bo Diddley rhythms, and a jolly (though not sappy) summertime campfire feel. Some of his best uptempo tunes are here, including "I Love Hot Nights," "California Desert Party," and "Gail Loves Me." (Allmusic.com)


Tracklist
a1 Dancin' Late at Night
a2 When Harpo Played His Harp
a3 Gail Loves Me
a4 New Kind of Neighborhood
a5 African Lady
b1 I Love Hot Nights
b2 California Desert Party
b3 Everything's Gotta Be Right
b4 Circle I
b5 I Have Come Out to Play
b6 The Theme from Moulin Rouge

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Dinosaur Jr. - Just like heaven (1989) 12"EP vinyl-rip

What at the time must have seemed like a cockeyed gob back at the '80s American indie crowd's favorite whipping boys -- aka anyone from England who used makeup and synths -- now reads much more like an amusing, entertaining salute from one band to another. "Just Like Heaven" itself is the legendary Cure hit that fully broke them in America; in Dinosaur Jr.'s hands, the synth line is replaced by a J Mascis overdub and the chorus gets gang-shout vocals and death metal riffs, but the song itself survives the transplant perfectly. Mascis' usual vocal style is as idiosyncratic and appropriate as Robert Smith's, and the wistful, nutty vibe of the piece gets even more so at the full band's hands, right down to the sudden, cut-off ending. The other tracks, the brief acoustic/electric zone stomp of "Throw Down" and the surf thrash scream of "Chunks," are fine enough, but it's the lead track that has remained deservedly famous. Smith himself obviously loved it -- he got the band to open a Cure show in Los Angeles in 1992, where they played said cover to a somewhat bemused audience.


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Silver Chapter - Teenage Screamer (1990) 12" EP Vinyl Rip

Profoundly superficial and lovin' every minute of it, with an overly keen sardonic embrace of 70s kitsch and 50s retro. Silver Chapter took their love of Kiss and Gene Vincent right to the tips of their flat-tops and back again. Appreciated by the Spacemen 3 and the Pixies alike, they were a welcome release from the uptight shoe-gazers of the early nineties. Short, sweet, neat and slapping your face like an old-fashioned washboard. (from firerecords.com)

Tracklist
1 Teenage Screamer
2 Ramalama (ramalamalama)
3 Cleopatra
4 Angel b true

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Joy Division - Transmission/Novelty (1979) 12" Vinyl-Rip

No waste of words for this one.

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Bratmobile - The Real Janelle (1994) EP Vinyl-Rip

Bratmobile formed when University of Oregon students Allison Wolfe and Molly Neuman collaborated on an influential feminist fanzine, Girl Germs. The band played its first show as a two-woman act at Olympia's North Shore Surf Club on February 14, 1991, with Molly and Allison sharing duties on guitar, drums, and vocals.

During spring break 1991, Allison and Molly went to Washington, DC to follow Beat Happening and Nation of Ulysses on tour and try to work on a new form of Bratmobile that, at that time , included Jen Smith and Christina Billotte in the line-up. Together, they recorded and released a cassette tape entitled Bratmobile DC. Beat Happening's Calvin Johnson had previously introduced Molly to nascent guitarist Erin Smith from Bethesda, Maryland during the Christmas holiday in December, 1990 at a Nation of Ulysses show in Washington, DC. Smith was co-author, with her brother, of the much-revered TV pop culture fanzine Teenage Gang Debs when Allison and Molly asked her to jam with them. It clicked, and in July 1991 the trio played their first show as a 3-piece with Molly Neuman on drums, Erin Smith on guitar, and Allison Wolfe on vocals. They were just in time to play at the historic International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington, becoming the only band to appear twice.

From their first shows, Bratmobile were considered an exciting and important addition to the fertile early '90s NorthWest scene. From 1991 to 1994 Bratmobile released a classic album, Pottymouth, and an EP, The Real Janelle, on Kill Rock Stars, as well as The Peel Session recording before the intense media scrutiny and inner pressures of the Riot Grrrl movement hastened the band's breakup (on stage, no less) in 1994.(From Wikipedia)

Bratmobile's second 12", and their last release for close to six years, 1994's The Real Janelle is a big step up from the chaotic Pottymouth, both in musical skill and clarity of thought. The songs are more pointed -- "Brat Girl" is a violent screed holding up the infamous suburban high school serial rapists "the Spur Posse" as the ultimate result of the kind of emotional abuse touched on in "And I Live in a Town Where the Boys Amputate Their Hearts" -- and also more subtle. The low-key, quietly tense "Yeah, Huh?" is almost downright pretty in comparison to a full-force punk-rocker like "Die," but even the latter song is more controlled and direct than Bratmobile's earliest releases. The highlight, however, is the title track, the catchiest song of Bratmobile's career, and a scrappy punk-pop D.I.Y. classic.(From Allmusic.com)

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Theatre of Hate - Nero / Incinerator (1981) 12" Vinyl-Rip

Led by singer-songwriter and ex-member of punk band The Pack, Kirk Brandon, the original group also consisted of: guitarist Steve Guthrie, bassist Stan Stammers (The Straps/Epileptics), saxophonist John Lennard and drummer Luke Rendle from Crisis/The Straps.
This is the third single for Theatre of Hate.

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Theatre of Hate - The hop (1985) 12" Vinyl-Rip

While Conquistador was on Westworld Lp, this was the only edition of The Hop until the cd of Westworld came out.
This 12" came out in 1985, after the band had already dismissed.
Two alternate and longer version of "Do you believe in the western world" and"Original sin" are included.
Produced by Mick Jones.

Tracklist
A1 The Hop
A2 Conquistador
B1 Do you believe in the Westworld
B2 Original sin

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The Cardiacs - Day is gone (1991) 12" Ep Vinyl-Rip

Cardiacs are an English band formed in 1976. Their broad combination of styles is sometimes referred to as Pronk (progressive punk), although singer Tim Smith prefers the description "Psychedelic" or simply "Pop". Their music is underpinned by Smith's unique singing and songwriting styles, and his poetically cryptic, philosophical and abstract lyrics.
Throughout their long career both fans and critics have always described their sound as entirely unique, varied, complex and often intense.
The music magazine Organ has commented that "one Cardiacs song contains enough ideas for most other band’s entire careers".
The band are also renowned for their profound influence on over three decades of musicians (including the pioneers of the Nu Metal, Avant-Garde Metal and Math Rock genres), manic stage performances and for their strong and enduring cult appeal.
"Day Is Gone" is the sixth single from Cardiacs, taken from the album, Heaven Born and Ever Bright. The other three tracks on the single are exclusive to this release. (from Wikipedia)

Bic Hayes originally recorded the guitar parts. When he was replaced by Jon Poole, much of the guitar was re-recorded, although exactly how much is not clear.

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Ride - Ride (1990) EP Vinyl-Rip

Ride, who took their cue primarily from My Bloody Valentine, was one of most respected bands in existence during a short-lived, yet vital British music movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Dubbed by journalists as "shoegazing" for the musicians' habit of staring at the floor while playing live and "the scene that celebrates itself" because bands sometimes attended other like-minded acts' concerts, these bands musically created sounds at odds with traditional pop, rock, and punk.
Often described as ethereal or otherworldly, the shoegazing sound combined a myriad of distorted guitars, swirling keyboards, percussion, and voices--both human and instrumental--that were often indistinguishable from one another, obscuring individual identity. "We try to make the music the personality and keep ourselves quite anonymous," guitarist/vocalist Andy Bell once commented, as quoted by Gavin Stoker in Rock: The Rough Guide.
When grunge (imported from the United States) and Britpop swept across the United Kingdom, however, most of these shoegazing bands fell apart after they were suddenly ignored by the music media and the public. Ride lasted longer than most, staying intact amid critical derision and disinterested fans. The band released its final album, the highly acclaimed Tarantula, in March of 1996.(from www.musicianguide.com)
This one here is their 1st four-track EP release that provides a good overview of Ride circa 1989 -- while "Chelsea Girl" is a piercing example of Ride's churning trash-rock-cum-shoegazer, "Drive Blind" is a distinct marker on the band's path to some sort of glory (and an inglorious fade, alas.)
The EP was combined with its follow-up Play to form the Smile mini-album for the US market in July, 1990. Two years later, in November, 1992, Smile was released the UK, too, after the both British EPs had gone out of print.
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The Pastels - Baby You're Just You (1989) 12" Vinyl-Rip

The Pastels are legendary. Their story goes back to the early '80s, when Stephen McRobbie (known as Stephen Pastel) and David Keegan co-owned a record label called 53rd & 3rd, home to beloved and influential bands such as The Vaselines and The Soup Dragons. They also played in a group named The Shop Assistants together with a girl, Aggi Wright. Stephen and Aggi soon broke off into their own group, which they named The Pastels. They released a number of singles in the mid '80s until 1987 when they released their first LP, entitled Up For A Bit With The Pastels. Early on, the lineup of the Pastels included members of Teenage Fanclub and The Vaselines, and David from the Shop Assistants even joined up for a time. These different groups and their contemporaries pioneered an entirely new genre of music that developed from labels such as their 53rd & 3rd, Subway, Pink, Creation, Glass, and others. The genre was known as a number of different things, early on called "shambling" or "anorak" pop, and now known commonly as Twee or as c86 - after the benchmark cassette compilation named c86 that music mag NME released in 1986, which The Pastels and other groups of this music style appeared on. The style is most unique for the jangling guitar lines, vocals that are usually pleasantly out of tune, and a certain hypersensitive personality backing everything. Certainly, much of the Pastels music would fit this description.

Finally in the late '80s some rearranging was needed and the group became a permanent trio consisting of Stephen, Aggi, and Katrina Mitchell, who was a fan of the group and would come to their shows. It was a bit of reworking of the lineup and the Pastels as a whole, with Katrina and Aggi learning drums and bass from scratch. This became the definitive lineup of the group and they released some of their greatest material throughout the early and mid-90s. They collaborated with Jad Fair in 1992, and released the LP Mobile Safari in 1995. With this release they found permanent homes with Domino records in the UK and here at Up Records in the US. Following these next few albums they began collaborating with many of their friends and contemporaries, both on their own releases and guesting on a wide range of friends' albums. Most recently Stephen has formed a record label once again, named Geographic, and The Pastels wrote music for a good film - The Last Great Wilderness. They play the occasional show and are still writing music in between running the label.(from http://www.uprecords.com)

Tracklist
A1 Baby You're Just You
B1 Holy Moly
B2 Ugly Town

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Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill your Television (1990) 12" EP Vinyl-Rip

Ned's Atomic Dustbin's stylish fusion of punk and funk earned them a fair number of fans in the early '90s, just as England's Stone Roses-inspired "Madchester" scene was drawing to a close. Comprised of Jonn Penney (vocals), Rat (guitar), Matt Cheslin (bass), Alex Griffin (bass), and Dan Warton (drums), the group began as a neo-goth rock outfit in the late '80s. By the beginning of the '90s, the band had developed a dense, assaultive sound that was distinguished by their thundering two-bass attack. Ned's released their first single, "Kill Your Television," in 1990; on the back of a slick, sloganeering marketing attack (epitomized by the 86 T-shirts the band had designed in their first three years), the single reached the U.K. Top 50 and led to a record contract with Sony Music. (allmusic.com)

Tracklist
a1 Kill your television
a2 That's nice
b1 Sentence
b2 Kill your television (Remix)

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The Birthday Party - The Bad Seed (1982) 12" Ep Vinyl-Rip

The Birthday Party were one of the darkest and most challenging post-punk groups to emerge in the early '80s, creating bleak and noisy soundscapes that provided the perfect setting for vocalist Nick Cave's difficult, disturbing stories of religion, violence, and perversity. Under the direction of Cave and guitarist Rowland S. Howard, the band tore through reams of blues and rockabilly licks, spitting out hellacious feedback and noise at an unrelenting pace. As the Birthday Party's career progressed, Cave's vision got darker and the band's songs alternated between dirges to blistering sonic assaults.(from http://social.zune.net)
This one here is one my favourite Party album(EP?!?).
Tracklist
a1 Sonnys Burning
a2 Wildworld
b1 Deep In The Woods
b2 Fears Of Gun

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Lush - Mad Love (1990) 12"EP Vynil-Rip

The original band members were Steve Rippon, Emma Anderson, Meriel Barham, Chris Acland and Miki Berenyi. Barham left almost immediately, eventually joining fellow 4AD label mates, Pale Saints. In 1989 the band signed to 4AD Records and released Scar, a 6-track mini-album. Critical praise for Scar and a wildly popular live show established Lush as one of the most written about groups of the early 1990s U.K. indie scene. Not long after, the British music press tagged them with the title of 'shoegazers', a label that has developed into a whole genre of its own, i.e. 'shoegazing'. The following year, the EP Mad Love, produced by Robin Guthrie, and single "Sweetness and Light" (produced by Tim Friese-Greene) were released. All three releases were eventually combined into the Gala album which was produced mainly for the US and Japanese markets.

Tracklist
a1 De-Luxe
a2 Leaves Me Cold
b1 Downer
b2 Thoughtforms

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