I made one of these for the Beatles and had so much fun that I ended up making four more. Listening to an album by The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band and surprised that they had recorded a Zappa song made me curious to find other covers. After Franks passing it became more common for bands to cover Zappa compositions, but the ones from the seventies are my favorite. This compilation was conceived and created in Dec 2013. Files are mostly wav with the remainder in @320 and one wma.

Disk Title: Compilation of Zappa Covers By Other Artists – First Volume

01 – King Kong – Babe Ruth (1972)
02 – Wonderful Wino – Jeff Simmons (1970)
03 – Help I´m A Rock – West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (1967)
04 – Waka Jawaka – Harmonia Ensemble (1994)
05 – Chunga’s Revenge – Gotan Project (2003)
06 – Oh No – Odin (1973)
07 – Trouble Coming Every Day – Mick Farren (1978)
08 – Little Umbrellas – Ed Palermo Big Band (2014)
09 – Sofa – Alexei Aigui and Dietmar Bonnen (2003)
10 – Echidna’s Arf (of You) – Ensemble Ambrosius (1999)
11 – Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up – Jeff Simmons (1970)
12 – Willie The Pimp – Stack Waddy (1972)
13 – King Kong – Odin (1973)
14 – Zomby Woof – Dweezil Zappa & The ZPZ Band (2006)
15 – America Drinks And Goes Home – Jean Luc Ponty (1970)

Total Time: 01:18:56

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I first heard the Damned in 1983, when the album ‘Strawberries’ had just come out. I was at a party and boy did that album make an impact. I would say that along with The Buzzcocks, The Damned are the most fun filled punk band of them all. Hard not to smile with the sassy humor of their lyrics and arrangements. Arguably the best musicians within the realm of the original punk bands of that era, I think. The Clash may be the all around favorite and certainly the ones that went the farthest while The Buzzcocks are the most melodic and pop friendliest amongst the first wave of punks. But The Damned are remembered as possibly the most anarchist bunch of musical mayhem that ever got recorded. This compilation celebrates the fun and lunacy of this extraordinary band. This music should be played loud! Conceived and created in Nov 2006. All files are @320.

Disk Title: Damned Yet Adored!

01 Therapy
02 Dozen Girls
03 The Dog
04 Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
05 The Missing Link
06 Life Goes On
07 Under the Floor Again
08 There Ain’t No Sanity Clause
09 Stranger on the Town
10 13th Floor Vendetta
11 Ignite
12 Generals
13 White Rabbit
14 Wait for the Blackout
15 Lively Arts
16 Silly Kid’s Games
17 Drinking About My Baby
18 Don’t Bother Me
19 Looking At You [Live]

Total Time: 01:19:14

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A complete CD’s worth of delightful recordings mostly forgotten by time, recorded in the UK on the cusp of the seventies. Although from lesser known bands with less achievements; all recordings are pretty cool and the CD as a whole is a very enjoyable listen. Hopefully you will concur.

This compilation was originally conceived and created in June 2013. In the end of Feb 2019, wishing to upgrade bit rate, I once again altered a few song choices and re-sequenced the play order. Concluded and posted 26 Feb 2019. All files are either @320 or wav.

Disk Title: A Collection of Forgotten Late Sixties British Recordings

01 – The Killing Floor – Come Home Baby – 1969
02 – Mighty Baby – I’ve Been Down So Long – 1969
03 – Smile – Doin’ All Right – 1969
04 – The End – Lovin’ Sacred Loving – 1969
05 – The Herd – She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not – 1968
06 – Arzachel – Garden of Earthly Delights – 1969
07 – Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments – Morning Call – 1969
08 – Andwella’s Dream – Midday Sun – 1969
09 – The Idle Race – Please No More Sad Songs – 1969
10 – The Open Mind – Cast A Spell – 1969
11 – Magna Carta – Shades of Grey – 1969
12 – The Deviants – Guaranteed To Bleed – 1968
13 – The Remo Four – In The First Place – 1968
14 – Roger Bunn – Road To The Sun – 1969
15 – Chimera – Mary’s Mystery – 1969
16 – Heavy Jelly – Born For Something – 1969
17 – Little Free Rock – Castles In The Sky – 1969
18 – Hookfoot – First Things First – 1969
19 – Steamhammer – Even The Clock – 1969
20 – Andromeda – Day of The Change – 1969
21 – Twink Alder – Ten Thousand Words in a Cardboard Box – 1969

Total Time: 01:18:08

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Born and raised in East Berlin in a time where the divisiveness of ideologies created fears and nightmares generally shaped in the form of a mushroom cloud. The iron curtain may have been a metaphoric analogy for the communist culture but the Berlin wall was very much concrete. Literally.
Nina Hagen was already considered an opera prodigy at nine. In 1976, following exceptional circumstances, Nina Hagen and her mother managed to receive permission to leave East Berlin and cross the wall, Nina settling in Hamburg. Shortly thereafter, CBS signed her and suggested that to acclimate with western culture, that she should travel Europe. Nina Hagen landed in London at the height of the punk movement in early 1977. Returning to Germany in the summer, she formed the Nina Hagen Band releasing two albums that caught peoples attention. Her theatrical vocals which draws heavily from her operatic training and her capability to mix and match genres in a dissonant mix of punk, funk, reggae, eastern and opera, makes her very unique. Besides German and English, her later albums shows her singing in French, Italian and Sanskrit. There’s nothing typical about Nina Hagen. Compilation created and completed on Jan 2019. All files are @320 except two in wav.

Disk Title: Nina Hagen’s Kunst 

01 – Born In XIXAX [Jun1982]
02 – Abgehaun [Jan1995]
03 – What It Is [Nov1983]
04 – Universal Radio [Jan1985]
05 – African Reggae [Dec1979]
06 – Ruler Of My Heart [Jul1991]
07 – Naturtrane [Feb1978]
08 – L’Amore [1993]
09 – Live On Mars [Oct1989]
10 – TV-Glotzer (White Punks On Dope)[Feb1978]
11 – Russian Reggae [Jan1985]
12 – Taitschi-Tarot [Jun1982]
13 – Only Seventeen [Oct1989]
14 – Gretchen [Jul1991]
15 – Kunst [Jan1995]
16 – Future Is Now [Jun1982]
17 – I’m Gonna Live the Life [1993]
18 – 1985 Ekstasy Drive [Jan1985]
19 – Rainbow [Dec2003]

Total Time: 01:19:29

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Before the solo career of Alice Cooper there was the Alice Cooper band. An American band from Phoenix, Arizona, formed in 1964 as The Spiders by three high school classmates Furnier, Dunaway and Buxton. Becoming a big fish in a small pond, in 1967 The Spiders moved to Los Angeles with dreams of success that didn’t happen. They changed their name to Alice Cooper, described as an innocent and wholesome name which was a direct contrast to the image of its members. Despite the lack of public interest found in LA, they persevered touring mid-America and found their initial fans in places like Michigan and Ohio.

Adding elements of theatrics to their shows, the lead singer Vince Furnier, whilst creating his character, adopted the name of the band as his own. This would later prove to facilitate fan alliance once he went solo, effectively taking all of the bands fans as his own. Despite Furnier’s successful career as Alice Cooper, his solo albums never managed the same level of critical and public success as the output of the band Alice Cooper between 1971-1973. Exception being his first solo release Welcome To My Nightmare. This compilation spans all six Alice Cooper albums released between 1969-1973. All files @320 except two in wav.

Disk Title: ACBC – The Alice Cooper Band Compilation

01 – Billion Dollar Babies – 1973
02 – Beautiful Flyaway – 1970
03 – Living – 1969
04 – Gutter Cat vs. The Jets – 1972
05 – Under My Wheels – 1971
06 – No More Mr. Nice Guy – 1973
07 – Is It My Body? – 1971
08 – Muscle Of Love – 1973
09 – School’s Out – 1972
10 – Desperado – 1971
11 – Be My Lover – 1971
12 – Blue Turk – 1972
13 – Second Coming – 1971
14 – Ballad Of Dwight Fry – 1971
15 – I’m Eighteen – 1971
16 – Dead Babies – 1971
17 – I Love The Dead – 1973
18 – Shoe Salesman – 1970
19 – No Longer Umpire – 1969
20 – Halo of Flies – 1971

Total Time: 01:19:34

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