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Music Reissues Weekly: Lou Christie - Gypsy Bells
First-time exploration of the ‘Lightnin’ Strikes’ hit-maker’s 1967 spell with Columbia RecordsLou Christie fancied offering some social comment. The lyrics of his May 1967 single “Self Expression (The...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Blank Generation, Just Want To Be Myself
Fresh looks at North American and UK punk“I hate it, so I guess Eater have succeeded.” NME’s March 1977 appraisal of the debut single by UK punk's teen sensations was direct. In his trailblazing...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Mark Eric - A Midsummer’s Day Dream
Flawless but belatedly lauded Beach Boys-style California pop from 1969In June 1969, The Beach Boys released “Break Away” as a single. A month earlier, they had announced they were leaving Capitol...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Groove Machine - The Earl Young Drum Sessions
A deep dig into the studio musician integral to creating disco musicA few records changed music. One such was “The Love I Lost (Part 1)” by Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes. Issued as a single by the...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Mystic Tide - Frustration
Sixties psychedelic punks from Long Island whose sonic assault still resonatesCrashing chords are followed by a spindly, untrammelled solo guitar. After this subsides, the singer lays out the issue: “I...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Niney The Observer Presents Lightning And Thunder!
Valuable collection dedicated to the early works of the reggae polymathWinston Holness started his own record label in 1969. Missing a finger, he became known by many folks as Niney. Born 7 December...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Status Quo - The Early Years
What went on before embracing boogie and denim was frequently fantastic“So Ends Another Life” is strange. Very strange. The song’s dolefulness is immediately set up with a strummed guitar along the...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Patterns on the Window - The British Progressive Pop...
A nebulous year in music resists easy definitionHalf-way through this three-CD set, the energy level suddenly shifts upwards. It’s just one track of the 67 collected, but in this context this basic,...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Congo Funk! - Sound Madness From The Shores Of The...
Assiduous exploration of the interconnected musical ecosystems of Brazzaville and KinshasaBrazzaville is on the north side of the Congo River. It is the capital of the Republic of the Congo. Kinshasa...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Linda Smith - I So Liked Spring, Nothing Else Matters
The reappearance of two obscure - and great - albums by the American musical auteur Three years ago, the release of Till Another Time 1988-1996 generated a thumbs up. A compilation of recordings by the...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Warsaw - Middlesbrough 14th September 1977, Joy...
Thrilling live document of one of Britain’s greatest bandsEdinburgh’s Rezillos were booked to play Middlesbrough’s Rock Garden on Wednesday 14 September 1977. “I Can’t Stand my Baby,” their debut...
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Music Reissues Weekly: West Coast Consortium - All The Love In The World
Top-drawer British harmony pop band whose promise was unfulfilledWest Coast Consortium’s first single was July 1967’s “Some Other Someday,” a delightful slice of Mellotron-infused harmony pop which...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Little Girls - Valley Songs
Deserved tribute to the Los Angeles new wave popsters who failed to clickThe name, Caron and Michelle Maso explained to Los Angeles radio DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, was a literal description. “We’re both...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Andwella - To Dream
How a cult psychedelic band laid the ground for a massive Demis Roussos hitOriginal pressings of Love And Poetry sell for up to £2,800. Copies of the August 1969 debut album by Andwellas Dream can...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Jon Savage's The Secret Public - How The LGBTQ+...
A significant releaseJon Savage's The Secret Public How The LGBTQ+ Aesthetic Shaped Pop Culture 1955-1979 accompanies the titular author/historian/journalist’s book of almost the same name. The Secret...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Beatles - Stowe School 1963
A schoolboy’s momentous tape recording“We hope if you like it, you'll buy it,” says Paul McCartney. It’s 4 April 1963 and The Beatles are on stage and about to perform their third single “From me to...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Moving Away From The Pulsebeat - Post-Punk Britain...
Box-set collection as musically unruly as the period it documents“Moving Away From the Pulsebeat” is the final track – barring the locked-groove return of the two-note guitar refrain from “Boredom” –...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Margo Guryan - Words and Music
MARGO GURYAN The jazz composer who changed tack to embrace Sixties popLavish box set dedicated to the jazz composer who changed tack to embrace Sixties popLate summer 1966. Jazz was Margo Guryan’s...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Cryin’ Shames - Please Stay, Do The Strum! - Joe...
The fabled Tea Chest Tapes yield more bountyLiverpool’s The Cryin’ Shames were responsible for two of mid-Sixties Britain’s most striking single’s tracks. The February 1966 top side “Please Stay” was...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Cluster - Zuckerzeit
50th-anniversary nod to when Krautrock began embracing melodyIn 1974, two albums by German kosmiche musicians working with electronics became the first from the seedbed of what’d been dubbed Krautrock...
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