RAIDERS! Paul Revere & The Raiders In Their Own Words

 

RAIDERS!  

 Paul Revere & The Raiders 

In Their Own Words

 

Okay, they put on funny costumes, appeared onstage in white tights, wore 19th century hats, which wasn’t to everybody’s taste (at least not mine, I must confess). They were even called teeny boppers and a Bubble Gum band, but man, there was much more to them.

 

Considering their catalogue of realeases I found plenty of Garage Rock, Rock ‘n‘ Roll, even psychedelia, and okay, the occasional Pop tune welded at the chart, but in general they rocked. And they wrote many tunes that stood the test of time.

 

Here I am with a selection of band-penned numbers, that make listening good fun.

 

01. WITHOUT YOU

02. UNDECIDED MAN                                     

03. WHY? WHY? WHY?

04. BALLAD OF A USELESS MAN

05. STEPPIN‘ OUT

06. GET OUT OF MY MIND

07. TIGHTER

08. ALL I REALLY NEED IS YOU

09. 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS

10. MAKE IT WITH ME

11. (as Raiders) SORCERESS WITH BLUE EYES

12. FREE

13. I DON‘T KNOW

14. TIME AFTER TIME

15. TOO MUCH TALK

16. TAKE A LOOK AT YOURSELF

17. (as Raiders) Dr. FINE

18. CALL ON ME

19. GOIN‘ TO MEMPHIS

20. THANK YOU

21. OH! TO BE A MAN

22. (as Raiders) TIGHTER (2nd version)

23. THE GREAT AIRPLANE STRIKE

 

Sorry, the archive does not show the titles, so you got to pick them from here.

But you can download the sleeve from archive also. 

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FREAKS GALORE 10 - THE GOSPEL OF FREAKDOM

  

FREAKS GALORE 10

 

THE GOSPEL OF FREAKDOM

according to Luke Haines and Sonic Smith-d

 

Part 10 of the ongoing story of Freaks in music. And there’s nothing I can add. Just enjoy another compilation.

 

Keep supporting dem freaks. They deserve it or yes.

 

The Joker says „Hi“.

 

 

 

1. JOHN OTWAY & WILD WILLY BARRETT     BEWARE OF THE FLOWERS  (John Otway - first class nutter - Brit, no doubt)

2. MARTIN GORDON    THE BABOON IN THE BASEMENT (The artist who set Resident Chump‘s crazy words to music - chumpa chumpa chumpa)

3. MC5    STARSHIP (Detroit‘s most Freakish band interprete Sun Ra)

4. THIRD WORLD WAR     HAMMERSMITH GUERILLA (Jim Avery & Terry Stamp - the genuine Shepherds Bush socialist agitators)

5. JOHN THE POSTMAN‘S PUERILE    PJ MEETS TD (John The Postman‘s about the freakiest guy in Punk/New Wave)

6. SPARKS    HERE IN HEAVEN (Martin Gordon and The Maels = Freaks in a row)

7. JET    NOTHING TO DO WITH US (4 Freaks in 1 band - David O‘List, Andy Ellison, Martin Gordon and Sir Peter Oxendale !)

8. MARTIN GORDON    THE BOOSTER (Freaky reminder of Boris “the Clown of Death“ Johnson stumbling through a speech drivelling about Peppa Pig World)

9. KINGDOM COME    GALACTIC ZOO continued (Arthur Brown - one of England‘s top-notch Freaks - the man with the burning scalp)

10. FAD GADGET    LADY SHAVE (Frank Tovey Freak occasionally tarred and feathered always good for a close shave)

11. JET    MUDLEY (infamous put-together and CBS didn‘t even know about it)

12. NOT SENSIBLES    I‘M IN LOVE WITH MARGARET THATCHER (not sensibles = Freaks: and Maggie just deserves them)

 

BIG BEAT BLITZ - Pop Power All Over The Place

 

BIG BEAT BLITZ

Fast Kids go Telematch – Pop Power A Go-Go with a nod to new romanticism, another to merseybeat, a third to psych folk and you’ll always find an open garage door with a mod suit in the corner - but it’s guitars guitars guitars all over the place.

Just one for a change.

Enjoy! 

01 THE TAMMY SHINE     So Very Little

02 VISTA BLUE     Wooden Horse 

03 TELEMATCH     Lonely Bird

04 FAST KIDS    My Advice

05 THE DANDY WARHOLS    Every Day Should Be A Holiday   

06 THE PRIVATE EYE     Rotterdam

07 GOLDEN RICHARDS     I Wanna Be Like Jeff Goldblum

08 THE URGES    The Urges Theme

09 UNI BOYS    You’ll Curse His Name Again

10 DAVE COPE    Bard’s Blessing

11 THE BRUJA-HA’s    Black Cherry Moon

12 THE WOOLLY BANDITS    Hard To Forget You

13 THE TRAFALGARS     Hip Young Man

14 THE FABULOUS COURETTES    Shake

15 THE SCHWA     Gotta Get Away

16 THE AMPLIFIER HEADS    A Song Called Sha La La

17 JEFF GRAHAM     Leaving Chicago

18 THE RAVEONETTES    Love In A Trashcan

19 RAF    (It’s A) Modern World

20 THE STRIPP    If You Want Me

21 SLEATER-KINNEY    Ironclad

22 MOTEL CALIFORNIA    Rolling Credits And Final Waves

 

PRIVATE EYE

 

 

WOOLLY BANDITS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments welcome!

 

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