Adolphe Sex Et Ses Machines – Machines on 7 inch vinyl. Stag-O-Lee, Belgian R&B garage-beat debut single. Ships from Germany.

Adolphe Sex Et Ses Machines – Machines (7", Near Mint)

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Adolphe Sex Et Ses Machines – Machines – 7"

7 inch vinyl single, Stag-O-Lee Records

7" Near Mint Garage R&B

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Who Are Adolphe Sex Et Ses Machines?

Adolphe Sex Et Ses Machines are a seven-piece band from Charleroi, Belgium, built around singer and guitarist Matthew Hardison and drummer Nico Leonard, who also form the heart and soul of two of Belgium's leading rock steady and boss reggae bands, The Moon Invaders and The Caroloregians. Despite those Jamaican-influenced day jobs, there is no trace of reggae in the sound of Adolphe Sex, a project built entirely around raw, unfiltered rhythm and blues raunch.

About This Debut Single

Released on Stag-O-Lee Records, an EP-format four track release that would come to be known as the Machine EP, Machines showcased the band digging into vintage R&B and rock and roll covers, including two wild tittyshakers originally by Pacific Northwest rockers The Wailers, a rendition of Torture Rock by The Rockin' Belmarx, a sleazy take on Sam McLain's Baby Come Home, and an awesome cover of the Burnt Toast & Black Coffee classic, previously recorded by artists including Shorty Long and Mike Pedicin. The single proved an immediate success, selling out its pressing rapidly and prompting a follow-up 7 inch, Baseball, released via Soundflat Records, and eventually a full debut LP, Poudre A Muscle, which further leaned into the band's Hammond-organ-driven, Yeye-influenced garage-beat sound, drawing comparisons to French icons like Nino Ferrer, Jacques Dutronc and Serge Gainsbourg.

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The Beach Boys – We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years on 3LP+3CD box set. 2026, first release of Adult/Child. Ships from Germany.

The Beach Boys – We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years (3LP+3CD Box Set)

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3LP+3CD box set, Capitol Records / UMe

3LP 3CD Box Set

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What This Box Set Covers

We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years shines a spotlight on one of the most pivotal and often misunderstood periods in Beach Boys history, when Brian Wilson returned to full creative command of the band for the first time in eight years, and his brothers Dennis and Carl adjusted their own musical roles to help facilitate that return. Co-producer Howie Edelson has described the set as telling a story of Brian coming back into the fold, viewed with a far smarter and more sympathetic eye than when this material was first released, decades on from its initial, often misunderstood reception. The collection centres on a newly remastered edition of 1977's Love You, Brian Wilson's idiosyncratic, synthesizer-driven album now widely regarded as a beloved cult classic, expanding the story around it with session outtakes and alternate mixes.

The Adult/Child Sessions

Alongside the Love You material, the box set's second disc offers the biggest news for longtime fans: the first ever official release of Adult/Child, a shelved Beach Boys project recorded in 1977 as a planned follow-up to Love You, which had circulated for decades only through bootlegs and earned near-mythical status among collectors. The group's distinctive vocal blend, with prominent contributions from Mike Love, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson and Dennis Wilson, reveals Adult/Child as more of a genuine group project than its bootleg mythology often implied. A third strand of material draws on additional selections from the transitional 15 Big Ones sessions of 1976, rounding out a genuinely comprehensive 73 track survey of this era.

What's Included In The Package

Across three LPs and three CDs, the box set delivers 35 previously unreleased tracks and 22 newly mixed recordings, with the three CDs repeating the vinyl content before expanding further with additional outtakes and alternate mixes that the LPs don't have room to include. The whole package is housed in a 12.75 by 12.75 inch slipcase featuring the stained-glass window that once hung in Brother Studio, accompanied by a 40-page booklet featuring new and archival interviews with all four surviving band members and the Brother Studio engineering team of Stephen Moffitt, Earle Mankey and John Hanlon, alongside rare photographs, tape box images and a complete sessionography detailing when and where every recording was made.

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Various – Gibble Gobble (Blues Rhythm Popcorn Exotica Tittyshakers) on 10 inch vinyl. New/sealed, Stag-O-Lee. Ships from Germany.

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New & Sealed

Various – Gibble Gobble (The Return Of Blues & Rhythm Popcorn Exotica &…

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10" Sealed Limited Edition

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About The Exotic Blues & Rhythm Series

Gibble Gobble belongs to a long-running series of 10 inch compilations from Stag-O-Lee Records, gathering obscure vintage rhythm and blues, exotica, popcorn and tittyshaker rarities under playfully nonsensical titles, part of a run that has stretched across volumes including Katanga!, Sadaba, Boom-A-Lay, Chug-A-Lug and Shadrach. Each volume typically draws on twelve tracks of deep-digging vinyl obscurities, prized by collectors for surfacing genuinely rare material rather than well worn genre standards.

About This Volume's Rarity

Gibble Gobble originally appeared years ago as the fifth volume in the series, limited to just 500 copies that sold out quickly and became a genuinely sought after item on the secondary collector's market. Recognising the ongoing demand, Stag-O-Lee later reissued the volume in a limited run of 700 copies, this time pressed entirely on clear vinyl, giving collectors who missed the original pressing a fresh chance to add this beloved entry in the series to their collection. As with the label's wider Exotic Blues & Rhythm output, the record continues the series' tradition of surfacing genuinely obscure, dance-floor-ready vintage sounds for dedicated collectors of the genre.

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Various – Buzzsaw Joint Cut 9: Double Agent 7 on vinyl LP. Ltd. 2023 Stag-O-Lee rhythm and blues comp. Ships from Germany.

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Various – Buzzsaw Joint Cut 9 – Double Agent 7 – LP Comp Ltd

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What Is Buzzsaw Joint?

Buzzsaw Joint began life as a London club night offering fans the chance to revel in deliciously trashy, obscure rock and roll in all its perverse forms. Club boss Fritz eventually took the primitive Buzzsaw sound online through a series of savage Mixcloud mixes assembled by record collectors and hunters from around the world, and the high-octane energy of the night eventually took physical form as a run of vinyl and CD compilations released via the respected reissue label Stag-O-Lee Records.

About This Compilation And Double Agent 7

Cut number nine in the series reveals the top-secret tactics of Double Agent 7, a London-based DJ duo and music festival regulars who hold a long-running monthly residency at one of the capital's hippest bars, spinning 1950s and 60s R&B floorfillers deep into the night under their self-styled Mission 45. Beyond London, the duo have taken their cross-border operations to Berlin, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Barcelona and Bangkok, and have also released two of their own recordings, Dopamine Fiend and Luxury Kills, in collaboration with singer Annie Bea under the code name DA7. Their selections for this compilation span sixteen wild, obscure tracks, including Margaret Lewis's Somethin's Wrong Baby, Billy 'The Kid' Emerson's I Never Get Enough, Classie Ballou's Crazy Mambo, The Cadillacs' Holy Smoke Baby, The Electras' Boo Babe and the closing Bettye Smith cut My Love Is Gone, offering a genuinely deep dive into vintage rhythm and blues, rockabilly and rock and roll rarities.

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The Molochs – America's Velvet Glory on vinyl LP. 2017 LA garage rock, Velvet Underground and Byrds influenced. Ships from Germany.

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Garage Rock

The Molochs – America's Velvet Glory – LP Album

Vinyl LP, Innovative Leisure Records

LP Garage Rock 2017

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Who Are The Molochs?

The Molochs formed around songwriter Lucas Fitzsimons, who grew up between California and Argentina and found his creative direction in garage rock and its baroque mid-1960s cousins, alongside guitarist and organist Ryan Foster. The band took its name from Moloch, the ancient god of child sacrifice referenced as a destructive antagonist in Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, a fitting symbol for Fitzsimons, who has spoken candidly about the personal sacrifices, including unstable housing and difficult relationships, that went into building the band and this record. Released via Innovative Leisure Records, a label also home to acts including BadBadNotGood, Nosaj Thing and Holy Fuck, the album arrived as the band's follow-up to their earlier debut.

About America's Velvet Glory

Across eleven tracks including Charlie's Lips, You Never Learn, Little Stars, New York and the twanging acoustic ditty That's The Trouble With You, America's Velvet Glory draws deeply on a specific mid-1960s lineage: early Velvet Underground, Jonathan Richman's proto-punk innocence, Television's jangle, The Only Ones and, distinctly, The Byrds. Critics highlighted Charlie's Lips as a clear homage to Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, and the Hammond organ on You Never Learn as an echo of Al Kooper's work on Bob Dylan's mid-60s recordings, while New York was frequently singled out as the record's standout, capturing a classic 20th century wonder at the city's electric, cold energy. Metacritic's review noted the album works well as both a cohesive throwback and character study, even as some listeners felt its intentionally worn formula could have used more variation across its compact runtime.

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Spoons – Bridges Over Borders on vinyl LP. VG. 1986, from Nova Heart new wave hitmakers, mixed by Bob Rock. Ships from Germany.

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Who Were Spoons?

Spoons formed in Burlington, Ontario in 1979 around guitarist and vocalist Gordon Deppe and bassist and vocalist Sandy Horne, who had dated in high school and shared a fascination with the sleek synthesizers and angular guitars emerging from Britain's new wave scene. Joined by keyboardist Rob Preuss and drummer Derrick Ross, the band became one of Canada's defining new wave acts through their acclaimed second album Arias & Symphonies, which spawned three Canadian Top 40 hits, including Nova Heart and the title track, and remains regarded as one of the most celebrated Canadian new wave albums of the era.

About Bridges Over Borders And Its Stylistic Shift

By the time of Bridges Over Borders, Preuss and Ross had departed the band, replaced by keyboardist Scott MacDonald and drummer Steve Kendry. Recorded at Phase One Studios in Toronto, with mixing handled across sessions at Little Mountain Studios in Vancouver by Bob Rock, who would go on to produce landmark albums for Metallica and Bon Jovi, the record marked a deliberate move toward a harder rock sound, evident on the title track and the single Rodeo. Despite the ambitious stylistic pivot, the album proved a commercial disappointment, failing to chart in the Canadian Top 100, with none of its three singles charting either. Decades later, the record has found renewed appreciation among collectors and Spoons enthusiasts, with some longtime fans specifically calling for a proper digital reissue and remaster, viewing it as an underrated entry deserving rediscovery within the band's wider catalogue.

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The Woodentops – Giant on vinyl LP. VG+. 1986 Rough Trade indie debut, includes inner sleeve. Ships from Germany.

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The Woodentops – Giant – LP Album

Vinyl LP, Rough Trade Records, includes inner sleeve

LP VG+ UK Indie

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Who Were The Woodentops?

The Woodentops formed around singer and guitarist Rolo McGinty, building a distinctive sound that drew from Suicide, Talking Heads, XTC and Echo & The Bunnymen, but most notably channelled the frenetic, jittery rhythms of The Feelies, twisted through unexpected acoustic and orchestral instrumentation. The band earned a devoted following through energetic live shows and a string of well received singles before this debut album brought their sound to a wider audience via Rough Trade Records.

About Giant And Its Critical Reception

Recorded at The Roundhouse in Camden and Power Plant Studios in Willesden, and produced by Bob Sargeant, who also contributed marimba to the sessions, Giant paired the band's core lineup with a striking array of guest musicians, including Chucho Merchan on double bass, Jack Emblow on accordion, Steve Sidwell on trumpet and Danny Schogger on strings. Across sixteen tracks including Get It On, Good Thing, Love Train and Hear Me James, the album balances propulsive, driving rhythms with unexpected folk and orchestral textures, earning strong reviews on release, including 4 out of 5 from Record Mirror and an impressive 9.6 out of 10 from Smash Hits. The album reached number 35 on the UK Albums Chart and appeared in numerous critics' end of year polls for 1986, and decades later continues to be rediscovered by listeners as a genuine lost classic of the era, with some longtime fans rating it as highly as landmark albums by The Smiths and R.E.M. from the same period.

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Dwight Twilley – Jungle on vinyl LP. VG. 1984 power pop, Girls features Tom Petty on vocals. Ships from Germany.

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Dwight Twilley – Jungle – LP Album

Vinyl LP, EMI America Records

LP VG Power Pop

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Who Was Dwight Twilley?

Dwight Twilley, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, first found fame in the mid-1970s fronting the Dwight Twilley Band alongside Phil Seymour, scoring a Top 20 hit with I'm On Fire in 1975 and helping establish the template for the power pop genre. After the band split in 1978, Twilley continued as a solo artist, releasing a steady run of albums through the following decades while building a reputation as one of power pop's most consistently melodic and accomplished songwriters, a legacy that continued until his death in October 2023.

About Jungle And Its Tom Petty Connection

Recorded at Sound City Studios and produced by Noah Shark, Mark Smith and John Hug, Jungle brought together a genuinely impressive session lineup, including Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers co-founder Mike Campbell, guitarists Richie Zito and Buzzy Feiten, drummer Mike Baird, keyboardist Alan Pasqua, and longtime Twilley collaborators guitarist Bill Pitcock IV and Linn Drum inventor Roger Linn, with Cowsills member Susan Cowsill contributing harmony vocals. The album's lead single Girls, which opens with a snatch of the Gigi song Thank Heaven For Little Girls, became an MTV favourite and reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100, memorably featuring Tom Petty himself taking over vocals during the chorus. The album's third single, Why You Wanna Break My Heart, found renewed popularity years later when Tia Carrere covered it on the double-platinum Wayne's World soundtrack, introducing Twilley's songwriting to an entirely new generation of listeners.

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John Henry Barbee on vinyl LP. 1989 East German Amiga reissue, Chicago blues, American Folk Blues Festival. Ships from Germany.

John Henry Barbee – John Henry Barbee (LP, RE)

East German Reissue

John Henry Barbee – John Henry Barbee – LP RE

Vinyl LP, Amiga Records

LP Chicago Blues Reissue

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Who Was John Henry Barbee?

Born in Henning, Tennessee in 1905, John Henry Barbee toured the American South throughout the 1930s as a singer and slide guitarist, teaming up along the way with Big Joe Williams and later Sunnyland Slim in Memphis. Travelling down to Mississippi, he met and played on and off with Sonny Boy Williamson for several years, eventually recording two sides for Vocalion Records in 1938, God Knows I Can't Help It and Six Weeks Old Blues, which sold well enough that the label sought him out for further recordings, only to find he had vanished from his last known Arkansas whereabouts.

His Remarkable Rediscovery And European Tour

Barbee did not resurface in the music industry until the early 1960s, during the height of a renewed popular interest in the blues. Blues historian and musician Willie Dixon tracked him down, finding him working as an ice cream server in Chicago, and helped bring him back into the recording and performing world. Barbee went on to record for Spivey and Storyville labels in the mid-1960s, and in 1964 joined the celebrated American Folk Blues Festival tour of Europe, sharing the bill with legendary artists including Howlin' Wolf and Lightnin' Hopkins. A portion of the tour's Hamburg concert was later issued by Fontana Records. Tragically, Barbee was involved in a car accident later in 1964 and suffered a fatal heart attack while in jail awaiting the case to come to court, bringing a poignant end to his remarkable late-career revival. This Amiga pressing, released via East Germany's state record label, reflects the deep and lasting appreciation for American blues within the former GDR's music scene, offering listeners access to Barbee's storytelling guitar work decades after his passing.

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Bill Quateman – Bill Quateman on vinyl LP. VG. 1973 debut with Elton John's Davey Johnstone and Caleb Quaye. Ships from Germany.

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Bill Quateman – Bill Quateman – LP

Vinyl LP, Columbia Records

LP VG Singer-Songwriter

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Who Is Bill Quateman?

Bill Quateman began performing in local Chicago area coffeehouses at just 14 years old in the early 1960s, honing his songwriting craft for years before Columbia Records chief Clive Davis, then one of the most powerful figures in the music industry, signed him and gave the young songwriter an extraordinary level of support and creative trust. Beyond music, Quateman later developed an interest in wholistic health, becoming involved in orthomolecular treatment and hair analysis testing, and today serves as a director focused on personal nutrition testing and regenerative wellness counseling. His daughter, performing as India (Naomi Wild), has gone on to her own notable songwriting career, co-writing Odesza's breakout hit Higher Ground.

About This Debut Album And The Elton John Band Connection

Given full artistic freedom and a genuinely top-tier production team by Clive Davis, Quateman's self-titled debut was produced by Ken Ascher and Robin Geoffrey Cable, and backed by a remarkable roster of session talent, including Elton John's own touring guitarists Davey Johnstone and Caleb Quaye, percussionist Ray Cooper, also a longtime Elton John collaborator, and Wings drummer Denny Seiwell. Lesley Duncan contributed backing vocals, and Ken Ascher added keyboards throughout. The album received glowing reviews upon release, praised as musically rich and satisfying, with songs lyrically and emotionally tapping into people's feelings with genuine poignancy, honesty and sincerity. The record earned strong airplay in Chicago, led by the single Only Love, marking a genuinely promising start to Quateman's recording career before he went on to release further albums throughout the 1970s for both Columbia and RCA Victor.

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Rick James – Throwin Down on vinyl LP. VG. 1982 funk, gold certified, features Grace Slick and The Temptations. Ships from Germany.

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Rick James – Throwin' Down – LP Album

Vinyl LP, Gordy/Motown Records

LP VG Funk

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Who Was Rick James?

Rick James emerged as one of the defining voices of early 1980s funk, breaking through commercially with his 1981 album Street Songs, widely regarded by fans and critics as essential listening even for those with only a casual interest in hardcore funk. James wrote, produced and performed nearly everything himself, playing vocals, guitars, bass, harmonica, keyboards, synthesizers and drum machine programming across his catalogue, cementing a reputation as a genuinely singular funk auteur.

About Throwin' Down And Its Notable Guest Vocalists

Recorded at Record Plant Studios in Sausalito and Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. studios in Hollywood, Throwin' Down followed Street Songs with a similarly hard-driving set of hardcore funk, tempered by a handful of expressive soul ballads. The album drew an eclectic and genuinely notable cast of guest contributors: Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, drummer Narada Michael Walden, and vibraphonist Roy Ayers, whose solo appears on the hit single Dance Wit' Me, which reached number three on the Billboard R&B chart. Elsewhere, Standing On The Top features full backing vocals from Motown legends The Temptations, delivered here in its shorter single edit, with the full length version later surfacing on the Temptations' own album Reunion. AllMusic praised standout cuts including the cynical Money Talks and expressive ballads My Love and Teardrops, while noting the record's occasional tendency to recycle elements of Street Songs' winning formula, an understandable comparison given how influential that earlier album had been.

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Apple Brains – Get Fruity on green apple vinyl LP. Near mint. 2011 kids indie rock, played once. Ships from Germany.

Apple Brains – Get Fruity!! (LP, Green Apple Vinyl, Near Mint)

Green Apple Vinyl

Apple Brains – Get Fruity!! – LP Gre

Colored vinyl LP, Sticky Guy Records

LP Green Vinyl Near Mint

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Who Is Behind Apple Brains?

Apple Brains is the brainchild of Los Angeles based musician Allen Bleyle, whose free-for-all, lo-fi indie rock style brought a genuinely fresh and unexpected energy to the children's music world. Rather than delivering a preachy or instructional record, Bleyle built Get Fruity!! around playful, sometimes gleefully weird songwriting, drawing critical comparisons to the innocent enthusiasm of Jonathan Richman and the general kookiness of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

About Get Fruity!! And Its Notable Guest Musicians

Spanning twelve tracks including the manic sing-along opener Apple x3, the story-song Peanut Butter And Jelly How They Met Song, the wobbly-melodied Water The Loveliest Beverage, and the ridiculously catchy Ba-na-nas, Get Fruity!! plays out as a genuine concept album celebrating fruits, vegetables and healthy eating, right down to the carnival-like waltz of The Stone Fruit Salute, complete with pump organs and slide whistles. Beyond its charming, kid-focused concept, the record carries genuine indie cred through its roster of guest musicians, drawing players from The Devil Makes Three, Feathers, Pretend You're Happy, and Witch, the doom-tinged side project of Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis, a genuinely surprising and delightful connection for a children's record. The vinyl edition was pressed on green apple colored wax and packaged with a coloring book style inner sleeve and decal sheet, adding to its distinctive, playful presentation.

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Commander Cody Band – Lose It Tonight on vinyl LP. Near mint. 1980, Two Triple Cheese video is in MoMA. Ships from Germany.

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Near Mint

Commander Cody Band – Lose It Tonight – LP Album

Vinyl LP, Peter Pan Records

LP Near Mint Country Rock

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Who Was The Commander Cody Band?

George Frayne, performing as Commander Cody, first found fame fronting Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen, a band celebrated for blending country, rockabilly, boogie-woogie and rock and roll into a distinctive, freewheeling sound throughout the 1970s. By the time of Lose It Tonight, Frayne was leading the Commander Cody Band, continuing that eclectic musical spirit into the new decade, recording the album across sessions at Different Fur Studios and The Automatt in San Francisco.

About Lose It Tonight And The Two Triple Cheese Music Video

Produced by Frayne alongside Steve Mackay and released in 1980, Lose It Tonight moves through twelve tracks including the title cut, Either He's Wrong, All Tore Up and Sea Wolf, delivering the band's characteristic mix of country rock energy and rock and roll swagger. The album's standout moment came with the single Two Triple Cheese (Side Order Of Fries), written and produced by Frayne, whose accompanying music video, directed by Joe Dea, earned an Emmy Award and received rotation on early MTV. That video has since been recognised as a genuine piece of music video history, included in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection of music videos, and the song itself is referenced in Clarence Clemons' memoir Big Man, a testament to its lasting cultural footprint well beyond the band's core fanbase.

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The Silencers – A Letter From St. Paul on vinyl LP. VG+. 1987 Scottish jangle pop debut, ex-Fingerprintz. Ships from Germany.

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The Silencers – A Letter From St. Paul – LP Album

Vinyl LP, RCA Records

LP VG+ Jangle Pop

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Who Were The Silencers?

The Silencers formed in 1986 when Jimmie O'Neill and Cha Burns reunited after their earlier post-punk band Fingerprintz, who had released a run of albums for Virgin Records in the late 1970s and early 1980s, went their separate ways. Rounding out the new lineup with drummer Martin Hanlan and bassist Joseph Donnelly, the band recorded a three song demo and toured extensively across Europe before signing to RCA Records to record their debut. O'Neill's sweet falsetto and vulnerable vocal delivery became a defining feature of the band's sound, distinguishing them within the wider landscape of mid-80s Scottish rock.

About This Album And Its Critical Reception

Recorded with producer Dave Bascombe and released in 1987, A Letter From St. Paul opens with lead single Painted Moon, which received notable airplay on Los Angeles radio stations KROQ and 91X and later became widely regarded as one of the finest jangle-pop songs of the decade. The album also includes the poignant I Can't Cry, addressing themes of abortion with striking emotional honesty years before similar territory was explored in more widely known songs, alongside the title track, an atmospheric piece built around a dialogue about sending a letter woven into its instrumental backdrop. Decades after its release, the record has developed a devoted cult following, with critics and fans consistently praising its jangly, atmospheric guitar work and O'Neill's distinctive vocal delivery, drawing comparisons to Big Country, Simple Minds and Del Amitri while retaining a genuinely underground character all its own. The band toured extensively behind the record, supporting U2 in Cardiff and touring the US alongside Squeeze, including a memorable stop at Madison Square Garden.

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The Passions – Sanctuary on vinyl LP. VG+. 1982 post-punk, from the German Film Star band. Ships from Germany.

The Passions – Sanctuary (LP, VG+)

VG+

The Passions – Sanctuary – LP Album

Vinyl LP, Polydor Records

LP VG+ Post-Punk

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Who Were The Passions?

The Passions built their reputation on Barbara Gogan's distinctive vocal presence, achieving their sole significant UK chart hit with I'm In Love With A German Film Star in 1981. Though best remembered for that single song, the band's catalogue extended well beyond it, moving through a first album carrying cult cachet as a Chris Parry production on Fiction Records, before this final, more sonically ambitious record brought their run to a close.

About Sanctuary

Recorded at John Foxx's studio The Garden in London and produced by Mick Glossop, known for his work with the Skids, alongside Pete Wilson, Sanctuary marked a clear stylistic evolution for the band, moving from their earlier stark post-punk sound toward smoother, keyboard and synth-driven new wave sophistication. The album's lineup included guitarist Kevin Armstrong, who would go on to significant later session work with David Bowie and Iggy Pop, alongside bassist David Agar, drummer Richard Williams and synth player Jeff Smith. The record was originally titled Cars Driven Fast after one of its more experimental tracks, before the title was changed to Sanctuary following the involvement of Cairo Management, though the original title and artwork persisted in some European territories. Tracks spanned the frantic energy of Your Friend, the jangly pop of Love Is Essential, and the non-album single Africa Mine, which addressed the exploitation of African resources and western imperialism. Despite its ambitious sonic reach, the album ultimately led to the band's split from Polydor Records, closing out The Passions' recorded output.

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Pinkard and Bowden – PG-13 on vinyl LP. Near mint, opened shrink. 1985 country comedy, Warner Bros. Ships from Germany.

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Who Were Pinkard & Bowden?

James Sandy Pinkard and Richard Bowden were introduced by their mutual friend, producer Jim Ed Norman, and quickly discovered a shared love of writing comedic country songs. The pair formed a duo and released their debut album Writers In Disguise in 1984, which entered the US Country chart at number 47 on the strength of parody songs reworking hits by artists including Sammi Smith and Peter, Paul and Mary. Pinkard & Bowden went on to earn a reputation as genuinely irreverent country satirists, becoming the first act in the genre's comedy tradition to carry explicit content warnings on their record sleeves, a distinction that also led to the duo being banned from appearing on The Nashville Network. Sandy Pinkard passed away in July 2025.

About PG-13

Produced by Jim Ed Norman alongside the duo themselves and released via Warner Bros in 1985, PG-13 followed Writers In Disguise with a further set of parody songs and original comedic material, though the album ultimately failed to chart. The single Mama, She's Lazy, a reworking of The Judds' hit Mama He's Crazy, became the duo's most successful single from the record, reaching number 39 on the US Country chart. As with much of the duo's catalogue, several songs on PG-13 were co-written by Tim Wilson, who would go on to build his own career as a comedian and musician through the following decades. The duo continued recording into the early 1990s, releasing Live! in 1990 and Cousins, Cattle And Other Love Stories in 1992, before a 1993 compilation, Gettin' Stupid, brought their satirical catalogue to a wider audience through television mail-order advertising.

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Jack Beck – O Lassie, Lassie on vinyl LP. VG. 1989 Greentrax Scottish traditional song. Ships from Germany.

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Who Is Jack Beck?

Jack Beck is a highly regarded Scottish singer of traditional ballads, praised by figures across the folk world including singer and broadcaster Archie Fisher, who described him as one of the last singers to form a genuine bridge between the old rural tradition and the urban folk revival. Beck's day job until 2001 was heading a department at a community college in Dunfermline, after which he worked as an education and training consultant, continuing to perform and record traditional Scottish song throughout.

About O Lassie, Lassie And Its Musicians

Recorded at Pier House Studios in Edinburgh by Peter Haigh, and mixed by Beck himself alongside George Haigh, O Lassie, Lassie gathers ten traditional ballads performed with a respected ensemble of Scottish folk musicians. Gary Coupland contributes accordion, Pete Clark and Davy Lockhart both play fiddle, Mike Ward adds whistle, keyboard and Northumbrian smallpipes, Lindsay Porteous plays jaw's harp, and Alistair Marshall brings Highland bagpipes to the sessions, with backing vocals from Chris Miles, Andy Hunter and Colin Stuart. The album moves through well loved traditional pieces including Birnie Bouzle, Matt Hyland, Twa Corbies, Kilbowie Hill, The Bleacher Lass O' Kelvinhaugh, Ned Of The Hill, The Jolly Beggar and Love Is Teasing, offering a rich survey of the Scottish balladry tradition Beck has spent his career championing.

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Carnival Season – Waiting For No One on vinyl LP. VG+. 1987 Birmingham power pop, produced by Tommy Keene. Ships from Germany.

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Who Were Carnival Season?

Carnival Season formed in Birmingham, Alabama around 1984 or 1985, initially spelled Karnival Season, featuring two members fresh out of high school, Tim Boykin and Brad Quinn, alongside Mark Reynolds and Ed Reynolds. The band self-released a 1985 seven inch EP steeped in psychedelic, garage, folk rock and punk overtones, and secured a development deal with MCA Records, recording demos at Terminal Studio in Jackson, Mississippi with the Windbreakers' Tim Lee producing. When the MCA deal fell through, the band, now down to a trio and having corrected the spelling of their name, signed instead with the UK independent label What Goes On Records, which also represented fellow Birmingham act The Primitons.

About Waiting For No One

Recorded at Hit And Run Studios in Rockville, Maryland during stormy but ultimately productive sessions with producer Tommy Keene, a genuinely respected power pop cult figure, and engineer Steve Carr, Waiting For No One arrived in 1987 as the band's sole full length statement. AllMusic later praised the record for its potent rock and roll, comparing the band favourably to the Replacements while noting their hard rock formalism had more in common with the Pontiac Brothers, all wrapped in melodies suggesting the Windbreakers or Let's Active had picked up Les Pauls and Marshall stacks. According to the band's own liner notes, they nailed the climactic rave-up Potential Crime in a single take, an impressive achievement given the song's demands. The band toured extensively behind the record, opening for acts including the Meat Puppets, Redd Kross, Drivin' N' Cryin' and the Replacements, before disbanding in 1989; guitarist Tim Boykin would go on to form the power pop bands Shame Idols and later The Lolas, and decades later the band's complete catalogue was compiled onto the 2010 retrospective Misguided Promise, which led some critics to reconsider Carnival Season as a genuine candidate for Great Lost Band of the 80s.

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Mamas Boys – Growing Up The Hard Way on vinyl LP. VG+. 1987 Northern Irish hard rock, Jive Records. Ships from Germany.

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Who Were Mama's Boys?

The McManus brothers, Pat, John and Tommy, grew up on a farm near Derrylin, County Fermanagh, starting their musical journey as award-winning traditional Irish musicians before a shared devotion to Celtic rock pioneers Horslips, along with younger brother Tommy's growing passion for drums, inspired them to form a rock band of their own. Rather than pursuing the Celtic fusion sound of their heroes, the trio, initially known as Pulse before renaming to Mama's Boys, embraced a harder edged heavy metal direction, though guitarist Pat McManus, nicknamed The Professor, would still occasionally weave a fiddle solo into the band's sound. Their journey took them from a self-funded debut recorded in just four hours, through supporting Hawkwind on a UK tour and Thin Lizzy on that band's farewell tour, and a Reading Rock Festival appearance, before signing a worldwide record deal with Jive Records.

About Growing Up The Hard Way

By the time of this fifth album, the band had expanded from a trio into a four-piece, having added vocalist Rick Chase in 1986. When Chase began experiencing serious vocal cord trouble that ultimately required him to be rushed back to hospital during a tour, the band brought in Keith Murrell, formerly of the band Airrace, to complete recording on Growing Up The Hard Way. Spanning nine tracks including Waiting For A Miracle, Bedroom Eyes, Hot Blood and Blacklisted, the album continued the band's melodic, AOR-leaning hard rock sound, arriving at the tail end of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal era. Murrell would go on to leave the band in 1988 to become a backing singer for Cliff Richard, marking the end of an eventful period for the band before further lineup changes followed.

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The Sandpipers – Guantanamera on vinyl LP. VG. 1966 debut, transatlantic top 10 hit, Grammy nominated. Ships from Germany.

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Who Were The Sandpipers?

The Sandpipers formed from former members of the Mitchell Boys Choir, building a reputation on smooth, tightly blended vocal harmonies that suited the easy listening and folk-pop sensibilities of the mid-1960s. Signed to the newly established A&M Records, then still finding its commercial footing, the trio's debut single proved an unexpected and enormous success, launching a recording career that would continue with further hits and albums throughout the following decade.

About Guantanamera The Song And This Album's Success

The Sandpipers' rendition of Guantanamera, a Cuban folk song built around verses adapted from the poetry of José Martí, became a genuine transatlantic sensation upon release, climbing to number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and reaching number seven on the UK Singles Chart, an especially rare feat for an American vocal group during the height of the British Invasion. The song's success earned the group a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Group Performance, and the surrounding debut album showcased the trio's broader appeal for warm, accessible vocal pop, helping establish both The Sandpipers and their label A&M Records as significant commercial forces heading into the later 1960s.

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The Bollweevils – Mouth on 12 inch single. VG+. 1991 UK indie, produced by ex-Primal Scream member. Ships from Germany.

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Who Were The Bollweevils?

This English indie band signed a recording contract with Vinyl Solution Records in late 1989, releasing their critically well received debut, the self-produced four track Talk To Me EP, on the Decoy label in March 1990. The band went through several lineup changes during their brief but productive run, at one point bringing in ABC's Stephen Singleton to help record a planned second single, though that project was ultimately shelved when neither the band nor the label were satisfied with the results.

About Mouth And The Jim Beattie Connection

By September 1991, with a newly expanded lineup that added second guitarist Mark Shaw, formerly of Circus Circus Circus, and drummer Pete Darnborough, formerly of Leeds techno-goth band MDMA, The Bollweevils recorded another EP with producer Jim Beattie, best known for his earlier work co-founding Scottish band Primal Scream, before departing that group to focus on his own subsequent projects. The resulting single, Mouth, was released in November 1991 via Decoy Records. Despite this productive period, the band's momentum stalled soon after; a final track, Missing Out, was recorded for Vinyl Solution in early 1992 but never officially released as a single, and The Bollweevils disbanded in 1993, with members Johnson and Griffiths going on to form the band Bolster.

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Malcolm's Interview – Breakfast In Bedlam on vinyl LP. 1987 UK folk-punk, later became God's Little Monkeys. Ships from Germany.

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Who Were Malcolm's Interview?

Malcolm's Interview were an English band who fused the rebellious aggression of traditional folk music with the raw energy of post-punk rock, occupying a distinctive space alongside contemporaries like The Men They Couldn't Hang, who also released material on Special Delivery Records around the same period. The band's fusion of skiffle-speed original songwriting with older folk material and contemporary protest songs earned them a small but devoted following within the UK folk-punk scene of the mid-1980s.

About Breakfast In Bedlam And The God's Little Monkeys Connection

Recorded at Ideal Sound Recorders and produced by the band alongside engineer David Kenny, with mastering by Tim Young, Breakfast In Bedlam moves through a genuinely eclectic set of material: the traditional sea shanty Blow The Man Down sits alongside a contemporary protest anthem in the vein of Billy Bragg, and original compositions including the driving A Hundred Years, delivered at a distinctly skiffle-influenced tempo. The album marked the band's sole full length release before they changed their name to God's Little Monkeys, going on to release further material including their 1989 album New Maps Of Hell. Fans who discovered the record years later have described it as a formative influence on their own musical tastes, praising the record's amped-up, riled-up fusion of folk tradition and punk urgency.

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White Hinterland – Phylactery Factory on vinyl LP. 2008 Dead Oceans debut, Casey Dienel's art pop. Ships from Germany.

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Dead Oceans Debut

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Who Is Casey Dienel / White Hinterland?

Casey Dienel began writing pop songs at 14, having started piano lessons at just four years old, growing up in Scituate, Massachusetts. Their debut solo album Wind-Up Canary, released via Hush Records in 2006 when Dienel was only 20, drew praise for its vibrant, accomplished songwriting, described as feeling like little Salinger vignettes. In January 2008, Dienel announced a deliberate change in direction, retiring the Casey Dienel name in favour of the new White Hinterland moniker, coinciding with the announcement of Phylactery Factory.

About Phylactery Factory

Produced by Adam Selzer at Type Foundry studio, Phylactery Factory expanded considerably on Dienel's earlier solo sound, trading the more contained arrangements of Wind-Up Canary for a fuller band and richer sonic palette befitting her dynamic piano playing and narrative songwriting. Across nine tracks including The Destruction Of The Art Deco House, Dreaming Of The Plum Trees and Napoleon At Waterloo, the album's dreamy, jazz-inflected atmosphere drew reviewer comparisons to Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, John Cage and Alice Coltrane. The album's title refers to phylacteries, the tefillin worn by devout Jews on the head and arm, described by the label as a prayer knotted into place, a fitting emblem for a record filled with dreams, memories and warnings rather than the more straightforwardly biographical songwriting of Dienel's debut. White Hinterland would go on to release a well received follow-up, Kairos, in 2010, before Dienel later found themselves embroiled in a widely publicised copyright infringement lawsuit against Justin Bieber and Skrillex over an alleged unauthorised vocal loop sample.

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Derek Bell – Carolan's Receipt on vinyl LP. 1975, Chieftains harpist's first album devoted to O'Carolan. Ships from Germany.

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Chieftains Harpist

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Who Was Derek Bell?

Derek Bell, born in Belfast in 1935, first trained in oboe and English horn before beginning to seriously study harp in his early thirties, while managing the Belfast Symphony Orchestra. He would go on to become the celebrated harpist for The Chieftains, first appearing on their landmark 1975 album The Chieftains 5, where he also introduced the tiompán, the Irish hammered dulcimer, to the group's sound for the first time. Beyond his work with The Chieftains, Bell recorded six solo albums, and his dedicated championing of the Irish harp is widely credited with helping elevate the instrument from near extinction to one of the most beloved instruments of Celtic and folk music today. He died suddenly in October 2002 following minor surgery in the United States.

About Carolan's Receipt And Turlough O'Carolan

Recorded and released in 1975, Carolan's Receipt was Derek Bell's debut solo album, and holds the historical distinction of being the first record ever devoted entirely to the music of Turlough O'Carolan, the blind Irish harper and composer who lived from 1670 to 1738 and remains one of the most significant figures in the history of Irish traditional music. Bell used a variety of different harps across the fifteen tracks to suit different moods, at points even dubbing three harp parts simultaneously, and was joined on select tracks by fellow Chieftains Martin Fay and Sean Keane on fiddle, Michael Tubridy on flute, and Paddy Moloney on uilleann pipes and tin whistle. The album moves through pieces including Lady Athenry, Maire Dhall, Sir Festus A Burca, Seoirse Brabazon and the poignant closer Carolan's Farewell To Music, offering listeners an intimate, historically significant survey of one composer's enduring legacy within the Irish harp tradition.