Tuesday 28 February 2023

The Stone Roses - The Paul Schroeder Mixes

 




















Unreleased 1994

01 Breaking Into Heaven
02 Driving South
03 Begging You
04 Daybreak
05 Good Times
06 Tears
07 Ten Storey Love Song
08 Love Spreads
 
I was recently reading about The Stone Roses 'Second Coming' and I remembered all the 
cassettes that floated around before the albums release. It's an album I admittedly
haven't listened to in years, but these (and future) alternate versions offer an 
interesting listen for a fan.

After nearly two years of stopping and starting and very little recording, producer
John Leckie quit. Engineer Paul Schroeder became the new producer (he too would later 
quit) and assembled these mixes of the tracks they had. Generally rougher, these 
mixes were made for the tons of overdubs John Squire would apply over the coming 
months.

I prefer several of these versions to the album proper.

Blues Magoos - Psychedelic Lollipop

 




















Fontana 1966 / Repertoire Records 2005

01 (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet
02 Love Seems Doomed
03 Tobacco Road
04 Queen Of My Nights
05 I'll Go Crazy
06 Gotta Get Away
07 Sometimes I Think About
08 One By One
09 Worried Life Blues
10 She's Coming Home

Bonus Tracks
11 Tobacco Road
12 Sometimes I Think About
13 (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet
14 Gotta Get Away

Garage psych classic. This is the Repertoire Records re-issue from 2005 with singles and b-sides as bonus tracks.

Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffaloes - Uganda

 


















Toshiba Records 1972

01 Wanyama Na Mapambazuko
02 Na Tu Penda Sana
03 Vita
04 Pygmy

A right mash up of Japanese prog jazz and Ugandan rhythm.