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.

Ed Askew - Ask The Unicorn

 

ESP Disk 1968

01 Fancy That

02 Peter and David

03 Marigolds

04 Mr. Dream

05 Red Woman - Letter to England

06 The Garden

07 May Blossoms Be Praised

08 9-Song

09 Love is Everyone

10 Ask the Unicorn

Ed Askew was an art teacher in Connecticut when he started performing live in 1966. Outsider folk music played with a Martin Tiple and Ed's unique voice.

He's seen a resurgence in popularity in recent years, releasing new music in the last decade.

The title and cover art are taken from a re-press on ESP Disk in the 90's.

Egisto Macchi - Bioritmi

 

Gemelli 1971

01  Batteri

02  Iperitmia

03  Microscopia

04  Automaticita

05  Valvole Cardiache

06  Laboratori

07  Peristalsi

Break in the new year with some avant-garde Italian library music.

One of the earliest and rarest Macchi albums; only re-issued once in 2015 in Australia on noisy vinyl.

David & The Dorks - The Matrix San Francisco 1970

 

Bootleg 1970

01 Bertha

02 Deep Elem Blues

03 Drop Down Mama

04 Cowboy Movie

05 Triad

06 The Wall Song

07 Motherless Children

Very sad to hear about the passing of David Crosby this week. He had a very full life and lived longer than everyone expected.

This blog already has some Byrds and some unreleased recordings from Cros that can be found here.

This live boot from 1970 finds Crosby and The Grateful Dead together on stage. The Dorks were a short lived band, playing only two or three concerts (no one can remember). Recorded around the time of the sessions for 'If I Could Only Remember My Name...'.

Thanks for all the music, Cros.

Slowdive - Souvlaki Demos & Outtakes

 

01 I Thought I Saw

02 Hide Your Eyes

03 Sleep

04 Instrumental Take One

05 Joy

06 Silver Screen

07 AB (with Brian Eno)

08 Stars

09 Bleed

10 I Saw the Sun

11 Summer's Day

12 It's Not for You

13 Song Number One

14 Let' Go Away

15 One Hundred Times

16 40 Days (Demo)

17 Sing (Demo)

18 When the Sun Hits (Demo)

19 Melon Yellow (Alternative)

20 Dagger (Electric)

21 Joy (Drum Machine Demo)

22 Shine (Splendour Remix)

23 Silver Screen (Version 2)

24 Hide Your Eyes (Alternative)

25 Joy (Studio Demo)

26 Beach Song

27 Take Me Down

Bootleg jackpot for Slowdive fans. A VERY long compilation of outtakes, alternate versions and demos from the 'Souvlaki' recording sessions.

Thanks to Music for Nobody and Space Station Sound.