LITTLE BOB STORY - Too Young Too Love Me

LITTLE BOB STORY Too young to love me 1984 EMI 320 kbps
Too young to love me / Shoot me down / I can't stand it / So crazy / Wanderers , followers , lovers / Johnny and the devils / Little prayer / Say no more / 24 hours of lies / Ever blue / Hurt so badly (bonus).
L. B. S. 1984: Little Bob : vocals / Gilles Mallet : guitar , backin' vocals / Guy-Georges Gremy : guitar , backin' vocals / François Gehin : bass / Nico Garotin : drums , backin' vocals.

Un bon album de L.B.S. qui attend encore une sortie cd décente ... quand le label aura retrouvé les bandes...!
Cd covers by Max!

LITTLE BOB STORY - Too Young Too Love Me (single)

SINGLES: LITTLE BOB STORY Too young to love me / Hurt so badly 1984 EMI wav
1er single extrait de l'album du même nom qui voit le retour de Guy-Georges Gremy , ce single possède une face b inédite que nous avons rajoutée au lp qui suit !

THE HEROES

SINGLES THE HEROES Seven days week end / Too much junkie bizness 1983 Skydog wav

The Heroes ne sera le groupe que d'un single ! Reprenant deux morceaux de leur groupe les Heartbreakers , Walter Lure et Billy Rath s'acoquinent avec deux célèbres compères "Thunderiens" : à la batterie Steve Nicols , blond batteur des Hot Rods qui participa au premier et superbe lp solo de Thunders "So alone" ; tout comme l'homme à la guitare , en lieu et place du maître , plus Johnny que nature , l'excellent Henri Paul (ex: The Maniacs , Untouchables , Cosa Nostra ...) , compagnon des tournées galères des 80's ! Une affaire de perdants magnifiques !!!

JOHNNY THUNDERS & THE HEARTBREAKERS

SINGLES JOHNNY THUNDERS & THE HEARTBREAKERS Chinese rocks (Maxi) EP 1984 Jungle Records wav

Chinese rocks / Born to lose / One track mind / I wanna be loved

THE HEARTBREAKERS were : J. Thunders / W. Lure / B. Rath / J. Nolan

Tout le monde connaît la polémique sur le son "boueux" du plus grand lp jamais sorti de punk rock ! A mon avis , sans doute peu objectif et obscurci par la mémoire nostalgique d'une époque dorée et déjà lointaine , le son du premier maxi 2 titres édité par Track Records en 1977 (voir sur l'excellent Powerpop Criminals) est le meilleur ! On a vraiment l'impression qu'il sort de l'asphalte de toutes les villes , on y sent passer le souffle de tous les junkies de l'enfer urbain ! "The city is so cold and I'm so -so ... "

Il s'agit ici des premiers remixes faits par Thunders lui-même en 1984, aidé de Tony James (Generation X ) pour le label anglais Jungle Records .

La magnifique et symbolique photo de la pochette a été prise par Maria Resnick .

Il aurait été dommage de ne pas passer ce maxi en wav car comme beaucoup de maxis 45t de

l'époque le son y est très puissant !

VA - A REAL COOL TIME (Distorded Sounds From The North)

V/A A REAL COOL TIME Distorted sounds from the north 1985 Amigo 320 kbpsTHE NOMADS : Real cool time / WILMER X : Motorbike drivin' / Dr YOGAMI : Nightmare birds / THE CREEPS : You're gonna need my lovin' / HIDDEN CHARM : Please give me something / THE WAYWARD SOULS : Inside your mind / OCCASIONAL DEAD FLYS : Dirt / THE BOTTLE UPS : Bottle beat / WATERMELON MEN : Back in my dreams / SLOBSTER : Sudden death / PROBLEM : Higher ground / THE SHOUTLESS : Change my ways / THE PREACHERS : Thirtynine steps / THE PYROMANIACS : 96 Bye-byes

One of the best compilations (with Raw Cuts) of garage rock from the north...

The cd covers are made by MAX !

BIJOU - Palmer at Mont-de-Marsan

FREDDY LYNXX & THE JET BOYS

FREDDY LYNXX & THE JET BOYS Larger than life dusted 1998 Skydog 320 kbps
Jet rollers / Blind's night / You talk too much / The story / Lonesome boy / Teenage kicks / Call me sister midnight / You tell me lies / Just wanna talk to you / Like a shootin' star / Call me sister midnight (7" version) / Toilet love / Think about it (unreleased) / Lonesome boy (unreleased demo) / I just wanna talk to you (unreleased demo) / Pirate love ( from the Sky- dog tribute to J. Thunders)
Tracks 1 to 10 are taken from the album "Larger than life" released in 1990

The Jet Boys :Freddy Lynxx : vocals , guitar / Vic Vixen : guitar , backin' vocals : Poker Alice : bass , backin' vocals / Nick Hell : drums.

"This re-issue of the Jet Boys' impossible-to-find 1990 album "Larger Than Life" (now credited to Freddy Lynxx and the Jet Boys and complete with a handful of bonus tracks) boasts some New York Dolls worship of the highest order. The Dolls may have been blamed for influencing a lot of late '80s/early 90s glam - from Faster Pussycat and Poison to Motley Crue and Guns'n'Roses - but as much as those bands may have looked the part, they seldom sounded like it. The Jet Boys, on the other hand, were the real deal. Although originating in France, leader Freddy Lynxx did time as a roadie for Johnny Thunders, and Thunders himself chose the band's name (from one of his songs).

Much of "Larger Than Life" sounds like the Heartbreakers with a horn section, with Lynxx bleating like the ghost of St. Johnny and the band oozing such a high dosage of junkoid sleaze that you'd think they were birthed at the Mercer Street Arts Center in '72. The six bonus tracks, including covers of Thunders' "Pirate Love" and Wayne/Jayne County's "Toilet Love", allow the party to last just that much longer. Viva la France". Source

SPEEDBUGGY

SPEEDBUGGY Cowboys and aliens 2000 Cargo Music/Headhunter 320 kbps

GTO / Big blue sky / Somewhere in America / Movin' on / Cowboy town /Laronger / Nevada / On the top of the world / All tore up / Live through this pain / I won't be near / 10 years

Speedbuggy :

Timbo : vocals, guitar, mandolin

B. Sloan : bass, vocals

G. "Elroy" Mc Mullen : pedal Steel , guitar, vocals

P. Muzingo : drums

Speedbuggy USA is a road band bent on coalescing American roots rock with the younger generation, a sound derivative of hard times, blue-collar life and endless tours around the world.

Though without turning their backs on traditional country completely, Speedbuggy USA mingles of California twang with some Buck Owens, the country-rock of the Band, late 60’s era Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, and more recent Joe Strummer. And with the famous Texas Outlaw honky-tonk movement, they’ve made it difficult to exclude the parallels evoked when matching newer kinds of Roots-Alt Country and Rockabilly.
The songs drip with pomade sweat, and through the haunting passion of Timbo’s voice, Sloan’s bass tones, McMullen’s traditional-yet-modern pedal steel and Muzingo’s persevering backbeats, lies a quality of emotional extremes relative to peering out a window on a cross-country road trip and seeing different faces all sharing a similar personal struggle.

LITTLE BOB STORY - Chiswick EP

SINGLES: LITTLE BOB STORY I' m crying / Come on home / I need money / Baby don't cry 1976 Chiswick wav
Engineered by Vic Maile
Produced by Roger Armstrong
L.B.S. 1976 :

Robert Piazza : vocals

Guy Georges Gremy : guitar

Dominique Guilon : guitar, vocals

"Blackbeard" Lelan : bass

"Mino" Quertier : drums & vocals

THE BARRACUDAS - Wait For Everything

THE BARRACUDAS Wait for everything 1989 Shake/Houlala 320 kbps

I thought you sounded that way yesterday / Throwin' it all away / Can't get away from you / Wait for everything /Outside my door / One from the heart / She's alive / It don't matter now / Burke & Wills / I' m the one / The best years .

Produced by Andy Shernoff

The Barracudas 1989 are :

J. Gluck : lead vocals

R. Wills : guitar , backin' vocals

S. Robinson : bass , backin' vocals

J. Posner : drums , backin' vocals

+ Additional backin' vocals by the Surfin Lungs

In May, 1989, Bucketfull Of Brains ran an article announcing that Wills and Gluck were writing songs again and that the Barracudas would be getting back together. When asked in that feature why this was the right time for a reunion, Wills said "The main reason is that I can relate to Jeremy again – it’s been a long time since I could. We managed to get back together, first through humor and then music".

Wills had been on tour in Italy with the Fortunate Sons when that band split up, and he was staying at the house of a girl who had a copy of Drop Out With The Barracudas, which they gave a spin. "I thought great, why can’t we be that good again?", said Wills in that Bucketfull article. "The idea was to try and get back some of that freshness, but we realize that we can’t emulate what we were when we were 19."

The new band featured former Fortunate Sons bassist Steve Robinson and at first had a friend of Steve’s named Rick Sigmund as drummer. They cut 3 demos with this lineup in February and 3 more in May, but Rick was quickly replaced with Jay Posner., who for my money was the best drummer they ever had. It seemed that interest in the band hadn’t waned much while they were gone, and many people were really excited when they reformed. I asked Jeremy whether that counted for much in the re-union plans. "It was not really a motivator", he replied. "I figured we had been forgotten and was surprised when I found out we had not been."

"I had not seen Robin nor Steve for some long time. I had done my stuff with Nikki Sudden and was coming out of active commitment to music, in fact, writing a lot for Sounds, wife & kids, etc. And then one evening Steve calls and says (he was sharing a place with Robin at the time), "Look, we was thinking, listening to Drop Out etc. It sounds hot...we want to reform the band!" And I was kinda, "Let me sleep on it...!" I was still half in denial about the whole 'cudas thing, about breaking up prematurely and blowing it, about how dorky some of our output had been. But I knew I would do it...it's in the blood. So we met and rehearsed and it rocked. And that was that."

The Barracudas signed to Canadian indie Shake! who tested the market for decade old fish bands by releasing the single "I Thought You Sounded That Way Yesterday" with "Remember" on the flip in January of 1991, but it wasn’t until February of 1992 that there was finally a new full length Barracudas release…nearly 3 years after they decided to get back together. But the result justified the wait, and maybe that explains the title of the new CD. Produced by Andy Shernoff (although he isn’t credited), Wait For Everything was one of the most convincing reunion efforts I’ve ever heard, and probably my favorite Barracudas long player. It has a fabulous batch of tunes; the title track, the nostalgic "I Thought You Sounded That Way Yesterday", the slinky, driving "Outside My Door", the anthemic pair of "Throwin’ It All Away" an on any other Barracudas effort. Robin Wills, who always wrote the majority of Barracudas tunes, turns in his best set ever here. And his guitar playing brings that 12 string Byrds jangle firmly into the post-punk era; this is where California rock should have headed in the early 70s when it somehow detoured into the Eagles. There’s that "Chestnut Mare" sort of feel mixed with a power that the Byrds could never have matched given the equipment and production values of their day.

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