A BEST OF THE AWoS (2013)

Here's my subjective collection of the December's Banquet....

The compilation is available  in both lossy and lossless formats and comes with an exclusive PPC artwork

lossy: 320 lame 3.98 (195 mb)

lossless: FLAC 8 (557 mb)

Once again, i'd like to thank all the readers for their nice comments about this special feature. And remember, TRY SOME, BUY SOME...Power Pop to the People

Click on pix below for details of the bands involved

PPC BOXING DAY 2013

Here are some surprise gifts for the 5th PPC Boxing Day.

Links are Lossy (ZS) and... sometimes Lossless (NK)

ZS allows parallel downloads

Please read below and grab what you want or need. Enjoy

 

1. Info - 2003
2. Info - 1996
3. Info - 2002
4. Info - 1993 
5. Info - 2008
6. Info - 2011
7. Info - 2006
8. Info - 2012
9. Info - 1997
10. Info - 1994
11. Info - 1991
12. Info - 2003
13. Info - 2001
14. Info - 1999
15. Info - 2000
16. Info - 1995
17. Info - 2006
18. Info - 2010
19. Info - 1984 (Reissue 1991)
    
20. Info - 2012
21. Info - 2008
22. Info - 2006
23. Info - 1999
24. Info - 2002
25. Info - 1996
26. Info - 1986
27. Info - 1986
28. Info - 2010
29. Info - 1999
30. Info - 2006
31. Info - 1990
32. Info - 2000

XMAS MMXIII

Merry Christmas Everybody

# Info:  1

Father Christmas Bonus

# Info: 1

THE ADVENT WALL OF SOUND 2013

New AWoS, ZS & NK Hosts but S.O.S (Same Old Story).

For the ones who wouldn't know the PPC AWoS. From the 1st of December to the 24th of December, everyday you'll have to click on one slice of the image. Everyday, each compartment will show a new album never posted before on this blog. Each post will be available for just one day (or maybe two, it will depend on the new hosts). Don't click on a part before the day or somebody could be hurt. Now you can enjoy the spirit of Power Pop. And feel free to comment everyday.

According to the winning votes of the poll

All the AWoS albums will be lossy (320 mp3 lame 3.98)
converted from FLAC 8 (Test  & Copy EAC 1.00)
with dBPowerAMP Music Converter.

But 30% (around 7,5) of the AWoS albums will be also posted in lossless (FLAC 8)

Clues

Day 1 : # Info (1 + 2 + 3)
Day 2 : # Info (1 + 2 + 3)
Day 3 : # Info (1 + 2)
Day 4 : # Info (mp3) or (FLAC 8)
Day 5 : # Info (1 + 2)
Day 6 : # Info (mp3) or (FLAC 8)
Day 7 : # Info (mp3) or (FLAC 8)

Day 8 : # Info (mp3) or (FLAC 8)
Day 9 : # Info (mp3) or (FLAC 8) + # Info (mp3) or (FLAC 8)
Day 10 : # Info (1)
Day 11 : # Info (1)
Day 12 : # Info (1) 

Day 13 : # Info (1) (2)
Day 14 : # Info (mp3) or (FLAC 8)

Day 15 : # Info (mp3) or (FLAC 8) + (Full Art)
Day 16 : # Info (mp3) or (FLAC 8)

Day 17 : # Info (1)
Day 18 : # Info (1)
Day 19 : # Info (1)
Day 20 : # Info (1)

Day 21 : # Info (1)

Day 22 : # Info (mp3) or (FLAC 8)
Day 23 : # Info (1) or (FLAC 8) + Bonus # Info (1) or (FLAC 8)
Christmas Eve : # Info (mp3) or (FLAC 8)

This is the end of the 2013 AWoS

Happy Christmas

BOMP ISSUE #16 (Winter 76-77)

First issue as "BOMP!". But the pages index still has the "Who Put The Bomp!" monicker.

Special Brian Wilson issue with Dwight Twilley, Abba, Boston Bands, a Jack Nitzsche story and the "Where The Action Is" features. Plenty of reviews (LP's and singles).

As usual, the vintage ads (Twilley, Beckies, Flamin' Groovies...) have been included. Enjoy.

Info
Format PDF - Acrobat Reader 5.0 and others
bookmarks added - direct access to features
complete issue: 64 pages !!! (vintage advertisements included)

ZS (23mb)

CHRISTMAS - TIC TAC MISTLETOE (2013)

Here we go again, time of the holiday season is ringing in your jingle ears. 8th year of the PPC seasonal venture. All previous volumes are still available and quite enjoyable. So, if you want them, you can get them (even though those are RS links). "A Christmas Blog Gift For You" (2006), "Another Christmas Blog Gift For You - Born To Greet" (2007), "Dreamland With The Pop Snowflakes" (2008) or "Santa Claus & The Powerpop Criminals (2009), The Magnificent Seven (2010). Sleigh Bells In The Snow (2011) and Christmas VII The Final Episode (2012). Thanks for visiting the PPC Blog, and have a cool yule!...Enjoy the spirit of Christmas... and don't forget to comment about this piece of Peace On Earth.

This year, all the songs (minus one) are lossless sourced, this is why i'd like to thank Joe Algeri (a.k.a The JAC) for giving me the lossless version of the classic "What Child Is This?" by The Britannicas (with Herb Eimerman on lead vocals).So far, it was only available as a free download mp3 (bitrate 160). You can visit his Bandcamp pages here ...and purchase what you want..Check also ""I See Things Differently", a Joe Algeri compilation of various (vaguely) Christmas themed songs that have been released annually over the past decade.

Lossy: ZS (lame 3.98 (185 mb)

Click on pix below for details of the bands involved

THE POSIES - FROSTING ON THE BEATER (2013)

20th Anniversary Live Edition

 

2013 marks the 20th anniversary of the Posies landmark album "Frosting on the Beater" and to celebrate, Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer went back to Spain this November to perform it, with Mike Musburger and Dave Fox, who played on the album originally.

The band performed the entire album plus an encore of four songs.

 

Special note: I got the soundboard recording of the show from a spanish mate at the Alta Tension and i made a special artwork for the PPC blog.

Lossy: 320 lame 3.98 (191 mb)

Frosting On The Beater
Dream All Day / Solar Sister / Flavor Of The Month / Love Letter Boxes / Definite Door / Burn & Shine / Earlier Than Expected / 20 Questions / When Mutes Tongues Can Speak / Lights Out / How She Lied By Living / Coming Right Along

Encore
 Licenses to Hide / The Glitter Prize (from "Blood/Candy”)
Somehow Everything / You Are The Beautiful One (from "Success")

NIGHTMAN - DON'T YOU KNOW EP (1979)

Nightman was fronted by Mike Colburn who was an early member of The Razz before they recorded their first 45 "C-Redux" (Colburn was also singer for a 60s DC band Nobody's Children who cut a cover of "I Can't Let Go").. Ted Nicely (member of The Razz) produced this excellent EP, before joining the band. Colburn also recruited the disbanded Razz members  Bill Craig on second guitar and Doug Tull on drums. They released the album "No Escape" a couple of years later.

Lossy: 320 lame 3.98 (49 mb)

Lossless: FLAC 8 (99 mb)

Songs
Don't You Know / At Arms Length / Secretary / Quite Some Time

FLAMIN' GROOVIES - BEACHLAND BALLROOM TAVERN REHEARSALS

(11/1/2013)

More Flamin' Groovies rehearsals here

AIRWAVES - NEXT STOP (1979)

With this inventive Hipgnosis art design, "Next Stop" was the second and final Airwaves album. Airwaves was a totally overlooked band (wrong time for sure) featuring two Rockfield Studios musicians: Dave Charles (Ernie Graham, Deke Leonard, Help Yourself, Dave Edmunds), John David (The Human Beans, Love Sculpture, Dave Edmunds), (John David also wrote three songs for The Searchers Sire albums) and Ray Martinez (Spring). Produced by ex-Spring member and renowned producer Pat Moran (The Searchers Sire years) , the album has some 10cc, Beatles (Klaatu?), Brian Wilson influences and is really worth a listen for anybody digging creative pop.

The album has never been reissued in CD format.

ZS (234 mb)

Songs
1 Now (We Will Remember) / 2 Next Stop / 3 You've Got It / 4 Steal It / 5 Talkin' To Myself / 6 Love On The Run / 7 Mailman / 8 Ain't Got Love / 9 Under Your Spell / 10 If You'd Only Talk To Me

BRINSLEY SCHWARZ - CRUEL TO BE KIND (2004)

"Cruel to Be Kind" is the second installment of Brinsley Schwarz's BBC recordings released by Hux, following "What Is So Funny About Peace Love & Understanding?" by three years. This gathers most, but not all, of the BBC performances that didn't make the first volume, following the same mix-and-match sequencing as that collection, so sessions from 1971 alternate with those from 1973 and songs from a particular session are split up.

Lossy (NK): 320 lame 3.98 (216 mb)

Lossless (NK): FLAC 8 (533 mb)

 Songs
1 Surrender to the Rhythm /  2 Range War / 3 Silver Pistol / 4 Nervous on the Road / 5 You Never Can Tell / 6 Egypt / 7 Ju Ju Man / 8 Home in My Hand / 9 Rocking Chair / 10 Do the Cool (The Thirty Pounder) / 11 Hooked on Love / 12 Why Do We Hurt the One We Love / 13 Don't Lose Your Grip on Love / 14 I'm Gonna Make You Love / 15 Wait / 16 We Can Mess Around With Anything But Love / 17 Cruel to Be Kind / 18 Cried My Last Tear / 19 Give Me Back My Love

THE SHAZAM - HERE'S TO ALL THE MISFITS... (2009)

For the release of "Meteor", Bruce Brodeen at Not Lame Records tossed together the new Shazam CD "Meteor" + a promo CD of unreleased rarities "Here's To All The Misfits ...,". It was a limited edition of 250.

This promo item bears the same title as a live recording of The Shazam's February 1, 2003 concert at "The Garage" in Winston, Salem, released in 2004 on Parthenon Records

Lossy : 320 lame 3.98 (65mb)

Songs
Cool City / Okay / Gonna Miss Yer Train (demo) / I Can See For Miles / Where Do We Go (live) / I Can Hear The Grass Grow (live) / Please Please Me (live)

IPO Vol 5 (2002) (FLAC)

Following some requests of  sharing the IPO stuff in lossless, i'm trying a blog test with Vol.5. If the downloads are successful in number of hits, the other volumes will pop up sooner or later.

Links (netkups)

CD1 (565 mb)

CD2 (563 mb)

CD3 (556 mb)

IPO

Missing links re-upped with ZS

2000 vol 3 disk 2
2004 vol7 disk 3
2005 vol8 disks 1-3

See below here

A BEST OF THE 2011 ADVENT WALL OF SOUND (2012)
Re-upped by request


Lossless (netkups): FLAC 8 (523 mb)

First posted here
2012, January 3

TRUE BELIEVERS - HARD ROAD (1994)
Lossy re-upped by request (new rip)
Lossless first time available

Lossy (ZS): 320 lame 3.98 (187 mb)
Lossless (netkups): FLAC 8 (492 mb)

First posted here
2010, September 22

THE RAPIDSHARE MESS - DAY 4

There have been plenty of votes in favor of Zippyshare, let's try it with the Flying Color below

If you don't use JDownloader, if you don't have AdBlock Plus (with Firefox) installed, and if you're not familiar with ZS, here's a tuto

FLYING COLOR - FLYING COLOR (1987, Expanded 1996)

Flying Color's three mop-topped songwriters traded lead vocals and writing chores on their one and only album, a timeless tribute to ringing guitars. Probably even more derivative of the Byrds or Buffalo Springfield than the Mop Tops, Flying Color's perfect, guitar-based pop and harmonies marked a movement in rock that would take another ten years to take hold in the mainstream, but the album -- in particular the standout tracks "Dear Friend" and "Through Different Eyes" -- sounds just as vital as when it was released.

Lossless: ZS1 + ZS2 (288 mb)

 

Songs
1 Dear Friend / 2 It Doesn't Matter / 3 One Saturday / 4 Through Different Eyes / 5 Tumble / 6 Believe Believe / 7 Farewell Song / 8 Bring Back The Rain / 9 I'm Your Shadow / 10 Wise To Her Ways / 11 The Road We're One / 12 By The Fire / 13 Love Is On Its Way

 

Original LP Artwork (Frontier Records ‎ FLP 1022)

THE RAPIDSHARE MESS - DAY 3

1. RS has increased the free users bandwidth from 6 k/s to 12 k/s, too slow yet,

2. I've tried a few hosts through JDownloader (this way no popups), here are some notes concerning free users

• Freakshare: Files deleted after 30 days of inactivity. Mandatory captcha / 100 seconds wait / download 300 k/s / 15 minutes wait before downloading anything else. MAYBE NOT
• Zippyshare: Maximum Size 200mb. Files deleted after 30days of inactivity. Mandatory captcha / no wait / download 200-250 k/s / parallel downloads allowed. MAYBE YES
• uploaded:  download 50 k/s. A lot of blogs are using it. Waiting time between 2 files is around 2 hours. Has failed once with JDownloader, then 3 hours waiting.for a new IP. NO

Tomorrow i'll try a few other hosts. Stay tuned.

THE RAPIDSHARE MESS - DAY 2

1. The new RS has deleted some links (IPO 3 (CD2), IPO 7 (CD3) & all of IPO 8) without any reason, so the mess goes on.

2. I've visited a bunch of hosts, most of them look like some pinballs with plenty of popups windows opening eveywhere, with some fake buttons trying to make you install whatever they want., so i'm still searching...

3. A huge "Thank You" to all of the PPC addicts who have posted a comment about the RS mess.

THE RAPIDSHARE MESS

So RS has changed again, from last friday free users bandwidth is limited to a lame 6 k/s !!!, it means it is almost impossible to grab anything unless you are incredibly patient or you get a Premium account (i guess that's what RS really wants, but certainly not me)

All the PPC stuff is hosted on RS, so until i have found a way to solve this or if RS changes again the free users options, at best there will be no new posts, at worse it will be the end of PPC.

IPO Vol 1 - > Vol 10 (1998 - 2007)

Some of the volumes have been re-upped by request, some are still alive and a few ones are here for the first time.

1998

 CD

First posted 2010, February 21 (here)

1999

 CD1 + CD2

First posted 2010, April 4 (here)

2000

 CD1 + CD2

First posted 2010, June 1 (here)

2001

 CD1 + CD2

First posted 2010, August 15 (here)

 re-upped

2002

 CD1 + CD2 + CD3

First posted AWoS 2010, December 1 (here)

Then 2011, September 7 (here)

2003

 CD1 + CD2 + CD3 + PROGRAM (+ CD EP)

First posted 2011, January 1 (here)

re-upped

2004

CD1 + CD2 + CD3

First posted 2011, August 30 (here)

2005

CD1 + CD2 + CD3

First posted AWoS 2011, December 1 (here)

unavailable since

2006

CD1 + CD2 + CD3

First time on PPC

2007

CD1 + CD2 + CD3

First time on PPC