THE BLAZERS - HOW TO ROCK (1980)

Originally posted in 2008 (January 17th)

full details here

Re-up as requested

FIRST TIME  IN FLAC

 

HOW TO ROCK (211 mb)

ROY LONEY AND THE PHANTOM MOVERS

THE SCIENTIFIC BOMBS AWAY!! (1988)

First released in Australia, the album got a domestic release in the USA only two months later in 1989. Norton Records didn't only change the artwork of the album but they also dropped one song "Nervous Slim" from the Australian edition but added two new songs "Send In The Girls" and Steppin' Around" and changed the track sequence. Whereas the Australian album was available in CD and Vinyl formats, the US edition has never been released in CD format. "The Scientific Bombs Away!!" was also the last Roy Loney album with The Phantom Movers. He would return in 1994 with his new band The Longshots for the excellent "Full Grown Head"

 

  Scientific (215 mb)

Songs

1. Chicken Run Around / 2. Bip Bop Boom / 3. Ruin Your Shoes / 4. Bad News Travels Fast / 5. Deviled Eyes / 6. Boy,Man! / 7. Your Best Friends Number / 8. Here Comes Curly / 9. Send in the Girls / 10. Cry Like the Wind / 11. Steppin' Around / 12. Nobody / 13. Feel So Fine

THE NEIGHBORHOODS - PRETTIEST GIRL (1979)

Debut single from the Boston band

"Prettiest Girl" was coupled with "No Place Like Home"

Both songs have been included on many compilations.

It was released on the famous Boston label "Ace Of Hearts"

And for info, "Prettiest Girl" was covered in 1982 by Club Wow

 

Prettiest Girl (47 mb)

THE NEIGHBORHOODS - FIRE IS COMING (1984)

 Originally posted in 2007 (June 8th)

full details here

Re-up as requested

FIRST TIME  IN FLAC

 

FIRE IS COMING (180 mb)

THE NEIGHBORHOODS - "...THE HIGH HARD ONE..." (1986)

Originally posted in 2007 (June 8th)

full details here

Re-up as requested

FIRST TIME  IN FLAC

 

THE HIGH HARD ONE (233 mb)

THE NEIGHBORHOODS - REPTILE MEN (1987)

Back in 2007, i posted the first two Neighborhoods albums "Fire Is Coming" and "The High Hard One" here, but i had never made a vinyl transfer of their third album "Reptile Men" just because it was available on CD. The CD edition has two bonus songs (coming from Fire Is Coming". But as the CD is tricky to find at a reasonable price, i recently made the transfer and shared here with all the PPC readers.

 

  REPTILE MEN (253 mb)

Songs
Pure and Easy / Modern Cowboy / Reptile Man / Tommy /Dangerous / The Man / Peeping Tom / Out of Your Reach / Wailing Wall / Clichés

RASPBERRIES - REFRESHED (2000)

Originally posted in 2016 (April 9th)

full details here 

Re-up as requested

 

  MLP (148 mb)

THE TAXI BOYS
THE TAXI BOYS 7" (1981) THE TAXI BOYS 12" (1981)

Originally posted in 2007 (July 26th)

full details here 

Re-up as requested

FIRST TIME  IN FLAC

 

EP (87 mb) + MLP (128 mb)

POPPY NOSH - IN THE GARDEN (1996)

Originally (hidden) posted in 2009 (April 11th)

full details here 

Re-up as requested

FIRST TIME  IN FLAC

 

ZS (353 mb)

WILD HONEY ORCHESTRA & FRIENDS

TRIBUTE TO THE BEACH BOYS 1967-1977 (2016)

On the same basis as The White Album tribute, The Wild Honey Orchestra with special guests performed 41 songs from the Beach Boys albums released between 1967 and 1977 for the Autism Think Thank at the Alex Theatre, Glendale, CA, 2-13-2016. All the musicians donated their time and talent for this amazing grass roots event to help kids with the medical and psychological fallout from autism. You can learn more about the non-profit Wild Honey Foundation at https://www.facebook.com/groups/WIldh... and donate to support future shows by paypal to wildhoneyfoundation@yahoo.com You can donate directly to the Autism Think Tank at https://autismthinktanknj.org/contact/. All credits go to Paul Rock

You can read the review of the concert

written by John M. Borack here on Goldmine

The full concert can be watched here The Beach Boys 1967-1977

 

Note:
This soundboard concert is only available in mp3 format
and comes with a custom artwork,

the front art being the original poster made
by the Wild Honey Foundation.

Only minor edits have been made, a few fade-ins and fade-outs,

some silence parts removed plus some de-clipping

and normalization for audio convenience

ZS (310 mb)

The Wild Honey Orchestra musicians include:

Darian Sahanaja, Rob Laufer, Rusty Squeezebox, Mike Randle

Andrew Sandoval, Rob Bonfiglio, Nick Walusko, Scott Bennett
Nelson Bragg, Probyn Gregory, Derrick Anderson
Jim Laspesa, Willie Aron, Brett Simmons,

DJ Bonebrake, Debbie Shair, Trent Baronn II

Monique St. Walker, David Nolte, Gary Griffin, Linda Pitmon

Perry Ostrin, Marcus Blake, Chris Price, Erik Paparozzi, Kristi Callan
Robby Scharf, Randell Kirsch, Jordan Summers, David Goodstein
Kaitlin Wolfberg, Sarah Kramer, Paul Michael Barkan

 

 

Details of the "songs performed" below

BULLWINKEL GANDHI - KUNG POW! (1996)

Originally posted in 2009 (April 11th)

full details here 

Re-up as requested

FIRST TIME  IN FLAC

 

ZS (325 mb)

WALTER CLEVENGER - POP GOES THE MUSIC (1995)

Originally posted in 2007 (September 10th)

full details here 

The notes were coming from the official Walter Clevenger site

but the site has gone forever, so now this is history.

Re-up as requested

FIRST TIME  IN FLAC

 

ZS (316 mb)

I purchased the cassette on the strength of Bruce Brodeen

review in the Not Lame Catalog Winter 1995-1996

click on the pix below to enlarge and read the review

i know Bruce is a PPC reader, so i will never forget

to thank Bruce for the great music i have bought
from the Not Lame catalogs

DARIAN & NICK - DEMOS (PRE-WONDERMINTS) (1988-1990)

In their early days, before the Wondermints even existed,  Darian & Nick would share a 4-track Portastudio cassette recorder, these recordings started off as what we can call them now the pre-Wondermints demos. Before recording their own songs, the duo recorded ten covers plus their first original song "No One's Girl" (written by Nick). The first Wondermints releases would later surface in 1992-1994 with their self-released tapes: the Blue, Purple and Green.

As usual, I have made a custom artwork

ZS (70 mb)

Songs

See Emily Play / I'll Be True To You / All I Really Want To Do / Kid / Bus Stop / Outer Limits TV Theme / Touch Me / Everybody's Talking / Tuesday Afternoon / Lost In Space TV Theme / No One's Girl

WALTER CLEVENGER - ODDS AND SODS (2019)

On the same template as the Lolas and Ed James collections of rarities (tributes, compilations et al...), i have compiled all the tracks recorded by Walter Clevenger, either alone or with his Dairy Kings. Walter Clevenger has released four albums plus a tricky to find mini-album "Around The Corner" (2002) that was featuring four songs unavailable elsewhere, so they have been added to this collection.  I have also included some demos never commercially released by Walter Clevenger plus a couple of tracks recorded with his new band The Rubilators. Of course all the demos are of excellent audio quality but they are still lossy sourced. All the officially released tracks are sourced from the original CD's and are lossless.

As usual, I have made a complete set of artwork

for this PPC compilation.

For the time being it's only available in lossy format

because there are seven lossy songs (out of 29).

ZS (202 mb)

 

click on pix below for details

THE POP (1976-1981)

Complete discography

 Re-up as requested

Originally posted in 2007 (May 18th)

full details here

HIT & RUN LOVER (1976) (BACK DOOR MAN 1001)
Hit & Run Lover / Break The Chain

ZS (60 mb)

 

 

 DOWN ON THE BOULEVARD (1977) (BACK DOOR MAN 5001)

Down On The Boulevard / I Need You / Easy Action

ZS (69 mb)

THE POP (1977) (AUTOMATIC SA 101)

ZS (241 mb)

 

GO! (1978) (Arista AB 4243)

ZS (253 mb)

 

HEARTS & KNIVES (1981) (Rhino RNEP 510)

ZS (133 mb)

WILD HONEY ORCHESTRA & FRIENDS

TRIBUTE TO THE WHITE ALBUM (2015)

The Wild Honey Orchestra with special guests performed The Beatles "White Album" and bonus 1968 tracks for the Autism Think Thank at the Alex Theatre, Glendale, CA, 2-28-15. All the musicians donated their time and talent for this amazing grass roots event that raised over $33,000 to help kids with the medical and psychological fallout from autism. You can learn more about the non-profit Wild Honey Foundation at https://www.facebook.com/groups/WIldh... and donate to support future shows by paypal to wildhoneyfoundation@yahoo.com You can donate directly to the Autism Think Tank at https://autismthinktanknj.org/contact/. All credits go to Paul Rock

You can read the review of the concert

written by John M. Borack here on Goldmine

The full concert can be watched here The White Album

Note:
This soundboard concert is only available in mp3 format
and comes with a custom artwork,

the front art being the original poster made
by the Wild Honey Foundation.

Only minor edits have been made, a few fade-ins and fade-outs,

some silence parts removed plus normalization for audio convenience

ZS (280mb)

The Wild Honey Orchestra musicians include:

Darian Sahanaja, Rob Laufer, Dave Gregory, Rusty Squeezebox,
Nelson Bragg, Probyn Gregory, Michael Simmons, Derrick Anderson
Jim Laspesa, Lyle Workman, Debbi Peterson, Willie Aron
Robby Scharf, Randell Kirsch, Jordan Summers, David Goodstein
Kaitlin Wolfberg, Jordan Zevon, Timothy Bryson,
Damon Fox, Sarah Kramer, Paul Michael Barkan

Details of the "Heavy Friends" below

VARIOUS - THE RESTLESS SUMMER (2019)

 A little bit earlier than the previous years,

The brand new PPC Summer collection - the 11th

The compilation is available
in both formats: lossy & lossless

with the usual PPC set of artwork

Summer 2019

ZS (189 mb)

 

(unzip with 7-ZIP which is freeware)

 

UNITED KINGDOM - GERMANY - ITALY USERS

PLEASE READ HERE ABOUT ZIPPYSHARE

 Click on pix for the details of the bands involved

All the previous PPC summer compilations

are still available (320 mp3)

you can visit the pages linked

2009 Summer Songs (details here): 1 + 2

2010 Summer Songs Vol. 2 (details here): 1

2011 Back To The Summer Of... (details here): 1

2012 Hooks On The Beach (details here): 1

2013 In Search For The Perfect Hook (details here): 1

2014 Summer PowerPop Man! (details here): 1

2015 Lonely Summer (details here): 1

 2016 Summer Party! (details here): 1

2017 Summer Takes It All (details here): 1

2018 Long Promised Beach (details here): 1

 

THE BLADES - HOT FOR YOU (1980)

Paul Cleary asked his brother Laurence to join The Blades, a punk rock band he had formed to play at a hall in Ringsend in 1977. Although they started with Pat Larkin, Joey Donnelly and Johnny Burke in the line-up, they later reduced to a three-piece when Donnelly and Burke left. Laurence took the stage name 'Lar Schreiber', the band signed to 'Energy Records' and released their first single, a power pop masterpiece "Hot For You" in May 1980. The single was produced by Sean Tyla and Mark Dodson.

ZS (40 mb)

Songs

1. Hot For You

2. The Reunion