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SING 056LP
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"A perfect pair alongside Rockin' Horse's Yes It Is, the self-titled album by Liverpool Echo makes a swaggering assertion for the enduring power and captivation of the early Mersey styles of McCartney and Lennon. The idea was simple: make a hit record in the early, authentic style of the band with the most hits of all time, The Beatles, and use said record as a springboard to capitalize on the ten-year anniversary of their birth. And do it cheaply. And in only one week. While Liverpool Echo proved perhaps too late to ferry 'cross the Mersey and too early to dilate its pupils to Starry Eyes, the record they left behind remains the most wonderfully rocking cenotaph to the original Cavern Club 'moment' that I have ever encountered. So you might as well surrender. It's for you."
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SING 049LP
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"1975 pre-Adverts LP from punk legend TV Smith. Originally released in an edition of only 50 copies. Printed innersleeve. " "The 14th of June, 1975. It was a studio, a proper studio - just like the ones the proper bands recorded in. At least, it was the nearest I'd ever been to one and now my band Sleaze, that had so far had to make do with playing support slots at local clubs and discos - as well as the occasional headline gig in local school halls - was about to record some of our songs, just like a proper band. We set up our equipment, the engineer placed the microphones and recorded a few minutes to check the sound, then we put the whole album straight onto tape, song by song, playing live with no overdubs. Two hours recording time, twenty pounds for the lot, plus another half hour for the engineer's time splicing the tracks together, and the price of the two reels of tape. All in all, the Sleaze album cost the princely sum of £38.88. We went on to press up fifty copies onto vinyl, most of which we gave away to family and friends.... I'd met a new girlfriend in the art department and not only did she have the same Iggy and New York Dolls records in her collection as I did, she'd shown an interest in learning bass guitar and wanted me to teach her. Within a year we'd moved to London together and started rehearsing a new band, she'd changed her name to Gaye Advert... and the rest is history. I was no longer a solitary musical rebel pushing against a door that refused to budge. I was one of a multitude of rebels who felt the same way I did. This record is the sound of that rebellion trying to find its way, the door creaking against its hinges - a year before punk exploded, the door finally blew open and the music scene changed forever. " --TV Smith
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SING 048LP
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"The McElroy Bros.' Can't You See Me Smilin' LP is a private-press pop masterpiece recorded in 1977 in rural Vermont by identical twin brothers, Brian and Bruce McElroy. Using familiar '60s British-invasion song structures, the album is somehow instantly familiar while the recording and instrumentation are both totally unique -- perhaps, it's the unrivaled keyboard playing, or the harmonizing vocals that only twins could deliver. Whatever it is, this album is extremely sought after by pop and powerpop fans alike and has managed to elude many others for too long now. Repressed in an edition of 500 copies only, LP includes an 18" x 24" poster."
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SING 045EP
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"Detroit Rock circa 1976 meant one thing and one thing only: the ready-made light beer commercial sounds of 'Night Moves' by Silver Bullet Bob Seger. And if that one fact is not enough to convince you that the high time, high-tide of high-powered Motor City rock was definitively dead mid-me-decade then you can see also Glenn Frey. However, there remained many ideological hold-outs; bright spots amongst the burned-out crags of Detroit's blighted skyline: Sonic's Rendezvous, Death, The Dogs, Lightnin'. But the band that came the closest - in true garage group style - to recapturing the excitement and spirit of the Grande Ballroom with one fell double-sided swoop before hopping a bus-ride back to nowhere was Adrenalin. Looking, from surviving video footage, like the featured entertainment at a Hamtramck Junior Prom, but sounding like a junior varsity MC5, the guitar army rampage on 'Rock N Roll Screamer' reeks of amphetamines and A2 residue; the gymnastic histrionics of Sonic Smith most particularly. The flip-side's no slouch either. Easily in the same league as 'City Slang,' 'Raw Power,' or 'Borderline.' 'Rock N Roll Screamer,' originally issued without a picture sleeve on the obscure local Fiddlers imprint, is the happiest of accidents as Adrenalin's intentions were never proto-punk glory."
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SING 043EP
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"Shambles were led by ex-Mandrake Paddle Steamer singer Brian Engel and their only single is made up of two absolute corkers. 'Hello Baby' is a great hi-energy Power Pop/Glam number that is totally infectious and the B side, the wild and rockin' 'Held Me Spellbound,' is as good if not better than Jook covering 'Watch Your Step.' More than inspired by 'That's Alright Mama,' 'Spellbound' features 2 blistering lead guitar breaks that will strip your walls bare. Both tracks are wonderfully loud and bright thanks to the great Roy Thomas Baker production."
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