Cosmic Rough Riders - Revolution In The Summertime

Funfilled melodies. Wonderful.

CD 1
Tracks:

1. Revolution (in the summertime?)
2. Move along
3. The gun isn't loaded (live)

CD 2
Tracks

1. Revolution (in the summertime?)
2. River runs dry
3. Revolution (in the summertime?) (live)

Download Here: Revolution In The Summertime CD1
Revolution In The Summertime CD2

Ride - Live E.P. (French Promo CD)

Released: 1994 (Sire/Reprise)
Formats:
Promo CD - PRO-CD-2054
Tracks:

1. Twisterella (live)
2. Drive Blind (live)
3. Nowhere (live)
4. Chelsea Girl (live)

Additional Notes:
Given away free with purchases of the 'Carnival of Light' album in FNAC shops in France- All tracks recorded live, Brixton Academy, London 27/03/92

Download Here: Live E.P.

Ride - Carnival Of Light 5 Track Sampler

Just a teaser for what will be up tomorrow.

Released: 1994 (Creation Records)
Formats:
CD - CCD 147
Tracks:

1. Magical Spring
2. I Don't Know Where It Comes From
3. Natural Grace
4. Only Now
5. How Does It Feel To Feel?

Label Notes:
-
Additional Notes:
- Promotional CD, distributed prior to release of the 'Carnival Of Light' album.- All tracks are full album versions- No sleeve artwork

Download here: Carnival of Light 5 Track Sampler

Velvet Crush - Teenage Symphonies

My mate said that these were a bunch of old farts, I do not know if that is true but it is bloody good.
Download it because you do not own it.


1. Hold Me Up
2. My Blank Pages
3. Why Not Your Baby
4. Time Wraps Around You
5. Atmosphere
6. #10
7. Faster Days
8. Something's Gotta Give
9. This Life Is Killing Me
10. Weird Summer
11. Star Trip
12. Keep on Lingerin'

This record is filled to the brim with good hearty power-pop goodness. You can purchase this safe in the knowledge that there are no duffers here - it's just solid tracks all around. The opening track "Hold me up" is a killer pop song and has remained rooted in my memory since I heard it way back in 1994. The stand outs for me are the Gene Clark cover ("Why not your baby"), "My blank pages", "Atmosphere" (thankfully not a Russ Abbott cover), "Time wraps around you" (great guitar bridge) and "Faster days". I should add that "This life is killing me" had me pluging in my air guitar and setting the CD on repeat - much to my wife's displeasure! Power-popsters everywhere need to own this record.

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Oasis - Roll With It

I bought both of the singles Blur and Oasis. The best song on this single by a mile is Rocking Chair which was co-wrote by one of the Real People, (supposedly).

1. "Roll With It" - 4:00
2. "It's Better People" - 3:59
3. "Rockin' Chair" - 4:36
4. "Live Forever" (Live at Glastonbury '95) - 4:40

"Roll With It" received a great deal of attention when Food Records, the label of chief Britpop rivals Blur, moved the original release date of single "Country House" to clash with it, sparking what came to be known as "The Battle of Britpop". The British media had already reported an intense rivalry between the two bands and this clash of releases was seen as a battle for the number one spot. The media sensation was spurred on by verbal attacks from the respective camps (in particular Noel and Liam Gallagher, Damon Albarn and Alex James), that extended beyond the music industry to the point where the two bands were regularly mentioned on the evening news. In particular, public imagination was sparked by the contrast between the gritty, working class Oasis and the artsy, middle class Blur. In the end, Blur's "Country House" single sold 274,000 copies to Oasis' 216,000 copies of "Roll with It". The singles charted at number 1 and number 2 respectively.

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1000 hits in under a day...

...and I only got one comment!!!
Come on kids put pen to paper...or leave a comment, it,s only manners after all.

Huricane #1 - Huricane #1

I saw these live in Leicester when I was a student and they were really good. I managed to get myself right up to the front, right infront of Andy, what a sado. There are no outstanding songs here they all are good.

1. Just Another Illusion
2. Faces In A Dream
3. Step Into My World
4. Mother Superior
5. Let Go Of The Dream
6. Chain Reaction
7. Lucky Man
8. Strange Meeting
9. Monday Afternoon
10. Stand In Line


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The Verve - The Verve E.P..

Download for She's a Superstar. Very good song with lots of highs and lows.
If any one has the full length version of that song to share please spread the joy.

1. "Gravity Grave" (edit) – 4:27
2. "Man Called Sun" – 5:45
3. "She's a Superstar" (edit) – 5:03
4. "Endless Life" – 5:32
5. "Feel" – 10:42
   

Verve EP was the first studio release by English rock band The Verve. The EP was released in December 1992 on Vernon Yard Recordings in the United States and Hut Records in the United Kingdom. With a length of over 31 minutes, the EP is closer in relation to a full-length album release. It also features songs that never appeared on another studio release by The Verve.

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Ed Ball - Mill Hill Self Hate Club

I could not find a picture of the single, but it is all about the music. This song is a perfect little pop song. I have other singles and albums by Ed if this goes down well.

1. The Mill Hill Self Hate Club
2. Wrapped Up In Lonesome Blues
3. I'm Going Out Of Your Mind
4. An Act Of Faith
   

CD Creation (CRESCD233) 1996

Download here: Mill Hill Self Hate Club

The Jennifers

Just Got Back Today is one of the best ever songs from the 90's and you can get it here. Box Set Go

Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen

Download and listen to Gene Clark, if you ever get the chance to see these live thay are great and when they came on to do Gene Clark on the Thirteen tour they all came on individually which was fantastic.

1. "Hang On" (Love)
2. "The Cabbage" (Blake)
3. "Radio" (Love)
4. "Norman 3" (Blake)
5. "Song To The Cynic" (Love)
6. "120 Mins" (McGinley)
7. "Escher" (McGinley)
8. "Commercial Alternative" (Blake)
9. "Fear Of Flying" (Love)
10. "Tears Are Cool" (McGinley)
11. "Ret Liv Dead" (Blake)
12. "Get Funky" (O'Hare)
13. "Gene Clark" (Love)

Thirteen is the fourth album by British alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub, released in 1993. It was named after a Big Star song of the same name, a band that has heavily influenced Teenage Fanclub.

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Heavy Stereo - Chinese Burn

I got into this band through my Dad who bought me this single. Now Gem is larging it with Oasis, I wish he had continued here. More to come of this lot.

1. Chinese Burn
2. Worm Brain
3. Big Apple Pie

Download here: Chinese Burn

Ride - Live Light

I was amazed when I bought this in HMV because I thought it was a bootleg. Well the best song on here is Chelsea Girl because of the arrangement being so different to the original.

Released: 1995

1. Seagull
2. Magical Spring
3. From Time To Time
4. Chelsea Girl
5. Birdman
6. Only Now
7. Leave Them All Behind
8. Let's Get Lost
9. Close My Eyes
10. End of the Universe
11. Twisterella

Sleeve Notes:
- All tracks recorded live during the band's last European tour
Additional Notes:
- Semi-official release (all songs are recorded from the mixing desk, suggesting the band were aware of the recordings).- Released by the U.S. indie label Mutiny Records, and available through record shops.- Recorded on the Carnival of Light French tour

Download here: Live Light

Who Feels Love

This has one of the best ever songs writen by Noel on it. Check out One Way Road, it is amazing.

"Who Feels Love?" is a song by British rock band Oasis, written by the band's lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. It became to second single to be released from the album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, peaking at number 4 in the UK charts. One of the B-sides is a cover of The Beatles' "Helter Skelter". It was played live during the Shoulders tour of 2000.

1. "Who Feels Love?" - 5:45
2. "One Way Road" - 4:03
3. "Helter Skelter" - 5:51

Download here: Who Feels Love

Black Nite Crash

The end was nigh, the best song on here is the Mark Gardener song Slave, I think is was about Andy.

UK release date: February 12th 1996
Creation release code: crescd199
tracklist:

1. Black Nite Crash
2. Nothing Lasts Forever
3. Slave
4. A Trip Down Ronnie Lane

Release notes: recorded in London, 1995 engineered by Richard "Digby" Smith and Paul Motion mixed by Mark Freegard for 140dB featuring Nick Moorbath (piano, hammond, rhodes) and Jeff Scantlebury (percussions)designed at negativespace.

Download here: Black Nite Crash

Ride 'Leave them all behind'

Well here is the Video

Leave them all Behind

I think I bought this on the day of release. I used to love Grasshopper but have not listened to it for a while.

UK release date: February 10th 1992
Creation release code: crescd123
tracklist:

1. Leave Them All Behind
2. Chrome Waves*
3. Grasshopper

Release notes: Leave Them All Behind and Chrome Waves recorded at Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Chipping Norton, England by Alan MoulderGrasshopper recorded at Blackbarn Studios, Ripley, England by Matt and mixed at Swanyard Studios, London England, by Alan Moulderproduced by Alan Moulder and Ride*different from the version appeared on "Going Blank Again"

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Idha - Melody Inn

I first heard this lady on the radio and thought that she was good and then they said that it was the wife of Andy Bell from Ride, so I thought it was better. Then upon buying the CD singles I thought she was fantastically beautiful. But the music is not bad at all. I love her version of the Gram Parsons, Hickory Wind.

1. High over Hollywood
2. Red Ballooon
3. From Me to You
4. More Love
5. Another Door
6. Stockholm
7. All My Loving
8. Hickory Wind
9. Get Undressed
10. Safe at Home
11. Music Carries On

Melody Inn is a beautiful (mainly) acoustic album with hints of Americana. Much of Idha's music and style on this album is strongly influenced by artists like Gram Parsons and The Faces. Whilst writing or co-writing the majority of this album, Idha does include three wonderful cover songs, written by Janis Ian, Gram Parson and Tim Hardin.

From the same site as this review: Check this out

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Supersonic

Me and my mate Ed saw Oasis on The Word TV programne and thought that it was amazing. That was the Friday. Ed had recorded it so we sat down and learned how to play it on the Saturday and we were rocking fully amped up on the Sunday. It was then released on the Monday so we both rushed out and bought it. I love this single it was the start of a big push in great music in the UK. Take Me Away is an outstanding track too.

1. "Supersonic" - 4:44
2. "Take Me Away" - 4:30
3. "I Will Believe" (Live) - 3:46
4. "Columbia" (White Label Demo) - 5:25

Download here: Supersonic

The KLF - The White Room

This was a hugely anticipated album for me cause I had a lot of the singles and some earlier stuff by these lads. This album is so of its time wearing very baggy jeans, 28" bottoms, phat converse trainers and hooded tops. Life was good. Anyway back to the music check out Church of the KLF's big sound and the dreamy Build a Fire.

The White Room was a 1991 worldwide No. 1 hit album by British house music group The KLF. It was also the name of a film made by the group two years earlier but never released. The White Room LP was originally due to be released in 1989 as the soundtrack to the film, but the release of both was cancelled at the last moment. Most of the songs on the 1989 version turned up again on the 1991 LP in significantly remixed form, but of the original mixes recorded for the film soundtrack, only the single "Kylie Said To Jason" and a version of "Build A Fire" saw legitimate commercial release.

Track listing
Running times are given for the version of The White Room released outside North America. In the North American Arista release, samples of crowd noise from U2's Rattle and Hum album, used to segue between the "Stadium House" tracks, are removed, leading to abrupt and awkward transitions between these tracks; additionally, "Last Train to Trancentral" and "No More Tears" are shortened.

1. "What Time Is Love?" (LP Mix) – 4:37
2. "Make It Rain" – 4:06
3. "3 a.m. Eternal" (Live at the S.S.L.) – 3:14 sample (help·info)
4. "Church of The KLF" – 1:42
5. "Last Train to Trancentral" (Live from the Lost Continent) (LP Mix) – 6:04
6. "Build a Fire" – 4:39
7. "The White Room" – 5:14
8. "No More Tears" – 9:24
9. "Justified and Ancient" – 4:43

Jimmy Cauty - production, performance and programming
Bill Drummond - production, performance, vocals and programming

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Ride - Waves

As promised, check out Birdman. I have not listened much to this album but I have put it on my MP3 player to listen to more.


1. Like A Daydream
2. Dreams Burn Down
3. Perfect Time
4. Sight Of You
5. All I Can See
6. Decay
7. Severance
8. Time Of Her Time
9. Not Fazed
10. Mouse Trap
11. Birdman
12. Walk On Water
13. Since Then
14. Crown Of Creation
15. Let's Get Lost
16. 1000 Miles
17. I Don't Know Where It Comes From

A great review on Amazon:
Many people thought that Ride never quite pinned down their live sound in the studio, which isn't really the case, but these sessions hint at that notion. The tracks from the Daytripper-era that would turn up on the overproduced Carnival of Light are much better here...
This collection is a reminder of how great Radio1 were, sessions stemming from the shows of John Peel, Mark Goodier & Marc Radcliffe. The first seven tracks are from the hallowed domain of the Peel Session. The first four tracks are from the first Peel session- opening with a storming Like a Daydream, prior to the timeless Dreams Burn Down (from 1990's Fall&Nowhere)& then another Play-track, the feedback-thrash of Perfect Time: imagine Sonic Youth playing at a Byrds-tribute show, or alternately Buffalo Springfield covering My Bloody Valentine. Curiously, there is a cover version of Pale Saints'Sight of You- there was a slight rivalry invoked between PS and Ride by the media, so this seems to be quite an ironic cover. It's about the only decent track on Pale Saints dated debut, which fails to stand the test of time as Nowhere has...
The second Peel Session comprises three-tracks, the debut ep's All I Can See (superior in sound to the original I think- though this might be down to the mixing by Steve Queralt etc), the funeral/feedback misery of Decay& a transcendetal take on Dead Can Dance's Severance (from The Serpent's Egg, I do believe)
Tracks 8 to 10 stem from the Going Blank Again- though all three of these tracks were delivered wonderfully on the live part of 2001's boxset. The 93 Goodier session is more interesting, tracks that would feature on the last two Ride albums are delivered in a much better form than they would eventually be released- Walk on Water is particularly great (even if this would sound not unlike 94's Magical Spring). The final Radcliffe session has great b-side Let's Get Lost (very Chet Baker, I Know!), Mark Gardener's ode to The Byrds & distance (1000 Miles) & ends on the slightly irritating I Don't Know Where It Comes From (which probably should have been a Britpop hit, being so retro- it's the one that sounds NOTHING like You Can't Always Get What You Want).
Waves is another reminder, alongside the OX4 Best of/Box Set, that Ride were a great band- & appear to have been lost in the shuffle of list-based nostalgia that has become lore since the millennium. It would have been nice if their Sonic Youth-tribute/2001 reform piece 'Performance' (from Coming Up for Air) had been included also. A wonderfully priced reminder of one of the 90s great bands, with a great cover also , that wipes away the mediocrity of TheAnimalHouse & Hurricane#1 (though if you're buying this, Mark Gardener&Goldrush's Falling Out Into the Night is as wonderful- containing a more interesting take of Dreams Burn Down).

Download Here: Waves

Ride - Birdman

Here is the video.

Birdman

I remember hearing Birdman on Mark and Lard when they were doing the late night show on Radio 1, (I recorded it and still have the cassette), and I remember the guitars were so much better on the live session than they are here. I felt so let down that they got lost in the mix. The better mix is available on the album Waves, which I will get on at some point
Tracks (CD Promo):

1. Birdman (Radio Edit)
2. Birdman
3. Rolling Thunder #2
4. Let's Get Lost
5. Don't Let It Die

release notes: produced and mixed by John Leckiephoto by Tom Sheenandesign by Mark Bown

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Twisterella

Another fine example of how good the B-Sides could be on one single. This is worth downloading for all three. My favourate is Stampede. They should have been put onto the album Going Blank Again which I posted on Box Set Go's site.
The first four ride singles are available at Box Set Go if you would like to get them go here. I will continue to post the rest of the singles and albums too.

UK release date: April 13th 1992
Creation release code: crescd150
tracklist:

1. Twisterella
2. Going Blank Again
3. Howard Hughes
4. Stampede

Release notes: recorded at Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Chipping Norton, England by Alan Moulderexcept Howard Hughes recorded at Blackbarn Studios, Ripley, England by Matt Olivermixed at Swanyard Studios, London, England by Alan Moulder except Twisterella mixed at The Church, London, England by Alan Moulder produced by Alan Moulder and Ride.

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How Does It Feel To Feel?

This has one of my top five songs ever on it which is At the End of the Universe, worth downloading just for this. I hope you enjoy this.

UK release date: June 13th 1994
Creation release code: crescd184
tracklist:

1. How Does It Feel To Feel?
2. Walkabout
3. At The End Of The Universe

Release notes: track 1 by Phillips/Garner, produced and mixed by George Drakoulias track 2 by Colbert/Queralt, produced by Colbert/Queralt, engineered by John Burton track3 by Ride, hammond organ by Jon Lord, produced and mixed by John Leckie.

Download here: How Does It Feel To Feel?