The Running Stream - S/T

Os dois 12" lançados por essa banda da Itália, que puxou mais pro lado psicodélico do garage do que o normal postado aqui no blog, mas mesmo assim, o material dos caras é excelente. O disco homônimo (o primeiro) é metade covers (dois do Them e um dos Kinks), metade originais que não deixam a dever pras versões, com destaque pra Enough e pra sugestiva She Eats a Mushroom. O segundo, composto quase completamente de canções próprias, já começa com a matadora Long Time Ago e segue com a mais garageira Spend your Life, também excelente, alternando momentos psicodélicos como Dreams of a Sleepin' Butterfly com momentos de puro 60s punk, como a maravilhosa canção que encerra o álbum, Next Night. Não consegui achar mais informações dos caras, exceto que o tecladista, Ugly, entrou pros Woody Peakers.

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Here are the two 12" released by this italian band, that leaned more towards the psych side of garage than the usual material of this blog. Anyway, their stuff is excellent. The first and self titled album is half covers (two by Them and one by the Kinks), half originals that won't disappoint, with highlights to Enough and to the sugestive She Eats a Mushroom. Their second album is almost completely composed by the band and starts with the killer Long Time Ago, following with the equally amazing Spend your Life, always staying between psychedelic moments like Dreams of a Sleepin' Butterfly or pure 60s punk, like the last song on the album, Next Night. I couldn't find bigger info on them guys, besides that the keyboard player, Ugly, went on to form the Woody Peakers

Running Stream

01 - I Can Only Give you Everything
02 - Acid Head
03 - Wrong Life
04 - I've Never Loved a Girl
05 - I'm not Like Everybody Else
06 - Enough
07 - She Eats a Mushroom
08 - Gloria

PS : O cara que ripou o vinil deve ter ripado o lado a como b e vice e versa, logo, as músicas 1-4 são na verdade as 5-8 (e vice e versa)
PS : The guy who ripped the viniyl did it backwards, so, the songs 1-4 (side B) are the songs 5-8 (side A) and the songs 5-8 (side A) are 1-4 (side B)

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2nd

01 - Long Time Ago
02 - Spend your Life
03 - All Cops in Delirium
04 - She Was Mine
05 - The Junkie and the Pusher
06 - Hey Joe
07 - Clock on the Wall
08 - She's my Queen
09 - Dreams of a Sleepin' Butterfly
10 - Desert in my Mind
11 - Don't Run Away
12 - Next Night

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The 3-D Invisibles

Não achei muitas informações sobre a banda. Só sei que esse disco é de 1989, que eles vêm de Detroit e que eles estão na ativa até hoje. O som é excelente, fãs de Cramps, Meteors e Misfits vão achar doses iguais dessas três maravilhas na terra. Pelo jeito os caras nunca conseguiram muito sucesso e eu simplesmente não consigo pensar numa possível razão pra isso. Faixas como They Won't Stay Dead, Creature from the Outer Space (Cramps puro) ou I Married a Monster from Outer Space mereciam ser clássicos do psychobilly. Destaque pra essas já citadas, Blood Feast e Mail-Order Monster.

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I couldn't find bigger info on the band, besides that this record is from 1989, that they hail from Detroit and they still play. The sound is amazing, and any Cramps, Meteors or Misfits fan will find equal amounts of these three man-made wonders in their sound. For some reason, the guys never achieved a lot of success and I simply can't think of a plausible reason for it. Tracks like They Won't Stay Dead, Creature from Outer Space (pure Cramps) or I Married a Monster from Outer Space deserve to be hailed as psychobilly classics. Highlights go to the mentioned tracks plus Blood Feast and Mail-Order Monster.

1. They Won't Stay Dead
2. Creature From Outer Space
3. Down In The Dungeon
4. Frankenstein Stomp
5. Surpise For Teacher
6. I Walked With A Zombie
7. Mars Needs Women
8. Mail-Order Monster
9. Creepy Fella
1. Graveyard Rockin'
2. I Married A Monster From Outer Space
3. Skeleton Rock & Roll
4. Christopher Lee
5. Beach Party Massacre
6. The Mad Doctor's Unsuccessful Experiments
7. My Babys Gone To Pieces
8. Blood Feast
9. Nosferatu

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Creation - We are Paintermen

Banda inglesa de freakbeat, o Creation deveria ter sido maior, mas, como várias outras bandas da época, algum motivo obscuro e inexplicável impediu que os caras fossem pra frente, apesar do hit Painter Man (depois gravado pelo Boney M, por algum motivo que eu desconheço). O som da banda, como dito acima, é bem freakbeat, com ecos de Kinks, Who e Yardbirds em todo lado. Destaques ficam pra Can I Join your Band, Makin' Time, Biff Bang Pow! e Painter Man (detalhe que nessa música, o guitarrista Eddie Phillips usou um arco de violino pra tocar guitarra pela primeira vez que se tem registro, provando mais uma vez que Jimmy Page não é o deus que dizem por aí).

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This english freakbat band should've been bigger, but, as a ton of other bands of the era, they never made it big for some obscure and unexplainable reason, despite their hit "Painter Man" (later recorded by Boney M, for some unknown reason to me). Their sound, as said above, is very freakbeat, with echoes from the Who, the Kinks and the Yardbirds everywhere. Highlights go to Can I Join Your Band, Makin' Time, Biff Bang Pow! and Painter Man (note that their guitarist Eddie Phillips plays with a violin bow on this one, being that the first register of that being made, again, proving that Jimmy Page isn't the guitar god they've been saying).

1. Cool Jerk

2. Making Time

3. Through My Eyes

4. Like a Rolling Stone

5. Can I Join Your Band

6. Tom Tom

7. Try and Stop Me

8. If I Stay Too Long

9. Biff Bang Pow

10. Nightmares

12. Painter Man

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