Neil Young —
Homegrown ... CD Reprise, 1974. New Copy ...
$17.9918.99
A never-issued album from Neil Young – recorded during a key 70s stretch, and finally out of the can after decades of being locked away in the vaults! At the time, Neil didn't think the record was as strong as some of his other work – but to us, fans of the man's music, the whole thing ... read moreCD
Neil Young —
Neil Young ... LP Reprise, 1968. Very Good+ Gatefold ...
Just Sold Out!
Titles include "String Quartet From Whiskey Boot Hill", "Last Trip To Tulsa", "I've Been Waiting For You", "What Did You Do To My Life", and "The Loner". LP, Vinyl record album
(Tan label pressing, in a cover with his name. Cover has light wear.)
An unreleased live set from Neil Young – recorded in Santa Cruz in November of 1990, and featuring the group hot on the success of their Ragged Glory album! The set features the live debut of many of the record's songs, along with a number of surprises too – tracks that are unexpected ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Rare work from this legendary underground figure – one of his overlooked gems from the 70s, with original tunes that include "The White Trash Song", "We've Been Together On This Earth Before", "Alabama Highway", "Traveling Kind", and "Vision Of A ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Young Rascals —
Groovin' ... LP Atlantic, 1967. Very Good ...
$9.99
Possibly the biggest album ever by The Rascals – a wonderfully tight batch of tunes that has the group hitting perfectly on all their best fronts! Blue eyed soul mixes wonderfully with some rougher garage-styled rock – and the execution here is perfect enough to please listeners on ... (Soul, Rock)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Blue & green label pressing. Cover has some wear and a hype sticker.)
A record with a bit of a joke on the cover, but one that's also got a much more mature version of The Youngbloods than just a few years before – a group who are moving past straighter folk, bringing in bits of psych and jazz elements – yet still also keeping their cool a lot more than ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
One of the most jamming Zappa albums from the early days – a set that's still got some of Frank's complicated musical leanings in play – but which features interpretation by a smoking group who no doubt helped the great one reach a much larger audience! George Duke plays lots of organ ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Blue label Bizarre pressing. Cover has ring and edge wear.)
A special vinyl sampler from Frank Zappa – intended to point the way towards the big run of releases that would soon come on CD under the same title! The set brings together some of the best of that enterprise – and features live performances from 1969 through 1984 – all mastered ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Limited transparent yellow & red heavyweight vinyl – pressed by Pallas!)
A huge package of Frank Zappa music, packed with classics, unreleased tracks, and selections from the score to the well-done documentary on Frank's life and music by Alex Winter! The first 2CDs feature all Zappa music – including some never-issued tracks pulled from Frank's vaults, mixed ... read moreCD
Frank Zappa/Mothers Of Invention —
Burnt Weeny Sandwich ... LP Bizarre/Reprise, 1970. Very Good Gatefold ...
$19.99
A burnt weeny sandwich from Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention – and a record that shows just how far they'd come in just a few short years! In a way, the record feels almost like a summation of all the best ideas that Frank had come up with in the studio – some serious musical ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A key record in showcasing Frank Zappa's blend of complicated compositions and all-out jamming – that mix of hard rock and serious songwriting that would direct his energy for most of the 70s – yet still pretty darn raw at this point! The album's a live one – with some of the ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Original blue label pressing. Cover has light wear.)
Mothers Of Invention (Frank Zappa) —
Freak Out ... CD Verve/Hip-O Select, 1966. Used ...
$6.99
A fabulous furry freakout from Frank Zappa – the start of a legendary run in the late 60s – and a record that is still as mindblowing now as it was all those many years back! There's a deadpan quality to the vocals that's unlike anything other groups were trying for at the time – ... read moreCD
An early masterpiece from Frank Zappa – one of those records that looks like it's going to be a big ol' mess when you first see the cover – but which turns out to be a carefully calculated act of madness in the end! The Mothers have all their freeform freaky brilliance intact here ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Fantastic early work from The Zombies – the kind of material that set them apart from the rest of their generation, right from the start – thanks to the young brilliance of Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone! This set presents all the tracks in their rare mono mixes – different than ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Zs —
Grain ... CD Northern Spy, 2013. Used ...
$5.99
A really cool collection of 60s rockers from Brazil – music that was part of the jovem guarda generation, right before the Tropicalia years – but served up here in a package that's a bit groovier than most from the time! Unlike some of the bigger-label material from the jovem guarda ... (Brazil, Rock)read moreCD
The title's maybe a bit misleading – as most folks think of day-glo as a color associated with some of the most throwaway culture of the 80s – but the brightness of the hue definitely marks the big explosion in styles during the key British year of 1978 – a time when the punk ... read moreCD
Music from the Kingsmen, the Coasters, Gene Chandler, the Champs, the Beach Boys, the Dells, Tommy Roe, Jerry Butler, the Shirelles, Lee Dorsey, the Crests, DJ Thomas, Tommy Tucker, Gene Pitney, and more – 28 cuts in all. (Soul, Rock)CD
A really cool collection, and one that's got a very special focus – an imaginary soundtrack for the record-breaking British summer of 1976 – a searingly hot time that really pushed the nation to the brink! Bob Stanley's given us some great collections on Ace Records before – ... (Funky Compilations, Rock)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A killer tribute to the 60s songcraft of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart – who are probably best-known as the songwriters behind many songs by The Monkees – but they're terrific performers in their own right, on top of penning tunes for the creme of the 60s crop! This set goes a long way ... read moreCD
Fantastic sounds from one of the most troubled decades in modern American history – a moment so rocky, its changes and politics even touched the world of country music! While you might think of country as being just a flag-waving, gun-toting version of society, these rare gems show a ... (Folk/Country, Rock)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Think you know anything at all about Alabama? Forget what you know, because this beautiful set will expose the state as a lost musical powerhouse back in the day – home to countless small labels, with a musical legacy that rivals the better-known work from Louisiana and Tennessee at the time! ... read moreCD
The songs of John Lennon performed by U2, REM, Corinne Bailey Rae, Aerosmith, Lenny Kravitz, Christina Aguilera, Avril Lavingne and Jakob Dylan – plus additional music by Green Day, Black Eyed Peas, Ben Harper, Snow Patrol, and Regina Spektor. CD
Includes performances by The Secrets, Drastic Measures, Cardboard Brains, The Scenics, The Mods, The Everglades, The Ugly, and Ishan Band. LP, Vinyl record album
A side of the South African scene that's quite different than any world music expectations you might have – as the package is filled with late 60s/early 70s rockers from the SA underground – loads of fuzzy nuggets that come across with a strongly Anglo sound overall! In fact, the ... read moreCD
Includes selections from Nimoys, Ten Foot Faces, Catheads, Spot 1019, Nice Guys, Donner Party, Camper Van Beethoven, Raining House, Barnacle Choir, Thongs, Carmaig De Forest, Wrestling Worms, Holy Sisters Of The Gaga Dada, and Vomit Launch. LP, Vinyl record album
Far out psychedelia from the late 60s to mid 70s Spanish scene – rare grooves from small labels and private pressings by groups & artists like Juan Muro, Pedro Gonzalez, Microns, Marquez, Barbara, Tinglado and more! It's great stuff that covers a broad range of styles, from fiercly ... read moreCD
One of the deepest digs into the 60s girl group scene we've ever seen – a package that not only gets way way past the big hits of the time, but also provides much better sound and way more context than the sorts of dodgy CDr collections that have spotted the market for years! It's great to ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Includes work by The Fuzztones, Plasticland, Mystic Eyes, The Prime Movers, The Miracle Workers, The Seen, True West, Mad Violets, and others! LP, Vinyl record album
An excellent collection of work from one of our favorite strands of the British scene of the 60s – the all-important beat scene – the mod-styled groups that started to emerge from England at the time, influenced by American soul and R&B, but working in a style that was clearly all ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Key years in the Bert Berns story – that magical mid 60s period when Berns was coming up with some killer soul sides, and a few famous rockers too! The sound here is tremendous – kind of a "wall of sound" to New York soul – that marvelous style that's also known as ... (Soul, Rock)read moreCD
Includes selections by Computones, Valentinos, Yesterday's News, Patty & The Street-Tones, Reality, Endings, Emerys, Uniques, and Street Corner Memories. LP, Vinyl record album
Music from Mark Dinning, Ray Peterson, Jody Reynolds, Dickey Lee, The Shangri-Las, Johnny Preston, Jan & Dean, Marty Robbins, Bobbie Gentry, the Fleetwoods, and more. CD
Includes selections by The Mock Turtles, Plasticland, SS-20, Paul Roland, Fit & Limo, The Shamen, Opal, The Ashes In The Morning, The Lobster Quadrille, The Paint Set, Tropicana Fishtank, The TV Personalities, The Soup Dragons, and The Green Telescopes. LP, Vinyl record album
A great batch of songs by legendary New Orleans R&B and soul producer Dave Bartholomew – recorded by a sprawling line-up of soul, pop, R&B and rockers – another revelatory set in the Ace Records series of songwriter compilations! The numbers here stretch back to the 50s and ... (Soul, Rock)read moreCD
Includes tracks by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Peter Gabriel, Ayub Ogada, Sheila Chandra, Afro Celt Sound System, the Guo Brothers & Shung Tian, and the Grid. (Global Grooves, Rock)CD
British blues ain't no joke – and as you'll hear by the quality of the work on this set, it had a key influence on the sound of rock and roll all over the world by the end of the 60s! In the beginning, the British blues artists were working in a purer form of the American music than some of ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
The swamps of Louisiana hold many secrets – and one of the is the massive amount of fantastic music cut on the scene in the 50s and 60s – so much so that we're still discovering overlooked gems and rare material all these many years later! This package is a great entry in this ongoing ... read moreCD
Includes selections by Wrecking Crew, Crossface, Said And Done, Backbone, Sam Black Church, Maelstrom, Eye For An Eye, Intent To Injure, STP, Suckerpunch, and Only Living Witness. LP, Vinyl record album
The genius of Ziggy Stardust didn't just spring out of the blue – as David Bowie spent years listening to other music by a range of different artists – engaging them, supporting them, and absorbing them in the process – all to weave into the rich tapestry that became his own ... read moreCD
Includes selections by Susan Schmidt & Debbie Smith, Unit 5, Bizarros, Hammer Damage, Tin Huey, Totsuzen Danball, and The Waitresses. LP, Vinyl record album
Various —
Brasa 4 ... CD Bemol/Discobertas (Brazil), 1968. New Copy ...
$13.99
A cool collection of late 60s rock and pop from Brazil – and a set that stands as a nice contrast to some of the "song festival" albums from the time on Philips and Odeon! Like those sets, this one presents up-and-coming artists working through a variety of material – but ... (Brazil, Rock)read moreCD
A fantastic collection of work from the UK scene at the start of the 70s – a treasure trove of pop cuts from the time, most of which never made it across the Atlantic to our neck of the woods – and which represent a whole different world of music than you'd know from the classic rock ... read moreCD
A reimagined version of the legendary Yellow Pills compilation on Numero – 20 songs from the original compilation, plus two bonus tracks, new liner notes, and lots of cool sleeve scans, photos, and more! Forget everything you know about rock music in the late 70s – all the punk rock ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Raw soul, heavy R&B, and some rare early rockers – all brought together here with the kind of cool classic intensity we've come to love from the Stag O Lee label! The set's the 7th in their series devoted to the Buzzsaw Joint club in London – and like the rest, it has DJs on the ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A heady dose of music from a key year in the British scene – a moment when all the changes that had taken place in pop music during the tail end of the 80s were really coming home to roost – to change the sound and style of the indie world a fair bit since the initial C86 compilation! ... read moreCD
A fantastic little collection – one that gets at a special side of the 70s European scene that wasn't quite prog, wasn't quite art rock, and wasn't quite experimental – but which definitely lay to the left of the mainstream during the decade and really helped set the tone for years to ... read moreCD
The "nuggets" in the title is very well placed here – as all the cuts here have every bit as much freak and fuzz as the American garage and pre-punk work chronicled famously on the lengendary Nuggets series! Yet these tracks are all even more obscure, and all come from African ... (Global Grooves, Rock)read moreCD
The "nuggets" in the title is very well placed here – as all the cuts here have every bit as much freak and fuzz as the American garage and pre-punk work chronicled famously on the lengendary Nuggets series! Yet these tracks are all even more obscure, and all come from African ... (Global Grooves, Rock)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Sunshine Pop from the top of the charts – a great look at some of the best-remembered tunes from this sweet 60s genre! Lots of other Sunshine Pop collections focus on the obscurities of the scene – but honestly, some of the hits really represent the best work of the groups included ... read moreCD
Includes selections by Violent Soho, Noen Trees, Paper Tongues, Findlay Brown, Anberlin, Imelda May, Kelis, Major Lazer, Moreland & Arbuckle, Alpha Rev, Kevin Hammond, Peter Wolf, Shel, Aqualung, Four Year Strong, and Steel Panther. LP, Vinyl record album
Special sounds from the deep work of underground electronic music that lurked way down below the British charts of the early 80s – music by a host of different groups who still hold strong to the early, darker post-punk styles of Sheffield and Manchester – mostly using analogue ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Limited edition of 500 copies – with bonus poster insert!)
A groovy compilation of 60s teen rockers from the Abilene, TX scene – Brit Invasion styled numbers, but with the rawer edge that's so much more pleasing to the ears than the sweetened up, too polished bigger budget sounds of the style and era – with youthful energy that can't be faked! ... read moreCD
A beautiful tribute to Compendium Records – first a store, then an important label in Norway during the 70s – home to a wicked range of jazz and progressive rock sounds! Compendium's store had a great reputation for bringing in imports from the UK and beyond – especially some of ... read moreCD
A beautiful tribute to Compendium Records – first a store, then an important label in Norway during the 70s – home to a wicked range of jazz and progressive rock sounds! Compendium's store had a great reputation for bringing in imports from the UK and beyond – especially some of ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Cool 60s rock from the Lone Star State – raw garage rock and melodic gems, too from the mid 60s McAllen, TX scene in the Rio Grande Valley – featuring numbers by The Cavaliers, The Headstones, Christopher And The Souls, The Playboys Of Edinburg, Jeanne Hatfield and Brother And Sister! ... read moreCD
Hipster sounds from the pre-hippie years – tracks that were either recorded by beatniks, or which have a very cool beat-themed style to them – all pulled together from a range of rare recordings at the end of the 50s and the start of the 60s! The sound here is maybe what you'd guess ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Includes selections by SVT, Jim Wunderle, D Clinton Thompson, Pylon, Razz, Kevin Dunn, Robin Lane & The Chartbusters, Luxury, The News, Ragnar Kvaran, Tex Rubinowitz, Root Boy Slim & The Sex Change Band, and Bubba Lou & The Highballs. LP, Vinyl record album
We're always happy to take a trip to Crampsville – as the journey means that we not only get to live within the world of Lux Interior and Poison Ivy, we also get to discover a huge amount of obscure singles from the glory days of the indie 45! The Cramps built their music on building blocks ... read moreCD
A set that's every bit as wonderful as you'd guess from its title and cover – a killer package of all-girl rockers, and one that's filled with rare gems from the 60s! The material here is definitely a lot harder-hitting than more familiar girl group sounds of the 60s – as the tunes are ... read moreCD
A totally great look at the explosion of electronic sounds in German music during the 70s – a set that goes way past more familiar Krautrock territory, to bring together elements from the artier side of the spectrum too, and even run up to some of the first great moments of the German new ... (Funky Compilations, Rock)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A really fantastic compilation – and one that will take your collection of German electronic music far past the familiar territory of Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream! This series has always been great, but it also seems like the longer it goes, the deeper it digs – which is definitely ... (Funky Compilations, Rock)read moreCD
A really fantastic compilation – and one that will take your collection of German electronic music far past the familiar territory of Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream! This series has always been great, but it also seems like the longer it goes, the deeper it digs – which is definitely ... (Funky Compilations, Rock)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A really cool collection of lost cuts from the 60s – and one that goes a bit farther than other collections of this nature, as a good number of the groups are from spots around the world! Make no mistake, the vibe here is the sort that you'd hear coming out of American garages and back alley ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Compilation of classic Atlantic singles, released on their Clarion label with a "discotheque" tag, but more of a 50's R&B feel. Includes "Mashed Potatoes" by Carl Holmes & the Commanders, "Mambo Watusi" by Rene Bloch, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Cover has some wear with a spot of tape at the opening.)
Girl pop gems we never would have heard otherwise – a huge assortment of UK female numbers from that special stretch in the 60s when it seemed like the scene was turning out gem after gem with effortless ease – all mixed up with a blend of rock, pop, and soul modes that really set the ... read moreCD
A well-chosen batch of rare garage rock gems from the 60s – rare work from labels that include Stax, Fantasy, Original Sound, and Vanguard – including three never-issued tracks! The choice of material is great, and the whole thing features notes from producer Alec Palao – a name ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Music from Steve Smith and Zakir Hussain, Terry Bozzio, Bill Bruford's Earthworks, Chad Wackerman, Stanton Moore, Simon Phillips, Josh Freese, Rod Morgenstein, Tim Alexander and Brain, Marco Minnemann, and Stephen Perkins and Brooks Wackerman. (Jazz, Rock)CD
Music from Mike Portnoy, Pat Mastelotto, Dennis Chambers, Terry Bozzio, Clyde Stubblefield, Virgil Donati, Tim Alexander, Keith Carlock, Rod Morgenstein, Simon Phillips, Josh Freese, Anton Fig and Stanton Moore. (Jazz, Rock)CD
Includes 28 tracks by Barbie Gaye, The Exciters, Ruby and The Romantics, Marcie Blane, Lesley Gore, Dinah Washington, Damita Jo, Ann-Margaret, April Stevens, The Chantels, and The Blossoms. CD
Eddie Piller is one mighty cool cat – the force behind the Acid Jazz label for many decades, and also an expert on rare mod records from the 60s – which he's released on some great collections over the years! This time around, Eddie takes us right to the heart of the British mod ... read moreCD