THE TOUCH - Lost Touch [UK mod revival 1980] 2018 Paisley Archive PA055

 

The majority of you who is reading this press release will be saying...."THE TOUCH?.... NEVER HEARD OF THEM!"

Well, that is not strictly true as they were bang into the Mod Scene back in 1979 and played all the regular haunts along side all the well known bands of the time and even had an album released in 1980 BUT for reasons unknown to the band, their label at the time released it under name of THE MODS. Their album "Lost Touch" has now become a true rarity as it is such a great long lost album and was even bootlegged in the 90s on clear vinyl and more recently seen a CD bootleg copy of it appear!

Over the years, this band was a true mystery and no one could find any info on the band even though we knew they were from the Portebello Road area....

The Touch

THE CREATION - Lay The Ghost [UK freakbeat, mod 1993] Cohesion COCRE 1

  

The Creation was an English rock band, formed in 1966. Their best-known songs are "Making Time", which was one of the first rock songs to feature a guitar played with a bow, and "Painter Man", which made the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart in late 1966,[1] and reached No. 8 in the German chart in April 1967. It was later covered by Boney M in 1979, and reached the No. 10 position in the UK chart.

Recorded live at the Mean Fiddler, London, 6/7/93 on the Manor Mobile.

01 Batman/Biff Bang Pow
02 Try And Stop Me
03 Life Is Just Beginning
04 I'm A Man
05 Nightmares
06 If I Stay Too Long
07 Hey Joe
08 Makin Time
09 Tom Tom
10 If You Could See Through My Eyes
11 That's How Strong My Love Is
12 Lay The Ghost
13 How Does It Feel To Feel
14 Painter Man

The Creation

 

REVIVAL - Revival [USA rock, country rock 1972] Kama Sutra KSBS 2047

 

An ambitious though awkward country-rock outing from a group with clear folkie roots. The liner notes detail how the core duo of singers Dan Daley and Michelle Conway played a bunch of "hoots" in the NYC folk scene, and later picked up a backing band that gave them more opportunity to branch out musically. They harmonize nicely, particularly when he takes the lead with his enthusiastic (and pleasantly dorky) vocals, hitting sort of a Gram Parsons-like vibe; when Conway sings lead, she inevitably leaps into a too-serious, Joan Baez-ian folkie warble, undercutting the country feel that Daley was building up. There's a spiritual-religious undercurrent to some of the songs, though many just seem like spaced-out, word-salad hippie-druggie stuff, which often takes on a quasi-religious tone, just because that's what sometimes happens when you realize you have hands and could fly the spaceship on your own. Musically, the rest of the band is kind of iffy -- the rhythm section is pretty stiff -- but there's some noteworthy pedal steel from Hank DeVito (later a key member of the Emmylou Harris band) and nice fiddling by Larry Packer, of the Cat Mother band. This album isn't really a classic, but it is a nice, authentic slice of early, hippiedelic country-folk. This was the first album featuring Dan Daley, who later struck gold as a songwriter, penning the Charlie Daniels Band hit, "Still In Saigon," a decade later.

Revival

SORROWS - Bad Times Good Times [USA power pop 1980-81] 2010 Bomp Records BCD4102-2

 

 

 

Bad Times Good Times marks the first time ever SORROWS music appears on CD.

Filled with never released recordings of their power pop gems, demos and live performances, the album is a feast for post-punk new vave fans and collectors who have been asking for years to be able to get their hands on SORROWS music.

Formed in 1977 in NYC by Arthur Alexander (ex-Poppees), Joey Cola, Ricky Street and Jett Harris (ex-Poppees), SORROWS were all about the songs. Their tunes are filled with strong melodies, irresistible hooks and creative harmonies supported by their powerful backbeat and hard driving guitars. SORROWS two critically acclaimed albums and several singles on CBS Pavillion have become highly praised and are sought after collector items.

 

Sorrows 

THE HEARTBEATS - Forever [UK mod revival, power pop 1979-82] 2011 Paisley Archive PA003

 

 

 

The Heartbeats- Forever CD. Cool little reissue here from the Paisley Archive series. The Heartbeats are a band from the the UK who were very active from 1979 - 1982. They had many labels interested in them at the time including Arista, Virgin, London, Polydor and Magnet and some of them even paid the band to record songs for their labels. But they’re just one of the bands from that era that seemed to slip through the cracks. For various reasons including the labels not being totally satisfied with what the band recorded and their plates being full with other bands/projects most of those recordings never offiicially saw the light of day. Many magazines and fanzines at the time were talking them up as ‘ Pops answer to Talk Talk’, ‘the Buzzcocks with better harmonies’ and ‘the Small Faces for the 80’s’ and there were even numberous producers photographers and stylists that were all brought in to launch their career. But after all the time and effort put into the band they just never really took off. Paul Weller from The Jam even lauded them as one of the great lost bands of that era. This CD compiles 21 of the songs they recorded for various labels that were never released and also includes the two songs from their first and only 7” that was ever oficially relesed called ‘Go’. 21 songs in all. Fans of The Who, The Kinks ,The Purple Hearts and The Belle Stars will dig.

 

The Heartbeats

KNOX - Plutonium Express [UK new wave, post punk 1983] 2017 Cleopatra CLO 0583 - ex The Vibrators

 

 

 

A super deluxe reissue of the one and only solo album from Knox, the legendary founder, voice and main songwriter of UK punk pioneers The Vibrators, originally released in 1983!

Includes the entire album plus rare single only tracks and an entire second disc of vintage rare and unreleased live recordings by The Vibrators!

 

Knox

MAGIC - Magic [USA psychedelic rock 1971 Rare Earth R527L] 2010 Big Pink BIG PINK 644

 

Guitarist Duane King and his brother, bassist Nick, joined the Lansing, Michigan band the Next Exit in 1968. The rest of the band included Gary Harger on drums, Mike Motz on lead guitar, and organist Clyde Hamilton. After a name change to Magic and a single on their own label in early 1969, Hamilton left the band, and Motz was replaced by Joey Murcia, a Miami native who had played with that city's Birdwatchers. Murcia, as it happened, was a session player for TK Records in Miami and assured the band he could get them a record deal, so Magic packed up everything and moved to Miami. TK Records had an entirely black R&B roster at the time, but Magic, who often covered R&B songs, fit right in, becoming the label's first white signee. They recorded their first LP, Enclosed, in the summer of 1969, which was officially released on their own Armadillo label. The summer of 1970 found Magic returning to Lansing in search of a major-label contract. A Detroit producer, Scott Regan, helped to get the band signed to the Motown-owned Rare Earth label, and, in 1971, Magic began recording their second album. The self-titled album was released in 1971 to favorable reviews and featured Stevie Wonder playing keyboards on several songs, but not long after the album's release, Motown moved to California, closing down Rare Earth and leaving Magic without a label. They recorded some demos in the hopes of landing another record deal, but the band never recovered from the Motown move and called it quits. Murcia went back to session work and played with numerous major artists - the Bee Gees, Joe Walsh, and Joe Cocker among them - who recorded in Miami.

Magic