CHRISTIAN VALOR - ANSWER MAN LP 77

 This a fine album per FUNKMYROCK and his list that I am working on getting.  Real amazing stuff that flies completely under the radar.  Enjoy and please do check down further for V's Top V neo paisley.

https://bestfile.io/6C7RjFVj6WmB8nv/file

FIGHTIN' FORTIES - 3 COMP.'s - Garry Moore Presents That Wonderful Year 1940 LP w VA - Golden Hits Of The 40's Vol. 1 LP 66 w VA - Reader's Digest The Sentimental 40's tape 2 Broadway w bonus miss last time: VA - 1930's Jazz Big Bands tape 87

 Not a lot of 40's so threw in a 30's one I missed two weeks ago which is fair since that post had some 40's in it and there both such Wonderful decades.  Artists niclude:  Casa Loma Orch, Claude Hopkins AHO, Duke Ellington & His Famous Orch, Don Redman AHO, Cab Calloway AHO, Fletcher Henderson AHO, Chick Webb & His Savoy Orch., Teddy Hill AHO, Blue Rhythm Band, Enskine Hawkins & His 'Bama State Collegians, Red Norvo AHO, Ben Pollack AHO, Earl Hines AHO, Jimmie Lunceford AHO, Count Basie AHO, Benny Goodman AHO, Buddy Clark, Ray Noble AHO, Kay Kyser AHO, Harry James AHO, The Three Flames, Dinah Shore & Her Happy Valley Boys, Les Brown, Ed Ames, Frankie Carle, Judy Collins, Engelbert Humperdinck, Ronnie Aldrich, Vic Damone and Marni Nixon.

https://bestfile.io/en/u5xG3SjaMY6Ga7y/file

VA - 75 YEARS OF GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC LP w VA - DIAMOND JUBILEE SHOWCASE VOL. 2 [1 OF 2] LP

 These Diamond Jubilee records I got from Goodwill certainly are pointing me to more as a top notch series.  I was lucky enough to only get side 3 & 4 from the bottom shown missing the vinyl with side 1 and 2 but who needs that instrumental non-descript songs that are on a million mouldy oldies when we get the Great Voices and Great Shows!  Hooray!  The first one is a great selection as well with medley songs by Unknown.  So last one has:  Rosemary Clooney, Andy Williams, Diana Trask, The Hi-Lo's, Frankie Laine, Mahalia Jackson, Mitch Miller, Robert Goulet, Don Costa, Frank DeVol, Les Brown and His Band Of Renown and Andre Kostelanetz.  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/en/NI4P63V5vHfbMJE/file

THE BLUEGRASS GOSPEL TRAIN - WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN LP

 Well this Goodwill treasure had this first album in the second album cover but was lucky to find part of it on Discogs.  This is a really great Jesus Music selection for this week but you will know that by hearing it.

https://bestfile.io/en/bYtoZ1j16xnnByF/file

VA - 25 COUNTRY MUSIC GREATS LP 66

 Got a handful left of this series then I think I will go into general compilations in place of it.  These have all been outstanding in my ears and this one features:  Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Cowboy Copas, George Jones, Moon Mullican, Hank Lochlin, Floyd Tillman, Dottie West, Patsy Cline, Webb Pierce, Tommy Hill, Blue Sky Boys, Justin Tubb, Rex Allen, Red Sovine (they give him almost a whole side and he covers 'Girl On The Billboard' and 'Truck Drivin' Son Of A Gun' from the classic Road Music comp), Del Reeves, Jimmy Dean, Pee Wee King, Roger Miller, Willis Brothers, Smiley Burnette, Joe Maphis, Johnny Bono, Roy Drusky, Pete Drake and Lonzo & Oscar.

https://bestfile.io/en/ZEEaduTVq7fOmgQ/file

LARAAJI - ESSENCE bw UNIVERSE tape 87

 Plucked this one out for the new weekly cassette rip and right down my alley with one powerful tune for each side.  Per Discogs:  Laraaji Nanananda née Edward Larry Gordon

Profile: American musician best known for his zither playing.

https://bestfile.io/en/NgfFLpjyx6CRozX/file

Eddie Harris - JAZZ FOR 'BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S' LP 61 w Mighty Like A Rose LP 61 w The Electrifying E.H. LP 68 w Live At Newport LP 71 w E.H. In The U.K. LP 74 w How Can You Live Like That LP 77

REPOST and ADD ON:  Found the Breakfast At Tiffani's his third at Goodwill the other day and that is the only new one to past post.  What I wrote last time:  Just scratching the surface here with what he's done starting with a couple of early jazz then some great non-instrumental albums and a live jazz finale.  I first heard and was enamored with his live tune with Les McCann from an early Atlantic Records double album compilation I had rode my bike over and checked out from our local library back in the mid-80's...a song called 'Compared To What' with "old rednecks rolling logs" and super loud vocal shouts that I was and still am totally into.  I didn't check out many from the library back then but that was tops in my forming years along with they had 'London Calling' by the Clash and Professor Longhair's Crawfish album--all equally radical in the forming of my musical taste.

EDDIE HARRIS:  https://bestfile.io/en/PPbMngGmS1hamAy/file

LES McCANN:  https://bestfile.io/en/7Few7DeN7yhsf04/file

Egg - st LP 70 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Well good, we have some info on Discogs for this one:  English progressive rock band formed in July 1968 by Dave Stewart (organ), Mont Campbell (bass/vocals) and Clive Brooks (drums), after the disbanding of their previous band Uriel when Steve Hillage left for college. Egg signed a record deal with Decca in May 1969. Some time later they were offered to record an Uriel album, but since the musicians were under contract with another company, Uriel reformed to record under the name Arzachel with musicians using pseudonyms.

Egg toured the UK and recorded two highly acclaimed albums (Egg, The Polite Force). After struggling for over a year with hardly enough gigs to survive, Egg eventually broke up in July 1972, leaving almost an album's worth of unrecorded compositions. So when the opportunity came, in the summer of 1974, to record a third album for the Virgin sub-label Caroline Records, the trio was re-united for "The Civil Surface", but the band was not in existence anymore.

The first album shows some Soft Machine influences and a focus on unusual time signatures that Dave Stewart would also explore with later bands Hatfield And The North and National Health. Egg and Stewart's other projects tend to get lumped into the 'Canterbury Scene' with the extended Soft Machine and Gong families of musicians.

https://bestfile.io/en/F26mxoFHtVm06Xr/file

Eggs Over Easy - Good 'N' Cheap CD 72 06 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Not much on this great-titled band except members from discogs:  Austin De Lone, Bill Franz, Brien Hopkins, George Butler, Jack O'Hara, John Steel, Les Sampson

Personally, I like mine sunny side up [vegetarian fed--grain fed too high PUFA/MUFA] with kimchi, purple onions, avacado, bee pollen, arugula, two kinds of mustard and brewer's yeast sprinkle on top along with grass fed beef sausage organic on toast with grass fed ghee.  I also time my tea one hour later or before so I absorb all the iron as it interferes with that.

https://bestfile.io/en/X9Bp84wC1IlTWKb/file

TACTICS - My Houdini CD 80

 A big thank you to Josef (Austria) for telling me about this here, his favorite Aussie band!  I couldn't find the first volume one compilation if anyone has that or later albums we can begin the beguinne or collecting that is as this one too rich for my blood at this time.  Enjoy!  Here is Discogs:  Australian post punk band, formed 1977 in Canberra before moving to Sydney in February 1979.

The line-up changed periodically, with songwriter and vocalist, David Studdert, as the mainstay. They released four studio albums, My Houdini (December 1980), Glebe (November 1981), Blue and White Future Whale (1986) and The Great Gusto (1990). Tactics disbanded late in 1989 and Studdert relocated to London. Since then, Tactics have played in Sydney (2006, 2008 and 2019). David Studdert has played periodically with ex-Tactics members in other projects.

https://bestfile.io/en/yjLBCEpBaiVB9sS/file

Utopian Fields - st CD 89

 Thanks to Nick (Greece) our prog expert for asking for this one last week at TZ blog.  Per Discogs:  Norwegian progressive rock band, late 1980s to early 1990s. Founding members Atle Byström and Tom Inge Andersen reformed the band in 2019, and are currently working on new material.

https://bestfile.io/en/cCJ4u0kV65xWw2C/file

VA - The ENIGMA Variations tape 85 w VA - The ENIGMA Variations II 2LP 87 w VA - The ENIGMA Compilation [Dutch Pressing] LP 88 w V TOP V NEO PAISLEY

REPOST Request:  Well the request was just for The Cheepskates so I had to turn it into my top V neo paisley bands from high school daze as today it is rare for me to listen to something more than once due to ripping 15 or so every week.  Forming this post around all the ENIGMA compilations and one other the VA - Garage Sale! from ROIR that has ALL the top bands for neo paisley which they say was out of CA hence the pictures above.  Original posts are all up with these links added.

ENIGMA 3 COMPS:  https://bestfile.io/en/ZayUtqR9UgvLAOM/file

VIACOM TOP V NEO PAISLEY BANDS:

THE OUTNUMBERED:  https://bestfile.io/en/MY6Lk9ChZXAzj3h/file

THE VIPERS:    https://bestfile.io/en/cp8UsTHnKW9WW7Y/file

THE CHEEPSKATES:    https://bestfile.io/en/sGYCABWTxakzMz3/file

THE TELL-TALE HEARTS:    https://bestfile.io/en/N9eCDTmSrTAS3dw/file

WOOFING COOKIES:   https://bestfile.io/ZqTX1J7uZAxXgdq/file

HONORABLE MENTIONS ALSO MUCH COVETED in HIGH SCHOOL Like BOSTON stuff:

NAZ NOMAD AND THE NIGHTMARES:  https://bestfile.io/en/VI8aVOEXxhpgHAF/file

THE DUKES OF STRATOSPHEAR:    https://bestfile.io/en/U90472yL0ayBgu2/file

MAD VIOLETS:   https://bestfile.io/en/LX6u90kpvNj4Gph/file

THE THREE O'CLOCK (for Anstytimelord R.I.P.):  https://bestfile.io/rqUqxM8a5Lw6Gmm/file

SHOUTLESS (always mention them with THE NOMADS but that rip was lacking from early daze so I will have to repost.  Also hadn't posted the top two in this sub list so will maybe do posts/maybe not):  https://bestfile.io/en/s20ELluN2AQYdmm/file

VA- GARAGE SALE!:  https://bestfile.io/en/BhKHtExwci6PlcK/file

RUBY STARR (was just a repost request to fit in here):  https://bestfile.io/en/PelmTvIyJZfCoEa/file

VA - Boston Not L.A. CD 82 w VA - Boston Hardcore CD 89 - 91 w VA - I've Got My Friends - Boston-San Francisco Punk Rock Split CD 96 w Part 2 Boston Big Ten

BOSTON BIG TEN PART TWO!!!:  Well I certainly forget a lot of Boston bands last Friday so brought in more to get it right!  Keep in mind these are mainly just bands I listened to a lot in high school.  I put these three compilations in one file and left up all posts if possible.  And what the hey, my neighbor the retired mother from NE USA told me yesterday she was going to see just down the road from me a scrimmage between the Pirates and the Red Sox and though she is from Vermont she reminded me  that everyone in NE prefers the Boston Red Sox for baseball!!  Comp.'s include:  Jerry's Kids, The Proletariat, Groinoids, FU's, Gang Green, Decadence, The Freeze, Wrecking Crew, Crossface, Said & Done, Maelstrom, Eye For An Eye, Intent To Injure, S.T.P., Suckerpunch, Only Living Witness, Outlets, Randumbs, Dropkick Murphys, Swingin Utters, Lowdowns, Hellbillys, Reducers, Bastard Squad, Demonics, Workin' Stiffs, Mutilators, Unseen and All Systems Stop (some not from Boston per title).

3 Compilations:  https://bestfile.io/en/Ix7EKK7oo2Xhdwg/file

VIACOMCMD MORE BOSTON BIG TEN!!!!

DOGMATICS:  https://bestfile.io/en/HHaNlOjaDsU053a/file

PROLETARIAT:  https://bestfile.io/en/MzwyeaIFHyvZ6QX/file

O POSITIVE:   https://bestfile.io/en/aE4FbV14YB2Qlw9/file

TURBINES:  https://bestfile.io/en/W9jkqndezb2tP45/file

OUTLETS:   https://bestfile.io/en/25lMnq93YI2uyQi/file

BOSTON BIG TEN POST for MARCH MADNESS!!!!

 Keeping up with my bloggin' brother Nathan Nothin who is doing not one but two March Madness themes I thought I would do some upkeep on some of my favorite bands from the old days who happened to be from Boston.  What got me into this idea was a request two weeks ago for one of my core Paisley Underground faves from LB so I will make that a VIACOMCMD TOP V NEO PAISLEY group of posts and so then got to the sorting and this came of it....a fun thing over the weekend when all Sports Are GO!!!!  In doing this post boy O' boy did I need to do it as all posts were expired (I guess my Bestfiles started the undelete option on files when I found the pull down menu around late 2024 and lots of the MEGA links have expired from when I had like a dozen yahoo email accounts in order to get each MEGA account to the 20 Gb free maximum so had equal number of MEGA accounts as well.  Now I did get more than 10 bands and much more I missed I'm sure, so if you want to choose from all 17 then have at it in the comments.  HERE ARE MY TOP TEN (yes it was difficult to choose):

1. VOLCANO SUNS:  https://bestfile.io/en/nbSlvVJ1vtf1tql/file

2: THE FLIES (added comp tracks):  https://bestfile.io/qRTrBlpImMvV7P5/file

3. THE PRIME MOVERS (added 2006 CD, video comp.s:  https://bestfile.io/riIW6TRIj9fftm8/file

4. SEX EXECS:  https://bestfile.io/wlISBP3JxwWcLTK/file

5. NEW MODELS (first 7 and later 7s w youtube video):  https://bestfile.io/en/w36rtvFS5zw5trj/file

6. NERVOUS EATERS (added much):  https://bestfile.io/85A2vVuaG8lVCYS/file  

7. THE RINGS (added 7):  https://bestfile.io/vq3oyMAEqKxCd2G/file

8. THE TOONS (added 7):  https://bestfile.io/0pjwnfjcNGODj7c/file

9. THE NEIGHBORHOODS:  https://bestfile.io/CBp3xihscntGTqr/file

10. THE BLACKJACKS:  https://bestfile.io/DE1jXn1e2VEGI8O/file

CONTENDERS FOR CONSIDERATION:

SALEM 66:  https://bestfile.io/hjG2o2vintHYCLr/file

NEW ENGLAND:  https://bestfile.io/iQZ6OYQF7e4ieso/file

LOU MIAMI AND THE KOSMETIX:  https://bestfile.io/ZohUjycorVH8MeF/file

HUMAN SEXUAL RESPONSE:  https://bestfile.io/dgpyAU2wwYfPK0c/file

UNATTACHED:  https://bestfile.io/fv9Q4kw0T0wC2Xn/file

JAIME BROCKETT:   https://bestfile.io/kQ9BcDTLhEcR64K/file

CITY THRILLS:  https://bestfile.io/HzK3eHBrLdGCdTS/file

ALL THE COMPILATIONS I COULD FIND AND STUFF NAMED BOSTON (HERE IS LIST):

BOSTON ACCENT, BOSTON POPS (Sorcerer's Apprentice), VA-Propellor Records Laughing at the Ground, VA - Claws LP 85, VA - Let's Breed LP 84, VA - Live at The Rat 2LP 76, VA - Mr. Beautiful Presents LP 85, VA - Nobody Gets On The Guest List LP 84 and VA - The Best Of The Boston Beat WCOZ LP 79:

LINK to ALL:  https://bestfile.io/en/0vT2sYaWLWXrTPT/file

And since Rawkin' Dog just posted this we are looking for their second album:

https://bordeldorock.blogspot.com/2026/03/drumming-on-glass-asparagus-tea-1990-us.html

VA - HEATHER AND GLEN - Songs & Melodies Of Highland And Lowland Scotland as Collected from native folksingers and folkmusicians by Alan Lomax, Calum McLean, And Hamish Henderson LP 61

 HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!!!  This is the main post for me holiday (being named Patrick) and first side has many songs my old man used to play for me--his red-haired Patrick--who he pictured out of all 8 of us kids as the one to represent his Scotch-Irish-English side--me.  He told me on his 75th birth day that he only traced our family back to the plantation in Ireland but said the overlords to the plantations were either Scottish or Norwegian (also saying the Vikings stopped their domineering ways when they met the Irish women...ha ha and yes I have 4 sisters!) leaning whichever was convenient.  But the songs within were some he played on his record player that I recognized right away and sit deep in my big Leo heart.  In fact this album helped me understand about bagpipes and how loud they are meant to be!  My love for loud music/sounds maybe for this reason.  I put up the back cover so I can read later what Alan Lomax has said  and will quote about him now:  ALAN LOMAX, one of the greatest folk music collectors and authorities, is the song of John A. Lomax, first of the great American folksong collectors. 

https://bestfile.io/en/gJdRLhVgvelozwQ/file

THE LAST - 7 77 w 7 78 w 12 EP 79 w L.A. Explosion! LP 79 85 w Painting Smiles On A Dead Man LP 83 w Confession LP 88 w Awakening LP 89

REPOST Request and ADD ON:  This is a special repost for Rawkin' Dog over at Bordello Do Rock blogspot on our lower right blogsphere links and two of his excellent rips are added to what I had as he was asking for the Confession album.  We are much alike both of us seemingly kind of winging it with the ripping procedures making up the routines and settings from experimentation and both of us horrified by the compressed garbage from actual CD releases on youtube and in the stores even!!!  He is more studied than I am about history on releases and is kind of a superhero I would say in the way he stays true to the very best releases and lets us know who the idgets are who try to make money on crap release quality.  This band is the early L.A. wave of punk and played with all the best ones I have favored so much here on the DU blog.  You can read elsewhere about them so I will just say that rawkin' dog has my back for me holiday St. Patrick's day because only green one (my criteria this week) is from his blog the Painting release.  Big THANKS RAWKIN' DOG PLEASE DU ENJOY!!!

https://bestfile.io/en/hnikzMZV0HhUv6a/file

VA - THE SWING ERA 1938-1939 (WHERE SWING CAME FROM) 3LP 70

 Got to open the plastic on this one but what you see is a good vendor's perfect size sleeve for boxsets that they sent me with 100 white inner sleeves, however, once I put it on it was too hard to remove so you see the overlay text...oh well, I'm sure Discogs has it.  The real treasure beyond the 3 vinyl is the coffee table hard cover book that came with it.  More or less a continuation of my 'Duke vs. The Count' post that are currently at 5027 and 3749 downloads respectively (kind of feels like I'm Nathan Nothin with his Zoviet France vs. Rapoon March Madness competition he just finished so check it out1).  I say that because the book is like a continuation of Duke's Workshop which was one of the rips.  And all the Big Band stuff I've been flingin' at ya--BTW found a killer new vinyl boxset for Benny Goodman who is featured throughout this top shelf package from Goodwill.  Oh yeah, gotta say this is part two of the decades (30's) post from last week such that next week we can get into the 40's and continue on.  This is for all teachers!  Enjoy and Happy St. Patrick's Day (me namesake day).!!!

https://bestfile.io/en/kuQ3x3wGuf23eGV/file

Eddie Schwartz - All Our Tomorrows CD 09 - cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs:  Real Name:  Edward Sydney Schwartz

Profile:  b. December 22 1949.

Canadian singer and songwriter. He is perhaps best known for penning the Pat Benatar classic "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"!!!!

https://bestfile.io/en/cEhobii5zfDie2z/file.