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| Courtesy Semaphore GmbH/Magnum Music Productions |
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Jolly Jokers Ohrenbalsam: HARD RAIN, HARD RAIN, CD, 1997
Monday, March 31, 2025
Going Ghibli
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| Jadis jump in on Ghibli-mania. Courtesy xAi/Grok. |
I don't know too much about anime, let alone Studio Ghibli, but I do know a good trend when I see one, and I became intrigued by the latest AI flavour of the month of turning any given photo into the Japanese animation powerhouses distinct style. Several bands I know don't have freely licenced images I can use on Wikipedia as I have pointed out before, and now there's this legal loophole that is questionable, but allowed for now. ChatGPTs Open AI initially just had it for paid subscribers, but I can't afford that, so I went to xAi/Grok after they bought X, if that makes sense and they did a poor mans version for me of Jadis. I wonder if Martin Orford (far right in drawing above, late of IQ) would slate AI the way he did illegal downloading since there may be some parallels. Would make interesting discussion. Then ChatGPT got it to work for everybody and the floodgates opened. I had a go with Pallas and It Bites original lineup (later one with John Mitchell of Arena, Asia, and so much more), and now I will do Savoy and even Magnum spinoff Hard Rain. I did the cover of Magnum propers 1983 album The Eleventh Hour!, which a bootleg label stole for a 1985 Marillion concert released as Childhood Mysteries from their Misplaced Childhood tour, which I covered last year, so I Ghibli-ed it to make it a new scene not from Rodney Matthews himself. I could even do this with the kid from the other cover. I can go on all day. Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki however is no fan of AI.
I've been using AI this past year. Initially, it was for the sister blog, so go over there for more. As for here, I'm not as good at drawing people. Doing a whole person isn't a strong point with me as I can with other species. Some of the Status Quo can't even draw "Pictures of Matchstick Men", but AI can let you create "Whatever You Want" (even Francis Rossi et al are getting the Gene Shallit treatment here). We'll see how long this one sticks around before the next craze comes along just like everything else.
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| Pallas in colour since this was done from black and white. |
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| It Bites. Courtesy ChatGPT Open AI. |
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| With apologies to Rodney Matthews and Magnum. |
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| Doggy also joins in on the fun! |
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| Magnum take back their sleeve once again. |
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| Savoys Ghibli-savvy is now tunnel vision! |
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| xAi Groks version of Savoy didn't work out as well. |
Turns out I can't use these on Wikipedia if they're derived from copyrighted works, so that's it for this new sensation. I would have to go see these bands in person and sneak in photos to get my own free images or wait for them to break up or have press photos old enough to qualify, even from within my lifetime, whichever comes first. I did draw Savoy and the 2010-24 lineup of Pallas, but that just won't work on Wikipedia as they're too incomplete, crude and amateurish to be on there, and much of my work has disappeared over the years anyway. There are ways I could get permission to licence photos, but it's too much red tape. I just want something I can use straight away. If I could have AI make an original photo of any of these people, that would be great, but it's just they're not as well known as when I could even get last minute ones of Trevor Horn or Elton John for Facebook memories or Bluesky. I wind up with people who don't even exist, even when I submit a source photo. This is why AI gets slated on a daily basis, even though it's only going to get bigger like sci-fi had predicted.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Boris's latest list
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| Three Magnum CDs on the list (had to make do) |
Once again, Boris's list has been revised, and so much has been acquired, added and deleted since the last one was made three years ago, so many artists are no longer needed (even if I find them too late). I received this before I put it here, and found one by a group who will remain nameless, then found an autographed CD by a recently departed member of a band of another era. Anyway, I need to find a few more before sending out another package by the festive period due to the complicated method and high cost of P&P. The list has changed even more as a dozen or so more titles have been deleted as they were no longer needed, which is a relief since they are rare in the US. A few more were thrown in. We can't send anything to each other right now because of financial difficulties as well as changing events in both of our countries. UPDATE (12/8/25): Boris truncated the list yet again, culling many titles that I'd just never would find anyway, while tossing in a few more. Still going to be another right wild goose chase, even with artists that I know. I did find some that he could send me, but having fewer to reciprocate by the day and learning that the last package that I sent took two months' time, making a carrier pigeon look like Concorde, makes our methods more unrealistic every year between current events and economic shifts. Found sod all since. I really hope to have something in the post once more by years end.
A.................................................................................................................
Amenophis: Amenophis (1983)
Anyones Daughter: Adonis
Alcatrazz: No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll
Dangerous Games
Anglagard: Hybris
B..................................................................................................................
Barclay James Harvest: Ring of Changes
Blind Guardian: Imaginations of the Other Side
C..........................................................................................
Cornwell, Hugh (The Stranglers): Nosferatu (w/Robert Williams)
Camel: Rain Dances
E.......................................................................................................................
Eloy: Ra
Electric Family: Ice Cream Phœnix
Royal Hunt
Escape with Romeo: Samsara
Emotional Ice Age
After the Future
Suspicious Bliss
F..............................................................................................................
Fischer-Z: World Salad (also reissued as The Worker and Fischer-Z [budget releases]. Can't be upcoming reissue with next two albums that are no longer needed)
Kamikaze Shirt
Freedom Call: Crystal Empire
G..................................................................................................................
Gong: Time is the Key
(Ian) Gillan (Deep Purple): Mr Universe
Gryphon: Red Queen to Gryphon Three
H.............................................................................................................................
Heavens Gate: In Control
Living in Hysteria
Hypnos 69: Legacy
I.............................................................................................................................
IQ: Ever** (*LP)
J..............................................................................................................
Jane: Here We Are
Lady
Between Heaven and Hell
Fire, Water, Air and Earth
Japan: Obscure Alternatives
K.....................................................................................................................
King Crimson: Discipline (can't remember if I bought it already, having gotten many other Adrian Belew/Tony Levin era releases)
L.....................................................................................................................
Lake of Tears: Forever Autumn
Neonai
Lacrimosa: Testament
M............................................................................................................
Mad Max: Rollin' Thunder (no relation to film franchise)
Manowar: Gods of War
The Lord of Steel
Magnum: Chase the Dragon**
Brand New Morning**
Into the Valley of Moonking**
Lost on the Road to Eternity**
Kingdom of Madness**
Manfred Manns Earth Band: Masque
Mamas Boys: Power and Passion
Michael Schenker Group: MSG (1981)
N..................................................................................................................
New Trolls: Concerto Grosso #1
Novalis: Banished Bridge
Novalis (1975)
O..................................................................................................................
Oldfield, Mike: Man on the Rocks
R.................................................................................................................
Rockets: Galaxy
Rhapsody: Dawn of Victory
Symphony of Enchanted Lands, Part I
Rousseau: Flower in Asphalt
Running Wild: Death or Glory
S................................................................................................................
Sweet: Off the Record
Seventh Avenue: Southgate
Between the Worlds
Sparks: Gratuitous Sex & Senseless Violins
Saunders, Lee (The Void): A Promise of Peace
Saga: Saga (1978)
Sisters of Mercy: Floodland
Stewart, Rod: Foolish Behaviour
T...............................................................................................................
10cc: Look Hear
Ten Out of 10
Windows in the Jungle
TV Smith: Coming in to Land
In the Arms of the Enemy
Land of the Overdose
Misinformation Overload
The March of the Giants
Toyah: In the Court of the Crimson Queen
U..................................................................................................................
Unheilig: von Mensch zu Mensch
UFO: Obsession
V..................................................................................................................
Viva: Dealers of the Night
Virgin Steele: The House of Atreus (Act I & II)
W...................................................................................................................
Wood, Roy (Wizzard/ELO/Idle Race): Mustard
Wintersun: Wintersun (2004)
* I would like this as well.
** I have this already.
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Supersedes all previous lists.
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Identity crisis
| Fish in Franken Germany; 2018. Courtesy Stefan Brending/Wikimedia Commons. |
If an artist or group has a common or generic name, chances are someone else will have it too. Before the internet, that was the case. If one makes it big, the other may contact their solicitors and settle out of court. I wrote a similar post years ago on our sister retail blog. In recent years, when I try to look up some people, I find mp3s from the wrong ones, who may not realise that the "real" one even exist. Spinoffs and disputes over use of the name by former members isn't exactly what I mean since that's a different post entirely. These are the ones I know off hand, but there are tonnes more out there.
Asia (my Asia settled with lesser known mid-West band and lesser knowns come up for mp3s)
Duran Duran (there are an obscure band called Duran Duran Duran)
Fish (pictured; can even be confused with Phish)
Tony Banks (once found an unknown artist with same name)
Ray Wilson (same)
Justin Hayward (there's also a DJ)
Brian May (Queen guitarist and late Australian film composer)
Roger Taylor (drummers for Queen and Duran Duran, which would probably have caused issues back at EMI)
Rush (even the boys have some chancers that are really fly by night calling themselves that, as well as Big Time Rush [please!], Mahogany Rush [also Cancon], Tom Rush, Jennifer Rush, films called Rush)
Savoy (can also get mixed up with Savoy Brown with late Oswego County resident Kim Simmonds)
Jim Diamond (was once a Diamond Jim out there)
PhD (his duo had to contend with a hip-hop one)
Bandit (his earlier band with AC/DCs Cliff Williams and Kate Bush's husband Danny McIntosh)
Status Quo (not to be confused with hip hop artist Stat Quo or song from High School Musical)
IQ (you have to have one to know who the real one are)
Jadis (even them, but could even get conflated with character on The Walking Dead)
Pallas (founder Graeme Murray originally called his band Rainbow, but that's in the same boat)
Magnum (I recently got a CD from the wrong Magnum, which I got rid of)
INXS (was once a shop in the Mohawk Valley)
Visage (was spa run by my doctor likely stopped by Steve Stranges estate if not the state)
Genesis (was once obscure band in the US at the same of the one I know being formed and another in Colombia, and also the late Genesis P-Orridge)
Alan Williams (because of others with the name, the one I used to know used the name Al Chantrey)
Toyah (not to be confused with Toya)
Slaughter (Clark County and Canadian bands)
X (US and Japan)
The Beat (Paul Collins's Beat and The English Beat)
Earth, Wind & Fire (not to be confused with Earth Fire, who Boris wants me to find)
Cinema (short-lived Yes spinoff settled with other Cinemas after becoming Yes proper again)
Tony Kaye (original Yes member and fellow UK pat and director)
Jon Anderson (not to be confused with country artist John Anderson)
Michael Jackson (even the King of Pop had two others with the same name)
Joe Jackson (his dad and the pop/jazz artist)
Paul Young (solo artist and late Sad Café/Mike & the Mechanics vocalist)
Rainbow (Ritchie Blackmores band; original name for Pallas; Sissy Spacek once recorded as Rainbo)
Velvet Underground (band with SUs own Lou Reed; early band with AC/DCs Malcolm Young)
Vanessa Williams (SU alum, Melrose Place co-star [both did Soul Food], and gospel artist)
Bush (UK and Canadian bands)
Arena (UK band and over a dozen or so different artists with that name)
Hootenanny Singers (Swedish folk band with ABBAs Björn Ulvæus and obscure US band)
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Magnum
| Magnum, 2005; Göteborg, Sweden. Courtesy David Nyrén. |
Magnum are another band that are elusive in the US that I'm adding to my collection. The recent death of lead songwriter and guitarist Tony Clarkin as well as several titles being on Boris's list for the past few years has brought them to my attention. I wrote about the Marillion bootleg using the cover for Magnums 1983 album The Eleventh Hour! earlier. Now it will take time and a fortune to get their CDs for both of us (I managed two for him so far). Amazon of all places don't have everything to buy at a doable price or to stream. One third-party seller had three CDs and I just ordered one, and my bi-weekly gift card from Bing saves me hundreds every year. Finding the band in person is extremely rare, and I've had less trouble with other artists who couldn't Payola their way into the chart here. If I ask at the shops, people might confuse them with Magnum PI (mom loved Tom Selleck!) or even Yngwie Malmsteens Magnum Force (we've done them already). The real Magnum have occasionally been available locally with recent releases, but it looks like another wild goose chase, and I may need to rent a storage unit if I ever move house again. Will also have to throw in spinoff Hard Rain and solo Bob Catley. Even Jadis took less than a year to find. Magnum may be the biggest challenge yet, even though other people we like still have albums I can't afford or find to this day. This is have to be done in bits.
Also, several albums are out of print and need to be remastered, so that will have to be sorted at a later time. I managed to get almost half the studio releases in the latest package for my own collection, but this will take months to just get the rest of those before I even begin to consider live albums, compilations, vinyl and side projects.
Monday, February 19, 2024
Retrospect Records: A Retrospective
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| Logo appears under fair use and label may no longer exist. Courtesy Discogs. |
Retrospect Records, an indie label and seller based in Las Vegas and St George, UT, seems to have gone out of business. They were once one of the biggest independent metal labels in the world. I also knew them for selling used CDs like anyone else. They offered bootlegs and Russian pirates, as well as artists not easily found in the US like Gary Moore and Magnum (which led me to write this). I've bought IQ, Pallas, Yes and solo Rick Wakeman for myself and Queensrÿche and maybe Billy Squier for Boris (I would've bought even more if money weren't an object!). Whether the pandemic or just the economy since did them in, it's an all too familiar scene these days across the board. As a label, they may not have had the resources that even other indies have. Fish and his label are one thing since there's no one else on it. Retrospect are another since they signed dozens of obscure artists like Mystery (not the French Canadian band I know, since generic names can mean two or more people with a conflict).
Like a regular news outlet, I reached out to the owner for comment, something I don't typically do. I simply asked what happened as a past customer and not as a blogger. I haven't ordered from them in over ten years time and they haven't had anything new since at least April of last year. The owner told me that he stopped renewing his subscription to the host service, thinking it wasn't worth a bother anymore. Even a free service is not on. We'll just have to let this one go as there are plenty of other places to order from and there's nothing on the label even worth reselling if you ask me.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Marillion: Childhood Mysteries
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| The cover that was meant to be |
Marillion played Castle Donington in Leicestershire in August 1985 on an all-star bill that included ZZ Top (on their Afterburner tours Europe leg), Bon Jovi (not yet that big, promoting 7800° F), Metallica (between albums) and Magnum. Whether Marillions show was soundboard, radio or just the typical fan recording is likely one of the mysteries! It's when it made it onto bootleg is what leads us here. One early edition looked more like an early '70s head shop release with a cheap photocopy cover with what looks more like a drawing Peter Nicholls from IQ. Another looked like an apple of some sort. The most common is what may drawn intrigue for nearly four decades for diehards of both bands. The label probably tried to come up with something at short notice comparable to Mark Wilkinsons fantasy style, so they decided to steal another designers sleeve. Rodney Matthews drew the cover of Magnums 1983 release The Eleventh Hour! It was originally released on Jet Records, Ozzy Osbournes former solo label, and his estranged father-in-law the late Don Arden ran it and would have sorted out whoever nicked the sleeve if he knew! On one of the Facebook groups, a fan showed his copy of the LP that Fish signed. I had Bill Bruford sign a King Crimson pirate CD, but that's a bit different (we've done that).
Magnums lead songwriter and guitarist Tony Clarkin, who passed on 7 January this year, didn't like his own band being bootlegged (most people wouldn't). The last thing he'd want is for the cover of one their studio albums being used for another artists bootleg. When I bought it a few years ago in my area at a great price, I didn't realise at first until it said so on Discogs. I had an earlier Marillion drawing combining elements of Script for a Jesters Tear, Misplaced Childhood, Brave and Marbles (the last two from the Steve Hogarth era), but the original disappeared a long time ago and I'd have to see if it's still online somewhere. I went to the charity shop and bought this bordered paper and coloured pencils, originally for a promotion next door at the coffee shop for St Valentines Day (they got one of my cats!). I also had some pastels for bits that couldn't be pencilled in. I was trying to make Robert Mead, the youngster on the Misplaced cover in the style of Loren Bouchard (Bobs Burgers/The Great North) because I don't draw people too often. He turns out similar to The Great Norths Moon since they'd be the same age and have the Will Byers (Stranger Things since it's that time period) look to boot!
I have Magnum to get for Boris and I wouldn't have heard of them if not for the list. I may look into them myself. The Eleventh Hour! isn't on it, but he could get it for me since I may not find it on my own since little of theirs came out in North America in the old days. If part of the cover is missing when it comes, I'll just photocopy the bootleg and cover up Marillion parts with bits of scrap paper. Even band photos of the show would have worked better once it was on CD, although it'd be a matter of getting cameras past security (video ones even more so once they were more versatile for the consumer market long before mobile phones could do all this and the internet), yet several photos were taken and are available. One could hide tape machines somehow. They scan for such things and even have clear bag policies in some venues today, yet people can still get these made if they have the knowhow and connections. It was still the Wild West in the '80s, and more of a challenge by the '90s as artists and venues became more strict about this. At least I could put to bed this anomaly of a bootleg cover.
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| Here are the tracks anyway. No Kayleigh or Lavender. |
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| A more original yet Ghibli AI cover |
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| Apologies to Rodney Matthews and Studio Ghibli |
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Vinyl wishlist
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| Only have the international edition on LP right now. |
By the cover art can be obtained from Australian Music Corporation Pty. Ltd., Fair use, Link
ABBA
The Album (1977) autographed
Live at Wembley Arena
The Singles: The First Ten Years
Chess singles
AC/DC
High Voltage (Australasia) (pictured)
TNT (most tracks are on international edition of previous album)
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Australasia)
Let There Be Rock (Australasia)
Powerage
Highway to Hell
'74 Jailbreak
Fly on the Wall
Who Made Who
Blow Up Your Video
The Razors Edge
Ballbreaker
Stiff Upper Lip
Black Ice
Rock or Bust
a-ha
Stay on These Roads
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Memorial Beach
Minor Earth, Major Sky
Lifelines
Cast in Steel
Morten Harket - Brother
Savoy - See the Beauty in Your Drab Hometown and Under
Magne Furuholmen - White Xmas Lies
Jon Anderson
Change We Must?
3 Ships
In the City of Angels
Invention of Knowledge (w/Roine Stolt)
1,000 Hands
Tony Banks
The Wicked Lady
Bankstatement (1989)
Still
The Beatles
Not for Sale (bootleg)
Rubber Soul (US)
Revolver (US/UK stereo)
Magical Mystery Tour (stereo)
White album mono
Yellow Submarine (songtrack)
Greatest Hits Vol 1 (Australasia/Southeast Asia)
Various bootlegs
Reel Music
Past Masters Vol 1-2
Love (Cirqué du Soleil)
Live at the BBC Vol 1-2
Anthology 1-3
1 (2000)
Black Sabbath
Forbidden
Technical Ecstacy
Mob Rules
Live Evil
Born Again
Seventh Star
The Eternal Idol
Headless Cross
Týr
13 (2013)
Boy George
Sold
Tense Nervous Headache
Boyfriend
High Hat
The Martyr Mantras (Jesus Loves You)
Kate Bush
Kate Bush 12"
Hounds of Love 12"
The Red Shoes
Aerial
50 Words for Snow
Directors Cut
The Fellowship Presents Before the Dawn
Bush
Sixteen Stone
Razorblade Suitcase
Man on the Run
Black and White Rainbows
Loaded
Phil Collins
I Missed Again
Thru These Walls
One More Night
Don't Lose My Number
Serious Hits... Live!
Both Sides
Culture Club
Mistake No 3
The War Song
This Time
Def Leppard (2015)
The Story So Far
Diamond Star Halos
Depeche Mode
Live in Berlin
Martin Gore and Dave Gahan solo LPs
Some Great Reward
Catching Up with Depeche Mode (1985)
The Singles 81>85
Music for the Masses
101 (1989)
Martin L. Gore - Counterfeit EP
Exciter
Sounds of the Universe
Songs of Faith and Devotion live
Playing the Angel
Delta Machine
Spirit
Jim Diamond
Bandit (1976)
Bacco - Cha Cha Me
PhD - Is It Safe?
I Should Have Known Better
I Sleep Alone at Night(s)
Desire for Freedom
Jim Diamond (1993)
Broadway 12"
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Black Moon
In the Hot Seat
Welcome Back My Friends...
Works Vol 1
Eurythmics
The Tourists (1978)
Peace
We Too Are One singles
Agnetha Fältskog
Eyes of a Woman
A+ (2023)
Fish
Internal Exile
A Feast of Consequences
Weltschmerz
Fleetwood Mac
English Rose
Black Magic Woman
The Original Fleetwood Mac (1971)
Penguin
Behind the Mask
Peter Gabriel
Out Out 12"
Shaking the Tree
Us
Up
New Blood
i/o Bright and Dark Side Mixes
The Story of Genesis
We Can't Dance
The Way We Walk Vol 1-2
Calling All Stations
Gentle Giant
Acquiring the Taste (US LP to photocopy sleeves)
Geordie
Hope You Like It
Don't Be Fooled by the Name
Save the World
No Good Woman
Strange Man
David Gilmour
David Gilmour (1978)
Rattle That Lock
Live at Pompeii
At the Edge of Light
Steve Harley/Cockney Rebel
A Closer Look
Timeless Flight
Face to Face
Uncovered (solo)
The Candidate (solo)
Greatest Hits
George Harrison
Wonderwall Music
The Best of Dark Horse (1976-89)
Live in Japan
Brainwashed
Annie Haslam
Still Life
Annie Haslam (1989)
Justin Hayward
Night Flight
Classic Blue
All the Way
Roger Hodgson
You Make Me Love You
London
Supertramp - Autobiography
Open the Door
INXS
INXS (1980)
Max Q (1989)
X (1990)
Welcome to Wherever You Are
Full Moon Dirty Hearts
IQ
Tales from the Lush Attic
The Wake
Nomzamo
Are You Sitting Comfortably?
The Road of Bones
Resistance
Eddie Jobson/Zinc
The Green Album
Elton John
The Big Picture
Made in England
Songs from the West Coast
Sleeping with the Past
The One
Peachtree Road
The Union (w/Leon Russell)
Wonderful Crazy Night
Jon & Vangelis
The Best of Jon & Vangelis
Page of Life
Kajagoogoo
Islands/Extra Play (Canada)
Kaja - Crazy Peoples Right to Speak
Limahl - Colour All My Days
Nik Kershaw
Human Racing
Radio Musicola
The Works
King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
In the Wake of Poseidon
Starless and Bible Black
USA
Denny Laine
Holly Days
John Lennon
Sometime in New York City
Shaved Fish
Two Virgins
Live in New York City
Menlove Ave.
Imagine: John Lennon (soundtrack)
Julian Lennon
Mr Jordan
Help Yourself
Everything Changes
Marillion
Marbles
FEAR
Punch and Judy
Brief Encounter
The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra)
Holidays in Eden
Brave
Afraid of Sunlight
Paul McCartney
Tripping the Live Fantastic!
Wingspan
Tug of War 7"/12"
MTV Unplugged
Run Devil Run
Figure of Eight 12" (album version)
All the Best!
Off the Ground
Driving Rain
Pure McCartney
Electric Arguments (The Fireman)
Amœba Gig
George Michael
Symphonica
Older
Mike & the Mechanics
The Living Years
Word of Mouth
Let Me Fly
The Moody Blues
John Lodge - Natural Avenue
Ray Thomas solo LPs
Keys of the Kingdom
Patrick Moraz
Out in the Sun
Timecode
Alanis Morissette
Jagged Little Pill (acoustic)
Under Rug Swept
Alanis Unplugged
So-Called Chaos
Flavours of Entanglement
Havoc and Bright Lights
Live in Montreux, Switzerland 2012
Such Pretty Forks in the Road
Stevie Nicks
Crystal Visions
The Other Side of the Mirror
Timespace
In Your Dreams
24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault
oasis
Definitely Maybe 30th Anniversary boxed set
(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Heathen Chemistry
Dig Out Your Soul
Beady Eye - BE
Ozzy Osbourne
Bark at the Moon
Tribute
No Rest for the Wicked
Just Say Ozzy
No More Tears
Scream
Ordinary Man
Anthony Phillips
Wise After the Event
1984 (1981)
Pink Floyd
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (mono)
More soundtrack
Ummagumma
Bootlegs
The Early Years
Works
The Later Years
Live at Knebworth
The Endless River
Flash Gordon
Brian May & Friends - Star Fleet Project
Live Magic
The Miracle 12"
Innuendo
Live at Wembley '86
Live at the Rainbow '74
Queen Forever
A Night at the Odeon Live
On Air: The Complete BBC Radio Sessions/Live at the Beeb
Rabbitt
Boys Will Be Boys
A Croak and a Grunt in the Night
Rock Rabbitt (1978)
Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin (1978)/Beginnings (South Africa)
Face to Face
Wolf
Can't Look Away
Renaissance
Prologue
Ashes Are Burning
Live at Carnegie Hall (I only have half the UK LP)
Azure d'Or
REO Speedwagon
R.E.O./T.W.O. (1972)
R.E.O. (1976)
Live: You Get What You Play For
The Earth, A Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken
You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish!
The Hits
Rush
Rush (1974)
Feedback
Presto
Counterparts
2112 Live
Snakes and Arrows
Rush in Rio
Chronicles
Test for Echo
Moving Pictures Live
Clockwork Angels
ABC 1974
Spirits of the Airwaves
Clockwork Angels Live
Sad Café
Fanx Ta-Ra
Misplaced Ideals UK LP
Façades
Sad Café (1980)
Olé
Live
Whatever It Takes
Split Enz
Frenzy
See You 'Round
Talk Talk
It's My Mix
The Colour of Spring
Spirit of Eden
Natural History
Roger Taylor
Strange Frontier
The Cross - Sh--- It!
Fun on Earth
Outsider
Tears for Fears
Elemental
The Seeds of Love
Ready Boys and Girls 10"
The Tipping Point
Rick Wakeman
The Red Planet
Criminal Record
Cost of Living
Live at Hammersmith
The Time Machine
Return to the Centre of the Earth
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (studio version)
King Arthur (remake)
Roger Waters
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Radio KAOS
The Wall: Live in Berlin and new version
Amused to Death
Is This the Life We Really Want?
John Wetton
Kings Road
Wetton/Manzanera (1987)
Jack-Knife - I Wish You Would
Wham!
The Final
Music from the Edge of Heaven
Yes
Geoff Downes - The Light Programme
Steve Howe - Beginnings
Keys to Ascension 1-2
Big Generator
Union
Talk
The Ladder
Magnification
Fly from Here
Heaven and Earth
Progeny
Like It Is (Bristol)
Topographic Drama: Live Across America
50Live
Subject to change.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
In Memorium: A Posthumous Wishlist
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| Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Cozy Powell. |
Keith Emerson (ELP)
Greg Lake (King Crimson, ELP and solo)
Rupert Hine (Anthony Phillips, Stevie Nicks, Rush)
Cozy Powell (Brian May solo, Black Sabbath)
Kex Gorin, Jimmy Copley, Tony Clarkin (Magnum)*
Ray Thomas (Moody Blues and solo)
UK (John Wetton and Allan Holdsworth)
George Harrison (both solo and Beatles)
John Wetton (King Crimson, UK, solo et al, Asia)
Syd Barrett and Richard Wright (solo and Pink Floyd)
Freddie Mercury (solo and Queen)
George Michael (solo and Wham!)
Christine McVie (née Perfect), Peter Green, Danny Kirwan and Bob Welch (solo and Fleetwood Mac)
Cockney Rebel (Steve Harley, Paul Jeffreys, who was on Flight 103 with his wife and both Syracuse students and townies; George Ford and Lincoln Anderson)
Rush (John Rutsey and Neil Peart)
Michael Hutchence (INXS, Max Q, solo)
Ronnie James Dio (Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Dio, Elf and Heaven & Hell)
Def Leppard (Steve Clark)
The Sweet (Brian Connolly, Steve Priest, and Mick Tucker)*
Travelling Wilburys (George Harrison, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty)
Gary Richrath and Gregg Philbin (REO Speedwagon)
Bon Scott (AC/DC and Fraternity)
Paul Young (Sad Café, Mike & the Mechanics; not the one who sings "Come Back and Stay" or "Oh, Girl")
Renaissance (Michael Dunford, Jon Camp, lyricist Betty Thatcher-Newsinger and John Tout)
Moody Blues (Clint Warwick, Ray Thomas, Graeme Edge, Denny Laine and producer Tony Clarke)
AC/DC (Bon Scott, Bruce Fairbairn, Malcolm and George Young)
Yes (Peter Banks, Bruce Fairbairn, Alan White and Chris Squire)
Jim Diamond (Bandit, Bacco, PhD, solo, etc.)
Wings (Linda McCartney [née Epstein/Eastman], Denny Laine, Henry McCollough, Jimmy McCulloch)
Dearly departed, please help me find the work in which you each have been immortalised. May you all rest in peace. We the living miss you all. In loving memory. Bless you all!
Names I've deleted from the lists must've gotten the message! Must be working then.
Honourable mentions: Mariska Veres from Shocking Blue, who I didn't know qualified for the list until after I found their CD.* Then original Gentle Giant drummer Martin Smith as I found their first two albums on CD and forgot to put him here knowing that he's gone too. Then Peter Haycock from ELO Part II as I finally found that as well.*
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
My Pirate Collection
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| The Eleventh Hour! by Magnum (not actual CD) |
In the past decade, my collection of pirates has grown, especially in the past couple years. I just have to boast about how much I've acquired. CD-Rs don't count 'cos anyone can make those these days. MP3s; oh, please!
All courtesy Boris except * from a shop or elsewhere. Bootlegs will be on another list in future.
ABBA
ABBA (1975)** (Also on Polish LP released in Cold War era)
ABBA The Album (1977-78) (Also on Japanese LP)
Voulez-Vous** (also on UK and Mexican LPs)
ABBA Gold
Agnetha Fältskog - A+ (2013)
AC/DC
High Voltage (Australia and international**)
Powerage/Blow Up Your Video*
Highway to Hell***
For Those About to Rock*/**
'74 Jailbreak
Flick of the Switch**
Fly on the Wall (cassette* and CD)
Who Made Who?
The Razors Edge
Ballbreaker
Stiff Upper Lip
Black Ice
Live at River Plate
Greatest Hells Hits (counts as a pirate since it has official tracks in a compilation that the band would never release themselves)*
Iron Man 2 soundtrack (closest thing to an official compilation to date)
No Bull
Back Home with Brian (although a bootleg anyway)
Rock or Bust/Backtracks*
Rarities (may be more of a bootleg compilation)
Ace of Base
Flowers*
a-ha
Hunting High and Low**
Scoundrel Days**
Stay on These Roads*
East of the Sun, West of the Moon*
Memorial Beach
How Can I Sleep with Your Voice in My Head?
Analogue*
Foot of the Mountain
(Used to have Minor Earth Major Sky until I received the EU promo, so I sold the pirate).
Morten Harket - Out of My Hands* and Brother*
Magne F - Past Perfect Future Tense and White Xmas Lies
Jon Anderson
Animation*/**
Deseo
Toltec
Survival and Other Stories
Anderson/(Roine) Stolt (Kaipa/The Flower Kings/Transatlantic/Agents of Mercy) - Invention of Knowledge
Asia (featuring John Payne)
Aria (also on US tape)
Silent Nation
Tony Banks
Bankstatement*
The Beatles
Please Please Me/The Early Beatles**/***
with the beatles (1963)**/Meet the Beatles!*** (stereo original remaster and mono 1987 mixes)
Second Album (1964)***
A Hard Days Night (remaster)**/(stereo mini-LP)/Something New*/***
Beatles No. 5*
Beatles for Sale*/Beatles '65 (stereo and mono old mixes)/(new mix)**/***
Beatles VI*** (also on US and Japanese LPs)
The Beatles (self-titled West German compilations)
Beatles' Greatest (Israel and Japan LP covers)**
Help! (CD Maximum)*/(remaster)**/***
Rubber Soul*/**/***
Yesterday and Today***
Revolver**/***
A Collection of Beatles Oldies*/**
Magical Mystery Tour (stereo* and mono original and stereo and mono*/** remasters)/***
The white album */**/*** (both stereo CD editions and Japanese LP w/o obi)
Yellow Submarine*/**/***/film DVD
Hey Jude***
Abbey Road*** (pictured above; copy of Japanese release, copy of 2009 EU remaster*, and CD Maximum 2-in-1 w/Hey Jude [The Beatles Again]*/**/***)
Let It Be*/*** (also on original Argentina CD)
Live at the Star Club (given a general release at first though technically a bootleg)*/**/***
Live at the Hollywood Bowl (rough mix not used on 1977 LP)*/**
Anthology 1* (only one from mainland China I've found, unless my copy of Let It Be... Naked is a pirate too)
1 (2000)*
The Early Tapes of the Beatles (with Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers)*/**
Mono Masters*
Love*
[Did get Ringo (1973) one year to sell online but I'm not as interested in Starrs solo stuff]
Black Sabbath
(Note: Power Sound 2001/Creative Sounds budget reissues are pretty much grey market, so they don't really count here.)
Sabotage*/**
Technical Ecstasy
Never Say Die!**
Heaven and Hell**
Live Evil
Týr
Dehumanizer*
The Dio Years
Cross Purposes*
Forbidden
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know*
13 (2013)
The End EP
Gathered in Their Masses
The End: Live in Birmingham
Kate Bush
Lionheart**
The Red Shoes**
Live at Hammersmith '79 (practically a bootleg, but there was once an official full-length release)*
Crowded House
Intriguer*
Def Leppard
Retro Active*
Slang
Def Leppard (2015)
Down 'n' Outz - This is How We Roll (Joe Elliotts side project)
Depeche Mode
Black Celebration**
Music for the Masses**
Violator**
Songs of Faith and Devotion**
Ultra
Martin L. Gore - Counterfeit² and The Third Chimpanzee EP
Playing the Angel
The Best of Depeche Mode Vol 1
Sounds of the Universe
Delta Machine
Duran Duran
Sing Blue Silver
Red Carpet Massacre
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970)**
Tarkus**
Pictures at an Exhibition**
Works Vol 1 and 2**
Love Beach (also on Canadian and South Korean LPs)**
Black Moon
In the Hot Seat
Fish
Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors**
Internal Exile
Sunsets on Empire
Fellini Days
13th Star
A Feast of Consequences
A Parley with Angels
Penguin
Buckingham Nicks (1973)***
Stevie Nicks - The Other Side of the Mirror
Peter Gabriel
Scratch My Back
New Blood
Dave Gahan
Paper Monsters
Hourglass
Angels & Ghosts and Imposter (with Soulsavers)
Genesis
Live (1973)*/**
Selling England by the Pound**
...and then there were three...**
Three Sides Live*/**
We Can't Dance**
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required** and Going Back**
Gentle Giant
Octopus**
Free Hand**
The Missing Piece**
Giant for a Day!**
Geordie
Hope You Like It
Don't Be Fooled by the Name
Save the World
No Good Woman
The Singles Collection
Till We Have Faces**
Feedback '86
Genesis Files/Revisited 1*
Squackett - Life Within a Day
Genesis Revisited II: Selection and full album with various artists
George Harrison
Electronic Sound
Living in the Material World (also on South African LP)
Dark Horse** (also on UK and Argentina LPs)
Extra Texture* (also on Barbados LP)
Thirty Three & 1/3*/**
George Harrison (1979)**
Gone Troppo**
Cloud Nine*/**
Live in Japan
Early Takes Vol 1
Steve Howe
Beginnings
The Steve Howe Album (1979)**
Turbulence
Not Necessarily Acoustic
Nexus w/Virgil Howe
Fused (with Glenn Highes)
IQ
Ever (don't ever tell Martin Orford!)*
Subterranea
The Seventh House
Elton John
Empty Sky**
Tumbleweed Connection**
Madman Across the Water**
Honky Château**
Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player!**
Here and There**
Victim of Love**
Rare Masters (includes Friends soundtrack**)
Peachtree Road
The Captain and the Kid**
The Diving Board**
Good Morning to the Night (w/P-Nau)
Diamonds**
King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King***
Larks' Tongues in Aspic*/** (signed by Bill Bruford without him knowing the truth!)
Starless and Bible Black**
Red**
USA
John Lennon
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)/Jams & Demos**
Sometime in New York City***
Mind Games (2010 and 2024 editions) */**
Walls and Bridges*/**
Rock 'n' Roll**
Double Fantasy** (also on Canadian and Mexican LPs)
Acoustic
The US vs John Lennon
Jon and Vangelis
Short Stories**
Page of Life
Duncan Mackay
Marillion
Real to Reel**/Brief Encounter
Early Stages (complete and highlights)
Sounds That Can't Be Made
Brian May
Back to the Light
Resurrection
Another World**
Paul McCartney (and Wings+)
Ram (Paul and Linda McCartney)**/***
Wild Life*/**/+/***
Red Rose Speedway*/**/+/***
Back to the Egg**
Tug of War**
Pipes of Peace**
Give My Regards to Broad Street (also on Méxicana LP)*
Снова в СССР (also on LP from there)*
Tripping the Live Fantastic!*
MTV Unplugged: The Official Bootleg*
Flaming Pie*
Driving Rain
Electric Arguments (Fireman)*
Back in the US (DVD)* (CD**)
New (regular edition)**
Freddie Mercury
Mr Bad Guy
Barcelona (with Montserrat Caballé) original edition and remaster (also on US LP)
The Great Pretender
Original Version/Single Version/Rarities (practically a bootleg)
George Michael
Older
Moody Blues
The Present**
Alanis Morissette
So-Called Chaos
Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds
Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds (2011)
Ozzy Osbourne
Blizzard of Ozz**
Diary of a Madman**
Tribute
No More Tears
Down to Earth
Black Rain
Scream
Pink Floyd
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn**
Music from the Motion Picture More
Ummagumma***
Atom Heart Mother*/**
Meddle**
The Wall**
The Final Cut**
Richard Wright - Wet Dream**, Broken China and Identity (Zee)
The Australian Pink Floyd Show - Everything Under the Sun
Cre/ation (from The Early Years)
Queen
Queen I (1973)** (also on Mexican LP and UK cassette)
Live Killers*/**
Hot Space**
The Works** (also on UK LP and South Korean cassette)
A Kind of Magic**
The Miracle LP* and CD**
At the Beeb*
Innuendo**
Made in Heaven**
Return of the Champions (Queen + Paul Rodgers)
On Fire: Live at the Bowl
The Cosmos Rocks (Queen + Paul Rodgers)
Deep Cuts Vol 1-2
Queen Forever
A Night at the Odeon
On Air
Renaissance
A Song for All Seasons**
Azure d'Or
Camera Camera**
Tuscany
In the Land of the Rising Sun
Grandine il Vento/Symphony of Light
de Lane Lea Studios 1973
REO Speedwagon
REO (1976)
You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish
Nine Lives**
Good Trouble**
Rush
Rush (1974)**
Supertramp
Indelibly Stamped**
Crisis? What Crisis?**
Breakfast in America*/**
Famous Last Words*/**
Paris (also on Japan LPs)
Nad Sylvan
Courting the Widow
Traveling Wilburys
Volume 1 & 3*
UK
UK (1978)**
Danger Money**
Night After Night** (All three albums on 2 CDs)
Rick Wakeman
The Six Wives of Henry VIII**/Silent Nights*/**
The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table**
No Earthly Connection**
Phantom Power*
Out There
Lisztomania soundtrack (with Roger Daltrey)
Rhapsodies**
The Living Tree: In Concert Vol 1 and Studio (w/Jon Anderson)
Roger Waters
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Radio KAOS
In the Flesh
The Wall (2015)
Rock of Faith
Raised in Captivity
Icon Zero w/Geoff Downes (formerly self-titled with alternate tracks)
World Trade
Yes
Yes (1969)*/**
The Yes Album (1971)**
Close to the Edge**
Tales from Topographic Oceans**
Going for the One**
Tormato*/**
Drama**
Big Generator**
Talk*
Keys to Ascension Vol 1-2
The Ultimate Yes
Tony Kaye - End of Innocence
**Also on official import from the UK, EU or Canada.
***Also on original US LP.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Pictures needed for Wikipedia
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| John Jowitt (late of IQ) and Gary Chandler of Jadis which I can't use on Wikipedia |
Several artists are in need of free-licenced photos for Wikipedia. If the band are still together or the artist is still alive and kicking, then it has to be under an adaptable Creative Commons licence. Flickr sometimes have what I need, but people fall through the cracks. If you own original photos of any of these fine folks, are you willing to upload to Commons and/or Flickr? OTRS is too much trouble. Also tell me who else could use pictures.
Savoy
Pallas
Robert John "Mutt" Lange (hates having his photo taken more than me!)
Geordie
Max Q
Kerry Minnear (Gentle Giant)
Big Country (current)
Berlin
GPS
Matt Bianco
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