Twenty Flight Rock

heres the next volume of my personal compilation series. this time we have quite a lot of hard rocking stuff, with deep purple, birth control and blue cheer for instance. now these are the three songs i think are the most special ones on the tracklist:
track number 6 is a song by jerusalem, whos sole album was produced by deep purple singer ian gillan. although i am not that much into hard rock, that album is quite a treat – go and check it out if you like this track (its self-titled and from ’72).
right after this song theres a (i believe) not so well-kown number by status quo, called gerdundula (seemingly a girls name). i picked a live version here, because i first heard it live and then i found the album version (on dog of two head) rather boring. i hope you like it – this is one of the songs i play on parties when all people are already drunk and just want to dance like mad :-)
track number 11 is the big break-through song of ten years after, think about the times from 1971s “a space in time”. a lovely blues rock ballad that still has a lot of relevance today, because there are always things you really want to change but feel powerless to do so, no matter what decade or century it is.

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tracklist:

1. Laundromat ∙ Rory Gallagher ∙ 1971
2. Living Loving Maid (She’s Just a Woman) ∙ Led Zeppelin ∙ 1969
3. Sacred Cows ∙ Bent Wind ∙ 1969
4. All Night Long ∙ Blue Cheer ∙ 1969
5. Fireball ∙ Deep Purple ∙ 1971
6. She Came Like a Bat from Hell ∙ Jerusalem ∙ 1972
7. Gerdundula (live) ∙ Status Quo ∙ 1971
8. Grow Your Own ∙ Small Faces ∙ 1966
9. Built for Comfort ∙ Howlin’ Wolf ∙ 1968
10. Give Life Another Try ∙ Phantasia ∙ 1972
11. Think About the Times ∙ Ten Years After ∙ 1970
12. Wasting My Time ∙ Shape of the Rain ∙ 1971
13. Tales of Brave Ulysses ∙ Cream ∙ 1967
14. Into the Fire ∙ Deep Purple ∙ 1970
15. Magic Me ∙ Nazz ∙ 1968
16. Heartbreaker ∙ Led Zeppelin ∙ 1969
17. Rollin’ ∙ Birth Control ∙ 1971
18. Hey Bulldog ∙ The Beatles ∙ 1968
19. Spanish Boots ∙ The Jeff Beck Group ∙ 1969
20. She’s So Hard to Shake ∙ Kahvas Jute ∙ 1971

alright folks, here we go with another compilation volume. it starts with a classic deep purple track, ‘hush‘ in the initial version by mark I. and as purples first lineup started with a lot of cover songs, this too is a cover version, the original song was written by joe south and recorded by billy joe royal the year before deep purple did it. again, what astonishes me here is the deep and rich voice of purples first vocalist rod evans, wow that guy could sing… enjoy!
track number 4 is my favourite by the electric prunes. a little less well known than ‘i had too much to dream last night’ this song is a bit more raunchy, and somehow more garagy also. lets see if you dig it as much as i do – go get em, little olive!
a bit farther down the tracklist theres a brilliant number by (ex pigeons) vanilla fudge (going on cactus / beck, bogart & appice): ‘where is my mind‘. i always wondered what that song would sound like on acid, its pretty brain-draining already without drugs! disturbing, distorted – this sounds pretty freaked out and i hope you like it. vanilla fudge is a quite under-estimated band anyway ;-)
right after that we have another purple number, this time from their third LP. ‘emmaretta‘ was supposedly written for a girl from the cast of ‘hair‘, and it serves as an enthralling, emotional love song from the non-trashy kind – again with brilliant vocals by rod evans.
last but not least id like to mention track number 15, perhaps my most favourite dylan-cover ever: ‘its all over now baby blue‘ by them with van morrison. aint nothing better to listen to when your emotions are down and out and youre feeling low. not as depressing as early leonard cohen, but still quite soul soothing this is – literally – a song for blue times.

 

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tracklist:

1. Hush ∙ Deep Purple ∙ 1968
2. Baby’s in Black ∙ The Beatles ∙ 1964
3. Don’t Start Crying Now ∙ Them ∙ 1964
4. Little Olive ∙ The Electric Prunes ∙ 1966
5. People, Let’s Freak Out! ∙ Belfast Gypsies ∙ 1967
6. Party Line ∙ The Kinks ∙ 1966
7. Born to Be Wild ∙ Steppenwolf ∙ 1968
8. Change of Mind ∙ Birth Control ∙ 1970
9. All Shook Up ∙ The Jeff Beck Group ∙ 1969
10. Friends ∙ Led Zeppelin ∙ 1970
11. Where Is My Mind ∙ Vanilla Fudge ∙ 1968
12. Emmaretta ∙ Deep Purple ∙ 1969
13. Shake It and Break It ∙ Canned Heat ∙ 1970
14. San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair) ∙ Scott McKenzie ∙ 1967
15. It’s All Over Now Baby Blue ∙ Them ∙ 1966
16. For Your Love (live) ∙ The Yardbirds ∙ 1965
17. Louie Louie ∙ The Kinks ∙ 1964
18. But It’s Alright ∙ Them ∙ 1968
19. Crosstown Traffic ∙ The Jimi Hendrix Experience ∙ 1968
20. Brought Up Wrong ∙ Floating Bridge ∙ 1969

 

i hope you like this compilation, any kind of comments (positive or critical) is appreciated. theres more good news: there are valid links for all the old blog posts again! enjoy
 
 

now heres the next volume of my sampler series, a bit late as always, but i hope you will enjoy it. and, as always, there are some evergreens and a couple of interesting songs on it. the first song for instance is a really great popsike/psychy late 60s number, ‘jack dor’ by episode six. there are virtually no vocals on this song, except for the title line being said once by ian gillan. great, freaky tune not to be missed!
track no. 4 is the well-known hit by the moody blues, ‘nights in white satin’. i am quite sure everyone of you has heard it hundreds and hundreds of times, but it still is a wonderful song and many of us have been kissing to it as teenagers ;-) it is said though that justin hayward, at that time the moodys new vocalist after denny laine had left, was crying when he left the studio after recording this song because he had just been left by his girlfriend. what a heart-warming anecdote, pop music for once not just being superficial!
next, on #10, we have a nice underrated number by the kinks, ‘sittin on my sofa’ – flat, repetitive and annoying if you will, but it certainly works when you are in a funny / cheeky mood :-) mid sixties funny beat at its best.
the last song on this volume is my favourite song by led zeppelin, ‘when the levee breaks’, from their fourth album which also includes the inevitable ‘stairway to heaven’. the lyrics are mostly taken from a song with the same name written by blues lady memphis minnie in 1929, about the great mississippi flood of 1927. it was the most destructive river flood in the US history, and just like after the katrina disaster of 2005 the black population suffered from it the most, because especially in times of racial segregation they were mostly left on their own and had to fend for themselves. thus its also a political song like a lot of blues from that time is. and what led zep made of it is fantastic – it is heavy, hard hitting, slow paced and surely deserves to be as well-known as it is. when the levee breaks, mama you got to move…

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tracklist:

1. Jack D’or ∙ Episode Six ∙ 1969
2. Heart Full of Soul (live) ∙ The Yardbirds ∙ 1965
3. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) ∙ The Beatles ∙ 1965
4. Nights in White Satin ∙ The Moody Blues ∙ 1967
5. North Country Blues ∙ Bob Dylan ∙ 1964
6. Blue Jay Way ∙ The Beatles ∙ 1967
7. Green Onions ∙ Booker T and the MG’s ∙ 1962
8. Little Girl ∙ Them ∙ 1965
9. Incense ∙ Episode Six ∙ 1966
10. Sittin’ on My Sofa ∙ The Kinks ∙ 1965
11. Outlaw Blues ∙ Bob Dylan ∙ 1965
12. All Along the Watchtower ∙ The Jimi Hendrix Experience ∙ 1968
13. Harley Davidson Blues ∙ Canned Heat ∙ 1973
14. SWLABR ∙ Cream ∙ 1967
15. You Need Loving ∙ Small Faces ∙ 1966
16. Down in Mexico ∙ Simon Stokes and the Nighthawks ∙ 1970
17. Put Your Thing on Me ∙ The Grodeck Whipperjenny ∙ 1970
18. Midnight Sun ∙ Jesse Harper ∙ 1969
19. Welcome to the Void ∙ Steve Morgen ∙ 1969
20. When the Levee Breaks ∙ Led Zeppelin ∙ 1971

now, as previously announced, here finally is the next volume of my selfmade compilation series. dip into another pile of 20 rockin evergreens and just forget about the last fourty years of time that passed meanwhile. the opening track is a dear, dear favourite of mine and also by far my favourite rolling stones number: ‘the last time‘ from 1965. it was released shortly before ‘satisfaction’ and was obviously topped by it, because the latter is the song mostly associated with the rolling stones in what can be described as “superficial general knowledge”. however, i like this song much better – and besides: the main riff is not played by keith richards but by brian jones – amazing, isnt it?
the next song id like to mention is a rather long, narrative number, #10 ‘atlantis‘ by donovan. mr leitch tells the story of the sunken land of atlantis, which once lay in the middle of the atlantic ocean, and, well you all know that old fairytale :-) however, the way donovan tells this story it suddenly gains back all the magic it radiated when you heard it as a little child. everything around you becomes quiet and you sit there, listening to this bard singing about an acient myth… when eventually the song breaks out into a repetitive “atlantis-hymn” that makes you sing along at once – magical!
track no 12 is again by my then favourite group deep purple in its initial line up with nicky simper and rod evans. ‘the painter‘ appears on their magnificent, self-titled third album and is one of my favourite songs of theirs. in this song one more time the (then) fruitful collaboration between rod evans and jon lord shows off, who created this blasting, organ-driven, psychy late 60s number – ‘painter, come colour up my life!’
the following track has a weird title and was recorded by a fairly unknown group, orang-utan, whos sole, self-titled album now scores high prices. ‘chocolate piano‘ is a brilliant showcase of early 70s, trippy psychedelic rock – the underground UK-kind of early 70s psych rock. i wonder what listening to this song on hard drugs must be like? cant be too bad i guess…
track no 18 also always had been a big favourite of mine, but became that more so since it was used in the first scene of ‘the boat that rocked‘ – a 2009 film taking place on a pirate radio station ship in the 1960s, inspired by the story of radio caroline (starring bill nighy, philip seymour hoffman, nick frost – and chris o dowd and katherine parkinson, 2/3 of the IT crowd!). when i first saw that film in a movie theatre and ‘all day and all of the night‘ came blasting out of those gigantic speakers i again realized was a fucking awesome song that really is! so turn your volume fucking loud and PLAY IT! ‘the only time i feel alright is by your siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide…” :-D
so, all in all i hope you enjoy this bunch of goodies – the next volume will be there soon!

click here to get the previous volumes.

 
tracklist:

1. The Last Time ∙ The Rolling Stones ∙ 1965
2. Move ∙ State of Mind ∙ 1967
3. Louisiana Man ∙ Green Bullfrog ∙ 1970
4. Don’t Come Crying to Me ∙ Fever Tree ∙ 1970
5. Bad Scene ∙ Ten Years After ∙ 1969
6. Bullfrog Blues ∙ Canned Heat ∙ 1967
7. Nonymous ∙ The Treytones ∙ 1963
8. The Mighty Quinn ∙ Manfred Mann ∙ 1968
9. Baby Baby Baby ∙ Episode Six ∙ 1967
10. Atlantis ∙ Donovan ∙ 1968
11. Come on (Let the Good Times Roll) ∙ The Jimi Hendrix Experience ∙ 1968
12. The Painter ∙ Deep Purple ∙ 1969
13. Chocolate Piano ∙ Orang-Utan ∙ 1971
14. Working on the Road ∙ Ten Years After ∙ 1970
15. Smokestack Lightning ∙ Howlin’ Wolf ∙ 1968
16. You Know Me Babe ∙ Thundermother ∙ 1971
17. Richard Cory ∙ Them ∙ 1966
18. All Day and All of the Night ∙ The Kinks ∙ 1964
19. Mrs. Robinson ∙ Simon and Garfunkel ∙ 1968
20. All My Loving ∙ The Beatles ∙ 1963