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Sage - Sage By Sage

1976

Illusion Records - CM 2004

Track List:

My Girl, Lovely Lady, Don't Stop Loving Me, No One But You, I'm Satisfied With You, I Believe In You, Morning Dove.

Sage - Freeport

1976

Illusion Records – CM 1046

Track List:

Follow Me, Talk Is Cheap, The Wind, Find Some Shelter, Make Your Move, Reflections, Get Away, Baby I'm Tired.

Sagittarius - Present Tense

1968

Columbia 9644

Track List:

Another Time, Song To The Magic Frog (Will You Ever Know), You Know I've Found A Way, The Keeper Of The Games, Glass, Would You Like To Go, My World Fell Down, Hotel Indiscreet, I'm Not Living Here, Musty Dusty, The Truth Is Not Real. CD Bonus Tracks: Artificial Light, (Of All The Living Lies), Get The Message, Mass 586, Love's Fatal Way, My World Fell Down, Hotel Indiscreet, Lonely Girk, The Keeper Of The Games, Sister Marie.

Review:

This one of those albums which truly deserve words like stunning, beautiful, and classic. Imagine a cross between Forever Changes and Pet Sounds, with a dash of Sergeant Pepper thrown in. The overall feel is psychedelic, though in a lightweight, baroque, poppy style rather an acid-fuelled, mind-bending, over the top kind of way.

Produced by Gary Usher at about the same time he was producing the Byrds' 'Younger Than Yesterday' it has the same tone of pop-cum-psychedelia. It featured the angelic voice of Curt Boettcher, formerly of The Association ('Along Comes Mary' and 'Cherish'), some of his former band associates and some of Usher's associates, like Bruce Johnston, Glen Campbell (not the Misunderstood one!), and Terry Melcher. Curt's voice and production expertise are what makes this album really shine, though. He also wrote pure, simple songs, mostly romantic ballads, embellished with harp (the stringed variety), harpsichord, vocal harmonies, sitars, tambourines and the occasional mellotron

The sentiments are of nostalgia, wistfulness, and romance. 'My World Fell Down' has the strongest Beach Boys influence, and memorable hook lines. It was released as a single and only managed a lowly 70 in the U.S. charts, which is hard to understand considering its brilliance. 'Musty Dusty' is so nostalgic that its joint composer, Tandyn Almer (with Boettcher) was reputedly in tears as he wrote it. 'The Keeper of the Games' sounds like something Bryan Maclean might have included on Forever Changes. 'The Truth Is Not Real,' featuring Usher's vocals with heavy phasing, is another one with deep, metaphysical lyrics and a melody reminiscent of George Harrison's 'Blue Jay Way'.

On the CD reissue (on Sundazed) you get alternate takes and demos, but also some unwelcome intrusions from the Firesign Theatre, a bunch of not-too-clever satirical comics. They are not enough to spoil an otherwise magical album, though.

Reviewed by DoctorDark

Sagittarius – The Blue Marble

1969

Together Records – STT 100

Track List:

In My Room, From You Unto Us, Will You Ever See Me, Gladys, I Sing My Song, The Blue Marble, Lend Me A Smile, I Still Can See Your Face, I See In You, Cloud Talk.

Saint Steven - Saint Steven

1969

Probe ‎– CPLP 4506

Track List:

Over The Hills:

Over The Hills, Animal Hall, Gladacadova, Poor Small, Ay-Aye-Poe-Day, Grey Skies, Over The Hills.

The Bastich:

Bastich I, Voyage To Cleveland, Sun In The Flame, Bright Lights, Louisiana Home, Bastich II.

Sam Gopal Dream - Escalator

1969

Stable SLE 8001

Track List:

Cold embrace, The dark lord, The sky is burning, You’re alone now, Grass, It’s only love, Escalator, Angry faces, Midsummer nights dream, Season of the witch, Yesterlove.

Samla Mammas Manna - Samla Mammas Manna

1971

Silence - SRS 4604

Track List:

Circus Apparatha, Pausus, Vidgat Läge, Släde Till Satori I, Släde Till Satori II, Schekina, Uvertyr Till Snäll Häst I, Uvertyr Till Snäll Häst II, Flickan I Skogen, Manna Jamma, At-One-Ment, Skrik Från Embassy - Live, Fittravisan, E' Pop Tai.

Samla Mammas Manna – Måltid

1973

Silence – SRS 4621

Track List:

Dundrets Fröjder, Oförutsedd Förlossning, Den Återupplivade Låten, Folkvisa I Morse, Syster System, Tärningen, Svackorpoängen, Minareten, Værelseds Tilbud.

Santana - Santana

1969

C.B.S (cbs 63015)

Track List :

Waiting, evil ways, Shades of time, Savor, Jin-go-la-ba, Persuasion, Treat, You just don't care, Soul sacrifice.

Santana - Abraxas

1970

C.B.S (cbs 64087)

Track List :

Singing winds-crying beasts, Black magic woman - Gypsy queen, Oyo como va, Incident at Neshabur, Se a cabo, Mother's daughter, Samba pa ti, Hope your feeling better, El Nicoya.

Sapphire Thinkers - From Within

1969

Hobbit

Track List:

Melancholy Baby, I Fell A Bit Strange, Get Along Boy, Blues On you, From Within, I Got To You, Not Another Night, Let Her Come In, Please Understand, Blind With A borrowed Light, There Is A Woman, Doin’ Alright.

The Satellite Circle - S/T

2001

Rage Of Achilles iliado 14

Track List :

You Were Never The King, Remedy, Black Mountainside, Slow Descent, The Thin White Line Between Happiness And Sanity, Simplicity, The Beginning Of The End Of The World, Need To Keep This To Myself, The Beginning Of The End Of The World Part 2.

Review:

Satellite Circle were formed in 1997 by guitarist Jonas Nordin, Drummer / vocalist Jonas Ericson, and bassist Fredrik Holmgren who all originate from Sweden and show their love for 70's style rock. They play deep thundering guitars in Sabbath, Mountain style but have also been likened to Sir Lord Baltimore not only for musical influences but by the fact that the drummer and vocalist are one, which is just way cool.

Jonas Ericson sings with melodic anger and beats his drums with tree trunks, fused tightly with Jonas Nordins adrenaline guitars and Fredrik Holmgren' deep gut churning bass, together has the musical intensity of an anti-aircraft gun. Yet for a band that rocks hard they play superb eastern style psych as in the hypnotic "Black mountain side", and the equally sublime "The beginning of the end of the world", which goes to show the bands capabilities of musical diversity and reinforces that this album is not just another tear your head off & piss down your neck affair. Still when all said and done this is a predominately heavy rock, stoner rock, psychedelic metal whatever you want to call it personally, it is what it is and it is a fine hard hitting album.

Get refreshed!!.

Reviewed by Sir Eel - February 2002

Saturnia - The Glitter Odd

2001

Cranium CRM 006

Track List :

Chrysalis, Bliss, Still Life, A Trick Of The Light, Azimuth/Menadl, Organo, Borealis, The Glitter Odd.

Review:

Saturnia are from Portugal and the band comprises of Luis Simões and Francisco Rebelo. This album is a strange but pleasant experience with a nice surprise in store for the listener in the shape of an interesting take on Digital Recording.

Self-confessed vinyl junkie and Audiophile Luis Simões came up with the wonderful concept of making a CD sound like a piece of vinyl.....yes, you did read that right!!

The album opens with the sound of a tone arm gently dropping onto a 'record' complete with authentic crackle. Throughout the album between tracks is an authentic vinyl crackle and the CD ends with the 'tone arm' running off at the end, lifting from the 'record' and returning to to its rest...how cool is that? The packaging too is very cool, the CD looks like a mini vinyl record, underneath which you will find a slipmat and on the left of the turntable is a tone arm which shows through the closed case like clear record deck lid!!!. The front cover artwork is of Luis Simões 28" Paiste Symphonic Gong.

The treat does not stop here as musically there is a fantastic array of instruments played here by the talented duo: Gibson Explorer, National Lap Steel, Epiphone and Les Paul Guitars, Electric and acoustic sitars, nº1 Electronics Theremin, Paiste 28" Symphonic Gong, Jazz Bass, Chimes, Castanets Phase Shifter, Digital Pitch Shifter, a host of guitar effects such as Whammy, Cry-baby and Wha-Wha, Organs, Synthesisers, Vintage Keys and a host of computer effects.

Saturnia's roots lie in 1960's psychedelia and Progressive Rock and also with modern dance music and this strange marriage of genres forms the basis for The Glitter Odd. On paper you would most likely dismiss this concept as being 'unlikely to succeed' but in truth its the exact opposite. The opening track 'Chrysalis' is Piper At The Gates Of Dawn/Saucerful Of Secrets Floyd, meets 90's dance beats and sets the scene for a wonderfully ambient and relaxed album from this extremely versatile band.

The Glitter Odd is a very clever blend of classic British Psychedelia, spacey ambient vibes and 70's prog flavoured organ that grows on you with each and every playing with the tempo shifting lazily between 'horizontal 4 O'clock in the morning waves of blissed out chill sounds' (A Trick Of The Light) to funky Farfisa dub beats laced with Theremin (Organo) and back again.

In case you are wondering, the wonderfully trippy title track is my personal favourite (no surprise there!!).
This refreshingly different album will appeal to fans of organ led 70's Prog, Ozric Tentacles, Nodens Ictus and early Floyd.

Reviewed by pOoTer

The Savage Resurrection - The Savage Resurrection

1968

Mercury ‎– SR-61156

Track List:

Thing In "E", Every Little Song, Talking To You, Tahitian Melody, Jammin', Fox Is Sick, Someones Changing, Remlaps Cave Part II, Appeal To The Happy, Expectations.

The Savages - Live'n Wild

1966

Duane Records ‎– ELP1047

Track List:

Poor Man's Son, She's Gone, Gone To The Moon, Quiet Town, Oh My Soul, Broadway, Nobody But You, He's A Man, I Believe, The World Ain't Round, Its Square, We've Got To Get Out Of This Place, No, No, No, Theme.

The Scientists - Heading For A Trauma

1986

Au-Go-Go

Track List :

Swampland, The wall, Fire escape, Raver, Clear spot, Happy hour, We had love, Temple of love, Murderess in a purple dress, Psycho cook supreme, Demolition derby.

Review:

For the uninitiated The Scientists were Australia’s best kept secret and by far one of the best bands to ever escape those distant shores and infect the world with low down real gone rock ‘n’ roll. The purists will yell “This isn’t psychedelia”........but hey......do I care?

It's not psych but it's fuzz laden Garage.

Words escape me to describe the Scientists sound, their obvious influences are The Stooges, The Birthday Party, The Cramps, the MC5 and something radioactive that just crawled out of a swamp. Suffice to say that this is spaced out grunged up slime dripping rock ‘n’ roll that would scare your parents to death.

I will not actually review this, but instead quote from a press review of a 1985 gig that I was present at:

‘The Scientists once aimed to form a shaky wall of white-boy crucifixion blues; tonight they bulldozed it down with a menacing relish and replaced it with a monolith of white noise. They were totally out of control, stampeding through a set with boot-bruising force, guitars cutting a big gushing slit of passionate noise, drums pumping a lusting pelvis into the heart of noise disorder and ejaculating the phlegm of sex into the steamy air of desire.

It was fast, wild, savage, disgusting - in fact everything rock ‘n’ roll should be.’

Kim Salmon is God?

Reviewed by pOoTer

The Scientists - Atom Bomb Baby

1985

Au-Go-Go ANDA 37

Track List:

Travis, Leadfoot, Bad priest, It came from out of the sky, Hell beach, Go baby go, Atom bomb baby.

Review:

Another slab of swamp infested glory from Australia’s finest in this mini album on Au-Go-Go records. The menacing throb of the Taxi Driver inspired Travis opens this classic piece of Scientists fare, divebombing into Leadfoot and Bad Priest before jolting into the 50’s monster movie tale It Came From Out Of The Sky that see’s the Scientists fuelled up on nitro and throbbing guitars.

Reviewed by pOoTer

The Scientists - This Heart Doesn’t Run on Blood, This Heart Doesn’t Run On Love

1986

Au-Go-Go ANDA 32

Track List:

Nitro, Solid gold hell, I cried no tears, Crazy heart, This life of yours.

The Search Party - Montgomery Chapel

1969

Century Records - 32013

Track List:

Speak To Me, Renee Child, Melayna, When He Calls, So Many Things Have Got Me Down, You And I, All But This,Poem By George Hall, The Decidedly Short Epic Of Mr. Alvira, The News Is You.

The Seeds - The Seeds & Web Of Sound

Diablo Records CD re-issue from 2001 consists of the 1st two albums: The Seeds & Web Of Sound” Both albums originally released in 1966

Diablo Records

Tracks - The Seeds:

Can't Seem To Make You Mine, No Escape, Lose Your Mind, Evil Hoodoo, Girl I Want You, Pushin' Too Hard, Try To Understand, Nobody Spoil My Fun, It's A Hard Life, You Can't Be Trusted, Excuse Excuse, Fallin' In Love.

Tracks - Web Of Sound:

Mr Farmer, Pictures & Designs, Tripmaker, I Tell Myself, A Faded Picture, Rollin' Machine,
Just Let Go, Up In Her Room.

Review:

"Flower Punk" as they have been termed. To me these first two albums are essential Seeds recordings. Clearly the boys at Diablo felt so too as they have chosen to re-issue both albums on one tremendous CD. The third Seeds LP, "Future" is also a superb listen, but by then Sky and the boys were becoming less punkish and more about "flower power" and hippie vibes, man.

However, these first two albums are Sky Saxon and The Seeds at their very best. Even now, some 36 years later, one can hear how ahead of their time these lads were. How do you describe the music contained within? Hmmm…how about….simple, raw, abrasive, crunchy, snotty, and oh so PUNKY! Almost every track overflows with buzzing fuzz guitars, cheesy-garage organ, and Sky Saxon's snarled voice, which helps deliver a knockout punch. With the exception of the extended improv of “Up In Her Room”, most tracks are short, matter of fact and to the point. Their name says it all….seeds. These recordings were THE underground of their time and helped sow the seeds of what would later be coined “Punk Rock”.

Without the Seeds I'm not sure if we would have the likes of The Stooges, The Ramones, or The Sex Pistols. If you have only ever heard them through their many 60’s compilation appearances (e.g. “Pushin’ Too Hard”), then I urge you to buy this album now.

Dated?
Maybe.

But definitely a must have for any serious rock collector.

Reviewed by BlueMagoo - 20th September 2002

The Seeds - Future

1967

GNP Crescendo 2038

Track List :

Introduction, March Of The Flower Children, Travel With Your Mind, Out Of The Question, Painted Doll, Flower Lady & Her Assistant, Now A Man, A Thousand Shadows, Two Fingers Pointing At You, Where Is The Entrance Way To Play, Six Dreams, Fallin’.

The Seeds - Web Of Sound

1968

Music Box SMB 136

Track List:

Mr. Farmer, Pictures And Designs, Tripmaker, I Tell Myself, A Faded Picture, Rollin’ Machine, Just Let Go, Up In Her Room

Sergius Golowin - Lord Krishna Von Goloka

1973

Ohr ‎– KK 58002

Track List:

Der Reigen, Die Weiße Alm, Die Hoch-Zeit.

The Serpent Power - The Serpent Power

1967

Vanguard ‎– VSD-79252

Track List:

Don't You Listen To Her, Gently, Gently, Open House, Flying Away, Nobody Blues, Up And Down, Sky Baby, Forget, Dope Again, Endless Tunnel.

Shadrack Chameleon - Shadrack Chameleon

1973

IGL Records ‎– STLP-132

Track List:

Chameleon (I Love You), Long Road To Ole' Miss, Granite Feast, That's The Way It's Gotta Be, Don't Let It Get You Down, Beyond Eternity.

Shadows of Knight - Gloria

1966

Dunwich (sd 666)

Track List:

Gloria, Light bulb blues, I got my mojo working, Dark side, Let it rock, Oh yeah, It always happens that way, You can't judge a book (by looking at the cover), I just want to make love to you, Bad little woman, Gospel zone, Hey Joe, I'll make you sorry, Peepin' and hidin', Tomorrow's going to be another day, Spoonful.

Shadows of Knight - Back Door Men

1967

Dunwich (sd 667)

Track List:

Bad little women, Gospel zone, The behemoth, Three for love, Hey Joe, I'll make you sorry, Peepin' and hidin', Tomorrow's going to be another day, New York bullseye, High blood pressure, spoonful.

Shag - 1969

2005

Gear Fab Records ‎– GF-216

Track List:

Gypsies In The Forest, Mad Hatter, Riddle, Anyone's Song, Cold Duck Wino, Lavendar Tab Ooh Dilly Dilly, Lovely Lady.

Shiva's Headband - Take Me To The Mountains

1970

Capitol (st 538)

Track List:

My baby, Take me to the mountains, Homesick armadillo blues, Ripple, Song for peace, Ebeneezer, North Austin strut, Come with me, Good time, Kaleidoscoptic.

Review:

Take Me To The Mountains was one of the best albums of 1970, which was a very good year, the drugs were relatively pure and they had not yet destroyed our best minds, yet.
That was to follow, not precede, Allan Ginsberg's proclamation notwithstanding.

I was a rock critic then, and also an employee of Capitol Records. No conflict of interest there, let's just put that cavilling to rest. There never is a conflict between money over there and opinion over here, as long as the opinion has a little integrity.

SHB swung through town with a typically Texas swagger, a cross between Doug Sahm and Lyndon Johnson. They had this nasty Austin superiority, which both made the music special and caused the Zen Buddhists of the day to cringe.

The chick (ok word in those days) singer was lusty, the violin crunched the sky like the album cover illustration; the organ a little strange in a rock band, but powerful and eerie. The sound was nice, folk rock that I favored, like the Mamas and Papas or Grateful Dead.

I hear it today and it still sounds good. That goes for all three. What doesn't go for all three is this: SHB's lyrics were really honest and good and hold up today and aren't sappy.

Eventually, the SHB played the Fillmore stage for its fifteen minutes of fame. After that they disappeared. I heard they went back to Austin.

R.I.P. Shiva's and all my other favorite "one album" bands: 13th Floor Elevators, Dave Ray at Paxton Lodge, John Koerner (same place) Blue Velvets and Sea Train.

Reviewed by Virginia Hanley

Shiva's Headband – Coming To A Head

1971

Armadillo Productions Inc.

Track List:

Such A Joy, Hungry Ghost, My Girlish Days, Anyone, Denton, California Mountain Klopper, Country Boy, "A" Rockslide, Baby What You Didn't, Someone, Tennessee Waltz.

sh-man-tra - Cornucopia

1998

Cranium CRM003

Track List:

Recurring nocturnal habit, Shipwreckers, Guinii, Spawn Of Tamagotchi, Reprise of the infernal machine, Sextent dawn, Paraphernalia, Archimedes bath, Epoch.

Review:

sh-man-tra are many things, which will appeal to some and most likely confuse others...

In many ways they are undefinable in their shape shifting style which drifts seamlessly through Avant Garde, Jazz Fusion, haunting Psychedelia and Progressive Rock, injected periodically with sudden slabs of big riffs and this is all thrown together to build the dark and surreal world that is Cornucopia.

The cover shows a post-apocalyptic alternate reality, populated by legions of marching androids(?) broadcasting some sinister message. Cornucopia can be seen as a dark journey through a maleovolant hallucinatory universe, the songs are rich and varied with very little vocals. Spawn Of Tamagotchi and Epoch are our two faves with some fine heavy psych guitar that is fighting to get out, but instead is cleverly kept at bay to good effect.

An eclectic and very fine album that is both inspiring and HIGHLY original.

Reviewed by pOoTer

sh'mantra - Formula Orange

2000

SCD02 (Independant Release)

Track List:

CD one: Kiutl, Robots on The Beach, Pit and the Pendulum, 74.40s 167.20e 04:46:18, Sweat Of The Sun-Tears Of The Moon, Sunburst On The Cayman Trench,
Absence_substance_quantity_quality_relation_action_affection_position_time_location_cond ition_place and state_presence.

CD two: Recurring Nocturnal Habit II, Inanimate Articulate, tws.

Review:

This is one release we have been eagerly awaiting after being more than impressed by sh-mantra's debut release Cornucopia on New Zealand's Cranium Music label. I believe there have since been some personnel changes in the band and as a result Alex Hole has been able to take the band down a much more psychedelic/experimental route than on Cornucopia. Couple this with the fact that sh-mantra have released this independantly, giving them the advantage of 'spreading out' over two CD's this almost couldn't fail!

Side A (CD One) starts with the omnipotent and mysterious 'Kiutl' with it's Close Encounters synth 'scale' that laps at you gently and beguilingly until around 5:17 when things start to heat up with sinister effects laden guitar and synth kicking in. The darkness creeps in and from the shadows emerges a monstrous, white hot space rock riff complete with hammering bass/drums before it takes a dive to a peaceful plateau with soft vocals.

'Robots On The Beach' is more of a gentler song that terminates with a gargantuan metal riff overlayed with synthesiser madness. 'Pit And The Pendulum' is more sh-mantra of old, an excellent prog rock style opus with deranged lyrics and haunting keyboards building up to a peak, topping out at 9:96. The curiously titled '74.40s 167.20e 04:46:18'(??) is a wonderful ambient voyage of epic proportions that takes you out into the dark corners of space and monkeys with your senses and for full effect should be listened to in a darkend room at full volume (we insist!!)........it will thrill you and scare you simultaneously. 'Sweat Of The Sun-Tears Of The Moon's' 3:57 of mesmerising acoustic guitar reminds me of late period Bauhuaus or even Jethro Tull and unfortunately ends all too soon.

Just when you though it was safe to go back in the water, things are taken up a few levels with the evocative and menacing 'Sunburst On The Cayman Trench' a moody drum lead track laced with samples that spirals lazily upwards before being met by a blistering slice of distorted guitar and frenzied synth attacks.

You fall washed-up and depleted to the floor in a crumpled heap but are slapped into life by splintered shards of guitar and a spine-chilling keyboard lick carries you out into the ether for a 17 minute white knuckle rollercoaster ride in the farthest depths of deepest space, out here no one can hear you scream....Look no further for your daily dose of blistering psychedelia than 'Absence_substance_quantity_quality_relation_action_affection_position_time_location_con dition_place and state_presence'

Now peel yourself off the wall and reach for the second CD...........

Side B (CD Two)'Recurring Nocturnal Habit II' revisits the opening track on Cornucopia, sh'mantra's debut release (Cranium CRM003) it opens with an almost Floyd-like intro developing into a hypnotic piano led mantra. This serves as a warm up for what is to come, starting with 'Inanimate Articulate' with its unusual time signatures, Avant-Garde/Jazz drumming that has touches of Van Der Graaf Generator. A rising wall of impenetrable feedback announces the arrrival of 'tws', a truly epic (24:47) and giant slice of flawless brilliance.

This double CD album is an absolute masterpiece of sheer self-indulgence and is quite possibly one of the best albums we have heard so far this year. Formula Orange is a rich, dark and complex tapestry of sound that shouldn't be entered into lightly, but for the Intrepid Traveller who is prepared to go the distance the reward is most satisfying.

There simply is not enough music of this quality and depth being produced today anywhere on the planet and for those of you who fancy something exciting and powerful we recommend entering into the profound world of sh'mantra.

Reviewed by pOoTer

Siddhartha - Weltschmerz

1975

Private Pressing

Track List:

Looking In The Past, Tanz Im Schnee, Times Of Delight, Weit Weg, Gift Of A Fool.

Silberbart - 4 Times Sound Razing

1971

Philips ‎– 6305 095

Track List:

Chub Chub Cherry, Brain Brain, God, Head Tear Of The Drunken Sun.

Siloah - Sukram Gurk

1972

German Blues And Underground ‎– 1558025

Track List:

Milk Blue Mind, Mother I'm Dying, There Is A Tower In Your Head, See No Way Out Today, Magic Carpet Ride To The Alps, Feast Of The Pickpockets, Stony, A Landlady's Dessert.

Silver Apples - Silver Apples

1968

Kapp KS 3562

Track List:

Oscillations, Dancing gods, Dust, Program, Velvet cave, Whirly-bird, Misty mountain, Lovefingers, Seagreen serenades.

Silver Apples - Contact

1969

Kapp KS 3584

Track List:

You and I, Water, Ruby, Gypsy love, You’re not foolin’ me, I have known love, A pox on you, Confusion, Fantasies.

Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come

1970

Mercury ‎– SR-61328

Track List:

Master Heartache, Hard Rain Fallin', Lady Of Fire, Lake Isle Of Innersfree, Pumped Up, Kingdom Come, I Got A Woman, Hell Hound, Helium Head (I Got A Love), Ain't Got Hung On You.

Sir Lord Baltimore - Sir Lord Baltimore

1971

Mercury ‎– SRM-1-613

Track List:

Man From Manhattan (Man From Manhattan Act I Superior One Intro, Theme, Man From Manhattan Act II Theme 45, Act III MMCXI New Earth, Act IV Raca (People They De Bad Thing)), Where Are We Going, Chicago Lives, Loe And Behold, Woman Tamer, Caesar LXXI.

Sixty Nine - Circle Of The Crayfish

1972

Philips ‎– 6305 164

Track List:

Ballast, Kolibri, Becoming Older, Journey, Paradise Lost, Crayfish.

Sixpence, Thee - Step By Step

1998

Akarma ‎– AK 034

Track List:

Long Days Care, Can't Explain, Fortune Teller, My Flash On You, In The Building, Hey Joe, Heartfull Of Rain, First Plane Home, Incense And Peppermints, Birdman Of Alkatrash, The World's On Fire.

Skip Bifferty - Skip Bifferty

1967

RCA Victor ‎– SF 7941

Track List:

Money Man, Jeremy Carabine, When She Comes To Stay, Guru, Come Around, Time Track, Gas Board Under Dog, Inside The Secret, Orange Lace, Planting Bad Seeds, Yours For At Least 24, Follow The Path Of The Stars, Prince Germany The First, Clearway 51.

Skip Spence - Oar

1969

Sundazed Music SCLP5030

Track List:

Little Hands, Cripple Creek, Diana, Margaret - Tiger Rug, Weighted Down (The Prison Song), War In Peace, Broken Heart, All Come To Meet Her, Book Of Moses, Dixie Beach Promenade (Yin for Yang), Lawrence Of Euphoria, Grey/Afro.

The following are bonus tracks included on the 1999 CD reissue:

This Time He Has Come, It's The Best Thing For You, Keep Everything Under Your Hat, Furry Heroine (Halo Of Gold), Givin' Up Things, If I'm Good, You Know, Doodle, Fountain, I Think You And I.

Review:

After Spence was released from New Yorrk's Bellevue Hospital, incarcerated for attempting to attack fellow members of Moby Grape, he travelled to Nashville where he recorded, arranged, and produced his only solo album, Oar.

He played all the instruments on this album, on many trippy and beautiful songs, from the country sound of "Cripple Creek", to the African drums of the freakout, "Grey/Afro." The album begins with "Little Hands". The song begins with a folksy guitar, as Spence gradually adds more instruments. The lyrics tell of unity and brotherhood. Next is "Cripple Creek", a definate highlight of the album. This is a simple melody with country and bluegrass influences. The lyrics tell of a young man's life and love. Another highlight is "War In Peace". The lyrics are difficult to decifer, but give the feel of a stream of consciousness. A dark guitar melody drives the song, which sounds vaguely similar to "Dark Star". "Grey/Afro" is a nine minute freakout, complete with phased, African sounding drums and some funky bass guitar. Spence's lyrics are almost impossible to decifer, but he uses them to sort of create another instrument.

This album truely deserves five electric sugar cubes. In 1999, an album entitled "More Oar" was released as a tribute, including contributions from Robert Plant, Beck, and Tom Waits.

Reviewed by Mr Skin - August 2002

Sky Sunlight Saxon/Rainbow Starburst - Heavenly Earth

1977

Sunbow Records ‎– 001

Track List :

Sunlight's Introduction, Spirit Of America, God Rap, Can't Seem To Make You Mine, Paradise Power, Pushin' Too Fast, Nobody Spoil My Fun, Wake Up, Star Jewels.

Sky Saxon - New Fruit From Old Seeds Volume 1

1983

Archive International Productions AIP 10009

Track List:

Go ahead and cry, They say, They say, Darling I swear that it’s true, Do the swim, Trouble with my baby, A thousand shadows (live), Bad part of town, Love in a summer basket, Did he die, Wish me up, Shuckin’ and jivin’, You took me by surprise.

Sky Sunlight Saxon Universal Stars Peace Band – Masters Of Psychedelia

1984

New Rose Records ‎– Rose 36

Track List :

Volcano, Quaset, Music Is A Vanishing World, Silver Leaves, Star Spangled Girl, Firebreak, Magic Woman, On A Sailboat Ride, White Magician, Paradise, Sons Of The Light.

Sky Sunlight Saxon - Starry Ride

1984

Psycho 29

Track List :

Starry Ride, I'm inlove with Life, Drums stars & Guitars, 24 Hour rocker.

Sky Sunlight Saxon and Fire Wall- Destinys Children

1984

PVC 6912

Track List :

Starving for your love, Burning down the walls of the city, Spirit of the sixties, Love dog, House of mine, Sha la la la its a groovy thing, Over reaction/Hollywood Blvd (medley).

Sky Sunlight Saxon and Fire Wall - In Search Of Brighter Colors

1988

New Rose Records ‎– Rose 155

Track List:

I Hear The Mountains Crash, Baby Baby (Be Patient), Lightning, Lightning, Come On, Pretty Girl, Put Something Sweet Between Your Lips, Kick Kick, Barbie Doll Look, Paisley Rocker, The Big Screen, Come A - Here Right Now.

Small Faces - There Are But Four Small Faces

1968

RCA victor (Z12-52-002)

Track List :

Here comes the nice, All or nothing, Lazy Sunday, Sha-la-la-la-lee, Collibosher, The Autumn stone, Watcha gonna do about it?, My mind's eye, Itchycoo park, Hey girl, The universal, Runaway, Call it something nice, I can't make it, Afterglow (of your love).

The Small Faces - Ogdens Nut Gone Flake

1968

Immediate IMLP 008

Track List :

Ogdens Nut Gone Flake, Afterglow, Long Ago's And Worlds Apart, Rene, Son of a Baker, Lazy Sunday, Happiness Stan, Rollin' Over, The Hungry Intruder, The Journey, Mad John, Happy Days, Toy Town.

Small Faces - The Autumn Stone

1969

Immediate ‎– IMAL 01 IMAL 02

Track List :

Here comes the nice, The Autumn stone, Collibosher, All or nothing, Red ballon, Lazy Sunday, Rollin' over, If I were a carpenter, Every little bit hurts, My minds eye, Tin soldier, Just asking, Call it something else, I can't make it, Afterglow (of your love), Sha-la-la-la-lee, The universal, Itchycoo park, Hey girl, Wide eyed girl, On the wall, Watcha gonna do about it?, Wham bam thank you mam.

The Smoke -...It's Smoke Time

1967

Metronome ‎– MLP 15 279

Track List:

My Friend Jack, Waterfall, You Can't Catch Me, High In A Room, Wake Up Cherylina, Don't Lead Me On, We Can Take It, If The Weather's Sunny, I Wanna Make It With You, It's Getting Closer, It's Just Your Way Of Lovin', I Would If I Could But I Can't.

Snakegrinder - And The Shredded Field Mice

1977

Private Pressing

Track List:

Love Junkie, Freedonian Hat Dance (Jesus Was A Plumber), On The Road (And Off Again), Dogland, Better Late Than Frozen, Nothing's Very Easy When Your Baby's In The Lake, Moon Over The Delaware.

Snow - Snow

1968

Epic ‎– BN 26435

Track List:

Where Has My Old Friend Billy Jones Gone, The Golden Oldie Song, Old Uncle Timothy's Flying Balloon, Engelbert, You Let Me Know, Song Of The Sirens, The Flying Miraldos, Sweet Dreams, Bab's Song, Caterpillar.

Soft Boys - A Can Of Bees

1979

Two Crabs Universal ‎– CLAW 1001

Track List:

Give It To The Soft Boys, The Pigworker, Human Music, Leppo And The Jooves, The Rats Prayer, Do The Chisel, Sandras Having Her Brain Out, Return Of The Sacred Crab, Cold Turkey, School Dinner Blues, Wading Through A Ventilator.

Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight

1986

Living Cream

Track List:

I Wanna Destroy You, Kingdom Of Love, Positive Vibrations, I Got The Job, Insanely Jealous, Tonight, You’ll Have To Go Sideways, Old Pervert, The Queens Of Eyes, Underwater Moonlight.

Soft Machine - The Soft Machine

1968

Probe CPLP 4500

Track List:

Hope for happiness, Joy of a toy, Hope for happiness (reprise), Why am I so short?, So boot if at all, A certain kind, Save yourself, Priscilla, Lullabye letter, We did it again, Plus belle qu’une poubelle, why are we sleeping, Bos 25-4 LID.

Review:

If you were rifling through the LP covers in a record shop in the late 60’s, this one would surely have caught your eye. It had cardoard cutout rotatey bits and a fine picture of a tattooed lady with no clothes on.

There were also pictures of the band and sleeve notes but we needn’t dwell on that, need we? In those days we didn’t know that members Daevid Allen, Kevin Ayers and Robert Wyatt would go on to become leading lights of British psychedelic and progressive rock. We just bought the album
for the sexy picture. Such is hindsight. Having got it home and avoided the critical gaze of parents, we slip it on the turntable and discover we have bought a jazz album by mistake. At
least that’s what the first two minutes or so tell us. But then it all breaks down into the wah-wah bass guitar with echoey drums solo that is “Joy of a Toy” and we think ‘hey, this is a bit odd.’ We have Kevin Ayers to thank for that one.

After a reprise of the first track we are treated to an account of Robert Wyatt’s eccentric lifestyle, which drifts into echoey justification of why he is in the band, namely he is an ace drummer! Ratledge and Ayers pour in their ideas on bass and keyboards. Sounds float around from one speaker to another in the best stereo separation of any album you’re likely to hear. Then we hear Robert Wyatt’s superb, emotional, sad, glorious ballad, “A Certain Kind.” This is probably the best of all the love songs of the Canterbury romantic genre.

The whole album is worth getting for this and is a good pointer in the direction of Robert’s many solo works.

Side 2 opens with the rockier “Save Yourself,” followed by “Priscilla” and “Lullabye Letter,” all of which are up-tempo jazzy-rocky songs.

Halfway through “Lullabye Letter,” Mike Ratledge unleashes a devastating solo on his Lowrey organ, which sets the scene for the next half a dozen Soft Machine albums. Then we are into the totally hypnotic “We Did It Again.” This consists of Ayers repeating the song title over and over
and over and over…. again. Ayers dominates with the next track, “Why Are We Sleeping,” his baritone voice intoning coolly about his favourite nightclub milieu and its analogy to life, reality and illusion.

In restrospect this album displays the electrifying but one-dimensional genius of Mike Ratledge, is a superb departure point for Kevin Ayers and introduces us to the talents of Robert Wyatt, a magnificent drummer and vocalist who has entertained us with his genius for many years.

Reviewed by DoctorDark

Soft Machine - Vol. 2

1969

Probe SPB 1002

Track List:

Pataphysical introduction (part 1), A concise British alphabet (part 1), Hibou, Anamone and bear, A concise British alphabet (part 2), Hulloder, Dada was here, Thank you Pierrot Lunaire, Have you ever been green?, Pataphysical introduction (part II), Out of tunes, As long as he lies perfectly still, Dedicated to you but you weren’t listening, Fire engine passing with bells clanging, Pig, Orange skin food, A door opens and closes, 10:30 returns to the bedroom.

Review:

After their USA tour with Jimi Hendrix, the ban d return to England and disbanded, Kevin Ayers felt tired of rock'n'roll way of life and decided to take a time at Deya, Ratlege and Wyatt with a new LP contract in their hands, decided to call Hugh Hopper, a friend of old Canterbury days to play the bass. With the addition of brother Brian Hopper on sax (not as a permanent member) they get into the studio to create a better sound and quality album, more jazzy than pop, more experimental than vocal, it has a brilliant beginning with the suite of side 1 (as it was conceived in the vinyl) pataphysical introduction".

Hibou anemone and bear with great and consistent instrumental passages, they fly through space with the organ-drum playing and the solid bass touch (thanks Hugh), a good song Thank you Pierrot Lunaire with great vocals by Robert Wyatt.

Side 2 is more experimental and less ""punchiër" as side one but it was a big advance on Soft Machine's music, they don't know what future depares to them....

Reviewed by Alejandro Casado, Argentina - June 2002

Soft Machine - Third

1970

CBS 66246

Track List:

Facelift, Slightly all the time, Moon in June, Out-Bloody-Rageous.

Soft Machine - Noisette

1970

Track List:

Eamonn Andrews, Mousetrap, Noisette, Backwards, Mousetrap reprise, Hibou Anemone and Bear, Moon in June, 12/8 Theme, Esther Nosejob, We Did it Again.

Review:

Fantastic live show from Jan 4th 1970 that showcases the classic SM line up of Mike Ratledge (kbds), Hugh Hopper (bs), Robert Wyatt (dr, vox) and Elton Dean (sax) as well as Lyn Dobson (fl, sax, vox).

The band was in the transition from initial psychedelic group to a jazz-fusion combo and that shows in horns becoming prominent sound among distorted organs and fuzz bass as well as vocals becoming less prominent, there are occasional scats from Wyatt and Dobson.

The only song with proper vocals here is "Hibou Anemone and Bear" and even that is preceeded by lenghty jamming. Material here is from 1st three albums, plus a few songs that didn`t make its way to any SM studio album, "Eamonn Andrews", "Mousetrap", "12/8 Theme" (the last one appeared on one of Hugh Hopper`s solo albums).

The sound is intense and performance is really superb. The documented live show also has its reputation for providing one of the live versions of "Facelift" to the final edition on "Third", but sadly the unedited version is left out.
You can`t say that this band rocks, since this is rock only remotely, but Hugh Hopper was right when he said that Softs were a mean live band in late 60s and early 70s.

Submitted by Stereomouse - February 2004

Soft Machine - Fourth

1971

CBS 64280

Track List:

Teeth, Kings and Queens, Fletcher’s blemish, Virtually (parts 1-4).

Review:

Soft Machine's fourth album is the progression of things that the group shows in some songs of second and in all third, here the jazz form replace the space and psychedelic sounds of second album with the band as a quartet with some collaborations as future softs bassist Roy Babbington has a peak in the band's sound and musical direction for the next 2 albums. Without vocals but an excellent performance as drummer Robert Wyatt plays his last Soft Machine album, Hugh Hopper composed the excellent and "classic" Virtually suite, Mike Ratledge composed another excellent jazz theme "Teeth" and Elton Dean plays excellent solos in his own personal way, it means sometimes ""jazzy" sometimes "free" but everytime hoy.

Listen it with a cup of wine, a cool album to be enjoyed.

Reviewed by Alejandro Casado, Argentina - June 2002

Soft Machine - Fifth

1972

CBS 64806

Track List:

All white, Drop, Mc, As if, LBO, Pigling bland, Bone.

Soft Machine - Six

1973

CBS

Track List:

Fanfare, All white, Between, Riff, 37 and a Half, Geseolveut, E.P.V, Lefty, Stumble, 5 From 13, Riff IIoft Wee, The Sd Factor, Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album, Chloe And The Pirates, 1983

Review

After the cool and cold album Fifth I think sometimes insipid and without heart the band reform with Mike Ratledge and Hugh Hopper always on piano/organ and electric bass,with new members John Marshall (drums) who joined in the middle of the Fifth recording sessions and ex Nucleus Karl Jenkins (baritone sax, oboe electric piano) replacing Elton Dean.

The original vinyl shows a two set album with one live and other studio album, the live was the best, played with intense and excellent performs of new members, only one Fifth song "All White" in an excellent version and the other new stuff has the remarkable Geselrout, riff, riff 2 all great performances. Disc 2 is the studio album with 4 songs played in a most "minimal jazzy way", the Soft Weed Factor has the band at his best.

Another Softs album that you MUST have in your collection.....

Submitted by Alex Casado - February 2004

Soho Orange - Soho Orange

1990

Witch & Warlock W&W 002 (CD) (Ger)

Track List:

King of the road, Mississippi Tales/The wish – Tears, Freedom callin, Dream queen, Nightmare, Seven faces.

Review:

The best band among those who recorded for Jim West; they hailed from Glasgow and wove psychedelic textures rent by hardblues riffs played with punk aptitude.

Collectors' initiative dug out of the vaults this submerged jewel originally taped at Central Scotland Studios, Falkirk in 1971.

Submitted by Roberto (The Wrong Way) - August 2003

The SolarFlares - Psychedelic Tantrum

1999

Twist

Track List:

Mary, Stargazing, Apollo Go Go, Lifetime In One Season, All Too Much, Medway, Just Wanna Be Bad, Out Of Our Minds, The Shadow Of The Past, Find A Hidden Door, You Always Find A Way To Hurt Me, Brompton Lane,
Medicine Spoon, Hold Your Head Up.

The SolarFlares - That Was Then...And So Is This

2000

Twist

Track List:

Can't Get You Out Of My Mind!, It's Alright, A Right And A Wrong Way, Miles Away, Get It Together, Sucking Out My Insides, Picture Of You, The Mountain, Angel Interceptor, Separate Ways, Inside Unseen, Souvenir.

The SolarFlares - Can't Get You Out Of My Mind! (single)

2000

Twist

Track List:

Can't Get You Out Of My Mind!, Lunar Girl, Inside Of A Dream

Sonic Boom - Spectrum

1990

Silvertone

Track List:

Pretty Baby, If I Should Die, Lonely Avenue, Help Me Please, Angel, Rock ‘n’ Roll Is Killing My Life, You’re The One.

The Sons - The Sons

1969

Capitol Records - ST 332

Track List:

Love Of A Woman, Terry's Tune, Boomp Boomp Chop, Why Do People Run From The Rain, It's Time, Country Girl, You Can Fly.

Sons Of Champlin – Loosen Up Naturally

1969

Capitol Records - SWBB-200

Track List:

1982-A, The Thing To Do, Misery Isn't Free, Rooftop, Everywhere, Don't Fight It, Do It!, Get High, Black And Blue Rainbow, Hello Sunlight, Things Are Gettin' Better, Freedom.

Som Imaginário - Som Imaginário

1970

Odeon ‎– MOFB 3658

Track List:

Morse, Super-God, Tema Dos Deuses, Make Believe Waltz, Pantera, Sábado, Nepal, Feira Moderna, Hey, Man!, Poison.

Som Imaginário - Som Imaginário

1971

Odeon ‎– MOFB 3695

Track List:

Cenouras, Você Tem Que Saber, Gogó (O Alivio Rococó), Ascenso, Salvação Pela Macrobiótica, Uê, Xmas Blues, A Nova Estrêla.

Som Imaginário - Matança Do Porco

1973

Odeon ‎– SMOFB-3782

Track List:

Armina, A-3, Armina (Vinheta 1), A (Nova Estrela) N° 2, A Matança Do Porco, Armina (Vinheta 2), Bolero, Mar Azul, Armina (Vinheta 3).

Sopwith Camel - Sopwith Camel

1967

Kama Sutra (klps 8060)

Track List:

Hello hello, Frantic desolation, Saga of the low down let down, Little orphan Annie, You always tall me baby, Maybe in a dream, Cellophane woman, Thing that I could do with you, Walk inthe park, The Great Morpheum, Postcard from Jamaica.

Sopwith Camel - The Miraculous Hump Returns From The Moon

2000

Generic Type CD 8600

Track List:

Fazon, Coke, Suede and Waterbeds, Dancin’ Wizard, Sleazy Street, Orange Peel, Oriental Fantasy, Sneaky Smith, Monkeys On The Moon, Astronaut Food, Brief Synthophonia.

Review:

This the third album from San Francisco's Sopwith Camel and one that has finally be re-released on CD after being held for 28 years in the vaults of Warner Brothers. The man responsible for this release is none other than original band member Norm Mayall. Not only this he has also managed to get the original album remastered and it comes complete with a nice booklet/artwork.

Sopwith Camel were one of the earliest bands on the San Francisco scene and played their first gig in 1966. They went on to play the Avalon, Fillmore and The Matrix and appeared with many of the top bands at the time including The Doors, The Who and The Rolling Stones. After a brief flirtation with the psychedelic sound (Hello Hello - Kama Sutra 1966) the band settled into a more laid back Jazz/Rock vibe which changed over the years to what is recorded here. The Miraculous Hump Returns From The Moon probably represents the band at their peak being musically more mature than the other albums. There are varied styles here with everything from Jazz Rock, Folk and a bit of everything in between including an amount of eastern flavoured tracks.

The songwriting is second to none and the production on this remastered CD really allows this and the musicians skill to shine through. Instruments range from guitar/bass/drums through to Saxophone, Flute and even some Sitar (Dancin' Wizard).

If a nice relaxed Jazz/Rock vibe is what you are looking for and one that contains a whole bunch of good songs then look no further than here, this is one band that deserve much more recognition than they got first time around, maybe they can finally get it now.

My fave track?.....Fazon, of course!!

For more info on Sopwith Camel, check out their site: www.sopwithcamel.com where you can also order this CD.

Reviewed by pOoTer - January 2002

Spacemen 3 - Sound Of Confusion

1986

Glass Records – GLALP 018

Track List:

Losing Touch With My Mind, Hey Man, Rollercoaster, Mary Anne, Little Doll, 2.35, O.D. Catastrophe.

Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription

1987

Glass Records – GLALP 026

Track List:

Take Me To The Other Side, Walkin' With Jesus, Ode To Street Hassle, Ecstasy Symphony, Transparent Radiation (Flashback), Feel So Good, Things'll Never Be The Same, Come Down Easy, Call The Doctor.

Spacemen 3 - Performance

1988

Glass Records – GLALP 030

Track List:

Mary-Anne, Come Together, Things'll Never Be The Same, Take Me To The Other Side, Rollercoaster, Starship, Walkin' With Jesus.

Spacemen 3 – Playing With Fire

1989

Fire Records Fire CD16

Track List:

Honey, Come Down Softly To My Soul, How Does It Feel?, I Believe It, Revolution, Let Me Down Gently, So Hot (Wash Away All My Tears), Suicide, Lord Can You Hear Me?, Suicide (live), Repeater (How Does It Feel?) (live)

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Review:

Q Magazine listed this as one of the great heroin albums of all time. Dunno about that, especially since bassist’s Willie Carruthers’ primal nyong-nyong-nyong tones would incite nitrous flashbacks, if only there were such things. Much of the album is quiet and starstruck, with vox organ, guitar and bass floating like narcotized hummingbirds around a transcendent chord or two.

The songs are mostly about desiring something profoundly: whether that something is salvation, fornication or annihilation can be hard to tell. Jason Pierce took his knack for devotional pop onto bigger things as Spiritualized, and this album contains the original versions of “So Hot” and “Lord Can You Hear Me”. “How Does It Feel” doesn’t work as a Bolero-style accelerando, but “Suicide” and “Revolution” take the delicate sonic textures, and spike them with testosterone – if the Spacemen can’t float effortlessly away into the sublime, then they’re going to invade it by force.

Extra points to the lyrics to “Revolution” for putting a Maoist face on teenage irritation.

Two savage attempts at scrambling your brains, set among whispered gospels of inutterably perfect longing.

Highly recommended.

Reviewed by McGannahan Skjellyfetti - March 2002

Spacemen 3 - Recurring

1990

Fire Records ‎– FIRE CD23

Track List:

Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here), Just To See You Smile (Orchestral Mix), I Love You, Set Me Free / I've Got The Key, Set Me Free (Reprise), Why Couldn't I See, Just To See You Smile (Instrumental), When Tomorrow Hits, Feel So Sad (Reprise), Hypnotized, Sometimes, Feelin' Just Fine (Head Full Of Shit), Billy Whizz / Blue1, Drive / Feel So Sad, Feelin' Just Fine (Alternative Mix).

Spacemen 3 - Dreamweapon

1990

Fierce Recordings ‎– Fright 040

Track List:

An Evening Of Contemporary Sitar Music.

Spacemen 3 - Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To

1990

Father Yod Records FYP L25

Track List:

2:35, Mary Anne, Sound Of Confusion, Losing Touch With Mi mind, A-Men, That’s Just Fine, Come Down Easy.

Review:

The Spacemen's drug use is well documented, but when these songs were first being played one must have suspected these dudes were on some pretty serious shit even before the admissions came. "Taking Drugs..." picks up where "White Light/White Heat" & “Funhouse” left off and then pushes us back into the heroin vortex.

This album is actually an "unofficial" LP of early demo tunes recorded in Northampton (ignore the statement on the sleeve that they are "Rugby Rehearsals").

Most of the tunes contained within this album would eventually be re-worked and re-recorded for the official 1st album entitled, "The Perfect Prescription". However, if it is sheer raw energy that you want and would like it injected with a red-hot needle then look no further than these demos by Sonic and Jason. Their stormin’ version of Juicy Lucy’s “Mary Ann” sounds like it could easily have been an outtake of a ’68 Velvets session.

For those who are interested in the UK underground drug music scene during the mid 1980’s, then the Spacemen 3 are essential.

Reviewed by BlueMagoo - 20th September 2002

Spacemen 3 - For All The Fucked - Up Children Of This World We Give You Spacemen 3 (1984)

1995

Sympathy For The Record Industry ‎– SFTRI 368

Track List:

Things'll Never Be The Same, 2:35, Walkin' With Jesus, T.V. Catastrophe, Fixin' To Die, Things'll Never Be The Same, Walkin' With Jesus.

Spacemen 3 - Translucent Flashbacks

1995

Fire Records

Track List:

Walking With Jesus, Roller Coaster, Feel So Good, Transparent Radiation, Ecstasy symphony, Transparent Radiation (Flashback), Starship, Take Me To The Other Side, Soul 1, That’s Just Fine.

Review:

A collection of singles released between 1986-1988. Psychedelic? Yes, very.

However, as stated in my other reviews of their work, these guys were perhaps more into heroin than acid. The songs, like the come down, are long and at times make you float in a truly blissful state ("That's Just Fine"). However, like their chosen drug of choice, they can easily spiral into a frightening frenzy ("Starship"). Most of the time however, the songs are calm & gentle like the golden sunshine rush they came in on ("Feel So Good”, and the gorgeous cover of Red Krayola's "Transparent Radiation").

When listening to these songs (much of it is actually extended jamming) you get a sense that the ideas as well as the drugs were flowing in abundance. For example, on the lysergic drone of “Ecstasy Symphony" one can easily hear the beginnings of Jason Pierce's follow-up band; Spiritualized emerging out of the noodling and meandering guitar work.

The highlight of this disc however, has to be the 17-minute version of “Roller Coaster”. In case you thought it couldn’t get any more psychedelic than the original 13th Floor Elevators version, well….it just has.

Phenomenal.

Reviewed by BlueMagoo - 20th September 2002

Sperrmüll - Sperrmüll

1973

BRAIN 1026

Track List:

Me And My Girlfriend, No Freak Out, Rising Up, Right Now, Land Of The Rocking Sun, Pat Casey.

Spiders - Why Don't You Love Me

1998

Sundazed Music - SEP 141

Track List:

Why Don't You Love Me, Hitch Hike, Don't Blow Your Mind, Why Don't You Love Me.

Spirit - Spirit

1968

C.B.S (63278)

Track List:

Fresh garbage, Uncle Jack, Mechanical world, Taurus, Straight arrow, Topango windows, Gramophone man, Water woman, Great canyon fire in general, Elijah, Girl in your eyes.

Spirit - Clear Spirit

1969

C.B.S (63729)

Track List:

Dark eyed woman, Apple orchard, So little time to fly, Groundhog, Cold wind, Policeman's ball, Ice, Give a life-take a life, I'm trucking, Clear, Caught, New dope in town.

Spirit - Twelve Dreams Of Dr Sardonicus

1971

Epic (EPC 64191)

Track List:

Nothing to hide, Nature's way, Animal zoo, Love has found a way, Why can't I be free, Mr.Skin, Space child, When I touch you, Sweet worm, Life has just begun, Morning will come, Soldier.

Review:

This record occupies a curious slot – overrated by fanboys of West Coast acid-rock, and underrated by almost everybody else.

Spirit got lots of press for trying to incorporate jazz into pop, but you won’t hear it in this album of commercial, Nixon-era rock. “Nature’s Way”, an early ecological anthem, is their most famous song, and has been covered by luminaries such as Christopher Cross and Victoria Williams. “Mr. Skin” is an ill-advised attempt at funk, but “Animal Zoo” works well as a back-to-the-land anthem. “Life Has Just Begun” is the strongest track, and always makes me wish for a hillside, a sunset and a circle of best friends to hold hands with. The music isn’t nearly as warped as the cover and inset photographs, but psychedelia bubbles up in lots of unexpected places and ways.

Not ready for the big time then or now, 12 Dreams is still a fascinating piece of hallucinogenic history.

n.b.: It’s worth seeking out the Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs version of this disc, both for the improved sound quality and the rearranged song list. “Intro/Nothing to Hide” opens the album, and “Life Has Just Begun” ends it, precisely as they should.

Reviewed by McGannahan Skjellyfetti - March 2002

Spirit - The Family That Plays Together

1968

Ode Records (2) ‎– Z12 44014

Track List:

I Got A Line On You, It Shall Be, Poor RIchard, Drunkard, Silky Sam, Darlin' IF, It's All The Same, Jewish, Dream Within Her Dream, She Smiles, Aren't You Glad

Review:

For me this is the underappreciated Spirit album. It opens with their highest charting single "I Got A Line On You" which is also a rollicking tune. The album drifts into different moodsand really picks up strength with the tracks that were originally on the second side. From "It's All The Same" right thru to the closing track "Aren't You Glad", you're treated to excellent jazz-tinged heavy psychedelic rock. Even the Randy California track *Jewish*, which apparently contains a traditional Hebrew song catches you when he soars off with restrained Hendrix like guitar pieces.

The final song *Aren't You Glad* really does it for me tho. The drawn out jam is just captivating. Spirit is easily one of my fave groups and while it is not as flawless as, say 12 Dreams, the latter CD frequently has to get dusted off before playing, but 'Family' gets used too often for dust to settle.

Five Cosmic Cubes

Review submitted by Arthur from Trinidad - August 2004

Spirits & Worm - Spirits & Worm

1969

A&M Records ‎– SP-4229

Track List:

You And I Together, Every Little Bit Of Love, She, Fanny Firecracker, Sunny Please Hold Me, Spirits & Worm, All I Need Is A Little You, She's The One, You're Dynamite, She's So Good.

SRC - SRC

1968

Capitol Records ‎– ST 2991

Track List:

Black Sheep, Daystar, Exile, Marionette, Onesimpletask, Paragon Council, Refugeve, Interval.

SRC - Milestones

1969

Capitol Records ‎– ST-134

Track List:

No Secret Destination, Show Me, Eye Of The Storm, I Remember Your Face, In The Hall Of The Mountain King, Bolero, Checkmate, Our Little Secret, Turn Into Love, Up All Night, The Angel Song.

SRC - Traveler's Tale

1970

Capitol Records ‎– SKAO-273

Track List:

A New Crusader, Street Without A Name, Midnight Fever, Never Before Now, By Way Of You, Diana, Across The Land Of Light, The Offering.

St. John Green - St. John Green

1968

Flick-Disc ‎– FLS 45,001

Track List:

7th Generation Mutation, Canyon Women, Devil And The Sea, Do You Believe, Help Me Close The Door, Messages From The Dead, Goddess Of Death, St. John Green, Spirit Of Now, Love Or Hate, One Room Cemetery, Shivers Of Pleasure.

Stained Glass - Crazy Horse Roads

1968

Capitol Records ‎– ST-154

Track List:

I Sing You Sing, Finger Painting, Soap And Turkey, Twiddle My Thumbs, Fahrenheit, Nightcap, Horse On Me, Two Make One, Light Down Below, Piggy Back Ride And The Camel, Doomsday.

Stained Glass - Aurora

1969

Capitol Records ‎– ST-242

Track List:

Gettin' On's Gettin' Rough, Jim Dandy, A Common Thief, The Kibitzer, Inca Treasure, Daddy's Claim, Sweetest Thing, Mad Lynn Ball, The Necromancer.

Stalk-Forrest Group - St. Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings

2001

Rhino Handmade ‎– RHM2 7716

Track List:

What Is Quicksand?, I'm On The Lamb But I Ain't No Sheep, Gil Blanco County, Donovan's Monkey, Ragamuffin Dumplin', Curse Of The Hidden Mirrors, Arthur Comics, A Fact About Sneakers, St. Cecilia, Ragamuffin Dumplin' (Original Version), I'm On The Lamb But I Ain't No Sheep (Original Version), Curse Of The Hidden Mirrors (Original Version), Bonomo's Turkish Taffy,Gil Blanco County (Original Version), St. Cecilia (Original Version), A Fact About Sneakers (Original Version), What Is Quicksand? (Mono Single Version), Arthur Comics (Mono Single Version).

The Standells - Why Pick On Me-Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White

1966

Tower ST 5044

Track List:

Why pick on me, Paint it black, Mi hai fatto innamorate, I hate to leave, Black hearted woman, Sometimes good guy’s don’t wear white, Girl and the moon, Looking at tomorrow, Mr. Nobody, My little red book, Mailine, Have you ever spent the night in jail.

The Standells - Dirty Water

1968

Eva

Track List :

Dirty Water, Little Sally Tease, Black Is Black, Barracuda, Animal Girl, St. James Infirmary, Try It, Summer In The City, Why Did You Hurt Me, Rari, Paint It Black, Medication, Why Pick On Me, Sunny Afternoon, Mr. Nobody, Wild Thing.

Starfire - Starfire

1974

Crimson Records - S 4477

Track List:

Comfort Me, My Love Is Gone, Many Moods Ago, Birth Of The Sun, Islands, Slippery, Merry Crises '74, To Wander Life Alone.

Status Quo - Pictureseque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo

1968

Pye PL 18220

Track List:

Black Veils Of Meloncholy, When My Mind Is Not Live, Ice In The Sun, Elizabeth Dreams, Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe, Paradise Flat, Technicolor Dreams, Spicks & Specks, Sheila, Sunny Celophane Skies, Green Tambourine, Pictures Of Matchstick Men.

Review:

One of the last albums of the 60's to be released in mono only, what it lacks in fidelity, it certainly makes up for with extreme melodicism. Much like the familiar hit single mentioned in the title, the rest of the album also relies heavily on a similar organ/wah-wah guitar/deadpan vocal sound.

Most of the original songs on the album are easily as catchy and hook-laden as the hit (in America, "Ice In The Sun" also managed to scrape into Billboard's hot 100). "Black Veils Of Melancholy" is basically "Pictures Of Matchstick Men" played sideways, but songs like "Sunny Cellophane Skies" and "Technicolour Dreams" could've easily been hit singles as well.

The album's only weak cuts are the three covers of hits by Tommy Roe, The Bee Gees and The Lemon Pipers. None of them add anything to the originals, and come off sounding like rushed bar-band knockoffs.

Reviewed By Daniel H.

Status Quo - Spare Parts

1968

Pye PL 18301

Track List:

Face Without A Soul, You're Just What I Was Looking For Today, Are You Growing Tired Of My Love?, Antique Angelica, So Ends Another Life, Poor Old Man, Mr. Mind Detector, The Clown, Velvet Curtains, Little Miss Nothing, When I Awake, Nothing At All, The Status Quo.

Review:

The band's second, and final psychedelic effort, basically contains more of the same sound that was featured on the first album, except this time, in stereo. On this one, they wisely only included one non-original (Goffin & King's "You're Just What I Was Looking For Today"), which makes this a much more consistant record/CD than the first. Songs like "When I Awake," "So Ends Another Life," and "Velvet Curtains" all would fit just as comfortably on Piper At The Gates Of Dawn or Satanic Majesties Request, and overall the whole album sounds a bit like something much more typical of 1967 than 1969, which I believe is a good thing.

Reviewed By Daniel H.

Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf

1968

R.C.A. (RD/SF 7974)

Track List :

Sookie Sookie, Everybody's next one, Berry rides again, Hoochie coochie man, Born to be wild, Your wall's too high, Desperation, The pusher, A girl I knew, Take what you need, The ostrich.

Steppenwolf - The Second

1968

Dunhill 50037

Track List :

Faster Than The Speed Of Light, Tighten Up Your Wig, None Of Your Doing, Spiritual Fantasy, Don’t Step On The Grass Sam, 28, Magic Carpet Ride, Disappointment, Number, Lost And Found By Trial And Error, Hodge Podge Strained Through A Leslie, Ressurection, Reflections.

Steppenwolf - At Your Birthday Party

1969

Dunhill ‎– DS-50053

Track List :

Don't Cry, Chicken Wolf, Lovely Meter, Round And Down, It's Never Too Late, Sleeping Dreaming, Jupiter Child, She'll Be Better, Cat Killer, Rock Me, God Fearing Man, Mango Juice, Happy Birthday.

Steppenwolf – Early Steppenwolf

1969

HÖR ZU – SHZE 266

Track List:

Power Play, Howlin' For My Baby, Goin' Upstairs, Corina, Corina, Tighten Up Your Wig, The Pusher.

Steppenwolf - Monster

1969

Dunhill ‎– DS-50066

Track List :

Monster, Suicide, America, Draft Resister, Power Play, Move Over, Fag, What Would You Do (If I Did That To You), From Here To There Eventually.

Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf 7

1970

Dunhill – DSX 50090

Track List:

Ball Crusher, Forty Days And Forty Nights, Fat Jack, Renegade, Foggy Mental Breakdown, Snow Blind Friend, Who Needs Ya, Earschplittenloudenboomer, Hippo Stomp.

Steppenwolf – Live

1970

Stateside – 1J 062-91.206

Track List:

Sookie Sookie, Don't Step On The Grass Sam, Tighten Up Your Wig, Hey Lawdy Mama, Magic Carpet Ride, The Pusher, Corina Corina, Twisted, From Here To There Eventually, Draft Resister, Born To Be Wild.

Steppenwolf – For Ladies Only

1971

ABC/Dunhill Records – DSX-50110

Track List:

For Ladies Only, I'm Asking, Shackles & Chains, Tenderness, The Night Time's For You, Jaded Strumpet, Sparkle Eyes, Black Pit, Ride With Me, In Hopes Of A Garden.

The Steppes - The Steppes

1984

Mystic Records - MLP MINI-02

Track List:

Kathy Maguire, I Think I'll Go, Young Johnny Jones, To Carry On, It's The Real Time, Nobody's Fault, Take Heart, My Love, No Names Yet For Henry.

The Steppes - Drop Of The Creature

1986

Voxx Records ‎– Voxx 200.044

Track List:

A Play On Wordsworth, Somebody Waits, Holding Up Well, Sky Is Falling, Make Us Bleed, Cut In Two, See You Around, Lazy Ol' Son, Bigger Than Life, Black Forest Friday, More Than This.

Steve Farmer - Journey To The Darkside Of The Mind

2000

St. Thomas Records ‎– STP-0069

Track List:

Journey To The Darkside Of The Mind, Shadows On The Wall, The Stone, Hiroshima, Detroit After Dark, Journey Sojourn Soul, Ivory Castles, Death Is Life, Saint Phillips Friend, Perfect Day, Sir Thomas Sonnet, Magically Hip - Hip Death Goddess.

Steve Hillage - Fish Rising

1975

Virgin

Track List:

Solar Musick Suite: sun sing, canterbury sunrise, hiram aftergold meets the dervish, sun sing reprise. Fish, Meditations Of The Snake, The Salmon Song: salmon pool, solomons atlantis salmon, swimming with the salmon, king of the fishes. Aftaglid:, sun moon surfing, the great wave and the boat of hermes, the silver ladder, astral meadows, the lafta yoga song, glidding, the golden vibe/outglid.

Review:

The first solo album by Hillage, at this time a permanent member of Gong, he recorded this album with collaboration of friends from Gong (Didier Malherbe, Pierre Moerlen, Tim Blake, Mike Howlett) and old friend Dave Stewart (from National Health, Hatfield and the North, Egg) and Lindsay Cooper (from Henry Cow), selected musicians right?

Spacey/guitar driven music , mystic lirics and an excelent play of all musicians,this could be a Gong album without Daevid Allen, Steve is in his best form and the compositions are intense and inspired with great moments (Solar musk suite, The Salmon Song, the complex Afterglid).

An excelent space psychedelic album, I think the best from Hillage.

Submitted by Alex Casado - February 2004

Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick

1979

Virgin

Track List:

Garden Of Paradise, Four Ever Rainbow.

Review:

Between the great Fish Rising and Rainbow Dome Musick, Steve writes three albums ( "L" recorded with Todd Rundgren´s Band and produced by him, another excellent guitar spacey album, the more funky space Motivation Radio and Green, the most cool).

Here Steve plays lots of synthezisers and some guitar, but this record was intended as an ambient album with influence of Tangerine Dream and Tim Blake´s Crystal Machine (album were Hillage play guitar) something different but very good, a style that years later Hillage would play intensily with samplers and other electronic sounds.

Submitted by Alex Magicflute - February 2004

The Stillroven - Cast Thy Burden Upon The Stillroven

1996

Sundazed Music ‎– LP 5020

Track List:

I'm Not Your Stepping Stone, She's My Woman, Hey Joe, Sunny Day, And My Baby's Gone, Little Picture Playhouse, Cast Thy Burden Upon The Stone, Tell Me Have You Ever Seen Me, Have You Got A Penny, Cheating, Little Games, Come In The Morning, Necessary Person, Freakout.

Striped Bananas – The Striped Bananas - Remix 2018

2012

Cosmic Sunshine Records

Track List:

Mind Desert, Brain Waves, Take My Hand, The Jungle, Broken Wings, Lady Lazarus, Feels Like Love Inside, Memories, Take The Love Back, Into Your Eyes, Stop Reality, Outstretched Arms, Ghost Girl, Our Life Flows.

Striped Bananas – Lady Sunshine

2013

Cosmic Sunshine Records

Track List:

Hymn To The Sun, Dark Peace, Lady Sunshine, Saint Senara, Wednesday Morning, Black Velvet, Oasis Of Time, In The Garden, World Can't Be Won, Mistress Of Existence, Radio Announcement, A Kiss Or Two.

Striped Bananas – Cosmic Carnival

2015

Cosmic Sunshine Records

Track List:

Bad Hand Mackenzie, Girl You Got Me Feeling Alright, Reaching For Love, Runaway, Life Goes On, Captain Merwin, Feel It Now, Open Eyes, She's Free, The Carnival.

Striped Bananas – Stone Of Madness

2017

Cosmic Sunshine Records – MCB 5173

Track List:

The Sun and the Moon, Sister Brittany, Swirling Colors In My Mind, Heaven And Hell, Ghost World, Drift On, Hold on Now, Stone of Madness, Falling, She Walks with Me, The Battle of Antietam, The Trip.

Striped Bananas – Pictures I Hear

2020

Cosmic Sunshine Records – MEB-1200

Track List:

Crimson Cliffs, Never Too Far, Laughing Water, Octopus Eyes, Golden One, Live This Day, Blue Generation, Out Of My Mind, New Dawn, Skip's Axe, Green Paradise, Pictures I Hear.

Stoned Circus

1970

Rockadelic

Track List:

Find A Way, Feel What We Feel, Face What You Find, There Will Be A New World, Dictionary, My Sweet Lovin’, Lavender Release, Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You, Corrina, Lot Of Love.

Stoned Circus - Revisited

2004

World In Sound – WIS-1019

Track List:

Gotta Find A Way, Feel, Try Love, New World, Trust, Sweet Lovin', Instrumental, Gonna Leave You, Corina, Whole Lotta Love.

Stonewall - Stonewall

1976

Tiger Lily Records ‎– TL 14013

Track List:

Right On, Solitude, Bloody Mary, Outer Spaced, Try & See It Through, Atlantis, I'd Rather Be Blind, Roll Over Rover.

Stooges - Stooges

1969

Elektra EKS 74051

Track List :

1969, I wanna be your dog, We will fall, No fun, Real cool time, Ann, Not right, Little doll.

Review:

The band that influenced a thousand others in this their first release. Coming at you at 200mph and grabbing you by the throat.....was this really released in 1969???.

What can I say....every single track on here is a blistering classic, totally original and about 10 years ahead of its time. Raw guitar, tortured vocals and a relentless drum beat...in your face hypnotic kick ass groove, if you have not heard it, shutdown your browser now and go buy it......!!!

Reviewed by pOoTer

The Stooges - Funhouse

1970

Elektra 7559 60669-2

Track List:

Down On The Street, Loose, TV Eye, Dirt, 1970, Funhouse, LA Blues.

Review:

Could this be the greatest rock and roll album ever recorded? Perhaps. However, along with VU’s “White Light/White Heat”, “Funhouse” is quite possibly rock’s sleaziest statement ever committed to tape. For those born after 1970, you must remember what NYC used to be like before Giuliani. NYC was the crime capital of the USA, its trains were covered in graffiti, the streets were dirty, Central Park was declared unsafe after dark, the NYPD were corrupt and Times Square was full of seedy bars, porn shops, dirty old men, and junkies.

This album was spawned in the grimiest junk den imaginable. It’s not pretty, nor is it clean and track 2 sums this album up perfectly, “loose”.

Gone is the nihilistic teenage angst prevalent in their 1st album. In less than a year, Iggy and co. have grown up, and shot too much smack to worry about having “a real cool time”. Now the songs are about hanging out on the street to score more smack, feeling like dirt, and being loose…always! The amazing thing about "Fun House" is that it sounds as if it were recorded yesterday.

It has aged well and rocks harder than most bands today. “Callin’ from the fun house baby, with my songs…..” Essential!

Reviewed by BlueMagoo - 20th September 2002

The Stooges - Raw Power

1973

Columbia ‎– KC 32111

Track List:

Search And Destroy, Gimme Danger, Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell, Penetration, Raw Power, I Need Somebody, Shake Appeal, Death Trip.

Iggy And The Stooges – Metallic 'KO

1976

Skydog ‎– SGIS 008

Track List:

Raw Power, Head On, Gimme Danger, Rich Bitch, Cock In My Pocket, Louie Louie.

Strange - Translucent World

1973

Outer Galaxie TW1000

Track List :

Ruler of the Universe, The Kiss of a Butterfly, Lost,

Review:

Get out your dictionary and look up Heavy Psychedelia and it will say:
‘Uncompromising, unrelenting extreme terrifying unstoppable force produced by Terry Brooks and Strange’. Strap yourself in and be prepared to get slapped around the face by your neural ganglion the devil is in town and he is packing a lethal dose of psychedelics.

For those who like their psych loud and bad, look no further, you are looking at the definitive article.

Reviewed by pOoTer

Also see HERE for albums released as Terry Brooks

Strange - Raw Power

1976

Outer Galaxie OG 1001

Track List :

Love Me, Fields and Fields of People, Are You My Friend, To The Far Side of Time, Life Jam.

Review:

More gargantuanly heavy psych from the maestro himself Terry Brooks, a slightly more tuneful excursion than Translucent World and not quite so terrifying, this album is packed with Strange’s unique form of heavy psychedelia.

This is psych like you have never heard before and is both beautiful and haunting on one hand and deeply malevolant on the other. Haunting lyrics and blistering guitar make this a must have for the discerning heavy psych fan. Not that covers are always a good benchmark of whats inside the package, but this time the sleeve says it all........

Reviewed by pOoTer

Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints

1967

Pye 7N 25436

Track List:

Incense and Peppermints, The Birdman of Alkatrash.

Strawberry Alarm Clock – Incense And Peppermints

1967

UNI Records – 73014

Track List:

The World's On Fire, Birds In My Tree, Lose To Live, Strawberries Mean Love, Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow, Paxton's Back Street Carnival, Hummin' Happy, Pass Time With Sac (Instrumental), Incense And Peppermints, Unwind With The Clock.

Strawberry Alarm Clock – Wake Up...It's Tomorrow

1968

UNI Records – 73025

Track List:

Nightmare Of Percussion, Soft Skies, No Lies, Tomorrow, They Saw The Fat One Coming, Curse Of The Witches, Sit With The Guru, Go Back, You're Going The Wrong Way, Pretty Song From Psych-Out, Sitting On A Star, Black Butter, Past, Black Butter, Present, Black Butter, Future.

Strawberry Alarm Clock – The World In A Sea Shell

1968

UNI Records – 73035

Track List:

Sea Shell, Blues For A Young Girl Gone, An Angry Young Man, A Million Smiles Away, Home Sweet Home, Lady Of The Lake, Barefoot In Baltimore, Wooden Woman, Heated Love, Love Me Again, Eulogy, Shallow Impressions.

Strawbs - Strawbs

1969

A&M Records ‎– AMLS 936

Track List :

The Man Who Called Himself Jesus, That Which Once Was Mine, All The Little Ladies, Pieces Of 79 And 15, Tell Me What You See In Me, Oh How She Changed, Or Am I Dreaming?, Where Is This Dream Of Your Youth, Poor Jimmy Wilson, Where Am I? / I'll Show You Where To Sleep, The Battle.

Strawbs - Dragonfly

1970

A&M Records ‎– AMLS 970

Track List :

The Weary Song, Dragonfly, I Turned My Face Into The Wind, Josephine For Better Or For Worse, Another Day, Til The Sun Comes Shining Through, Young Again, The Vision Of The Lady Of The Lake, Close Your Eyes.

Strawbs - From The Witchwood

1971

A&M AMLS 64304

Track List :

A Glimpse Of Heaven, Witchwood, Thirty Days, Flight, The Hangman And The Papist, Sheep, Cannondale, The Shepherd's Song, In Amongst The Roses, I'll Carry On Beside You.

Sugar Bear - Sugar Bear

1974/1975

Private Pressing

Track List:

Playing Music, Honey Love, Moccasin Mona, Sweetest One Around, Play Me A Song, Let It Roll, Seasons For Love, The Garden, Move Out In The Country, Hip! Hip! Hooray For Today.

Sugar Creek - Please Tell A Friend

1969

Metromedia Records ‎– MD 1020

Track List:

A Million Years, Old House, Who Do You Think You Are, Where Do You Find The Answer, Woman, Heavenly Road, Memory Tree, Miss You, Lady Linda, Night Flash.

Sula Bassana – Dreamer

2002

Elektrohasch Schallplatten – Elektrohasch 106

Track List:

Dreamer, Dealer Mc Dope, My Blue Guitar, Nervenlähmung, Ananda, Baby Blue Shuffle In D Major.

Sula Bassana And Friends – Spaced Out

2006

Sulatron-Records – st cdr 002

Track List:

Echoflow, Peacenopeace, Strange Forest, Pollenflug Jam, Oh Schön, Floating Circle.

Sula Bassana – Silent Music

2009

Sulatron-Records – ST CDR 007

Track List:

Darkwood, Sunrise, Endless Moment, Little Thought, Lost, Silent Music.

Sula Bassana – Loop Station Drones

2021

Sulatron-records – ST 2108

Track List:

Roadburn Haze, Rolling In Outer Space, Die Karawane Der Unsterblichen, Wastelandgarden, Dopeshuttle, Stargate, One Way.

Sun Dial - Other Way Out

1990

Tangerine MM 07 (ltd. ed. of 1500) (LP) (UK)

Track List:

Plains of Nazca, Exploding in your mind, Magic flight, World without time, She's looking all around, Lorne blues.

Review:

The greatest psychedelic album of the nineties, no doubt in my opinion; it's really a pity that Gary Ramon altered his course after this astonishing debut.

Submitted by Roberto (The Wrong Way) - August 2003

Sun Ra - The Heliocentric World Of Sun Ra, Volume 1

1965

E.S.P. (ESP 1014)

Track List :

Heliocentric, Outer nothingness, Other worlds, The cosmos, Of heavenly things, Nebulae, Dancing in the sun.

Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra, Volume 2

1966

ESP Disk ‎– 1017

Track List :

The Sun Myth, A House Of Beauty, Cosmic Chaos.

Sun Ra - Nothing Is...

1966

ESP-DISK 1045

Track List :

Dancing Shadows, Imagination, Exotic Forest, Sun Ra And His Band From Outer Space, Shadow World, Theme Of The Stargazers, Outer Spaceways Incorporated, Next Stop Mars.

Sum Pear - Sum Pear

1971

Euphoria - EST-1

Track List:

What's So Bad About Feelin' Good, Better Get Down, Save The Children, Hey Sun, Thoughts Of Slumber, Bring Me Home America, I Need Lovin', Down On Saturday, I Can See, Got Me Tragedy, On My Way / Forget Yesterday.

The Summer Sounds - Up Down

1969

Laurel Records - LP 331098

Track List:

Small World, Hard To Please, Lonely Beach, Gimme Some Lovin, One Last Kiss, Leaves Are Turning Brown, Summer Girl, I Love You, First Date, You Told Me.

Swampgas - Swampgas

1972

Buddah Records ‎– BDS 5102

Track List:

Potatoe Strut, Don't, The Waiting E Train Blue, Trapped In The City, Eulogy, Frolic Child, Pala, Egg Shells.

Sweet Smoke - Just A Poke

1970

Columbia ‎– 1 C 062-28 886

Track List:

Silly Sally, Baby Night.

Sweet Smoke - Darkness To Light

1973

Harvest ‎– 1C 062-29 471

Track List:

Just Another Empty Dream, I'd Rather Burn Than Disappear, Kundalini, Believe Me My Friends, Show Me The Way To The War, Darkness To Light.

Syd Barrett - Octopus 7”

1969

Harvest HAR 5009

Track List:

Octopus, Golden Hair.

Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs

1970

Harvest SHVL 765

Track List :

Terrapin, No Good Trying, Love You, No Mans Land, Dark Globe, Here i Go, Octopus, Golden Hair, Long Gone, She Took a long cold look, Feel, If Its in you, Late Night.

Review:

First solo outing from Pink Floyd’s founder member, released in January 1970 is a big departure from the complex, whimsical psychedelia of the Floyd. In fact this is a stripped bare confrontation of Syd and his innermost thoughts, right out there on the edge of creative genius and near insanity.

The songs here are often haunting and in many ways autobiographical, exposing his tormented inner self for all to see. It is obvious that Syd’s mental state had deteriorated considerably since his departure from Pink Floyd, but all the songs here show his distinct lyrical style, even if they do sound a little fraught and desperate in places.

It is a very personal album contaning many beautiful songs and in our opinion there is not a bad track on the LP with Syd’s adaptation of James Joyce’s Golden Hair being one of the best tracks.

Reviewed by pOoTer

Syd Barrett - Barrett

1970

Harvest SHSP 4007

Track List :

Baby Lemonade, Love Song, Dominoes, Its Obvious, Rats, Maisie, Gigolo Aunt, Waving my Arms, Wined And Dined, Wolfpack, Effervescing Elephant, I never lied To You.