The Count Five was a 1960s garage rock band from San Jose, California, best known for their Top 10 single "Psychotic Reaction". The band was founded in 1964 by John "Mouse" Michalski (lead guitar) and Kenn Ellner (harmonica, vocals), two high school friends who had previously played in several short-lived outfits. After going shortly under the name The Squires, and several line-up changes later, the Count Five were born. Roy Chaney took over bass duties, John "Sean" Byrne played rhythm guitar and lead vocals, and Craig "Butch" Atkinson played drums. The Count Five gained distinction for their habit of wearing Count Dracula-style capes when playing live. The band members were rejected by several record labels before they got signed to the Los Angeles-based Double Shot Records. "Psychotic Reaction" was released as a single, peaking at #5 in the U.S. charts in late 1966. The band got along for about another year, but dropped out of view altogether when their only hit had fallen from public memory. Another setback to a potential career in the music business was the decision of the five members (who were between the ages of 17 and 19) to pursue college degrees.
01 - Psychotic Reaction 02 - Double Decker Bus 03 - Pretty Big Mouth 05 - My Generation 06 - She's Fine 07 - Peace Of Mind 08 - They're Gonna Get You 09 - The Morning After 10 - Can't Get Your Lovin' 11 - Out In The Street 12 - Teeny Bopper, Teeny Bopper 13 - You Must Believe Me 14 - Contrast 15 - Merry-Go-Round 16 - Declaration Of Independence 17 - Revelation In Slow Motion 18 - Mailman
The Flamin' Groovies were an American rock music band of the 1960s and 1970s. They began in San Francisco in 1965, founded by Ron Greco, Cyril Jordan and Roy Loney. They are perhaps best known for their song "Shake Some Action", which was later featured in the 1995 movie Clueless. The group have been called one of the forerunners to punk rock. The Groovies disbanded in 1992. This is 1991 a compilation of Skydog label singles. 01 - River Deep, Mountain High 02 - So Much In Love 03 - And Your Bird Can Sing 04 - She Don't Care About Time 05 - Do I Love You 06 - Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller 07 - Slow Death 08 - Let Me Rock 09 - Dog Meat 10 - Jumping Jack Flash 11 - Blues For Phylis 12 - Can't Explain 13 - Little Queenie 14 - Feel A Whole Lot Better 15 - Paint It Black 16 - Shake Some Action LINK
Bread was a rock band from Los Angeles, California. They placed 13 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1970 and 1977 and were a primary example of what later was labeled soft rock, releasing a string of well-crafted, melodic soft rock singles. The band consisted of David Gates (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, violin, viola, percussion), Jimmy Griffin (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion), Robb Royer (bass, guitar, flute, keyboards, percussion, recorder, backing vocals), Mike Botts (drums; joined in 1970), and Larry Knechtel (bass, guitar, keyboards, harmonica; replaced Royer in 1971) 01- Make It With You 02- Dismal Day 03- London Bridge 04- Anyway You Want Me 05- Look What You've Done 06- It Don't Matter To Me 07- The Last Time 08- Let Your Love Go 09- Truckin' 10- If 11- Baby I'm-A Want You 12- Everything I Own 13- Down On My Knees 14- Just Like Yesterday 15- Diary 16- Sweet Surrender 17- The Guitar Man 18- Fancy Dancer 19- She's The Only One 20- Lost Without Your Love LINK
Roger Whittaker is an Anglo-Kenyan singer-songwriter and musician with worldwide record sales of over 55 million. His music can be described as easy listening. He is best known for his baritone singing voice and trademark whistling ability. 01 - New World in the Morning 02 - All My Life 03 - Before She Breaks My Heart 04 - Dirty Old Town 05 - Here We Stand 06 - I Don't Believe in if Anymore 07 - It's Your Love 08 - Mon Pays Bleu (durham Town) 09 - River Lady 10 - Summer Days 11 - The First Hello, the Last Goodbye 12 - The Last Farewell LINK
Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter. As a successful pop music performer, Diamond scored a number of hits worldwide in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. According to David Wild, common themes in Diamond's songs are "a deep sense of isolation and an equal desire for connection. A yearning for home – and at the same time, the allure of greater freedom. The good, the bad and the ugly about a crazy little thing called love." As of 2001 Diamond has 115 million records sold worldwide, including 48 million records in the U.S. In terms of Billboard chart success, he is the third most successful Adult Contemporary artist ever, ranking behind only Barbra Streisand and Elton John. Home Before Dark is a studio album released by Neil Diamond in 2008. It became his first U.S. number-one album ever on the Billboard 200 chart, with sales of over 146,000 copies in its first week. It has also reached number one on the UK Albums Chart. As of June 28, 2008, the album has sold 300,760 copies in the U.S. It has been certified platinum for UK sales. 01 - If I Don't See You Again 02 - Pretty Amazing Grace 03 - Don't Go There 04 - Another Day (That Time Forgot) 05 - One More Bite of the Apple 06 - Forgotten 07 - Act Like a Man 08 - Whose Hands Are These 09 - No Words 10 - The Power of Two 11 - Slow It Down 12 - Home Before Dark LINK
Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. Erasure entered the music scene in 1985 with their debut single "Who Needs Love Like That". Following the release of their fourth single "Sometimes", the duo established themselves on the UK Singles Chart and became one of the most successful artists of the late 1980s and early 1990s. From 1986 to 1997, Erasure achieved twenty-four consecutive Top 20 hits in the UK. Chorus, Erasure's fifth proper studio album, was released by Mute Records in the UK and Sire Records in the U.S. in 1991. Chorus became Erasure's third consecutive number-one album in the UK and gave them four top twenty hits.
01- Chorus 02 - Waiting For The Day 03 - Joan 04 - Breath Of Life 05 - Am I Right 06 - Love To Hate You 07 - Turns The Love To Anger 08 - Siren Song 09 - Perfect Stranger 10 - Home
Elton John's Christmas Party is a Christmas-themed compilation album from British singer-songwriter Elton John. It features his 1973 Christmas single, "Step Into Christmas", and a new duet with Joss Stone, "Calling It Christmas". It was initially released exclusively to Hear Music outlets in Starbucks coffee shops on November 10, 2005; the sales campaign pledged to donate two dollars from every sale to the Elton John AIDS Foundation. The following year, on October 10, 2006, the album was re-released to the general market; however, six songs were omitted from the new release. The Pet Shop Boys song "It Doesn't Often Snow at Christmas" was originally released in 1997 to members of their fan club, and was not available anywhere else prior to this release.
01 - Elton John - Step Into Christmas 02 - El Vez - Feliz Navidad 03 - The Ronettes - Frosty The Snowman 04 - Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 05 - The Beach Boys - The Man With All The Toys 06 - The Flaming Lips - A Change At Christmas (Say It 07 - Pet Shop Boys - It Doesn't Often Snow At Chris 08 - Rufus Wainwright - Spotlight On Christmas 09 - The Ventures - Jingle Bell Rock 10 - Chuck Berry - Run Rudolph Run 11 - The Crystals - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer 12 - Outkast - Playa's Ball 13 - Otis Redding - Merry Christmas Baby 14 - Jimmy Buffett - Christmas Island 15 - John Mayer - St. Patrick's Day 16 - The Eagles - Please Come Home For Christmas 17 - The Band - Christmas Must Be Tonight 18 - The Pretenders - 2000 Miles 19 - Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again 20 - U2 - New Year's Day 21 - Elton John And Joss Stone - Calling It Christmas
Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American musician, best known for composing music for television and movies and leading the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer/songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995. He is a frequent collaborator with long-time friend Tim Burton and has scored most of his films (the exceptions being Cabin Boy, James and the Giant Peach, Ed Wood, Sweeney Todd). He has been nominated for four Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme. Elfman is famous for creating The Simpsons main title theme, and his role as Jack Skellington's singing voice in The Nightmare Before Christmas. He also sang for the character Bone Jangles in the movie Corpse Bride. He is the uncle in-law to actress Jenna Elfman. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory represents the first time since The Nightmare Before Christmas that Elfman contributed to the film score using written songs and his vocals. 01 - Wonka's Welcome Song 02 - Augustus Gloop 03 - Violet Beauregarde 04 - Veruca Salt 05 - Mike Teavee 06 - Main Titles 07 - Wonka's First Shop 08 - The Indian Palace 09 - Wheels In Motion 10 - Charlie's Birthday Bar 11 - The Golden Ticket Factory 12 - Chocolate Explorers 13 - Loompa Land 14 - The Boat Arrives 15 - The River Cruise 16 - First Candy 17 - Up And Out 18 - The River Cruise, Pt. 2 19 - Charlie Declines 20 - Finale 21 - End Credits Suite 22 - Wonka Welcome Mix (Dj Exacta) 23 - Wonkagloop Mash (Dj Rana & Chuy) 24 - Wonka Welcome Mix (Dj Tomi) LINK
Cocteau Twins were a Scottish alternative rock band active from 1979 to 1997, known for complex instrumentation and atmospheric, non-lyrical vocals. Though formed in the post-punk and New Wave era, the Cocteau Twins tended to defy concise categorisation, and their music was a key influence on dream pop. Whilst the entire band earned much critical praise, Elizabeth Fraser's distinctive vocals received the most attention. At times barely decipherable, Fraser seemed to veer into glossolalia and mouth music. Allmusic reviewer Ned Raggett writes that "part of her appeal is how she can make hard-to-interpret lyrics so emotionally gripping." Milk and Kisses is an album issued in 1996. It proved their last; a meeting two years later to record a new album ended with the breakup of the band. 01 - Violane 02 - Serpentskirt 03 - Tishbite 04 - Half-Gifts 05 - Calfskin Smack 06 - Rilkean Heart 07 - Ups 08 - Eperdu 09 - Treasure Hiding 10 - Seekers Who Are Lovers LINK
Yusuf Islam commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British musician. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam. His early 1970s record albums Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat were both certified as Triple Platinum by the RIAA in the United States; his 1972 album Catch Bull at Four sold half a million copies in the first two weeks of release alone and was Billboard's number-one LP for three consecutive weeks. He has also earned two ASCAP songwriting awards in consecutive years for "The First Cut Is the Deepest", which has been a hit single for four different artists. Stevens converted to Islam at the height of his fame, in December 1977, and adopted his Muslim name, Yusuf Islam, the following year. He returned to pop music with his first album of new pop songs in 28 years. "This album is not for everyone. In the age of hard-edged, angry rap, some people will undoubtedly Yusuf's folky spiritualism out-moded and passe. For those of us who loved Cat Stevens thirty years ago, however, this disc represents a long-awaited return to a magical world we feared we had lost forever."
01 - Midday (Avoid City After Dark) 02 - Heavenwhere True Love Goes 03 - Maybe There's A World 04 - One Day At A Time 05 - When Butterflies Leave 06 - In The End 07 - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 08 - I Think I See The Light 09 - Whispers From A Spiritual Garden 10 - Beloved 11 - Green Fields, Golden Sands
Carly Elisabeth Simon is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of two Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for her work. My Romance was released in 1990. It is her fourteenth studio album, and her sixteenth album overall. 01 My Romance 02 By Myself - I See Your Face Before Me 03 When Your Lover Has Gone 04 In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning 05 My Funny Valentine 06 Something Wonderful 07 Little Girl Blue 08 He Was Too Good to Me 09 What Has She Got 10 Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered 11 Danny Boy 12 Time After Time LINK
Bruce Springsteen - 1978 - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen, nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey. Springsteen's recordings have tended to alternate between commercially accessible rock albums and somber folk-oriented works. Much of his status stems from the concerts and marathon shows in which he and the E Street Band perform intense ballads, rousing anthems, and party rock and roll songs, amongst which he intersperses whimsical or deeply emotional stories. Recovering from legal troubles and the stress of the breakthrough success of Born to Run, Springsteen released a somewhat less commercial album, Darkness on the Edge of Town. Is the fourth album by Bruce, released in 1978. 01 - Badlands 02 - Adam Raised A Cain 03 - Something In The Night 04 - Candy's Room 05 - Racing In The Street 06 - The Promised Land 07 - Factory 08 - Streets Of Fire 09 - Prove It All Night 10 - Darkness On The Edge Of Town LINK Bruce Springsteen - 1992 - Lucky Town
Lucky Town is the tenth studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1992. This album was released on the same day as Human Touch. The title track was featured in the film Lucky You. When Springsteen was working on Human Touch, he was intending to release the album sometime in 1990, but the project took him longer than he thought. He shelved the project in early 1991 and came back to it in September of the same year. He was intending to make one more song for the album, but he ended up making ten new songs, which wound up making a whole new album. Once he completed Lucky Town, he decided to release both albums at the same time. 01 - Better Days 02 - Lucky Town 03 - Local Hero 04 - If I Should Fall Behind 05 - Leap Of Faith 06 - The Big Muddy 07 - Living Proof 08 - Book Of Dreams 09 - Souls Of The Departed 10 - My Beautiful Reward LINK
Brett Lewis Anderson is an English singer-songwriter, best-known as the lead vocalist of Britpop band Suede. After Suede disbanded in 2003, he briefly fronted The Tears and released three solo albums. Suede reformed in 2010. Brett Anderson is the first solo release from Anderson. The album sees Anderson taking on many more instruments than ever before. "I've played a lot of electric guitar on it; I've written a lot of the electric guitar parts. It's my baby and I've obviously been pretty obsessed with it." The cover was designed by Peter Saville, with photography by Wolfgang Tillmans. 01 - Love Is Dead 02 - One Lazy Morning 03 - Dust And Rain 04 - Intimacy 05 - To The Winter 06 - Scorpio Rising 07 - Infinite Kiss 08 - Colour Of The Night 09 - More We Possess The Less We Own Of Ourselves 10 - Ebony 11 - Song For My Father LINK
Released 1978 MCA records, Produced by Chips Moman
01 - Everybody Loves A Rain Song 02 - Blues River 03 - Come On Out & Tell Me 04 - Wishful Thinking 05 - Dusty Roads 06 - She's Rolling Over & Over 07 - Just Out Of Reach 08 - There's No Love Like A First Love 09 - Sweet Young America 10 - Aloha
One of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with B. B. King and Freddie King), Albert King stood 6' 4" (192 cm) and weighed 250 lbs (118 kg) and was known as "The Velvet Bulldozer". He was born Albert Nelson on a cotton plantation in Indianola, Mississippi. During his childhood he would sing at a family gospel group at a church. One of 13 children, King grew up picking cotton on plantations near Forrest City, Arkansas where the family moved when he was eight. He began his professional work as a musician with a group called In The Groove Boys in Osceola, Arkansas. He also briefly played drums for Jimmy Reed's band and on several early Reed recordings. Influenced by blues musicians Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lonnie Johnson, but also interestingly Hawaiian music, the electric guitar became his signature instrument, his preference being the Gibson Flying V, which he named "Lucy". Born Under a Bad Sign is a blues album recorded between 1966 and 1967, and released in 1967 by Stax Records. This was the first album Albert King recorded on Stax, and the title song became a blues standard. 01 - Born Under A Bad Sign 02 - Crosscut Saw 03 - Kansas City 04 - Oh, Pretty Woman 05 - Down Don't Bother Me 06 - The Hunter 07 - (When I Lost My Baby) I Almost Lost My Mind 08 - Personal Manager 09 - Laundromat Blues 10 - As The Years Go Passing By 11 - The Very Thought Of You LINK
ABBA Live is an album of live recordings by Swedish pop group ABBA, released by Polar Music in 1986 (see 1986 in music). When this LP/CD was released, the band's popularity was at an all-time low and none of the members themselves were involved in the production of the album. ABBA Live contains recordings from 1977, 1979 and 1981 - much to the dismay of both music critics and ABBA fans it also had 80's synth drums overdubbed on most tracks, taking away the true live feeling of the performances. Neither did it feature any of the tracks that the band had performed live on their tours but never included on any of their studio albums, such as I Am An A, Get On The Carousel, I'm Still Alive, or the original live versions of the songs from the 1977 mini-musical The Girl With The Golden Hair; Thank You For The Music, I Wonder (Departure) and I'm A Marionette, all of which had slightly different lyrics and/or musical arrangements to the subsequent studio recordings included on ABBA - The Album. Fernando and Money, Money, Money recorded 3 and 12 March 1977, Australia, Two For The Price Of One, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, Super Trouper and On and On and On, recorded in SVT Studios for TV program Dick Cavett Meets Abba, April 29 1981, all other tracks recorded during performances at the Wembley Arena, 5/10 Nov 1979
01 - Dancing Queen 02 - Take A Chance On Me 03 - I Have A Dream 04 - Does Your Mother Know 05 - Chiquitita 06 - Thank You For The Music 07 - Two For The Price Of One 08 - Fernando 09 - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 10 - Super Trouper 11 - Waterloo 12 - Morningside Of The Mountain 13 - The Name Of The Game 14 - On And On And On
