07 July 2025

The Waitresses

Just Desserts The Complete Waitresses

(2013)

This week we are going to visit Akron!!

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06 July 2025

The Velvet Underground - 1969 - The Complete Matrix Tapes (4CD Box Set 2015)

The Velvet Underground - 1969 - The Complete Matrix Tapes (4CD Box Set 2015) @320

The Velvet Underground are arguably the most important American band of the second half of the '60s, but few seemed to think so at the time. The Velvets flew under the radar of public recognition through most of their career, and no one bothered to professionally record their live shows between 1966 and 1970. There have been plenty of authorized and illicit releases of Velvets live tapes (mostly audience recordings) since the early '70s, but one thing they had in common was compromised fidelity; in terms of audio, "pretty OK" is as good as they get, and for fans, listening for the music through the murk is a frustrating challenge.

In November 1969, the Velvet Underground played a two-night stand at the Matrix, a club in San Francisco that had a four-track recording rig wired into its sound system; the four sets the band played were taped, and rough mixes of those shows were featured on the fine collection 1969: Velvet Underground Live, and they ranked with the very best VU live documents despite the hiss that hovered over the music.

More than 40 years after that album was released, the original Matrix four-track masters have been remixed and remastered, and the four-disc box set The Complete Matrix Tapes marks the first time this material has been released in full. Though extensive excerpts from the new mixes appeared on the expanded 45th anniversary edition of the VU's self-titled third album, and many of these performances are familiar to folks who know 1969: VU Live well, this set's fidelity is a major selling point, even if you're not an audiophile. The Complete Matrix Tapes offers over four and a half hours of the Velvet Underground playing well and recorded with unobtrusive clarity, allowing the listener to hear the details of the performances and the ambience of the room as never before, and it's a remarkably exciting listen.

As four sets appear in full, several songs are repeated (each disc includes takes of "Heroin," "Some Kinda Love," and "We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together"), but each performance has a personality of its own, and hearing how the band reshaped the longer numbers in repeated versions is a delight for fans into the minutia. (Lou Reed also changes up the lyrics on a few numbers here.) And while conventional wisdom has it that the post-John Cale edition of the band was less fiery and inventive, this lineup -- Reed on guitar and vocals, Sterling Morrison on guitar, Doug Yule on bass and organ, and Maureen Tucker on drums -- plays with strength, commitment, and a sense of adventure that ranks with their best and most purely enjoyable work. The bulk and repetition of The Complete Matrix Tapes will scare away a few casual observers, but anyone who wants to know how this band sounded on-stage on two good nights will find this to be a revelation; it's the best and best-sounding VU live release to date. (AllMusic)

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Sombrero Times

(1984)

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05 July 2025

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Design Moderne

(1982)

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04 July 2025

Television -1977 - Marquee Moon

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One of the greatest albums of the American punk rock revolution, that isn’t even a punk rock album. Straight out the dungeons of CBGB’s, Television sculpted a new guitar sound that paved the way for alternative rock, post-punk, new wave, noise and indie (and nu-metal and art rock and grunge and so much more).

Tom Verlaine (vocals, guitar), Billy Ficca (Drums), Fred Smith (bass) and Richard Lloyd (Guitar) shunned the power chords of their contemporaries for intricate, entangled, back and forth guitar melodies, jazzy drumming and romantic language.

The album starts with See No Evil, their most urgent song on the album. A punk flavoured red herring before the dream lyrics of Venus and the jazz-blues guitars on Friction. Side A ends with the unavoidable opus, Marquee Moon, a 10 minute odyssey of urban paranoia which includes 2 guitar solos (that’s longer than Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd). On Side B, Guiding Light has all the building blocks of an alt-rock ballad, and Prove It is their art-rock manual.

Television’s jaded yet impassioned attitude, high-brow yet lo-fi approach, warm yet jagged sound has gone on to influence so many that it would be a fool’s errand to try to distill them into one line. Instead, stop and listen to the primary post-punk album. An album that prophesied the death of punk before it had even started (Marquee Moon came out 9 months before Never Mind The Bollocks...). (Rough Trade)

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The Routes - Three albums of cover versions in Flac

Friday Flac

Yeah Friday again and back with three surf/garage rock albums of covers versions of three famous bands, these are a very interesting listen. Have a couple of the bands own albums, but will share those on next weeks Friday Flac.

The Routes are three piece band based in Oita, Japan. Their traditionalist approach celebrates blues, the British invasion, and 60s American psych/garage punk.

Chris Jack - guitar, bass, percussion, organ

Bryan Styles - drums, percussion

Toru Nishimuta - bass

The Routes - The Twang Machine (2022) Kraftwerk

The Routes - Reverberation Addict (2023) Buzzcocks

The Routes - Surfin Pleasures (2024) Joy Division

Ok have added a link to each album so you can take a listen first, via the bands bandcamp site, just click on the band The Routes cover on each album. While there checkout some of the other albums they have released. Two more will be shared here in Flac nect Friday. The links to download are in the comments below as normal.

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Pop! Goes The Brain

(1981)

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03 July 2025

Easterhouse – Inspiration (1986) @320

Tracklist

Inspiration

Easter Rising

Nineteen Sixty Nine

Johnny I Hardley Knew You

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Easterhouse – In Our Own Hands EP (1985) @320

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Easterhouse - Waiting For The Redbird (1989) @320

So we are back to Easterhouse and the second and last album from 1989, it's a shame they didn't record more albums, but that's the way it goes, there will be a final post with some EP's on Saturday, or maybe later today, we will have to see. I still have my vinyl copy of this and the first album, which I shared on Tuesday.

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Copy Copy

(1980)

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02 July 2025

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Buddy Odor Is A Gas

(1979)

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Reggae: 3826 - 3850 @320

So Wednesday is Reggae Mix day, the tracks today are 3826 to 3850. We hope you're all enjoying this series made by Rob and his son Jnr.

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01 July 2025

Easterhouse – Contenders (1986) @320

Easterhouse were a British indie rock group from the mid to late 1980s, known for jangly guitars and leftist political leaning.

Named after the Easterhouse area of Glasgow, the band was formed in Stretford, near Manchester by brothers Andy and Ivor Perry, Peter Vanden, Gary Rostock and Michael Murray in the early 1980s. Andy Perry, intrigued by communism and inspired by Bob Marley's direct delivery of political content, was invited to join the band in order to improve its lyrical content. Perry's political stance reflected the perspectives of the then active Revolutionary Communist Party, with particular regard to Irish politics.

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Back To 78

(1978)

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30 June 2025

Family Fodder - Monkey Banana Kitchen (1980) Vinyl Rip @320

Another vinyl rip I found the other day. Yeah was in flac but like the Fire Engines I shared earlier today, but I converted both into 320, easier to post and Flac moved into my Flac HD.

Family Fodder formed around 1975.
Line-up included Alig (John Pearce), Ian Hill, Dominique Levillain, Felix Fiedorowicz, Martin Frederix, Bazz Smith, Graham Painting, Mark Doffmann, Lynn Alice.
Their music incorporated acoustic, soft rock, punk, new wave, reggae, dub, classical and chanson.
Lynn Alice later took the place as lead singer of Dominique Levillain who went into teaching her own creative technique known as Prymary Rhythms (Ryhtmes Premiers).
Rick Wilson and Mick Hobbs (The Work), Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward (This Heat) and David Cunningham or Judy Carter have also collaborated with the group.

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My future Posts on Vibes

Well as I am now posting three flac albums every Friday, in the future I won't be posted anything during the weekends. So my posts from now on with only be Monday to Friday. This will leave me the time for other project's I have been involved with for over 15 years. It's not connected to Reggae or Vibes, but about new music and bands, and need to make more time for these project's. I also want to keep Vibes and my other project's separate from each other as they are very different. Which I have managed to do so far.

Wednesday will be the Rob 'N' Jnr's Reggae mix and then the flac shares on Fridays. All my other posts will be in 320 as in the past. And the other days, just what ever takes my fancy on the day!!

Vibes has done well since it was open last year, growing slowly but steadily. We have member's who want to share their love of many forms of music with other's and this won't ever change, you can request any album you may require for your collection, we will try of fulfil your requests.

Oh by the way if me or Concha posts this 👍on other members post's, it means we already have a copy. If I don't add a comment to a post, it means that I didn't take a copy, we all have different tastes in music. If it's a band I don't know, I take a copy and have a listen. But there are a few genres I don't like at all, American southern rock being one of them.

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