A Greek-only premium compilation, released with the music magazine 'Pop+Rok'
Pop+Rok is a musical magazine, one of the older living in greece, since 1978.
It deals with the local and international rock scene and sometimes happened to release some great compilations in cd format, one of these are this one. There are some great songs in here, some examples, the guitar of Chris Cacavas ex member of Green on Red.
An explicit cover of Fire of Arthur Brown by the german Die Krupps in which is featuring Arthur Brown himself 30 years after the original song. There's a cover of the Beatles by the australian Sacred Cowboys, the psychedelic "I am the walrus", the Flleshtones cover the most well known song of the canadian Guess Who, the song called "american woman" and the underground avant-gardish Residents give their usually unusuall touch interpratating the "Jailhouse rock" writen by Lieber/Stoller (see the Coasters) but known of course from Elvis Preslay.
There also The Dream Syndicate -part of the l.a. based Paisley Undergrounnd scene- with the song called "Boston", a song talking about the days of the mid/late '60s of Van Morrison who lived there, and also for a great finale a song full of sarcasm and clever humour by mr Frank Zappa, oh yeah, the song its called "titties 'n beer"....
But don't remain only on these names, I gurantee you a good trip through these 16 tracks.
I pass the word on the magazine's booklet:
"If with the term 'new rock' we mean something youthful, full of sweat, adrenaline, pathos, angry or lo-fi but always dominating guitars then the cd "New rock, sound therapy" its an essential attempt to note some of the so many musical styles of a music that is talking to listeners with open ears and most of all, open mind [...]". (pirate-industry.blogspot.com)
01. Bloom - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself [4:30]
02. Momus - Good Morning World (Demo) [3:36]
03. Die Krupps Feat. The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire [3:14]
04. Big Sleep - Crying For Barbara [3:01]
05. Louis Tillet & Charlie Owen - Summer [3:06]
06. Chris Cacavas And Junk Yard Love - Truth [4:12]
07. The Walkabouts - Jack Candy [4:44]
08. Dream Syndicate - Boston [5:35]
09. Porcupine Tree - Stars Die [4:58]
10. Sacred Cowboys - I Am The Walrus [6:13]
11. Morphine - Honey White [3:08]
12. Girls Against Boys - Kill The Sexplayer [3:20]
13. Beck - Asshole [2:35]
14. Fleshtones - American Woman (Previously Unreleased) [3:46]
15. The Residents - Jailhouse Rock (Australian 7" Mix) [3:10]
16. Frank Zappa - Titties 'N' Beer [4:42]
Label: Hitch-Hyke Records
Released: December 1997
Catalogue: CD 113003
Codec: Flac
Compression Level: 5
Quality: High
CD-rip by alekow (EAC and Flac)
Covers Included (600dpi)
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