Meanwhile… I'm Still Thinking

As an adult I’ve listened to a lot of Jamaican music but it’s hard to “get” music that you didn’t grow up with (for me that would be country, surf, rockabilly, Motown, British Invasion and all of the sub-genres that followed).

Here’s hoping that listening to the roots of a particular style of music (thank goodness “Pioneer” was in the title of this one or I wouldn’t have known) will afford greater appreciation of what came later.

Just for the record, I pretended to be 10 years old while I listened to this… played with baseball cards and read comic books.

What do you know?

Boom! 25 songs, 25 keepers.

Keepers:

Ghana Independence (They Got It)
Mas Charlie (Prisoner Song)
Nebuchadnezzar
Baba Kill Me Goat
Tribute to Collie Smith
West Indian Cricket Test
Aitken’s Boogie
Come Back Jeannie
Mary Lee
Yea Yea Baby
If It’s Money You Need
Low Down Dirty Girl
Railroad Track
Going Back to Kansas City
Judgement Day
Mash Potato Boogie
Bossa Nova Hop
Zion City
Mary Don’t You Weep
Bachelor Life
You Was Up
We Shall Overcome
Green Banana
Looking for My Baby
I Believe

Laurel Aitken: Pioneer of Jamaican Music

Keepers:

Johnny Winter – Birds Can’t Row Boats
Roy Head & The Great Believers – Easy Lovin’ Girl
Satori – Time Machine
13th Floor Elevators – She Lives In A Time Of Her Own (unissued ver.)
Lunar Madness – The Exorcism
Pearl Divers – She Was The Doctor
Purple Haze – Electrocution
Purple Haze – Getting Harder All The Time
S.J. & The Crossroads – Ooh Poo Pah Doo
Sabana Breeze – Slave
The Iguanas – Leaving You Baby
The Crabs – Chase Yourself
The Heart Beats – Crying Inside
The Reasons Why – Don’t Be That Way

Keepers:

Let’s Talk About Us
Right String Baby But The Wrong Yo Yo
Send for that Girl
The Fool
Please Don’t Touch
Growl
Feelin’
Shakin’ All Over
Restless
Big Blon’ Baby
Weep No More My Baby
Please Don’t bring Me Down
I Can Tell
A Shot of Rhythm and Blues
Some Other Guy
Then I Got Everything
I’ll Never Get Over You
Castin’ My Spell
My Babe
Doctor Feelgood

The Complete Johnny Kidd

Happy BBQ Day. Put the speakers out the window and make yourself and your neighbors happy.

Keepers:

118 songs on the 4 CD set… every one a keeper!

Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968

Keepers:

I Was A Teenage Caveman – Randy Luck
Loud Mufflers – Robert Williams
Expressway – The Crazy Crickets
Stick Shift – The Duals
One Potato – The Elite
Speed Queen – The In Crowd
Roo-Buh-Doo-Buh-Doo – The Statesmen

Keepers:

The Upsetters – The Strip
James Holloway – A La Carte
Bob Taylor – After Hours
The Jesters – Peter Gunn Twist
Ken Williams – Trashcan
Buddy Miller – Teen Twist
The Crescendos – Countdown
The Wild-Tones – Shut-Ups
Tic & Toc – Jibba Jab
The Groovers – Groovy
The Dyna-Sores – Jungle Walk
The Casual – Aires – Thunderbird
John & Jackie – Little Girl
The Genteels – Take It Off
Jack Hammer – The Wiggle
The Frantics – The Whip
Rockin’ Belmarx – Torture Rock
The Periscopes – Beaver Shot
Bob Bunny – The Joker
The Epics – On The Rocks
Barbara & The Boys – Hootie Sapperticker
Bobby Christian – Enough Man!
Louie Oversees A Studio Session
The Lushes – Drunken Guitar
The Empallos – Hiccups
The Hollywood Persuaders – Drums A-Go-Go
Ric Gary – Pimples & Braces
Barney Kessel – Honey Rock
The Vikings – Nicotine
The Originals – The Whip
Jimmy Heaps – Gizmo

Las Vegas Grind Part 1

Keepers:

Alton & Jimmy – I Just Don’t Know
Alton & Jimmy – What’s The Use
Carl Mann – Stop The World & Let Me Off
Carl McVoy – I’ll Be Satisfied
Carl McVoy – Born To Lose
Charlie Rich – Yes Ma’am
Curtis Hoback & The Stardusters – Trip Into Love
Eddie Bush – Baby I Don’t Care
Ernie Barton – Stairway To Nowhere
Glen Honeycutt – Bagpipe Rock
Glen Honeycutt – Hula Lula
James Woods – Gonna Give A Party
James Woods – Lock You In My Heart
Jimmy Isle – Without A Love
Johnny Powers – Trouble
Ken Cook – Don’t Be Running Wild
Roger Fakes – Somehow I’ll Find A Way
Wade Cagle & The Escorts – Forty Days
Wade Cagle & The Escorts – Oowee Oowee

Keepers:

Julie London – Go Slow
April Stevens – Do It Again

Rhapsodesia: Ultra Lounge 6

Keepers:

Taylor’s Rock – Bob Taylor & The Counts
That’s Show Biz – Dale Wright
Fifty Megatons – Sonny Russel
Nina-Kocka-Nina – The Dinks
Cat’s Eyes – The Invaders
Like Thunder – The Rialtos
Ghost Train – The Swanks
Count Down – The Twisters
Shut-Ups – The Wild Tones
Long Black Stockings – Tony Butola

Keepers:

Buddy Lee & The Satellites – Countdown
Cecil Moore – Diamond Back
Eddie Smith & The Hornets – Upturn
Johnny Fortune – It Ain’t Necessarily So
Ronnie Keane – Chariot
The Astronomers – Relay – Son Of Telstar
The Citations – Moon Race
The Devons – Free Fall
The Fayros – Skokkian
The Gigolos – Night Creature
The Ideals Combo – Lift Off
The Jesters – Panther Pounce
The Kit Kats – Good Luck Charlie
The Marlins – Saw Mill Run
The Mosriters – Treat Her Right
The Nevegans – Russian Roulette
The Rally-Packs – Bucket Seats
The Ramrods – War Party
The Rebel Rousers – Fat Man’s Walk
The Rondels – Caledonia
The Royal Coachmen – Loophole
The Shattoes – Surf Fever
The Strangers – In The Beginning
The Torquetts – Bacardi
The Tremolos – Fly
Vinny Lee – Gambler’s Guitar

Keepers:

Forbidden Five – Enchanted Farm
Martin Denny – Song Of The Bayou
Shay Torrent – Flying Fiddles
Sir Julian – Movin’ At Midnight
Sir Julian – A Man And A Woman

Organs in Orbit: Ultra Lounge 11