giovedì 30 settembre 2010

SUCKING THE 70's VOL.II - Back In The Saddle Again


Year: 2007
Label: Smallstone Records
Number of discs: 2

Number of tracks: 31
Available on: CD
Rarity: ***


This is the second volume of this great compilations with tons of covers of 70ies rock classics. Released in 2007 on a double CD by Smallstone Records.

Track list


Disc 01:


01 Sasquatch - Are You Ready (Grand Funk Railroad)
02 Puny Human - Crazy Horses (The Osmonds)
03 Clutch And Five Horse Johnson - Red Hot Mama (Funkadelic)
04 Dixie Witch - Rock Candy (Van Halen)
05 The Brought Low - Don't Lie To Me (Big Star)
06 Novadriver - Sin City (AC-DC)
07 Colour Haze - One Way Or Another (Cactus)
08 Alabama Thunderpussy - Man On The Silver Mountain (Dio)
09 Dozer - Mongoloid (Devo)
10 Acid King - The Stake (The Steve Miller Band)
11 Halfway To Gone - Honky Cat (Elton John)
12 Antler - Those Shoes (The Eagles)
13 Brad David (Fu Manchu) - Outlaw Man (The Eagles)
14 Gideon Smith & The Dixie Damned - Season Of The Witch (Donovan)
15 Whitey Morgan And Waycross Georgia Farmboys - Runnin' With The Devil (Van Halen)


Disc 02:


01 Throttlerod - I Just Wanna Make Love To You (Foghat)
02 Red Giant - Saturday Night Special (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
03 A Thousand Knives Of Fire - Bonie Maronie (Larry Williams)
04 Glasspack - Rock N Roll Singer (AC-DC)
05 Roadsaw - When The Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin)
06 Greatdayforup - Super Stupid (Funkadelic)
07 Fireball Ministry - Turn To Stone (Joe Walsh)
08 Los Natas - Born To Be Wild (Steppenwolf)
09 Scott Reeder - Two Of Us (The Beatles)
10 Orange Goblin - New Rose (The Damned)
11 Mos Generator - Garden Road (Rush)
12 Honky - Snortin' Whiskey (Pat Travers Band)
13 The Muggs - I Don't Need No Doctor (Humble Pie)
14 Amplified Heat - Neighbor, Neighbor (ZZ Top)
15 RPG - Parchment Farm (Blue Cheer)
16 Valis - Dreamweaver (Gary Wright)

domenica 26 settembre 2010

SUCKIN' THE 70's

Year: 2002
Label: Smallstone Records
Number of discs: 2
Number of tracks: 35
Available on: CD Rarity: ***
Smallstone released 2 volumes of this compilation, featuring stoner band involved in 70ies hard rock covers: this is the first one, a double CD released in 2002.

Track list:

Disc: 01

01 Five Horse Johnson - Never in My Life (Mountain)
02 Throttlerod - Black Betty (Ram Jam)
03 Dixie Witch - On the Hunt (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
04 Clutch - Cross Eyed Mary (Jethro Tull)
05 The Glasspack - T.V. Eye (The Stooges)
06 The Last Vegas - Free for All (Ted Nugent)
07 Halfway to Gone - Can't You See (The Marshall Tucker Band)
08 Suplecs - Working Man (Rush)
09 Puny Human - Travellin' Band/Suzy Is a Headbanger (Creedence Clearwater Revival/The Ramones)
10 Raging Slab - We're an American Band (Grand Funk Railroad)
11 Los Natas - Brainstorm (Hawkwind)
12 The Heads - For Madmen Only (May Blitz)
13 Lamont - Nasty Dogs & Funky Kings (ZZ Top)
14 Backdraft - Child of Babylon (Whitesnake)
15 Black NASA - I Don't Have to Hide (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
16 Warped - Dog Eat Dog (AC/DC)
17 Hangnail - Bron-Yr-Stomp (Led Zeppelin)

Disc: 02

01 Roadsaw - Vehicle (The Ides of March)
02 Novadriver - 20th Century Boy (T. Rex)
03 Alabama Thunderpussy - Hymn 43 (Jethro Tull)
04 Disengage - Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin)
05 Porn (The Men Of) - Out on the Weekend (Neil Young)
06 Milligram - Rumblin' Man (Cactus)
07 Tummler - Working for MCA (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
08 Fireball Ministry - Doctor Doctor (UFO)
09 Spirit Caravan - Wicked World (Black Sabbath)
10 Lowrider - Freelance Fiend (Leaf Hound)
11 The Mushroom River Band - Walk Away (James Gang)
12 Broadsword - Woman Tamer (Sir Lord Baltimore)
13 Doubleneck - Don't Blow Your Mind (Alice Cooper)
14 Lord Sterling - Black to Comm (MC5)
15 The Brought Low - Till the Next Goodbye (The Rolling Stones)
16 Scott Reeder - Don't Call Us, We'll Call You (Sugarloaf)
17 Tectonic Break - How Can You Win (Parish Hall)
18 Gideon Smith & the Dixie Damned - The Pusher (Hoyt Axton and Steppenwolf)


sabato 25 settembre 2010

STONED REVOLUTION - The Ultimate Trip





Year: 1998
Label: Drunken Maria
Number of discs: 2
Number of tracks: 16
Available on: LP
Rarity: *****


This compilation was released on double vinyl by the Drunken Maria label (you can find the history here: http://www.drunkenmaria.com/) . Features many historical bands and great songs: excellent!

Track list:

Side A

1. Kyuss - Thumb
2. Nebula - Down the Highway
3. 7Zuma7 - Blue T.S.
4. sHEAVY - Automaton

Side B:

5. Orange Goblin - Aquatic Fanatic
6. Spiritual Beggars - Redwood Blues
7. Celestial Season - Retrosky
8. Slo Burn - July

Side C:

9. Sleep - Dragonaut
10. Beaver - Magic 7
11. Shine - Lost Sun Dance
12. Goatsnake - Mower

Side D:

13. Electric Wizard - Stone Magnet
14. Acrimony - Find the Path
15. The Heads - Demoniser 48/48
16. 35007 - Big Bore

Preview / Pre-listening:

This song is a must! Kyuss live in 1994 at Palo Alto play Thumb, the opening track of this compilation:



and this is a real cult video for every stoner/doom/metal fan! Sleep - Dragonaut

WELCOME TO METEROCITY


Year: 1998
Label: Meteorcity Records
Number of discs: 1
Number of tracks: 17
Available on: CD
Rarity: ***

The first compilation from this legendary stoner rock label, Meteorcity Records, released in 1998 and recently followed by the new Welcome Back To Meteorcity.



1. Sixty Watt Shaman - Red Colony
2. Sparzanza - Liquid Thoughts
3. Fatso Jetson - Procrastination Process
4. User - 12AX7
5. Atomic Bitchwax - Hey Alright
6. Rotors To Rust - The Only One
7. Demoncleaner - Kickback
8. Goatsnake - Mower
9. Drag Pack - Freight Train
10. Lowrider - Texas Part 1 & 2
11. Roadsaw - The Finger
12. Sheavy - Electric Sleep (Original Version)
13. Core - Vacuum Lite
14. Celestial Season - Solar Child 96
15. Dozer - Supersoul
16. Natas - 1980 Trilogia
17. J.M.J. - To Believe


Is difficoult to find a personal favourite here, but I've always loved Natas and Goatsnake, as I admire Fatso Jetson and appreciate bands like Dozer, Lowrider and Core. If you canf ind this one somewhere... buy it!

BURN ONE UP! MUSIC FOR STONERS


This is probably the first and fundamental Stoner Rock compilations, released in 1997 by Roadrunner Records and presenting many of the most important stoner bands of the first era.

Track list:

01. Queens of the Stone Age - 18 A.D.
02. Karma to Burn - Ma Petit Mort
03. Fu Manchu - Asphalt 'Risin
04. The Heads - GNU
05. Spiritual Beggars - Monster Astronauts
06. Floodgate - Feel You Burn
07. Slaprocket - Holy Mother Sunshine
08. Leadfoot - Soul Full of Lies
09. Celestial Season - Wallaroo
10. Cathedral - You Know
11. Acrimony - Bud Song
12. Blind Dog - Lose
13. Sleep - Aquarian
14. Hideous Sun Demons - Icarus Dream
15. Beaver - Green

My favourite songs in this selection are 18 A.D., a Q.O.T.S.A.'s track available only in this release, Monster Astronauts by Spiritual Beggars, Acquarian by Sleep and Bud Song from the Acrimony, but I have to say that every single second of this compilation needs to be listened!
As the cover say... more than 60 minutes of cosmic sludge rock!