BLUE EXPLOSION: Tribute To Blue Cheer

Year: 2000

Label: Black Widow Records

Number of discs: 1

Number of tracks: 16

Available on: CD / 2LP

Rarity: ***

Dear Blue Cheer and heavy rock fans, here you have one of the most beautiful tribute compilations ever made! Sixteen tracks recorded by some of the greatest stoner/doom bands that cover the history of the historical heavy psych monster Blue Cheer. A must!

Nice artwork powered by Malleus, internal notes by Italian journalists Beppe Riva and Beppe Badino.

Track list:

1. Pentagram - Doctor Please

2. Internal Void - Parchment Farm

3. Hogwash - Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger

4. Thumlock - Out of Focus

5. Natas - Ride with Me

6. Fireball Ministry - Fortunes

7. Norrsken - Pilot

8. Garybaldi - Fresh Fruit & Iceburgs

9. Rise and Shine - Sun Cycle

10. Wicked Minds - Just a Little Bit

11. Standarte - Sandwich

12. Space Probe Taurus - Second Time Around

13. Drag Pack - Come and Get It

14. Vortice Cremisi - I’m the Light

15. Ufomammut - Peace of Mind

16. Pentagram - Feathers from your Tree

GREATEST HITS VOL. 1

Year: 2000
Label: Water Dragon Records
Number of discs: 1
Number of tracks: 16
Available on: CD
Rarity: ****

Another compilation from Waterdragon Records. As in the Mob's New Plan presents a pair of track form each band. Include doom metal masters Grand Magus and rarities and the french stoners Carn and others minor band.

Track list:

1. Grand Magus - Glow
2. Grand Magus - Mountain of Power
3. Maurfahr - Blue Room Amigos

4. Maurfahr - Sunpaled Concrete
5. Mr. Plow - Molly
6. Mr. Plow - Master Blaster
7. Carn - Evil Tonix
8. Carn - Pale like a Dead Lion
9. Fluid4 - Sick (just like you)
10. Fluid4 - Big Truck
11. Missed Her Bliss - Nature Boy
12. Missed Her Bliss - Optima Mid
13. Honcho - Industrial Lane
14. Honcho - Murmansk
15. Ogre - Ogre
16. Ogre - Skeletonized

A FIST FULL OF FREEBIRD

Year: 1998
Label: Freebird Records
Number of discs: 1
Number of tracks: 18
Available on: CD
Rarity: ****

A pretty compilation from the Nederlands! This was a small label from Eindhovenm born "to give to the ambitious bands an extra opportunity to present themselves to a new audience..." so here you'll find famous european stoner bands as Dozer, Demon Cleaner and Freedom Bleeder together with some less know taken from around the world. Great track from Solace, Whistle Pig, that can be found also in other compilation and in their official release Furhter.

1. Freedom Bleeder - Freerider
2. Saturn's Child - Looking for Jeff
3. Lebhead - Nervous Wreck #9
4. Demon Cleaner - Pathfinder
5. Landslide - Le Fried Ego
6. Mugwumps - I Dig You
7. Sparzanza - Black Jack Vegas
8. Solace - Whistle Pig
9. Dozer - Mammoth Mountain
10. Dogma - Roads of Grief
11. Pelvs - Trippy
12. Radiostars - Sweet Little 16
13. Smithwick Machine - 2000 Mercy
14. Lucid Nation - Landmark
15. Bongwater.666 - Eyehateyou
16. Garlic Pork Chops - Tar-Pit-Trap
17. Southern State Tapestry - Fader
18. Cigarettes - Say Goodbye

I've found on YouTube the fllowing live video from Solace: Whistle Pig - Live at the Brighton Bar - May 13t, 2006!

THE MOB'S NEW PLAN SOUNDTRACK

Year: 1999

Label: Water Dragon Records

Number of discs: 1

Number of tracks: 16

Available on: CD

Rarity: ****

This compilation came from France and is one of the few Waterdragon Records products. Features very interesting tracks like 500 Ft Of Pipe' Marshmallow or early Ufomammut songs.

Track list:

1. The Satellite Circle - Reconcile

2. The Satellite Circle - At The End Of The Day

3. Zerocharisma - Again

4. Zerocharisma - Hate To Feel

5. Lovercraft - Mushroom

6. Lovercraft - Welcome

7. 500ft of Pipe - Marshmallow

8. 500ft of Pipe - The Chronic Argonauts

9. Twin Earth - Eroticon VI

10. Twin Earth - Handout

11. Blackrock - Blackrock

12. Blackrock - Stallion

13. Ufomammut - Smoke (connie version)

14. Ufomammut - Mustang 69

15. Abdullah - Firmament

16. Abdullah - The Black Ones

INHALE 420: THE STONER ROCK COMPILATION

Year: 2000
Label: Spitfire Records
Number of discs: 1
Number of tracks: 13
Available on: CD
Rarity: *

Compiled by Spitfire Records in 2000, offers some of the most important stoner bands together with some less famous . Presents a title and an artwork dedicated to the cannabis...

1. Crowbar - Dream Weaver
2. Los Natas - Alohawaii
3. Supafuzz - Mr. Policeman
4. Sixty Watt Shaman - Southern Gentleman
5. Murder 1 - Whole Lotta Rosie
6. Gunfighter - Anti-Hero
7. Mammoth Volume - Seagull
8. Herbert - Devil's Garden
9. Bakerton Group - Mainstream
10. Sunride - Straightliner
11. Terra Firma - High Horses
12. Mystick Krewe Of Clearlite - Railhead
13. Rotors To Rust - Canaan

Preview/Pre-listening:

This is an audio preview, even if is posted as a video, of Mammoth Volume's Seagull:

RISE 13 - MAGIC ROCK VOL.1

Year: 1999
Label: Rise AboveRecords
Number of discs: 1
Number of tracks: 13
Available on: CD
Rarity: **

Another cool compilation by Rise Above, released in 1999. Great tracks taken principally from some of the official band's album; the Electric Wizard is a track captured live as an old 70ies bootleg...

1. Unida - Black Woman
2. Orange Goblin - Quincy the Pig Boy
3. Acrimony - Tumili Shroomaroom
4. Drag Pack - Jonny's Last Race
5. Spirit Caravan - The Departure
6. Sheavy- Pictures of You
7. Hangnail - Summer Rain
8. Goatsnake - Hot Rod
9. Solarized - Mean Spirit
10. Sally - 4.12
11. Shallow - Sugar Glider
12. Electric Wizard - Witchcoven (Live California Jam '74)
13. 13

Preview/Prelistening:

YouTube offers Unida live at the Troubador: Black Woman (great song!):



...and a pre-listening of Quincy The Pig Boy by Orange Goblin (you can find also some nice live video of the same song):

DARK PASSAGES VOL. II

Year: 1996

Label: Rise Above Records

Number of discs: 1

Number of tracks: 12

Available on: CD

Rarity: ***

A step into the doom... Rise Above compiled this selection offering the perfect combiation between the retro-rock and the doom metal, presenting some stoner/doom masters as Electric Wizard, Acrimony and Orange Goblin together with some metal doom lords like Trouble, Pentagram, Paul Chain and, obviously, Cathedral. Edited in 1996.

Track list:


01. Orange Goblin - Saruman's Whish
02. Paul Chain - Sand Glass
03. Eyehategod - Shop Lift
04. Acrimony - Earthchild inferno
05. Pentagram - Sinister
06. Iron Man - Leaving Town
07. Mourn - Calm Before The Storm
08. Trouble - Victim Of The Insane
09. Solstice - Winter Moon Rapture
10. Electric Wizard- Return To The Sun Of Nothingness
11. Down - Bury Me In Smoke
12. Cathedral - Schizoid Puppeteer



This is the second volume of the unholy bible of doom!... as suggest the sticker on the package. The first volume is a step further into te doom and less connected with stoner rock.