| What's playing at Jive Time? Read about some of our favorite LP's here. Check back soon as we'll be adding many more titles in the weeks and months to come! |
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| West Coast Pop Art Experimantal Band - Volume 3; A Child's Guide To Good And Evil: More soaring psychedelia, folk-rock and Zappa/Beefheart strangeness from The West Coast Pop Art. Volumes 1, 2 & 3 are a must have for any fans of psych & Freakbeat. -JT Staff Pick |
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| New Riders Of The Purple Sage - s/t: Anyone who enjoys the Grateful Dead's Workingman's Dead or American Beauty and wants more should get the New Riders of the Purple Sage's eponymous release. With Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart in tow, New Riders of the Purple Sage is some of the most spaced-out country-rock of the period. -JT Staff Pick |
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| 10cc - Sheet Music: Sometimes weird, sometimes jovial, sometimes downright snippy. The versatility and technical qualities of the band could be baffling to many listeners, but when they were on form, they were terrific (allmusic). Think of a cross between ELO and Sparks. -David's Pick |
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| Can - Future Days: A perennial favorite at Jive Time and a record you'll hear played often in our stores. This 1973 release saw Can at their artistic peak and contains four epic pieces of hypnotic, funky Krautrock. One of their best and most accessible records, "Future Days" is an excellent Can record to start with. -Jive Time Staff |
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| Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me: My favorite record from my favorite band. I don't even really know what to say. This record speaks to me in a way no other piece of recorded music ever has. It's heavy and gentle, totally hardcore and psychedelic, wasted, yet totally on point, defeated yet triumphant. It's all these little contradictions that make it so profoundly cool to me. They "nailed it" like no other band. In the artwork, the guitar sound, the rhythm section and even the track order.
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| Guy Skornik - Namaste: A pretty amazing piano-driven light-psych french record. His voice is reminiscent of Robert Wyatt or Thunderclap Newman's Speedy Keene, and the songs are so musically enticing that any foreseeable language barrier makes little or no difference. One of my favorites. Grab it if you run across it. -Ben |
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| Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation: By the time "Crown of Creation" came out the Airplane were fully loaded with incredible musicians and an album's worth of uniquely creative songs. Ranging from their exotic take on alternative lifestyles to the acid crazed end of the world. The instruments, voices and sound experiments expand in an effortless collage of psychedelic consciousness. A collision of modern art and contemporary music that helped to define the hypnotic sixties. -Scott's Pick |
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| The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies: "Village Green" is considered quintessential Kinks and I agree but I actually prefer the laid-back, rootsy "Muswell Hillbillies". This slightly overlooked 1971 LP is a unique blend of country, rock, blues and folk that sounds unlike anything else the Kinks have recorded. -David's Pick |
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| Jeremy Spencer & the Children - s/t: The most mysterious solo recording from a member of Fleetwood Mac and one of the best. When Jermey Spencer left Fleetwood Mac in 1971 he joined a religious cult called the Children of God and recorded this haunting LP of psychedelic folk-rock featuring some remarkable harmonies. This album is a little tough to find but usually not very expensive and definitely worth seeking out.
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| The Rolling Stones - Some Girls: My all time favorite record! This classic LP is the Stones decadent take on punk and disco mixed with their usual dose of blues and country. This LP sounds as great today as it did when I bought it new in 1977. Also one of the best album covers of all time! -David's Pick |
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| Rainman - s/t: A side project of Q65's Frank Nuyens, this is a beautiful earthy record that Scott turned me on to. Great, catchy songwriting with a sincere (albeit it sometimes grammatically awkward) delivery. A nearly perfect record. -Ben's Pick |
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| The Turtles - Present a Battle of the Bands: This is a bizarre concept album with The Turtles portraying several different bands in a competition. In doing so they take on the complete late-Sixties musical spectrum including The Beatles, surf music, bubble gum, folk rock and garage. It sounds strange but it works! The best track is the psychedelic, fuzzed out tribute to Booker T & The MG's "Buzzsaw". -David's Pick |
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| Sparks - Kimono My House: I have to admit I hated this record the first time I heard it. I've since come around! Weird, manic, loud and completely addictive glam pop with insanely over-the-top production: welcome to the world of Sparks! If you haven't heard them start with this great LP. I guarantee it's like nothing else you've ever heard come through your speakers. -David's Pick |
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| Grin - s/t: Primarily admired by critics and record store clerks, Nils Lofgrin's first band Grin wrote timeless songs of youthful love and yearning. Accompanied by Nil's at times swaggeringly emotional guitar playing the band was largely ignored by the buying public. Nil's solo career never really blossomed the way it could have, but truly he should have been a contender. -Scott's Pick |
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| Black Flag - Everything Went Black:
If you don't like this record you are a poser. -RJ's Pick |
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| Prince - Sign O' The Times: One of the most unpredictable records of all time! This sprawling, double LP has a raw, minimalist feel to it with Prince playing all of his cards: psychedelic rock, funk, jazz, gospel, folk, you name it. Many of the best tracks defy categorization altogether and feature Prince singing over a simple synth pattern and drum machine. Nobody should have to pick one favorite Prince song but if forced I'd have to choose the bizzare "If I Was Your Girlfriend". -David's Pick |
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| Gene Clark - No Other: "No Other" deserves it's near mythical status today. A sprawling, ambitious work that brings elements of country, folk, jazz, gospel, blues, and trippy rock together to reflects the mid-'70s better than anything from that time, yet sounds hauntingly timely even now. This album's commercial failure in 1974 remains one of life's great mysteries. -JT Staff Pick |
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| Kinks - Schoolboys in Disgrace: Sandwiched between the weird concept LP "Soap Opera" and the arena rock of "Misfits" it's easy to see why this record is often overlooked. It's a great LP though with The Kinks moving effortlessly from hard rock, garage, ballads and doo wop! My favorite track is the glam "Headmaster." -JT Staff Pick |
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| Cheap Trick - s/t: One of the greatest albums and best debuts of all time! "Cheap Trick" must have sounded light years ahead of its time when it arrived in 1977. Arena rock and power pop meet punk with a trashy, live, unpolished sound. It was too pop to be punk and too punk to be considered pop but it's hard to imagine now listening to "Oh, Candy" and "Taxman" why this LP wasn't a huge hit. -JT Staff Pick |
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| Crack The Sky - s/t: Possibly the greatest album you've never heard. Although "Crack The Sky" was named Album of the Year by Rolling Stone in 1975 they have become mostly forgotten and unforgivably overlooked today. Glam meets progressive rock and fusion with incredible harmonies (Surf City, A Sea Epic) and infectious power pop (She's a Dancer) that holds up very well in 2006. Prog rock for people who think they don't like prog rock. -David'S Pick |
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| Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes: "If vibratory activity is properly controlled man may experience all life's joy and at the same time not be enslaved by it. It is most difficult to control activity when it is once started and on the
increase...But yet in the control abides the whole of what is called mastership"
Quote from Sufi Teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan from his book
"Mysticism of Sound and Music" -RJ's Pick |
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