As requested, here is a repost of one of the earliest psychedelic comps to be posted on Meltd0wn. I will be uploading the companion albums "A Hard Dose of Lyte Psych" and "A Deadly Dose of Wylde Psych" next.
This is another great compilation I found on DC++. Let me know if you all like this type of stuff. If so I have a few more like this that I could upload. Here are the notes that were included with the album:
"With twenty-three very rare singles, originating from all over North America, from 1966-70 (dates are not given for a couple but they certainly fit the time frame), this is very much in the Pebbles garage compilation mentality. The key difference is that the focus is on a later era -- only two to three years later on the average, mind you, but a significant difference when we're talking about the sixties, when styles and sounds changed very quickly. It logically begats another difference between this and your average garage compilation: there is much more weight given to hard, even heavy, guitar rock and psychedelic lyrics.
Featured on this 70+ minute collection is the more bombastic and harder slice of '60s American Psych. You'll find a glorious deluge of overdriven fuzz guitar, swirling surreal sounds, hallucinogenic lyrical content and superb songwriting. As with our previous two installments, fans of Vernon Joynson's Fuzz Acid & Flowers book will discover plenty of massively cool testaments from this by-gone era. Changin' Tymes: Blue Music Box, Catfish Knight And The Blue Express Deathwise, Bondsmen: Our Time To Try, Flower Power: I Can Feel It, Adam: Eve, Aardvarks: Subconscious Train Of Thought, Factree: Kaleidoscope, Light: Back Up, Dutch Masters: The Expectation, Sidells: Watch Out Mother, Zoser: Dark Of The Morning, Tom Dae Turned On: I Shall Walk, Cardboard Box: Come On Baby Legend: Enjoy Yourself, Crystal Rain: Hey Ma Ma, Sound System: Take A Look At Yourself, Lovechain: Step out Of Your Window You Can Fly, Inner Light: Temptation, Mammoth: Mammoth, Lazy Nickels: 35 Design, Enoch Smoky: It's Cruel, Haymarket Riot: Leaving, Mind Garage: Asphalt Mother.I believe this is the third in Arf Arf's psych comp series, adding Hard to the previous Heavy and Light discs.
As with those collections, there are plenty of songs here that will make you cringe and thank your maker that the performers are now safely away from the public ear somewhere in the working sector. Then there are bands like Bondsmen ("Our Time To Try"), Mind Garage ("Asphalt Mother"), Legend ("Enjoy Yourself") and Enoch Smoky ("It's Cruel") that had exactly what it took to open for Iron Butterfly back in the day, and these songs are what makes being a garage psych fan a pleasure. Taken as a whole, Lethal Dose is, at the very least, interesting, a hodgepodge of everything from spirited fuzzfests from groups with dubious vocal skills to absolute mind-expansion from groups from which a contact high can somehow still be obtained just by listening. For those of you who collect garage gems from obscure bands of the 60s, this is all moot. You'll snag it regardless. For the casual fans, I recommend this as an entertaining artifact and a 70 minute mind trip. - D.J. Johnson"
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Garage Rock
Bitrate: 256kbps
Track List:
1. Blue Music Box - Changin' Tymes
2. Deathwise - Catfish Knight And The Blue Express
3. Our Time To Try - Bondsmen
4. I Can Feel It - Flower Power
5. Eve - Adam
6. Subconcious Train Of Though - Aardvarks
7. Kaleidoscope - Factree
8. Back Up - Light
9. The Expectation - Dutch Masters
10. Watch Out Mother - Sidells
11. Dark Of The Morning - Zoser
12. I Shall Walk - Tom Dae Turned On
13. Come On Baby - Cardboard Box
14. Enjoy Yourself - Legend
15. Hey Ma Ma - Crystal Rain
16. Take A Look At Yourself - Sound System
17. Step Out Of Your Window You Can Fly - Lovechain
18. Temptation - Inner Light
19. Mammoth - Mammoth
20. 35 Design - Lazy Nickels
21. It's Cruel - Enoch Smoky
22. Leaving - Haymarket Riot
23. Asphalt Mother - Mind Garage
Thanks,please upload more of it.
ReplyDeletePebbles are great... am looking for the pebbles series volume 15 (the netherlands... perhaps you can help me with it?
ReplyDeletejust so you know, the link to gigasize gives way for some sort of virus/spyware... i would suggest mediafire.com instead, as a better place to drop files.
ReplyDeletethanks for that hard psych!
@Pedro: Unfortunately my gigasize account recently expired, which means the majority of the files that have been working for two years have now been deleted.
ReplyDeleteI've been very disappointed with Gigasize lately. I'm not sure why they would link to a site that distributes some sort of virus or spyware. Perhaps they don't do a thorough check of the sites that are paying to advertise through them. When I first started using gigasize I thought it was the best file hosting site around, but they quickly went downhill. I haven't even been able to upload files to their server recently. I've been using mediafire and sharebee for the last few months though.
I'll do my best to re-upload some of the files that were hosted on gigasize's servers in between my new shares.
Hi, Great stuff but track 20 is bad. Thanks for taking the time to share.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: Could you please elaborate on the problems you are having with track 20? I don't know what you mean when you say that it is "bad". Please let me know what kind of problem you are having exactly, then I'll see what I can do about fixing it. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteGreetings, Error on track 20: I get a CRC error when expanding the archive. Downloaded it twice to be sure that it wasn't me. Thanks
ReplyDeleteI see you made a separate post of track 20, but when I unzip the file I only get the first 19 tracks, so I am still missing tracks 21-24. Can anyone help me? I have using rar Frog to unpack, never had any problems with it before, but maybe when it finds a bad track it doesn't go on to the rest?
ReplyDeleteIan, did you get this sorted out as one working DL with all the trax in it? The comments are fair warning [backing away from a snarling infected missing-one-eye critter while feeling behind me for the door, lol] and to be honest, even the MF page for the main/bulk of it is "stuck on stupid": endlessly reloading the "click here for DL" every time I did *just* that. I know re-uploading is a pain, but one "right" DL trumps two "wrong" ones. Perhaps MultiUpload? That's what i've been using, but whatever you do is appreciated. Good karma to you for all that u do here.
ReplyDeleteIt's been a long time since I checked the comments for this post. I wasn't aware that some of the tracks were missing. I'm working on the "Nightmare Before Christmas" project for December at the moment, but I will add this to my list of items to reupload. You can expect to see this re-posted in January. I'll be careful to ensure that all the tracks are accounted for. I apologize to anyone who downloaded this and encountered difficulties.
ReplyDeleteBlue Music Box - Changin' Tymes is a great song. Thanks for turning me on to this.
ReplyDeleteHi, Ian. Just dropped in to see if you reposted this complete and correct yet. No rush. Figured it might be fixed and ready by now. Thanx for all u do.
ReplyDelete@apollojams: At the moment I am strictly focusing on sharing library music albums. I will reupload this and add the new link to the post tonight. However it won't appear at the top of the blog as posts with re-uploaded links normally would, since I don't want to mix this with the library music posts. I'll attempt to contact you (if their is an e-mail address listed in your profile) once I have finished uploading it. Thanks and take care.
ReplyDeleteP.S. My name isn't Ian ;-)
@apollojams: I wanted to let you know that I didn't forget about you. I had a writing assignment due for school last night, which I wasn't ware of, so I had to work on that last night after I got off of work. I'm uploading the album now, and I will replace the download link as soon as I get off of work tonight.
ReplyDeleteDrats. The DM blogposts aren't DATED, so i can't tell when you dropped in for your replies. Checked for new link just now [Feb. 6th, 6pm], but it's the same old one that's been there all this time, ending in "htjq". I'm easily reachable via [my username] at yahoo [or g-mail]. No rush, just didn't want YOU to think i pitched a question and ran away. :)
ReplyDelete@Apollojams: I apologize for the inconvenience. Apparently the post didn't save, and I forgot to make sure the changes I made were saved. I have replaced the old download link with a new one, and I have double-checked to ensure that it is working correctly.
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point about the posts being dated. Whenever I edited my blog's code to customize the design, I believe that I either deleted or "broke" some of the code for the comments section. On most blogs you can click on the name of the person who made the post, which will take you to their profile. This isn't the case on my blog. I've been meaning to fix that issue, but either don't think about it, or don't have the time to spare. Whenever I am finally able to, I will make it a point to try to add code which would add the date to each post also.
Thank you once again for your patience and persistence. I do my best to keep all of the download links updated here, but it can be a difficult job. People such as yourself certainly make it easier when you point out that one has died. Take care
Hi again. Up top, it's still the same MF link ending in "htjq". Perhaps i'm looking in the wrong place? Just letting you know i was here, 2-14-2011. Thanx again.
ReplyDeleteUh...by "MF link", i *meant* MediaFire link. :)
ReplyDeleteAha. There it is. I'll cop that lethal dose tonight, and thanx again for helping me replace another Arf Arf [1 of at least a dozen Arf's stolen in '07].
ReplyDelete@ApolloJams: No problem my friend. I apologize for the inconvenience. Apparently the link was good, as I double checked it twice, but again, blogger just didn't save the changes I made to the post. That seems to be a problem I've beeen having rather regularly lately. I'm sorry to hear about your Arf Arf loss. Let me know which other releases you are looking for. Perhaps I can help with those as well. Take care.
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