Art Decade

The Sensational Nightingales - My Sisters And Brothers Great ramshackle rhythm backing on this, and empyrean reverb on the vox (only fitting...

Cream - Dance The Night Away I like that you can pretty much see the revellers spilling out into the streets when the psychedelic part kicks...

SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL Franck Dervieux - Present Du Futur

Radar - Una Splendida Emicrania A search for more Italian new wave on discogs.com turned up this nugget. Old news for some but new to me. T...

new Viva show ( #110 ) in the archive

Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Observatory Crest A descendant of For What It's Worth, arrangement-wise, this popped up on a coup...

Ramases - Balloon If you're thinking, "Gee, that sounds like Lol Crème on lead guitar, moog synthesiser, and possibly background vo...

Electric Light Orchestra - Letter From Spain

Miharu Koshi - パラレリズム [Parallélisme]

Big Star - The India Song (alternate version) Words and music by Andy Hummel, with whose sentiments I completely agree. Available in this bo...

Blackway - Follow Me

The Stepkids - Shadows On Behalf If this were a lost electro-psych-soul obscurity from '73, it would be one of the greatest crate-digs o...

Flyer - Get Back Your Love If you like Flayer, you'll love Flyer. Lead vocals / Piano / Synthethizers (sic) & Lead Guitar by Alain ...

Slapp Happy - Jumpin' Jonah Avant-gospel moves from Slapp Happy, on the b-side of their first single. Perhaps Dagmar & co. caught th...

Amon Duul II - Another Morning Thanks to JG for pointing me back to this one. It's all about the choral vocal part that kicks in at 1:3...

Vic Chesnutt: Dodge

Toots & The Maytals: Reggae Got Soul

new Viva show ( #109 ) in the archive

Flowers - For Real I hope one day to have dinner with this bass player.

from the archives Bob James - El Verano Summer is back... and that phased guitar riff reminding you it's been here all along. original a...

Amon Duul II - Kirk Morgan Thanks to Sorcerer for this one. The song structure is something like ABABCDCE and parts A,B,C,D, & E are al...

Dave & The Diamonds - Think About Love It sounds like a Yardbirds-era Jimmy Page may have snuck in to play guitar on this. Available on ...

Thomas Dolby - Ravivar Fiore

new Viva show ( #108 ) in the archive

Step Lang - Easy Love Since this sounds almost as much like the Strokes as the A-side , I figure I might as well post it. Music by R. Caccia...

10cc - Speed Kills

Anne Cessna & Essendon Airport - Lost In Madagascar The note that really makes it for me is the major-third on the word "ceiling...

Freeez - Caribbean Winter

Ben Webster: Over the Rainbow (Live at Ronnie Scott)

Vangelis - Silent Portraits 1 Silent Portraits 2 Thanks to Hatchback and our friends at noncollective for the tip on part 2 (featured in th...

England's Glory - Bright Lights Showdown

New Riders of the Purple Sage: I Don't Know You

Guy Pedersen - Petit Moujik De Nuit MEDIUM POP voix homme - 5 guitares électriques

Paul Simon: Oh, Marion Pick your poison...

Head Hands & Feet - Safety In Numbers Kudos to the lads in White Denim for unfurling this one in this mix; it's a stone jam. Featur...

new Viva show ( #107 ) in the archives

Zoo - Hard Times, Good Times Engineer : Bernard Estardy - Studio C B E Arranged By Zoo Photography : Alain Marouani Produced By : Philippe ...

The Charles Lloyd Quartet: Dream Weaver This one just feels good. Plus, hold on to your hats. the players: Charles Lloyd - tenor sax Keith J...

Elvin Jones: Moon Dance Recently, Emmett , my brother , and I took in a show by saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa , which was great, and afte...

Wreckless Eric: Whole Wide World "We're going to blow the lid on this myth of France because Americans always think of France as th...

The Cure: In Your House

Traffic - Dream Gerrard

Hank Mobley: The Best Things in Life Are Free One for the optimistic song titles category. The players: Hank Mobley, tenor sax Grant Green, ...

Jefferson Airplane: She Has Funny Cars

Agnetha Fältskog - Wrap Your Arms Around Me Music to lose your virginity to from Sweden's Agnetha Fältskog, best known as the first ...

Junior Wells: Ships on the Ocean That'll do nicely, thank you very much.

Lou Rawls: Trouble Down Here Below And this is how one should learn the alphabet...

The Beach Boys - The Little Girl I Once Knew I'm fine with the song, but mainly I just want to crank the intro, especially when it reapp...

A Hundred Birds - So Eye On ...back from Ireland. Shortly before I left I purchased this CD from a semi-homeless dude on W. 72nd St., and t...

Emmett Presents: The End Is Not In Sight Side A Modern Folk Quartet - This Could Be The Night Twin Engine - Mistress Of The Morning Nancy Si...