The Waltones - She Looks Right Through Me

THE WALTONES
She Looks Right Through Me
1987 Medium Cool

01. She Looks Right Through Me
02. Special 20
03. Burning Conscience

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Medalark Eleven - I Call Your Name EP

MEDALARK ELEVEN
I Call Your Name EP
1992 Creation Records

Notes :
Great indie/baggy band formed in Manchester by Michael Ryan (ex-The Bodines) on vocals and guitar, Gareth Thomas on bass and Adrian Donohue (ex-Candlestick Park) on drums. They released one album "Shaped Up, Shipped Out" and three singles on Creation Records.

01. I Call Your Name
02. Miles
03. Miles (Morocco Mix)

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Candlestick Park - All The Time In The World EP

CANDLESTICK PARK
All The Time In The World EP
1991 Midnight Music

Notes :
Indie band formed in 1990 by the members of 80's indie band from Manchester - The Waltones. Candlestick Park recorded one album "Re-Invent The Wheel" for Midnight Music label but it was never released and the band split. Their guitar player Mark Collins joined The Charlatans in 1991 after Jon Baker's departure.
One single - "All The Time In The World" was issued from the album sessions.

01. All The Time In The World
02. Promised Land
03. Safe (Instrumental)

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WANTED: Unreleased Albums

 

 

Notes :

List of albums that were recorded but never released. If anyone have any info, have copy of any album, please leave comment or send email to: evibes72@yahoo.com

If any album is missing on my list and you have information that was recorded but not released, leave comment and will be added.

 

01. Poppy Factory - Good Time (info)

02. Candlestick Park - Re-Invent The Wheel (info)

03. Sensitize - Unreleased Album (info)

04. Laxton's Superb - Laxton's Superb (info)

05. The Corn Dollies - Past Caring (info)

06. The Playthings - Consumed (info)

07. Autumn Parade - Indian Summer (info)

08. The Raw Herbs - Unreleased Album

09. The Giraffes - Giraffitti (info)

10. Bandola - The Album (info)

11. Giant Killers - Unreleased Album (info)

The Waltones - Deepest

THE WALTONES
Deepest
1989 Medium Cool

Notes :
One of the most beautiful albums from late 80's period is ''Deepest'' by great Manchester band The Waltones.
Any band that have members as Mark Collins (later The Charlatans) on guitar and Clint Boon (later Inspiral Carpets) on organ (two of the most talented musicians from madchester era), must be great.
Clint Boon organ sound  is evidenth on tracks as ''She's Everywhere But Here'', ''What's Going Wrong'', ''I've Got Nothing'', etc.

I've tried to find some info about this album on the net, here's most interesting :

'' The band consists of Alex Fyans (drums), Mark Collins (guitar), James Knox (vocals, harmonica) and Manny Lee (bass, backing vocals). Their debut release was the "Downhill" single, released by Medium Cool Records in April 1987, which, like the follow-up, "She Looks Right Through Me", placed on the UK Independent Chart. Third single "Spell It Out" gave them their biggest success, peaking at number 20 on the Indie Singles Chart. Debut album ''Deepest'' eventually saw a release in 1989, by which time they had lost momentum. The band also recorded a session for BBC Radio 1's John Peel Show in August 1988.
In 1990, the band moved to the Midnight Music label, and recorded a second album ''Re-invent the Wheel'' co-produced by Kevin Harris. After recording was completed, Fyans left the group to be replaced by Adrian Donohue. The band relaunched themselves as Candlestick Park. One single, "All the Time in the World", was issued from the album sessions, and a collaboration with Manchester-based House producers K-Klass was mooted. However the album was never issued and the band split, as Collins went on to greater success with The Charlatans. ''

'' The all-pervasive rise of Madchester stars The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and Inspiral Carpets has latterly overshadowed the fact that the Manchester hinterland was nurturing its fair share of quality jangly guitar pop in the mid-to-late 80s. Along with The Railway Children and early Creation hopefuls The Bodines, The Waltones tilted at greatness in this post-Smiths/pre-baggy void, recording four singles and one album, The Deepest, for Andy Wake’s Medium Cool label circa 1987-89.
Ironically, it wasn’t the advent of Madchester that would directly sink The Waltones. Medium Cool’s distributor, Red Rhino, went bankrupt after The Deepest sold out its first pressing, leaving band and label to flounder before guitarist Mark Collins quit and joined The Charlatans. ''


01. Everything's Just Fine
02. The Deepest
03. Don't Understand
04. When It All Turns Sour
05. She's Everywhere But Here
06. Smile
07. A Million Different Ways
08. Rainfall
09. What's Going Wrong?
10. I've Got Nothing

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V.A. - Nocturnal - The Best Of Midnight Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Nocturnal - The Best Of Midnight Music
1997 Cherry Red

01. Sad Lovers And Giants - Things We Never Did
02. The Snake Corps - Science Kills
03. The Essence - Like Christ
04. The Essence - A Mirage
05. The Popguns - Someone Like You
06. The Popguns - Gesture
07. Corn Dollies - Nothing Of You
08. McCarthy - Keep An Open Mind Or Else
09. The Wolfhounds - Rent Act
10. Sad Lovers And Giants & The Essence - Sleep
11. Western Promise - Promised Land
12. Sheriff Jack - Everybody Twist
13. Blyth Power - Better To Bat
14. The Sun And The Moon - Adam's Song
15. Hackney Five-O - Catalogue (Of Trouble And The Blues)
16. The Invisible - Love Street
17. Sudden Afternoon - Acid Rain
18. Ever - Virgin Eyes
19. Candlestick Park - All The Time In The World
20. Fuel - Honey Comes Softley

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Higher Than The Sun (Madchester Week) / Get Higher Mix

Celebrating four years of Madchester Rave On blog, starting from tommorow i'm posting madchester baggy classics all week on my other blog Higher Than The Sun. See you there !

Madchester Rave On
Get Higher Mix
2008

01. The Seaside - Idolise
02. The Jack Rubies - Foolish Boy
03. The Ocean Blue - Between Something And Nothing
04. The Railway Children - Music Stop
05. The Caretaker Race - Anywhere But Home
06. Candlestick Park - All The Time In The World
07. The Snake Corps - Some Other Time
08. The Field Mice - Triangle
09. This Scarlet Train - Picture Frame
10. Deardarkhead - Crystallize
11. The Reegs - The Nasty Side
12. Guernica - Humming Of The Engine (Extended Mix)
13. The Motorcycle Boy - Big Rock Candy Mountain (Velocity Dance Mix)
14. Riverside - Cinnamon Eyes
15. 2 Lost Sons - Rainbow Me
16. Charmin' Children - Out
17. Moonflowers - Get Higher (The Get Dubber Mix)

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