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  Various Artists - Meanwhile Back At The Ranch Big Dan Is Fightin' For His Life [MARX 075 UK 1987 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] The Bam Caruso label were responsible for diverse & rare re-releases such as Jan & Dean Meet Batman , The Prisoner OST, early lost albums by John's Children, The Walker Brothers, The Seeds, The Pretty Things, The Left Banke and the very first Nirvana. Meanwhile Back At The Ranch... was a low priced compilation aimed at launching the career of many of the labels eighties acts. There were quite a few low-priced label compilations in the eighties, some such as Pillows & Prayers are highly revered these days, this one has been overlooked for too long, plus it is possibly in the best mid-price sleeve design of all time. The Palace Of Light were essentially latter day Felts - but did it rather well - their only album Beginning Here & Travelling Outward remains a long-time personal favourite. The Wild Kitchen were groovy post-punk monks akin to C...

  Various Artists - From The House Of Lords (Rubble Nine) [KIRI 065 UK 1987 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] It is time for more grrroovy stuff from the Bam Caruso label and volume nine of their Rubble series of psych compilations. Most of the artists you see before you, or is that hear before you, have never actually committed anything else to vinyl, except maybe for Steve Nieve's The Attractions and British goth-folk-psyche legend Paul Roland. The Doctor is he of the infamous Medics, the remainder of the acts are virtually unknown and unleash themselves from the depths of the eighties psyche revival. A few names in the credits are familiar; Nick Haeffner, Richard Norris, Robyn Hitchcock and Bam Caruso supremo Phil Smee all feature on this wonderful collection of psychedelic rock and garage rock. There are a good few cover versions included, but if you really need to have your mind blown, then look no further than The Fading Dreams's eleven minute interpretation of The Strawbs'  Fa...

  Various Artists - The Clouds Have Groovy Faces (Rubble Six) [KIRI 049 UK 1986 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] I've been threatening to dig into my collection of Rubbles from eccentric British label, Bam Caruso Records for a number of years. Well, here is one of them, rather than begin at the beginning, I've opted for number six today. I have been known to be a bit of a label collector and Bam Caruso is one of the most collectible labels from the eighties - specialising in obscure psyche reissues, eighties paisley revival pop & eclectic baroque rock, their catelogue is quite significant in size - if you've been following my rips over the past 10+ years, you may already have quite a few scattered amongst your drives. Curated from the Decca archives by label supremo Phil Smee, most of these sixteen fuzzy sixties pop numbers are monaural but that's the way they did things back then. Given the production rawness of these tracks, I am rather pleased with how this rip came out. ...