Best of The Bestages

Line-up and give-em three cheers! The Essential series from EMI is coming in a week or so and will include some tidy collections of hits and key-tracks by the likes of Talking Heads, Blondie, Crowded House, Culture Club,Iggy Pop, Ultravox and heeeeeeeeeeeaps of others.

Keep an eye on the shop for when they land and snaffle some stirrup stirrers for Cup Day or some early stocking fillers for Christmas.

The Giant Sun Will Devour Us All! Let's Close The Windows And Watch DVDs!!!

Music is all well and good, but sometimes you want someone else to take care of the pictures.
Lennon asked us to picture ourselves in a boat on a river.

That's all well and good, but he's just gotten us to do the visual work for him. No wonder he got so rich. He effectively got us in as unpaid subcontractors.
The scamp!!

Anyway, the makers of film and TV are ready and willing to do the whole job for us, sound and vision and that's where the digital versatile disc (or DVD) really comes in to it's own.

                                           Check out Dogs In Space. 2DVD Edtition for $10.

                                           Or Don's Party $15

And then you could travel to another country or even another dimension with the Original Twilight Zone...

We have Seasons 1 - 5 in stock and at just $30.

Up there with the best television e v e r !!!!

Rather than spoil the mystery if you haven't seen a particular episode,

here's a video showing the creator of the show Rod Serling, along with Jack Benny.

There's something on every weekend now.

Here we go. Buckle up for barbecues. Saddle up for sausages sizzles. Cuddle up to a horse on Cup Day.
It's the pointy end of the year, and every scene needs a soundtrack.

Here's some compilations that'll satisfy a range o folks.

"Simply The Best Songs": Has a terrific range of artists that goes all the way from James Blunt to Joy Division. Includes Ray Lamontagne's Joelene, Aretha Franklin's Respect and our very own Jet's Look What You've Done. Oh and two of the best songs ever to mention rain (in my opinion). Garbage's "Only Happy When It Rains" and Prince's "Purple Rain". 40 Tracks over 2CDs. $10.






And for fans of the "Guitarist's Best Friend", also known as the guitar - we've got  
Shazam! 50 Guitar Bustin' Instrumentals.

2CDs all jammin' and packin' the likes of Link Wray, Duane Eddy, Phil Harvey (Phil Spector),The Drifters, and Chet Atkins.

50 tracks x Six String good times = 300 strings of fun.
And that's not factoring in any bass guitarists or 12 string utilisations.
Go for it!! ($10)

Go, Box Frenzy!

We've just recieved a bunch of great boxed sets in from overseas!
Loads to tell you about, but here's a few to start with.


Dylan fans will wanna check out. Bob Dylan: On The Crest Of The Air

A 4CD Set for just $25 covering live appearances and interviews.
Dylan rarely gives recorded interviews these days, but way back in the 60s he was much more accessible to the press and liked to have fun with the process.

Kicking off this collection is the Folksinger's Choice radio appearance from 1962.

It's hilarious to hear Dylan spinning his own mythology and playing songs that would never appear on his studio albums.

Check out this exchange between Bob Dylan and interviewer Cynthia Gooding after playing the track
Standing On The Highway. Dylan claims to have travelled with carnivals.Of course he did nothing of the sort. Ridiculous, hilarious and wonderful, and that's before you even get to the music.

 
Transcription from expectingrain.com

BD: You like that?
 
CG: Yes I do. You know the eight of diamonds is delay, and the ace of spades is death so that sort of goes in with the two roads, doesn't it?

BD: I learned that from the carnival.

CG: From who?

BD: Carnival, I used to travel with the carnival. I used to speak of those things all the time.

CG: Oh. You can read cards too?

BD : Humm, I can't read cards. I really believe in palm reading, but for a bunch of personal things, I don't, personal experiences, I don't believe too much in the cards. I like to think I don't believe too much in the cards, anyhow.

CG: So you go out of your way not to get em read, so you won't believe them. How long were you with the carnival?

BD: I was with the carnival off and on for about six years.

CG: What were you doing?

BD: Oh, just about everything. Uh, I was clean-up boy, I used to be on the main line, on the ferris wheel, uh, do just run rides. I used to do all kinds of stuff like that.

CG: Didn't that interfere with your schooling?

BD: Well, I skipped a bunch of things, and I didn't go to school a bunch of years and I skipped this and I skipped that.

CG: That's what I figured.

BD: All came out even though.


Here's what's on the set

CD1:Folksingers Choice, 1962
CD2 Features live performances from 1963 of  Blowin' In the Wind, /Man Of Constant Sorrow/The Ballad of Hollis Brown. - plus 35 minutes of 1965 press conferences.
CD3 has It's All Over Now Baby Blue and It's All Right Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) live from TV appearances in 1965 along with 30 minutes of interviews from '65 and '66.
CD4 features an interview recording with Bob Fass from WBAI FM from 1966.



The 1960 British Hit Parade Boxed Sets.

  

                                   The 1960 British Hit Parade Parts 1 and 2 collectively present every recording to debut on the UK hit singles chart during 1960, drawing on the expanded Record Retailer Top 50 (introduced that March), as well as the New Musical Express, Melody Maker and Record Mirrow charts.

A fantastic way to "enter an era" and get a feel for a period in music.

Each boxed set is $25 and includes 6CDs.

Part 1 has 179 tracks by such as Elvis,Buddy Holly, Sinatra,Gene Vincent, Frank Sinatra, and loads of others.

Part 2 has 174 tracks including Jackie Wilson, Peter Sellers & Sofia Loren, Lonnie Donegan, our own Rolf Harris (as if there was another..), Roy Orbison, George Formby.

Each boxed set includes informative liner notes .

Got Me A Movie? Slicin' Up Eyeballs?

The Pixies song Debaser was inspired by the Luis Bunuel / Dali film Un Chien Andalou.
We have the 2 DVD collectors edition in stock.

Disc 1 features the 16 minute short along with expert audio commentary and a 60 minute documentary on the life of Salvador Dali.

Disc 2 features a Bunuel directed documentary La Hurdes along with a 98 minute feature on the director.

Here's a little of the film, cut together with the Pixies track it inspired.
Thanks youtube!

We've got plenty of Pixies CDs in stock of course, along with the a couple of live DVDs.
Pixies Acoustic Live In Newport features 22 tracks, including Here Comes Your Man, Where Is My Mind, and Gigantic. ($10)

Pixies Sell Out covers their 2004 reunion tour. It takes in a 28 song performance from France along with a whopping 15 bonus tracks, including a multi-angle Monkey Gone To Heaven. Deal!!! ($10)