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With interest from Beatles producer George Martin and a deal with Parlophone Records, '60s mod masters the Action could have been somebody. Somehow--despite an extraordinary spate of sides in the mid to late '60s--the band fell through the cracks and never achieved their much merited success. Enter Reaction Records, a British imprint that gathered these demos and released them as ROLLED GOLD in 1998. As a collection of songs, ROLLED GOLD easily stands with the Zombies' ODESSEY & ORACLE as a pinnacle of the era's mod psychedelia. Its meticulously crafted tunes restlessly morph, but never lose their tight hummability as they foreground the criminally underrecognized lead vocals of Reg King. Backed by charmingly roughhewn harmonies and shifting, elliptical riffs, King hitches a dreamy lyricism to his expressive pipes on lost classics like "Strange Roads," "Something to Say," and "Icarus." Despite their low visibility, the Action--and specifically the charms found within ROLLED GOLD--influenced a wide gamut of later musicians from Phil Collins to Guided By Voices.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
60's English Pop
Personnel: Ian Whiteman (vocals, flute, keyboards); Michael Evans (vocals, bass guitar); Reg King (vocals); Martin Stone, Alan "Bam" King (guitar); Roger Powell (drums).
Audio Remasterer: Adam Schmitt.
Liner Note Authors: Alan "Bam" King ; Matthew Sweet; Andrew Sandoval; Ric Menck; Brent Rademaker.Uncut (10/02, p.101) - 4 stars out of 5 - "This reissue carries the whiff of a genuine lost classic..." Purchase Rolled Gold CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | H P Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft/H.P. Lovecraft II CD (2000)
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H.P. Lovecraft's two self-titled albums are collected onto one disc that traces the band's development from a second-string psych band to a darker, proto-prog rock outfit. Despite some dated tracks on the first album and a slight lack of focus on the second, songs like "Wayfaring Stranger," "Time Machine," and "At the Mountains of Madness" showcase the unique harmonies and arrangments that made H.P. Lovecraft one of the most enduring cult psychedelic bands. ~ Heather Phares
Much more progressive than their first effort, the album also showed the band losing touch with some of their most obvious strengths, most notably their disciplined arrangements and incisive songwriting. The arrangements are more swirling and far denser on this follow-up. Unsurprisingly, the more concise, dual harmony numbers that bear the closest resemblance to the first ...
| | Action Packed! CD (1981) (Import) United Kingdom
Rolled Gold
$19.15 
Though the Action never had a chart hit nor scaled the heights of fame like its mid-1960s British Invasion contemporaries, the group remains well-respected as one of the quintessential mod/U.K. R&B ...
| | Chad & Jeremy Of Cabbages & Kings CD (1967)
Rolled Gold
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| | Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet CD (1968)
Rolled Gold
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Retreating from the ...
| | Who's Next: Deluxe Edition CDs (1971) Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Deluxe Edition; Digipak
Rolled Gold
$17.95
Recorded between 1968 & 1971. Includes liner notes by Pete Townshend, John Atkins, and Chris Charlesworth.
Though Pete Townshend was originally unhappy with WHO'S NEXT, it was quickly welcomed by critics and fans, becoming one of the most celebrated titles in their enduring catalog. His frustrations boiled down to the album being a compromised version of a larger work he'd envisioned, LIFEHOUSE, which proved too unwieldy to be realized. Expanded to a two-disc set with essays by both Townshend and John Atkins, the original nine-song album is expanded with six additional studio tracks.
These include earlier versions of the album's songs and a cover of Holland-Dozier-Holland's "Baby Don't You Do It." Recorded in New York during the spring of 1971 in the midst of a fraying relationship with producer Kit Lambert, the early cuts clearly don't have the sonic breadth and wallop of what the Who achieved back in England later in the year, but are fascinating nonetheless. The second disc was recorded live before an invited audience, ...
| | Spacemen 3 Perfect Prescription CD (1987)
Rolled Gold
$11.49
Reissued several times in various forms since its initial 1987 release, Spacemen 3's second album is a remarkable departure from the band's 1986 ...
| | Gravel Pit Mass Avenue Freeze-Out CD (2001)
Rolled Gold
$13.85
Mass Avenue Freeze-Out finds the Gravel Pit exploring familiar territory in their songwriting while breaking new ground in terms of performance and production. Released in June of 2001, the third album from these Boston favorites works out to be around half guitar rock and half sonic layering akin to Nigel Godrich's work on Beck's Mutations. This is particularly evident on "Why," which combines alternately chiming and growling keyboards with prominent percussion. However, lead singer and songwriter Jed Parrish has let his Farfisa organ, previously a Gravel Pit centerpiece, take a backseat on much of Mass Avenue Freeze-Out. What is presented instead is a combination of sounds that work to make the record float somewhere slightly above the past five decades of rock & roll, incorporating the best and most appropriate elements from each as Mass Avenue Freeze-Out rolls along. But it's all energy and there is rarely a lull -- "The Ballad of the Gravel Pit" is, in fact, a furious rocker. The closest thing to a ballad here is "Get Rough," and that's only in contrast with the rest of the album. The song is really more slow-driving pop ...
| | ABBA Definitive Collection CDs (2001) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
Rolled Gold
$14.89 
| | Belinda Carlisle Best Of Belinda V.1 CD (1992) (Import) United Kingdom
Rolled Gold
$7.35
| | Hell's House Band Dozen Lies CD (2004)
Rolled Gold
$17.69
Bar bands are like the violin. Almost all of the ones you hear are hack amateur squall that'll make you run screaming for the door, or at least another beer to dull the pain. But when it's done right? Well, that's when you suddenly get sycophantic titles like "songwriter" and "genius" attached to your four-bar guitar musings. Mark Curry has been fishing around for the "songwriter/genius" tag for a while. Of course, in these days of pop pap, it's easier to catch a blue whale while fly-fishing. After ...
| | Run & Gun Black Jack CD (2005) (Import) Japan
Rolled Gold
$18.39
Japan exclusive. 2005.
| | Ray Peterson Tell Laura I Love Her CD (2006) (Import) Remastered; Germany
Rolled Gold
$22.35
The first comprehensive anthology of Ray Peterson's RCA Victor and Dunes recordings rounds up most of his hits and shows the frail-looking teen idol -- known primarily for his contribution to the teen tragedy craze, "Tell Laura I Love Him" -- to be a talented pop vocalist with a piercing falsetto. Peterson's infrequent rock & roll performances tend to be his weakest; he shines the most on the orchestrated teen ballads that exercise his pure pop vocal abilities. Johnny Vallis' essay details Peterson's troubled journey from his polio-stricken childhood to becoming a sickly, underweight star whose manager physically abused him. Several of Peterson's Dunes songs appear in re-recorded stereo rather than the original mono versions, including his second-biggest hit, "Corrina, Corinna." As a result, ...
| | Live Inmaidstone 1970 Live In Maidstone 1970 CD (2008)
Rolled Gold
$13.65
| | Jose Alfredo Jimenez Mexicanisimo CD (2007) Remastered; Digipak
Rolled Gold
$8.05
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