The More You Live, The More You Love

tracklist: 24 Hours Oomachasaooma (feel the love) Yes I Am Americana Panorama City Lights Food For Thought Working Girls Taxi Taxi I got to know 10CC at the end of the seventies / early eighties through my cousin, because everyone has inscribed Dreadlock Holiday in his memory. The first album I heard from them was Live And Let Live. A very strong live album, I have something with live albums, which is still among my favorites. Eric Stewart, who after the departure of Godley & Creme in 1976 together with Graham Gouldman remained responsible for the sound of 10CC, got involved in a heavy car accident in 1979. After rehabilitation, he was no longer the old one, which certainly did not benefit the compositional aspect of 10CC. In addition, the group was confronted with a record company that demanded hits. To pull the car back smoothly, the duo worked together with Andrew Gold, but the songs they wrote with him did not end up on the European version of Ten Out ...

Or the compilation of the local compilations.        Local record stores were always willing to promote local bands. So over the years these collaborations resulted in a lot of these compilations from cities, counties or provinces. Good for the record store and of course good for a local band as well, because it gave the band a change to present itself. During more than a year that this project is going on now I found a lot of these compilations, but up till now there were never so much compilations forming the base for a Volume. For most of those bands co-operate to such a compilation album meant their only opportunity to officially release their music. Most of the times the result was one or two tracks getting out in the open. But it meant they were able to generate some interest from the public. Very little bands made it to an official release under their own name. Although for most of them it meant a one or two track only band. For a small group of ...

tracklist: We Are Sane Human Being This City World Without End Fact And Fiction The Poet Sniffs A Flower Creepshow Love Song It was quiet for a while, but I picked up the thread with an album that I had been confronted with in a pleasant way. The C: Live Collective released the debut album The Age Of Insanity in early March. Behind this "collective" is multi-instrumentalist Clive Mitten, who was part of the progressive rock band Twelfth Night in the eighties. In 2016, Mitten, who had not composed any new music for more than 30 years, was triggered to come into action when an intense personal event got a huge political charge. Mitten's wife was vilified on the front page of one of the UK's most notorious tabloids. As Mitten said, he learned that day in the mainstream media, being tried by a tabloid is more important than whether there is a glimmer of truth in the headlines on the front page of the tabloid (this was not the case). He also l...

Just a quick and small update on An Introduction To Dutch New Wave. All Volumes sofar released are available through this link . BTW just to inform you over this year several new volumes will at a certain time see the light of day. I am collecting new vinyl, which need to be ripped and judged for the upcoming volumes. So watch this space for an update.