Cool/Weird Hits Compilations That Only Exist On Vinyl

got a copy of *20 CHARTSTOPPERS VOL.2* from Australia on Select Records. sadly, the record is wrecked. but check out this track-listing:

side 1

daddy cool - eagle rock

tony christie - i did what i did for maria

jody miller - he's so fine

company caine - trixie stonewall's wayward home for young women

dawn dixon - bouzouki

the autumn - goblin's gamble

mark lindsay - been too long on the road

johnny chester - gwen (congratulations)

jeff phillips - i want to be famous like my dad

al head - oh mamy blue

side 2

drummond - daddy cool

g.wayne thomas - take it easy

blood, sweat & tears - fire & rain

daddy cool - bom bom

gary puckett - keep the customer satisfied

robbie porter - gemini

matt flinders - butterfly

axiom - father confessor

peaches & herb - sounds of silence

the byrds - glory glory

now i want to find a copy that i can play.

kinda blows my mind that aussies were in love with the group daddy cool AND a song called daddy cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yMOB4vF1-A

found another good one. *Rock Now* on Neosonic Records. Though they just licensed stuff from A&M apparently. *As advertised on TV & radio $5.99* very very cool track-listing:

side one

charity brown - you beat me to the punch

keith hampshire - first cut

lorence hud - sign of the gypsy queen

valdy - rock & roll song

chilliwack - lonesome mary

gino vannelli - people gotta move

jimmy cliff - wonderful world beautiful people

lee michaels - do you know what i mean

side two

bazuka - dynomite

gino vanelli - powerful people

nazareth - hair of the dog

sam neely - i fought the law

carl graves - baby hang up the phone

michael murphy - geronimo's cadillac

charity brown - jimmy mack

i have owned records by every person on that album with the exceptions of lorence hud and keith hampshire. yes, i have owned a valdy album. and sam neely and charity brown albums.

Got this one at a yard sale awhile ago. Looked very promising, giving it a second listen now.

The MCA Sound Conspiracy

Side 1
Blind Eye / Wishbone Ash
Open Up the Door / Help
Tell Me Why / Matthew's Southern Comfort
Medicine Mixin'/Melissa
Got to Get a Message To You / Fanny Adams

Side 2
Fanfare: Toccata in D Minor/Fugue in A Minor / Virgil Fox
Hard Rock / Chelsea "Harrrd Rock MUSIC MUSIC!"
Changes / Glass Harp
Roll It Over / Jeremiah
Midnight Shift / Raw

i love that one. um, not that its all great or anything, but i just love that mix of groups. virgil fox and glass harp on the same album is very cool.

i was just gonna put on a warner brothers comp called *Hard Goods*. the only place you can find Terry Melcher AND Graham Central Station. or Osibisa and Kiss for that matter.

man, I had an opportunity to get a whole pile of loss leaders once and I passed. kinda regret that.

warner brothers comp is the only other place - other than the 45 - where you can get this song on vinyl:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Ws_small.jpg

so you neil completists need a copy!

^ ya, kind of a let down... There's a bunch of Canadian comps that are cool for getting Canrock and Can-disco jams... That Neosonic comp looks Canadian.

it is!

it goes without saying that german comps from the 70's and the 80's are the best in the world. insane italo and german disco and german disco rock and everything else under the sun.

i just got a german comp of new german music from 1982 from my brother and it has einsturzende neubaten AND fred from jupiter on it! talk about a clash of the titans!

quick someone do a mashup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjYXuBbmr5s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imks-Z0t21g

"20 Chartstoppers" sounds incredible! I don't collect vinyl so much anymore but I do break for comps, a lot of the material is rare or expensive on CD or is some bad re-recording on mp3. The comps always have some weird stuff on them.

A nice oldies comp to pick up if you see it is "Butterball of WDAS presents 20 oldies designed with young lovers in mind!" because it has BB doing a bit of hip dj patter in the intro

i had a butterball 45 from the 60's that is just straight-up old school rap. amazing. if its the same butterball.

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s627704.jpg

you can get this on cd now. but i felt real good when it came to mind, and that they got around to putting it out on cd way after the fact doesn't seem to diminish its value as a rad-weird-comp-record

probably the same guy - he still does a show every sunday from 7-midnite

http://i38.tinypic.com/2lvd8u9.jpg

Not exactly weird, but this compilation got me into The Stooges in the late 1980s:

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-609094-1220428678.jpeg

4 songs from "The Stooges" and 5 from "Funhouse". Cool (if rather redundant!).

Does anyone have that First Vibration album from the late '60s, put out by an organization called Do It Now Foundation? That has one of my two favorite Peanut Butter Conspiracy songs on it, "Roses Gone." There's a different version of that song on the Spreading from the Ashes CD, but the version on this comp is awesome (and never, to my knowledge, on any other release).

Worth getting if you see it cheap for that!

http://i51.tinypic.com/2n87wpx.jpg

collected a buttload of Crypt-associated Slop'n'Roll comps back around '90 like Wavy Gravy, Sin Alley, Desperate Rock'n'Roll, Las Vegas Grind, etc. don't know which ones ever made it to CD, but the weirdest has to be

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/coverto3.jpg

wretched BAD songs that get more unbearable and rofltastic as it goes on.
includes the immortal 'Daddy Frog'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McNHAdRjfnc

Got the coolest radio station comp LP today. Late '60s KSOL, San Francisco AM soul station. 21 tracks with James Brown, Billy Stewart, Linda Jones, Esther Phillips, Ikettes, Lou Courtney, Little Anthony, Freddie Scott, Fontella Bass, Jackie Lee, Joe Tex, Invincibles, Magicians, Manhattans, Alvin Cash and the Crawlers, Chuck Jackson and Maxine Brown, Whispers, Barbara Mason, Entertainers IV, Shirley Ellis, and the Esquires.

that full boar cover always makes me happy

wow, i need to go Full Boar huntin'. cool trax

A1 Christie Allen – He's My Number One
A2 Player (1) – Space Invaders
A3 Janis Ian – Fly Too High
A4 Rupert Holmes – Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
A5 Boomtown Rats* – I Don't Like Mondays
A6 Jon English (3) – Hot Town
A7 Mi-Sex – Computer Games
A8 David Edmunds* – Girls Talk
A9 Reels, The – Love Will Find A Way
A10 Cold Chisel – Choir Girl

B1 Split Enz – I Got You
B2 Flying Lizards* – Money
B3 Sniff 'n' the Tears – Driver's Seat
B4 Sports, The – Strangers On A Train
B5 Cheap Trick – Dream Police
B6 Ry Cooder – Little Sister
B7 Aliens, The (4) – Confrontation
B8 Jo Jo Zep & Falcons* – Shape I'm In
B9 Graham Parker – Hey Lord Don't Ask Me Questions
B10 Jimmy & The Boys* – I'm Not Like Everybody Else