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Magazine: Real Life

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In June 1978, “Virgin” label released “Real Life”, the debut Magazine studio album. It was recorded March – April 1978, at “Virgin Mobile” and “Abbey Road Studios” in London, and was produced by John Leckie and Mick Glossop. The album artwork and mono print were by Linder. In 1986, “Sounds” magazine ranked “Real Life” at number 89 in its list “100 Best Albums of All Time”; in 2006, “Uncut” magazine ranked the album at number 37 on its list of the “100 Greatest Debut Albums”.

Personnel:

  • Howard Devoto– vocals
  • John McGeoch– guitar, saxophone
  • Dave Formula– keyboards
  • Barry Adamson– bass guitar
  • Martin Jackson– drums
  • John Leckie- engineer
  • Hayden Bendall – engineer assistant
  • Adrian Boot – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Howard Devoto.

  1. Definitive Gaze – Howard Devoto, John McGeoch
  2. My Tulpa – Howard Devoto, John McGeoch
  3. Shot by Both Sides – Howard Devoto, Pete Shelley
  4. Recoll – Howard Devoto, John McGeoch
  5. Burst – Howard Devoto
  6. Motorcade – Howard Devoto, Bob Dickinson
  7. The Great Beautician in the Sky – Howard Devoto, John McGeoch
  8. The Light Pours Out of Me – Howard Devoto, John McGeoch, Pete Shelley
  9. Parade – Barry Adamson, Dave Formula

Stevie Winwood: Same

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In June 1977, Island” label released the self-titled, debut Steve Winwood solo studio album. It was recorded 1976 – 1977, and was produced by Steve Winwood, Chris Blackwell and Mark Miller Mundy.

Personnel:

  • Steve Winwood – lead and backing vocals, electric piano, synthesizer, guitars, saxophone, organ, clavinet, harmonium, string synthesizer, harpsichord, drums, percussion
  • Junior Marvin – guitar
  • Alan Spenner– bass guitar
  • Willie Weeks– bass
  • Andy Newmark – drums
  • John Susswell – drums
  • Brother James – percussion
  • Jim Capaldi– percussion, backing vocal
  • Rebop Kwaku Baah – congas
  • Nicole Winwood – backing vocal
  • Phill Brown – recording
  • Robert Ash – recording assistant
  • Ray Doyle – recording assistant
  • Lee Hulko – mastering
  • James Hutcheson – cover design, paintings
  • Fin Costello – photography
  • Mark Miller Mundy – associate producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi, except where noted.

  1. Hold On
  2. ime Is Running Out
  3. Midland Maniac – Stevie Winwood
  4. Vacant Chair – Stevie Winwood, Viv Stanshall
  5. Luck’s In
  6. Let Me Make Something in Your Life

The Vibrators: Pure Mania

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In June 1977, “Epic” label released “Pure Mania”, the debut Vibrators (The) album. It was recorded in 1977, and was produced by Robin Mayhew, Knox, John Ellis, Pat Collier and John “Eddie” Edwards.

Personnel:

  • Knox (M. Carnochan) – vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • John Ellis – vocals, guitar
  • Pat Collier – vocals, bass
  • John “Eddie” Edwards – drums
  • Simon Humphrey, Steve Cunningham – engineer
  • Keith Morris- photography

Track listing:

All tracks by I.M. Carnochan except where noted.

  1. Into the Future…
  2. Yeah Yeah Yeah – Pat Collier
  3. Sweet Sweet Heart
  4. Keep It Clean – John Ellis
  5. Baby Baby
  6. No Heart
  7. She’s Bringing You Down
  8. Petrol – Pat Collier
  9. London Girls
  10. You Broke My Heart
  11. Whips & Furs
  12. Stiff Little Fingers – John Ellis
  13. Wrecked On You
  14. I Need a Slave
  15. Bad Time

DIIV: Oshin

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On June 26, 2012, “Captured Tracks” label released “Oshin”, the debut DIIV studio album. It was recorded 2011 – 2012, and was produced by Zachary Cole Smith.

Personnel:

  • Zachary Cole Smith– vocals, guitar
  • Devin Ruben Perez – bass
  • Andrew Bailey – guitar
  • Colby Hewitt III – drums
  • Ben Wolf (Ben Newman) – drums
  • Daniel James Schlett – recording, mixing
  • Nico Testa – engineer assistant
  • Kopapik Qaqyuarqyuk – back cover illustration
  • Kiakshuk – cover art
  • Simeonie Kopapik – liner artwork
  • Sandy Kim – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Zachary Cole Smith.

  1. Druun
  2. Past Lives
  3. Human
  4. Air Conditioning
  5. How Long Have You Known?
  6. Wait
  7. Earthboy
  8. Druun Pt. II
  9. Follow
  10. Sometime
  11. Oshin (Subsume)
  12. Doused
  13. Home

Badly Drawn Boy: The Hour of Bewilderbeast

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On June 26, 2000, “XL” label released “The Hour of Bewilderbeast”, the debut Badly Drawn Boy studio album. It was recorded in 2000, and was produced by Badly Drawn Boy, Gary Wilkinson, Joe Robinson and Ken Nelson. “The Hour of Bewilderbeast” won the 2000 “Mercury Prize”.

Personnel:

  • Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough) – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, slide guitar, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, drum machine,  tambourine, harp, handclaps, whistling, harmonica, Wurlitzer electric piano, keyboards,  organ, drum machine organs, percussion, crash cymbal,  vibraphone, xylophone,  sound effects, string arrangements
  • Jez Williams– slide and electric guitar
  • Matt Wardle – vocals, piano, organ, synthesizer, keyboards
  • Martin Rebelski– Wurlitzer electric piano, clavinet, keyboards
  • Gary Wilkinson – keyboards, drum programming, sirens, noises
  • Jimi Goodwin– bass
  • Sam Morris – bass, keyboards, French horn, handclaps
  • Andy Votel– drum programming, effects, piano, keyboards, strings samples, samples
  • Ian Smith – drums, electric guitar, percussion, vibraphone, handclaps
  • Sean Kelly – drums, handclaps
  • Spencer Birtwhistle – drums
  • Adrian Dacre – drums
  • Joe Robinson – drum programming, loops, theremin, effects, sound effects
  • Andy Williams– drums
  • Sophie Williams – handclaps
  • Ian Rainford – handclaps
  • Derrick Santini – handclaps
  • Northern New Orleans Brass Band – horns
  • Matt McGeever – cello, handclaps
  • Paul Taylor – string arrangements
  • Clare Hewitt – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough).

  1. The Shining
  2. Everybody’s Stalking
  3. Bewilder
  4. Fall in a River
  5. Camping Next to Water
  6. Stone on the Water
  7. Another Pearl
  8. Body Rap
  9. Once Around the Block
  10. This Song
  11. Bewilderbeast
  12. Magic in the Air
  13. Cause a Rockslide
  14. Pissing in the Wind
  15. Blistered Heart
  16. Disillusion
  17. Say It Again
  18. Epitaph

The Tubes: Same

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In June 1975, “A&M” label released the self-titled, debut Tubes album. It was recorded March-April, 1975, at “Record Plant” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Al Kooper.

Personnel:

  • Fee Waybill– vocals
  • Bill Spooner– vocals, guitar
  • Roger Steen – vocals, guitar
  • Michael Cotten – synthesizer
  • Vince Welnick– keyboards
  • Rick Anderson – bass
  • Prairie L’Emprere Prince– drums
  • Dominic Frontiere– string and horn arrangements
  • Lee Rhett Kiefer – engineer
  • Al Kooper– mixing
  • Lee Rhett Kieger – mixing
  • Roland Young – art direction
  • Michael Cotten – design
  • Prairie Prince – design
  • Ian Patrick – photography
  • Harry Mittman – photography

Track listing:

  1. Up from the Deep – Fee Waybill, Bill Spooner, Roger Steen, Michael Cotton, Vince Welnick, Rick Anderson, Ray Trainer
  2. Haloes – Al Kooper, Bill Spooner, Roger Steen
  3. Space Baby – Bill Spooner, Mike Carpenter, Vince Welnick
  4. Malagueña Salerosa – Pedro Galindo, Elpidio Ramirez
  5. Mondo Bondage – Fee Waybill, Bill Spooner, Roger Steen, Michael Cotton, Vince Welnick, Rick Anderson
  6. What Do You Want from Life? – Bill Spooner, Michael Evans
  7. Boy Crazy – Bill Spooner
  8. White Punks on Dope – Bill Spooner, Roger Steen, Michael Evans

Mars Volta: De-Loused In The Comatorium

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On June 24, 2003, “Gold Standard Laboratories” label released “De-Loused in the Comatorium”, the debut Mars Volta studio album. It was recorded 2002–2003 at “The Mansion” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Rick Rubin and Omar Rodríguez-López.

Personnel:

  • Cedric Bixler-Zavala– vocals
  • Omar Rodríguez-López– guitar, bass
  • Isaiah “Ikey” Owens– keyboards
  • Flea– bass
  • Justin Meldal-Johnsen– stand-up bass
  • Jon Theodore– drums
  • Lenny Castro– percussion
  • John Frusciante– additional guitar, synthesizer treatment
  • Jeremy Michael Ward– effects, sound manipulation
  • Dave Schiffman – recording
  • Andrew Scheps- additional recording
  • Phillip Groussard – engineer assistant, recording
  • Darren Mora – engineer assistant
  • Rich Costey- mixing
  • Jason Lader- mixing
  • Vlado Meller – mastering
  • Pete Lyman – mastering
  • Steve Kadison – mastering assistant
  • Storm Thorgerson- cover design, art direction
  • Peter Curzon – cover design, graphics
  • Dan Abbott – illustrations
  • Rupert Truman – photography
  • Lindsay Chase – album production coordination

Track listing:

All lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Jeremy Michael Ward; all music by Omar Rodríguez-López, except where noted.

  1. Son et lumière
  2. Inertiatic ESP
  3. Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)
  4. Tira me a las arañas
  5. Drunkship of Lanterns
  6. Eriatarka
  7. Cicatriz ESP
  8. This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed – Omar Rodríguez-López, Cedric Bixler-Zavala
  9. Televators
  10. Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt

Be-Bop Deluxe: Axe Victim

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In June 1974, “Harvest” label released “Axe Victim”, the debut Be-Bop Deluxe album. It was recorded in 1974, and was produced by Ian McLintock.

Personnel:

  • Bill Nelson– lead vocals, electric and 12-string guitars, keyboards
  • Ian Parkin– rhythm and acoustic guitars, organ
  • Robert Bryan – lead vocals, bass guitar
  • Nicholas Chatterton-Dew – drums, backing vocals’

Track listing:

All tracks by Bill Nelson, except where noted.

  1. Axe Victim
  2. Love is Swift Arrows
  3. Jet Silver and the Dolls of Venus
  4. Third Floor Heaven
  5. Night Creatures
  6. Rocket Cathedrals – Robert Bryan
  7. Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape
  8. Jets at Dawn
  9. No Trains To Heaven
  10. Darkness (L’Immoraliste)

Beta Band: Same

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On June 21, 1999, “Regal” label released the self-titled, debut Beta Band album. It was recorded in 1999, and was produced by Chris Allison, Richard Greentree, Robin Jones, Chris Allison, John Maclean and Steve Mason.

Personnel:

  • Steve Mason – vocals
  • Martin Holyland – vocals, piano, guitar, spoons
  • Richard Greentree – bass
  • Robin Jones – drums
  • John Maclean – sampler, turntables
  • Fergus Percell – human beatbox
  • Kingsley – vocals
  • Neil Richardson – trumpet
  • Chris Allison – recording, mixing
  • Gareth Parton – additional engineering, mixing
  • Geoff Pesching – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Richard Greentree, Robin Jones, Chris Allison, John Maclean and Steve Mason.

  1. The Beta Band Rap
  2. It’s Not Too Beautiful
  3. Simple Boy
  4. Round the Bend
  5. Dance O’er the Border
  6. Brokenupadingdong
  7. Number 15
  8. Smiling
  9. The Hard One
  10. The Cow’s Wrong

 

Roger McGuinn: Same

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In June 1973, “Columbia” label released the self-titled, debut Roger McGuinn solo album. It was recorded in 1973, at “Wally Heider Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Roger McGuinn.

Personnel:

  • Roger McGuinn– vocals, guitars, banjo, Moog synthesizer, harmonica
  • Gene Clark, Spanky McFarlane– vocals
  • David Crosby, Graham Nash– vocals, guitars
  • Jerry Cole– guitar
  • Buddy Emmons– pedal steel guitar
  • Bruce Johnston–vocals, piano
  • Spooner Oldham– organ, piano
  • David Vaught, Chris Ethridge, Chris Hillman, Leland Sklar– bass
  • John Guerin, Michael Clarke, Jim Gordon– drums
  • Charles Lloyd- saxophone
  • Hal Blaine– tambourine, percussion
  • Bob Dylan– harmonica
  • Jimmy Joyce Children’s Chorus—vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Roger McGuinn and Jacques Levy, except where noted.

  1. I’m So Restless
  2. My New Woman
  3. Lost My Drivin’ Wheel – David Wiffen
  4. Draggin’
  5. Time Cube – Roger McGuinn, R. J. Hippard
  6. Bag Full Of Money
  7. Hanoi Hannah
  8. Stone – Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn
  9. Heave Away – traditional, arr. by Roger McGuinn
  10. M’ Linda
  11. The Water Is Wide – traditional, arr. by Roger McGuinn