New Wave Outpost Forum

by **Surly** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:35 am

A friend of mine is overseeing a new reissue label called American Beat Records. I'm sure most of the stuff on their first batch of releases will not appeal to most people here, but, they are doing [i]Pelican West[/i] by Haircut 100, and I think there will be bonus tracks on it. Here's their first batch of releases:

First street date is January 9:
Brian Setzer - Knife Feels Like Justice/Live Nude Guitars 2-fer
Gary U.S. Bonds - Dedication/On The Line 2-fer
Ian Hunter - All Of The Good Ones Are Taken
Graham Parker - Another Grey Area
George Jones - The Grand Tour

The second street date is January 23:
Ian Hunter - Welcome To The Club
Dr. Hook - Pleasure & Pain/Makin' Love & Music 2-fer
Haircut 100 - Pelican West - with bonus tracks
Graham Parker - The Real Macaw
G. Jones & T. Wynette - Golden Ring

I think they are going to be doing [i]Playground[/i] by The Truth as well (one of my suggestions!) They're definitely open to suggestions, so go ahead and post them here. I'll let them know about this thread.

"Words like conviction can turn into a sentence"

by **schwenko** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:03 am

The Graham Parker re-issues might be interesting, assuming there is bonus material (right ST?).

by **noodles** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:51 am

website? ordering information?

could be interested in the setzer cd and the haircut 100 cd.

let us know!

bv

by **gspot** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:10 am

The Fleshtones back catalogue would be a natural for a label named "American Beat"

by **Surly** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:34 am

No website yet. They're being distributed via AEC out of Florida, and that company will pitch the product to websites and record stores. They're working on getting stuff on Amazon, too.

"Words like conviction can turn into a sentence"

by **rk2585** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:33 am

Wow! How about these bands:

Blue in Heaven: All the Gods Men & Explicit Material
Ten Ten: Ordinary Thinking & Walk On
Easter: Easter
Shock: compilation of their singles
Breaking Circus: comp of their stuff
Dial M: same
Roaring Boys: same
Vitamin Z: Rites of Passage & Sharp Stone Rain
Rose of Avalanche: Anything by them
Toni Halliday: Hearts and Handshakes

..and the list goes on.

by **randy** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:36 am

OK--On the Dr Hook front--how about Fried Face?

by **korova1** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:40 am

Belfegore - Belfegore
Blue In Heaven - AOGM, Explicit Material
IRS Flestones material
Wall of Voodoo - Dark Continent, Seven Days In Sammystown, etc....
Skafish first album
Flipper - all of their 80's stuff
Screaming Blue Messiahs - Gun Shy
Rainy Day compilation

by **Gavin** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:08 am

Korova,
Check the Flipper site. Re-issues on the way in 2007. Best band ever.

by **gumby** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:43 am

How about
Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way
Shriekback - Jam Science
Warren Zevon - The Envoy
Once Bitten - Soundtrack

The sun never sets on those who ride into it.

by **skinnytie** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:40 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by schwenko[/i]
<br>The Graham Parker re-issues might be interesting, assuming there is bonus material (right ST?).
[/quote]

With or without bonus tracks, it's good to see "Another Grey Area" coming back into print. I had thought "The Real Macaw" had already come back into print recently, albeit as an import on Lemon Records. On the Razor & Tie previous issues, "Mercury Poisoning" and "I Want you Back" were the bonus tracks to each of those albums respectively. I don't know if they show up on any other compilations, but I'm sure they do somewhere. To be honest, I don't know what could be included as bonus tracks that wasn't released already (unless it would be demo or live stuff), but I can't see a re-issue label going to the trouble of getting that stuff for release.

by **korova1** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:48 am

Awesome news about the Flipper re-releases. It is hard to believe it's taken so long for some of this stuff to see the light of day.

by **korova1** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:51 am

Seeing that a few of these are ARISTA releases on the American Beat label. I agree with gumby on Shriekback - Jam Science... that used to be on Arista/Ariola Germany if I remember correctly. Make it happen!!!!

by **Otters Walk Among Us** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:40 pm

I will gladly fork over the cash for Playground by The Truth. What a great album.

by **Frank_Chickens** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:36 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by Otters Walk Among Us[/i]
<br>I will gladly fork over the cash for Playground by The Truth. What a great album.
[/quote]

I found it very disappointing considering how great their early singles and EPs were. It had similiar sound to their early stuff but lacked the hooks that made it so good.

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