if there's a better compiler than Bob Stanley out there, I'd sure like to know...

has "4th of july" ever appeared anywhere else since the "good vibrations" box set? that song really is underheard

First time the Beach Boys' Fourth Of July has been on vinyl. Really happy with this one - hats off to @liz_buckley for making light of some very tricky licensing work! https://t.co/Iecrh6CUH9

— bob stanley (@rocking_bob) September 10, 2018

Handy reminder

FINALLY!! Out today. “Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: State of the Union - The American Dream In Crisis”, available on CD and double vinyl. https://t.co/A3lMVyHPQa pic.twitter.com/gd6Luw9Q8W

— Liz Buckley (@liz_buckley) October 26, 2018

This is a fantastic compilation. Is there a sadder song than 'The Train' by Sinatra?

New interview with him via Pete Paphides on the Ace Records podcast, and the first question out of the gate is about putting together comps, so.

https://soundcloud.com/ace-records-ltd/the-ace-records-podcast-6-bob-stanley

This was posted about 10 years ago but I think it's complete at this point:
http://www.saintetiennedisco.com/compileb.html

I really need to check out most of these.

Yeah, got most of them. Happily so.

i've got all of those Saint Etienne compilations except for the London Winter one. Need to get Paris in the Spring and the new one. Plus there are so many others, including a bunch released via Croydon Municipal that aren't specifically Stanley-curated but bear his influence.

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/label/croydon-municipal/

New one! Just in time for Brexit innit
https://acerecords.co.uk/three-day-week-when-the-lights-went-out-1972-1975

My copy arrived today! Have only listened to the first part so far, but it's ace.

the state of the union comp is great. looking forward to this one.

Yeah, I started off lukewarm on the concept of that one - songs about social strife from the 60's, yawn - the fact that it's mostly about how the squares and the olds reacted to that upheaval really makes it something special. That spooky Tokens track has been in my head for days.

Three Day Week is excellent and strongly aligned to my interests. I fear it may have niche appeal, but hope I'm proven wrong.

I think all of Bob Stanley's stuff for Ace is pretty niche. No bad thing obv!

State Of The Union is so good. This track is a bit on the nose (a common thread amongst the album's squares-doing-protest theme), and I don't think either waves or bombs go "zzzz", but it still kills me, such a simple concept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0wPbQoB_oU

I got my first working stereo system w/ record player in nearly 20 years and first thing I got for it was the 'English Weather' comp, it was a very good choice.

Wonder what this'll turn out to be...

Working on a compilation album with @rocking_bob ; )

— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) June 10, 2019

Available for pre-order on Ace - “THE DAISY AGE”. De La Soul, Monie Love, Jungle Brothers! Happy, summer music, compiled by Bob Stanley. Available on CD, 2LP and exclusive daffodil-coloured vinyl edition via Rough Trade https://t.co/4rALue1G41 pic.twitter.com/v3Lwxn1Azn

— Liz Buckley (@liz_buckley) July 10, 2019

Cool

No PM Dawn but still, great idea.

I kept this Frosties box (with flexidisc attached) almost 30 years knowing it would come in useful one day. pic.twitter.com/VWd3PWdex3

— bob stanley (@rocking_bob) July 10, 2019

Tim Burgess posted a few days back saying he and Bob are working on a comp together, no indication of what it'll be yet.

Ah, duh, as I posted upthread! Anyway.

Did you know they pulled the town hall down?

No PM Dawn but still, great idea.

That is a compilation of good records but a bad Daisy Age comilation imo

I listened to a Spotify playlist of Three Day Week yesterday, filling in some of the gaps via YouTube. Released in March, it's barely been mentioned on this thread. Sadly, it's not very good - too many raggedy, tossed-off B-sides - and thematically it doesn't live up to the claims made for it in the blurb. At best, it's a moderately interesting one-off listen, but you wouldn't want to return to much of it again.

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Curious to know what you think should be on it.

Hard to extract four sides under the umbrella of Daisy Age, Who Me? would have been a better KMD cut though.

I don't think it's missing "Delasoul" as that's like having a mersey beat comp and having the Beatles on, it's not really needed.

I'd have added "Wear your love like heaven" Definition of sound, but hey.

Clearly its not missing de la soul at all. Ach.

too many raggedy, tossed-off B-sides

A selling point!

no he said raggeDy

I must insist

Bit odd not having any Arrested Development on it but I suppose they're seen as a bit naff

Fu-Schnickens would have worked in there somewhere too, imho.

they're on the vinyl version but not the CD

You're all just moaning about copyright and budget issues though surely?

New comp done with Tim Burgess

https://acerecords.co.uk/tim-burgess-bob-stanley-present-tim-peaks-songs-for-a-late-night-diner

Gotta say that's a really interesting net being cast there -- very ILMish in certain ways.

There's something called "Tears of technology" coming up, I believe..

Tea & Symphony enhanced reissue on Ace, now available to pre-order
https://acerecords.co.uk/tea-symphony-the-english-baroque-sound-1968-1974-1

Better to say 'alternate' rather than 'enhanced,' I'm looking at my old copy and there are a number of tracks on that that aren't on this one.

"New and improved" is how it's described on the site. The first version went out of print pretty quickly, I certainly was never able to find a copy. Glad I'll be able to check that box off now. Has been something of a used-bin holy grail search for me.

Yeah, hold on, this is almost a totally different release using the same name.

Here's the original via Discogs:

1 –John Kerruish Time To Wander

2 –Graham Gouldman Nowhere To Go

3 –Jon Plum Alice

4 –Vigrass* Stop

5 –Kate Strange Girl

6 –Lea Nixon Off To Find A New Land

7 –Honeybus For Where Have You Been

8 –Eddie Addenbury* Captain Jones

9 –Nimbo Maisie Jones

10 –Almond Marzipan Summer Love

11 –Les Payne Very Well

12 –David Reilly Nothing Else To Say

13 –Lori Balmer Here Before The Sun

14 –Consortium Copper Coloured Years

15 –Marc Reid My World Turns Around You

16 –Roger Charles Watching The Boat

17 –The Tremeloes Till The Sun Goes Down

18 –Graham Gouldman Growing Older

19 –Steve Elgin Seductress

20 –Julian Brooks Justine

21 –Junior Campbell If I Call Your Name

22 –Quiet World Of Lea & John* There Is A Mountain

23 –The Humblebums Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway

24 –Tuesday Sewing Machine

And the new one:

01 Pictures - Ray Brooks
02 I Can't Let Maggie Go - The Honeybus
03 Off To Find A New Land - Lea Nixon
04 Alice - Jon Plum
05 When The City Sleeps - Bombadil
06 Fading Yellow - Mike Batt
07 Say You Don't Mind - Colin Blunstone
08 The Seventh Hour - Gordon Waller
09 Mary Jane - Erasmus Chorum
10 Shapes And Shadows - Tandem
11 Please Believe Me - Nirvana
12 Forever Autumn - Vigrass & Osborne
13 Oh Girl - Richard Henry
14 Very Well - Les Payne
15 You're Lovely - Sunchariot
16 Pollution Song - Mike Sedgewick
17 Epitaph (When Times Were Good) - Bill Kenwright
18 Coathanger - Clifford T Ward
19 The Race - Christopher
20 Closing My Eyes - David McIvor
21 Lifetime - The Bliss
22 Two Sugars - Matthew Bones

There's only three specific tracks in common, at least on the CD version of this new one! I won't complain for that reason, but if you're hoping for a true repress with extras of the original, that's not what you're getting.

Hmmm, that's odd. Why not just tack on a "Vol. 2" at the end?

Of all the Stanley/Wiggs comps out there, this is the one that just cannot be found, at least at a decent price. I wonder if it got issued w/o officially acquiring the rights to some of those tracks - maybe that's why it disappeared so quickly and completely?

Maybe? I always figured it was label collapse. (I did spend a pretty penny getting my copy a few years back.)

I wondered that too, but their other comps of that genre/era (Early Morning Hush, Gather in The Mushrooms) came out on the same label and seem to be readily available, not cheap but not $$$ either.

Here’s that ‘Tears of technology’ 80s synth comp that Mark G referred to upthread.
https://acerecords.co.uk/bob-stanley-pete-wiggs-present-the-tears-of-technology-1

Nice range, and a whole lotta obscurities to boot (to me at least). Another one to order!

That Turquoise Swimming Pools (David Balfe and I think Troy Tate?) song is great, glad to see it available on CD