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Remember that garbage off-brand disko album from Pickwick i shared a while ago? Well, here's a fairly legit compilation from their subsidiary Design Records (the one Lou Reed worked for).  Some lesser known songs from the Kings of '62 and The J Brothers (not the Phillipino pop band or the construction company). You're seriously telling me the google mapped part of the information sewer highway doesn't have anything to say about a completely non-famous new york singing group from a discount republisher with Lou Reed sitting in on guitar and providing something akin to lyrics?

Oh, sure, it's janky as all get out, but you gotta do some real 3rd page search engine scuba diving research before you chuck things in the trash can. This is a little treasure of long forgotten b-sides and throw away songs in my book. I wish i had the ability to share it with you, but these things are definitely catalogued in youtube's copyright cross-check library. We wouldn't want to gyp Neil Sedaka of that sweet sweet 1/7,500 of a cent revenue from his agent's nephew's girlfriend's little brother's razor blade manufacturing company's youtube ad campaign, now would we?

That's ok i can guide through imagining it. Take your grandma's old am transistor radio and put it in the microwave on high for 20 minutes. While that's exploding, take a nail file and ram it in and out of your left ear. Once you're properly bleeding, imagine Johnny Rivers singing about a hole in a bucket, and that's what listening to a dirty 1/4 inch thick plate of recycled tire rubber from the 1960s sounds like. Acetone would make a dramatic improvement. There's no bass to speak of, it's pure eye watering mids and crackles. If stucco made a sound, Pickwick would have tried to sell it at Woolworth's.

Yes, of course i'm exaggerating, it's what i do. But no, this is not an audiophile grade, from the original master recording type beast. It's a genuine imitation department store Christmas present for your least favorite nephew type album. Love it!

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