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Scorpion (not The Scorpions!) were the lasted act to be revealed over at my music blog. A new entry that is remaining "mysterious" is up for you to blindly evaluate as well.

Check it out here.

I've dug out an obscurity of you all to chew on.
The Blind Taste Test

The Blind Taste Test

I'm serving up this


Use cava, which is the Spanish sparkling wine. However, if you want to use French Champagne you can (however you are mixing it up with fruit, so no need to go high end with this (a waste of fine bubbly).

Ingredients
3oz triple sec
3oz brandy
2oz rum
2oz vodka
1 cup strawberries, blended
chopped up fruit as desired (apple, mango, tangerine, pear, peach)
1 bottle Cava (Sparkling Wine)

Mix together all ingredients except the sparkling wine and let it sit overnight if you can, or at least for a little while to soak up the flavors. Add in the sparkling wine just before serving, so that it doesn't go flat. Enjoy!

The first "blind taste" of the week is up and ready for you to evaluate and treat everyone to your comparisons and impressions is posted for your enjoyment.

Check it out.

Blind Taste Test

The latest "blind taste" for you to evaluate and treat everyone to your comparisons and impressions is posted for your enjoyment.

Check it out.

The Spoils Of War are revealed over at The Blind Taste Test.

The Blind Taste Test : where your ears "taste" (hear) songs without any knowledge (and then revealed later) will be hosted elsewhere. You will still get notices here of updates and I encourage your participation. Don't be afraid.

The Cleaners From Venus were the last act to be offered for your opinions in the Blind Taste Test. The psych pop combo from teh 80's was led by Martin Newell and most of the early releases were issued on cassette only.

Cleaners From Venus

Song For Syd Barrett

Ilya Kuryakin Looked At Me

Clara Bow

Your raw gut opinions are still welcome.

Note:
I will be posting the future Blind Taste Tests on a new blog space. This way people not associated with this site can happily offer their comments and opinions. Hopefully this will not be an issue for you. I will still offer up notices when that site it updated and direct you towards the joy or disgust that it will bring you.

Let your feelings be known. Feel free to guess, speculate, what ya like, don't like, etc, or even ask questions, ask for clues, but the point is to reveal what you think...you know, on the tunes.

If you are 100% sure of who this is, don't be the bad apple that spoils it for the rest of us (but feel free to express crude, gut feelings or to show off our ability to compare mysterious sounds to obscure sounds that only the likes of us can comprehend). Don't be afraid. Please offer your unbiased opinion of the following tracks/artist. Those with the biggest balls will contribute first.

Taste Test 1

Taste Test 2

Not sure what reasons prevented me from revealing who the artist was behind the two songs posted for Blind Taste 10 were, but I am doing so today. There is no reason to ponder anymore. The selections come from Good Taste Is Timeless.


The record was released in 1971.
The Blind Taste Test Songs Were:

Spring of '65
Generalonely

Other selections from Good Taste Is Timeless
Black Bottom
Livin' Off The Land
Love Is The Closest Thing

Before I reveal the mystery act behind the latest blind taste test later today (your test results are still welcome), I feel it is time we cleanse our palette a bit.

The rules have stayed the same.

Let your feelings be known. Feel free to guess, speculate, what ya like, don't like, etc, or even ask questions, ask for clues, but the point is to reveal what you think...you know, on the tunes maaaaan. If you are 100% sure of who this is, don't be the bad apple that spoils it for the rest of us (but feel free to express crude, gut feelings or to show off our ability to compare mysterious sounds to obscure sounds that only the likes of us can comprehend). Don't be afraid.

Song One

Song Two

Head back to 1969 for Pretties For You, the debut recording of Alice Cooper, recorded on the Frank Zappa Staight label. The CD and the original album, is currently out of print (although a decade or so ago it was released in a way befitting such a classic along with their second and last album for Straight, “Easy Action” by Restless/Retro). This is inexcusable. Because this is a full blown rockin’, messy psych mindfuck and things like that should be ALWAYS be accessible.

Now that the identity has been revealed, your views are still welcome.

Your blind taste tunes:

1) Today Mueller

2) Living

Other Pretties For You tracks:

Reflected (this would later be reworked into "Elected" for the 1973 Billion Dollar Babies album)

Levity Ball (a live version of this tune is on Pretties For You, this is the "unreleased" studio version)

So I am back from my little escape down in the Yucatan. Some pics

Since I won't be updating for the next 10 day or so, I encourage you to set the Wayback Machine to April, 29th, 1970 for a trip back to The Fillmore West and enjoy this Pink Floyd concert. Click on the link for the whole show after hearing Grantchester Meadows.

Van Duren is pure power pop. He spent time in the Memphis trenches with the big boys (Big Star, Chris Bell, The Scruffs), and knows his way around a hook and a melody as well as any of his heroes from Todd Rundgren, McCartney, Emitt Rhodes and on to Badfinger. He went to high school with Jody Stephens, auditioned for Big Star after Bell's departure, and was in the short-lived but legendary Baker Street Regulars with both those cats. If you think Big Star never got the props they deserved, well they're The Beatles compared to Mr. Duren. “I've called his two albums "the two best power pop albums not called Radio City" in print. His music is the equal of his Memphis contemporaries, Big Star, who have since become one of the two most influential cult bands of all time. “-Kent Benjamin, Pop Culture Press.

“Van Duren was part of the early Memphis power pop scene that spawned the legendary Big Star, and made several underexposed, small-label records during the late '70s. Duren began playing in bands at the age of 13 in 1966 and attended high school with eventual Big Star drummer Jody Stephens; he auditioned to replace Chris Bell in Big Star in 1974, shortly after the completion of Third/Sister Lovers. In 1975, he and Stephens collaborated on some demos that were produced by former Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham (whom he met through producer Jon Tiven), and a year later he was playing in a group called the Baker Street Regulars with both Bell and Stephens. In 1977, Duren traveled to New England to record for Tiven's new Big Sound label; his solo debut, Are You Serious?, was released in March 1978.”-AMG

Grow Yourself Up
Guarenteed
Chemical Fire
So Good To Me (For the Time Being)

Let your feelings be known. Feel free to guess, speculate, what ya like, don't like, etc, or even ask questions, ask for clues, but the point is to reveal what you think of the tunes. If you are 100% sure of who this is, refrain from mentioning who in your comments as to keep it "blind" for others (but feel free to express crude, gut feelings or to show off our ability to compare mysterious sounds to obscure sounds that only the likes of us can comprehend).

Blind Taste Test 1

Blind Taste Test 2

The Clinic hail from Liverpool, England and have issued four decent recordings. If you like the focused melding of garage, art rock, Krautrock, surf, and any other left-field genre you'd care to mention. They create some disorientating and utterly compelling music.

Views and thoughts on the songs, what ya like, don't like..etc on the band, the songs, their look and anything related are welcome still.

They blind taste tune.
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