Sunday, October 6, 2024

Propaganda - A Blatant Attempt To Influence Your Musical Taste

It’s strange the way things develop at times, in this case reading an article about certain songs not being available digitally at all and the search for an old 1979 sampler collection…
I wrote the following to Jonder and Stinky:
This is an interesting article but unfortunately focussing mainly on songs from the 90's
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl7ld1glk3o
I think there are loads of songs from the 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s still only available on vinyl (or CD in some cases!)...
Good example is an old sampler from 1979 I'm trying to put together digitally: Propaganda No Wave II
I bought the lp in that year, mainly for the great cover design, the Police & Joe Jackson live tracks and Squeeze's Wrong Way (later covered by Rockpile!), but the other tracks weren't bad either, some previously unissued as well!
A little later I found a slightly different version, just Propaganda, but with some other interesting tracks…
I requested my partners in crime’s help in finding these 2 for a new JOKONKY project.
The first Propaganda I found easily enough in a dark corner of the Internet, but the second one kept eluding me.
I searched 'everywhere' for "Propaganda No Wave II" & "Propaganda" lp 1979 but to no avail...
Jonder tried very hard too, he found some tracks separately, but not all, among others Bobby Henry’s "Hollow Sound" and Squeeze's Wrong Way
That last one can be found on YouTube but ripped from a flexi-disc, very poor quality, utterly useless…
However I tried searching for "Bobby Henry" "Hollow Sound" which somehow led me to an old (defunct?) French blogpost which had posted the whole album… The logic escapes me!
As a result we proudly present the Deluxe Edition of Propaganda with all 17 tracks, enjoy!



2 comments:

  1. As the blog community is still in shock after Stinky's last post in which faithful visitors were given a tough choice (download this compilation or we will shoot this dog) I decided to give you a break and come up with something easier...
    Question: Is there any song/album that you’ve been looking for a long time and you finally found it? Or still are looking for?!

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    1. As the above questions are so ridiculously easy we at JOKONKY expect at least a minimum of 100 comments!
      After comment 101 we will post the download link of this Blatant Attempt To Influence Your Musical Taste...

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