In last week’s post, I described how Jake Riviera had moved from Stiff to Radar Records and taking Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, and others with him.
However Radar didn’t last long, just 2 years (I don’t count the short revival during the mid-90s) and Jake moved on…
This time together with Andrew Lauder to start F-Beat Records which released quite a lot of albums and singles in their 6 year lifespan.
Unlike Radar though their number of artists was relatively small: Nick Lowe, Carlene Carter, the Blasters, Blanket of Secrecy, and a few others.
The album and single sleeves were mostly designed by Barney Bubbles.
In 1986 Jake pulled out the plug of F-Beats and some of its artists ended up on Demon Records.
Similar to Radar, no ‘Best of F-Beats’ ever materialized, therefore once again Jokonky stepped in and our 28 track promo compilation includes:
However Radar didn’t last long, just 2 years (I don’t count the short revival during the mid-90s) and Jake moved on…
This time together with Andrew Lauder to start F-Beat Records which released quite a lot of albums and singles in their 6 year lifespan.
Unlike Radar though their number of artists was relatively small: Nick Lowe, Carlene Carter, the Blasters, Blanket of Secrecy, and a few others.
The album and single sleeves were mostly designed by Barney Bubbles.
In 1986 Jake pulled out the plug of F-Beats and some of its artists ended up on Demon Records.
Similar to Radar, no ‘Best of F-Beats’ ever materialized, therefore once again Jokonky stepped in and our 28 track promo compilation includes:
Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds
Nick Lowe
Kenny Pickett
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
The Coward Brothers
The Costello Show Featuring The Attractions
The Costello Show Featuring Confederates
Clive Langer & The Boxes
Carlene Carter & Paul Carrack
Carlene Carter & Dave Edmunds
Carlene Carter
The Blasters
Blanket Of Secrecy
Steve Nieve
The Attractions
Enjoy!
Link: https://mega.nz/file/fI8HzBaJ#dHB-4HOZhxkL9Lrd09igg9d-Ug2aHQd-za-iVnupDgM
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Do you know any other record labels that never released a various artists compilation?
Note: 27 of the 28 tracks are relatively well-known, although some more than others, but Nick Lowe's is an oddity!
His Cool Reaction appeared twice on the Tanque-Rae 12 inch's B-side; the Commercial Version & the Non Commercial Version (according to the sleeve) but Regular Version & Irregular Version (according to the label!)...
The short Non Commercial Version is the album track, the longer Commercial (a kind of dub) Version was a B-side only which until now never got re-released.