Double disc compile of Tactics' first two albums, My Houdini and Glebe plus bonus unreleased and live tracks - 45 in all. All tracks have been re-mastered specifically for this release. Packaged in a lavish gatefold card wallet with a 24 page booklet of liner notes.
Following on Vol 1, this is a 42 track, marvelously packaged affair focusing on the band's later output, as they experienced their closest shave with commercial success.
TMOC's second album, recorded just months after Battlesick but delayed a release until 1991, contains the classic R & R, the endless groove of Wait For Me, as well as Cripple and Shadows two tracks recorded in Adelaide and mixed by Steve Albini. There is also a cover of Alan Vega's classic Viet Vet. As harrowing as it gets.
A mix of studio and live recordings spanning their entire 1978-1981 existence. 43 tracks taken from all their releases plus some previously unreleased material. Comes complete with 24-page full-colour booklet containing unpublished photos, lyrics, rare paraphernalia and liner notes.
After vocalist Michael Dalton left the band to pursue a TV career he was replaced by Voodoo Lust's Gary Slater. This new lineup of the band then released a single and a six track minilp on vinyl that were later compiled onto this CD. It became the band's final release.
That's right - a mint condition copy of the band's first single. Only here.
In 1991, Tumbleweed signed to Sydney's Waterfront Records and, in a little over two years, released some classic singles and EP's (including Daddy Long Legs, Sundial, Acid Rain and Stoned) plus a self-titled album. This double CD contains everything you would want from this period, all splendidly packaged to the usual Aztec standards.
Deniz Tek's pre Radio Birdman Sydney outfit. These tracks are from a cassette. In fact the version of Eskimo Pies is an early Radio Birdman demo mistakenly used as the A-side of this release.
"A clear case could be made for citing The Twilights' Once Upon a Twilight as Australia's greatest pop-psych album. Although almost totally ignored on its original release in June 1968, the album now takes its place among the best of the genre." MOJO magazine's 2004 Special Edition on Psychedelia listed Once Upon a Twilight as one of the great unheralded World Psych albums.
The Beatles of Australia? Don't know about that but this compile features all their hits and if its 60's Oz you're into this will suit.