Various Artists - School House Rock Volume 1: School Is In! - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

School House Rock, Volume 2 School Is Out! -School is out - finally! After 'School Is In!' (BCD17668) here is the second part of school memories on Bear Family Records®, dedicated to the time off after school. -Stylistically, we provide the appropriate soundtrack with doo-wop, rhythm and blues, rockabilly and schmaltzy ballads. -Including Miss Georgia with Rockin' After School, Connie Francis' V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N, Chuck Berry and Vacation Time, Adam Faith performs High School Confidential and Bobby Mitchell and the Toppers lament the Schoolboy Blues. -Detailed, informative and humorous liner notes by Roland H. Rumtreiber. School is out - at last! InchNo more books and studies; I can stay out late with my buddies... do the things that I wanna do!Inch Gary U.S. Bonds nails it with his summertime anthem. The infectious 'live-party' sound of Bonds' Legrand record sets the pace for Bear Family's sequel to 'School House Rock Vol. 1 - School Is In!' (BCD17668). Ahh, school days. Arduous! Ambivalent! Sweet reminiscing and painful memories! During the 1950s, a new target species was developed - or busted down doors and demanded recognition after centuries of neglect the teenager. They seemed to rule their little universe. One central gathering point to control them, study them, bully them, or try to coax them into usable directions was school. And school is where it all happens - boy meets girl; pimples cause nervous breakdowns; you can't keep twitching due to itching; and you look for your place in life, your little self, your big dreams. School. Bear Family Records® - again - honors the most important timespan in all our lives with this second volume of high school songs. This new compilation not only complements 'School House Rock Vol. 1 - School Is In!' (BCD17668) but tops it with an even larger variety of styles - everything from doo-wop to rhythm and blues, from rockabilly

Much like a frantic movie about Inchunfinished businessInch or Inchthe one that got away,Inch Secret Machines spent the past few years putting the finishing touches on what should have been their fourth LP. Long regarded as a lost album, The Moth, The Lizard and the Secret Machines was put on pause in 2010 and massaged in the aftermath of 2020's return-to-form record Awake in the Brain Chamber. Full of winding ear worms and hummable hooks, from it's fearless, thunderstruck opener (InchThere's No Starting OverInch) and the Fripp & Eno-esque outro of InchCrucifixion TimeInch and the somber instrumental sequence that is InchLast One Out.Inch InchThis album is really special to us because it represents a band playing music with no other agenda than to connect with one other,Inch says Garza. InchMy main hope is that people will hear it and say, 'These guys went somewhere weird, man.' I feel like we finally delivered the crazy album everybody knew we had in us.Inch

Crashing at the unlikely intersection of post-hardcore, slowcore, and jazz-rock, Karate spent a dozen years producing peerless recordings in their adopted hometown of Boston. Collected here are their six albums-S/T, In Place of Real Insight, The Bed Is In The Ocean, Unsolved, Some Boots, Pockets, plus the Cancel/Sing and In The Fish Tank EPs, singles, and split 7Inchs, a whopping 69 tracks spread across eight glorious compact discs. Leor Galil's career-spanning essay is illustrated with dozens of period-appropriate photos in the accompanying 80-page book.