File under inexplicable combos:
The Crusaders - The 2nd Crusade (Blue Thumb, 1973) Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. Most of the time I feel like giving preference to The Jazz Crusaders 60's acoustic material, but sometimes I've got to get that (plain old) Crusaders 70's electric groove on. Hi Siliab!
V.A. - "Flex Your Head" (Dischord, 1982) Every few years or so, I pull out thee harDCore punk sampler and remind myself that you really had to be there - which I was in large part, but am no longer.
V.A. - "Ear-Piercing Punk" (Trash, early 80's?) Long-OOP 60's garage punk comp featured a cover designed to look like it contained '77-era material; I wonder how many people this has fooled over the years. Still some of the most arresting sleeve art ever, and a totally hot comp besides. Happy to say I own original 45's of two of the sixteen great singles represented: "I Need Love" by The Third Booth, and "Enough" by The Bohemian Vendetta. (Wish it were more, but I don't pay collector prices for these slabs, I dig 'em up on my own.) To me this stuff still wears better today than most anything made in later years that actually called itself punk.
Jerry Cole & The Stingers - Guitars A Go Go! (comp., Beatrocket 2000, orig. rec. 1963-66) Collected tracks from four budget-bin surf/hot rod instro LP's (out of roughly 80 he was responsible for, in a variety of genres and under a variety of pseudonyms). A widely-recorded session man, you might know Cole best (even if you don't actually *know* it) for the ringing arpeggiated riff that's the signature of the inaugural Monkees smash "Last Train To Clarksville". I do own a couple of the original supermarket-special LP's, but Sundazed's 180-gram pressing holds up better in the microwave...
