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The Axis Of Sunshine: Ballrooom/Sagittarius/Millennium

Artist Song
The Millennium  Prelude  
The Millennium  To Claudia On Thursday  
Sagittarius  My World Fell Down  
The Ballroom  Spinning, Spinning, Spinning 
The Millennium  5 A.M.  
The Millennium  I'm With You  
Sagittarius  Glass  
The Millennium  I Just Don't Know How To Say Goodbye 
The Ballroom  Magic Time 
The Millennium  It's You  
The Millennium  Some Sunny Day  
Sagittarius  I'm Not Living Here  
Curt Boettcher & Dottie Hommberg  Sea Of Tears 
Sagittarius  The Truth Is Not Real  
The Millennium  Sing To Me  
Sagittarius  Lonely Girl 
The Millennium  It Won't Always Be The Same  
The Ballroom  Opus To A Friend 
The Ballroom  I'll Grow Stronger 
The Ballroom  You Turn Me Around 
Sagittarius  Another Time  
Sagittarius  Would You Like To Go  
The Millennium  Just About The Same  
Sagittarius  Song To The Magic Frog  
The Millennium  Blight  
The Millennium  The Know It All  
The Millennium  Karmic Dream Sequence #1  
The Millennium  There Is Nothing More To Say  
The Millennium  Wearing Levis 

Comment:

A brief exporation of the wonderful world of the late Curt Boettcher, the preeminent purveyor of 60's sunshine pop (or soft rock, or easy listening). This focuses on Boettcher's 3 most essential projects. After producing hits for the Association, Boettcher put together his own group, The Ballroom, and recorded a series of sappy but enjoyable mellow pop tunes. He then hooked up with uber-producer Gary Usher (of Beach Boys & Byrds fame), and teamed up for the slightly more psychedelic and baroque (by baroque I mean "more harpsichords") project Sagittarius, whose first album, Present Tense, was a pleasant (if still pretty sappy) blend of sunshine pop, more straightforward late 60s pop (the lovely "My World Fell Down"), and full-on psychedelia (the near-perfect "The Truth Is Not Real"). Boettcher then assembled the Millennium, whose Begin is heralded as one of the "great lost classics" of the psychedelic age. It's not quite all that -- still a few holdovers of mild sunshine pop keep it firmly grounded in the easy listening genre -- but it does have some pretty trippy and enjoyable psychedelic standouts, and the kick-off "Prelude/To Claudia On Thursday" may be one of the most wonderful examples of 60s psychedlic pop ever recorded, sadly overlooked by most Nuggets-styled reviews of the era.
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p the swede
Date: 1/28/2006
awesome stuff, love to have it
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steelkillie
Date: 1/28/2006
Smashing!!
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French Connection
Date: 1/28/2006
Aural bliss!
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Little Spencer Boys
Date: 1/28/2006
I don't know much about the history, but I like the genre so I'll check him/them out. Thanks!
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musicgnome
Date: 1/28/2006
This is one of my faves... All three albums are WELL worth investigating for anyone interested in psych/sunshine pop.

Wonderful job.
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plushpig
Date: 1/28/2006
Gorgeous!
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Moe
Date: 1/28/2006
Brilliant stuff! The Millennium and Sagittarius are like the Beatles and Rolling Stones of sunshine pop, and have aged well in my opinion. The first time I heard "To Claudia on Thursday" I thought it was Of Montreal or something.
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Siobhan
Date: 1/29/2006
Love the idea behind this mix, and it looks great - I'm more than partial to a bit of sunshine pop and I'm always glad to see that others are, too. I really have to investigate the genre more, but this looks like it would be a great place to start.
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GambleOn
Date: 1/29/2006
Wow, the Millennium are terrific. Thanks for bringing them to my attention!
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Media Vixen: Radio Sally
Date: 1/29/2006
Very impressive work. Dangerous for the musically diabetic, however.
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Media Vixen: Radio Sally
Date: 1/29/2006
Very impressive work. Dangerous for the musically diabetic, however.
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Rob Conroy
Date: 1/30/2006
I've always found Boettcher a little hard to take (much like the whole Sunshine genree), despite all of my efforts to embrace him. That said, he certainly has/had talent and this is a fine summation of his peak period.
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Mixxer
Date: 1/30/2006
Of course I am very familiar with all these songs, but the one I would like to comment on is - hey wait a minute - to use that device I would have to know at least one song. Oh well. But if you say it is sunshine pop, then I'm in, Pop.
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Sean Lally
Date: 2/1/2006
This is such a great tribute. I love Sag., but don't know some of the other stuff here. I really need to hear this.
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Thomas_Mohr
Date: 3/31/2006
Great stuff. But what about the Goldebriars?
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goldebriars
Date: 10/4/2006
At long last, ALL the GoldeBriars' tracks that were in the Sony archives have been released by Sony Music Direct (Japan) & Collector's Choice Music (USA)....Many of the tracks had never been released. For more details: www.goldebriars.com