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One of our biggest inspirations/bands to walk the face of the earth

Psychocandy
The same year, the band signed to Blanco y Negro and released the singles "You Trip Me Up" and "Never Understand", which were soon followed by their debut album Psychocandy. The album fused together the Reids' two primary influences, the guitar noise of The Stooges and The Velvet Underground with the '60s pop leanings of The Beach Boys, The Shangri-Las and Phil Spector -- in fact, the album's opening song, "Just Like Honey," borrows Hal Blaine's famous drum intro from The Ronnettes 1963 classic, "Be My Baby", produced and co-written by Spector. Also an influence was the sonic explorations of Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd. It has been noted that the band was very fond of drugs such as LSD and amphetamines and that the drugs influenced the ear-piercing, screeching feedback, which immediately became their trademark. The record received unanimously positive reviews and is now considered a landmark recording.
Not a group to stay out of trouble, the Mary Chain were thrown out of their record company's offices after a fight broke out, and Reid was arrested for possession of amphetamines in Germany. This earned them the now infamous comparisons to The Sex Pistols (another key influence on the band) by the UK press and led to numerous appearances in the infamous UK tabloids. Like the Pistols' "Anarchy" tour, the Mary Chain were banned from Plymouth, Birmingham, Sheffield, and removed from a Glasgow concert for swearing onstage. The final date in Brighton was attended by 600 fans and an impressive army of police, but the band and the crowd behaved themselves.
Two months later, the WEA pressing plant refused to handle the Mary Chain's third single, "You Trip Me Up", because some of its staff considered the B-side, "Jesus Suck" (originally titled "Jesus Fuck"), to be blasphemous. They were forced to replace the cut with "Just Out of Reach."

Pillowheads 2008 Good Albums list.

Lykke Li

"Youth Novels"

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Spiritualized

"Songs in A&E"

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Indian Jewelry

"Free Gold!"

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Fleet Foxes

"Fleet Foxes"

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White Denim

"Workout Holiday"

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Department of Eagles

"In Ear Park"

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Beach House

"Devotion"

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El Perro Del Mar

"From The Valley To The Stars"

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The Last Shadow Puppets

"The Age Of Understatment"

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The Last Shadow Puppets "My Mistakes Were Made For You"

The Last Shadow Puppets - My Mistakes Were Made For You

Album of the year. This song has a Scott Walker vibe to it. dig it!!!

Ian And The Zodiacs "Why can't it be me" 1966

Such an under rated band. We constantly have the album "Just Listen To" playing here at the Pillowhead Studio. Good Music!

Spanky and Our Gang! "Like to get to know you."

Found this song off a sunshine pop comp. So incredibly beautiful. Have a listen.

Benoit Poulard "Triggering Back"

Dennis Wilson

Dennis Wilson "Thoughts of You" from the album "Pacific Ocean Blue"

Some of our Favorite Things At The Moment

Little Britain

This show is probably the best show we have seen in a very long time. We just found out about this show a couple days (i know i know we don't watch TV) ago when reading about johnny depp begging to be on the next season of little britain USA. So we got around to seeing the first episode of this season on HBO and we were hooked. We ventured out immediately and got season 3 that came out on the bbc. So good!

Mr. T

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El Perro Del Mar

Hearing her music gives us the chills. If you are a fan of the beach boys and the spector sound you defiantly have to check out our albums. The song "how do we forget?" of the album "From The Falley To The Stars" has been on repeat all day.  Do yourself a favor and buy er albums  immediately. We could go on and on about how beautiful El Perro Del Mar music is but you would get rather bored of that. Just see for yourself. I wish you could just turn on the radio and hear songs like hers come out of it. 

Check out her myspace.

"god knows (you gotta give to get)" from the self titled album.

The Enemy

Working late on a saturday/sunday morning. The enemy is hitting the spot. Great band.

Art/Music of Jonathan Coward

SHAMS.

Peter and Gordon

The Association "And Then... Comes the Association"

The Association is a pop music band from California in the sunshine pop genre. They are best known for their popularity in the 1960s, when they had numerous hits at or near the top of the Billboard charts. As of 2008, they are still playing. They are also notable for being the lead-off band at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival, essentially the first multi-group rock festival. They are known for tight vocal harmony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Association
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hifexq95ldte

The Last Shadow Puppets "standing next to me"

Beach House

We have been obsessing over Beach House lately. In a period when we thought music was dead... we have found a breath of fresh air in beach house. thank you.

The Music Machine

The Music Machine (1965–1969) was an American garage rock and psychedelic (sometimes referred to as garage punk) band from the late 1960s, headed by singer-songwriter Sean Bonniwell and based in Los Angeles. The band sound was often defined by fuzzy guitars and a Farfisa organ. Their original look comprised of all-black clothing and black moptop hairstyles. Bonniwell was known to wear a single black glove.

Marvin Gaye

Can it get any better than this?

Portishead - Machine Gun (Live on Jools Holland)

A loss for words.

The Sonics Baby

We here at pillowhead love the fuzz. in fact... we cant get enough of it. The Sonics are one of our favorite garage bands. Do yourself a favor and pick up the album "here are the sonics." Go to the sonics myspace page and click on "psycho." Turn it up real loud!