The Police: "Police Brutality".

Outlandos d'Amour was the debut studio album by the English new wave band The Police, released on 2 November 1978 by A&M Records. It peaked at No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart and at No. 23 in the United States.

The album was recorded at Surrey Sound in an intermittent fashion over six months, the recording sessions, with a budget of £1,500 borrowed from Stewart Copeland's brother Miles, began at January 1978 and ends in June; with the band jumping in whenever the studio had free time or another band's sessions were cancelled, something very similar to how Queen had recorded their first álbum, back in 1972.

When these sessions ended, an early version from the album had made, with 13 theme. Miles named it "Police Brutality". and so he showed it to different labels. Line-up:

Side A: (18:43)
1.Truth hits everybody.(2:45).
2.Can´t stand losing you.(2:39).
3.So lonely.(4:05).
4.No time this time.(3:18) (*)
5.Fall out.(1:33).
6.Hole in my life,(4:20)

Side B. (18:56)
1.Born in the 50´s.(3:13).
2.Peanuts.(3:16).
3.Be my girl-Sally.(1:30).
   (no spoken word version)

4.Roxanne.(3:121) (*)
5.Landlord.(2:44)
6.Next to you.(2:04)
7.Dead end job.(2:54)

All songs by Sting except: Peanuts (Sting & Copeland) & Be My Girl-Sally (Sting & Summers). 
All tracks are unreleased alternate versions except (*) 

Eventually A&M became interested in the album but advised some changes such as title, so Miles did it  to "Outlaws of love", envisioning a more romantic image for the band. after hearing Roxanne.Besides that needed to be restructured to make it not only more commercial but more powerful.  So the new version was shortened to just 10 songs; relegating: "Dead end job" that closed the original album and "No time this time", to be sides B of the future singles. "No Time This Time" The latter was included on “Reggatta de Blanc” bit.ly/2y05w However,the two songs from their second single "Roxanne", The Police were initially reluctant about it, but Miles Copeland was immediately enthusiastic and not only did he want it to appear as a single but also on the álbum; and  "Peanuts" a composition written by Stewart Copeland and Sting about Rod Stewart. The lyrics were meant as an expression of disappointment on Sting's part towards his former idol; Both will remain in this new version.

Others on the contrary as “Fall out” from their 1st non-album single was replaced by the outtake “Masoko Tanga”. "Be My Girl—Sally" is a half-finished song by Sting, later completed with an Andy Summers poem. Here you can hear the original mix.Almost all the songs were retouched,and expanded by folding for example to get the minutes necessary per each side. Meanwhile on August 14 the second single from the album came out: "Can´t stand losing you" with "Dead End Job" on side B. But this single was banned by the BBC, owing to the cover depicting Stewart Copeland with a noose around his neck, because . the song, “Can´t stand losing you”  is about a young lover being driven to suicide following a breakup.

When the new version of 10 songs was finished, the title had been changed to “Outlandos d´Amour”. a loose French translation of "Outlaws of Love", with the first word being a combination of the words "outlaws" and "commandos", and "d'Amour" meaning "of love”.

The album initially performed poorly due to low exposure and an unfavourable reaction from the BBC to its first two singles, "Can't Stand Losing You" and "Roxanne" (about suicide and prostitution, respectively). Also the reviews of the album were largely unfavorable. Subsequent retrospective reviews have been more favorable, as one of the strongest debut albums by any band or artist. It ranked No. 38 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Best Debut Albums of All Time". In 2012, the magazine ranked it No. 428 on their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Ok folks, that´s all.., for now.  Enjoy it.

"Once Upon A Time in... Hollywood" - (AEC version)

This album is a special edition. The intellectual author is AEC "Album back from dead", I have simply given it physical life considering that it is a very good and intelligent contribution. In this compilation the line-up proposed by AEC has been respected, except: "Dinamite Jim" which has been changed to "Get Together", a song that Tarantino wanted to include in the soundtrack but it was not possible due to author rights. But let's see a summary of what AEC says on his blog:

Most of the music featured in the film is supposedly being heard on car radios broadcasting L.A.'s Boss Radio station KHJ on three days in 1969: Feb. 8 , 9 and Aug. 8. But if you look at the soundtrack for the film as compiled by director/writer Quentin Tarantino you'll find that songs are from years before and after 1969. It seemed to me that it would have been better to use songs that would have actually been played on the Top 40 station on those particular days.

But how do you know what songs were being played on KHJ on those particular days? While you can't be absolutely certain, there is a great resource for finding what the top hits on KHJ were on those weeks: https://93khj.blogspot.com/2008/05/khj-survey-index.html. I used the charts for the weeks of Feb. 5 , 12, and Aug. 6 to determine a new soundtrack for the film.

One important point is that not all of the songs featured in the film are on the official soundtrack album. I found this nice list of all the songs in the order they appear in the movie: https://screenrant.com/once-upon-time-hollywood-movie-soundtrack-songs/. At once point I planned to replace all the songs, but in order to keep hold of my sanity I decided to focus only on the 22-track soundtrack album.

Three songs on the soundtrack are actually on the KHJ lists: "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" by the Bob Seger System, "Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show" by Neil Diamond and "Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon" by Paul Revere & the Raiders. So they're all kept. Also, in the film two other Paul Revere and the Raiders' songs, "Good Thing" and "Hungry" are in a scene where they're heard from an album playing rather than being heard on the radio. So I kept them. Finally, I also kept Jose Feliciano's "California Dreamin'" because I felt it was pivotal to the scene.

In other cases, I replaced a band's song with one by the same group, but which appears on the KHJ lists. These include replacing Deep Purple's "Hush" with the band's "River Deep, Mountain High"; and The Box Tops' "Choo Choo Train" with their song "Sweet Cream Ladies March Forward."From there, it was a matter of trying to find songs from KHJ's lists that matched the basic feel of the songs I was replacing.

I am kind of shocked that Tarantino didn't use "Quentin's Theme" which is originally from the "Dark Shadows" TV show and was a minor hit on KHJ's list. I mean, how appropriately coincidental is that?. Tarantino takes a number of liberties with "Once Upon a Time in ... Hollywood" regarding timeline, and that doesn't stop with the song selection. One part of the film shows a party at the Playboy Mansion, bit.ly/Ou-HH even through Hugh Hefner didn't move into the mansion until 1972. Plus, some characters are based on real people, and others are fabrications. And of course the climatic ending is a complete alternative history. So in that mindset, creating a soundtrack of songs from different years isn't far-fetched and Tarantino was more than likely going for a certain feel rather than historic accuracy. And on top of all that, licensing issues might have dictated what songs were available.

Still, I personally think my version would have worked just as well and have the added luxury of being tied to the time and place.

AEC. 

(for more information, please visit: http://albumsbackfromthedead.blogspot.com/ ) 

The line-up:

1.Can I Change My Mind. (2:53) (*)

Tyrone Davis 

2.Crimson and Clover. (3:25) (*)

Tommy James and the Shondells 

3.Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man. (2:16) (*)

The Bob Seger System

4.You Showed Me. (3:12) (*)

The Turtles

5.River Deep, Mountain High. (5:48) (edit) (*)

Deep Purple 

6.Mendocino. (2:36) (*)

Sir Douglas Quintet

7.I’m Living in Shame. (2:57) (*)

Diana Ross and The Supremes

8.Sweet Cream Ladies March Forward. (2:12) (**)

The Box Tops

9.Proud Mary. (3:04) (*)

Creedence Clearwater Revival

10.Good Thing. (3:02) (^^)

Paul Revere & The Raiders

11.Hungry. (2:54) (^)

Paul Revere & the Raiders

12.This Girl is in Love with You. (4:07) (*)

Dionne Warwick

13.I Got a Line on You. (2:39) (*)

Spirit

14.Long Green. (3:12) (**)

The Fireballs

15.Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show. (3:24) (+)

Neil Diamond

16.The Nitty Gritty. (3:00) (***)

Gladys Knight and the Pips

17.Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon. (2:46) (*)

Paul Revere & the Raiders

18.What Kind of Fool Do You Think I Am?. (2:04) (***)

Bill Deal and the Rhondels

19.California Dreamin’. (4:08) (++)

Jose Feliciano

20.Get Together. (4:36) (***)

The Youngbloods

21.I’d Wait a Million Years. (3:18) (***)

Grassroots

22.Quentin's Theme. (2:01) (***)

The Charles Randolph Grean Sounde

(93 KHJ Boss 30 - June 15.1966) (^)

(93 KHJ Boss 30 - November 30.1966) (^^)

(93 KHJ Boss 30 - July 3. 1968) (++)

(93 KHJ Boss 30 - February 5.1969) (*)

(93 KHJ Boss 30 - February 12.1969) (**)

(93 KHJ Boss 30 - February 19.1969) (+)

(93 KHJ Boss 30 - August 6.1969) (***)

Enjoy it. See you soon with more and better.