Boxing Day 2025

BOXING DAY 2025

 

another festive moment of compilations

 

The Bam Balam Explosion Vol 2->7 (1995-2000)

Vol 2 1995 (568 mb)

Vol 3 1995 (592 mb)

Vol 4 1996 (606 mb)

Vol 5 1998 (592 mb)

Vol 6 1999 (559 mb)

Vol 7 2000 (580 mb)

 

Unsound Vol 1 & 2 (1998-1999)

Vol 1: Pop! 1998 (546 mb)

Vol 2: Guitars! 1999 (480 mb)

 

Pop Under The Surface Vol 1->4 (1997-2002)

Vol One 1997 (572 mb)

Vol Two 1998 (613 mb)

Vol Three 1999 (554 mb)

Vol Four 2002 (611 mb)

 

Lost Weekend Vol 1 & 2

Vol 1 2001 (592 mb)

Vol 2 2003 (617 mb)

 

New Rose Vol 1 & 2

Play New Rose For Me 1986 (483 mb)

New Rose Story 2000 (2340 mb)

  

Bucketfull of Brains Vol 1->6 (1989-2001)

Time Will Show The Wiser 1989 (442 mb)

Bucketfull Of Brains 50th Anniversary CD 1998 (448 mb)

Bucketfull Of Citadel 1998 (309 mb)

21st Century BoB 2000 (444 mb)

Four Seasons...One Day 2001 (570 mb)

The BoB 60 2001 (414 mb)

 

Sparklefest

FEST 2003 (553 mb)

 

IPO Vol 26

2025 (1570 mb)

Christmas Time Is Here At Last (PPA XMAS 2025)

VARIOUS - ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS (2025)

Specially compiled for PPA, this 20th volume comes just in time to celebrate Christmas. The work had to be done anyway and it features 25 songs to enjoy the spirit of this time of the year with some jingle jangle stuff.

The collection comes with the complete set of artwork including all the details about the bands involved.

All the 19 previous volumes (2006-2024) are still available in lossless format.

 

IMNE (543 mb)

IMNE (195 mb)

Life after The Dolls (French LP)

VARIOUS - SONS OF THE DOLLS (1982)

 

"Sons Of The Dolls" compiles four bands all connected to the New York Dolls. The Idols, Criminals and Corpse Grinders were released as individual singles but the Killer Kane Band's songs were only available on this compilation released by Fan Club Records (a subsidiary of New Rose Records). Although never available as a CD in France, it was reissued (1990 and 1993) in Japan as a CD (now fetching high prices) under license from New Rose by Century Records.

 

WU (197 mb)

Mad Dog Dreams (1989) Revisited In The USA (1990)

DROOGS - WANT SOMETHING (1990)

 

Hailing from Los Angeles, the Droogs were formed in 1972, they released some singles (compiled for their Anthology - Germany 1987) until their first album in 1984 "Stone Cold World" (produced by Earle Mankey). In 1989, they released their third album "Mad Dog Dreams"' in Germany, and one year later, the same album is released in the USA as "Want Something" with an alternate track order and a few different songs - the 3 live cuts are dropped and replaced by a cover of the Kinks plus 4 other studio cuts.

 

WU (370 mb)

Summer Songs Vol. 17 (2025)

VARIOUS - RIDIN' HIGH (2025)

 

Another brand new volume of summer songs for this new Summer. It's a PPA exclusive featuring 26 bands with many fresh releases of this year. As usual, the full set of artwork is included, every song has the original album image embedded. Now you can enjoy and feel free to comment about this new volume.

 

WU (533 mb)

WU (191 mb)

Excellent Power Pop from Perth (2x7" EP French Edition)

THE EARLY HOURS - EVOLUTION (1997, Limited Edition 1998)

 

Hailing from Kalgoorlie / Boulder, WA, the band moved to Perth. "Evolution" was their second album and was first released in 1997. This is the french limited edition (a  double 7" red & yellow vinyl EP with a 6-page booklet and a totally revamped artwork) on Hellfire Records.

WU (294 mb)

Boston Power Pop (1st Full Length LP) (Never Reissued)

THE NEIGHBORHOODS - THE HIGH HARD ONE (1986)

 

Hailing from Boston, The Neighborhoods started out playing strong power pop (a 1980 single, "Prettiest Girl" remains a local classic) in the wake of British neo/mods. After the mini-album "Fire Is Coming" (1984) the band released their first LP "The High Hard One" which showed maturation, an album full of instantly memorable tunes.

 

WU (245 mb)

Bob Beland & The Polar Bears (Never Reissued)

BOB BELAND - BOB BELAND (1982)

 

Here's a lost Power Pop gem, the first solo EP released by Bob Beland. Stephen Hague of The Polar Bears is the producer. And some Polar Bears are the musicians with Jules Shear guesting on vocals

WU (151 mb)

Pocket Symphonies To God Part 3 (Nine Years Later)

VARIOUS - THE POCKET SYMPHONIES TO GOD Vol. 3 (2025)

 

Started a few months ago, and delayed due to various health issues, i've finally been able to complete the compilation and to post it today. Only four of the artists featured in this brand new volume can also be heard on the previous two collections, all the other ones are included here for the first time.

Again, this is a 2CD-set and it comes with the usual PPA artwork including all details about the artists featured here.

WU (1.04 gb)

WU (373 mb)

Clap Your Hands And Stamp Your Feet (The Return)

VARIOUS - GLAM & GLITTER Vol 2 (2025)

 

Five years later, this is a follow up to my first collection of 25 songs / bands from the last 30 years for some kind of a tribute to the 70's Glam and Glitter era. Some of you will hear some Bolan (plenty) / Slade / Sweet, Bowie or Glitter homages, and they will be right. Only original songs have been included. And, just for info, no hyper-hairsprayed acts are featured here, only some good old shoutin', stompin' anthems. 100% real Glam guaranteed.

WU (541 mb)

WU (187 mb)

Beatlesque is Back (PPA Exclusive)

BEATLESQUE TO THE CORE (2025)

 

Here is the fourth part of my Beatlesque compilations, it comes 6 years after the previous one "Let It Beatlesque" (2019) which is still available here on PPA along "Meet The Beatlesque" (2007) and "Beatlesque Again" (2011).

As usual, no songs from the 60's era were used, only songs released between 1982 and 2024 have been compiled on "Beatlesque To The Core" (minus the fabulous 1973 song by Badfinger, which was the very last Apple single).

A complete set of artwork has been included, it features all the bands and albums that can be found on this new volume.

 

WU (1003 mb)

WU (378 mb)

Top of 2024 (Episode 25)

THE UNOFFICIAL 2024 DAVID BASH'S TOP 25 (2025)

 

This is my compilation (i've picked one song from each album) of the best albums of 2024 based upon the new list (the 25th) of the yearly David Bash Top 150 roster. The list also includes a top list of EP's, and some compilations, tributes, reissues and more. Once again, the PPA collection is limited to the first 25 albums of 2024 The full listing can be read on the International Pop Overthrow page here.

 

WU (564 mb)

US LP Edition (Never Reissued)

DUCKS DELUXE - DUCKS DELUXE (1974)

 

In 1973 the band signed to RCA and released their first single, "Coast To Coast", written by Sean Tyla and Nick Garvey, though Tyla is not credited on the track, because he was trying to untangle himself from a previous publishing deal. Their eponymous debut album Ducks Deluxe was released in early 1974, and "captures something of the fire and excitement that the Ducks' live act generated".

 

This is the US LP edition which omits "I Got You", has an edited version of "Daddy Put The Bomp" and presents a totally different track order.from the UK release.

 

WU (286 mb)

2025

A GIFT FOR 2025

 

WU1 (541 mb)

WU2 (1002 mb)