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Cherrystones - Hidden Charms (2004)
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Length:  48:07
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Svolta Definitiva    4:35
      2.  
      		 Shadow Mann    3:05
      3.  
      		 Afraid Of Losing You    4:07
      4.  
      		 Neurotic Reaction    2:37
      5.  
      		 Black Olives    2:19
      6.  
      		 The Mound Moves    4:05
      7.  
      		 Hot Sand    2:37
      8.  
      		 Scotch On The Socks    2:15
      9.  
      		 Hot Rod Poppa    3:11
      10.  
      		 Faust    3:21
      11.  
      		 Sister Sue    2:02
      12.  
      		 I Walk On Gilded Splinters    2:29
      13.  
      		 Red Pepper Pt.1    2:01
      14.  
      		 Peanuts 68    2:45
      15.  
      		 I Can Tell    3:18
      16.  
      		 Rush Hour    3:12
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      Hidden Charms (taken from NME review)

      Sixteen superb tracks from the late-'60s and early-'70s that have the joy and rarity of a lottery win...

      It may look easy to just play a bunch of records of an evening, but to amass a collection of forgotten gems on this scale takes a lifetime's dedicated trawl through record fairs and charity shops.

      Goddard blinds you with the unusual: the French space pop of Dynastie Crisis' 'Faust '72', or the strutting, castrato R&B of Little Joe Cook & The Thrillers' 'Peanuts '68'. Then he dumbs you with the unfamiliar: Ennio Morricone doing a psychedelic Hammond workout on 'Svolta Definitiva', The Shadows doing stoner rock and Cher being good. He even has time to fit in Mick Jagger's former squeeze Marsha Hunt on quite blistering form.

      But it's not the diversity of the collection that astounds, nor is it the obscurity of the tracks contained, it's the way it holds together like the unreleased album by the best band that never was.

      In places it sounds like a hitherto unsuspected genre; one which mixes the taut funk of 'Look Ka Py Py'-era Meters and the garage scuzz of the 13th Floor Elevators. 'Hidden Charms' leaves you hoping that there are many, many gems left undiscovered.

      Tracklist:
      1. Ennio Morrocone - Svolta Definitiva
      2. Shadow Mann - Shadow Mann
      3. Mashmakhan - Afraid Of Losing You
      4. Die Anderen - Neurotic Reaction
      5. The Bad Boys - Black Olives
      6. Zoot Money & The Big Roll Band - The Mound Moves
      7. Shocking Blue - Hot Sand
      8. The Shadows - Scotch On The Socks
      9. Marsha Hunt - Hot Rod Poppa
      10. Dynastie Crisis - Faust
      11. The Soul-Men - Sister Sue
      12. Cher - I Walk On Gilded Splinters
      13. Roosevelt Franklin (And Pens Of Rhythm) - Red Pepper Pt. 1
      14. Little Joe Cook & The Thrillers - Peanuts '68
      15. Bugsy - I Can Tell
      16. Bugsy - Rush Hour
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