Brinsley Schwarz - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: 1973-1975

Over the last week or so, I've posted a complete overhaul of the music the British band Brinsley Schwarz performed for the BBC. Previously, I'd posted three such albums. Now, I've posted seven. This is the seventh and last. So if you downloaded the earlier three albums I made, I recommend you delete them and replace them with these albums. Not only are they more complete, but the sound quality is often improved as well.

Like Volumes One and Five in this revamped series, this is a collection of studio sessions. The first two songs are from an appearance on the BBC TV show "Old Grey Whistle Test" in 1973. Tracks 3 through 5 are from a BBC session in 1974. Tracks 6 through 9 are from another 1974 BBC session. Tracks 10 through 13 are from a BBC session in early 1975.

"Hooked on Love" has been released on an "Old Grey Whistle Test" compilation. Tracks 6 through 13 have been released on either "Cruel to Be Kind" or "What IS So Funny about Peace, Love and Understanding," the two official BBC albums. That leaves four songs that remain unreleased. A couple of songs have "[Edit]" in their titles due to BBC DJs talking over the music. As usual, I fixed that with the help of the MVSEP audio editing program.

Note that I was going to post a few songs from the band's appearance on the German TV show "Rockpalast" in 1975. But it turns out the entire performance was officially released in 2025 under the title "Live at Rockpalast." So you should check that out if you're a fan of the band. It was one of their last concerts before they broke up.

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Surrender to the Rhythm (Brinsley Schwarz)
02 Hooked on Love (Brinsley Schwarz)
03 [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding [Edit] (Brinsley Schwarz)
04 You Ain't Living Till You're Loving (Brinsley Schwarz)
05 The Ugly Things [Edit] (Brinsley Schwarz)
06 Ju Ju Man (Brinsley Schwarz)
07 Small Town, Big City (Brinsley Schwarz)
08 I Got the Real Thing (Brinsley Schwarz)
09 [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding (Brinsley Schwarz)
10 Everybody (Brinsley Schwarz)
11 We Can Mess Around [Mess with Love] (Brinsley Schwarz)
12 Cruel to Be Kind (Brinsley Schwarz)
13 Give Me Back My Love (Brinsley Schwarz)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/EPTrEu7w

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/JUmaIr8ljS0wgQa/file

I don't know when or where the cover photo was taken. But I found very, very few good color photos of the band, and I thought this one of the band members with their wives and children was a nice one.

Brinsley Schwarz - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, London, Britain, 3-30-1973

Here's another BBC album by the British band Brinsley Schwarz. This time, it's a short concert from 1973.

In 1973, the band released the studio album "Please Don't Ever Change." But that was in October 1973, six months after this concert. Still, they played two songs that would appear on that album, "Hooked on Love," and "Why Do We Hurt the One We Love." 

Many of the other songs wouldn't be released on album at all, at least not until archival albums decades later. For instance, "Do the Cod (The Thirty Pounder)" was an original instrumental that wouldn't get released until the "Thinking Back" box set in 2023. "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" is a soul music classic. This version of it would eventually be released on the "Cruel to Be Kind" collection of BBC performances. They never did a studio version, it seems. That's the exact situation with "Wait" (this performance being the only one released, on the "Cruel to Be Kind album). Note that's the same song done by the J. Geils Band, not the Beatles song.

This album was quite short, only 24 minutes long. So I decided to add two songs at the end. It so happens I found two songs the band performed on an unknown French TV show in 1973. Since they were different songs from all the other ones on this album, they made an ideal fit. They, like most of the rest of this album, remain officially unreleased. 

This album is 32 minutes long.

01 Do the Cod [The Thirty Pounder] [Instrumental] (Brinsley Schwarz)
02 Hooked on Love (Brinsley Schwarz)
03 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
04 It's Been So Long (Brinsley Schwarz)
05 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
06 Why Do We Hurt the One We Love (Brinsley Schwarz)
07 I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (Brinsley Schwarz)
08 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
09 Wait (Brinsley Schwarz)
10 Ju Ju Man (Brinsley Schwarz)
11 Wonder Woman (Brinsley Schwarz)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/meK8xc7V

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/XN5smRd9bgTLomS/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took of an appearance on a French TV show in 1973.

Brinsley Schwarz - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: 1972-1973

Here's another volume of the British band Brinsley Schwarz performing for the BBC. This is a collection of studio sessions.

As I mentioned in earlier write-ups in this series, I previously posted three BBC albums from this band, only to completely overhaul the series and turn it into a seven album series instead. This largely corresponds to what used to be "Volume 2." However, there are additions, deletions, and changes. 

For instance, the first five songs are ones I only recently found. They come from archival album "Last Orders." That album has very sketchy notes, and didn't reveal the source, except that it was from an "obscure radio show." (I suspect the people who put the album together were deliberately vague so they wouldn't have to pay more royalties to the sources.) However, I found an Internet mention of those exact songs in that exact order coming from an Irish TV show in 1972. So the details are still sketchy, but at least we know something.

The next four songs, tracks 6 through 9, come from a BBC session in late 1972. All of them were released on the official album "What IS So Funny about Peace, Love and Understanding." The five songs after that, tracks 10 through 14, come from a 1973 BBC session. Two of those were also released on the "What IS So Funny" album, two more were from the "Cruel to Be Kind" official album, and one, "I Worry ['Bout You Baby]," remains unreleased. The last song, "Murder on My Mind," is from a different BBC session later in 1973, and came out on the "Last Orders" album. As always, you can find more details in the mp3 tags.

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 Unknown Number (Brinsley Schwarz)
02 Silver Pistol (Brinsley Schwarz)
03 She's Got to Be Real (Brinsley Schwarz)
04 Country Girl (Brinsley Schwarz)
05 Range War (Brinsley Schwarz)
06 Nervous on the Road [But Can't Stay at Home] (Brinsley Schwarz)
07 It's Been So Long (Brinsley Schwarz)
08 Having a Party (Brinsley Schwarz)
09 You Got Me Hummin' (Brinsley Schwarz)
10 Mama Told Me Not to Come (Brinsley Schwarz)
11 You Never Can Tell (Brinsley Schwarz)
12 Play That Fast Thing [One More Time] (Brinsley Schwarz)
13 I've Cried My Last Tear (Brinsley Schwarz)
14 I Worry ['Bout You Baby] (Brinsley Schwarz)
15 Murder on My Mind (Brinsley Schwarz)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/4mbw8TWD

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/3rPJn3cPJP7NbQn/file

I don't know any details of the cover photo. But it was one of a very few that showed all the band members and was in color. I used Krea AI to improve the image detail.

Brinsley Schwarz - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, London, Britain, 5-4-1972

Here's another BBC album by the British band Brinsley Schwarz. Like the previous two, it's another short concert.

The previous concert, "Volume 3," took place about six months prior to this. With that concert, the band largely played songs from their 1972 album "Silver Pistol," even though it hadn't been released yet. This time, they largely played songs from their next album, "Nervous on the Road," even though that one wouldn't be released until September 1972. These are the songs from that album: "It's Been So Long," "Don't Lose Your Grip on Love," "Surrender to the Rhythm," and "Home in My Hand."

This album is 24 minutes long. That's unusually short. I don't know if this is the full concert, since they typically were about an hour long or half an hour long. It could be a song or two is missing. But this is all I have.

Four of the songs here are from the official BBC album "Cruel to Be Kind:" tracks 6, 8, 10, and 12. The rest are from a bootleg. But the sound quality is about the same from the different sources. 

01 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
02 Unknown Number (Brinsley Schwarz)
03 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
04 It's Been So Long (Brinsley Schwarz)
05 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
06 Don't Lose Your Grip on Love (Brinsley Schwarz)
07 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
08 Surrender to the Rhythm (Brinsley Schwarz)
09 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
10 Home in My Hand (Brinsley Schwarz)
11 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
12 Ju Ju Man (Brinsley Schwarz)
13 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/tmKuhhRB

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/1Zl03WUdqpNEth8/file 

The cover image is a screenshot from an appearance on the Old Grey Whistle Test TV show in 1973.

Brinsley Schwarz - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 11-18-1971

Here's another BBC concert album by the British band Brinsley Schwarz. 

As I mentioned previously, I'm reorganizing and reposting my BBC material by this band, after finding some things I'd previously missed. Mostly, it's a case of finding full concerts like this one. 

At the time of this concert, the band was still about three months away from releasing their third album, "Silver Pistol." But they already were playing some songs from it. In fact, every song here but two are from that album. Those two are "Country Girl," from a previous album, and "Nervous on the Road (But Can't Stay at Home)," which actually wouldn't be released until the next album after "Silver Pistol," called "Nervous on the Road." So while they played a BBC concert earlier in 1971, every single song here is different.

Five of the tracks here were released on the official BBC album "Cruel to Be Kind" (tracks 7, 8, 10, 12 and 14). The rest are unreleased, I'm pretty sure. The sound quality is excellent overall. 

This album is 29 minutes long.

01 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
02 Country Girl (Brinsley Schwarz)
03 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
04 Dry Land (Brinsley Schwarz)
05 Unknown Number (Brinsley Schwarz)
06 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
07 Silver Pistol (Brinsley Schwarz)
08 Range War (Brinsley Schwarz)
09 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
10 Egypt (Brinsley Schwarz)
11 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
12 Nervous on the Road [But Can't Stay at Home] (Brinsley Schwarz)
13 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
14 Rockin' Chair [Instrumental] (Brinsley Schwarz)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/5BegSypm

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/mZtSZxfnRBPERNU/file

I don't know when or where the cover art photo is from. Also, the colors are kind of messed up. But given the rarity of good color photos of the band, I felt obliged to use it. I upgraded the photo with the use of the Krea AI program.

Brinsley Schwarz - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, London, Britain, 3-25-1971

Here's the second of seven BBC albums for the band Brinsley Schwarz. This one is a short concert.

Back in 2021, I posted only three BBC albums. At that time, I couldn't find their full BBC concerts. Two official BBC albums were released for the band, "Cruel to Be Kind" and "What IS So Funny about Peace, Love and Understanding." But both of them only presented selected songs from both studio sessions and concerts. As far as I know, none of the band's BBC concerts have been released in full. Many of the songs have been released on those two official albums, plus other archival releases. So I've gathered what I could from the best sounding sources. Then I added material from bootlegs to fill in the gaps, such as the banter between songs.

In 1970, the band put out two studio albums, and then put out another in 1972, but they didn't put out an album in 1971. Perhaps they were planning to but then it got delayed and changed or something, because there are a bunch of unreleased-at-the-time songs from that year, more than any other year for the band. Three out of the five songs performed here were unreleased: "Crime of Passion," "Rock and Roll Station," and "Motorway Madness." Versions only were released decades later, on the "Thinking Back" box set. They actually are taken from this BBC concert, and had most of the audience noise removed. The scanty information from the box set doesn't mention this, but I compared the versions to make sure. 

Note that I've also posted some stray tracks albums for the band. Where there are rarities like those three songs I just mentioned, I've included those on a stray tracks album as well, even when the only version is from a BBC source. 

This album is 27 minutes long. 

01 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
02 Crime of Passion (Brinsley Schwarz)
03 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
04 Rock and Roll Station (Brinsley Schwarz)
05 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
06 Ju Ju Man (Brinsley Schwarz)
07 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
08 The Slow One (Brinsley Schwarz)
09 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
10 Motorway Madness (Brinsley Schwarz)
11 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/oWbwNMR3

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/nCorcndlErpXLGy/file

It's really damn hard finding good color photos of this band. The good news is that I found one for the cover here. The bad news is that it only clearly shows Nick Lowe and Ian Gomm (with the ginger hair). Also, I don't know when it was taken, although I do know it's from the Newlands Tavern in London. I upgraded the photo with the use of the Krea AI program.

Brinsley Schwarz - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1970-1972

In 2021, I posted three albums of the British band Brinsley Schwarz performing for the BBC. At the time, that was the best I thought I could do, since it was hard to find a lot of their BBC recordings. But since then, I've found more. Most importantly, I've found four short but (probably) complete BBC concerts. So I decided to completely redo my Brinsley Schwarz BBC albums. Now, instead of three, I have seven. I find it easier to just start from scratch. So I've deleted the three albums I previously posted, and I'll be replacing them with seven new ones. Starting with this one, "Volume 1."

 Weirdly, Brinsley Schwarz was the name of the band and a member of the band, but not the most important or most visible member. Brinsley Schwarz was the lead guitarist. But the member who sang and wrote most of the songs was Nick Lowe. He would later go on to have a long and successful solo career. Another key member was Ian Gomm, who also sang and wrote some songs, and also would have a hit as a solo artist. (Gomm isn't on this album though, since he joined the band in 1971.)

Here's the band's Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:

Brinsley Schwarz - Wikipedia 

In April 1970, the band released their debut album, simply titled "Brinsley Schwarz." Then, in December 1970, they released their second album, "Despite It All." This album consists entirely of radio appearances in 1970 when they were promoting those two albums, with one exception. 

The first three songs come from an appearance on the German TV show "Beat Club" in June 1970. True, that's not a BBC thing, but I'm including it anyway. It's one of very few TV or radio appearances they did (and survived) that wasn't for the BBC.

"Love Song" is from a BBC concert in September 1970. Unfortunately, it seems no recordings of this concert are known except for this one song. I found two versions of it. Both had issues. For instance, one version was missing the beginning. But I was able to combine them to create a decent version. So that's why this song has "[Edit]" in its title. I also removed the audience noise at the end.

The next four songs, tracks 5 through 8, come from an appearance on the "Top Gear" radio show in November 1970. 

The last song, "She's Got to Be Real" is from an appearance on the Bob Harris BBC radio show in early 1972. 

Most of the songs performed here were from the band's first two albums. However, "Indian Woman" and "Seymour (I Love You)" were unreleased at the time. Eventually, versions were released on archival albums in the 2020s. "Indian Woman" came out on the "Last Orders" album, and it's this version. However, that version, and all versions I found, have the beginning cut off, with the song beginning in mid-verse. But I managed to fix it by patching in some music from later in the song. That's why it has "[Edit]" in its title. 

"Seymour (I Love You)" and "Funk Angel" came out on the "Thinking Back" box set. "She's Got to Be Real" came out on the official BBC album "What IS So Funny about Peace, Love and Understanding." All the other performances are unreleased. However, they generally have sound quality similar to the officially released ones.

This album is 52 minutes long.

01 Ebury Down (Brinsley Schwarz)
02 Ballad of a Has-Been Beauty Queen (Brinsley Schwarz)
03 Indian Woman [Edit] (Brinsley Schwarz)
04 Love Song [Edit] (Brinsley Schwarz)
05 Seymour [I Love You] [Instrumental] (Brinsley Schwarz)
06 Funk Angel (Brinsley Schwarz)
07 The Slow One (Brinsley Schwarz)
08 Rock and Roll Station (Brinsley Schwarz)
09 She's Got to Be Real (Brinsley Schwarz)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DBWw4shB

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/849iAbTbA8CQRMq/file

The cover art photo comes from a concert in Tunbridge Wells, Britain, in 1973. The original was in black and white, but due to the severe lack of good color photos of the band, I went through some trouble to colorize it. I later improved the image detail with the Krea AI program.

Brinsley Schwarz - You Got Me Hummin' - Non-Album Tracks (1972-1974)

Sometimes, when I post a stray tracks album here, I think I'm all done finding the rarities of a particular musical artist... and then later I find a bunch more. Occasionally, I find so many that two albums I made turn into three, with a "new" one in the middle. That's the case here, even though I only had a total of two Brinsley Schwarz stray tracks albums prior to this. So this isn't really a "new" Brinsley Schwarz collection so much as I have a bunch of new songs scattered through the three albums and you need to download or redownload all three to get them all.

To help you with that, here are the links to the other two:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/03/brinsley-schwarz-got-to-be-real-various.html

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/04/brinsley-schwarz-dont-lie-to-me-various.html

Brinsley Schwarz are not a well known band, since they only existed from 1970 to 1975 and never had a big hit. But if you like Nick Lowe's music as a solo artist or part of Rockpile you should like this, because Lowe was the main singer and songwriter for this band. Because this band's popularity is limited, it's really hard to find all their unreleased rarities. I've found a lot more than before, but there are still some that I've only heard of and apparently just exist in private collections. If you have some of those and want to share, please let me know.

I believe three of the songs here are new ("The Old Country," "That's What It Takes," and "Murder on My Mind"). But there are more on the other two volumes in this series, for instance, four new ones on the first album. So, again, make sure you get the latest versions of all three.

In any case, this is more fun and rocking music, and the sound quality is generally very good. I suspect the reason that more of these didn't get on the band's studio albums is because most of them are cover versions, whereas the albums are mostly filled with originals. But these guys had great taste in covers, especially obscure ones.

01 What Would You Do (Brinsley Schwarz)
02 The Old Country (Brinsley Schwarz)
03 That's What It Takes (Brinsley Schwarz)
04 Having a Party (Brinsley Schwarz)
05 You Got Me Hummin' (Brinsley Schwarz)
06 Mama Told Me Not to Come (Brinsley Schwarz)
07 I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (Brinsley Schwarz)
08 Hypocrite (Brinsley Schwarz)
09 You Never Can Tell (Brinsley Schwarz)
10 Wait (Brinsley Schwarz)
11 Run Rudolph Run (Brinsley Schwarz)
12 Murder on My Mind (Brinsley Schwarz)
13 [It's Gonna Be A] Bring Down (Brinsley Schwarz)
14 Love Is Gone (Brinsley Schwarz)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15904549/BrinsleyS_1972-1974_YouGotMeHummn_atse.zip.html

I'm not sure what the deal with the cover art is. It totally looks like an album cover from an earlier era in my opinion, but it wasn't. Instead, it seems to have been some kind of promo art put out by the record company. I cropped the image from a slightly larger picture and replaced some other text with the album name near the bottom. Otherwise, it's just like I found it.

Brinsley Schwarz - A. O. R., Tilburg, Netherlands, 5-18-1974

Brinsley Schwarz were one of the best and best known "pub rock" bands in the early 1970s. Their main singer and songwriter Nick Lowe would go on to greater fame with Rockpile and his solo career. (Strangely, Brinsley Schwarz was the name of one of the band members as well as the band as a whole.) I think they're very underappreciated. They wrote a lot of fun originals, and also had a habit of playing unjustly obscure songs.

I plan on posting a lot more from this band soon. But while I getting some other things ready, I decided to post this concert because I feel it's the best live recording of the band. There's one official live album called "Live Favorites," but this one is better, even though it's a bootleg. The sound quality is excellent, and it's a full show that's slightly shorter than two hours long. ("Live Favorites" by contrast is also from a single concert, but it's only 45 minutes long.)

I didn't have to do much to improve this recording, but I did do a couple of things. The main thing was that I broke the banter between songs into separate tracks and then boosted the volume of that banter. (Lowe does nearly all the talking.) Also, the last fifteen seconds or so of the song "(It's Gonna Be A) Bring Down" was missing. I restored much of that from a similar musical section earlier in the song, then finished it off with a bit of the same song from a bootleg of another concert. I also made a couple other fixes here and there, for instance getting rid of a squall of feedback in the middle of a song by patching in a bit of another part of the song.

This band was in its natural element playing live. The very name of the genre they're closely associated with, pub rock, is all about playing in pubs and other small clubs. If you've never heard this band before, this is a good place to start.

01 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
02 You Been Cheating (Brinsley Schwarz)
03 Small Town, Big City (Brinsley Schwarz)
04 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
05 I'll Be Doggone (Brinsley Schwarz)
06 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
07 Love Is Gone (Brinsley Schwarz)
08 It's Been So Long (Brinsley Schwarz)
09 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
10 I've Cried My Last Tear (Brinsley Schwarz)
11 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
12 Happy Doing What We're Doing (Brinsley Schwarz)
13 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
14 I'm Ahead If I Can Quit While I'm Behind (Brinsley Schwarz)
15 Don't Lie to Me (Brinsley Schwarz)
16 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
17 Surrender to the Rhythm (Brinsley Schwarz)
18 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
19 Country Girl (Brinsley Schwarz)
20 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
21 Range War (Brinsley Schwarz)
22 [It's Gonna Be A] Bring Down [Edit] (Brinsley Schwarz)
23 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
24 Save the Last Dance for Me (Brinsley Schwarz)
25 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
26 Down in the Dive (Brinsley Schwarz)
27 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
28 Down in Mexico (Brinsley Schwarz)
29 Ju Ju Man (Brinsley Schwarz)
30 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
31 Wonder Woman (Brinsley Schwarz)
32 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
33 Home in My Hand (Brinsley Schwarz)
34 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
35 Run Rudolph Run (Brinsley Schwarz)
36 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
37 Brown Sugar (Brinsley Schwarz)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15275556/BrinsleyS_1974_AORTilburg__5-18-1974_atse.zip.html

There are very few good color photos of this band, but I managed to find one of them in concert. This comes from an appearance at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in May 1973.

Brinsley Schwarz - Don't Lie to Me - Non-Album Tracks (1974-1975)

A couple of weeks ago, I posted an album of stray tracks for Brinsley Schwarz. Here's a second such album. That band didn't have a very long career, so this finishes off all the stray tracks I have for them. The main singer and songwriter in the band was Nick Lowe, so finishing this off will allow me to move on to Lowe's solo career, as well as his career with Rockpile. But if you like Lowe and/or Rockpile, don't miss these Brinsley Schwarz albums. It's very, very similar.

About a third of the songs here come from BBC performances, another third are from concert bootlegs with the audience noise removed, and the remaining third are rare studio tracks, mostly A- and B-sides. Brinsley Schwarz's proper studio albums were mostly filled with original songs. But the vast majority of songs here are cover versions. Regarding the live songs, luckily, they come from sources with very good sound quality.

The 18 songs here total 54 minutes, not counting the bonus track.

The bonus track, a cover of the Rolling Stones classic "Brown Sugar," comes from the exact same concert as some of the other songs here. But it doesn't sound as good as the others, so it's only a bonus track. I think it's because the crowd was more boisterous through most of the song.

01 Don't Lie to Me (Brinsley Schwarz)
02 You Been Cheating (Brinsley Schwarz)
03 I'll Be Doggone (Brinsley Schwarz)
04 Save the Last Dance for Me (Brinsley Schwarz)
05 You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovin' (Brinsley Schwarz)
06 Honky Tonk (Brinsley Schwarz)
07 You're So Fine (Brinsley Schwarz)
08 Hip City (Brinsley Schwarz)
09 Hey Bartender (Brinsley Schwarz)
10 I Ain't Never (Brinsley Schwarz)
11 Walking the Dog (Brinsley Schwarz)
12 I've Cried My Last Tear (Brinsley Schwarz)
13 Day Tripper (Brinsley Schwarz)
14 Slow Down (Brinsley Schwarz)
15 Snatch It Back and Hold It (Brinsley Schwarz)
16 Tell Me Why (Brinsley Schwarz)
17 I Should Have Known Better (Brinsley Schwarz)
18 Give Me Back My Love (Brinsley Schwarz)
19 There's a Cloud in My Heart (Brinsley Schwarz)

Brown Sugar (Brinsley Schwarz)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17187625/BRINSLEYS1974-1975DontLitoMe_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/runBnKTf

It's very hard to find good color photos of Brinsley Schwarz that aren't already used for official album covers or the like. I found this photo on the back of a bootleg. I have no idea when or where it's from. I wish I had a good photo of all five band members, but this was the best I could do.

UPDATE: On October 1, 2024, I upgraded the photo with the use of the Krea AI program. The colors were so off that even the AI couldn't fix it much.

When I updated this album in February 2021, I updated the cover photo too. It's the same photo as before, but I used some Photoshop tricks to hopefully sharpen the image a bit, and improve the overly red colors somewhat.

Brinsley Schwarz - Got to Be Real - Non-Album Tracks (1970-1972)

Who or what the heck is "Brinsley Schwarz" you may ask. They're not a very well known band. But I'm big fan of Nick Lowe's career, especially his work both solo and as part of Rockpile in the late 1970s. I plan on posting a lot of that. But before I do that, I think it makes sense to move chronologically, starting with his role in Brinsley Schwarz.

"Brinsley Schwarz" is both the name of a band and one of the band members. But, much like "Manfred Mann," it's a bit odd that the band was named after him, because he wasn't the most important person in the band. He was a guitarist and did some songwriting and vocals, but most of the songwriting and lead vocals were done by Lowe. Brinsley Schwarz were one of the top "pub rock" bands in Britain in the 1970s, but that genre remained obscure outside of Britain, and they never had a hit anywhere, so they've remained pretty obscure until today. (They did record the first versions of the Nick Lowe originals "Cruel to Be Kind" and "(What's So Funny 'bout) Peace, Love and Understanding" though.)

If you like Lowe's earlier rocking style, this is basically more of the same thing, and it's just as good. On their studio albums, they mostly did originals. These stray tracks, however, are nearly all cover versions. But that's fine, because they had a knack for picking good obscure material and making it their own.

01 She's Got to Be Real (Brinsley Schwarz)
02 Having a Party (Brinsley Schwarz)
03 I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (Brinsley Schwarz)
04 Homework (Brinsley Schwarz)
05 Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad (Brinsley Schwarz)
06 Midnight Train (Brinsley Schwarz)
07 It's Just My Way of Saying Thank You (Brinsley Schwarz)
08 Wonder Woman (Brinsley Schwarz)
09 I'm Ahead If I Can Quit While I'm Behind (Brinsley Schwarz)
10 Run Rudolph Run (Brinsley Schwarz)
11 Hypocrite (Brinsley Schwarz)
12 You Got Me Hummin' (Brinsley Schwarz)
13 Mama Told Me Not to Come (Brinsley Schwarz)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17187634/BRINSLEYS1970-1972GttoBeRel_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/q8Xeuhvg

For the album cover, I used the cover of a Brinsley Schwarz bootleg, then changed the text.

UPDATE: On October 1, 2024, I upgraded the photo with the use of the Krea AI program.