Various Artists - The Phase III Mod Bands (PHZ-6)

01. City Motions - Theme
02. XL - The World To Me
03. The Pictures - My Home Town
04. Manual Scan - 31968

1987 Unicorn Records | PHZ-6
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Various Artists - The Phase III Mod Bands (PHZ-13)

01. The Key - Nothing Gets Better
02. The Sons Of Jet - Marilyn Monroe
03. The Second Generation - Throw It All Away
04. The Switch - Please Don't Walk Away

1987 Unicorn Records | PHZ-13
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Three cuts of miserable, introspective guitar pop which would probably have felt more at home on a C86 compilation, rather than a mod record. Only The Sons Of Jet's quirky Marilyn Monroe saves the day. Nothing Gets Better was probably how most mods were feeling at the time. Soul searching without the soul.

The Second Generation - Spy-Catcher

01. Kick In The Teeth
02. Standard Life
03. Throw It All Away
04. Fate
05. Day Of The Triffids
06. You're All Mine
07. Spy-Catcher
08. Changing Faces
09. Thinking Of You
10. Pictures On My Wall
11. The Way You Were
12. Look Who's Coming

1988 Unicorn Records | PHZA-22
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A Scottish band from Fife formed by vocalist Rod Spark, which would record this LP and the Throw It All Away EP for Unicorn in the late 80s. The album suffered from pretty ropey production values, no doubt due more to financial costs than the efforts of producer Jamie Watson. Recorded between two studios (Chamber & Energy) the album highlighted the bands 60s garage influences, with the inclusion of some hammond organ earning them comparisons to The Prisoners. They released another EP on Amazadisc a year or so later and split soon after. Rod now runs the Groove Tunnel studio space in Edinburgh while drummer Steve Mason would go on to greater success as main man of The Beta Band and King Biscuit Time.



The Second Generation biography on Groove Tunnel
www.kingbiscuittime.co.uk

The Risk - Loud Shirts And Stripes

01. Man Insane
02. Jobs For The Boys
03. It's So Strange
04. Always
05. Ambition
06. Twilight Zone
07. Last Train
08. Picture Of You
09. Oppression
10. Whisky And wine

1987 Unicorn Records | PHZA-2
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www.marklegallez.com/index.html
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Various Artists - The Phase III Mod Bands (PHZ-4)

01. The Toasters - Naked City
02. Modest Proposal - The Look In Your Eyes
03. The Risk - Jobs For The Boys
04. The Outlets - Love Someone

1986 Unicorn Records | PHZ-4
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I'm not sure how many of these 4 track EPs were released by Mark Johnson's Unicorn Records which I guess were a way to introduce people to their acts. I've got two others which I'll post at some stage. I posted this as it's the only one I could find an image for. Phase III is a reference to third stage of mod culture, the 60s and the '79 revival being phases I and II respectively.

Unicorn discography