Various - Big Hits of Mid-America Volume Three (LP)

Sealed. Limited vinyl reissue on Backgroove Records. 2-LP set in gatefold sleeve.

The first two Big Hits compilations, released on the Soma label in the mid-1960s, contained real, honest-to-goodness hits by The Gestures, The Underbeats, and The Castaways.

In 1979, Twin/Tone reactivated the series when a third volume documented Minneapolis’ underground music scene of the late 1970s. None were hits. Still, a number of the acts on Volume Three went on to record their own albums, something few of their ’60s Big Hits counterparts managed. Some are still active, recording, producing and engineering new music.

The Twin Cities record label, BackGroove Records, is now reissuing this classic album as remastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering, Milwaukee, WI with vinyl mastering by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl, Memphis, TN.

Side One
1 The Pistons - She Got Sex (3:58)
2 The Swingers - Foundry Joe (2:50)
3 Buzz Barker & The Atomic Bums - Land Of The Free (3:52)
4 The Hypstrz - 6654321 (2:10)
5 The Commandos - Weekend Warrior (2:09)
6 The Jets - Paper Girl (4:00)

Side Two
1 The Suburbs - Urban Guerilla (2:27)
2 NNB - Listen (3:03)
3 The Wad - Chains (4:39)
4 Fingerprints - Down (3:43)
5 The Swan Lake Six - Swan Lake, MN (3:40)

Side Three
1 The Suburbs - Ailerons O.K. (3:20)
2 NNB - Uruguay 1983 (4:19)
3 The Pistons - Misery (2:53)
4 Robert Ivers & Ice Stars - Sugar My Road (1:56)
5 The Swingers - Losin' My Grip (2:35)
6 The Jets - Lover Boy (3:28)

Side Four
1 Fingerprints - Where The Beat Goes On (2:31)
2 The New Psychernauts - Specialization (3:30)
3 Curtis A. & The Originals - Bad News From Phoenix (2:58)
4 The Commandos - You're Not The First One (2:39)
5 Yipes - The Ballad Of Roy Orbison (5:34)
6 The Commandos - Complicated Fun (2:33)