VARIOUS: GARAGE BEAT '66 VOLUME 5 (READIN' YOUR WILL) 2005
Garage Beat '66 Volume 5: Readin' Your Will,"is the fifth installment in the Garage Beat 66 series of garage rock compilations issued by Sundazed Records, which is available exclusively on compact disc.
This volume was released on June 21, 2005 and consists of a mixture of raw up-tempo numbers as well as some psychedelic. Like all of the entries in the series, which is noted for good sound quality, all of the tracks are mastered from the original studio master sources and contain well-researched liner notes written by knowledgeable authorities. Volume 5 is mentioned by AllMusic as perhaps the best collection in the series.
The set begins with "Story of My Life," performed by Taylor, Michigan's The Unrelated Segments, featuring slashing guitars and Ron Stults' characteristically passionate delivery on vocals.
[ By Stephen Thomas Erlewine [-]
Sundazed's excellent Garage Beat '66 series doesn't lose momentum on its fifth volume, Readin' Your Will! Where the previous four installments focused almost exclusively on bands that aped the Rolling Stones and Yardbirds, this set digs into the trippier, psychedelic side of garage rock with a set of 20 tracks recorded between 1964 and 1968.
There's still some straight-ahead rock & roll here, such as the Arkay IV's "Little Girl" or the Heart Beats' take on "Little Latin Lupe Lu," but there's a heavier dose of spacy harmonies, jangling guitars, fuzz tones, and swirling organs here than on previous installments of the Garage Beat '66 series. After four volumes of pile-driving garage, this comes as a welcome change of pace,
This, like the other entries in Garage Beat '66, is for garage-psych fans who love Nuggets and want to dig deeper without resorting to sorting through the Pebbles and Rubble series, or listening to all of the Trash Box. For those listeners, Readin' Your Will!, like the rest of Garage Beat '66 series, is an irresistible addition to their library.]
There are a lot of obscure tracks on here that don't appear on other anthologies. The sound quality is very good, and the originality of the tunes is great overall.
You really have to be an aficionado of the genre: these are not your typical oldies, nor is this psychedelia (for the most part.)
Garage, or early punk, as it's also known, is a genre unto itself, a sound born out of guitar driven bands that tried to emulate the sound of the Kinks, the Who, the Rolling Stones and so on, and did it with more raw emotion, more energy and more emotion than any of the original bands. They practiced in their parents' and friends' parents' garages, and sometimes their ineptitude shows. You won't find a lack of enthusiasm though, and they energy conveyed is what makes me want to crank this three-chord goodness at eleven, hoping to annoy the neighbors
Various – Garage Beat ’66 Vol.5 (Readin’ Your Will!)
Label: Sundazed Music – SC 11151
Series: Garage Beat '66 – 5
Format: CD, Compilation, Mono
Country: US
Released: 2005
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock, Psychedelic
TRAXS
01. Unrelated Segments: Story Of My Life 2:40
02. The Liberty Bell: I Can See 3:06
03. The Lemon Drops: It Happens Everyday 2:17
04. The Headstones: Bad Day Blues 2:53
05. The Beefeaters: Don't Hurt Me 2:52
06. The Thingies: I'm Going Ahead 2:16
07. The Bad Seeds: A Taste Of The Same 2:43
08. The Front Page News: Thoughts 3:08
09. The Human Expression: Readin' Your Will 2:46
10. The Zakary Thaks: Face To Face 2:59
11. The Knight's Bridge: Make Me Some Love 3:04
12. The Nuchez: Open Up Your Mind 3:07
13. The Basement Wall: Never Existed 2:00
14. The Human Expression: Optical Sound 2:37
15. Plato &The Philosophers: Thirteen O'Clock Flight To Psychedelphia 3:02
16. Silk Winged Alliance: Flashback 3:06
17. The Morning Dew: No More 2:47
18. The Arkay IV: Little Girl 2:49
19. The Heart Beats: Little Latin Lupe Lu 2:10
20. The Tidal Waves: Action! (Speaks Louder Than Words) 3:01
VARIOUS: GARAGE BEAT '66 VOLUME 6 (SPEAK OF THE DEVIL...) 2007
Experiencing for my first time on this CD are Things To Come's "Speak Of The Devil" (band has Neil Ford & The Fanatic's "Good Men (Are Hard To Find)" - an absolutely fantastic garageDaybreaker's "Psychedelic Siren", worth mentioning from Minneapolis - Jokers Wild and their 7" - "All I See Is You", he Free-For All's "Show Me The Way" (band had three singles out) and The Bruther's "The Courtship Of Rapunzel".
The garage band era of the mid-'60s was the modern equivalent of a folk movement as seemingly every town in America had a half-dozen or more energetic, ragged and often musically challenged young rock combos vying for weekend gigs and small independent record deals.
These bands frequently made up for what they lacked in ability and originality with an abundance of verve and self-perceived panache, and if they did manage to make a record, it was usually derivative and crude, but often fascinatingly so, even if few of these releases ever so much as dented a regional play list.
These are the kinds of musical artifacts that Sundazed has collected in its Garage Beat series, of which this is the sixth volume.
Nothing here would have toppled the Beatles or the Rolling Stones back in the day, but now, some forty years on, these tracks still sound wonderfully snotty and free of annoying finesse. What a time it was.]
Unlike many comps which often include the big hits that have appeared on numerous comps, or some that are thrown together and may include some decent tracks with some very bad recordings Sundazed does a spectacular job. this edition kicks of with a track by Florida's "We The People"(In The Past), which is an obscure 1960s garage rock band that I highly recommend for collectors of 1960s Garage Rock.
I plan on purchasing additional Sundazed Garage Beat comps, for this seems to be a worthwhile series.
Various – Garage Beat ’66 Vol.6 (Speak Of The Devil…)
Label: Sundazed Music – SC 11186
Series: Garage Beat '66 – 6
Format: CD, Compilation, Mono
Country: US
Released: 2007
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock
TRAXS
01. We The People: In The Past 2:36
02. William Penn Fyve: Swami 2:59
03. The Vejtables: Feel The Music 2:54
04. The Music Machine: Advise And Consent 2:59
05. Things To Come: Speak Of The Devil 2:40
06. Neal Ford & The Fanatics: Good Men (Are Hard To Find) 2:56
07. Roy Junior: Victim Of Circumstances 2:23
08. Kings Verses: Lights 3:34
09. The Daybreakers: Psychedelic Siren 2:22
10. Jokers Wild: All I See Is You 2:39
11. The Vejtables: Shadows 3:13
12. Mourning Reign: Our Fate 2:29
13. The Druids Of Stonehenge: Who Do You Love 2:27
14. The Free-For-All: Show Me The Way 2:26
15. Road Runners: Goodbye 2:35
16. The Bruthers: The Courtship Of Rapunzel 2:50
17. The Druids Of Stonehenge: Bald Headed Woman 4:17
VARIOUS: GARAGE BEAT '66 VOLUME 7 ( THAT'S HOW IT WILL BE!) 2007
Notably, the final volume CD for Sundazed's 'Garage Beat '66' series. Noticed that there are a couple of bands here that I am familiar with - even have a CD of theirs - like Human Expression giving us their "Love At Psychedelic Velocity", the Outcasts with their catchy single '"I'm In Pittsburg (And It's Raining)", "S. J. & Crossroad's "Darkest Hour" and the Livin' End's "Making Time".
Other band's here that I was definitely taken with were the awesome obscure Mad Hatters with "I'll Come Running" (had two 45's out), the rocking Bad Seed's "I'm A King Bee", from Taylor, MI - Unrelated Segments with "Where You Gonna Go?", The Lynx tune "You Lie" (band comes from Tyler, TX, the uplifting District Six cut "East Side Story", The Chevelle V's (initially released three singles) "Come Back Bird" and The WordD's "Keep On Walking". Truly a great find.
The sound quality is right up there with the 1998 Nuggets re-release, in other words, as good as it gets. Upon first listen, their allure may prove elusive. However, just like with nuggets, the second listen and every subsequent listen rewards the listener, exponentially. These gems grow on you like a Green Fuzz. You'll be walking around hearing voices, green and purple. I'm so much more comfortable with the snotty sixties than that peace and love bunk. Long live garage rock.
That's How It Will Be! is the seventh installment in the Garage Beat '66 series of garage rock compilations issued by Sundazed Records, which is available exclusively on compact disc. Like all of the entries in the series, which is noted for good sound quality, all of the tracks are mastered from the original studio master sources and contain well-researched liner notes written by knowledgeable authorities.
The set begins with the frenzied "I'll Come Running,' by the Mad Hatters, from Annapolis, Maryland. Also featured is the grinding classic, "I'm in Pittsburgh and It's Raining," by San Antonio's the Outcasts. The set includes two classics from Detroit's the Unrelated Segments, the acerbic "Where You Gonna Go?," as well as "Cry, Cry, Cry," which concludes the set. The Human Expression's "Love at Psychedelic Velocity" builds up to breakneck speed. The Bad Seeds, from Corpus Christi, Texas perform a rendition of Slim Harpo's "I'm a King Bee," previously recorded by the Rolling Stones. The Liberty Bell performs the fuzz-drenched "That's How it Will Be" and the WordD (who also recorded as the Penthouse 5) is featured playing "Keep on Walking."
Based on action-packed, critically-acclaimed earlier volumes in this series, it's official that there was one seriously healthy recording scene stretching across the garage band nation circa '66. We're here to once again honor the most savage electrical surges from those shaggy heroes and less longhaired neighborhood idols, alike; from Detroit pre-punk legends the Unrelated Segments and fuzz fracas of the Liberty Bell to no-hit wonders the Lykes of Us and the Wild Things.
[ By Steve Leggett
The garage band era of the mid-'60s was the modern equivalent of a folk movement, as seemingly
These are the kinds of musical artifacts that Sundazed has collected in its Garage Beat series, of which this is the seventh volume. Subtitled That's How It Will Be!, this installment features a heavy
Various – Garage Beat ’66 Vol.7 (That’s How It Will Be!)
Label: Sundazed Music – SC 11187
Series: Garage Beat '66 Vol.7
Format: CD, Compilation, Mono
Country: US
Released: 2007
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock
TRAXS
01. The Mad Hatters: I'll Come Running 2:23
02. The Human Expression: Love At Psychedelic Velocity 2:40
03. The Liberty Bell: That's How It Will Be 2:47
04. The Bad Seeds: I'm A King Bee 1:50
05. The Unrelated Segments: Where You Gonna Go? 2:49
06. The Esquires: Judgement Day 1:59
07. The Outcasts: I'm In Pittsburgh (And It's Raining) 2:04
08. The Lynx: You Lie 2:05
09. The Wild Things: Tell Me 3:02
10. The Penthouse 5: You're Gonna Make Me 2:47
11. District Six: East Side Story 2:25
12. The Lykes Of Us: Tell Me Why Your Light Shines 2:31
13. Exotics: Come With Me 2:13
14. The Chevelle V: Come Back Bird 2:25
15. S.J. & Crossroads: Darkest Hour 2:32
16. The WordD: Keep On Walking 2:21
17. The Livin' End: Makin' Time 2:59
18. The Unrelated Segments: Cry, Cry, Cry 3:04
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