Various: Back From The Grave - Volume 8 (Utter Snarling Mid-60's Garage Punk!) 2016

 

GROOP

Back from the Grave, Volume 8 (LP), is the eighth installment in the Back from the Grave series of garage rock compilations assembled by Tim Warren of Crypt Records. It was originally released as a double LP on August 26, 1996.

PULSATING  HEARTBEATS

There is also a CD version of the album, released at the same time, which has a similar running order of tracks to the original LP, but with several bonus cuts added. However, in 2011 the LP edition, already double-length, was re-released and expanded to contain 36 tracks, now including all of the bonus tracks available on the CD version, as well as three newly added tracks which have not appeared on any CD version.

THE  ELITE  U.F.O

In keeping with all of the entries in the series, and as indicated in the subheading which reads "36 Cuts of Utter Snarling Mid-60's Garage Punk," this collection consists of many songs which display the rawer and more aggressive side of the genre and are often characterized by the use of fuzztone-distorted guitars and rough vocals.

THE  TIKIS

Accordingly, the set generally excludes psychedelic, folk rock, and pop-influenced material in favor of basic primitive rock and roll.

THE  OUTSPOKEN  BLUES

The packaging features well-researched liner notes written by Tim Warren which convey basic information about each song and group, such as origin, recording date, and biographical sketches, usually written in a conversational style that includes occasional slang, anecdotes, humorous asides.

THE  BENDERS

The liner notes are noticeably opinionated, sometimes engaging in tongue-in-cheek insults directed at other genres of music.

The packaging also includes photographs of the bands, and the front cover features a highly satirical cartoon by Mort Todd depicting revivified "rock and roll" zombies who, on this occasion, target none of their customary victims (aside from an occasional prong from their devils' pitchforks), but instead have turned up at the "mosh pit" at a 1990s "Lolabigloozzaz" festival, delightfully holding up "mosh pit cookbooks" (i.e. suggesting that the sixties garage bands were the precursors of all this), while hordes of Prozac-dependent "rejects" slam dance in the mud-drenched melee below.

THE  CINDELLS

The set begins with the bongo-punctuated revved-up drive of "Alright," by the Groop, from Ohio, which was recorded at A&T Studios in Toledo, which is followed by "Can't Tame Me," by the Benders from Michigan. Adrian Lloyd then delivers a screaming vocal in, "Lorna." The Chancellors from Potsdam, New York sing sarcastically about traveling around the country in "On Tour."

THE  BOJAX

The Bojax, from Greenville, South Carolina released a single in 1967 on Panther records, "Go Ahead and Go," which is included here and was produced by Rudy Wyatt of fellow Greenville band, the Wyld, who perform the next cut, "Goin' Places."

THE  WYLD

The Painted Ship, from Vancouver, Canada, appear on two tracks, "She Said Yes" and then, later in the set, "Little White Lies."

THE  SONICS

The Merlin Tree from Austin, Texas also provide two songs: first the guitar-overdriven protopunk of "Look in Your Mirror," the later "How to Win Friends." "I Don't Want to Try It Again" was the debut single by the Dagenites, from Oxon Hill, Maryland, who shared the same manager with Link Wray.
                                 

Various – Back From The Grave Volume Eight (Utter Snarling Mid-60s Garage Punk!)
Label: Crypt Records – CRYPT-062
Series: Back From The Grave – Volume 8
Format: CD, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered
Country: Europe
Released: Feb 2016
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock

TRAXS

                        

01. Groop – Alright!
02. The Benders – Can't Tame Me
03. Adrian Lloyd – Lorna
04. The Chancellors – On Tour
05. The Pseudos – A Long Way To Nowhere
06. The Bojax – Go Ahead & Go
07. The Wyld  – Goin' Places
08. The Elite U.F.O. – Now Who's Good Enough
09. The Painted Ship – And She Said Yes
10. The Merlynn Tree – Look In Your Mirror
11. Dave Myers & The Disciples – C'mon Love
12. The Cindells – Don't Bring Me Down
13. James T & The Workers – That Is All
14. The Outspoken Blues – Not Right Now
15. The Painted Ship – I Told Those Little White Lies
16. Just Too Much – She Gives Me Time
17. The Cavedwellers – Run Around
18. The Village Outcast – The Girl I Used To Love
19. The New Fugitives – That's Queer
20. The Asenders – I Won't Be Home
21. The Tikis – We're On The Move
22. The Amberjacks – Hey Eriq!
23. The Ravenz – Just Like I Want Her
24. The Piece Kor – All I Want Is My Baby Back
25. The Dagenites – I Don't Want To Try It Again
26. The Dark Horsemen – You Lied
27. The Dave Starky Five – Hey Everybody
28. The Dogs – Don't Try To Help Me
29. The Sonics – Diddy Wah Diddy
30. Pulsating Heartbeats – Talkin' About You
31. The New Fugitives – She's My Baby
32. The Merlynn Tree – How To Win Friends
Bonus Traxs
33. Just Too Much - She Gives me Time
34. The Piece Kor - All I Want Is My baby back  

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