something else

Trying to find music for the radio every week is sometimes hard, and that’s when compilations step in. Really, I’m not a huge fan of compilation albums, I enjoy listening to a whole album through that’s consistent. That said, there are a few compilation albums (e.g. The ESP Guide to Funky Soul & Acid Jazz, and Doors Of Perception) which are amazing.

So with that I bought a copy of a compilation Highs In The Mid-60’s, garage rock from the mid 1960’s. There are 23 albums in the compilation and counting (similar to Pebbles and Nuggets), and the first, the one I own, is given up to teenage garage bands from Los Angeles. The recording quality is not great for a great number of the songs, and most aren’t of the quality of other bands at the time, well know bands that survive in full album mode. But that should be taken as given - the majority of these bands released one single and disappeared into the woods/high finance.

1. The Avengers: Be a Cave Man
2. The Colony: All I Want
3. Sean & the Brandywines: She Ain’t No Good
4. The Epics: Louie Come Home
5. Limey & the Yanks: Guaranteed Love
6. The Standells: Someday You’ll Cry
7. The Spats: Tell Ya All about it, Baby
8. The Grains of Sand: That’s when Happiness Began
9. Gypsy Trips: Ain’t It Hard
10. The Rumors: Hold Me Now
11. Warden & his Fugitives: The World Ain’t Changed
12. The Road Runners: Goodbye
13. The 4 Making Do: The Simple Life
14. The Answer: I’ll Be In
15. The Starfires: Linda
16. The Lyrics: They Can’t Hurt Me