Miss dated bands?

[Willem]

I'm new to the forum, so maybe this has been discussed before but are there a lot of songs out there that were "miss dated"? In other words, singles/recordings/master tapes that didn't have information on them regarding the date or year of the recording, and when collectors/compilers had to make a guess, they might have been wrong.

To give an example: I have a hard time believing that this song was recorded in the 60s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClJvxFalaqU
My guts tell me it was recorded between 1985 and 1995.

 

[MopTopMike]

Yeah, there is no way that track was recorded in the '60s, or even the '70s for that matter.
The processing / sound on the guitars and drums - that kinda technology was not available in those days.

 

[Willem]

It's not just the sound that tells me it's late 80s or early 90s, but the rhythms and melodies. It all sounds just a bit too 80s Red Hot Chili Peppers / Living Colour and other funkmetal (or whatever you want to call it).

 

[reyes]

i think i saw it comped on acid visions vol 9 a comp on hard rock and early heavy metal called child evil???.......You can't really trust just what anybody posts on you tube....

 

[Willem]

I think that Airhead song was actually comped on Psychedelic States.

 

[Laurent Bigot]

I think that Airhead song was actually comped on Psychedelic States.

yes (Texas) and the liner notes says recorded in 1966

 

[buckeyebeat]

This is awful....I mean, this makes Guns n Roses sound like the Sonics. I can't believe this would wind up on comps of purported 60s music...but considering the labels and people involved, I can believe it.

 

[tom kirby]

Yeah, there is no way that track was recorded in the '60s, or even the '70s for that matter.
The processing / sound on the guitars and drums - that kinda technology was not available in those days.

You got it, Mike, the answer to the oft asked question "What killed Rock and Roll." Simple - studio technology, not MTV, although, that didn't help, either.

 

[Heitkotter77]

The drumming is pure 80s/90s grunge metal. No one in the mid 60s was laying down a beat like that.
If Roger Maggotlio hadn't figured out by the mid-song breakdown this flange-fest wasn't '66...

Then again, this is the guy who put out CD's with skips in them (Majic Ship).

 

[depravedskippy66]

The Tenth Planet label issued several albums of material by Pete Miller - aka Big Boy Pete of "Cold Turkey" fame - the recording dates of which have been a bone of contention since they were released in the mid to late '90s. The songs were (supposedly/allegedly) all written in the '60s.

 

[The Swyne]

I think that Airhead song was actually comped on Psychedelic States.

Yeah, I have that volume.

I always wondered this myself - whenever I would hear this track. Even a friend of mine once said: "Dude, I doubt that's from the 60's!"

:confused:

 

[mansson66]

Incredibly clueless (or bizarre humor + lack of taste) to put something like this on a 60's comp... 3 seconds was all I could stand. And yes it was enough to hear an awful Chili Peppers/grunge influence. Barf.
Otherwise those prank 45s released by Erik Lindgren & co (Wylde Main-iacs, Katz Kradle and Huntsmen...) are classics, included on some Pebbles etc(and on Chosen Few as a prank, I guess). But they do have the sound pretty much nailed down. Still gets listed as '60's garage' on eschmay etc. There's another one aswell... yellow label w/ red lettering... have it somewhere. Wolfmen? Turns up listed as '60's even though it's 80's (and don't really sound 60's either)

 

[Willem]

I don't really agree that those prank bands (on Shur Shot, ...) had the sound pretty much nailed. The first time I heard Wylde Maniacs I immediately thought something was up. Listen to those songs with headphones and I think you can recognize them as 80s hoaxes pretty easily. But at least they sound a lot more 60s than Airhead :)

 

[mansson66]

You're probably right - I haven't heard'em for years. I just see them listed/sold as 'sixties originals' from time to time.

 

[Willem]

This was also a hoax I guess:
http://users.thelink.net/999/wytches/main.html

 

[The Swyne]

What about this one.

It's listed as from the early 80's and it was featured on one of the "Pebbles". Why?

http://shortsharpkickintheteeth.blogspot.com/2011/02/322-gigolos-shes-my-baby.html

 

[The Swyne]

I don't really agree that those prank bands (on Shur Shot, ...) had the sound pretty much nailed. The first time I heard Wylde Maniacs I immediately thought something was up. Listen to those songs with headphones and I think you can recognize them as 80s hoaxes pretty easily. But at least they sound a lot more 60s than Airhead :)

I agree

I didn't think any of those were from the 60's either - during my first listen. Especially considering how that was around the same time I started listening to The Chesterfield Kings. Out of all those "Shur Shot" fakes, I think "The Huntsmen" was the most decent as far as getting the "sound down!". However, some might disagree that non of them had it close really.

 

[Willem]

Just listened to BFTG3 again. Damn, that misplaced psychobilly track really gets on my nerves! What a mood killer!