NEW COMP: REVENGE '66 lim. edn (300) 60s garage LP

I'm sure you're a great guy, Axel, but this tendency to over-analyze absolutely everything is a bit annoying.
We're talking about '60s popular music here. Made only to be listened to and enjoyed. Seems like you're trying to suck all the fun out of it.
 
pfft said:
I'm sure you're a great guy, Axel, but this tendency to over-analyze absolutely everything is a bit annoying.
We're talking about '60s popular music here. Made only to be listened to and enjoyed. Seems like you're trying to suck all the fun out of it.
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Sorry. This is the last thing I wanna do. I surely will shut my mouth now.
 
axel said:
Come on, Mans- The Sonics' "Boom"? That is the ultimate record sleeve!
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I'm talkin about a completely different LP. 'Original Northwest punk from the 60's'. I forgot 'northwest' in my last post when writing the title... :confused: ...but I didn't write 'Boom' anywhere either...
Well well it's that late 70's(?) comp, made up of material from all three LP's. Killer songs, housed in an ugly green/pink drawing on the sleeve. I picked it up when I was 16 cause it had the word 'punk' and 'sixties' in the same sentence. I'd only heard UK 60's before and was completely blown away. It probably changed my life. At least I think it did as I don't have any alternative life to compare with :)
 
Has anyone on here received their Revenge '66 yet. How does it sound, what is the vinyl/package like etc...not that I'm gonna buy it, just curious.

Reading Mansson's post reminded me about the comp that blew my mind back in the day..

I'd bought some BFTG's, Attack Of The Jersey Teens and some Pebbles comps etc but wasn't that impressed as an 17 year old (circa 1983) with the sounds I was hearing apart from one or two cuts that smoked. I suppose after listening to The Byrds and The Beatles non stop for a couple of years I wasn't prepared for such crude sounds..:lol:

The first comp that I thought was total killer was the first Acid Visions. What a fabulous comp...The Great Believers, Scotty McKay Quintet, Stoics, Satori, The Pandas, The Blue Roads...I'm at work without access to the LP but I can still reel off the group names. I must have played that over a 100 times.
 
EXPO67 said:
Has anyone on here received their Revenge '66 yet. How does it sound, what is the vinyl/package like etc...not that I'm gonna buy it, just curious.
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ahahah... liar!
The vinyl and package are of good quality.
I'm not into the artwork design but I have seen worse in the past.
The tracks have been mastered slightly too low in volume but I wasn't expecting hi-fi anyway.
About the content, well... it is just my taste!
 
The comp that started my quest is No No No - I heard it somewhere and blew me away. Just the right moodiness to get me going... Reminded my of all the girls saying No No No. :)
It's happy brother (Yes Yes Yes) was not my style.
AZ54
 
I took it out and played it and then saw the waring on the side of the box: "This product maye be addictive and lead to mental deteriorations." :)
AZ54
 
bosshoss said:
I think that's a strange viewpoint Axel, to see '60s garage comps such as Teenage Shutdown as an example of what pop culture is all about, in 2011. I can hardly imagine anything less pop, as it's showcasing music that is neither popular nor contemporary.
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I really enjoy the G45Central. This is the only site (apart from ebay) I visit on a regular basis. It's kind of an ivory tower and I love it for that, and I'm thankful to be tolerated here.
But it seems that most of you are not really aware of the significance of '60s garage sounds in the outside world.
A quick look at youtube brings some clarity. I randomly picked out tunes that we considered esoteric knowledge in the 80s:

The Keggs- "To Find Out": 22321 views
The Sparkles- "No Friend Of Mine": 41851 views (+ some more 1000s on optional clips)
The Rats- "Rats Revenge": 44542 views

As opposed to some of the music I also dig, which has something between 40 and 400 views.
Of course this is not saying that all of those people will go out and buy the Keggs on vinyl, but there certainly is some potential.
Learning more about the people checking out the stuff is easy, of course, because a lot of them have got to say something. In the case of 60s garage you have either very naive people, totally enthusiastic about what they hear (the first comment on the Rats is awesome: "Wikipedia says they were active 1980-84. What's the correct year of this track?"), some wanna-be experts telling the crowd what it's all about and some friends and relatives of the groups being proud of their family ("My Grandfather is the one singing this song his name is Luck Floyd. I havn't his songs he wrote with the band in a long time i dont know where the cd's are I think my dad has them but ya they were pretty amazin" says the presumptive grandchild of the Sparkles' singer).
But, and I think this is important, most of those comments are not the usual pseudo-funny bullshit you usually read on youtube. Most of them are simply really enthusiastic about having found something that has energy, that rocks, that immediately hits them. Such are the workings of '60s rock'n'roll music.
Not that I would want to see the ivory tower overrun by hordes of ignoramuses like myself...

Axel
 
22321 views for the Keggs is pretty cool and may look like a lot - but it doesn't mean that 22321 different individuals has watched it once each. It probably boils down to a few thousand, worldwideweb-wide. Many of them probably watching it in awe as something "bad" cause it's so outta tune. Just because someone has heard something it doesn't mean they automatically like it. Then some people may of course enjoy it. Some of these viewers may download it and a few of those may even go out and get a record. But here I'm afraid we're down to a very small number of people. How's this for over analyzing? ;)
How many views does a random Beatles clip have? Or some random kid singing a Lady Gaga song? Or a cat doing something funny? Now that's some popular shite!
PS I think you bring life into this ivory tower Axel! Although I would never call it an 'ivory tower' ;)
 
PS - is there a vol 1 to 65 of that Revenge series? It's called Revenge 66 so I'm just wondering... :confused:
I wanna buy them all.
 
axel said:
A quick look at youtube brings some clarity
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In the further interests of clarity, here's some genuine popular culture statistics for you, via youtube :

LMFAO - "Sexy And I Know It" - 149,145,883 views in the last 60 days
Rihanna - "We Found Love" - 62,864,874 views in the last 30 days
Bruno Mars - "The Lazy Song" - 240,127,149 views in 7 months
Justin Bieber - "Baby" - 668,329,959 views this year

Keggs - 22,287, views in 2 years

668,329,959 (Bieber in one year) divided by 22321 (Keggs in 2 years) = 59,882 times more people watch Justin Bieber, than the Keggs, per year.

To add even more clarity to that equation : 668,329,959 equals approx. the population of the European Union plus the USA combined.
22,321 equals approx. the population of the Galapagos Islands.
 
bosshoss said:
In the further interests of clarity...
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I would never compare 60s garage to Justin Bieber. I don't even wanna imagine what LMFAO is...
I'm talking about good music. 90% of the music I adore is underneath the public eye (more or less). In this regard 60s Punk is doing comparatively well.

You know what? Our solar system is spinning around the centre of our galaxy once in 225 million years. At a speed of 267 kilometres per second, which is 961.200 k/h (!). Let's better hold on to something...;)
 
bosshoss said:
your idea of popular culture.
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Yeah, maybe I should explain that. It's rather simple, but at the same time complex. Pop culture as I see it, starts somewhere between Japanese woodcuts and Blind Lemon Jefferson. It was fundamentally defined by Andy Warhol and is present in everything that's being posted on youtube trying to be an artistic statement...
It's all a matter of quality. Or taste, if you prefer.
 
Ah. Well that's fine Axel. But I'm still not sure about the "popular" aspect. For '60s garage, I would probably settle on an adjective more like "exotic" or even "extinct".
 
bosshoss said:
Ah. Well that's fine Axel. But I'm still not sure about the popular aspect. For '60s garage, I would probably settle on an adjective more like "exotic" or even "extinct".
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My explanation was bad, obviously. Pop culture, as I see it, has nothing to do with "popularity".
It is the mode of culture we live in (or more clearly maybe: we are surrounded by).
 
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