Shiver me TBMbers! The Great Comp Showdown Thread!

[Hicksville Hogwash]

Yes Sylvain,
try and keep your comps, Paul is right there, I miss so many of those songs (Seance by The Ebb Tides is a recurring "I need that back" regret). Should have copied them before I sold them but had so much stuff to sell in a short time it was hard to even think about.

...and Expo one word about those 45's Shel (turn it up) Talmy most everything he touched is INSANE...... You can keep Joe Meek give me Shel anytime.

The comps vs originals is like Instant coffee VS Cappuccino from a rusty vintage Espresso machine served up in a dirty old chipped cup. Or looking at a Van Gogh poster vs going to Amsterdam and seeing the real thing up close, imperfections included.

 

[MopTopMike]

My compilation buying pal offered up a funny comment, after hearing the sound from an original '60s 45 pressing, that "listening to a 60s garage/psych song on a comp is like takin' a shower with your clothes on."

 

[Mr.Segment]

Not US garage I know, but the POWER those 60s mono Guess Who singles on Quality have within their grooves are INSANE......

 

[Mr.Segment]

but I don't wanna die like an idiot without having ever experienced an XXXL sexual deviance like purchasing a $$$ US original 7'' and hear how it "delivers"

Actually, a perfect and cheap example of how good an original 45 sounds compared to master tape re-issues, boots or what have you not, is You´re gonna miss me. Affordable for everyone and it almost literally jumps out of the speakers.

 

[soundog III]

Not US garage I know, but the POWER those 60s mono Who singles on Brunswick have within their grooves is INSANE......

Curiously enough I've found that certain European issues of various Brunswick / Decca era tracks CUT the respective UK pressings. Amongst the ones pictured a few that vividly reflect this seeming anomaly are the Italian - Daddy Rolling Stone & The Goods Gone, Belgian - My Generation & the somewhat otherworldly pressing of The OX as well as the Netherlands- A Legal Matter. Early Danish & occasionally Swedish releases featured UK export pressings, though with different labels. The My Generation in the pink / black company sleeve is an example of this. Here's a link to a definitive site detailing worldwide WHO releases:

www.thewho.info/WhoSingles.htm

 

[soundog III]

[quote="Mr.Segment - Not US garage I know, but the POWER those 60s mono Guess Who singles on Quality have within their grooves are INSANE...... ][/quote]

Good Point. This one certainly delivers a KING sized sound...

 

[Michael W]

I bought, or heard friends copies of most of them at the time they were released. The ones I remember as being the greatest revelations of new depths of '60s garage were Chosen Few both volumes (I still recall sitting stunned after first hearing "I'll Come Again" followed by "Shadows in the Night"); New England Teen Scene vol 1; Open Up Yer Door; Root 66 and Scum of the Earth.

 

[EXPO67]

One often forgotten and overlooked gem among the 80s comps is OIL STAINS vol.2. Mostly tracks dubbed from rare Lps, and ranging from low-key moody sounds to prep-rock A must-have, to file next Shutdown'66... the only comp were you can hear the great Spiffys' Dreams original and the great "Under my thumb" cover by the Noblemen.
And the first ACID VISIONS is a masterpiece as well. I remember the first time I heard it, I've been playing the Stoics' both side over and over. Pure genius.

Absolute genius compilation. One of my favourites of all time.

So much so, I wrote about it last year.
http://expo67-cavestones.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/acid-visions-best-of-texas-punk-and.html

 

[chas_kit]

Wow, Bay State Rock had classy packaging for 1980! label scans in color, notes, band photos!

The big ones for me from this latest batch were Signed D.C. and Root 66. Attack of the Jersey Teens later. And it was a track off of Tobacco a Go Go heard on the radio that got me hooked on '60s garage in the first place.

What was the deal with a blank label / xeroxed sheet Scum of the Earth that contained tracks from both LPs? I don't own it anymore, but I had a copy and remember thinking some of the best tracks had been left off.

 

[MopTopMike]

LOVE these soap opera stories!

 

[Paolo]

Sylvain, I recognized two my photos on the "Garage Kings" post. You must pay to me the royalties....

P.S. Great pics and great hystory behind the comps!!

 

[Paolo]

Damn.....

... just got an illumination today...

---> the guy behind GARAGE KINGS used the opt-art effects on Psychedelic Disaster Whirl as labels for his own record

which means that this boot was released AFTER 1986

... and is hence of NONE historical significance

unless the PDW guy used the GK label for his own sleeve.

which is statistically far from sure

nothing to say you are a keen observer. I had the two recordst ogether for about 10 years, but I never noticed the similarity between the optical circles on the cover of PDW and labels of GK.
A coincidence, o the two things are related? I do not know, but I'm sure you're already looking for information from those who have printed PDW.

 

[pfft]

ACID TRIP FROM THE PSYCHEDELIC 60’s
GMG, 1988
The marvelous Beautiful Daze’s « City Jungle pt1 / City Jungle pt2 » is more than probably directly dubbed from an Acid Dreams copy, and I suspect that many of the tracks originate from some previous comps and reissues. Still, a great selection and enjoyable listening.
Side 1
1. Faine Jade - It Ain't True
2. The Velvet Illusions - Velvet Illusions
3. The Beautiful Daze - City Jungle Part 1
4. The Beautiful Daze - City Jungle Part 2
5. The Caretakers Of Deception - Cuttin' Grass
6. Wildwood - Plastic People
7. The Painted Faces - I Lost You In My Mind
Side 2
1. The Joys Of Life - Descent
2. The David - I'm Not Alone
3. The David - Sweet December
4. Nobody's Children - Good Times
5. Nobody's Children - Somebody To Help Me
6. The Paisleys - Now
7. Hunger - Workshop
8. Music Emporium - Nam Myo Renge Kyo

My copy came with the following paper inner sleeve, with drawing/writings by the cover artist/liner notes writer Frederic D'hume:

Did all copies come with a similar inner sleeve?

 

[pfft]

Sylvain, do you have any info on the excellent Lance/Lanze Records US comps?
Design-wise they look very similar to the Fossil/Astray comps, as well as the Too Much Monkey Business, Hearts Of Stone and the Mod Meeting series. Can you confirm this?

 

[M.T. Wallet]

Side 1
1 Michael John & The Pendulums - You're Wrong Girl
2 The Mushrooms - Burned
3 The Sandals - All Over Again
4 The Shags - Tell Me
5 The Union Jacks - I Gotta Go
6 The Keyes - She's The One
7 T.R. & The Yardsmen - I Tried
8 The Tribe - Fickle Little Girl​

Side 2
1 The Sandals - Always (I Will Remember)
2 The Journeymen - Realities In Life
3 The Mor-loks - What My Baby Wants
4 The What's New - Up So High
5 The Undesyded - Baby, I Need You
6 The Fyrebirds - I Can't Get No Ride
7 Dicky Treadway & The Salados - You Can't Believe It
8 The Sheffields - Do You Still Love Me​

I don't know who released that one; side 2 is quite good (MP if interested, I'm selling mine)

 

[pfft]

I dig that one. First time I heard the amazing Up So High.

 

[legbarecords]

I've never bought comps. Don't have any of these. Still a great read and yer research on the Garage Kings boot kept me riveted. What a cliff hanger. Regarding the optical wheel, this is a common image. There was a book I use to see at thrift stores from the 60's. Full of these black and white optical illusion wheels. As well as full page rectangles. We use to use them for backing on flyers and stuff. Just a very typical and common 60's pop art image. There may or may not be a relation.

 

[M.T. Wallet]

one of the best thread here, thanks Sylvain!

since I have not been able to reach Shutdown 66 at a decent price yet, I love that one (no fuzz comp):

Action Records(?)

Side 1
1 The Weads - Don't Call My Name
2 The Rumbles - Fourteen Years
3 The Cobras - Goodbye
4 The Soothsayers - Please Don't Be Mad
5 Little John & The Monks - Black Winds
6 The Front Page News - You Better Behave
7 The Todds - Things I Will Change

Side 2
1 Blue Boys - Why Did You Go
2 Richie's Renegades - Don't Cry
3 Jerry Waugh & The Skeptics - I Told Her Goodbye
4 The Specktrum - I Was A Fool
5 The Maltees Four - All Of The Time
6 Brym-Stonz LTD. - Times Gone By
7 The Impacts - Don't You Dare

 

[Patrick the Lama]

A belated thanks to Sylvain for all the efforts put in, particularly with regards to the early "mystery" comps like Acid Dreams, Good Roots, Garage Kings, Gathering Of The Tribes etc. I felt a little awkward reading Greg Shaw's defensive comments on the Pebbles series etc -- seems such a pointless thing now with the mud-slinging and politics between people who were on almost exactly the same trip.

Just to demonstrate the validity of this subject, I picked up RELICS VOL 1 for the first time ever a couple of weeks back, and needless to say there is a rare and quite good non-LP track by Third Power on there which has never been reissued anywhere else. It's kind of a weird comp but it follows a clear aesthetic (fuzz and power chords) just like all those great early compilations. VOL 2 had some killer tracks but was much more of a hodge-podge affair.

So then Sylvain, any word on the RELICS series (from Michigan I think)?

// Patrick

 

[Patrick the Lama]

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