Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Holly Sugar (vocals, guitar, percussion); Tegan Quin, Silvia Superstar, Stephen Palmer, Sara Quin, Javier Maresca, Keith Streng, Coz Canler (vocals, guitar); Peter Zaremba (vocals, harmonica, keyboards); Wally Palmar (vocals, harmonica, bass guitar); Miguel Angel Calabuig (vocals, keyboards, percussion); Seth Gordon (vocals, keyboards); Jon Niefeld, Bill Milhizer (vocals, drums, percussion); Andy Shernoff (vocals, background vocals); Eddie Spaghetti, Eddie Hawrysch, Tony Leventhal, Handsome Dick Manitoba, Honey Sugar, Mike Skill, Roy Loney, Julie Benjamin (vocals); Joey Kline (guitar, background vocals); Dan Bolton, Hoaky Loco, Doc Muerte, Jackson Smith, Ross Friedman, Rock E. Bottom, Chris Neff, Scott Kempner, Jim Sangster, Steve Shaw (guitar); Scott McCaughey (harmonica, keyboards, background vocals); Matt Sharp (keyboards); Dan Electro (drums, percussion, background vocals); Lucky Bottom (drums, percussion); Chino, Chip Sercombe, Antonio Medina, Joe Leone, Jimmy Marinos, Tad Hutchinson, Billy King, Frank Funaro, Rob Chursinhoff (drums); Buzz Hagstrom (percussion, background vocals); Ken Fox (background vocals). | | Liner Note Author: Little Steven. | | Recording information: 54 Sound, Detroit, MI; Alex The Great Studios, Nashville, TN; Ark Studi, Copenhagen, Denmark; Bruce's Studio, Los Angeles, CA; Casa Pepe Studio; Coyote Studio; Dan's House Studio, Center Valley, PA; Divine Industries, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Egg Studios, Seattle, WA; Estudios Pause Almeria, Spain; For the Record, Orange, CA; Ghetto Recorders, Detroit, MI; Harmonie Park Studios, Detroit, MI; Kudzu Ranch Recorders, Mebane, NC; Mushroom Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Rear Window Studios, Brookline, MA; Rehearsal Hall, Ferndale, MI; Rustbelt Studios, Detroit, MI; The White Room, Detroit, MI. | | If Murray "The K" Kaufman host a series of great compilation albums featuring top singles in the '60s and the fabled CKLW-AM was able to do the same in the '70s, why shouldn't Little Steven Van Zandt, host of the best rock & roll radio show of the new millennium, bring this great tradition back to life? The Coolest Songs in the World, Vol. 3 doesn't have as many Top 40 hits as any given installment of Now That's What I Call Music (truth to tell, there aren't any actual "hits" here), but if you're looking for 47 minutes of high grade garage-centric rock, you'll find this to be fine value for money. As on a typical episode of Little Steven's Underground Garage, this disc covers a broad swath of garage-friendly noises, from the hard rock thunder of the Dictators ("The Savage Beat") to the Byrds-meets-the Beatles refinement of the Shake ("She's My Girl") -- and on Vol. 3, that's just the first two tracks! Further down the song list, the Woggles jump-start the party with "Got a Heat On," Back in Spades deliver some high-impact Motor City rock on "Detroit Slums (Here We Come)," the Fleshtones continue their endless East Coast frat rock bash in "Pretty Pretty Pretty," Manic Hispanic transform Rancid into a gang of batos locos on "Rudy Cholo," and the Sugar Twins present a delicious sunshine pop parody/tribute with "For You." There are 15 tunes here and even the least of them sound pretty fine in this company, and The Coolest Songs in the World, Vol. 3 is the best album yet in this series, offering top-notch listening for garage rock mavens and beginners alive. So when is "Little Steven Presents Gassers for Submarine Race Watchers" coming out? ~ Mark Deming |
Producer: Jurgen Hendlmeier; Jim Diamond; David Carswell; Milt Reder; Brad Jones; Howard Redekopp; Manuel Alcaraz; Jim Monroe; John Collins; Tegan Quin; Stephen Palmer; Sara Quin; Insomniacs; David McKinney; Uwe Hoffman; Andy Shernoff; Jurgen Hendlmeier; The Ear Sh |
Engineer: Brad Jones; Jim Monroe; Randy Staub; Sean Carberry; Steve Acevedo |
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