Psychobilly Box:rockabilly Roots Ho (2007)

Artist: Various
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Product Summary
Label: Koch Entertainment Dist
UPC: 00741157201628
Release Date: 11/6/2007
Buy.com Sku: 205586731
Item#: M3S5C6
Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Surf City - The Meteors ~ Various Artists
2. Loan Shark - The Guana Batz ~ Various Artists
3. Make a Circuit With Me - The Polecats ~ Various Artists
4. Good Rockin' Tonight - Lemmy/Danny B. Harvey/Johnny Ramone/Slim Jim Phantom ~ Various Artists
5. Road To Rack 'N' Ruin - King Kurt ~ Various Artists
6. Stop, Look And Listen - Patsy Cline ~ Various Artists
7. Transvestite Blues - Demented Are Go! ~ Various Artists
8. Let's Go Somewhere - Frantic Flinstones ~ Various Artists
9. One Cup Of Coffee And a Cigarette - Glen Glenn/Lonesome Spurs ~ Various Artists
10. Viva Las Vegas - Johnny Ramone ~ Various Artists
11. Radio Jingle - Eddie Cochran ~ Various Artists
12. Wolly Bully - The Highliners (Live) ~ Various Artists
13. Big River - The Head Cat ~ Various Artists
14. Hell Bop - 13 Cats ~ Various Artists
15. Johnny Cynic - Scared Stiff ~ Various Artists
16. Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Tailgators ~ Various Artists
17. Summertime - Swing Cats ~ Various Artists
18. Coffin Nails - Coffin Nails ~ Various Artists
19. When Sin Stops - Buddy Holly/Waylon Jennings ~ Various Artists
20. Rock This Town - The Stray Cats (Live) ~ Various Artists
21. Your Time Is Up - Frantic Flinstones ~ Various Artists
22. Serial Killer - Hayride To Hell ~ Various Artists
Disc 2
Song TitleSample
1. Gravedigger Rock - The Polecats ~ Various Artists
2. Ride the Torpedo - The Tallboys ~ Various Artists
3. Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Wanda Jackson ~ Various Artists
4. I Want Your Loving - Skitzo (Live) ~ Various Artists
5. That's All Right, Mama - Elvis Presley (Live) ~ Various Artists
6. Holy Hack Jack - Demented Are Go! ~ Various Artists
7. Jungle Rock - The Radiacs ~ Various Artists
8. Nuclear Survival Course ~ Various Artists
9. Make That Move - Rockacats ~ Various Artists
10. 13 Cats - 13 Cats ~ Various Artists
11. Disneyland - The Meteors ~ Various Artists
12. Rock Around the Clock - Billy Halley ~ Various Artists
13. Swing Cat Stomp - Swing Cats ~ Various Artists
14. Be-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent/13 Cats ~ Various Artists
15. Honky Tonk Merry Go Round - Patsy Cline/Lonesome Spurs ~ Various Artists
16. Stray Cat Strut - The Stray Cats (Acoustic Version) ~ Various Artists
17. Whip It Up - The Deltas ~ Various Artists
18. Seethrough - The Guana Batz ~ Various Artists
19. Bambooland - Batmobile (Live) ~ Various Artists
20. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend - Marilyn Monroe/Swing Cats ~ Various Artists
21. Shake a Bone Capone - Frantic Flinstones ~ Various Artists
22. Norman Bates - Tailgators ~ Various Artists



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Most fans consider psychobilly to be the stuff that lives on the sleazy and morbid end of the roots rock spectrum, somewhere between the Misfits and Gene Vincent, but this two-disc collection wanders off in any number of directions that have precious little to do with such things. Things kick off with appropriate tracks by the Meteors and the Guana Batz, but track three is the Polecats' squeaky-clean electro-billy hit "Make a Circuit with Me," and track six is a rare Patsy Cline side that swings harder than you'd expect but hardly qualifies as rockabilly. Psychobilly Box drifts through tracks by rockabilly revivalists like the Stray Cats, some contributions from actual first-generation rockers (Buddy Holly backing up friend Waylon Jennings, a latter-day recut of Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock," and a shaky duet between Glen Glenn and the Lonesome Spurs), hipster swing from the Swing Cats, two cuts from closet rockabilly fan Johnny Ramone (including a version of "Good Rockin' Tonight" with Lemmy on vocals), a bit of old-school country, some artificially created duets (technology matches Marilyn Monroe with the Swing Cats and Gene Vincent with 13 Cats), and a few non-musical audio oddities (a radio station ID from Eddie Cochran and excerpts from a '50s radio documentary on surviving an atomic attack). There are some good tracks scattered throughout these two discs and a few nice surprises, but Psychobilly Box is not a long blast of dingy and irresponsible twangy psychosis (though you do get a "Psychobilly" button and patch with the box, allowing you to show allegiance to the genre that doesn't quite dominate this box). ~ Mark Deming
By the time you get to the halfway point of the first disc of Psychobilly Box, you don't have to be a serious musicologist to realize that the nameless souls who compiled this set were pretty clueless about what constitutes "psychobilly." Most fans consider psychobilly to be the stuff that lives on the sleazy and morbid end of the roots rock spectrum, somewhere between the Misfits and Gene Vincent, but this two-disc collection wanders off in any number of directions that have precious little to do with such things. Things kick off with appropriate tracks by the Meteors and the Guana Batz, but track three is the Polecats' squeaky-clean electro-billy hit "Make a Circuit with Me," and track six is a rare Patsy Cline side that swings harder than you'd expect but hardly qualifies as rockabilly. Psychobilly Box drifts through tracks by rockabilly revivalists like the Stray Cats, some contributions from actual first-generation rockers (Buddy Holly backing up friend Waylon Jennings, a latter-day recut of Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock," and a shaky duet between Glen Glenn and the Lonesome Spurs), hipster swing from the Swing Cats, two cuts from closet rockabilly fan Johnny Ramone (including a version of "Good Rockin' Tonight" with Lemmy on vocals), a bit of old-school country, some artificially created duets (technology matches Marilyn Monroe with the Swing Cats and Gene Vincent with 13 Cats), and a few non-musical audio oddities (a radio station ID from Eddie Cochran and excerpts from a '50s radio documentary on surviving an atomic attack). There are some good tracks scattered throughout these two discs and a few nice surprises, but anyone expecting a long blast of dingy and irresponsible twangy psychosis is going to be disappointed -- not only isn't a large portion of this psychobilly, a surprising amount isn't even rockabilly (though you do get a "Psychobilly" button and patch with the box, allowing you to show allegiance to the genre that doesn't quite dominate this box). Throw in less than stellar mastering and a lack of liner notes and you get a package even the most devoted fans don't really need in their collections. ~ Mark Deming

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 11/20/2007
Original Release Date : 2007
Catalog ID : 2016
Label : Cleopatra
Number of Discs : 2
Runtime : 135m : 19s
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00741157201628

  
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