Vol. 2-Essential Pebbles (1998) (2 Cd Set )

Product Summary Label: Aip UPC: 00095081106024 Release Date: 6/10/1998 Buy.com Sku: 60073570 Item#: MHFYRT Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. How Many Times - Rogues ~ Various Artists 2. Shame On You - Neal Ford & Fanatics ~ Various Artists 3. Generation - Jelly Bean Bandits ~ Various Artists 4. Hey Conductor - Sonny Flaherty/Mark V ~ Various Artists 5. I'm Your Man - Denims ~ Various Artists 6. Hey You - Evil ENC Group ~ Various Artists 7. It's Not Real - Ravin' Blue ~ Various Artists 8. I'm A Loner - Jay-Bees ~ Various Artists 9. Man Enough For You - Spirit ~ Various Artists 10. On My Way Down The Road - Wig Wags ~ Various Artists 11. If You Still Want Me - The Soul Survivors ~ Various Artists 12. Shakin' With Linda - The Soul Survivors ~ Various Artists 13. I'm A Nothing - Magic Plants ~ Various Artists 14. Love - Live Wires ~ Various Artists 15. More Than I Have - Inmates ~ Various Artists 16. Nice Try - Sinners ~ Various Artists 17. Hey Girl - Cole & The Embers ~ Various Artists 18. She Taught Me Love - Kama Del Sutra ~ Various Artists 19. That Creature - Sweet Acids ~ Various Artists 20. Point Is, The - Evil ENC Group ~ Various Artists 21. Triangles - Danny's Reasons ~ Various Artists 22. I'm A Man - Baker St Irregulars ~ Various Artists 23. Something's Comin' - Dee & Tee ~ Various Artists 24. Crack In My Wall - Yo Yo's ~ Various Artists 25. You'll Never Know - Original Sinners ~ Various Artists 26. Laissez-Nous Vivre - Les Lutins ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Shades Of Blue - Purple Haze ~ Various Artists 2. Mike's Bag - Dawn 5 ~ Various Artists 3. It Ain't A Big Thing - Denny Noie/The Catalinas ~ Various Artists 4. More Feathers - Fading Tribesmen ~ Various Artists 5. It's Not Fair - Lost Souls ~ Various Artists 6. But You're Gone - Spires Of Oxford ~ Various Artists 7. Don't Know - Vistas ~ Various Artists 8. #38 - Chimes ~ Various Artists 9. Louisiana Blues - D.C. Drifters ~ Various Artists 10. Gooseberry Pie - Dean Kohler ~ Various Artists 11. I Can Feel It - Childern ~ Various Artists 12. Hard Life - Why Four ~ Various Artists 13. Not Fade Away - Why Four ~ Various Artists 14. I'm A Man - Doo & Diddits ~ Various Artists 15. Good's Gone, The - Night Watch ~ Various Artists 16. Shake - Night Watch ~ Various Artists 17. Stricken By You - Rick & The Rivals ~ Various Artists 18. Get Out Of My Life - Sinders ~ Various Artists 19. Always Always - Abstracts ~ Various Artists 20. Come On Back - Crying Shame ~ Various Artists 21. Baby Won't You Follow Me Down - Berries ~ Various Artists 22. I Wanted You - Outcasts ~ Various Artists 23. It's Gonna Be Alright - Lunduns ~ Various Artists 24. But I Still Love Her - Ye Court Jesters ~ Various Artists 25. Eyes On You Baby - Checkmates ~ Various Artists 26. Bad Seed - Inner Prism ~ Various Artists 27. Wine, Wine, Wine - Classics 5 ~ Various Artists 28. Gotta Find A Girl - Inn Crowd ~ Various Artists 29. If You Want Me - Lawson & Four More ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Recording information: Louisiana; Nashville, TN. To be cruel, this might have been more appropriately titled "The Inessential Pebbles." True, there are two discs and 55 songs' worth of rare '60s garage cuts here, none by anyone remotely famous even on a cult level (no, Neal Ford & the Fanatics do not count). Aside from a few reprises from the early Pebbles volumes on the first disc, though, it's pretty insubstantial stuff. It sounds worse than it would have in the late '70s, when this genre's existence was barely even acknowledged; by 1998, however, so much of it has been reissued that this collection really sounds second-rate next to, ironically, the original ten-volume Pebbles series. True, much of this has been previously unreissued, but as in any musical style, simple rarity and adherence to basic parameters of the idiom don't necessarily make for memorable music. Or, to put in language a rock fan can grasp, fuzz guitars, snotty vocals, put-down lyrics, and wild-and-craziness do not necessarily classics make. Garage/'60s collectors will already be familiar with the best cuts -- the Wig Wags' ominous "On My Way Down the Road," the Four Fifths' Byrds-like "If You Still Want Me," the Live Wires' bright and raw pop-psych-garage tune "Love," and the Soul Survivors' cover of the Isley Brothers' "Shakin' with Linda" -- from their early Pebbles vinyl volumes, although the addition of the Denims' compelling, minor-key "I'm Your Man" is nice. Other than that, surprisingly, some of the highlights are shopworn covers, like the Why Four's "Not Fade Away," the Night Watch's fuzz-and-organ-driven "Shake," and the Berries' "Baby Won't You Follow Me Down." ~ Richie Unterberger With 28 volumes in their vinyl version of the series and another 23 volumes in the companion High in the Mid-Sixties series (not to mention its ten-volume Rough Diamonds set), to put it all out on compact disc would have been perhaps a bit much, even for the most perversely dedicated of fuzz fanatics. What Bomp has opted for instead is to cherry-pick the absolutely most-requested tracks from the original volumes, then pad it out with a similar number of super-obscure and ultra-rare bonus tracks. Highlights include the Rogues' "How Many Times," Neal Ford & the Fanatics' "Shame on You," Jaybees' "I'm a Loner," the Baker Street Irregulars doing a great version of the Yardbirds' version of "I'm a Man," the Original Sinners' "You'll Never Know," the Fading Tribesmen's "More Feathers," the Vistas' "Don't Know" and Ye Court Jesters' "But I Still Love Her." If fuzz-toned guitars, Farfisa organs and lots of tambourine is what floats your boat, then this is the compilation you've been waiting all your life for. ~ Cub Koda   Technical Info Release Date : 06/09/1992 Original Release Date : 1998 Catalog ID : 1060 Label : Archive (USA) Number of Discs : 2 Runtime : 138m : 59s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00095081106024    Product Image