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(Big Beat) 29 tracks - 20 page booklet THE ORIGINAL PUNK ROCK BAND. Back in the mid-1960s, the... more

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The Sonics: Psycho-Sonic (CD)

(Big Beat) 29 tracks - 20 page booklet

THE ORIGINAL PUNK ROCK BAND. Back in the mid-1960s, the legendary Sonics took rock'n'roll by the scruff of the neck and thrashed it to within an inch of its sorry life, leaving a legacy of some of the most savage, visceral recordings ever made. Compiling their no-holds-barred Etiquette sessions, "Psycho-Sonic" is the ultimate Sonics anthology.

One of the best selling Big Beat releases of recent years has been PSYCHO-SONIC, a comprehensive collection of all the sides the much-feted kings of garage rock recorded for the Etiquette label in 1964/65. Only the most cloistered of music fans would be unaware of the mighty Tacoma combo's influence and importance, now stronger than ever thanks to young bucks such as the White Stripes, Hives, Vines etc constantly dropping the band's name.

With access to first generation tapes uncovered by Big Beat's ongoing celebration of the catalogue of Sonics' mentors, the Wailers, we gave this compilation a spring clean back in 2003, this month we have given the cover a refresh.

PSYCHO-SONIC features many tracks presented in ear-blistering true stereo remixes, taken from the actual tape the band recorded onto, and mastered with Big Beat's customarily sensitive mastering.

The set's sequencing and flow deliver an entertaining and invigorating programme from start to finish. Track for track, the first half-hour of this disc is the wildest, most visceral rock'n'roll listen you're ever likely to have. Also included is an in-depth overview of the group's career by reissue producer Alec Palao, based on, first-hand interviews with the band and their associates, including the legendary Sonics' lead singer/ songwriter/ screamer Jerry Roslie. The package also includes a feast of unseen outtakes from the band's famed photo sessions - photographer Jini Dellaccio granted us full access to her incredible archive of Sonics pictures. Plus the usual memorabilia and label shots.

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Interpret: The Sonics
Album titlle: Psycho-Sonic (CD)
Label BIG BEAT
Genre Beat
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0029667411523
weight in Kg 0.107

Sonics, The - Psycho-Sonic (CD) CD 1
01	Witch	The Sonics
02	Do You Love Me	The Sonics
03	Roll Over Beethoven	The Sonics
04	Boss Hoss	The Sonics
05	Dirty Robber	The Sonics
06	Have Love Will Travel	The Sonics
07	Psycho	The Sonics
08	Money (That's What I Want)	The Sonics
09	Walking The Dog	The Sonics
10	Night Time Is The Right Time	The Sonics
11	Strychnine	The Sonics
12	Good Golly Miss Molly	The Sonics
13	The Hustler	The Sonics
14	Psycho (live)	The Sonics
15	Cinderella	The Sonics
16	Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark	The Sonics
17	Skinny Minnie	The Sonics
18	Let The Good Times Roll	The Sonics
19	Don't You Just Know It	The Sonics
20	Jenny Jenny	The Sonics
21	He's Waitin'	The Sonics
22	Louie Louie	The Sonics
23	Since I Fell For You	The Sonics
24	Hitch Hike	The Sonics
25	It's Alright	The Sonics
26	Shot Down	The Sonics
27	Keep A Knockin'	The Sonics
28	Witch (live)	The Sonics
29	Witch (version 2)	The Sonics

The Sonics This Broken Heart Since The Kodoks, whose former tenor William Franklin and... more

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The Sonics

This Broken Heart

Since The Kodoks, whose former tenor William Franklin and baritone Larry Davis subsequently became two-fifths of The Sonics, hailed from Newark, New Jersey (their Oh Gee, Oh Gosh came out on Bobby Robinson's Fury label in 1958 and resides on our previous disc), it seems a relatively safe bet that The Sonics hailed from that same vicinity as well.

A group by the same name had a 1958 single on the New York-based X-Tra imprint coupling Once In A Lifetime and It Ain't True; the assumption is that it was the same quintet. Franklin wrote the delectable ballad This Broken Heart, but it was tenor Donald Sheffield who ably fronted The Sonics on the engaging platter. Sheffield also led the flip side, You Made Me Cry, another Franklin composition. The number made enough East Coast noise on Art Gottfried's Harvard Records, another tiny New York imprint, that Chicago's Checker label picked it up in April of '59 for national consumption (Sheffield's featured billing went by the boards).

It was a one-time deal for the group, which bounced from one highly obscure label - Nocturne, Amco, Armonia - to the next during the early '60s without ever attracting the interest that This Broken Heart did.

- Bill Dahl -

Various Street Corner Symphonies 1959 Vol.11

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