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Downliners Sect - The Sect (1964)

Track listing:
  1. Hurt By Love 2:51
  2. One Ugly Child 2:25
  3. Lonely And Blue 2:47
  4. Our Little Rendezvous 2:36
  5. Guitar Boogie 1:38
  6. Too Much Monkey Business 2:05
  7. Sect Appeal 2:04
  8. Baby What's On Your Mind 1:47
  9. Cops And Robbers 2:35
  10. Easy Rider 2:43
  11. Bloodhound 2:03
  12. Bright Lights 2:32
  13. I Wanna Put A Tiger In Your Tank 3:34
  14. Be A Sect Maniac 2:03
  15. Baby What's Wrong [Bonus] 2:59
  16. Little Egypt [Bonus] 2:48
  17. Find Out What's Happening [Bonus] 2:13
  18. Insecticide [Bonus] 2:20

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Of all the British R&B bands to follow the Rolling Stones' footsteps, the Downliners Sect were arguably the rawest. The Sect didn't as much interpret the sound of Chess Records as attack it, with a finesse that made the Pretty Things seem positively suave in comparison. Long on crude energy and hoarse vocals, but short on originality and songwriting talent, the band never had a British hit, although they had some sizable singles in other European countries. Despite their lack of commercial success or appeal, the band managed to record three albums and various EPs and singles between 1963 and 1966, with detours into country-rock and an EP of death-rock tunes. Although they recorded afterwards, it is the Sect's early work that continues to attract connoisseurs of '60s garage and punk.

This is the group's rawest and most R&B-oriented album, firmly rooted in the same influences as the Rolling Stones and the Pretty Things and including punk covers of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, et al., along with a few originals in the same vein. For those who don't get enough rough-and-ready British-style R&B and rock & roll from the debut albums by the Stones or Pretty Things, or find the playing by either band a little too tame and mannered, The Sect should be their next stop. Nobody on the British isles, other than maybe Brian Jones in his private moments on the guitar and harp, was more charmingly primitive than the Downliners Sect were on this album, which trades so freely in Bo Diddley riffs and the latter's signature beat that latecomers could be forgiven for thinking that this band had a hand in inventing them.

01. Hurt by Love
02. One Ugly Child
03. Lonely and Blue
04. Our Little Rendezvous
05. Guitar Boogie
06. Too Much Monkey Business
07. Sect Appeal
08. Baby What's on Your Mind
09. Cops and Robbers
10. Easy Rider
11. Bloodhound
12. Bright Lights
13. I Wanna Put Atiger in Your Tank
14. Be a Sect Maniac
15. Baby What's Wrong [Bonus]
16. Little Egypt [Bonus]
17. Find out What's Happening [Bonus]
18. Insecticide [Bonus]