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Various Artists - Hang It Out To Dry! (1966)

Track listing:
  1. It's A Lie Angie & The New Raiders 2:15
  2. Thinkin' About You The Checkmates International 2:45
  3. I'm In Love The Riptides 2:53
  4. Ain't Gonna Cheat On Me The Castaways 2:41
  5. I Can't The Rovin' Flames 2:07
  6. Pain Frank Ventura & The Crescents 3:18
  7. Lily Drusalee & The Dead 2:43
  8. Hang It Out To Dry Bud & Kathy 2:24
  9. Timers - Sorry About That Chris Allen & The Good 2:01
  10. You Were Telling Lies The Castaways 2:30
  11. Ritual The Mods 2:11
  12. Ain't Going Nowhere Danny Burk & The Invaders 2:29
  13. I'm Looking For You Baby The Stitches 2:20
  14. I Don't Mind The Living Ends 2:59
  15. Tensions - Poor Man The High 2:16
  16. Cindy The Indifferents 2:04
  17. What A Way To Die The Pleasure Seekers 2:15
  18. Let's Go To The Beach Larry & The Loafers 2:40
  19. Don't Mess With Me The Teddy Boys 1:49
  20. That's When Happiness Began The Grains Of Sand 2:20
  21. Thirteen Women The Renegades 3:29
  22. Empty Heart The First Four 2:26
  23. You Can Make It Richards & The Young Lions 2:51
  24. My Iconocalistic Life The Beechnuts 2:17
  25. Evil Hearted You The Human Beingz 2:25
  26. Do You Have To Ask The Swingin' Machine 2:01
  27. Never Thought You'd Leave Me The Pleasure Seekers 2:12

Notes

If real-deal (not fake retro) mid-'60s garage band music is your thing, then you'll definitely want to track down this collection, loaded up with 27 tracks all dating from 1965 and 1966, or -- as the liner notes so acerbically put it -- "the prime years of acne-inspired caterwauling." From the opening riffs of the kickoff track, Angie & the New Raiders' "It's a Lie," all the key musical elements of this fascinating subgenre are firmly in place, with the out-of-tune fuzz guitars, Farfisa combo organ, tambourine, and teenage adolescent angst vocals spilling onto the magnetic tape in true "original punk rock" fashion. But surprisingly enough, for a bunch of teen combos doing their American-level best to be the Beatles/Rolling Stones/Yardbirds/Kinks/Animals, there's a large amount of original material to sample here, although the Scandinavian combo the Renegades' rip-snorting and incredibly original arrangement of Bill Haley's "13 Women (And Only One Man in Town)" deserves multiple spins, even if little of the song's original structure -- and even fewer of the original words -- are still existent. There's quite a few collectors' items rounded up here and Suzi Quatro's original band, the Pleasure Seekers, have both sides of their lone Hideout 45 compiled, "Never Thought You'd Leave Me" and their '65 riot grrrl anthem to beer, "What a Way to Die." Anywhere the laser beam falls is going to dredge up some incredibly teenage moment of high-school combo genius, and for fans of the sound and the style, you just simply can't go wrong adding this one to the collection. For evoking a period and a style, give this one all the stars you got.