V.A.-Joe Meek: The Alchemist Of Pop: Home Made Hits And Rarities

V.A. - Joe Meek: The Alchemist Of Pop: Home Made Hits And Rarities 1959-1966 (2 CD's) CD (2002) To MP3 256 Kbit/s. Included CD Front Cover & This Info. This is A GREAT COLLECTION, With many rare & unknown artists and groups. ENJOY! Joe Meek Biography by Richie Unterberger Not an artist in the traditional sense of the term (he couldn't play or sing at all) producer Joe Meek has nonetheless been belatedly recognized as an important, even inimitable, figure of early British rock & roll. Like Phil Spector, Meek developed idiosyncratic production techniques that, much more than the artists he worked with, stamped a vision of mad genius on his recordings. In Meek's case, this usually amounted to super-compressed sound, wavering sped-up vocals, ghostly backing violins and choruses, spooky echo and reverb, ticky-tack variable-speed piano, and all manners of Halloween and outer-space sound effects. The recordings were all the more remarkable for being produced not in a state-of-the-art studio, but in Meek's own bedroom-sized facility, located over a shop within the flat he rented. Meek couldn't rightly be compared to Phil Spector -- he favored gawky, dippy teen idol fare for gawky, dippy teen idols, not the gutsy soul- and R&B-infused Wall of Sound. But he was a trailblazer in his own right -- even before Spector, he set up shop as rock & roll's very first independent producer of note, making recordings on his own terms and leasing them to labels for distribution. In the United States, he only scored big with the Tornados' "Telstar" (the first British rock & roll record to top the American charts, a year before the Beatles) and the Honeycombs' "Have I the Right." In the U.K., he produced scores of records, many of them flops, and many others hits, for the Tornados, Honeycombs, Screaming Lord Sutch, John Leyton, Heinz, the Outlaws (featuring Ritchie Blackmore for a time), and many more. Highly prized by some collectors, Jello Biafra noted in the book Incredibly Strange Music, Vol. 2, "You can tell a Joe Meek record a mile away." Meek's business and production methods may have been ahead of his time, but his actual musical tastes actually started to run behind the times with the advent of the self-contained groups of the British Invasion. He actually recorded a few respectable efforts in the R&B/mod vein, but his career was in a severe spiral by the time his life ended in tragic circumstances in early 1967, when he shot his landlady and himself. John Repsch's book The Legendary Joe Meek (published in the U.K. only) is a biography of this fascinating figure. Tracklist CD 1: 01. What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For - Emile Ford & The Checkmates - 1959 02. Be Mine - Lance Fortune - 1960 03. Green Jeans - The Fabulous Flee-Rekkers - 1960 04. Chick A'roo - RickyWayne & The Flee-Rekkers - 1960 05. Angela Jones - Michael Cox - 1960 06. Sunday Date - The Fleerekkers - 1960 07. Paradise Garden - Peter Jay - 1960 08. Can't You Hear My Heart - Danny Rivers & The Alexander Combo - 1960 09. Swingin' Low - The Outlaws - 1961 10. Ambush - The Outlaws - 1961 11. You Got What I Like - Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers - 1961 12. Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton - 1961 13. Tribute To Buddy Holly - Mike Berry & The Outlaws - 1961 14. Night Of The Vampire - The Moontrekkers - 1961 15. Wild Wind - John Leyton - 1961 16. Can't You Hear The Beat Of A Broken Heart - Ian Gregory - 1961 17. Till The Following Night - Screaming Lord Sutch - 1961 18. Son This Is She - John Leyton - 1961 19. It's Just A Matter Of Time - Mike Berry & The Outlaws - 1962 20. Walk With Me My Angel - Don Charles - 1962 21. Lonely City - John Leyton - 1962 22. Telstar - The Tornados - 1962 23. Stand Up - Michael Cox - 1962 24. Traitors Theme - The Packabeats - 1962 25. Can Can '62 - Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers - 1962 26. North Wind - Houston Wells & The Marksmen - 1962 27. Don't You Think It's Time - Mike Berry & The Outlaws - 1962 28. Globetrotter - The Tornados - 1962 Tracklist CD 2: 01. Ridin' The Wind - The Tornados - 1962 02. Jack The Ripper - Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages - 1963 03. Robot - The Tornados - 1963 04. I Lost My Heart At The Fairground - Glenda Collins - 1963 05. Only The Heartaches - Houston Wells & The Marksmen - 1963 06. Hobbies - Jenny Moss - 1963 07. Wipeout - The Saints - 1963 08. Just Like Eddie - Heinz - 1963 09. Sky Men - Geoff Goddard - 1963 10. My Friend Bobby - Pamela Blue - 1963 11. Country Boy - Heinz - 1963 12. All My Loving - The Dowlands - 1964 13. You Were There - Heinz - 1964 14. Have I The Right - The Honeycombs - 1964 15. Questions I Can't Answer - Heinz - 1964 16. I Can't Stop - The Honeycombs - 1964 17. Little Baby - Blue Rondos - 1964 18. Something Better Beginning - The Honeycombs - 1965 19. Diggin' For Gold - David John & The Mood - 1965 20. That's The Way - The Honeycombs - 1965 21. Crawdaddy Simone - The Syndicats - 1965 22. What'cha Gonna Do Baby - Jason Eddy & The Centremen - 1966 23. Something I've Got To Tell You - Glenda Collins - 1966 24. Please Stay - Cryin' Shames - 1966 25. You're Holding Me Down - The Buzz - 1966 26. I Take It That We're Through - The Riot Squad - 1966 27. Singing The Blues - Jason Eddy & The Centremen - 1966 28. It's Hard To Believe - Glenda Collins - 1966

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 Iron_Horse (2010-05-29)

All comments are wellcome!

jlmpls (2010-06-06)

Finally!! A Joe Meek comp! This totally rules, Iron Horse! I love your taste in music, too. I'm still working on getting my torrents to work ... bear with me! I've got goodies to thank you! Great work!!