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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Joe Meek |
| Record Label: |
Razor & Tie Music |
| Genre: |
Oldies |
| Subgenre: |
British Invasion |
| Release Date: |
September 19, 1995 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Telstar
2. Johnny Remember Me
3. Tribute to Buddy Holly
4. Chick a 'Roo
5. Night of the Vampire
6. Paradise Garden
7. My Friend Bobby
8. Swingin' Low
9. Valley of the Saroos
10. Bublight
11. 'Til the Following Night
12. Just Like Eddie
13. North Wind
14. Huskie Team
15. Have I the Right?
16. My Baby Doll
17. Something I've Got to Tell You
18. I Take It That We're Through
19. Lost Planet
20. It's Hard to Believe It |
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Includes liner notes by Dennis Diken. Operating out of a small apartment studio, the British producer Joe Meek was single-handedly responsible for some of the most inventive English rock & roll during the fallow period right before the advent of the Beatles. This includes, of course, the Tornados' 1962 number-one hit "Telestar," a masterpiece of Space Age pop. With his heavy use of overdubbing, Meek was a British counterpart to Phil Spector. Except that Meek's heavily layered productions have a wildly experimental, musique concrete aspect never heard in the American producer's formulaic three-minute pop symphonies. There is a distinctly uncommercial dissonance permeating just about all of Meek's work, extending to even seemingly innocuous concoctions like Mike Berry's "Tribute to Buddy Holly" and the Honeycomb's cross-Atlantic hit "Have I the Right," not to mention dark "surf" instrumentals such as "Night of the Vampires" and "The Bublight." Given Meek's tragic end in a shotgun murder-suicide, the sweetl... |
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