school me on some freakbeat
residentgiant
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I don't really know much about this genre but I think I like what I've heard. The Pied Pipers?Fire and Ice?early Small Faces?I dunno, school a li'l dude.
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Le Fleur De lys
Listen to hcrink. The Eyes are amazing, as well as some of the Les Fleur de Lys records. Also recommended:
The Attack
The Syn
The Outsiders
Q65
The Birds
The Who's first 3 45s
Most of the best freakbeat is 45 only, so find reissues that include the following tracks:
The Syndicats - Crawdaddy Simone
Shakespears - Burning My Fingers
Dave, Dee, .... Mick & Tich - He's A Raver
Richard Kent Style - Go Go Children
& so much more
This is primarily UK (some Dutch stuff), there's also the French stuff (Dutronc, Antoine, Sullivan, etc.), and a host of other killer stuff from Europe and Down Under (don't front on the Aussie stuff).
Some more titles later.
Both are brilliant.
damn djr, you are up on all kinda hip shit!
I'll add
pretty things
outsiders
johns children
mirage
I'll add
Q65
Thor's Hammer
The Wimple Winch/Four Just Men
The Creation
Plus, if you listen to 'Freakbeat' and you don't have any early Beatles or Stones, Kinks or the Who, you fit into the category of complete loser
just thought I'd share, don't wanna see you make that mistake(I have seen it too often)
also check out pussycat, marie laforet (or any french girl version of 'hush')
daniel gerard 'sexologie',
marquez lp has a sick freakbeat cut (also on 45)
boy blues 'i can only give you everything' (also ronnie bird's version)
ronnie von- 'music to watch girls by' odeon brazil
Nice list (good mention on the jacqueline taibe, Delay).
Ronnie Bird's version is "Chante", I believe.
I knew I was forgetting a bunch - but how the hell could I forget the Pretty Things?
'Rosalyn' is utter brilliance, as is 'Midnight to Six Man'. Their psych stuff is pretty interesting, too.
Don't forget The Idle Race and Easybeats.
...and I still have The Buzz - You're Holding Me Down (RE on Columbia) up for trades.
I just got a version by Les Sultans the other day - I posted an
MP3 in the finds thread, here it is:
Les Sultans - Tu es Impossible (I Can Only Give You Everything)
Don't know if I'd call this version "freakbeat" though, it's a bit
downtempo (as is the Them OG, compared to the Little Boy Blues raver)
but still pretty cool.
I wish I owned more OG freakbeat stuff, but of what I have, these
2 are probably my favorites. I will trade 350 good records for a clean
copy of the OG Dutch Belfast Gypsies LP:
Belfast Gypsies - Secret Police
Belfast Gypsies - People, Let's Freak Out