Continua il viaggio a ritroso del giornalista musicale Jon Savage nei favolosi Sixties: stavolta i suoi ricordi e le sue riflessioni si focalizzano sul 1965, l'anno spartiacque del decennio le cui tracce musicali si sono sedimentate nella mente del curatore grazie a programmi televisivi come Ready Steady Go! e Top Of The Pops e agl show diffusi da Radio Caroline South. 'I brani', spiega lui stesso, 'sono organizzati per linee cronologiche, con alcune deviazioni motivate da esigenze di flusso musicale': cosicche', nell'arco di due CD, si susseguono singoli di successo, brani di culto e gemme dimenticate tra soul, funk, psichedelia, beat, garage e rock and roll. In una sequenza mozzafiato, ecco dunque Thee Midniters, Jr, Walker, Marianne Faithfull, Del Shannon, Martha & The Vandellas, Booker T & The MG's, Hollies, Who, Everly Brothers, Sonics, Yardbirds, Wilson Pickett, Kinks, Byrds, Seeds, Pretty Things, Bob Dylan, Manfred Mann, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Animals, Donovan, Link Wray, Small Faces, Supremes...Un anno favoloso, c'e' bisogno di sottolinearlo?
track list
Disc: 1
1. Concrete and Clay - Unit 4 + 2
2. Land of a Thousand Dances Pt. 1 - Thee Midnighters
3. Shotgun - Jr. Walker & The All Stars
4. Come and Stay With Me - Marianne Faithfull
5. That's the Way It's Got to Be - The Poets
6. Fortune Teller - Tony Jackson & The Vibrations
7. Twine Time - Alvin Cash & The Crawlers
8. Starnger in Town - Del Shannon
9. Nowhere to Run - Martha and The Vandellas
10. Iko Iko - The Dixie Cups
11. Boot Leg - Booker T. and The M.G.'s
12. Leaving Here - The Birds
13. I'm Alive - The Hollies
14. Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind - Vashti
15. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere - The Who
16. Incense - The Anglos
17. The Price of Love - The Everly Brothers
18. Boss Hoss - The Sonics
19. Nobody Knows What's Goin' On (In My Mind But Me) - The Chiffons
20. Heart Full of Soul - The Yardbirds
21. Agent Double-O Soul - Edwin Starr
22. In the Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
23. Too Many People - The Leaves
24. See My Friends - The Kinks
Disc: 2
1. I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better - The Byrds
2. Buttermilk Part 1 - Sly
3. Anything - The Vejtables
4. Can't Seem to Make You Mine - The Seeds
5. Are You a Boy Or Are You a Girl - The Barbarians
6. London Town - The Pretty Things
7. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - The Silkie
8. From a Buick 6 - Bob Dylan
9. If You Gotta Go, Go Now - Manfred Mann
10. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag - James Brown
11. Ain't That Peculiar - Marvin Gaye
12. Can You Hear Me - Lee Dorsey
13. It's My Life - The Animals
14. You Just Gotta Know My Mind - Karen Verros
15. Blow Your Mind - The Gas Company
16. The Train from Kansas City - The Shangri-Las
17. You've Got What I Want - The Sorrows
18. Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness) - Donovan
19. Girl from the North Country - Link Wray
20. I've Got Mine - Small Faces
21. The Duck - Jackie Lee
22. The Story of John Hardy - Sir Douglas Quintet
23. We Sell Soul - The Spades
24. My World Is Empty Without You - The Supremes |
