V.A. (GARAGE) / SEARCHIN' FOR SHAKES: SWEDISH BEAT 1965-19 / CD

北欧はスウェーデンの地でも花開いたブリティッシュ・インヴェンションは数多くのビートバンドを生み出しました。中でもガレージ好きにおなじみなのは「トランスワールド・ビートの頂点」の名を欲しいままにするNAMELOSERSでしょう。他にもキンクス直系の切れたビートを聴かせるMASCOTSやLEE KINGSあたりが有名です。このコンピはそんなスウェディッシュ・ビートを26曲詰め込んだ決定盤!!後にポップサイケの激名作を残すTAGESの初期やSHAKERSのフレッシュ&ワイルドなビートも素晴らしい。更にボズ・スキャッグスのキャリア最初期にあたる「MERRY MEN WITH BOZ」名義での録音も収録。※こちらは以前LPでリリースされていたコンピのCD化です

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The Swedish Nuggets! Twenty-six killer tracks from The Friends, Lea Riders Group, The Namelosers, Tages, etc. Thankfully available again, expanded digital edition of the original LP release, no overlap with the Who Will Buy These Wonderful Evils series, liner notes by Alec Palao and Lindsay Hutton (Next Big Thing magazine). Tracklisting as follows (with some trainspotting details where appropriate): Namelosers - 'Do-Ao'; The Friends - 'Empty Handed'; T-Boones - 'At The Club'; The Bootjacks - 'Red Big Car'; The Shanes - 'I Don't Want Your Love'; The Shakers - 'All I Want Is My Baby'; The Mascots - 'Words Enough To Tell You'; The Lee Kings - 'On My Way'; Steampacket II - 'Take Her Anytime' (Early Mikael Ramel, same track released in the UK under the bandname The Longboatman, check out Perfumed Garden Vol. 3); Lea Riders Group - 'Dom Kallar Oss Mods'; The Merrymen With Boz - 'Searchin'' ('Boz' being in fact Boz Scaggs, try 'searchin' for his Swedish-only Boz LP from 1965); Cherry Stones - 'Go Away'; Fabulous Four - 'Rotten Rats'; The Pools - 'Darling Corey'; The Beathovens - 'Summer Sun'; The Shakemakers - 'Searchin' For Shakes'; Annaabee-Nox - 'Bo Bo Boggie Pack'; The Bootjacks - 'The Circle'; The Other Side - 'Out My Light' (with UK guitarist [and brief Hurdy Gurdy member] Mac Macleod); The Namelosers - 'Land Of A 1000 Dances'; The Madmen - 'Rambler'; Tages - 'The Man You'll Be Looking For'; The Best - 'Back Door Man'; T-Boones - 'King Of The Orient'; The Friends - 'Bye Bye'; The Namelosers - 'That's Allright.