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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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This is an absolutely stunning package. It supersedes (pardon the pun) all previous collections and demonstrates, if proof were needed, that The Seeds were much more than one-hit wonders. Across 2 discs, each packed to the limit (no empty disc space here), you get basically everything the group did during its existence as a recording outfit for GNP Crescendo, and what an astonishing variety of musical ideas they offer.
Sky Saxon's vocals underpin the tough, driving and primitive sound of this most influential of 60's West Coast groups through 49 tracks, starting and ending with the classic title track, the latter version being from their 1967 live album "Raw & Alive At Merlin's Music Box". There is not a duff track in this set, no filler, just 2-and-a-half hours of barnstorming music. There are occasional gentler pieces to lighten the mood, but otherwise this is basic garage rock at its finest.
All tracks are expertly remastered, and there is a fascinating mini-history of the band in the enclosed booklet. It's astonishing to think that, without The Seeds, there would have been no 70s US or UK Punk, no Stooges or Ramones. Whatever you call the territory, The Seeds were there first.
Sky Saxon's vocals underpin the tough, driving and primitive sound of this most influential of 60's West Coast groups through 49 tracks, starting and ending with the classic title track, the latter version being from their 1967 live album "Raw & Alive At Merlin's Music Box". There is not a duff track in this set, no filler, just 2-and-a-half hours of barnstorming music. There are occasional gentler pieces to lighten the mood, but otherwise this is basic garage rock at its finest.
All tracks are expertly remastered, and there is a fascinating mini-history of the band in the enclosed booklet. It's astonishing to think that, without The Seeds, there would have been no 70s US or UK Punk, no Stooges or Ramones. Whatever you call the territory, The Seeds were there first.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Contrarary to what other reviewers may have said there are some track that were on original albums missing from this package (according to the track listing here: Girl I want You and Fallin' In Love from their debut album are both missing as are Out of the Question and Faded Doll from Future, Cry Wolf, Gardener and Buzzin' Around from A Spoonful of Seedy Blues and a handful for tracks between Raw & Alive and the Rare Seeds albums. So actually this is 11 songs short of the previous issue of the six albums as three 2:1 CDs. (See: Seeds, the/a Web of Sound, Future/a Full Spoon of Seedy Blues and Raw & Alive/Rare Seeds
Having said that this IS a brilliant packge that highlights this amazing band. If you have not heard The Seeds before think of the band in Mel Brooks film The Producers, where Lorenzo St. DuBois (LSD played by Dick Shawn)wanders in the the casting for Springtime for Hitler and sings a deranged song Love Power. Well if you remember that then you have pretty much got the measure of the Seeds. The sound is what later became known as psychedelic garage punk. I really do like this band so this nearly complete package will certainly do very well.
Having said that this IS a brilliant packge that highlights this amazing band. If you have not heard The Seeds before think of the band in Mel Brooks film The Producers, where Lorenzo St. DuBois (LSD played by Dick Shawn)wanders in the the casting for Springtime for Hitler and sings a deranged song Love Power. Well if you remember that then you have pretty much got the measure of the Seeds. The sound is what later became known as psychedelic garage punk. I really do like this band so this nearly complete package will certainly do very well.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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One of the groups I very recently discovered thanks to the Riot on Sunset Strip soundtrack. I remembered the sound but not the artists behind. Well finally I could listen to it again after more than 40 years! It is fresh rock with an innuendo of punk years before its birth.
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YOU CAN WATCH BETTIE PAGE DANCING TO THE SEEDS 'CAN'T SEEM TO MAKE HER MINE' ON YOU TUBE. YOU CAN WATCH THEM LIVE (MIMING) TO 'PUSHING TOO HARD',AGAIN ON YOU TUBE. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Madcaplaughs
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influential - unbelievably so.
The punk roots are always traced back, rarely this far. This is the point rough recordings and sheer engery first appear. Read more
The punk roots are always traced back, rarely this far. This is the point rough recordings and sheer engery first appear. Read more
Published on 15 May 2010 by Jjbrown
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