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2007 remastered features the original album (including artwork) plus 10 bonus tracks! Killer!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I first heard the Remains on two compilations. "Don't look back" on Nuggets (original artyfacts from ...) and "Why do I cry" on Rock: The Train Kept A Rollin' (Sony Music 100 years Soundtrack For A Century). 1965 - 1966 uptempo rock with not to many distortion on the guitar and a great vocalline! Those two songs blew my mind. Why weren't they more popular?
So I looked after their sole album and here it is! It opens with "Heart" which starts slow but explodes at the end. "Heart", "Lonely Week-End" and "Diddy Wah Diddy" are the covers on this album. The rest is pure original Remains. You also got 10 bonus tracks (non-LP singles and outtakes)in mono.
Legacy has reproduced the original album cover for this cd-version with a foreword from Barry Tashian, the leader of the band. If you like sixties rock, I advise you to by this.
So I looked after their sole album and here it is! It opens with "Heart" which starts slow but explodes at the end. "Heart", "Lonely Week-End" and "Diddy Wah Diddy" are the covers on this album. The rest is pure original Remains. You also got 10 bonus tracks (non-LP singles and outtakes)in mono.
Legacy has reproduced the original album cover for this cd-version with a foreword from Barry Tashian, the leader of the band. If you like sixties rock, I advise you to by this.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
One of the Best of Boston --
20 May 2007
Format:Audio CD
and, for those who know sufficient 1960s Boston music scene history, originally from Brookline, they got their start at Boston University, and became the original house band of the Rathskeller (the "Rat") in Kenmore Square. For garage-rock lovers, and those who falsely believe punk began in the 1980s.
They opened for The Beatles for part of their 1966 US tour. And broke up shortly after their LP was released -- as happened with many of the day.
Last I heard, lead singer/guitarist Barry Tashian, and Eric Liljequist, formerly of the best band on Massachusetts's South Shore, The Orphans, after or in addition to years of work as Nashville session musicians, have been backing Emmylou Harris.
This has everything on the earlier release on Epic/Legacy, except in this instance the first ten tracks are LP-order. This has the original LP cover, but it was the wrong photograph: the person second from the right -- David Sherman -- was their fill-in bass player (and a long-time friend from late 1970s through mid-/late-1980s). I got the mono of the LP when it came out in 1966, and Dave gave me his stereo copy. So now I can have the LP-size cover, and at the same time preserve the near-mint vinyls.
Also well worth hearing is the CD release "A Session with The Remains," their audition tape for Capitol Records, an unrehearsed, straight-from-gig run-through of their stage set -- but without club noise. These guys were hot!
Why are you reading this? Buy the CD, put on the headphones, and turn it up!
They opened for The Beatles for part of their 1966 US tour. And broke up shortly after their LP was released -- as happened with many of the day.
Last I heard, lead singer/guitarist Barry Tashian, and Eric Liljequist, formerly of the best band on Massachusetts's South Shore, The Orphans, after or in addition to years of work as Nashville session musicians, have been backing Emmylou Harris.
This has everything on the earlier release on Epic/Legacy, except in this instance the first ten tracks are LP-order. This has the original LP cover, but it was the wrong photograph: the person second from the right -- David Sherman -- was their fill-in bass player (and a long-time friend from late 1970s through mid-/late-1980s). I got the mono of the LP when it came out in 1966, and Dave gave me his stereo copy. So now I can have the LP-size cover, and at the same time preserve the near-mint vinyls.
Also well worth hearing is the CD release "A Session with The Remains," their audition tape for Capitol Records, an unrehearsed, straight-from-gig run-through of their stage set -- but without club noise. These guys were hot!
Why are you reading this? Buy the CD, put on the headphones, and turn it up!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
"America's greatest lost band"
24 Jun 2007
Format:Audio CD
I am admittedly biased, since I produced a stage musical about The Remains, "All Good Things," and am in post-production on a documentary about the group, "They Were How You Told A Stranger About Rock'N'Roll"--the title is taken from the famous quote Jon Landau wrote in the January 67 Crawdaddy about The Remains after their breakup.
But don't take my word for how fantastic the music is. Just read the following opening sentences from Mark Kemp's review in the June '07 edition of Paste Magazine. (Mark, by the way, is the former music editor of Rolling Stone and VP of Music Editorial at MTV.)
"Good as Mick and Keith were at reimagining rhythm & blues as hard rock on The Rolling Stones' 1964 debut, they didn't hold a candle to what The Remains would deliver two years later. Had these Boston bad boys stuck it out beyond their 1966 debut, we might today be calling them--and not the Stones--the World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band. As it is, The Remains most certainly are America's greatest lost band."
But don't take my word for how fantastic the music is. Just read the following opening sentences from Mark Kemp's review in the June '07 edition of Paste Magazine. (Mark, by the way, is the former music editor of Rolling Stone and VP of Music Editorial at MTV.)
"Good as Mick and Keith were at reimagining rhythm & blues as hard rock on The Rolling Stones' 1964 debut, they didn't hold a candle to what The Remains would deliver two years later. Had these Boston bad boys stuck it out beyond their 1966 debut, we might today be calling them--and not the Stones--the World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band. As it is, The Remains most certainly are America's greatest lost band."
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The Remains - self-titled (Epic)
20 Mar 2009
Format:Audio CD
I remember hearing about this Boston garage rock band, but I thought their name was Barry And The Remains - happen to vaguely recall way back when they opened for the Beatles final U.S. tour. Then disbanded after that. Too bad. This self-titled reissue is apparently their only-ever lp they put out in their initial existence. Every track on here is great - especially "Lonely Weekend", "Don't Look Back", the swinging "Diddy Wah Diddy" (literally puts ALL the other band's versions out there of this song to shame), "Once Before" (good hooks), "Can't Get Away From You", "Me Right Now", the snappy "My Babe", "Ain't That Her" and "All Good Things". Personnel: Barry Tashian-guitar & vocals, William Briggs-keyboards & harmonica, Vern Miller-bass and Chip Damian-drums. Without a doubt, should give long time fans of the Pretty Things, early Stones, the Standells and Yardbirds a good run for their money. Highly recommended.
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