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Emergency 999

~ Alan Bown
4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (28 Aug 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Sequel
  • ASIN: B00004W4Z5
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Track Listings

1. Can't Let Her Go
2. I'm The One
3. Baby Don't Push Me
4. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
5. Headline News
6. Mr Pleasure
7. Emergency 999
8. Settle Down
9. Gonna Fix You Good (Everytime You're Bad)
10. I Really Really Care
11. Jeu De Massacre
12. Love Me
13. Mr Job
14. It's Growing
15. Emergency 999
16. I Need You
17. Sunny
18. Headline News
19. Down In The Valley
20. Boomerang

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4.0 out of 5 stars Worth getting if for the live tracks, 10 Sep 2001
By Mr T M Butcher (Leicester, Leicestershire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This is a cd of two halves. The various studio tracks are pretty mixed. There is nothing too offensive but you can see why their singles releases never really sold back in the 1960s. Where this album takes off if with the live tracks which originally formed one side of the famous "London Swings" LP, the other being a performance by Jimmy James and the Vagabonds. The atmosphere of 60s London really comes through as the mixture of originals and blistering soul covers captures one of the leading bands of the mod movement in top form. If you already have the live stuff you'll probably buy this on the strength of it and end up a little disappointed. But if you don't have the live stuff, or if you don't want to wear out your copy of the original vinyl, then buy it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent album - particularly the live cuts, 27 Mar 2001
I was a regular at The Marquee clunb in Lodon's Wardour Street in the mid-60's and saw The Alan Bown Set there every week ( along with the Who, Jimmy James & The Vagabonds etc. ) I bought the Alan Bown version of 'Headline News' before the original by Edwin Starr - in fact I first heard many soul classics performed by this Band before going on to buy the originals. The Alan Bown Set were leaders on the Mod scene and highly accomplished musicians. This album is a great record of the period and their live cuts from the Marquee really capture the atmosphere of the period when London really did swing!
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars The Alan Bown Set Sure Had Soul!, 17 Jan 2001
By Christopher L. Dolmetsch (Hurricane, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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Almost thirty-five years ago I heared a relatively unknown London-based band called the Alan Bown Set perform a song titled "Headline News" on Radio Luxemburg. With it's opening chorus "Extra! Extra! Read all about it," its wonderful horns, and its funky rhythm, it was Mod with "a capital M." The song failed to make the charts, which is still hard to believe. Over the next thirty-five years I never heard the song again. But, I never forgot it either.

Here is that song, and plenty more like it. Before evolving into the mildly psychedelic group called just The Alan Bown, this original incarnation was a terrific dance band; a favorite at the clubs and halls of Swingin' London. Their interpretations of Motown, the Impressions, and other American masters of soul, were among the best mid-60s Britain had to offer. In many ways they were the equals of the Small Faces and the Who, but never achieved the success or the mystique of the other two bands.

This collection of ALL their Pye recordings from 1966-1967 is a wonderful piece of Mod nostalgia. I only regret that they were not as well recorded as some of their contemporaries, and alas for this reissue, their recordings were apparently not remixed. So, this pretty much sounds the way it did back when these tunes first appeared on 45. Also included is a live set, one side of the rare "London Swings: Live At the Marquee" LP (the other side was given over to their contemporaries Jimmy James & the Vagabonds). If you like the Mod sound, you'll definitely find this a treat.

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