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The Seeds / Evil Hoodoo
(10″ Vinyl EP – Big Beat Records)
Big Beat’s very special offering for Record Store Day 2011 is a vinyl sampler of the delights in store with their forthcoming Seeds reissue campaign.
All three tracks on the limited edition ‘Evil Hoodoo’ 10” have never appeared on vinyl before, and two are completely unreleased: a storming early take of their punkoid B-side ‘Out Of the Question’, and the full unedited take of much-beloved album cut ‘Evil Hoodoo’, which never lets up once, during an astounding 15 minutes of fuzz-filled mayhem. Rounding out the programme is the single ‘Satisfy You’, minus the distracting fake audience it originally featured upon release in 1968.
The Sonics / Boom
(Vinyl LP – Big Beat Records)
We follow our recent reissue of “Here Are The Sonics!” with a 180g black vinyl replica of “Boom”, the band’s second album. Originally released in 1966 on Etiquette Records in wonderful mono, “Boom” still does much more than merely deliver on the promise of their debut. Few records have ever packed as much of a musical punch from start to finish, offering a representation of what the Sonics must have sounded like at the peak of their powers. Recorded in the most glorious no-fi you could ever wish for, and with anthemic originals such as ‘Cinderella’ and ‘He’s Waitin’’ vying for attention with what is possibly the most violent version of ‘Louie Louie’ there will ever be, “Boom” is an album that has always justified the esteem in which it is held by collectors around the globe.
The Sonics / Here Are The Sonics!!!
(Vinyl LP – Big Beat Records)
At the time of its original release, this album made very little impact outside of the Sonics’ home state – but the band made enough noise in Washington to blow down every brick wall between Tacoma and Torrance, California.
Seldom has a band been better named. The youthful aggression in their music – coupled with singer Gerry Roslie’s 80-razorblades-a-day vocal attack and a selection of overwhelmingly brilliant riffs that underpinned some of the most wildly recorded music ever to be committed to tape – should have made the Sonics one of the biggest bands the world has ever known or heard.
Instead they went on to become celebrated by generation after generation of collectors, and other young people with an urge to rock’n’roll. The importance of tracks such as ‘The Witch’, ‘Psycho’ and ‘Boss Hoss’ has provided a template for countless groups who’ve come up in their wake, and who have achieved a level of commercial success they could never have achieved without the inspiration of the Sonics…