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It's Hard to Believe: The Amazing World of Joe Meek by Joe Meek (CD, Sep-1995, Razor & Tie)
(CD, 1995)
Primary Artist: Joe Meek
Includes liner notes by Dennis Diken.Operating out of a small apartment studio, the British producer...
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Format: CD
Sep 1995
Record Label: Razor & Tie
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 793018208024 |
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Track Listing
1. Telstar
2. Johnny Remember Me
3. Tribute to Buddy Holly
4. Chick a 'Roo
5. Night of the Vampire
6. Paradise Garden
7. My Friend Bobby
8. Swingin' Low
9. Valley of the Saroos
10. Bublight, The
11. 'Til the Following Night
12. Just Like Eddie
13. North Wind
14. Huskie Team
15. Have I the Right?
16. My Baby Doll
17. Something I've Got to Tell You
18. I Take It That We're Through
19. Lost Planet
20. It's Hard to Believe It
| Details | | Producer: | Joe Meek | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Includes liner notes by Dennis Diken.Operating out of a small apartment studio, the British producer Joe Meek was single-handedly responsible for some of the most inventive English rock & roll during the fallow period right before the advent of the Beatles. This includes, of course, the Tornados' 1962 number-one hit "Telestar," a masterpiece of Space Age pop. With his heavy use of overdubbing, Meek was a British counterpart to Phil Spector. Except that Meek's heavily layered productions have a wildly experimental, musique concrete aspect never heard in the American producer's formulaic three-minute pop symphonies. There is a distinctly uncommercial dissonance permeating just about all of Meek's work, extending to even seemingly innocuous concoctions like Mike Berry's "Tribute to Buddy Holly" and the Honeycomb's cross-Atlantic hit "Have I the Right," not to mention dark "surf" instrumentals such as "Night of the Vampires" and "The Bublight." Given Meek's tragic end in a shotgun murder-suicide, the sweetly innocent paranoia of Glenda Collins' "It's Hard to Believe It," which closes this essential compilation, is a poignant tribute to a gifted musical eccentric.
Industry Reviews
Ranked #5 on the Reissues list of Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.
Village Voice (19960220)
...Highlights of this overdue compilation include his two American hits, the Honeycombs' thumping `Have I The Right' and the heavenly Tornados instrumental `Telstar,' which epitomizes the intriguing blend of cheesy and profound heard in Meek's best work...
Musician (19960401)
...Joe Meek, the eccentric British producer who shot his landlady and then himself, pushed the envelope of pop production in the early '60s....retroactively, hip with a vengeance.
Entertainment Weekly (19950920)
8 - Very Good - ...Meek cobbled together his own echo-units a decade before dub-pioneer King Tubby did, and he was playing psychedelic tricks...years in advance of REVOLVER....most of the dated ditties...require your keenest sense of camp...
Spin (19951101)
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