Dance with Me: The Autumn Teen Sound [Import]

Dance With Me (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 1, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Big Beat UK
• ASIN: B0000004EE
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #445,032 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dance With Me - The Mojo Men

2. She Goes With Me - The Mojo Men

3. Off The Hook - The Mojo Men

4. Draggin' The Main - The Upsetters

5. Litlle One - The Spearmints

6. Anything - THE VEJTABLES

7. I Still Love You - THE VEJTABLES

8. Where Did I Fail - The Knight Riders

9. I - The Knight Riders

10. Torture And Pain - The Knight Riders

11. Won't You Be My Baby - The Knight Riders

12. I Should Be Glad - Gear One

13. Hello Little Girl - Gear One

14. I Think It's Me - The Chosen Few

15. Nobody But Me - The Chosen Few

16. Pay Attention To Me - The Tikis

17. I'll Never Forget About You - The Tikis

18. Darkest Night Of The Year - The Tikis

19. Blue Eyes - The Tikis

20. Just Me - The Us

See all 30 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant collection of ultra-rare California 60s teen pop, April 6, 2000

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hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dance with Me: The Autumn Teen Sound (Audio CD)

Another stellar compilation of San Francisco's Autumn Records recordings. Archivist Alec Palao has fashioned an excellent second volume of the series (the first having been devoted to the Beau Brummels), cramming 30 tracks onto a single disc, and a booklet full of great photos and liner notes.

This volume covers the prime of Autumn Records British-invasion influenced singles, album and unreleased tracks. The sound is crisp, and mostly in stereo. This disc sounds better than my original Autumn releases! (Though, to be fair, there are a few places where it sounds as if the balance in the mix has been changed - e.g., the tambourine in the Mojo Men's "Dance With Me" seems a bit too forward.)

Some of these tracks have been anthologized on a half-dozen other compilations (e.g., Pebbles, etc.), but this release is vastly superior - both in sonic quality and in presentation (placement and liner notes). Previously undocumented bands are recounted in detail here. E.g., the Pebbles series couldn't come up with anything on the Knight Riders, while this comp tells much of their history, and gives their origin as San Carlos, CA!

Many of the tracks will be well known to fans of the Autumn label. Classics such as the Mojo Men's "Dance With Me", the Vejtables "Anything" and "I Still Love You" (with that cool "Ticket to Ride" riff slipped in), the Knight Riders stunning "I". But beyond these are a wealth of great early San Francisco pop sides. Extra tracks by the Mojo Men (including the great white pop blues' "Off the Hook" and "My Woman's Head"), Vejtables (including an alternate take of their "I Still Love You") and others. Three extra Knight Riders tracks have them sounding more like the Byrds than like the Shadows of Knight, but still sounding great!

There's also a stack o' cool wax by the likes of the Spearmints, Gear One (actually a bit weak in this company), The Chosen Few, The Tikis ("The Darkest Night of the Year" *kills* with the sort of urgency as in The Squires "Go Ahead" and the forlorness as in The Dovers "What Am I Going to Do?"), The Us (great folk-rock on "Just Me"), the buzzing pop of The Bundles (bigtime shades of the Beau Brummels on "Watch Me Girl"), and the Au Go Gos masterful "All Over Town."

Also included are oddities such as the Upsetter's tribute to the Jan-Dean-Beach-Boys-Gary-Usher car genre, "Draggin' the Main." As the liner notes point out, they work a cool 12-string guitar break into an otherwise straight ahead racing tune. And The Us's tribute to premarital infidelity, "How Can I Tell Her" is hysterical: "You wanted me so bad, but my infidelity made her mad..." "It's a shame / She wants to say goodbye / I didn't mean to hurt her / All I wanted was a taste of life / Before she became my wife..." Oof!

A labor of love through and through.

5.0 out of 5 stars the a/r man for the original recordings, January 28, 2010

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Wayne "Spearmints" (SAUGERTIES, NY, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dance with Me: The Autumn Teen Sound (Audio CD)

Did you know that Sly Stone was the A and R man for most if not all of these tracks?