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GS I Love You: Japanese Garage Bands of the 1960s

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i bought this cd because I trust anything released from the big beat record label (especially the zombies box set) i did expect this cd to be more of a novelty listen and i was gravely mistaken. the bands on this cd, especially one group called the Outcasts, perform over the top 60s rave -ups like never before heard. I'm a dj and i found plenty here to play to a large audience. I highly recommend this cd if you love the sounds of 60s beat music!

I bought this because--largely--I expected it to be over the top and psychotic. I was right. But it's also *surprisingly* good, although one gets the sense that there's certainly more interesting material out there that could've been tapped (this release comprises mostly Crown and Teichiku items, which is in itself limiting). What is included, however, it surprising both in its quality and wackiness; the bizarre cover of "Fire" is, well, strange, but it's also very good.

For all of you 60's fans out there, and I know you're listening, buy this! Seriously, I think this is an incredible album. I've been buying j-pop for a little while now and the info inside is a real jem too. I hope this one comes out with a second volume...

This is a great CD ... I just bought it and I'm very satisfied with it! Authentic 1960s Japanese rock! Heavy guitars and banging drums! Comes with a thick booklet with brief history, photos and insight! 5 stars!

"GS I Love You" Japanese garage bands of the 60's I bought a couple've years ago. It's still one of my favourites. It's "beat" with a refreshing and energetic Japanese flavour. All 28 tracks hold a lot of replay value and no filler! A few of my favourites, "Fire" and Sam & Daves "Hold on I'm Comin" particularly shine for me. The tracks have a pretty even mix of Japanese and English. This is the first volume of 3 featuring GS "group sounds" and it doesn't stray too far away from western beat for you purists. I DON'T recommend volume 2 "GS I love you too". This first vol. is by far the better of the two. Volume 3 The Spiders "Lets go Spiders" is also very good and I recommend it highly!
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I bought this largely as a novelty listen and was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the recordnigns and especially the quality of the musicianship. those Japanese bans were not slouches on the guitar. IMHO The Cougars are the best! I would pay to see them in concert today!!!

Some of the attempts to sing in English are funny and a few songs are outright bad...but only one or two songs. The more I listen to it the more the gap between the great, good and fair songs seem to diminish.

I just purchased volume two!

Note: People with no sense of humor will probably not appreciate this CD. Yes, it is wacky. Yes, they are singing English phonetically and not making a whole lot of sense (at least, the ones in English are). But if you ever wanted to hear what an alternate universe where Paul McCartney and Sam & Dave were Japanese but still sang in English might sound like, buy this CD. It's a very weird spin on some classic 60's hits that makes you feel as if you've never heard these songs before. Also the bands are really good musically - tight and inventive. The two best bands on this particular comp. are The Burns ("I Saw Her Standing There") and The Voltage ("Hold On, I'm Coming") as far as I'm concerned.