Garage Beat '66 2: Chicks Are for Kids

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 27, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
• ASIN: B0001L3MAI
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,188 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sweetgina - Things To Come

2. Gotta Get Some - The Bold

3. Believe Me - The Guess Who

4. Little Girl - The Jynx

5. I’m Not Mad - The Gestures

6. Things To Come - The Menn

7. You Got Your Head On Backwards - The Sonics

8. Chicks Are For Kids - The Best Things

9. Why Do I Cry - The Remains

10. Hey Little Bird - The Barbarians

11. (I’ve Got) Nowhere To Run - More-Tishans

12. Faces Come, Feelings Go - The Concepts (previously unissued)

13. Have You For My Own - The Go-Betweens

14. Whatcha Gonna Do About it? - The Litter

15. (Just A Little) Soul Searchin’ - The Electras

16. I’m Feeling O.K. - Five Americans

17. Don’t Blow Your Mind - Spiders

18. Lose Your Mind - The Third Bardo

19. When I Arrive - We The People

20. I’m A Man - The Ugly Ducklings (previously unissued)

Editorial Reviews

Our second album of vintage North American garage-rock supremacy! (Retail note: Do NOT file under "chick music"). Here's the absolute tops in garage-rehearsin' teens and 20-somethings; the wild ones that within minutes of the Beatles' first Ed Sullivan appearance conspired to overthrow the world with rock 'n' roll, suburb by swingin' suburb. In their day, the vast majority of these records were under-appreciated or completely unheard beyond their school zone…

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantasmorific 60s obscurity., June 26, 2007

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Laszlo Matyas - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garage Beat '66 2: Chicks Are for Kids (Audio CD)

The second volume in Sundazed Records' series of garage rock compilations is a twenty-track joy, a disc that no garage fan can afford to pass up. The songs are tough, tight, and energetic, anchored around angry teenage vocalists, moaning electric organs, and exhilleratingly crude guitar chords. The whole collection is positively driping with the basic essentials of rock n roll: unrestrained sexual frustration, unhinged excitement, and an unapologetically self-styled sense of cool. It really is a life force.

Anyway, the best songs include a salivating groin-grinder courtesy of the Things to Come (I don't know if their name is supposed to be an innuendo, but I sure hope it is) entitled "Sweetgina," as well as the Mad Hatters' soulful, grooving "Chicks are for Kids," and the Bold's pounding, snarling, flailing "Gotta Get Some." The Jynx do a creeping, understated (sorta) take on Van Morrison's "Little Girl," and the Ugly Ducklings transform the Bo Diddly-penned "I'm A Man" into a five-minute instrumental meltdown that rocks somethin' mighty. The Menn sound bitter and restless on the excellent "Things to Come" (no, it has nothing to do with the band that did "Sweetgina!"), and the Gestures' "I'm Not Mad" is a great harmonica-driven tune. There are also a few (relatively) obscure from more (relatively) well-known bands: The Guess Who's "Believe Me" is a pounding anthem with a killer electric piano solo, and the Sonics' "You Got Your Head on Backwards" is a mean little blues-rocker with a greased-up guitar line, and Boston's legendary Remains are represented by a raw, relentless demo recording of their classic "Why Do I Cry" that goes some way toward explaining their reputation as incredible live performers. The Litter (known for their brutal classic "Action Woman") turn in a tight, searing little ditty entitled "Whatcha Gonna Do About It."

And there's more where that came from! Pick this disc up and crank everything up to 10- you'll have a blast!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 'Garage Beat '66,Vol.2: Chicks Are For Kids' (Sundazed) Various Artists, January 27, 2007

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Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garage Beat '66 2: Chicks Are for Kids (Audio CD)

I'll tell you something right here and right now.Don't believe I'll ever run short of 'undiscovered' audio gems like this various artists CD title. I've gotten CD's on the Sundazed label before, but I've never even heard of this CD before. Total of twenty tracks from mostly little known / way-under appreciated bands like The Bold, The Gestures, The Remains, The Concepts and Spiders (Alice Cooper's early band) as well as a few better known psych / classic rock acts like Guess Who, Barbarians, The Sonics and Five Americans. Guaranteed to have any party of aging hipsters shaking their shimmies back and forth (supporting they still have them). Most highly recommended.