The Leaves...Are Happening: The Best of the Leaves

The Leaves | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 16, 2000)
• Original Release Date: March 21, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
• ASIN: B00004RC8P
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #103,342 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #85 in Music > Indie Music > Folk > Folk Rock

Track Listings

1. Dr. Stone

2. Just A Memory

3. Get Out Of My Life Woman

4. Girl From The East

5. He Was A Friend Of Mine

6. Hey Joe

7. Words

8. Bakc On The Avenue

9. War Of Distortion

10. Tobacco Road

11. Goodbye My Love

12. Too Many People

13. Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go? (Single Version)

14. Funny Little World

15. You Better Move On

16. That's A Different Story

17. Love Minus Zero

18. Be With You

19. Too Many People (Single Version)

20. Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go? (Promo Single Version)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "HEY JOE" correction, February 23, 2005

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Brian D. Ocallaghan (Sarasota, Fl.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Leaves...Are Happening: The Best of the Leaves (Audio CD)

Contrary to popular belief, The Leaves neither wrote nor performed "Hey Joe" first. The band asked Johnny Echols of the band "LOVE" for the lyrics to the tune and he gave them the wrong words, which explains their "version." Billy Roberts actually wrote the song and the Leaves, upon hearing both The Byrds and Love's live-stage versions at clubs like The Whiskey-a-go-go and Bido Lido's in L.A., grabbed their arrangements and quickly released the track as a single, thus making theirs the "first original recorded rendition." The song is almost always accredited to Dino Valenti, but that is also a myth.
Great old band, though.

30 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand?, April 24, 2000

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DJ Rix (NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Leaves...Are Happening: The Best of the Leaves (Audio CD)

Best known for their definitive garage-punk version of Hey Joe (apologies to Jimi), this release collects together the whole of their first album along with the usual bonuses one expects in a package of this type. The Leaves were a raw, almost Stonesy contrast to the cooler Byrds, the more eccentric Love & the slicker Turtles. You'll really like "Dr. Stone," "Too Many People" & their version of "Words" (this ain't the Monkees). I like the Leaves' take on "He Was a Friend of Mine." Their "Love Minus Zero" is more Dylanesque than the better-known Turtles rendition.

The Capitol LP, All the Good that's Happening, generally gets a bad rap, but it includes ace covers of "The One in the Middle" & Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Codeine," plus a few good originals & is deserving of reissue.

Bob Rixon, WFMU

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Leaves, June 20, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Leaves...Are Happening: The Best of the Leaves (Audio CD)

Stomping folk rock. Fun if you like Love's first album or the early Byrds.