Let It Rock...Best Of Georgia Satellites

Georgia Satellites | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: January 19, 1993
• Label: Elektra 0591
• Copyright: 1993 Elektra Entertainment, a division of Warner Communications Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States excluding the United Kingdom.
• Genres: Rock/Roots Rock
• ASIN: B0011ZTUTA
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars KEEP THIS ONE FOR YOURSELF!, November 17, 2005

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Jukebox Dave (RECORD TOWN, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let It Rock: Best of (Audio CD)

GEORGIA SATELLITES-LET IT ROCK/BEST OF THE GEORGIA SATELLITES: One of Southern Rock's last gritty, greasy, gasps, these guys kicked more ass than a high school football coach, letting fly with a raunchy, raspy rockin' roll attitude spiced with kickin' country, dirty soul, and big-time bar band boogie. Helmed by bad boy belter/geetar slingers Dan Baird and Rick Roberts, the Satellites boasted brontosaurus chops, snotty swagger, AND a sense of humor, which never hurt NOBODY no how in the music biz. Monster hit KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF sets the piledriver pace for this career roundup appropriately named after one of Chuck Berry's most tread upon pieces. Crash 'n burn covers of HIPPY HIPPY SHAKE, the Ringo Starr-penned DON'T PASS ME BY, and a party-perfect John Fogerty medley of ALMOST SATURDAY NIGHT/ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD blend seamlessly with Baird's bare bones double entendre OPEN ALL NIGHT and the blooze-buster ALL OVER BUT THE CRYIN'. Cranked to an especially high thrash threshold is Terry Anderson's BATTLESHIP CHAINS, not quite three minutes of rock so primitive I'm surprised Fred Flintstone didn't write it. These wild cats were too good to last beyond three albums, but LET IT ROCK delivers a stompin' summary of their meat n' taters years.

RATING: FIVE BEER BLASTS

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Short lived group knew how to rock'n'roll, January 10, 2004

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let It Rock: Best of (Audio CD)

Rock'n'roll had its heyday in the fifties but the combination of simple music and high energy often resurfaces in an updated form. The Georgia Satellites exemplified everything that a great rock'n'roll band should be, even if their music was updated for the eighties.

The group only recorded three albums although various extra tracks were also recorded. The result was one big hit, Keep your hands to yourself, and two lesser hits, Battleship chains and Hippy hippy shake (a cover of a song made famous in the sixties by the Swinging blue jeans, a Liverpool group).

They wrote most of their own material but they recorded several covers. Apart from Hippy hippy shake, this collection also includes Don't pass me by (Ringo Starr), a live version of Let it rock (Chuck Berry) and Another Saturday night (John Fogerty) - this track also includes a brief piece of Rocking all over the world (another John Fogerty song) at the end.

If you are looking for high energy rock music, this is for you.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ****1/2 - superb!, June 25, 2004

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Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let It Rock: Best of (Audio CD)

This excellent 20-disc compilation gathers almost all the best from the Georgia Satellites three studio albums. I picked it up some ten or twelve years ago on a whim, knowing little or nothing about the Satallites, but I loved it straight away, and I still take it out and play it from time to time.

Equal parts Chuck Berry and AC/DC, the Satellites played rough, tough and gritty rock n' roll, joyous three chords romps with lots of firepower and the gap-toothed Dan Baird in front alongside lead guitarist Rick Richards.
Their debut album, which featured the hit single "Keep Your Hands To Yourself", got lost amid the pop metal of the mid-eighties, and the next two ones sank without a trace, which is a real shame, because the Satellites did what very few other bands could or would in the 1980s - they played real rock n' roll.

And there are plenty of highlight here. From "The Georgia Satellites" come the tough-as-nails hard rock of "Can't Stand The Pain" and the Hindu Love Gods' "Battleship Chains", and the album "Open All Night" provides songs like "Mon Cheri" and a supremely gritty rendition of Ringo Starr's "Don't Pass My By".
"In The Land Of Salvation And Sin", the Satellites' last album, was more stylistically diverse than its two predecessors, and the acoustic shuffle "Another Chance" is one of the group's best songs...all four musicians sing, and Baird's lyrics are some of his best ever.

"Let It Rock" also includes a few non-album tracks, like the title track (a live rendition of the Chuck Berry-number), and a fine medley of John Fogerty's mid-70s classics "Almost Saturday Night" and "Rockin' All Over The World", and a nice little essay by Jimmy Guterman.
This is a near-perfect introduction to an often overlooked little rock n' roll combo which deserved better.