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Question Mark & The Mysterians | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 25, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cavestomp Records
• ASIN: B00000IPSJ
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #231,865 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Don't Give It Up Now

2. Feel It

3. Hangin' On A String

4. 96 Tears

5. Girl (You Captivate Me)

6. Can't Get Enough Of You Baby

7. Ain't It A Shame?

8. Cheree

9. Beachcomber

10. It's Not Easy

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. That's How Strong My Love Is

2. Love Me Baby (Cherry July)

3. Sally Go Round The Roses

4. Don't Hold It Against Me

5. Do You Feel It?

6. Satisfaction

7. Strollin' With The Mysterians

8. Are You For Real? (B/W0

9. I'll Be Back

10. 96 Tears (En Espanol)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and powerful album., July 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: More Action (Audio CD)

This album, while being a new recording, will hold you spellbound. From the start you feel that the Mysterians have lost absolutely nothing over the years. If anything 96 tears is slightly better than the original. Cheree is phenomenal and there are superb covers of the Jaynettes '63 hit "Sally Go Round the Roses" and the Rolling Stones "Satisfaction".

It is strange however that having included a crackly vinyl transcript of ? and Co's very first single, that they could not do the same with the original version of the classic "96 Tears". Never mind, if you are too young to remember it you won't miss it after the version presented here.

7 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ? (Question Mark) & the Mysterians RULE!, April 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: More Action (Audio CD)

? himself remains the epitome of rock attitude, maintaining that he was born on Mars, that he lived with dinosaurs, and that he will be singing '96 Tears' in the year 10,000.

With most faded 60s bands, that would be the end of the story. But a link-up with the Collectables record label produced one of the best revivals of recent years. Collectables is best-known for its huge catalogue of of reissues, mostly doo-wop, R&B and all kinds of 60s music. But when they discovered that the rights to the orignal Cameo label lay with ABKCO, after Allen Klein's takeover in 1967, they decided to fund an album of re-recordings. The sessions duly took place over four days in July 1997.

Such re-recordings are normally pale shadows of the originals, to be avoided at all costs, but ? & the Mysterians are the exception to the rule. The core original line-up of ?, Balderrama, Rodriguez, Martinez and Lugo quickly proved that they could still cut killer versions of their songs, often in one take. The 16 track album was supported by live dates that showed they were still one tight and rocking band. They were, and still are, everything that rock should be.