Pebbles 8

Various Artists - Rock - Classic, Pebbles (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 10, 1996)
• Original Release Date: February 7, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Archive Int'l / Aip
• ASIN: B000000X3M
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,094 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #94 in Music > Indie Music > Rock > Classic Rock

Track Listings

1. S.O.S - Terry Randall

2. She's My Baby - The Gigolos

3. I Never Loved Her - The Starfires

4. She Needs Me - The Grains Of Sand

5. Knock Knock - The Humane Society

6. Don't Do It Some More - The Cindermen

7. Everything's There - The Hysterics

8. Hold Me Now - The Rumors

9. All I Want - The Colony

10. Do You Believe Me - Byron & The Mortals

11. I Don't Care - The Dirty Shames

12. Sunglasses - The Cloudwalkers

13. No Correspondence - The Beckett Quintet

14. She's Not Just Anybody - The Dovers

15. One Of These Days - The Roosters

16. It's Hard To Hide - The Avengers

17. She Ain't No Good - Sean & The Brandywines

18. Wanted Dead Or Alive - The Rogues

19. Sleepy Hollow - The Last Word

20. Friction - The Green Beans

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Garage-rocking brilliance from SoCal!, June 22, 2007

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Laszlo Matyas - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pebbles 8 (Audio CD)

Released after two somewhat dissapointing volumes that focused on the Chicago garage rock scene, the 8th CD installment of the Pebbles series is a welcome return to form. Gone are the mediocre, uninteresting, and occasionally flat-out awful songs that marred the two previous discs-this album is crammed full of fun, exciting, and ultra-obscure mid-60s rockers from Southern California.

Some of these songs are among the best garage rock records ever. The Dovers' "She's Not Just Anybody" should have (and could have) been a chart-topping smash. It is, simply put, a masterpiece, a haunting, emotional burst of chiming guitars and dreamy vocals, bolstered by a relentless river of percussion. The Starfires' tense, throbbing "I Never Loved Her" is almost as good. Same goes for "She Needs Me," a hypnotic fuzz rocker courtesy of the Grains of Sand. The Rumors' "Hold Me Now" is positively anthemic, thanks to its rousing, "Louie Louie"-inspired melody and exuberent vocals. The Cindermen's "Don't Do It Some More" is a relentlessly catchy twist rocker that features a wonderfully off-the-wall guitar solo. Terry Randall's "S.O.S." is a spooky, paranoid protest tune with a subtle, smoldering lead vocal and a churning rhythm. The Gigolos' "She's My Baby" is a storming, double-time punk-rocker with a strong rockabilly influence, and the Humane Society's "Knock Knock" is a fiery, snarling tune with some thorny guitars. The Cloudwalkers' "Sunglasses" is insanely cool, and the Bush provide a fantastic version of "Got Love if You Want It" that features some compact but explosive rave-up sections. The Green Beans' "Who Needs You" is every bit as sneeringly sarcastic as its title suggests, and The Beckett Quintet's "No Correspondence" is a quietly insane bouncer with an anthemic chorus. The Caretakers of Deception close out the album with driving "X+Y=13."

The afformentioned tunes are only a few of the highlights of this spectacular disc, one of the finest entries in the entire Pebbles series. Your garage collection isn't complete without this one.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yet another compilation of undeservedly obscure rock howlers, June 5, 2004

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Casey Scott - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pebbles 8 (Audio CD)

The PEBBLES series, which doesn't really pick up speed until Vol. 7 (CHICAGO VOL. 2, which Amazon doesn't carry for some reason but is essential listening), continues with SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, gathering together rare 45 singles and acetates of garage bands and high school rock groups from Sacramento to San Diego, with plenty of small towns hit in-between. 2 of the songs, "Knock Knock" by The Humane Society (without a doubt one of the best unheard songs of the 60s) and "Hold Me Now" by The Rumors (which I dare you not to rock out to), are included on the NUGGETS boxed set, but they're surrounded by so many amazing gems here that this volume simply cannot be passed over.

Terry Randall's anti-riot anthem "S.O.S." kicks off the album with a bang; this is one dark little mother of a single, half-sung, half-spoken by an unknown artist. Of the 25 songs, the highlights are: The Starfires' "I Never Loved Her", The Grains of Sand's "She Needs Me", The Cindermen's "Don't Do It Some More", The Colony's "All I Want", The Cloudwalkers' "Sunglasses", The Beckett Quintet's "No Correspondence", The Dovers' "She's Not Just Anybody", Sean and the Brandywines' "She Ain't No Good", The Rogues' "Wanted: Dead or Alive" (the guitar work is very similar to that of "Hey Joe"), The Last Word's "Sleepy Hollow", The Green Beans' "Who Needs You", Limey and the Yanks' "Guaranteed Love" and "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" (a cover of a terrific single by New York City's Bit-A-Sweet, which has never been available reissued) are all singles which should have been national hits, blowing anything by The Dave Clark Five or Herman's Hermits out of the water. Not every song is a bonafide classic, but they're all sterling examples of what makes 60s garage rock a highly sought-after subgenre of classic rock.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brings Back The MEMORIES, November 25, 2009

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Randy Benjamin "Netguider" - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Pebbles 8 (Audio CD)

It's like stepping into the past...I remember hearing many of these on the radio back in LA. The Terry Randall "SOS" song was almost a hit... I think the Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" came out while it was at the top of the request line on KRLA and knocked it off the charts. I was living on the STRIP at the time and remember it well.

All of these songs trigger memories.... it's just a fun album to listen too. If you have a connection to it...it's even better.

Never forget those times, or these songs....

Randy