Untold Rock Stories [Import]

Quick | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 14, 2007)
• Original Release Date: July 1, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Rev-Ola
• ASIN: B000093CZM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #315,414 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. No No Girl

2. Teacher's Pet

3. Hi-Lo

4. Hillary

5. Rag Doll

6. My Purgatory Years

7. It Won't Be Long

8. Heaven on Earth

9. Born Free

10. Don't You Want It

11. Pretty Please

12. Over the Rainbow

13. You Yeah You

14. Take My Life

15. Touch Control

16. You Give Me Heat

17. Jimmy Too Bad

18. Big Chance

19. Poison Polly

20. Angel [*]

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

The Quick were one of the pre-eminent bands of the early LA punk scene, featuring ex-& future members of The Three O'clock, Weirdos, Cruzados, & The Rembrandts, they were discovered & produced by the legendary hustler Kim Fowley, who got them a deal with Mercury Records. Beck, Norman Blake, Redd Kross, Alan McGee, Michael Stipe, & Pat Smear were & are among their many fans. This first-ever CD collection consists of the demos produced by Kim Fowley which landed them their deal, & post album recordings produced by Beck's father David Campbell, the real sound of LA punk-pop mutating into the Paisley Underground. Includes songs covered By The Dickies & Redd Kross. Produced by Kim Fowley & David Campbell. Rev-Ola. 2003.

Customer Reviews

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get this....QUICK!, March 25, 2004

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Patrick W. Schubert (Santa Ana, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Untold Rock Stories (Audio CD)

Thankyou Rev-Ola! Thankyou for making available, at long last, these 22 tracks of pure powerpop perfection by one of rock and roll's most criminally neglected groups.

Being from the LA area, and as a longtime fan of punk rock, I've always loved the early LA groups like The Plugz, Germs, Dils, Zeros, et al. One thing that many of these bands had in common was the Quick as a musical influence. Along with influencing such bands, The Quick would share the bill with some of them at clubs like the Starwood once the punk thing was in full swing. The Dickies were good friends with, and apparently, roadies for the Quick and eventually recorded an excellent cover of "Pretty Please". I'd read about the group in old Slash and Flipside articles and even heard a few of their tunes on my local 3-Watt college radio station (KUCI) as a kid. Yet, the Quick remained something of an enigma to me until I thankfully stumbled onto this CD.

For years, I tried to obtain a copy of the Quick's extremely obscure Mercury LP "Mondo Deco". For years, I waited patiently for a compilation of demo's, live tracks; anything! Unfortunately, nothing surfaced. Nothing, that is, until now.

Musically, The Quick bear more than a passing resemblance to early Sparks, whom they cite as an initial influence. I'd say, however, that the group sounds most like vintage Cheap Trick. Both bands specialized in quirky, Move-influenced powerpop. Both bands were blessed with humorous, intellegent and inventive songwriter/guitarists. Even Quick vocalist Danny Wilde (now a Rembrandt) could pass for Robin Zander's ever-so-slightly less gifted (vocally, that is) little brother. And, as big of a Cheap Trick fan that I am, I'd say that songs like "No No Girl", "My Purgatory Years", "Hillary" and "Pretty Please" are as good as, if not better than, anything C.T. ever recorded. HERESY! you say. Well, just listen to this CD and decide for yourself.

These Demo recordings faithfully capture what The Quick must have sounded like live. No digital multitracking, Pro Tools plastic surgery here. Just "set up a few mikes and let the tape roll". I've always felt that this is the best way of capturing the raw excitement and immediacy of rock and roll. This collection's two live tracks do, in fact, sound as if they could have come from the demo sessions.

If you love powerpop, punk, glam, 60's groups like The Move, Who, and Small Faces- Hell, if you like great music, period- pick up this CD and do it (ahem) Quick. You will not be dissapointed! Now, if only Rev-Ola would reissue "Mondo Deco" and any other goodies that might still be floating around out there.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars QUICK Mondo Deco LP has been Reissued! CD to come soon!, November 25, 2009

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wm72 (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Untold Rock Stories (Audio CD)

Radio Heartbeat Records, the label that did that incredible Milk N' Cookies 2LP recently, just re-issued The Quick's Mondo Deco LP on vinyl. The original tapes from Earle Mankey were used and the new pressing sounds great. Original Cover artwork.

The Radio Heartbeat announced that a CD version of Mondo Deco is on the way this winter with some bonus unreleased alternate versions of the album tracks and video.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Untold Rock Stories The Quick, May 14, 2009

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Richard F. Godfrey - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Untold Rock Stories (Audio CD)

It is great to finally have The Quick on C.D. One of the great powerpop bands ever. I was friends with Danny Wilde back then and went to dozens of concerts and got to introduce them several times. This was truly a great band. Loved them then and still love them now. I had my copy Of MONDO DECO made into a C.D. and have enjoyed their music for thirty five years.. This is a great C.D.