SHANES 1963-68! 7C 138-35952/3 (-83) MONO + STEREO SWEDEN

The third Shanes album I'm putting up here and to my taste this and the first two are all you need by the group. From the same EMI serie as the "Tages 1964-68" I posted earlier. Wrapping is in the same mode with laminated flip/back cover, glossy pic and info inners, and the labels are the original sixties design. Seventeen of the thirtytwo tracks were previously non-LP - single A:s and B:s, two EP cuts and one from a charity sampler. All numbers have the original mixes - twenty mono and twelve compatible stereo. I like the northern years 1963-65 best. Later on as they moved to Stockholm it got more melodic and well produced with increased popularity and bigger sales. Good for them, but to me it wasn't the same band anymore. The earliest cuts are "Oh Wow" - considered the first Swedish "pop" single, three guitar instrumentals, a live EP number, cuts from the debute album and a few r&b A:s and B:s including my absolute favorite "I Don't Want Your Love" - you can check it here with bad audio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7r_WBeA2dM . Some of it is garage in its purest form - a couple of self-tought guys playing their own primitive compositions the best they can, live in the studio with few overdubs. There's nothing fancy or elegant about it - it's primal and sometimes sloppy, but compensated with lots of attitude. Also on CD (EMI 475 0302). (SCÄ*) (XHÄ*)(CCÖ*)