Another of those compilations allowing you to dig deeper into rock history and also get a couple of very rare tracks. Namelosers was a Swedish band only existing a little more than a year 1964-66, in which time they recorded a couple of 45:s. The "Susie Q" cover here, flip side of their 1965 debute single, has a genuine garage quality with lots of messy fuzz guitar. The Moonlighters "Hi Lili, Hi Lo" version otherwise 45 only. To my knowledege the Amsterdam group Dutch Beat Collage just issued one single - "We Love The Pirate Stations"/"You Treat Me" - while this "Black Is Black" cover only surfaced on a couple of compilations. Sir Henry And His Butlers was a Danish band who during their existence 1964-83 issued quite a few domestic albums and 45:s with success in Scandinavia and also got recognition in Germany and downunder. All three songs here are from their eponymous 1965 debute LP. The Shanes are represented by two cuts from the second album "Shanegang" and two from the third "Shanes Again". Don't know anything about The Beat-Six, responsible for the remaining four tracks, all in a mellow r&b style. But as they only seem to have showed up on this and a couple of other German compilations I'm guessing some kind of studio motley. So there are some good items here for the rock archeologist, my only problem is the audio. You get about 50/50 true mono or stereo, though all of it largely enhanced with added reverb making it less than ok. Luckily pushing the mono button pulls it together and take away most of the reverb...so if you thinking of buying and wanna enjoy the music to the fullest it'll help to have one of those on your equipment. To my knowledge this German was the only issue. It had label as shown here and thin laminated cover. (SÄM*) (GÖXÄ*)
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