[2018-01-26] VA "Jon Savage's 1965: The Year The Sixties Ignited" 2CD set (Ace UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Dec 09, 2017 1:51 am

Description
A genre-spanning 2CD mix of hit singles, slow burners and lost gems from soul, funk, psych, garage and rock’n’roll. The 45s that defined 1965 and crystallised author Jon Savage’s memories of the year.

1965 was the year of Dylan, folk-rock and protest, and the year when the post-beat bohemian subculture took over from traditional showbiz as the principal youth culture. Suits and group uniforms were out: denim, suede and long hair in. It was also a vintage Motown year. In the first week of 1965, the Supremes were at #2 US and three other Motown records were in the Billboard Top 40. Two weeks later the Supremes reached #1, the first of six Motown achieved that year – and, in March, EMI UK launched the Tamla Motown label with hits by the Supremes and Martha & the Vandellas. Harder core soul artists such as Wilson Pickett and James Brown also had US pop hits and, thanks to the pirate radio stations and inspired promotion by Decca PR Tony Hall, Pickett narrowly missed the UK Top 10.

The thing about the 60s, certainly for a media-scanning 12 year-old like me, was that it wasn’t like an Austin Powers film, with a three-CD set of top hits blasting out of an E-Type on Carnaby Street. To hear the record you wanted, you had to wade through what seemed like oceans of dreck – maudlin ballads by the Bachelors, Jim Reeves and Ken Dodd that seemed to last a lifetime – before you got to the Yardbirds, Dylan, James Brown or the Who. The experience of hearing those great records then was even more powerful in that relief.

These two CDs are an enhanced version of what I remember from 1965, based on regular exposure to Ready Steady Go!, Top Of The Pops and Radio Caroline South. The tracks are arranged along chronological lines, with a few deviations for the sake of flow. It’s not possible to be definitive, and if there are any major artists missing, there is usually a good reason. Some of the records here are very familiar: others were extremely obscure in 1965, and have only come to light in recent years. Part of the pleasure of pop fandom is in discovering lost and hidden singles and albums from a familiar period that expand your knowledge of what was going on at the time – in a period that you might have been too young to fully comprehend.

JON SAVAGE

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. Concrete And Clay - Unit Four Plus Two
2. Land Of A Thousand Dances Pt 1 - Thee Midniters
3. Shotgun - Jr Walker & The All Stars
4. Come And Stay With Me - Marianne Faithfull
5. That's The Way It's Got To Be - The Poets
6. Fortune Teller - Tony Jackson with The Vibrations
7. Twine Time - Alvin Cash & The Crawlers
8. Stranger In Town - Del Shannon
9. Nowhere To Run - Martha & The Vandellas
10. Iko Iko - The Dixie Cups
11. Boot-Leg - Booker T & The MG's
12. Leaving Here - The Birds
13. I'm Alive - The Hollies
14. Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind - Vashti
15. Anyway Anyhow Anywhere - The Who
16. Incense - The Anglos
17. The Price Of Love - The Everly Brothers
18. Boss Hoss - The Sonics
19. Nobody Knows What's Goin' On (In My Mind But Me) - The Chiffons
20. Heart Full Of Soul - The Yardbirds
21. Agent Double-O-Soul - Edwin Starr
22. In The Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
23. Too Many People - The Leaves
24. See My Friends - The Kinks

[CD2]
1. I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better - The Byrds
2. Buttermilk Pt 1 - Sly
3. Anything - The Vejtables
4. Can't Seem To Make You Mine - The Seeds
5. Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl - The Barbarians
6. London Town - The Pretty Things
7. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - The Silkie
8. From A Buick 6 - Bob Dylan
9. If You Gotta Go, Go Now - Manfred Mann
10. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown
11. Ain't That Peculiar - Marvin Gaye
12. Can You Hear Me - Lee Dorsey
13. It's My Life - The Animals
14. You Just Gotta Know My Mind - Karen Verros
15. Blow Your Mind - The Gas Co
16. The Train From Kansas City - The Shangri-Las
17. You've Got What I Want - The Sorrows
18. Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness) - Donovan
19. Girl From The North Country - Link Wray
20. I've Got Mine (Universal/Dick James Music Ltd) - Small Faces
21. The Duck - Jackie Lee
22. The Story Of John Hardy - The Sir Douglas Quintet
23. We Sell Soul - The Spades
24. My World Is Empty Without You - The Supremes

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Rick A · 23 Jul 2006

Having purchased and enjoyed the 1967 set I am in for this one.

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pobbard · 18 Jun 2007

I have the 1966 and 1967 sets. Ace does a fabulous job with their compilations; I'm in for this one, too.

Rick A · 23 Jul 2006

pobbard wrote:

I have the 1966 and 1967 sets. Ace does a fabulous job with their compilations; I'm in for this one, too.

Totally agree, I love ACE! :thumbsup:

[2018-01-26] VA "Jon Savage's 1965: The Year The Sixties Ignited" 2CD set (Ace UK)

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