Them - The Complete Them 1964-1967 (2015) [email protected] Beolab1700
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Them - The Complete Them: 1964-1967
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Artist...............: Them
Album................: The Complete Them: 1964-1967
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2015
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Codec................: LAME 3.99
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Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 18/12/2015
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Tracklisting
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CD 1 (1964-1965)
Don’t Start Crying Now
One Two Brown Eyes
Baby Please Don’t Go
Gloria
Philosophy
Here Comes the Night
All for Myself
One More Time
How Long Baby
Mystic Eyes
If You and I Could Be As Two
Little Girl (album version)
Just a Little Bit
I Gave My Love a Diamond
You Just Can’t Win
Go On Home Baby
Don’t Look Back
I Like It Like That
I’m Gonna Dress in Black
Bright Lights, Big City
My Little Baby
(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
(It Won’t Hurt) Half As Much
CD 2 (1966-1967)
Could You Would You
Something You Got
Call My Name (album version)
Turn On Your Love Light
I Put a Spell On You
I Can Only Give You Everything
My Lonely Sad Eyes
I Got a Woman
Out of Sight
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Bad or Good
Hello Josephine
Don’t You Know
Hey Girl
Bring ‘Em On In (album version)
Richard Cory
Friday’s Child
The Story of Them Part 1
The Story of Them Part 2
Baby What You Want Me to Do
Stormy Monday Blues
Times Getting Tougher Than Tough
CD 3 (Demos, Sessions & Rarities 1964-1967)
Don’t Start Crying Now (demo)
Gloria (demo)
One Two Brown Eyes (demo)
Stormy Monday Blues (demo)
Turn On Your Love Light (alternate version)
Baby Please Don’t Go (Take 4)
Here Comes the Night (Take 2)
Gloria (Live on BBC’s “Saturday Club”)
All for Myself (Live on BBC’s “Saturday Club”)
Here Comes The Night (Live on BBC’s “Saturday Club”)
Little Girl (version one)
Go On Home Baby (Take 4)
I Gave My Love a Diamond (Take 8)
(It Won’t Hurt) Half As Much (Take 2)
My Little Baby (Take 1)
How Long Baby (Take 1)
One More Time (Take 14)
Gloria (Live on BBC’s “Saturday Club”)
Here Comes the Night (Live on BBC’s “Saturday Club”)
One More Time (Live on BBC’s “Saturday Club”)
Call My Name (single version)
Bring ‘Em On In (single version)
Mighty Like a Rose
Richard Cory (Alternate Version)
Disc 1, Tracks 1-2 from Decca UK Single F-11973, 1964
Disc 1, Tracks 3-4 from Decca UK Single F-12018, 1964
Disc 1, Track 5 from Decca UK EP DFE-8612, 1965
Disc 1, Tracks 6-7 from Decca UK Single F-12094, 1965
Disc 1, Tracks 8-9 from Decca UK Single F-12175, 1965
Disc 1, Tracks 10-22 from The “Angry” Young Them!, Decca UK LP LK4700, 1965
Disc 1, Track 23 from Decca UK Single F-12215, 1965
Disc 2, Tracks 1-15 from Them Again, Decca UK LP LK4751, 1966
Disc 2, Track 16 from Decca UK Single F-12403, 1966
Disc 2, Track 17 from Major Minor UK Single MM-509, 1967
Disc 2, Tracks 18-19 from Major Minor UK Single MM-513, 1967
Disc 2, Tracks 20-22 from Decca Netherlands EP BU70500, 1967
Disc 3, Tracks 1-10, 12-20, 24 Previously Unreleased
Disc 3, Track 11 possibly from England’s Greatest Hitmakers (Also known as The Lord’s Taverner’s Charity Album), Decca UK LP 4695, 1965
Disc 3, Tracks 21-22 from Parrot Single 45-9819, 1966
Disc 3, Track 23 Originally unreleased, released on London LP Backtrackin‘, 1974
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Them were one of the very best R&B acts to come out of the U.K. during the British Invasion era, as tight, wiry, and potent as their contemporaries the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the Pretty Things.
But as good as they were, their greatest strength was always their lead singer and main songwriter, Van Morrison, who even in his earliest days boasted a style that was raw and unapologetic but full of street smarts and imagination. Morrison’s run with Them lasted a bit more than 2 and a half years, but it laid the groundwork for his wildly idiosyncratic solo career as well as setting a standard that the band would never equal after he left to strike out on his own. There have been plenty of collections devoted to Morrison’s tenure with Them, but The Complete Them: 1964-1967 is not only comprehensive but has Van’s seal of approval, as it was assembled by Morrison’s own team and features liner notes from the man himself. Sequenced chronologically, The Complete Them devotes its first two discs to the group’s two albums of the period, Them (aka The Angry Young Them) and Them Again, as well as non-LP single and EP tracks.
Disc two is devoted to demos, alternate takes, and some live tracks cut for BBC Radio, nearly all of them previously unreleased. According to Morrison’s notes, Them’s lineup was never consistent, especially in the studio, as the group’s producers often brought in studio musicians (including Jimmy Page) to beef up the performances, but the product was both consistent and strong, with razor-sharp guitars and swirling organs dominating the arrangements and Morrison’s vocals sounding nearly possessed. Having essentially all of Them’s studio recordings in one place is great, but the bonus material offers a glimpse of their power as a live act, and the outtakes and alternate versions reveal the growing sophistication of Morrison’s approach over the course of 24 tracks. Morrison’s essay offers as much opinion as it does fact, but given his well-documented reticence, the fact he wrote the notes at all is impressive, and when he sums up his notes with “I think of Them as good records…there’s a lot of good stuff here,” he’s absolutely right.
As a history of an underappreciated band’s greatest era or the first steps of one of rock’s most individual artists, The Complete Them: 1964-1967 is essential listening.
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