Hypstrz: Hypstrz on CD

Hypstrz

CD (Compact Disc)

Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.

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Current price: EUR 15.99

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Label:: Bomp
Year of recording ca.:: 2005
Item number:: 2360924
UPC/EAN:: 0095081409224
Release date:: 29.1.2008

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Almost all of The Hypstrz recorded output comes from tapes of two live dates at the Longhorn Club in April 1979. This includes the whole LP, EP, and 15 unreleased tracks also included on this 37 track CD. You also get three 'new' live tracks recorded 25 years later. The band still sound like a human jukebox, an imaginary juke box playing all your favourite 60's garage punk tunes, with a little bit of R&B and rock'n'roll. If such a thing as a 'Pebbles Top 40 Favourites' ever existed, virtually all of them would be in The Hypstrz set list; 'Action Woman', 'Little Girl', '96 Tears', 'Tried To Hide', 'Shake' and scores of others. Almost no-one was doing this kind of stuff in the late '70s. On these recordings the band have a raw, direct approach. Bill Batson's vocal, backed by frantic guitar, bass and drums, with the occasional backing vocal. You can almost hear the Batson brothers saying to each other "If there are any real complicated bits in these songs we'll just miss 'em out and strip 'em right back to their basic essentials!" - Phil Suggitt / Shindig! The year? 1979. The band? The Hypstrz. The place? Jay's Longhorn. The music? Cover songs. A lot of them. But before you say, "Ugh! A cover band? Please no!" Let me say, this isn't some cover band playing KC & the Sunshine Band songs down at the Jersey shore. In the disc's liner notes, The Hypstrz explain, "We chose to cover songs we loved rather than write ones that we didn't love." And their love for the music they chose comes through in the recordings. And whom do they love? The Music Machine..., The Trashmen, The Sonics, Standells, 13th Floor Elevators, Love and like thirty other groups you and I may or may not know. But The Hypstrz know 'em, love 'em and play them. It's garage rock from before they were calling it garage rock. The last three songs were from a 2004 show they played, so they're still around. Why not book them for your next wedding or suffer through another version of "Shake your Booty"! The bulk of this 37-song Garage Rock extravanganza...