Perth Australia Pt. 1

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Album Description
The official bootleg album from the 10th and final concert of Pearl Jam's 2003 tour of Australia. Recorded live on the 23rd of February this 2 disc set features the entire concert and includes a guest appearance from Mark Seymour on the Hunters & Collectors classic, 'Throw Your Arms Around Me'. This is the only official 2003 bootleg to be released commercially. 29 tracks in all. Packaged in mini-LP gatefold sleeve. Sony.

Tracks:

It's My Party
Judy's Turn To Cry
Just Let Me Cry
She's A Fool
The Old Crowd
You Don't Own Me
Run Bobby Run
That's The Way Boys Are
I Don't Wanna Be A Loser
Maybe I Know
Wonder Boy
Hey Now
Sometimes I Wish I Were A Boy
Look Of Love
Sunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows
My Town, My Guy And Me
No Matter What You Do
You Didn't Look Around
I Don't Care
What's A Girl Supposed To Do?
What Am I Gonna Do With You?
We Know We're In Love
Young Love
Off And Running
California Nights
Summer And Sandy
Brink Of Disaster
Small Talk
Sieben Girls
Goodbye Tony (You Don't Own Me)
Nur Du Ganz Allein (It's Gonna Be You)
Start The Party Again

Customer Reviews:

The Ultimate Collection 1963-1968.......2007-04-03

If you are a fan of Leslie Gore, this is for you. It had all my favorites & the ones I had forgotten, too.
If you are looking at this review, you probably already like her & this
CD is it.

Mr. O.B.G........2006-05-04

Great sound,great selection of songs except for 1 glaring omission.Sunshine,Lollipops,And Rainbows on this c.d. is not the original! Liner notes are also a plus.

This album is awesome,It contains 32 tracks, all original hits.that are her greatest hits and some lesser known tracks........2005-12-29

The ultimate collection of leslie gore 1963 thru 1968,contain most of her greatest hits and some lesser known tracks..The sound quality,of this disc is top notch...With 32 tracks your not being short changed on music,like so many 12 song wonders.They didnt split the music up into 3 discs,and overcharge,like some record labels do...A must have disc for sixties music collectors,of all ages...5 star rated."Enjoy"thank you, Stewart L.

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A musical junkyard crammed with ups and downs
abrasive, not that there's anything wrong with that
UPSY DAISY.
Truly Extreme Music
Very urgent, frantic

Junkyard
The Birthday Party
Manufacturer: Buddha
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Prayers on Fire
Mutiny/The Bad Seed
Hee-Haw
From Her to Eternity
Tender Prey

ASIN: B00004T0NA
Release Date: 2000-05-16

Tracks:

Blast Off!
She's Hit
Dead Joe
Dim Locator
Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
Several Sins
Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
Kiss Me Black
6" Gold Blade
Kewpie Doll
Junkyard
Dead Joe
Release the Bats

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A musical junkyard crammed with ups and downs.......2006-07-03

This Birthday Party's third and most notoir album literaly "Blasts off" with total noise, psychotic drums and screaming guitar terror; but then again, it's an LP that is made by a no-holds-barred punk act that's more of a crazed, insane lost-in-the-jungle war ensemble on the loose.

The songs TBP produces can be described best as "well structured chaos". It's fullblown punky mess, but with a mind behind it. Songs like "Six inch gold blade" and "Kwepie doll" are thunder without much point and probably will do nice on stage during cheap, messy, smokey, claustrophobic late night gigs.

"Dead Joe" and "Dead Joe (2nd version)" tell about a car crash and the songs sound just like one. "Hamlet (Pow pow pow)" takes on the graveyard scene from Shakespeare's legendary theatre play and "Several sins" stands out as a kind of eerie but beautiful "punk ballad".

The title track "Junkyard" is maybe the best song TBP ever cried out, with sneering guitars, up and down tempo, and singer Cave's dark voice, sometimes lowkey, sometimes highpitched screaming, perfectly in place. "Release the bats" is more of the same well-formulated chaos but with a catchy base drum by Mick Harvey that's really on a role.

I confess that TBP's first to albums "Hee-haw" and "Prayers on fire" didn't really got to me. Fifty percent of "Junkyard" did in a main way, just as the following (and last) TBP album "Mutiny / The Bad Seed" did.

In some ways, even more. TBP was really growing and maturing (which is really some kind of paradox: I always felt that punk music was mainly created to rage against maturity and the world of oppressing adults) and one would be curious what should have become of this nasty little Party had they not fall apart soon after release of "Mutiny / The Bad Seed".

abrasive, not that there's anything wrong with that.......2005-04-20

Anti 80's pop, nasty sounding, find out who your friends are
rock n roll. My favourite songs are Dead Joe (a classic), Pow
Pow Pow and The Dim Locator. Comparing The Birthday Party to
Midnight Oil is like comparing The Eagles to The Fugs. Not all
American Bands sound the same, ditto in Oz. (I think Midnight Oil are great by the way) This record is a bit
of a time capsule for me, having bought it on vinyl when it was
new. Different to Nick Cave's later stuff, but you don't need me
to tell you that. Junk sculpture turning back to junk junk junk
junk junk unk unk ughh ughh ohh ohh ohh Deaaadddd Joe...etc...
As some Aussies might say "It's a pearler".

UPSY DAISY. .......2004-07-26

this is what rock n roll should sound like. hip-shakin, gasoline sweatin, blood lettin grooviness. channeling the voodoo engergy of the carter family, the delta blues, rockabilly, the stooges, and james brown; bringing the love in the middle of the firefight and then kicking everyone in the county's teeth in.

fans should also check the hair police, xiu-xiu, the pop group, albert ayler, mississippi fred mcdowell, t. rex, and arthur doyle.

Truly Extreme Music.......2003-12-03

The Birthday party, to put it vulgarly, could rip off anyone's face and chew on their brains then, now and tomorrow as well. The Party emerged from the post punk movement that also spawned Joy Division, Bauhaus, The Cure and Christian Death, and which would later be called Goth. (Deathrock in the states) The Birthday Party, however would prove to be one of the most extreme and "hardcore" of lot. While Joy Division and The Cure prefered melancholy and gloom, and Bauhaus and Christian Death - boho artsiness, Nick Cave and his fellow loons gave us a bastard hybrid of garage rock, punk, rockabilly, blues and a bit of lounge as well. The thing that really set them apart was the all out fury and abandon found in their music. Even the fastest and loudest Thrash Metal and Hardcore Punk bands could never dream of creating the atmosphere of raw, unadulterated anger, rage, and tension found on this album. It's almost murderous. Very fitting for songs like Six Inch Gold Blade and Dead Joe. (Probably the greatest Death Rock song ever recorded) One has to wonder what Nick Cave was doing while recording the vocals. Torturing himself with a branding iron maybe? The production values on this recording are almost non-exsistant. The sound is hollow. Low bass end, and ear piercing high end. No middle tone. The vocals sound like they were recorded in a bathroom, the guitar sounds out of tune, and the drums sound... well... broken! But all of these shortcomings add to the experimental nature of this album. And the lyrics... anyone familiar with Nick Cave can expect only some of his best here. Strange characters in ridiculous situations, tons of poetic metaphors and of course Death and Murder. A bit of b-movie horror with the Goth Anthem Release The Bats as well. Essential listening to anyone who thinks today's popular poseur artists are "extreme."

Very urgent, frantic.......2003-05-09

I saw Nick Cave and the Birthday Party twice - once at the Hammersmith Odeon and about six months later at St Albans. The first time I was amazed by the contrast between the performer and the man himself. I spoke to him briefly after the performance and he was cool, rational, and quite generous in his speech. Whatever you might object to, no-one who is a complete 'duh' can either write the songs, perform half so well, or even commission the cover art-

Nick was possibly doing quite a few things during those complicated days, I remember that we were simply being students, we thought "release the bats" was an ideal replacement for the national anthem... When we saw Nick at St Albans later, in spite of the fact that we had talked before, he gave me one of his wild man "better dial for a coffin" look... But that was Nick the performer, I guess, and it was worth the price of the ticket alone...!

Tracks:

The Friend Catcher
Happy Birthday
Mr. Clarinet
Nick The Stripper
Zoo Music Girl
King Ink
Release The Bats
Blast Off
She's Hit
Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
Dead Joe
Junkyard
Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
Wild World
Sonny's Burning
Deep In The Woods
Swampland
Jennifer's Veil
Mutiny In Heaven
Bonus Track

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Mr. Clarification.......2006-07-18

I'm not sure if Damascus "Damn" was being facetious or dead-serious with regard to his review--and I'm guessing I won't be the only one confused--so hopefully this will clear things up:

the Birthday Party is Nick CAVE's first band, originally called the Boys Next Door. They started up around 1977 and lasted until 1983, when Nick, Mick Harvey and others (including Einsturzende Neubauten's Blixa Bargeld) joined Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

The sound of the Birthday Party is challenging stuff: abrasive, menacing, sleazy post-punk noise, with lyrics full of dark, absurd imagery. Certainly not for everyone, though fans of Pere Ubu, Einsturzende, the Swans, and other "No Wave" acts should definitely check them out.

This compilation offers a pretty comprehensive collection of BP classics, though of course the original albums and EPs are available and highly recommended.

"Hee Haw" gathers everything from their early days as a proto-goth band, their two proper albums "Prayers on Fire" and "Junkyard" find them at the peak of their powers, and their final EPs "the Bad Seed" and Mutiny!" demonstrates their increasing interest in slow murky dirges. If you want to hear the roots of Nick's output with the Bad Seeds, these EPS prove to be quite fascinating blueprints for the early stages of his better known band.

Basically, take Damascus Damn's compliments and apply them to a band that's been gone for almost 20 years; their originality and influence becomes that much greater.

Something for everybody!.......2005-12-15

Hearing that this was Nick Lowe's other band, I knew I was in for a treat! Boy was I ever. Having abandoned the cold suit-and-tie affair for a sound that may appeal to the younger generation a bit more, he takes on a much scarier approach here. The kids that listen to Marilyn Manson...beware! The Antichrist Superstar is like a particle board pedestal compared to the die-cast monolith of this artistic atavistic animal.

Now the songs. Oh my, the songs. I'll talk about my favorite songs, but all of them are good, really.

"The Friend Catcher" begins with a hellmouth puckering up to whistle...a prison of sound, indeed! It's actually guitarist Roland Howard (related to Clint and Ron...what a talented family) doing some cRaZy feedback on his guitar. This song is also an update of Green Jelly's "Three Little Pigs" that must be heard to be believed.

The next song is also a more relevant update of another universal song, the "Happy Birthday" song. Only their version has some obvious references to Quentin Tarantino movies and Cujo, complete with Nick doing his so-so impression of the rabid dog. Trivia: This song and the name of the band are about their publically expressed anger towards the original Happy Birthday song being copyrighted and no longer public domain, so you know these are performers for the people. FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AND KEEP PLAYING, BOYS!

"Mr. Clarinet" is a Cyrano De Bergerac kind of story where Nick wants to learn the clarinet from a sort-of friend (you get the feeling he's actually mocking him behind his back, just like in Cyrano's story) to help him serenade a girl. Very touching, nonetheless.

The next song is a bit of a sleazy striptease song, obviously meant to get his female fans in the mood, and it's called "Nick the Stripper." It doesn't really do anything for me, but the music is really cool. I don't know, but it sounds like he says "incest" every once in a while. Hello, Dr. Freud? Nick, it's for you!

"Zoo Music Girl" is about a girl that listens to a lot of animal zoo sounds weirdo music that is driving him up the wall, like one of those girls that work at Pier 1 Imports or the Nature Shop in the mall. The only song I know of that's an ode to girlfriends playing music just to drive their boyfriends insane! Finally boys, we have an anthem. Be sure to thank The Birthday Party!

The next song about weird girlfriends is "Release the Bats." You know those girls that think they're vampires and try to sneak in a "love bite" or two and you end up missing a nipple, if you're lucky. We all do. Nick does too, I think.

Later on, following The Birthday Party tradition of updating old things anew yet again, they take on Shakespeare's "Hamlet." HAMLET! And just like Romeo and Juliet got a facelift in the 1996 movie with guns, the story of the Prince of Denmark and betrayal and DEATH DEATH DEATH get a gun facelift, too. Hamlet was a badass mf, kids. Very educational song.

Not to remain all hoighty-toighty and high-falutin with the Shakespeare homages, The Birthday Party throw us all a HUGE (no, not PARTY, lol) curve with "Dead Joe." "Dead Joe" is about the underground Sylvester Stallone movie "Driven" where he plays a washed-up driver named Joe Tanto that meets a tragic end in a race. It's an emotionally devastating movie that unfortunatly isn't carried in a lot of video stores (There's a petition out there to get it released to dvd).

On "Big Jesus Trash Can" Nick Lowe references his "Jesus of Cool" days from way back in the 70's. Except in our post-911 world, Nick's prophetic eye draws down upon a Jesus will not ascend from the heavens as most may expect, but rather barreling down the streets in a big, stinky garbage truck ala GTA San Andreas. SCARY.

Let me just say that bassist Tracy "Pew" can sure lay down the "funk" (get it?)! He adds that much needed spaghetti western flair to "Wildworld," or should I say, "Wildwest"! Clint Eastwood would be proud.

And I could just go on and on, but I will not. LOWLIGHTS: Even though they mess up really bad on what could have been a really good song, "King Ink," and sound like they lost all control of their instruments and stumble around the studio like raving lunatics, Nick's scream of frustration sets everything straight again, eventually. These boys just don't give up. It has considerable edutainment value for the Hamlet song, too, so it's a great studying aid for your homeschooled children!

Buy this cd if you like guns, ninja swords, fast cars, and cowboys.

My vote for album of the year. Thank you.

Blast Off!.......2005-02-23

This compilation distills all the fury, depravity, and fun of The Birthday Party perfectly. If you can only afford one thing by The Birthday Party, make it this record (though after hearing it you'll probably want to buy or steal all their original albums...well, either that or you'll throw the disc out the window and run to the nearest church). The Birthday Party is known now as "Nick Cave's old band" and while it's true that the Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds share similar lyrical themes and influences, not to mention Mr. Cave's utterly unique vocals, the two bands are very different. The organ and piano that typify The Bad Seeds' sound are mostly absent here. Instead, there's dank, dirty, noisy guitars, heavily improvisational and rather brutal drumming, and on a few songs, twisted cabaret-like horns. The younger Cave on display here is also different from his more recent work. Cave is at once more frighteningly intense (that's a gross understatement, by the way) and more tongue-in-cheek. The Birthday Party might sing about lust, death, disfigurement, depression, death, self-loathing, and even more death, but there's always an apparent sense of theatre to it all. That said, "Hits" is not just one noisy rave-up after another. "Happy Birthday" grooves like a gothic Gang Of Four, "Mr. Clarinet" dances along quite beautifully, "King Ink" is a lumbering beast of a song, "She's Hit" and "Wild World" are both slow and undeniably sexy, "Junkyard" builds slowly, and "Deep In The Woods" is practically spoken-word. I could go on, as every song on this compilation is great, but I don't want to ruin all the surprises. Good old fashioned, evil fun all the way.

Cutting.......2003-06-14

I must admit that even though I've known of Nick Cave's music for quite some time through film soundtracks and duets with Shane McGowan and Kylie Minogue, this is actually the first Cave featured album I've managed to acquire. Even though they were from Austraila, the Birthday Party's darkly Gothic music conveys the atmosphere of early 80's London, where I believe they settled for a while. They seemed to have developed feedback as a sonic aid to song construction a couple of years before Mary Chain's 'Psychocandy'. Great post-punk guitar piecies, 'Mr. Clarinet' reminds me of Keith Levine's guitar riff on 'Death Disco'. 'Zoo Music Girl' seems like a parody of early 80's British chart music's fascination with all things jungle-like ('The Lion Sleeps Tonight' anyone?). 'Release The Bats' like Joy Division's 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' could have been a standard for Elvis. In fact Goth music at its best crystallizes the images and themes of the early 19th century literary form from which it gets its name and the hip-swivelling rhythm of 50's rock 'n' roll. Goth is a 50's parent's nightmare taken to its logical extreme. A fact not lost on Marilyn Manson. The clash of eastern style guitar sounds on 'Wildworld', the punk rock vibes of 'Swampland' and the driving bass of 'Mutiny in Heavan' would soon be left behind by Cave. Mary Shelley would have been proud of the poetics to come, in which 'Deep In The Woods' and 'Jennifer's Veil' are classical examples of his future career.

happy birthday........2002-02-10

Hmm, my first and only Birthday Party release so-far. so good also. This album is split into FOUR QUARTERS. these i shall review.
Hee-Haw period: friend-catcher is symphonic, but nicky doesn't have his vocals perfect yet. birthday sounds gang-of-4-ish, but the real gem here is Mr Clarinet.
The next kiddies here are from Prayers on fire, slightly more impressive. Nick the stripper makes me wonder what kind of stripper nick is, paint maybe? zoo music, king ink, bat releaser and Blast Off! hit the spot like some sort of meshed stooges zombie elvis visigoth spectacular.
Ah, but the Junkyard tracks are spectacular, and rightly so.
I don't feel significant enough to talk about them, but you need them in your life, truly.
Mutiny/bad seed tracks are notibly heavier, slower and bluesier.
My favourite are jennifer's veil and swampland, just for the sheer brutality, deep in the woods slowly crawls no-where for three sour minutes before burning itself alive!. All in all, genuinely scary, unlike that misfits/slipknot [stuff].
...
This Album is good, but bu JUNKYARD, PRAYERS ON FIRE AND MUTINY themselves, you get more pure evil. sorry.

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Before It Was Cool

Hits
The Birthday Party
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005JC2
Release Date: 1992-10-13

Tracks:

Friend Catcher
Happy Birthday
Mr. Clarinet
Nick the Stripper
Zoo Music Girl
King Ink
Release the Bats
Blast Off!
She's Hit
Gold Blade
Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
Dead Joe
Junkyard
Big Jesus Trash Can
Wildworld
Sonny's Burning
Deep in the Woods
Swampland
Jennifer's Veil
Mutiny in Heaven

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Before It Was Cool.......1998-05-13

The boys who took punk and goth and ran screaming out into the Black Forest, never to return, are here codumented in all their hacking, rasping glory. The porn film-beat of the bass and drums and the alien autopsy guitars provide the only appropriate background for the young Nick Cave's screams and poems. Whether creating the cliches of modern "alternative" rock or mocking them, the Birthday Party always did their best to keep their audience awake. From the slow shouts of "Jennifer's Veil" to the high-volume mania of "Big Jesus Trash Can," this album gives you all the best of this highly-influential band.

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Best Single Disc Gore Anthology Available
She'll cry if she wants to, dammit!
Lots of Fun!
Excellent Australian Lesley Gore 60s Compilation

Start the Party Again
Lesley Gore
Manufacturer: Raven [Australia]
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000003IWQ
Release Date: 1997-02-11

Tracks:

It's My Party
Judy's Turn to Cry
She's a Fool
You Don't Own Me
Just Let Me Cry
That's the Way Boys Are
Maybe I Know
Run Bobby Run
Old Crowd
Wonder Boy
Sometimes I Wish I Were a Boy
You Didn't Look Around
Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows
Look of Love
My Town, My Guy and Me
What's a Girl Supposed to Do?
No Matter What You Do
I Don't Care
What Am I Gonna Do With You?
We Know We're in Love
Young Love
Off and Running
California Nights
Summer and Sandy
Brink of Disaster
Small Talk
Sieben Girls
Nur du Ganz Allein (It's Gotta Be You)
Goodbye Tony (You Don't Own Me)
Start the Party Again

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Best Single Disc Gore Anthology Available.......2003-08-01

Lesley Gore was far more than America's little sob sister of the '60s. Her voice was solid and most of her singles on Mercury Records were well-produced. While she started out making (appropriately) adolescent records, her material definitely matured as time went on.

This 30-track retrospective START THE PARTY AGAIN - an import from Australia's Raven Records - is the best single disc available on Gore. Like MANY Gore collections, it contains all of the essential ("It's My Party," "Judy's Turn To Cry," "She's A Fool," "Maybe I Know" and her feminist anthem "You Don't Own Me") as well as the near-essential ("Sunshine Lollipops & Rainbows," "Look Of Love," and "California Nights") hits.

What gives START THE PARTY AGAIN the firm single disc edge is its greater abundance of minor hits and choice album sides. The double-voiced single "Brink of Disaster" is among Gore's most original recordings, with Gore reciting her "conscience's" lines through a megaphone. "Small Talk" and "Summer And Sandy" are nice, breezy summer fare. The relatively low chart placements of these 1967-68 singles says more about pop radio's attitude toward one-time teen stars than it does the quality of these records.

Four tracks from Gore's best album MY TOWN, MY GUY, AND ME are included, with the defiant "I Don't Care" and the ultra-poignant "What Am I Gonna Do About You" being particularly noteworthy. The only real clunkers on this collection are the frantic single "We Know We're In Love" (which Gore immortalized on The Donna Reed Show) and the three recordings Gore sings in German. Their spots would have been better occupied by some of Gore's late '60s singles such as the lush "He Gives Me Love" and the haunting, psychedelic "Magic Colors." Both of those pearls are available on the Bear Family's Gore box set and the double-disc IT'S MY PARTY: THE MERCURY ANTHOLOGY.

She'll cry if she wants to, dammit!.......2001-12-28

Next to the Bear family extravaganza covering all of Lesley's Mercury recordings, this is the best survey of her career. The guy who put this together really knew his Lesley! It is fascinating that 40 years on the world is finally realizing Lesley was more than a teen star, that she was an entirely original artist with an unusual voice unlike any other and records that were produced at the highest state of the art with some of the best talent around. Gore's records stand up incredibly today. There's so much TO them. This is an entirely captivating C.D. you will play over and over. Lesley may not want us to own her but she sure as hell owns us!

Lots of Fun!.......2001-10-06

I have all the Lesley Gore compilations, and this is the best one. Whereas all the other compilations were put together by record companies and include the most obvious songs, this one was put together by a true Lesley Gore fan, and therefore includes some really interesting stuff.

For one thing, this is the only compilation that has Lesley's sizzling rendition of "No Matter What You Do", a very wild and passionate song that totally rocks out with a nasty guitar solo. Not a song one would normally associate with Lesley Gore. She and her background vocalists sound as if they're at a Chippendales performance after having been stranded on an island for ten years. Would've been a hit, except it was too "hot" for 1965 AM radio. I have to blow a fan on my speakers when playing this scorcher, lest all the wiring melt. Also, "What's A Girl Supposed To Do" is here, which should have been a hit single. This song is classic Barry/Greenwich, in the same class as the hits they wrote for the Crystals and Ronettes.

Also, this is the only compilation which includes the superior 45 rpm mixes of "Summer with Sandy" and "Brink of Disaster".

Also, you get to hear Lesley sing in German. "Sieben Girls" is a hoot, because Lesley makes it sound as if these seven girls can't keep away from Johnny.

Lastly, the liner notes and cover art are really fun to read and look at.

Lesley Gore worked with only the best producers and songwriters, and she sang of love and heartbreak, so her music will always be timeless. She was a total class act.

Excellent Australian Lesley Gore 60s Compilation.......1999-08-15

Australian Billboard editor, Glenn A. Baker, who is also a prolific pop music writer, put this close-to-definitive anthology of sixties pop-rock queen Lesley Gore's work together in the 80s on his own vinyl label, and reissued it in 1993 on Raven. Most of the chart hits are here, along with a lengthy, informative and fun essay by Baker himself, who obviously loves the Teen Queen's records. His favorite Gore LP is "My Town, My Guy and Me" from 1965, and five of its tracks are found here, in addition to the title hit, which bear ample witness to his testimony. The 1968 Bonner and Gordon single, "Small Talk" (also covered by Gary Lewis and The Turtles) is here, as are three German language songs, including one original called "Sieben Girls" which is a hoot. Other cuts not found on the other Gore compilations currently available are the smokin' and incendiary balls-out rocker, "No Matter What You Do" and the snarling multi-tracked self-loathing of "I Don't Care." Recommended to anyone interested in a good overview of Gore's 60s material, and to serious Goreheads for the essay and photos alone.