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Chuck Berry may have written the lyrical book of rock & roll, but Berry was nearly 30 when he scored his first hit. Eddie Cochran was the teenage embodiment of '50s rock--a guitar-playing James Dean/Elvis Presley-like rockabilly star who wrote his own teen-themed songs, many later covered by the likes of the Who and the Sex Pistols. This Razor & Tie anthology stands with the
Legendary Masters album as the best U.S. compilation, repeating 15 tracks from the earlier collection and including such obscurities as the Cochran Brothers' "Tired and Sleepy." Unfortunately, there's no "Three Stars," but this is still a mighty fine sampler of prime output by a visionary artist who died three years into his recording career.
--Bill Holdship
Entertainment Weekly
Cochran did it all: wrote, sang, and played his own first-class lead Guitar ... this mini-trove is as good a one-volume Cochran sampler as you'll find. . . .
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Somethin' Else: The Fine Lookin' Hits of Eddie Cochran
Average customer rating:
- Unbelievably underrated and gone too soon.
- Oh What could have been
- Buy this album
- The real Elvis
- Good Collection of songs
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Somethin' Else: The Fine Lookin' Hits of Eddie Cochran
Eddie Cochran
Manufacturer: Razor & Tie
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
 General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Rockabilly
| Oldies & Retro
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Oldies & Retro
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
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ASIN: B0000063B8
Release Date: 1998-02-24 |
Tracks:
- Tired And Sleepy - The Cochran Brothers
- Skinny Jim
- Long Tall Sally
- Sittin' In The Balcony
- Drive-In Show
- Twenty Flight Rock
- Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie
- Summertime Blues
- C'Mon Everybody
- Nervous Breakdown
- My Way
- Teenage Heaven
- Weekend
- Somethin' Else
- Boll Weevil
- Hallelujah I Love Her So
- Guybo
- Cherished Memories
- Three Steps To Heaven
- Cut Across Shorty
Amazon.com
Chuck Berry may have written the lyrical book of rock & roll, but Berry was nearly 30 when he scored his first hit. Eddie Cochran was the teenage embodiment of '50s rock--a guitar-playing James Dean/Elvis Presley-like rockabilly star who wrote his own teen-themed songs, many later covered by the likes of the Who and the Sex Pistols. This Razor & Tie anthology stands with the Legendary Masters album as the best U.S. compilation, repeating 15 tracks from the earlier collection and including such obscurities as the Cochran Brothers' "Tired and Sleepy." Unfortunately, there's no "Three Stars," but this is still a mighty fine sampler of prime output by a visionary artist who died three years into his recording career. --Bill Holdship
Customer Reviews:
Unbelievably underrated and gone too soon........2007-06-07
This is a truly great CD, but there are far too few American made CD's available of Eddie Cochran. He was every bit as musically important and influential as many of the other early rockers; maybe more so. Like I said, this is a great CD, but it's really just an introduction to his music. He recorded so many more songs, and they are available on European reissues. Unfortunately, some of these CD's are hard to come by. Eddie is much more revered in Europe than in the U.S. All of his music should be available on domestic reissues. But if you like great guitar work and great rock'n'roll, then by all means get this.
Oh What could have been.......2007-02-07
A must have record for all you rock-a-billy music freaks. Can't help but wonder how bright Eddie's star might have shinned, if not for the car wreck that took him way to young. An excellent cd with all the great songs! He was Somethin' Else!
The Mean Eyed Cat
KNON Radio 89.3
Rock-A-Billy Review
Dallas, Texas
Buy this album.......2006-10-24
Eddie Cochran is the man. Rock & roll never got better. In Cochran, you will hear some of Elvis, some of Jerry Lee Lewis, some of Buddy Holly, some of Little Richard, but each of those greats was odd in his own way; Eddie Cochran is the center, towering above with his pure American blue-jeans and hot-rod ATTITUDE. Hear his brilliant little guitar innovations creating rock from country. Hear the constant humor and brash confidence that invented "cool." The incredible kids that created rock with that indendent moxie could only have been American. Cochran's own compositions and the songs he made his own are a treasure of US history - how the kids making out in the movie theater would not know what was on the screen, but they would stop to watch Bugs Bunny - how the country kids would park and gaze out at the "pale city lights" (yeah, before orange crime-lights came along)," etc. I lived rock & roll, and I always loved Summertime Blues, but I discovered the rest of Cochran late in life - and forever among my absolute top rock & roll favorites of all time are his Twenty-flight Rock, C'mon Everybody, My Way, Somethin' Else, Weekend, Nervous Breakdown, Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie, Hallelujah I Just Love Her So, Boll Weevil - more Cochran in the top tier than anyone else. Listen to Somethin' Else; get that attitude under your skin; then go out and make your dreams come true.
The real Elvis.......2006-09-29
Well, we all know about Elvis. The King. But Eddie Cochran inspired the next generation - from Blue Cheer's proto-metal hit "Summertime Blues," to "C'mon Everybody," to "Twenty Flight Rock." The latter was how Paul introduced himself to John in the Quarrymen. Punk bands in NYC covered "Nervous Breakdown" and "Something Else" throughout the '70's. Eddie was punk back when the word was only used by cops. From start to finish, Eddie delivers rockabilly rebellion and true rock & roll. His songs are classic. Had he not died at 22 who knows what else he would've created. The good die young, but the music lives on. Buy this collection - money well spent.
Good Collection of songs.......2005-10-15
Eddie Cochran rocks, This is a must have for any Rockabilly fan or any fan of Rock n Roll........The real stuff. It's too bad he had to die at such a young age, it would've been nice if he could've been around to make more great music, with songs like "Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie", "Somethin' Else", "Come on everybody", "Guybo", "Summertime Blues", "Twenty Flight Rock", and my personal favorite "Bolweevle" (don't know if thats spelled right, but its a really cool song).
This is an Enjoyable album from start to finish, this is the way rock n roll is supposed to sound.
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