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The Rockin' Vickers - The Complete: It's Alright! CD (RPM)
Submitted by kim on Fri, 2007-02-09 17:25.
1960s | beat | Kim Cooper/ LITG | kinks | lemmy | mod | shel talmy | Who
Active from 1964-1967, this North English combo deserve more than its " Lemmy Kilmeister's first band" footnote. With their taut 40-minute sets and clerical airs, they were favorites of the Northern dance club scene, though the lack of original material limited their options. A late move to London to record for Shel Talmy didn't change the world, though theirs' surely turned more moddish and they found hipper writers to cover. The band's appealing confidence shows in the title track, a startling rearrangement of the Who's then-unreleased "The Kids Are Alright" replete with tinkling keys and falsetto call-and-response vocals, and on the irresistibly twitchy "Say Mama." Stay tuned till the closer, "Little Rosy," an unreleased Ray Davies tune performed with properly Kinksy abandon.
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