Power Chords, Vol. 1

Power Chords, Vol. 1

Track Listings

1. Efilnikufesin (N.F.L.)

2. Stranger in a Strange Land

3. Midnite Dynamite

4. Sinister Double

5. Black Wind, Fire and Steel

6. Wrecking Crew

7. Savage and the Hungry

8. Hall of the Mountain King

9. Apocalyptic City

10. All You Need Is Rock & Roll

Tracks:

Long Way Down - Electric Frankenstein
Frustration (Crime) - Electric Frankenstein
Clockwise - Electric Frankenstein
For Being Young - U.S. Chaos
Last Call For Alcohol (Don Rawlins) - U.S. Chaos
Frederick, My Only Friend - Jones Crusher
Under My Wheels (Alice Cooper) - Jones Crusher
My Sharona (The Knack) - Yellow Scab
Ivory Girl - Yellow Scab
Bang Bang Lulu - Trauma School Dropouts
England Belongs To Me (Cock Sparrer) - Trauma School Dropouts
My Baby - The Stallions
It's Alright - The Stallions
All Hell Breaks Loose (The Misfits) - The Wives
Strapped Down Tight - The Wives
Chow Fun - Snuka
Orgasm Addict (The Buzzcocks) - Snuka
Stuck In A Phase - L.E.S. Stitches
All This And More (The Dead Boys) - L.E.S. Stitches
I Hated School - The Wretched Ones
Lipstick On Your Collar (Connie Francis) - The Wretched Ones
Horror Business (The Misfits) - Cash Registers
I Don't Want It - Cash Registers

Product Description

1. Electric Frankenstein – Long Way Down
2. Electric Frankenstein - Frustration (Crime)
3. Electric Frankenstein - Clockwise
4. U.S. Chaos - For Being Young
5. U.S. Chaos - Last Call for Alcohol (Don Rawlins)
6. Jones Crusher - Frederick, My Only Friend
7. Jones Crusher - Under My Wheels (Alice Cooper)
8. Yellow Scab - My Sharona (the Knack)
9. Yellow Scab - Ivory Girl
10. Trauma School Dropouts - Bang Bang Lulu
11. Trauma School Dropouts - England Belongs to Me (Cock Sparrer)
12. The Stallions - My Baby
13. The Stallions - It’s Alright
14. The Wives - All Hell Breaks Loose (the Misfits)
15. The Wives - Strapped Down Tight
16. Snuka - Chow Fun
17. Snuka - Orgasm Addict (the Buzzcocks)
18. L.E.S. Stitches - Stuck in a Phase
19. L.E.S. Stitches - All This and More (the Dead Boys)
20. The Wretched Ones - I Hated School
21. The Wretched Ones - Lipstick on Your Collar (Connie Francis)
22. Cash Registers - Horror Business (the Misfits)
23. Cash Registers - I Don’t Want It

Format: CD

Power Chords, Vol. 1
Average customer rating:

Good collection of 2nd-tier acts, lost gems, & 1-hit wonders

Power Chords, Vol. 1
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Hip-O Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Pop | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000005KOV
Release Date: 1997-04-08

Tracks:

Wild Thing - The Troggs
You Really Got Me - The Kinks
Dirty Water - The Standells
Talk Talk - The Music Machine
Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
Baby It's You - Smith
Pushin' Too Hard - The Seeds
Ninety-Nine And One Half (Won't Do) - Fever Tree
I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) - The Electric Prunes
Do Ya - The Move
The Bomber - The James Gang
Hocus Pocus - Focus
Great White Buffalo - Ted Nugent
The Pusher - Steppenwolf

Customer Reviews:

Good collection of 2nd-tier acts, lost gems, & 1-hit wonders.......2005-02-09

I found this collection when as a good Red Sox fan I was searching for a good compilation CD that included the all-time three-chord classic and Fenway Park anthem "Dirty Water" by the Standells.

Not only is that track on here, but the version of "Baby It's You" that I'd been trying to find for ages (I never even knew the band's name; not surprising, I don't know if they've ever done anything else of note). Also helping this CD's cause is "The Pusher", a terrific Steppenwolf track not given to widespread radio play due to the chorus lyrics. And for anyone who hasn't heard "Wild Thing" by the Troggs and "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks to the point of saturation, those tracks open the disc with some instant genuine hit recognition.

A good discovery for me was "Psychotic Reaction" by The Count Five; it's a very passable Yardbirds imitation and a sound that reminds me a lot of the Brian Jonestown Massacre. ELO fans will be interested to hear how the band sounded in its initial incarnation as The Move with a very stripped-down version of "Do Ya", and prog rock fans in general will appreciate what could arguably be considered the birth of the genre with the Focus track "Hocus Pocus" and the James Gang's "Bomber", not the sort of track the casual Joe Walsh fan would expect from him.

All in all it's a decent enough collection of songs by bands whose names -though not necessarily their music- will be familiar to musicologists (sure, I was aware that there was a pychedelic band called The Electric Prunes; I just wasn't aware just how much they sounded like Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd) featuring primitive fuzzed-out amplifiers and cheesy electric organ riffs. Garage rock at its most gloriously underproduced and enduring, the spiritual godfathers of today's indie scene.

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