You Can’t Sit Down/Money (That’s What I Want)/Louie Louie/Do You Love Me/Big Boy Pete/Oo Poo Pah Doo/ Sometimes/Gone/These Are Bad Times/Fever/Time Is On My Side/A Kiss To Remember You By
Here They Come! was an early album from popsters Paul Revere & The Raiders, before the hits started to roll, divided into a raw live side and a slow pop ballads side. (US:71)
“The first half of this album seems live and the lead guitar is especially good. Furthermore, in the first half the band sounds like a popular, cashed up pub rock band. I also liked the second, especially for what I assume are original songs.”
“Side one is rowdy and raucous, live, old-style R & B pop rock, while side two is studio recordings of slow pop ballads. Both sides feature some covers of material typical of this vintage. Unfortunately, it's still a long way from the type of stuff they would be into towards the end of the decade.”
“It is mostly a covers album with a poorly produced live side. But they cover the songs as good as anyone and their versions of some of these mid 60s standards are among my favourites.”
“This is Paul Revere & The Raiders before they began to have hits. They were a typical garage band with a raw sound. Like many other groups of the time, they could not write enough material to fill an album, so they turned to cover songs with varying success. Rather average, but a good reflection of the time period.”
“This album is best of the genre. The album was the template for thousands of garage bands during the 1960s, who learned the songs and performed them for countless high school dances.”
“I always loved the raw energy of the 'live side', early Raiders before we'd come to know and love them. But, the crowd noise.... all the screaming, well.... it detracts from the sound.”
“Though this album might have some 'rough edges', and the sound quality isn't the greatest, it's a gem. Mark's vocal talent is extraordinary, and the group is musically very tight. It's worth buying for the hot version of Fever alone.”
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