The Live Ones!
Released: Nov 6, 2001
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Released: Nov 6, 2001
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All six of the songs on this 10" vinyl release were recorded live at Michigan State University in 1966, and were previously unissued. On the rare occasions when live recordings of bands such as the...
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Ban This! Live From Cavestomp!
Released: Oct 31, 2000
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Released: Oct 31, 2000
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While the Standells broke up in the early '70s, drummer and lead vocalist Dick Dodd has staged reunion gigs on a fairly regular basis since the early '80s, and this live album preserves their...
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The Very Best of the Standells
Released: May 19, 1998
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Released: May 19, 1998
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The Standells were a one-hit wonder, and that hit was "Dirty Water," which appropriately opens and closes this compilation (the second version is in stereo). Among the 15 other tracks are the...
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Dirty Water/Why Pick on Me
Released: 1992
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Released: 1992
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In 1992, Big Beat released Dirty Water/Why Pick on Me, which contained two albums -- Dirty Water (1965, originally released on Tower) and Why Pick on Me (1966, also originally on Tower) -- by the...
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The Hot Ones!/Try It
Released: 1993
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Released: 1993
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One good thing about '60s garage punk music is that when it is done right, it's so fast that you plunge right through it -- in that sense, it's a lot like rockabilly music; and with brevity like...
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Riot on Sunset Strip/Rarities
Released: 1993
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Released: 1993
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For this volume in their series of Standells two-fers, label of reissue Big Beat wisely paired two subsidiary releases, the soundtrack of the 1967 film Riot on Sunset Strip (to which the band...
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Hot Hits & Hot Ones: Is This the Way That You Get Your High?
Released: 1993
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Released: 1993
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No one's confusing it with Hot Rocks, but this Big Beat collection is the biggest, best yet available on the Standells, beginning with the A-side of their 1965 breakout "Dirty Water" and ending 20...
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Anthology of Legendary Recordings, Vol. 1
Released: 1981
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Released: 1981
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There have been various best-of compilations since this vinyl-only one came out in the early '80s, the one on Rhino being the easiest to acquire. There's nothing particularly wrong with this one,...
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