Lenny Kaye Presents Lightning Striking / Various: Lenny Kaye Presents Lightning Striking / Various
Lenny Kaye Presents Lightning Striking / Various: Lenny Kaye Presents Lightning Striking / Various
Format: CD
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Artist: Lenny Kaye Presents Lightning Striking / Various
Label: Ace Records Uk
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 029667104128
Genre: Rock
Two CDs. There are probably fewer pundits more qualified to opine upon popular music's past than Lenny Kaye. A keen observer of, and participant within, rock music's continued manifestations since it's birth pangs in the early 1950s, Kaye's deep knowledge, erudite analysis and infectious enthusiasm for the many tributaries whence and to where this behemoth of popular culture has flowed is something any aficionado should pay attention to. There is no better place to start than Lightning Striking, Kaye's new book that is part history, part memoir and one hundred percent engaging from start to finish. Like the book, it is a mixture of the familiar but essential and the fascinatingly unpredictable: in other words, not dissimilar to Kayes's curatorial triumph of yore Nuggets, the compilation that established the garage rock genre. The earliest entry is the Boswell Sisters' 1934 prophetic 'Rock And Roll', the most recent 'Gimme Chocolate!!" by hard rock/J-Pop hybrid Babymetal. In-between we hear a nuanced selection of the finest vintage R&B, pop, psychedelia, punk rock and heavy metal, from an intriguingly diverse selection of bedfellows. The sound quality is second to none, with plenty of ear-wrenching rarities - for instance, the unissued stereo take of the MC5's blitzkrieg 'Looking At You' peels paint faster than even the original mono A-Square single. Not to mention curios like 'Crazy Like A Fox', the author's very own 1966 "nugget if you dug it". Yes, "Lightning Striking" is the perfect companion to the tale Lenny tells, but it is also an energizing, inspiring listen in of itself, and a reminder once again of the life-affirming power of the music we all know and love. Hail, hail rock'n'roll!
Tracks:
1.1 Lightnin' Strikes (Album Version) - Lou Christie
1.2 Rock and Roll - the Boswell Sisters with Jimmy Grier ; His Orchestra
1.3 Sixty Minute Man - the Dominoes
1.4 I'm So Happy - Danny Cobb with the Paul Williams Orchestra
1.5 That's All Right - Elvis Presley
1.6 I'm Gonna Murder My Baby (Cheating and Lying Blues) - Pat Hare
1.7 Dog Me Around Aka How Many More Years - Howling Wolf
1.8 High School Confidential - Jerry Lee Lewis ; His Pumping Piano
1.9 Good Rockin' Tonight (Alt) - Roy Brown with Bob Ogden ; Orchestra
1.10 Look What You're Doin' to Me (Ooh-Wee, Baby) - Professor Longhair
1.11 Tutti Frutti - Little Richard ; His Band
1.12 Walking to New Orleans - Fats Domino
1.13 Marcella - the Castelles
1.14 Tiger - Fabian
1.15 A Boy Without a Girl - Frankie Avalon
1.16 Move It! - Cliff Richard ; the Drifters
1.17 I Hear a New World - Joe Meek ; the Blue Men
1.18 Cavern Stomp - the Big Three
1.19 Stupidity - the Undertakers
1.20 Ferry Cross the Mersey - Gerry ; the Pacemakers
1.21 Pride of Man (Demo) - Quicksilver Messenger Service
1.22 Someone to Love - the Great!! Society!!
1.23 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds - Jefferson Airplane
1.24 Cream Puff War - the Grateful Dead
1.25 Coo Coo - Big Brother ; the Holding Company
1.26 Crazy Like a Fox - Link Cromwell
2.1 Looking at You - MC5
2.2 Leavin' Here (Version 1) - the Rationals
2.3 Black Sheep - SRC
2.4 1969 - the Stooges
2.5 Piss Factory - Patti Smith
2.6 Rockin' on the Bowery - Startoon
2.7 Beat on the Brat - the Ramones
2.8 Down at the Rock and Roll Club (Alt) - Richard Hell ; the Voidoids
2.9 Once I Had a Love Aka the Disco Song (1978 Version) - Blondie
2.10 Orgasm Addict - Buzzcocks
2.11 Your Generation - Generation X
2.12 Oh Bondage Up Yours! - X-Ray Spex
2.13 Garageland - the Clash
2.14 Lightin' Strikes Again - Dokken
2.15 Edge of a Broken Heart (Album Version) - Vixen
2.16 Freezing Moon - Mayhem
2.17 Gimme Chocolate!! - Babymetal
2.18 Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney
2.19 Anaconda - Melvins
2.20 Jinx - Tad
2.21 Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Mark Lanegan
2.22 So You Want to Be (A Rock 'N' Roll Star) - Patti Smith Group
