Pebbles, Vol. 10

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Random bunch of tracks from various Pebbles comps. Subtitled Original '60s Punk & Psych Classics. First time on CD for all songs! AIP. 1996.

Tracks:

I'm A Leather Boy - Leather Boy
Gotta Get Some - Bold
Bad Way To Go - Bruthers
Leave Me Alone - Canadian Squires
Your Golden Touch - Clockwork Orange
Do Me Right Now - Clockwork Orange
Don't Send Me No Flowers - Breakers
No Time To Rhyme - Spirit
On The Go - Leather Boy
Surprise Surprise - Loved Ones
If I Could - Mach V
I Can't Stand This Love - Others
Yes I Know - Prophets
Love - Ravin' Blue
A Girl Like You - Rooks
White Lightnin - RPM's
Look Out World - Silver Fleet
Last Trip - We Who Are
Train Kept A Rollin - Steve Walker & Bold
Mona - Teddy Boys
Do Like Me - Uncalled For
Nature's Children - Kidds
My Soap Won't Float - Regiment
Doin' Me In - Gonn

Album Description

Random bunch of tracks from various Pebbles comps. Subtitled Original '60s Punk & Psych Classics. First time on CD for all songs! AIP. 1996.

Customer Reviews:

Good golly!.......2007-07-13

Far from being a letdown, volume ten of the oh-so-awesome Pebbles series is a supremely rockin' disc, packed with some of the swinginest garage rock classics ever to roar their way outta the 60s. As a matter of fact, I may go so far as to say thatthis is one of the two or three best CD volumes in the entire series (!!!) The songs exemplify garage rock at its best and rawest, with plenty of attitude, electric organs, fuzz guitars, and teenage rage. I mean, seriously, listen to those tunes! "The Leather Boy" and "On the Go" (both by the elusive Leather Boy, a.k.a. Milan) are whaked-out weirdo biker anthems, greasy rockers with thuggish backup vocals, slashing guitars, and tough-guy lyrics. The Bold's "Gotta Get Some" is a leering, saliva-dripping stomper that makes the 'Stones seem tame. This set also features the group's cover of "Train Kept A-Rollin'," which rocks with exactly the kind of untamed ferocity that makes garage rock so much fun. The Bruthers snarl their way through an awesome raver entitled "Bad Way to Go," before the Canadian Squires burst onto the scene with a lean, mean pounder entitled "Leave Me Alone" (the 'Squires, by the way, would later find fame as the Band). The Clockwork Orange turn in two tremolo laden classics by the name of "Your Golden Touch" and "Do Me Right Now," and the Breakers' "Don't Send Me No Flowers (I Ain't Dead Yet)" is a gritty, cocky, and strutting rocker with a monstrous fuzz guitar attack. And then there's Spirite's tense, hypnotic, soul-tinged "No Time to Rhyme," the sneering sarcasm of the Loved Ones' "Surprise Surprise," and the Mach V's catchy anti-drug anthem, "If I Could." Am I done yet? Of course not! There's still the Others' jet-propelled "I Can't Stand this Love, Goodbye," and the Prophets' infectious, low key three-chord jangler, "Yes I Know." Ravin' Blue turn in a stormin' little blues-punker entitled "Love," before the Rooks' "A Girl Like You" comes roaring out of your speakers, with its wonderfully distorted guitars and all-around catchiness. The RPM keep things short and sweet with the brief, but undeniably powerful, snarler known as "White Lightening." The Silver Fleet's "Look Out World" is, admittedly, a ripoff of "Gloria." Still, it's an incredibly good one. Who We Are mix sapced-out psychedelia with fuzz-blastin' garage punk quite effectively on "Last Trip," and the Teddy Boys are just plain insane on their cover of Bo Diddley's "Mona." The Uncalled For's "Do Like Me" is subtle, sarcastic, and quietly intense, and the Kidds' "Nature's Children" is a fuzzy punk pounder with lotsa bite. The Regiments' "My Soap Won't Float" is a wonderfully bizzare psych-punk-popper which may or may not be an excellent parody of the whole concept of hippie mystecism. It's also really, really, really catchy. And then there's "Doin' Me In." A garage-punk-rock-n-roll-proto-metal masterpiece in every sense of the word, the Gonn's "Doin' Me In" is a two-chord monster that combines every single adjective I've used so far in this review (except for "subtle." It isn't subtle), and throws in a few more (for example, "brutal"). Just plain awesome. Garage fans, get this disc right now. NOW!

Bottom of the barrel garage/punk compilation.......2004-06-06

After some really top-notch installments of the PEBBLES series, Vol. 10 is a major let-down. None of the songs really register as good rock tunes; they all sound identical to each other. The two really awesome tracks are by Leather Boy, "I'm a Leather Boy" and "On the Go", which show that insanity really was alive and well in the New York City area in 1967. Other semi-interesting tracks include The Bold's "Gotta Get Some" and The Silver Fleet's "Look Out World" (an obvious re-working of "Gloria").

It's unfortunate Vol. 10 is a big-time disappointment, and I would say it's worth it for the Leather Boy tracks, but I believe they can be found elsewhere on other compilations.

More Great Pebbles.......2002-05-29

It's great to see these in print on CD,but I favor the original LP series for a few different reasons. First,this stuff was meant to be heard on RECORDS,and most of it comes from the 45's themselves,no original masters here!! Second the running order of the CD's are messed up,on this collection you get a mixture of I think Vol.'s 8,10,11 & 13 if I remember correctly. I think they should have done 2 LP volumes per disc and released them in order,you know 1 & 2 on a disc,3 & 4 on the next for some consistency. But you can't complain about the music,it's primo obscure teenage chaos all the way,no matter which one you pick up.

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