THEM The Angry Young Them DECCA LK 4700 Mono UK MINT

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THEM

"THE ANGRY YOUNG THEM!"

As with most Decca releases of the period, the name of the group was conspicuously absent from the front cover and on the back of the LP they were introduced as The Angry Young Them with an essay on this theme declaring: "These five young rebels are outrageously true to themselves. Defiant! Angry! Sad! They are honest to the point of insult!"
DECCA, LK 4700 Mono, 1965, UK print, red label, in a very, very good condition!

Product Details

• Vinyl (1965)
• Original Release Date: 1965
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Decca
• Condition: vinyl = near Mint (tiny hairlines) / cover = near Mint / label = near Mint
  

Tracklist

Side 1.
1. Mystic Eyes 2. If You And I Could Be As Two 3. Little Girl 4. Just A Little Bit 5. I Gave My Love A Diamond 6. Gloria 7. You Just Can ' t Win
Side 2:
8. Go On Home Baby 9. Don ' t Look Back 10. I Like It Like That 11. I' m Gonna Dress In Black 12. Bright Lights Big City 13. My Little Baby 14. ( Get Your Kicks On ) Route 66

Reviews:
* This is the first UK album for Them. And for me, the best of Van are the early Them recordings. I know most people don't agree, saying this is apprenticeship stuff, the real genius was around the corner.
Mystic Eyes is the perfect album opener, and the rest that follows is terrific. You Just can't Win is a classic, and should be better known. Two tracks, Little Girl, and I Gave My Love a Diamond, are available in two different versions, the album versions here I prefer to the versions on The Story of Them compilation, also known as Them Gold (double album). Single hits like Here Comes the Night, and Baby Please Don't Go, don't appear here. But Gloria does.
The album that followed , Them Again, is also impressive.

* The album's opener is the superb, raw and raucous Mystic Eyes. This was later released as a single by Decca against the wishes of the band. While this track appears to highlight the passionate style of the band, much of the album was completed by session musicians but with Morrison handling the vocals. The band was going through a series of line-up changes at the time. There has been considerable discussion as to the extent of Jimmy Page's involvement with Them as a session musician. He is known to have contributed to a number of recordings by Them and so he is probably on this album, indeed Mystic Eyes does sound very Page-like.After the noise of Mystic Eyes, the second track If You And I Could Be As Two is much slower and brings Van Morrison's voice to the fore. However, Little Girl is another rocker with pounding keyboards and guitar driving the track along. Just a Little Bit is almost a vocal version of Green Onions with the background riff of guitar, bass and keyboards. Gloria has now become a rock classic but it stands here in its original form. Still the staple of many a set list, Gloria is one of Van Morrison's greatest tracks and a a classic of 1960s British R 'n' B. The song was initially released as the B-side of the single Baby Please Don't Go. The jangly guitar with its three repeating chords can be nothing else but Gloria. You Just Can't Win is almost a duet between Morisson and the cymbals. The echo on the voice gives it a deep and almost scary feel. Don't Look Back is the best of the ballads on the album. Written by John Lee Hooker, the track is quite unlike his better-known Boom Boom or Dimples. The listener could be excused for believing that this track is a Van Morrison song as it is so similar to his own material. Maybe this one simply a major influence on his own writing. A further R &B classic is Jimmy Reed's Bright Lights Big City. This is again driven by the guitar and swirling organ, overlain by Morisson's vocals. The album finishes with the standard Route 66, another note of comparison with the debut from the Stones. These two tracks emphasise that either the band or the record company was not confident in putting too many originals on the album. The same could be said of the debut albums from the Beatles, Stones or the Who. These albums show that the days of bands writing all their own material were about to arrive.


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