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The Remains The Remains (Remastered + Expanded) (1966)
The Remains (Remastered + Expanded)\n2007 Epic/Legacy\n\nOriginally Released September 1966\nRemastered + Expanded CD Edition Released May 15, 2007\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: For years, the debut album from Boston's the Remains -- the only album the group would release during their original incarnation -- got a bad rap, not so much for its inherent strengths or weaknesses but because a number of writers and fans (most notably Jon Landau) felt it didn't capture the power and energy of the band's fabled live shows. But while the live-in-the-studio demo the band cut for Capitol Records in 1966 (currently available as A Session with the Remains) may be sharper and more frantic, time has vindicated The Remains as a superb example of blues-influenced garage rock, tough and swaggering but with plenty of heart to go along with all that soul. While the early Rolling Stones are a fair comparison to this, if anything the Remains were able to fuse blues and full-bore rock with a more satisfying sense of groove and Barry Tashian's emotionally charged vocals and bare-wires guitar work are consistently electrifying on this set's ten songs, while William Henry Briggs' keyboards offer solid and admirably varied support. While the album gets off to a midtempo start with the deep and moody "Heart" and "Lonely Weekends," once the band shifts into fourth gear with the almost-hit "Don't Look Back" this album rocks solidly, and the six originals show Tashian, Briggs, and bassist Vernon Miller were all top-shelf songwriters. If The Remains isn't quite the flamethrower set their legend would lead some to expect, it's blue-eyed soul and blues at its most potent, and one of the most thoroughly satisfying albums to come out of the '60s garage rock era. \n\n[While the material from The Remains made its CD debut on a 1991 compilation called Barry and the Remains, that disc featured new digital remixes and rearranged the sequence, folding the songs in with a handful of non-LP single sides and an alternate take of "Say You're Sorry." Legacy's 2007 reissue of The Remains restores the original sequence and tacks ten single tracks at the end as bonus tracks (though the alternate "Say You're Sorry" is now lost to history). The 2007 CD also brings back the original mixes from the album's initial LP release, and though they aren't quite as crisp as their 1991 digital counterparts, Bob Irwin's remastering makes a world of difference, and this disc boasts a clarity and richness that honors the original sonic intentions while bringing the audio closer to contemporary standards. Hearing the original ten songs in their intended sequence really does make a difference, and purists will certainly appreciate hearing this material in a much closer approximation of its original form; it's a great reissue of an album that's stood the test of time with flying colors.] -- Mark Deming\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nOne of the Best of Boston --, May 20, 2007 \nBy Joseph Nagarya (Boston, MA)\n\nand, for those who know sufficient 1960s Boston music scene history, originally from Brookline, they got their start at Boston University, and became the original house band of the Rathskeller (the "Rat") in Kenmore Square. For garage-rock lovers, and those who falsely believe punk began in the 1980s. \n\nThey opened for The Beatles for part of their 1966 US tour. And broke up shortly after their LP was released -- as happened with many of the day. \n\nLast I heard, lead singer/guitarist Barry Tashian, and Eric Liljequist, formerly of the best band on Massachusetts's South Shore, The Orphans, after or in addition to years of work as Nashville session musicians, have been backing Emmylou Harris. \n\nThis has everything on the earlier releae on Epic/Legacy, except in this instance the first ten tracks are LP-order. This has the original LP cover, but it was the wrong photograph: the person second from the right -- David Sherman -- was their fill-in bass player (and long-time friend from late 1970s through mid-/late-1980s). I got the mono of the LP when it came out in 1966, and Dave gave me his stereo copy. So now I can have the LP-size cover, and at the same time preserve the near-mint vinyls. \n\nAlso well worth hearing is the CD release "A Session with The Remains," their audition tape for Capitol Records, an unrehearsed, straight-from-gig run-through of their stage set -- but without club noise. These guys were hot! \n\nWhy are you reading this? Buy the CD, put on the headphones, and turn it up! \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\n"America's greatest lost band", June 24, 2007 \nBy Fred Cantor (New York City)\n\nI am admittedly biased, since I produced a stage musical about The Remains, "All Good Things," and am in post-production on a documentary about the group, "They Were How You Told A Stranger About Rock'N'Roll"--the title is taken from the famous quote Jon Landau wrote in the January 67 Crawdaddy about The Remains after their breakup. \n\nBut don't take my word for how fantastic the music is. Just read the following opening sentences from Mark Kemp's review in the June '07 edition of Paste Magazine. (Mark, by the way, is the former music editor of Rolling Stone and VP of Music Editorial at MTV.) \n\n"Good as Mick and Keith were at reimagining rhythm & blues as hard rock on The Rolling Stones' 1964 debut, they didn't hold a candle to what The Remains would deliver two years later. Had these Boston bad boys stuck it out beyond their 1966 debut, we might today be calling them--and not the Stones--the World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band. As it is, The Remains most certainly are America's greatest lost band." \n\n\nHalf.com Details \nProducer: Billy Sherrill, Bob Irwin (Reissue), Bob Morgan, Robin McBride, Ted Cooper \n\nAlbum Notes\nAudio Remasterer: Bob Irwin.\nRecording information: 1965 - 1966.\n\nBoasting remastered sound and an altered track listing, 2007's THE REMAINS essentially replaces Legacy's earlier BARRY & THE REMAINS disc. The 20-track set presents many of the finest mid-1960s recordings by the sorely underrated Boston-based garage-rock act the Remains, who were led by vocalist/guitarist Barry Tashian. Highlights include the urgent Animals-like single, "Don't Look Back" (which was featured in the lauded NUGGETS box set), and the gloriously jangly "Why Do I Cry," along with an outstanding cover of Don Covay's R&B classic "Mercy, Mercy." For true aficionados of '60s U.S. garage bands, this collection is indispensable.
This rock cd contains 20 tracks and runs 49min 59sec.
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