Name: Psychedelic States: New York in the '60s, Vol. 1
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Album: Psychedelic States: New York in the '60s, Vol. 1
#	Song Title	Time
1)	She Ain't Worth All That - The Shades Of Darkness
2)	I Can Feel It - The Sporting Life
3)	Everybody Needs Somebody to Love - The 3rd Evolution
4)	Don't Call My Name - The Weads
5)	Change Is Gonna Come, A - The Off-Set
6)	I Can't Get You Out of My Heart - The Rustics
7)	Please Stay - Shandells
8)	I Can't Get Her Out of My Mind - The Bay Ridge
9)	Freedom - The Essentials
10)	Bad Trip - The Darelycks
11)	Flower - The Go-Nuts
12)	She Understand - The Keepers
13)	She's Too Familiar Now - Quadrangle
14)	Knock on My Door - The Primates
15)	All My Life - The Taboos
16)	Where - The Blue Chips
17)	Sick & Tired - Continentals
18)	Last Stop - Jerry & The Gems
19)	Gimme Love - The Lemon Sandwich
20)	Don't Want Your Lovin' - Mark IV
21)	Why Baby Why - The Mistics
22)	Little Girl - The New Brick Window
23)	I'm Your Man - The Denims
24)	Work - Plastik People
25)	Baby Bring a Way - Poor Richard's Almanac
26)	Stay Away - The Mystic Tide
27)	Lela - The Descendants
28)	Dirty Shame - Age of Reason
29)	Superhog - The Jelly Bean Bandits

Album: Psychedelic States: New York in the '60s, Vol. 1
#	Song Title	Time
1)	She Ain't Worth All That - The Shades Of Darkness
2)	I Can Feel It - The Sporting Life
3)	Everybody Needs Somebody to Love - The 3rd Evolution
4)	Don't Call My Name - The Weads
5)	Change Is Gonna Come, A - The Off-Set
6)	I Can't Get You Out of My Heart - The Rustics
7)	Please Stay - Shandells
8)	I Can't Get Her Out of My Mind - The Bay Ridge
9)	Freedom - The Essentials
10)	Bad Trip - The Darelycks
11)	Flower - The Go-Nuts
12)	She Understand - The Keepers
13)	She's Too Familiar Now - Quadrangle
14)	Knock on My Door - The Primates
15)	All My Life - The Taboos
16)	Where - The Blue Chips
17)	Sick & Tired - Continentals
18)	Last Stop - Jerry & The Gems
19)	Gimme Love - The Lemon Sandwich
20)	Don't Want Your Lovin' - Mark IV
21)	Why Baby Why - The Mistics
22)	Little Girl - The New Brick Window
23)	I'm Your Man - The Denims
24)	Work - Plastik People
25)	Baby Bring a Way - Poor Richard's Almanac
26)	Stay Away - The Mystic Tide
27)	Lela - The Descendants
28)	Dirty Shame - Age of Reason
29)	Superhog - The Jelly Bean Bandits

Performer Notes

It is generally not a difficult task to pick out '60s New York pop and rock. The music tends to have a number of identifying characteristics that render it readily identifiable, usually only a few bars into any given song. Such characteristics include the pugnacious, streetwise vocals, dense fuzz guitar with a certain ruggedness that predicted heavy metal a couple years ahead of the curve, a massively lumbering bottom end with a repetitive thump, a significant strain of R&B, and -- most particularly -- an immediately distinguishable organ sound unique from other organ-heavy regions like Seattle and Boston. All of those attributes, if they can be called such, are in abundance on Gear Fab's first Psychedelic States compilation, which chronicles New York's garage and psychedelic scene. Alongside them you can find the typical teenage romantic angst, snarling insolence, guitar rave-ups, and the Beatles and Stones imitations included in all such collections. The winners here include "Can't Get You Out of My Heart" from the Rustics (band of the teenaged Faine Jade), the brilliantly dismissive, downright vulgar "Superhog" from the Jelly Bean Bandits (a combo well known to most garage aficionados), the Descendants' Diddley-esque "Lela," the Age of Reason's tough "Dirty Shame," and "All My Life" by the Taboos (the only true bit of acid dementia present here). If you like the other albums in this Gear Fab series, this one will not disappoint. ~ Stanton Swihart