5013929185104

Gonna Rock Tonite! The Complete Recordings 1969-71

Flamin Groovies

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Format: 3CD

Cat No: CRSEGBOX051

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Release Date:  08 January 2021

Label:  Grapefruit / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Clamshell

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  5013929185104

Genres:  Rock  Psychedelic Rock  

  • Description

    RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2019 .



    • Irrespective of musical direction, sales figures or personnel changes, The Flamin’ Groovies have always had greatness attached to their name.



    • Cyril Jordan’s mid-Seventies revamp of the band was certainly a huge influence on entire generations of skinny-tied power poppers, but the Groovies took their first tentative steps on the long and winding road to cult stardom back in the late Sixties, when lead singer, original band leader and rock’n’roll aficionado Roy Loney battled for the upper hand with young pup and Beatles obsessive Jordan.



    • After the tentative, privately-issued 10” mini-album debut Sneakers, the Groovies made the transition from San Francisco also-rans to genuine contenders with a trio of peerless albums – Supersnazz, Flamingo and the particularly magnificent Teenage Head - for major labels (Columbia’s Epic imprint and Buddah subsidiary Kama Sutra).



    • Bolstered by sundry outtakes, alternative versions and single mixes, those three albums now appear under one roof for the first time with Gonna Rock Tonite!, a complete anthology of the band’s studio work during the pivotal 1969-71 timeframe: halcyon days that ended in late 1971 when Loney abruptly quit the group he’d formed just a few short years earlier.



    • Bursting with creative tension, wilful diversity and absurdist wit, Gonna Rock Tonite! climaxes with the classic album Teenage Head, a brazen attempt to out-Stone the Stones that saw one critic describe it at the time of its mid-1971 appearance as “close to being the best hard rock album ever released by an American group”.



    • The definitive issue of these definitive recordings, Gonna Rock Tonite! is a 3-CD set taken from the masters and housed in a striking clamshell box. It includes a 20-page booklet that features a new 7,500 word essay on the band.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Love Have Mercy
      • 2. The Girl Can't Help It
      • 3. Laurie Did It
      • 4. Apart From That
      • 5. Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu
      • 6. The First One's Free
      • 7. Pagan Rachel
      • 8. Somethin' Else /Pistol Packin' Mama
      • 9. Brushfire
      • 10. Bam Balam
      • 11. Around The Corner
      • 12. Rockin’ Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu (Single Version)
      • 13. The First One’s Free (Single Version)
      • 14. Somethin’ Else (Single Version)
      • 15. Laurie Did It(Single Version)

      Disc 2

      • 1. Gonna Rock Tonite
      • 2. Comin' After You
      • 3. Headin' For The Texas Border
      • 4. Sweet Roll Me On Down
      • 5. Keep A Knockin'
      • 6. Second Cousin
      • 7. Childhood's End
      • 8. Jailbait
      • 9. She's Falling Apart
      • 10. Roadhouse
      • 11. Shakin’ All Over
      • 12. That’ll Be The Day
      • 13. Louie Louie
      • 14. My Girl Josephine
      • 15. Around And Around
      • 16. Rockin’ Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu
      • 17. Going Out

      Disc 3

      • 1. High Flyin' Baby
      • 2. City Lights
      • 3. Have You Seen My Baby?
      • 4. Yesterday's Numbers
      • 5. Teenage Head
      • 6. 32-20
      • 7. Evil Hearted Ada
      • 8. Doctor Boogie
      • 9. Whisky Woman
      • 10. Scratch My Back
      • 11. Carol
      • 12. Rumble
      • 13. Somethin’ Else
      • 14. Walking The Dog
      • 15. Going Out (Version 2)