The Standells - Discografia essencial

Banda: The Standells
Gênero: Garage Rock, Beat, Proto-Punk, Psychedelic Rock

Disco: In Person At P.J.s [Bonus Track]

Ano: 1964(*)

Faixas:

1. Help Yourself (Reed) 3:07

2. So Fine (Otis) 2:22

3. You Can't Do That (Lennon, McCartney) 2:42

4. What Have I Got Of My Own (Herring, Sawtell) 2:02

5. Money (That's What I Want) (Gordy Jr., Bradford) 3:46

6. I'll Go Grazy (Brown) 2:13

7. Bony Moronie (Williams) 2:31

8. Ooh Poo Pah Doo (Hill) 3:31

9. Linda-Lu (Sharpe) 4:18

10. Louie Louie (Berry) 4:06

11. The Shake [Bonus Track] (Tamblyn) 2:29

Créditos:

Dick Dodd: Drums, Vocals

Larry Tamblyn: Organ, Vocals

Gary Lane: Bass, Vocals

Tony Valentino: Guitar, Vocals

(*) CD lançado em 2004. Gravado ao vivo no P.J.'s, em West Hollywood, Los Angeles, Califórnia, EUA.

Disco: Dirty Water [Bonus Tracks]

Ano: 1994(*)

Faixas:

1. Medication (Allton, DiTosti) 2:45

2. Little Sally Tease (Valley) 3:00

3. There Is A Storm Comin' (Cobb) 3:20

4. 19th Nervous Breakdown (Jagger, Richards) 3:56

5. Dirty Water (Cobb) 2:49

6. Pride And Devotion (Tamblyn) 2:16

7. Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go? (Roberts) 2:14

8. Why Did You Hurt Me (Dodd, Valentino) 2:31

9. Rari [Full Version] (Cobb) 5:34

10. Batman [Previously Unissued in U.S.] [Bonus Track] (Hefti) 3:07

11. It's All In Your Mind [Previously Unissued in U.S.] [Bonus Track] (Cobb) 2:41

12. Love Me [Previously Unissued in U.S.] [Bonus Track] (Dodd, Valentino) 2:48

13. Medication [Instrumental] [Previously Unissued] [Bonus Track] (Allton, DiTosti) 2:45

14. Poor Man's Prison [Previously Unissued] [Bonus Track] (Henderson, Colley) 2:26

15. Take A Ride [Previously Unissued] [Bonus Track] (Cobb) 2:08

Créditos:

Tony Valentino: Guitar, Vocals

Larry Tamblyn: Organ, Vocals

Gary Lane: Bass, Vocals

Dick Dodd: Drums, Vocals

Dave Burke: Bass (faixa 12)

John Fleck: Bass (faixa 14)

(*) LP lançado originalmente em 1966.

Disco: Why Pick On Me [Bonus Tracks]

Ano: 1994(*)

Faixas:

1. Why Pick On Me (Cobb) 3:18

2. Paint It Black (Jagger, Richards) 3:18

3. Mi Hai Fatto Innamorare (Valentino) 2:31

4. I Hate To Leave You [Previously Unissued in US] [Bonus Track] (Valentino) 2:38

5. Black Hearted Woman (Houle) 3:13

6. Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White (Cobb) 3:39

7. The Girl And The Moon (Tamblyn) 2:57

8. Looking At Tomorrow [Previously Unissued in US] [Bonus Track] (Mann, Weil) 2:31

9. Mr. Nobody (Tamblyn) 2:55

10. My Little Red Book (Bacharach, David) 2:26

11. Mainline (Huntress, Chellis) 2:10

12. Have You Ever Spent The Night In Jail (Cobb) 2:54

13. Our Candidate [Previously Unissued in US] [Bonus Track] (Smith) 2:37

14. Don't Say Nothing At All [Instrumental] [Previously Unissued in US] [Bonus Track] (Hill, Washington) 2:30

15. The Boy Who Is Lost [Previously Unissued in US] [Bonus Track] (Tamblyn) 2:33

Créditos:

Dick Dodd: Drums, Vocals

Dave Burke: Bass, Vocals

Larry Tamblyn: Keyboards, Vocals

Tony Valentino: Guitar, Vocals

(*) LP lançado originalmente em 1966.

Disco: Try It [Bonus Tracks]

Ano: 1994(*)

Faixas:

1. Can't Help But Love You (McElroy, Bennett) 2:54

2. Ninety-Nine And A Half (Pickett, Cropper, Floyd) 4:09

3. Trip To Paradise (McElroy, Bennett) 3:01

4. St. James Infirmary (Traditional) 3:01

5. Try It (Levine, Bellack) 2:54

6. Barracuda (Cobb) 3:12

7. Did You Ever Have That Feeling (Safir) 3:07

8. All Fall Down (Dodd) 2:26

9. Poor Shell Of A Man (Dodd) 2:50

10. Riot On Sunset Strip (Valentino, Fleck) 2:23

11. Get Away From Here [From LP "Riot On Sunset Strip", 1967] [Bonus Track] (Tamblyn) 2:10

12. Try It [Alternate Vocal] [Previously Unissued in US] [Bonus Track] (Levine, Bellack) 2:45

13. Animal Girl [Single B-Side, 1968] [Bonus Track] (Moore) 3:05

14. Soul Drippin' [Single A-Side, 1968] [Bonus Track] (Monda) 2:38

15. Can You Dig It [Previously Unissued] [Bonus Track] (Cobb, McElroy) 4:02

Créditos:

Tony Valentino: Guitar, Vocals

Larry Tamblyn: Keyboards, Vocals

Dick Dodd: Drums, Vocals

John Fleck: Bass, Trumpet, Vocals

(*) LP lançado originalmente em 1967.

Disco: The Hot Ones!

Ano: 1967(*)

Faixas:

1. Last Train To Clarksville (Boyce, Hart) 2:47

2. Wild Thing (Taylor) 4:08

3. Sunshine Superman (Leitch) 2:46

4. Sunny Afternoon (Davies) 3:27

5. Lil' Red Riding Hood (Blackwell) 2:44

6. Eleanor Rigby (Lennon, McCartney) 2:19

7. Black Is Black (Hayes, Wadey, Grainger) 2:55

8. Summer In The City (J. Sebastian, M. Sebastian, Boone) 2:38

9. 19th Nervous Breakdown (Jagger, Richards) 3:57

10. Dirty Water (Cobb) 2:48

Créditos:

Tony Valentino: Lead Guitar, Drums, Vocals

Larry Tamblyn: Piano, Organ, Guitar, Vocals

Dick Dodd: Drums, Guitar, Vocals

Dave Burke: Bass Guitar, 12-String Guitar

(*) CD lançado em 1994.

Disco: Ban This! Live From Cavestomp!

Ano: 2000(*)

Faixas:

1. Riot On Sunset Strip (Valentino, Fleck) 2:47

2. There's A Storm Coming (Cobb) 4:02

3. Why Pick On Me? (Cobb) 2:11

4. Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White (Cobb) 3:17

5. Rari (Cobb) 3:34

6. Pride & Devotion (Tamblyn) 3:47

7. Medication (Alton, DiTosti) 4:18

8. Barracuda (Cobb) 3:08

9. Mr. Nobody (Tamblyn) 2:42

10. Little Sally Tease (Valley) 4:00

11. Try It (Levine, Bellack) 3:09

12. Dirty Water (Cobb) 3:39

13. Why Did You Hurt Me? (Dodd, Valentino) 4:32

14. Speech (1:48)

Créditos:

Dick Dodd: Lead Vocals, Drums

Larry Tamblyn: Vox Organ, Vocals

Tony Valentino: Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica

Peter Stuart: Bass, Vocals

(*) Gravado ao vivo no Festival Cavestomp! '99, Westbeth Theatre Center, Nova Iorque, NY, EUA, no dia 7 de novembro de 1999.

Disco: Live On Tour 1966!

Ano: 2015(*)

Faixas:

1. Introduction (0:47)

2. Mr. Nobody (Tamblyn) 2:34

3. Good Lovin' (Clark, Resnick) 2:29

4. Why Did You Hurt Me (Dodd, Valentino) 2:29

5. Sunny Afternoon (Davies) 3:54

6. Gloria (Morrison) 5:17

7. Why Pick On Me (Cobb) 3:35

8. Please, Please, Please (Brown, Terry) 3:05

9. Midnight Hour (Pickett, Cropper) 4:00

10. Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White (Cobb) 2:59

11. Dirty Water (Cobb) 2:57

Créditos:

Tony Valentino: Guitar, Vocals

Larry Tamblyn: Organ, Vocals

Dave Burke: Bass, Vocals

Dick Dodd: Drums, Vocals

(*) Gravado ao vivo no Hill Auditorium, Universidade de Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, EUA, em 22 de outubro de 1966.

Biografia:

Tony Valentino (guitarra e vocais) e Larry Tamblyn (órgão) formaram a Standells em 1962. O lineup inicial abrangia também o baterista Gary Leeds (nascido no dia 3 de Setembro de 1944, em Glendale, Califórnia, EUA), famoso posteriormente com a Walker Brothers, Gary Lane (baixo) e Dick Dodd (bateria), ex-Mousketeer. 

O quarteto virou a principal atração dos adolescentes nas faustosas casas noturnas de Los Angeles, Califórnia. Todavia, a imagem conformista sumiu quando a banda associou-se ao produtor Ed Cobb, que criou uma série de hinos punks angustiados e rebeldes: "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White", "Why Pick On Me" e a excepcional "Dirty Water", 11º lugar nas paradas americanas em 1966. No mesmo ano, Gary deixou a banda durante uma turnê pela Flórida. Sucedeu-o Dave Burke, por sua vez substituído, no ano seguinte, por John Fleck (sobrenome verdadeiro: Fleckenstein). Coautor da canção "Can't Explain", do primeiro disco da Love, Fleck tornou-se depois diretor de cinema. A Standells também apareceu no filme sensacionalista "Riot On Sunset Strip", de 1967 (nota minha: no Brasil, "Os Transviados de Sunset Strip"), mas, àquela altura, sua carreira estava em declínio. 

Fora de moda frente ao avanço do rock lisérgico de São Francisco e já desprovida dos seus componentes originais, a atuação da banda ficou restrita ao circuito das boates. Lowell George (nome verdadeiro: Lowell Thomas George, nascido no dia 13 de abril de 1945, em Hollywood, Califórnia, EUA, e morto no dia 29 de junho de 1979, em Arlington, Virgínia, EUA), ex-integrante dos grupos Mothers Of Invention, de Frank Zappa, e Little Feat, tocou brevemente na Standells. Por volta de 1970 o obsoletismo já emperrava a banda. Vários membros reformularam-na, em 1999, para uma apresentação ao vivo no festival Cavestomp, registrada no disco "Ban This!", de 2000 (The Enclyclopedia Of Popular Music. Compiled and edited by Colin Larkin. New York: Omnibus Press, 2007, pp. 1317-8; tradução livre do inglês).