Various - Joe Meek: Lone Rider - Maximum Pop!. The 1958-1962 Productions (2016)

Tracklist

01. Jungle Fever - The Tornados
02. It's Just a Matter of Time (feat. The Admirals) - Mike Berry
03. Hurtin' Inside - Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers
04. Lone Rider - John Leyton
05. Honey 'Cause I Love You - Michael Cox
06. Lonely Week-End - Ray Dexter
07. Til the Following Night (feat. The Savages) - Screaming Lord Sutch
08. My Baby Doll - Mike Berry & The Outlaws
09. Black Buffalo - The Flee-Reckkers
10. Big Beat Drum (feat. Jimmy Page) - Neil Christian & The Crusaders
11. Bad Boy - Marty Wilde & His Wildcats
12. North Wind - Houston Wells
13. Mr. Lovebug - Iain Gregory
14. Girl Bride - Geoff Goddard
15. Telstar - The Tornados
16. Can't You Hear My Heart - Danny Rivers
17. Dear One - Tony Victor
18. Stand Up - Michael Cox
19. Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton
20. Taboo - Charles Blackwell & His Orchestra
21. You Gave Me the Blues - Alan Klein
22. Golden Cage - John Fraser
23. Night of the Vampire - The Moontrekkers
24. The Story of My Life - Gary Miller
25. Two Timing Baby - Carter-Lewis & The Southerners
26. Can't You Hear the Beat of a Broken Heart - Iain Gregory
27. Poppin' - The Chaps
28. Just Too Late - Peter Jay & The Blue Men
29. Hot Chick A'roo - Ricky Wayne & The Flee-Rekkers
30. Guess That's the Way It Goes - Don Charles



An important, even inimitable, figure of early British pop and rock & roll, Joe Meek was a pioneering record producer and sound engineer who became infamous for his eccentric behavior and experimentation with instruments. Like Phil Spector, Meek also changed the landscape of music with innovative production techniques that, much more than the artists he worked with, stamped a vision of mad genius on his recordings. In Meek’s case, this usually amounted to super-compressed sound, wavering sped-up vocals, ghostly backing violins and choruses, spooky echo and reverb, ticky-tack variable-speed piano, and all manners of Halloween and outer-space sound effects.

This quintessential collector’s edition compiles Meek’s most essential and enduring work, gathering a variety of the great sides he produced between 1958 and 1962. Included here are classics like The Tornados’ “Telstar”, John Leyton’s “Johnny Remember Me”, Screaming Lord Sutch’s “‘Til The Following Night”, and Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers’ “Hurtin’ Inside”. Also featured here are lesser-heard tracks which are
just as enjoyable as the hits. This is the material upon which Joe Meek’s legend was built.

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