Garage Beat '66 Vol. 1: Like What, Me Worry

Along with the Teenage Shutdown, Pebbles and Back From The Grave comps. These are absolutely essential listening.

I had heard one song from this album and knew I had to buy it. I am really glad I did. Lotsa rare stufff on here I had never heard of, but they're all awesome songs! Great album! I think I will have to buy the others now too.

This is the real deal, garage band heaven, most of it mixed and transfered well. If you like raw sixties rock with some serious attitude, this is for you. I look forward to ordering some of the other titles in this series.

Best of the bunch

Love this Stuff. If you enjoy garage bands you will love this work. Think that some buddies got together knocked some ideas around. This is a fun record, treat your self. If you like the Chesterfield Kings than dive in.

Another class act from Sundazed. Thanks Bob!

This is the first of seven volumes in the Garage Beat '66 series and it is awesome. This series first caught my eye in my local indie record shop and after seeing it for a while, I broke down and bought all five volumes. It was worth it needless to say. I had listened to my Nuggets sets forever and was wanting a great way of expanding my collection of the 60's no-hit wonders and this was perfect. This collection offers a great variety of garage-psych-blues-Yardbirds/Stones-wannabes and much more. The recordings are fantastic, often sourcing original masters and producing a much higher fidelity to the originals than other collections have. Plus it is released from Sundazed who seems to have taken the mantel of maverick upstart releasing great old material from Rhino. Overall, I rate this collection very highly because it does offer a great selection of regional bands as well as those few that managed some chart action. Furthermore, the liner notes are detailed. That might not mean much to some people but that was huge for me when I opened this set up and had some background to peruse on each band as I listened to the music. You can't go wrong with the Garage Beat unless you just can't turn it up enough.

This is the cure for boring prefab pap. This is the ultimate way to clean out your speakers of any dust that may have accumulated. Heck, this is probably the cure for cancer! Like it says, 20 Garage rock singles too extreme for 1966, from the master tapes, sound quality is GREAT! If you have the Nuggets box, or any of the Pebbles collections, you need this right away and quickly! For the first timer, this is a good way to get into the Garage Rock scene. LIKE, WHAT ME WORRY? HAHA HA!

If I could have given this album 3.5 stars, I would have : It is a solid compilation of 60s Garage without really having any exceptional tracks on it. What is notable about this series of albums is that they have been pretty successful in avoiding repeating the songs you see on Nuggets and Pebbles so they will be of interest to anyone who has covered the standard compilation offerings out there. Definitely a welcome addition