The Trashmen

Bird Call! The Twin City Stomp Of The Trashmen 4-CD Set

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Industry weasels have called us "insane" for even considering a 4-CD Trashmen box set. Of course, that very lack of foresight is what makes them weasels in the first place. You, our discerning friends, might concur on the "insanity" thing, but will also know instantly that this is indeed the Motherlode, possibly the very reason God put Sundazed on this fine earth, our legacy to the ages.

Fifty years from now, direct electronic stimulation of the cortex will have obsoleted music as an entertainment medium. Your CD collection will seem as quaint to your grandchildren as those turn-of-the-century stereopticon viewers do today. Only three albums will make the transition to direct-feed brain candy: the Rolling Stones' Out Of Our Heads, the Beatles' Revolver, and Bird Call! The Twin City Stomp Of The Trashmen.

While those other two titles will be perpetually hailed as zeniths of attitude and craft, this 4-CD Trashmen collection will be cherished for embodying everything else loud, frantic and wonderfully stupid that is rock and roll.

And, this runaway truck is crammed to capacity with crazed trackage, nearly 50% of which has never before been heard since the day it was recorded. Recorded 1962 to 1967, it's all here: studio material, demos, rehearsal recordings, live tracks, a massive 40-page book pumped fulla interviews, notes, memorabilia and unseen photos - a total assault on the senses...for the ages.

We have seen the future, and it is us. Be remembered as someone ahead of your time, a tres-cool old buzzard. Immortality is now within your reach. Bird Call! The Twin City Stomp Of The Trashmen.. buy one for yourself, and one for each of your grandchildren.

TRACK LISTING AND AUDIO SAMPLES:
DISC 1:
1. Cyclon
2. Sally Jo
3. Johnny B. Goode*
4. Malaguena (#1)*
5. Suzie Q*
6. Sweet Little Sixteen*
7. A Million Reasons*
8. Malaguena (#2)*
9. Guitar Boogie*
10. Surfin' Bird
11. King Of The Surf
12. This Should Go On Forever*
13. Yellow Jacket*
14. Rumble*
15. Let's Go Trippin'*
16. My Woodie
17. Bird Bath
18. Tube City
19. Farmer Louie*
20. Goofy Foot*

DISC 2:
1. Church Key*
2. Raw-Hide*
3. Bird Dance Beat
4. A-Bone
5. Stick Shift*
6. Ghost Riders In The Sky
7. Think It Over
8. Be True To Your School
9. Too Young*
10. Greensleeves
11. Wild Cat Loose In Town
12. Green Onions
13. Walk, Don't Run*
14. We Belong Together*
15. True True Lovin'
16. Roll Over Beethoven
17. Congratulations (To Me)*
18. Hava Nagila
19. Drive In*
20. Walkin' The Dog*

DISC 3:
1. Break-Up*
2. Bad News
3. On The Move
4. New Generation
5. Whoa Dad!
6. Peppermint Man
7. Baja*
8. Long Tall Texan*
9. Blue Feeling*
10. Great Balls Of Fire*
11. Lost Angel*
12. Bye Bye Johnny*
13. Slow Down*
14. Walkin' My Baby
15. Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
16. Hi-Heel Sneakers*
17. Summertime*
18. Long Tall Sally*
19. Real Live Doll
20. Dancin' With Santa

DISC 4:
1. Bird '65
2. Ubangi Stomp
3. That I Love You*
4. Love's Made A Fool Of You*
5. Same Lines
6. Hanging On Me
7. Pretty Country Girl*
8. Mind Your Own Business
9. Talk About Love (#1)
10. Gloria*
11. Tell Me How*
12. Bird Diddley Beat
13. It Takes Two*
14. Heartbeat
15. Well, All Right
16. Talk About Love (#2)*
17. I'm Not Your Stepping Stone*
18. Breathless*
19. What'd I Say*
20. Money*

*previously unissued