The Complete Them: 1964-1967

The Complete Them: 1964-1967

by Them
The Complete Them: 1964-1967

The Complete Them: 1964-1967

by Them

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Overview

Them were one of the very best R&B acts to come out of the U.K. during the British Invasion era, as tight, wiry, and potent as their contemporaries the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the Pretty Things. But as good as they were, their greatest strength was always their lead singer and main songwriter, Van Morrison, who even in his earliest days boasted a style that was raw and unapologetic but full of street smarts and imagination. Morrison's run with Them lasted a bit more than two and a half years, but it laid the groundwork for his wildly idiosyncratic solo career as well as setting a standard that the band would never equal after he left to strike out on his own. There have been plenty of collections devoted to Morrison's tenure with Them, but The Complete Them: 1964-1967 is not only comprehensive but has Van's seal of approval, as it was assembled by Morrison's own team and features liner notes from the man himself. Sequenced chronologically, The Complete Them devotes its first two discs to the group's two albums of the period, Them (aka The Angry Young Them) and Them Again, as well as non-LP single and EP tracks. Disc two is devoted to demos, alternate takes, and some live tracks cut for BBC Radio, nearly all of them previously unreleased. According to Morrison's notes, Them's lineup was never consistent, especially in the studio, as the group's producers often brought in studio musicians (including Jimmy Page) to beef up the performances, but the product was both consistent and strong, with razor-sharp guitars and swirling organs dominating the arrangements and Morrison's vocals sounding nearly possessed. Having essentially all of Them's studio recordings in one place is great, but the bonus material offers a glimpse of their power as a live act, and the outtakes and alternate versions reveal the growing sophistication of Morrison's approach over the course of 24 tracks. Morrison's essay offers as much opinion as it does fact, but given his well-documented reticence, the fact he wrote the notes at all is impressive, and when he sums up his notes with "I think of Them as good records...there's a lot of good stuff here," he's absolutely right. As a history of an underappreciated band's greatest era or the first steps of one of rock's most individual artists, The Complete Them: 1964-1967 is essential listening. ~ Mark Deming

Product Details

Release Date: 12/04/2015
Label: Exile Records / Legacy
UPC: 0888751505421
Rank: 48304

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Don't Start Crying Now
  2. One Two Brown Eyes
  3. Baby Please Don't Go
  4. Gloria
  5. Philosophy
  6. Here Comes the Night
  7. All for Myself
  8. One More Time
  9. How Long Baby
  10. Mystic Eyes
  11. If You and I Could Be as Two
  12. Little Girl
  13. Just a Little Bit
  14. I Gave My Love a Diamond
  15. You Just Can't Win
  16. Go on Home Baby
  17. Don't Look Baby
  18. I Like It Like That
  19. I'm Gonna Dress in Black
  20. Bright Lights, Big City
  21. My Little Baby
  22. (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
  23. (It Won't Hurt) Half as Much

Disc 2

  1. Could You Would You
  2. Something You Got
  3. Call My Name
  4. Turn on Your Love Light
  5. I Put a Spell on You
  6. I Can Only Give You Everything
  7. My Lonely Sad Eyes
  8. I Got a Woman
  9. Out of Sight
  10. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
  11. Bad or Good
  12. Hello Josephine
  13. Don't You Know
  14. Hey Girl
  15. Bring 'Em on In [Album Version]
  16. Richard Cory
  17. Friday's Child
  18. The Story of Them, Pt. 1
  19. The Story of Them, Pt. 2
  20. Baby What You Want Me to Do
  21. Stormy Monday Blues
  22. Times Gettin' Tougher Than Tough

Disc 3

  1. Don't Start Cryin' Now [Demo]
  2. Gloria [Demo]
  3. One Two Brown Eyes [Demo]
  4. Stormy Monday Blues [Demo]
  5. Turn on Your Love Light [Alternate Version]
  6. Baby Please Don't Go [Take 4]
  7. Here Comes the Night [Take 2]
  8. Gloria [Live on BBC'S Saturday Club]
  9. All for Myself [Live on BBC's Saturday Club]
  10. Here Comes the Night [Live on BBC's Saturday Club]
  11. Little Girl [Version One]
  12. Go on Home Baby [Take 4]
  13. I Gave My Love a Diamond [Take 8]
  14. (It Won't Hurt) Half as Much [Take 2]
  15. My Little Baby [Take 1]
  16. How Long Baby [Take 1]
  17. One More Time [Take 14]
  18. Gloria [Live on BBC's Saturday Club, Version Two]
  19. Here Comes the Night [Live on BBC's Saturday Club, Version Two]
  20. One More Time [Live on BBC's Saturday Club]
  21. Call My Name [Single Version]
  22. Bring 'Em on In [Single Version]
  23. Mighty Like a Rose
  24. Richard Cory [Alternate Version]

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Them   Primary Artist
Van Morrison   Featured Artist
Arthur Greenslade   Music Direction
Tommy Scott   Music Direction

Technical Credits

Jimmy Witherspoon   Composer
Tom Burleigh   Product Development
Deadric Malone   Composer
Bobby Troup   Composer
Dick Rowe   Producer
Rosco Gordon   Composer
Roger Armstrong   Project Assistant
Van Morrison   Composer,Producer
Screamin' Jay Hawkins   Composer
Jerry West   Composer
Cory Frye   Project Assistant
Andy Neill   Project Assistant
Mike Coulter   Composer
Dave Bartholomew   Composer
Aaron Walker   Composer
Phil Smee   Design,Art Direction
Brian Kehew   Project Assistant
Ted Wright   Composer
Bert Berns   Composer,Producer
Illeana Douglas   Project Assistant
Chris Kenner   Composer
James Moore   Composer
John Lee Hooker   Composer
Wes Farrell   Composer
Tommy Scott   Composer,Producer
Jimmy Grant   Producer
Richard Whittaker   Tape Transfer
Brian Willey   Producer
Joseph Wade Scott   Composer
Mark Easter   Project Assistant
Renald Richards   Composer
Jeroen Van Der Meer   Project Director
Kenn Norman   Project Assistant
Becky Ebenkamp   Project Assistant
Candi Hersch   Project Assistant
Dan Herseh   Mastering
Julian Carr   Project Assistant
Owen McFadden   Project Assistant
Peter Lloyd   Engineer
T-Bone Walker   Composer
Paul Simon   Composer
Andrew Sandoval   Mixing
Ray Charles   Composer
Big Joe Williams   Composer
Bob Dylan   Composer
Bill Inglot   Project Assistant
Jimmy Reed   Composer
James Brown   Composer
Fats Domino   Composer
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