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The Essential Pebbles Collection Vol. 3 - European Garage (2000)
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Length:  2:13:50
    Track Listing:
      1:
      1.  
      		 Rob Hoeke - When People Talk    2:48
      2.  
      		 Fun of It - Drollery    2:40
      3.  
      		 Phantoms - Someday I'm Somebody    2:19
      4.  
      		 Jets - I Was So Glad    2:20
      5.  
      		 Haigs - Where to Run    1:53
      6.  
      		 Jets - Worker in the Night    1:56
      7.  
      		 Lords - Day After Day    2:14
      8.  
      		 Counsellors - I'll Be Your Man    2:19
      9.  
      		 Golden Earrings - Not to Find    1:54
      10.  
      		 Lazy Bones - I'm Driftin'    2:54
      11.  
      		 AB & C - Vies    2:08
      12.  
      		 Danny & the Royal Strings - Get Away    2:29
      13.  
      		 Slaves - Shut Up    2:16
      14.  
      		 Jack & the Outlaws - Step Into My Heart    2:42
      15.  
      		 Meteors - Anytime    3:15
      16.  
      		 Mad Sound - To Masturbate    4:13
      17.  
      		 Beatcher - What'd I Say    2:22
      18.  
      		 Tages - Bloodhound (live)    2:41
      19.  
      		 Palmes - Nazz Are Blue    2:57
      20.  
      		 Shakers - Move Out of My Mind    2:27
      21.  
      		 Somebody Keeps Calling My Name    7:14
      22.  
      		 Lee Kings - Oriental Express    2:45
      23.  
      		 Stringtones - Ode to Rhythm & Blues    2:18
      2:
      1.  
      		 Sooner or Later - This Hammer    2:43
      2.  
      		 Sooner or Later - Night Time    2:35
      3.  
      		 Melvins - The Man Down There    2:06
      4.  
      		 Trappers - Too Much Monkey Business    1:42
      5.  
      		 Shakers - Tracks Remain    3:40
      6.  
      		 Fabulous Four - 438 S. Mich Ave    3:24
      7.  
      		 Shakers - Wo Will Buy These...    3:42
      8.  
      		 Cads - Call My Name    2:17
      9.  
      		 Comancheros - It's So Right    2:19
      10.  
      		 Dee Jays - Striped Dreams    3:10
      11.  
      		 Demons - You    1:54
      12.  
      		 Gents - Honor Bright    2:30
      13.  
      		 Dee Jays - You Must Be Jokings    2:36
      14.  
      		 Flippers - Louie Louie    3:04
      15.  
      		 Bootjacks - Stoned    5:01
      16.  
      		 Ones - Love of Mine    3:04
      17.  
      		 Drafi & His Magics - I Don't Need That Kind of Loving    2:11
      18.  
      		 Dukes - I'm an Unskilled Worker    2:44
      19.  
      		 Sevens - Talk About Her    2:12
      20.  
      		 Sevens - Panam    3:09
      21.  
      		 Sauterelles - No No NO    3:00
      22.  
      		 Countdowns - Sex Maniac    2:34
      23.  
      		 Sevens - In God We Trust    2:25
      24.  
      		 Sevens - What Can I Do    2:46
      25.  
      		 Sauterelles - Hong Kong (live)    3:32
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      DISC 1:
      1. When People Talk - Rob Hoeke
      2. Drollery - Fun Of It
      3. Someday I'm Somebody - Phantoms
      4. I Was So Glad - Jets
      5. Where to Run - Haigs
      6. Worker in the Night - Jets
      7. Day After Day - Lords
      8. I'll Be Your Man - Counsellors
      9. Not to Find - Golden Earrings
      10. I'm Driftin' - Lazy Bones
      11. Vies - AB & C
      12. Get Away - Danny/Royal Strings
      13. Shut Up - Slaves
      14. Step Into My Heart - Jack & Outlaws
      15. Anytime - The Meteors
      16. To Masturbate - Mad Sound
      17. What'd I Say - Beatcher
      18. Bloodhound - Tages (live)
      19. Nazz Are Blue - Palmes
      20. Move Out of My Mind - Shakers
      21. Somebody Keeps Calling My Name - Baby Grandmothers
      22. Oriental Express - Lee Kings
      23. Ode to Rhythm & Blues - Stringtones

      DISC 2:
      1. This Hammer - Sooner Or Later
      2. Night Time - Sooner Or Later
      3. Man Down There, The - The Melvins
      4. Too Much Monkey Business - Trappers
      5. Tracks Remain - Shakers
      6. 438 S. Mich Ave - Fabulous Four
      7. Who Will Buy These - Shakers
      8. Call My Name - Cads
      9. It's So Right - Comancheros
      10. Striped Dreams - Dee Jays
      11. You - Demons
      12. Honor Bright - Gents
      13. You Must Be Joking - Dee Jays
      14. Louie Louie - Flippers
      15. Stoned - Bootjacks
      16. Love of Mine - Ones
      17. I Don't Need That Kind of Loving - Drafi & Magics
      18. I'm an Unskilled Worker - Dukes
      19. Talk About Her - Sevens
      20. Panam - Sevens
      21. No No No - Sauterelles
      22. Sex Maniac - Countdowns
      23. In God We Trust - Sevens
      24. What Can I Do - Sevens
      25. Hong Kong - Sauterelles (live)

      Details
      Playing Time: 133 min.
      Distributor: Caroline Distribution
      Recording Type: Studio
      Recording Mode: Stereo
      The third volume in this double-CD Essential Pebbles series focuses on the international sector and is subtitled The Best Of European Garage. More than 50 tracks! AIP. 2000.

      After slapping my forehead in amazement at the awesome song selections on PEBBLES VOL. 12: THE WORLD, I was expecting more of the same here on this 2-disc set. All the tracks had appeared on the LP-only international volumes of PEBBLES, but this set focuses on European freakbeat from the lands of Denmark, The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland. Of these countries, the best tracks are contributed by Holland, but there are still some really surprisingly good cuts here.
      Disc 1 is a rollercoaster ride of entertainment, from great peaks of garage bliss to barren lows of wannabe-Stones and Kinks. All the selections from Holland and Denmark are here, with the latter half hailing solely from Sweden. Highlights include: Rob Hoeke's "When People Talk", The Fun of It's "Drollery", The Phantoms' "Someday I'm Somebody", The Jets' "I Was So Glad", The Haigs' "Where to Run", The Jets' "Worker in the Night", The Lords' "Day After Day", The Slaves' "Shut Up" (actually from Austria), Jack and the Outlaws' "Step Into My Heart", The Mad Sound's "To (...)" (actually a completely incomprehensible broken-English apparently improvised version of "Hey Joe"), and The Shakers' "Move Out of My Mind", which sounds almost identical to the Stones' "Heart of Stone".

      Disc 2 kicks off with Swedish freakbeat before taking the train to Germany and finishing the tour in Switzerland, and as a whole is more solid than Disc 1. Highlights include: Sooner or Later's "This Hammer", The Melvins' "The Man Down There", The Trappers' "Too Much Monkey Business" (a Swedish-language version of the fantastic single by Portugal's The Satins), The Shakers' "Tracks Remain" (which sounds like The Motions' "Wasted Words" to me), The Fabulous Four's instrumental "438 S. Michigan Ave", Los Comancheros' "It's So Right", The Dee Jays' "Striped Dreams", The Demons' "You", The Gents' "Honor Bright", The Flippers' "Louie Louie", The Ones' "Love of Mine" (with a horn section!), Drafi and His Magics' "I Don't Need That Kind of Loving", The Dukes' "I'm an Unskilled Worker", Les Sauterelles' "No No No", and The Countdowns' "Sex Maniac". And as cool as it sounds to be able to hear Swiss garage bands, they're not that great. Still nice to finally hear 'em!

      Thankfully there are informative liners included with this ESSENTIAL collection, offering minimal info on each group and at least naming which country they're from. Still, I would highly recommend PEBBLES VOL. 12 over this, as it covers a wider international range of tunes and there isn't a dud among those
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