Various Artists - Dutch Beat Explosion
01 - Sandy Coast - I'm A Fool
02 - Sandy Coast - Subject Of My Thoughts
03 - Golden Earrings - She May Be
04 - Scarlets - Now I Know
05 - Jay Jay - Today I'm Gay
06 - Nicols - Lord, I've Been Thinking
07 - Nicols - I Can Forget Her
08 - Toreros - Come
09 - Kwyet - No Time For Tears
10 - James Mean - Seeing Her
11 - Tykes - Hey Girl
12 - Johnny Kendall and the Heralds - Girl
13 - Double Dutch - You're Out Of Sight
14 - Double Dutch - Double Cross
15 - Penny Wise - Silver Girls
16 - Sound Magics - When I Meet Her
17 - Haigs - Never Die
18 - Hamlets - Looking In Your Eyes
19 - Hamlets - It's Autumn
20 - Midnatt Fryan - Always And Ever
21 - Wow - Love Is Gone
22 - Condors - Set Me Free
23 - Cavaliers - You Can Not Make Me Cry
24 - Nameless - Love Time
25 - Elements - The Loves I Had Before
26 - Mods - She Was Married
27 - Rodys - Just Fancy
28 - Short 66 - Good Weekend
review from www.allmusic.com
Within the extremely specialized world of 1960s garage collectors, Dutch beat from the mid-1960s is known as an especially fertile area of interesting, obscure rock from that era. Most Dutch beat reissues, however, concentrate on the party-line R&B-punkers, giving relatively light treatment to the poppier and folkier aspects of the genre. This 28-song anthology of rarities (rare certainly in the United States), as the liner notes declare, "was carefully planned...to find the best songs possible of melodic Dutch beat." What we hear is a decent, though by no means stunning, cross-section of Dutch rock from circa 1964-1966 that bears considerable influence from British Invasion pop-rockers, as well as lighter traces of folk-rock. There's just one band that might be familiar to the average rock listener: the Golden Earrings (later to become Golden Earring). They're represented by a song from their first LP. There are definite echoes of the Beatles, Hollies, and the Byrds, and fainter ones of British bands like the Kinks throughout. Yet just as the average garage compilation is distinctively inferior to and less varied than Rolling Stones albums, even as it obviously takes inspiration from them, so this one is more generic and less striking than the best British Invasion pop and folk-rock from the 1960s. Indeed, it is cuts below the best Dutch band of the period, the Outsiders. Still, the awkward sullenness that typifies much Dutch rock of the 1960s does come through often. There are some tracks that linger in the memory, like the Cavaliers' Byrds-Merseybeats blend "You Can Not Make Me Cry" and the Haigs' "Never Die," with its ascending key shifts and John Lennon-esque harmonica. The sound is very good, considering how scratchy many such rarity compilations from the '60s often are. This disc does not, by the way, have one of the supreme slices of melodic Dutch beat, Sound Magics' "Don't You Remember," which was reissued on the album The V-Lips Greatest Hits.
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