The Sorrows - Old Songs New Songs (@320)

 

The Sorrows - Old Songs New Songs

 "The first-ever official reissue of this legendary Italian-only late sixties album! British freakbeat/garage R&B giants the Sorrows relocated to Italy in 1966, recording the album Old Songs New Songs a couple of years later for a small independent label based in Milan. Now extremely rare as an original pressing, the album has been shoddily bootlegged a couple of times, including a CD pressing that slowed down the recordings and also managed to chop off the final minute of the album's title track! This new, band-approved reissue features the fully restored album in sparkling sound quality and adds an extra 100 minutes of music, nearly all of which is previously unreleased. Among the highlights are the magnificent heavy psychedelia of the band's aborted early 1968 Pye single 'Which Way'/'My Way Of Thinking,' the theme song to the cult Italian spy caper Ypotron, a couple of movie collaborations with soundtrack maestro Ennio Morricone, and even an entire late 1968 demo album that, following the departure of two group members, was eventually scrapped and replaced by Old Songs New Songs! Completed by a previously unheard live gig from 1980 that proved the Sorrows' savage garage band instincts were fully intact a decade later, this package features new, extremely detailed sleevenotes concerning their time in Italy, with fresh band quotes and some superb, previously unpublished photos. Forget what you may have read and heard elsewhere, this incredible 2CD package is the final word on the band's lengthy but previously little-documented Italian sojourn!" Includes 16-page booklet.             

 

Tracklist:

 

Disc 1:

 

1. The Sorrows - Same Old Room

2. The Sorrows - Hey Mr. Policeman

3. The Sorrows - Heaven Is in Your Mind

4. The Sorrows - Mary J

5. The Sorrows - Hey Hey

6. The Sorrows - Makers

7. The Sorrows - Io Amo Te Per Lei [Which Way]

8. The Sorrows - Dear Mr. Fantasy

9. The Sorrows - Rollin' Over

10. The Sorrows - Per una Donna...No! [Listen to Me]

11. The Sorrows - 6 Ft. 7½ Inch Shark Fishing Blues

12. The Sorrows - Old Songs New Songs

13. The Sorrows - Per una Donna...No! [Listen to Me]

14. The Sorrows - Amore Limone [Each and Every Day]

15. The Sorrows - Hey Hey

16. The Sorrows - 6 Ft. 7½ Inch Shark Fishing Blues

17. The Sorrows - Which Way

18. The Sorrows - My Way of Thinking

19. The Sorrows - Pioggia Sul Tuo Viso #1

20. The Sorrows - Pioggia Sul Tuo Viso #2

21. The Sorrows – Ypotron

 

Disc 2:

 

1. The Sorrows - Hey Hey

2. The Sorrows - New York Mining Disaster 1941

3. The Sorrows - Answer My Questions

4. The Sorrows - Dear Mr. Fantasy

5. The Sorrows - We Can Work It Out

6. The Sorrows - Makers

7. The Sorrows - Heaven Is in Your Mind

8. The Sorrows - Dogs and Cats

9. The Sorrows - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

10. The Sorrows - Move Da Show

11. The Sorrows - Matchbox/Rock and Roll Music

12. The Sorrows - Baby What You Want Me to Do

13. The Sorrows - Bye Bye Bird

14. The Sorrows - Let Me In

15. The Sorrows - What'd I Say

16. The Sorrows - Dizzy Miss Lizzy

17. The Sorrows - No Reply

18. The Sorrows - Little Rock 'N' Roll

19. The Sorrows - 5-4-3-2-1

20. The Sorrows - Take a Heart

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