Single Minded CD

Various - Single Minded - The Big Beat Singles CD

Single Minded delivers an overload of Psychobilly, Garage Rock and Rockabilly from the mid-1980s, when Big Beat Records was issuing a string of superb singles and EPs from some of the most exciting bands on the scene. This 28-track collection brings together a particularly potent selection from that era, featuring The Meteors, The Tall Boys, The Escalators, The Sting-Rays, Guana Batz, The Vibes, The Milkshakes, The Prisoners, The Delmonas, Restless and The Bananamen.

There is serious firepower here, from The Meteors' Radioactive Kid and Graveyard Stomp and The Tall Boys' Brand New Gun, Final Kick and Action Woman to Guana Batz' Werewolf Blues and The Sting-Rays' Another Cup Of Coffee and You're Gonna Miss Me. The Milkshakes deliver Brand New Cadillac and Ambassador Of Love, The Delmonas tackle Hello, I Love You, Comin' Home Baby and Peter Gunn Locomotion, while The Prisoners, The Vibes, Restless and The Escalators add their own distinctive slices of the period's Garage and Rockin' sound.

28 cuts from the Garage Band daze, digitally transferred from the original analogue master tapes and originally compiled with a brief history of Big Beat and the bands by Nick Garrard. Released in 1992, this is a superb time capsule of the British Garage, Psychobilly and Rockabilly underground, packed with bands and tracks that helped make the mid-1980s such an exciting period for the scene.