Artist: Steve & The Board
Title: Steve and the Board...and the Giggle Eyed Goo
Year Of Release: 1966/2000
Label: Ascension Records
Genre: Beat, Rhythm & Blues, Garage Rock
Quality: Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 39:22
Total Size: 163 Mb
Tracklist:01. The Giggle Eyed Goo
02. I'm To Blame
03. Rosalyn
04. I've Just Realised
05. Margot
06. Rosemarie
07. I Want
08. I Call My Woman Hinges 'Cause She's Something To Adore
09. Little Miss Rhythm & Blues
10. Farmer John
11. Love Has Made A Fool Of You
12. Lonely Winter
Bonus Tracks:
13. Now I'm Older
14. So Why Pretend
15. Good For Nothing Sue
16. Sally Was A Good Old Girl
Bass - Denis Neville
Drums - Colin Petersen (tracks: 1 to 14), Geoff Bridgeford* (tracks: 15, 16)
Guitar - Alex Hill (5)
Guitar, Vocals - Carl Keats, Steve Kipner
All 16 tracks released by the band are included on this CD reissue of their sole album, which adds both sides of their two subsequent non-LP singles. Steve and the Board weren't out of this world, but they were an energetic, slightly above-average British Invasion-inspired band, leaning closer to the Beatles and the Mersey sound than raving R&B. Their biggest Australian hit, "The Giggle Eyed Goo," is actually a bit in the novelty vein and not too representative of most of their repertoire, which was dominated by original material. "I'm to Blame" is a nice, innocuous mating of the Mersey sound and the Byrds, while "Margot" goes more into the harder-charging sounds of mid-'60s mod rock, and "I Want" will probably be favored by garage fans for its high, droning, distorted guitar riff. "I Call My Woman Hinges 'Cause She's Something to Adore" is certainly one of the more oddball song titles of the era, and is like several of their other songs, a respectable midpoint between the R&B and pop wings of the British-influenced sound. The highlight, though, is the brooding, sublimely melodic rockaballad "Lonely Winter," which, incidentally, was recorded by the Bee Gees (with better vocals and a slightly fruitier arrangement) around the same time. There's another Bee Gees connection in a cover of an early Barry Gibb song the Bee Gees never released, "Little Miss Rhythm & Blues," though this slow interpretation is markedly inferior to the fine up-tempo version of the song issued by Trevor Gordon in the mid-'60s. Of the non-LP cuts, "So Why Pretend" is about the best in its sort of Zombies-meets-1965 British beat boom sound, though none of them are that great. Unfortunately, there's virtually nothing in the way of informative liner notes on this expanded re-release, though it has a complete discography.
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