Needles & Pins [RCA]
Personnel: Mike Pender, John McNally (vocals, guitar); Chris Curtis (vocals, drums).
This is a neat 16-song Searchers compilation, utilizing the best current masters as of 2004, and a selection balanced between well-known hits, and interesting covers and album tracks. The result is a good cross-section of the group's early work on Pye Records, encompassing their best-known singles and some of their best additional work, some of it -- such as "Some Other Guy" -- surprisingly hard rocking, the rest (including covers of Arthur Alexander et al.) amazingly soulful. The price is right and the quality is excellent, and this is a very handy way for the neophyte to discover the group. ~ Bruce Eder
This is a neat 16-song Searchers compilation, utilizing the best current masters as of 2004, and a selection balanced between well-known hits, and interesting covers and album tracks. The result is a good cross-section of the group's early work on Pye Records, encompassing their best-known singles and some of their best additional work, some of it -- such as "Some Other Guy" -- surprisingly hard rocking, the rest (including covers of Arthur Alexander et al.) amazingly soulful. The price is right and the quality is excellent, and this is a very handy way for the neophyte to discover the group. ~ Bruce Eder
$10.95
Needles & Pins [RCA]—
$10.95
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Personnel: Mike Pender, John McNally (vocals, guitar); Chris Curtis (vocals, drums).
This is a neat 16-song Searchers compilation, utilizing the best current masters as of 2004, and a selection balanced between well-known hits, and interesting covers and album tracks. The result is a good cross-section of the group's early work on Pye Records, encompassing their best-known singles and some of their best additional work, some of it -- such as "Some Other Guy" -- surprisingly hard rocking, the rest (including covers of Arthur Alexander et al.) amazingly soulful. The price is right and the quality is excellent, and this is a very handy way for the neophyte to discover the group. ~ Bruce Eder
This is a neat 16-song Searchers compilation, utilizing the best current masters as of 2004, and a selection balanced between well-known hits, and interesting covers and album tracks. The result is a good cross-section of the group's early work on Pye Records, encompassing their best-known singles and some of their best additional work, some of it -- such as "Some Other Guy" -- surprisingly hard rocking, the rest (including covers of Arthur Alexander et al.) amazingly soulful. The price is right and the quality is excellent, and this is a very handy way for the neophyte to discover the group. ~ Bruce Eder
