TIME! GENTLEMEN! - Pub Rock Rhythm ‘N’ Grooves - Classic Cuts and Rarities 1974-1982
- Released: 28/03/2025
- Label: Strawberry,
- Genre: Blues, Blues Rock, New Wave, R&B, Rock,
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• 72-track / 3 CD box set containing four hours of both groove-laden and downright rocking music from the (mostly London) Pub Rock scene’s heyday of the mid 70s through to the early 80s.
• Including many hits (and should have beens!).
• Also features a sizeable collection of tracks making their CD debut – with some not being heard at all since back in the day!
• Every track expertly and lovingly remastered by renowned studio wizard Tim Turan. They’ve never sounded as good. Satisfaction guaranteed!
• With an extravagant booklet containing a fully illustrated track-by-track annotation and overview by Simon Matthews, author of Before It Went Rotten: The Music That Rocked London’s Pubs.
In some respects, a lavish follow-up to Grapefruit’s highly successful 2019 ‘Surrender To The Rhythm’ set which highlighted Pub Rock’s pioneers. ‘Time! Gentlemen!’ features a selection of cuts from many of the usual suspects of the genre such as Brinsley Schwarz, Dr. Feelgood, Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers and Kokomo, but excitingly, goes beyond the usual fare by including some of their lesser-known gems. Not only a virtual treasure trove of great 70s rock, the set also covers the scene’s ‘new’ talent, many of which managed to have big hit singles in the latter part of the 70s, such as Elvis Costello, Squeeze, Nick Lowe and The Stranglers – to name but a few!
In covering Pub Rock from the mid-70s onwards, other musical styles also start to exert their influence on the acts featured, so there’s also evidence of punk, new wave, the mod revival and even a little reggae in addition to huge helpings of straight-ahead classic rock, good old rock ‘n’ roll, rollicking RnB - and a dash of Brit soulfulness, of course.
The key to this collection lies in its sub-title, Rhythm ‘N’ Grooves; it is just packed chock- full of real good time music that might just, as old Rod once espoused, “make you dance, sing, or do anything” …or perhaps you simply do nothing and just lie back and enjoy it.
Tracklist
DISC ONE
1. The Stranglers – Go Buddy Go
2. Dr. Feelgood – Down At The (Other) Doctors
3. Frankie Miller – Be Good To Yourself
4. Steve Gibbons Band – Tulane
5. Roogalator – Cincinnati Fatback [original 1977 album version]
6. No Dice – Why Sugar
7. Red Beans And Rice – That Driving Beat
8. The Bogey Boys – Friday Night
9. The Chromatics – I’m A Rep
10. The Motors – Dancing The Night Away [7” version]
11. Live Wire – Lone Car Cruising [‘Honky Tonk Demos’ version]
12. Clancy – Steal Away
13. Graham Parker & The Rumour – Soul Shoes
14. Rory Gallagher – Juke Box Annie
15. Elvis Costello – Mystery Dance
16. Split Rivitt – Soul Limbo
17. Straight Eight – Will You Love Me
18. Starry Eyed And Laughing – Oh What?
19. Deke Leonard – Get Off The Line
20. Deaf School – Knock Knock Knocking
21. Kursaal Flyers – Pocket Money [Live]
22. Nine Below Zero – Pack, Fair & Square [Live]
23. Mick Farren – I Want A Drink
DISC TWO
1. The Pirates – Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
2. The Blues Band – Death Letter
3. Mickey Jupp – Switchboard Susan [E.P. version]
4. Roll-Ups – Blackmail
5. Leyton Buzzards – I’m Hanging Around
6. Beggar – All Night [Live]
7. Jackie Lynton – Learning How To Rock ‘N’ Roll
8. Remus Down Boulevard – Only For You [Live]
9. Nasty Pop – Stage And Plays
10. Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers – Jungle Song [demo version]
11. Meal Ticket – Day Job
12. Fabulous Poodles – See You Later Alligator
13. Dave Edmunds – Crawling From The Wreckage
14. Johnny G – All Aboard
15. Merton Parkas – In The Midnight Hour
16. Wilko Johnson – All Right [original album version]
17. The Bishops – Too Much Too Soon
18. Blast Furnace & The Heatwaves – Can't Stop The Boy
19. Eddie & The Hot Rods – Living Dangerously
20. Dogwatch – Ice Cream Man [studio version]
21. The Inmates – Three Time Loser
22. Q-Tips – Please Don’t Stay At Home
23. Whirlwind – Midnight Blue
24. Damned – New Rose
25. Splodgenessabounds – Two Pints Of Lager & A Packet Of Crisps Please
DISC THREE
1. Nick Lowe – So It Goes
2. East Side Band – Blowing Away
3. Squeeze – Take Me, I'm Yours
4. Sore Throat – 7th Heaven
5. Philip Rambow – Don't Call Me Tonto
6. Tyla Gang – Suicide Jockey
7. Clover – Take Another Look
8. Kokomo – Lonely Town, Lonely Street
9. Sniff ‘N' The Tears – The Thrill Of It All
10. Ian Gomm – Hold On
11. Brinsley Schwarz – Cruel To Be Kind
12. Electric Bluebirds – Rockin’ & Rollin’ With Gran’maw
13. Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts – Hurry Up Train
14. John Potter – When The Boogie Breaks
15. The Little Roosters – Ain’t Proud
16. 999 – Crazy
17. Motor Boys Motor – Drive Friendly [original single version]
18. The Records – Insomnia
19. Warm Jets – Big City Boys
20. Steve Hooker Band – How Did You Know? [single edit]
21. Geraint Watkins & The Dominators – Casting My Spell
22. The Wilko Johnson And Lew Lewis Band – Caravan Man [E.P. version]
23. Joe Jackson – Sunday Papers
24. Rory McLeod – Farewell Welfare