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The Georgia Satellites - Let It Rock: The Best of the Georgia Satellites Audio CD

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The Georgia Satellites Band: The Georgia Satellites
Title: Let It Rock: The Best of the Georgia Satellites
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Release Date: 1993-01-19
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Don't Pass Me By 2: Keep Your Hands to Yourself 3: Battleship Chains 4: Myth of Love 5: Can't Stand the Pain 6: Nights of Mystery 7: Let It Rock [Live] 8: Open All Night 9: Sheila 10: Mon Cheri 11: Down and Down 12: Saddle Up 13: Hippy Hippy Shake 14: I Dunno 15: All Over But the Cryin' 16: Six Years Gone 17: Hard Luck Boy 18: Almost Saturday Night/Rockin' All Over the World 19: Dan Takes Five 20: Another Chance

One of the Best Damn Albums from the 80's and 90's!!
Rock n soul with a good splash of twang. One of those bands that few people knew about but those that did got their socks knocked off. These guys tore up their little part of the rock world.
Anyone interested in good rock n roll has got to get this best of edition.


Georgia Satelites
For those into Southern Rock(esp. A very fun, enjoyable, rocking CD. 'old' Southern Rock) you'll enjoy listening to this CD. It brought back memories for me of when I was younger.


If you like Webb Wilder or Jason and the Scorchers, or Cheap Trick, you'll love these guys!
I saw
them live twice here in Virginia and
they are very good, though they didn't
have the original memebers still, then. Outstanding 20 cut sollection of
a band that has undergone many per-
sonnel changes over the years.
Pick Up On It!.


KEEP THIS ONE FOR YOURSELF!
Helmed by bad boy belter/geetar slinger Dan Baird, the Satellites had it all. One of Southern Rock's last gritty, greasy great gasps, these guys kicked more hiney than a high school football coach, letting fly with a raunchy, raspy ROCK 'N ROLL attitude flecked with country, blues, and bar band boogie. . . brontosaurus chops, snotty swagger, AND a sense of humor (which never hurt NOBODY nohow in the music biz). Monster hit KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF sets the piledriver pace for this career roundup appropriately named after one of Chuck Berry's most tread upon pieces (Bob Seger's good, but he ain't THIS good!). Crash 'n burn covers (HIPPY HIPPY SHAKE, originally written and performed by Chan Romero, Caesar's son), Ringo's DON'T PASS ME BY (one of but two Beatles tunes he penned), and a party perfect John Fogerty medley of ALMOST SATURDAY NIGHT/ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD blend seamlessly with Baird's bare bones double entendre OPEN ALL NIGHT and the bloozey ALL OVER BUT THE CRYIN'. Cranked to an especially high thrash threshold is Terry Anderson's BATTLESHIP CHAINS, not quite three minutes of rock so primitive I'm surprised Fred and Barney didn't write it. Love it loud? Need it nasty? Crave it crazy? Trust me. The Georgia Satellites will put you into orbit! RATING: FIVE BEER BLASTS
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****1/2 - superb!
I picked it up some ten or twelve years ago on a whim, knowing little or nothing about the Satallites, but I loved it straight away, and I still take it out and play it from time to time. This excellent 20-disc compilation gathers almost all the best from the Georgia Satellites three studio albums.

Equal parts Chuck Berry and AC/DC, the Satellites played rough, tough and gritty rock n' roll, joyous three chords romps with lots of firepower and the gap-toothed Dan Baird in front alongside lead guitarist Rick Richards.
Their debut album, which featured the hit single "Keep Your Hands To Yourself", got lost amid the pop metal of the mid-eighties, and the next two ones sank without a trace, which is a real shame, because the Satellites did what very few other bands could or would in the 1980s - they played real rock n' roll.

And there are plenty of highlight here. From "The Georgia Satellites" come the tough-as-nails hard rock of "Can't Stand The Pain" and the Hindu Love Gods' "Battleship Chains", and the album "Open All Night" provides songs like "Mon Cheri" and a supremely gritty rendition of Ringo Starr's "Don't Pass My By".
"In The Land Of Salvation And Sin", the Satellites' last album, was more stylistically diverse than its two predecessors, and the acoustic shuffle "Another Chance" is one of the group's best songs. . . all four musicians sing, and Baird's lyrics are some of his best ever.

"Let It Rock" also includes a few non-album tracks, like the title track (a live rendition of the Chuck Berry-number), and a fine medley of John Fogerty's mid-70s classics "Almost Saturday Night" and "Rockin' All Over The World", and a nice little essay by Jimmy Guterman.
This is a near-perfect introduction to an often overlooked little rock n' roll combo which deserved better.


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