ABOUT TIME!
Released August 29, 2006
RPM RECORDS RPMBC317
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- Any More Than I Do (O’List-Shirman)
- Feel Like Flying (Making It) (DuCann)
- Created by Clive [Radio Session Recording] (Pattison)
- Try It (Ballack-Levine)
- Go Your Way (DuCann)
- Too Old (DuCann)
- Colour of My Mind (Shirman)
- Lady Orange Peel (Shirman)
- Sympathy for the Devil (Jagger-Richards)
- Neville Thumbcatch (Bain-Smith)
- Strange House (DuCann)
- Created by Clive (Pattison)
- Mr Pinnodmy’s Dilemma (DuCann)
- Come on Up [Radio Session Recording] (Cavaliere)
- Freedom for You (DuCann)
- Hi-Ho Silver Lining (English-Lancer-Weiss)
- Magic in the Air (Aka Watch with Mother) (DuCann)
- Anything (Shirman)
- We Don’t Know (O’List-Shirman)
Making up the four great bands of the 1966 pop-apocalypse were The Who, The Action, The Creation and finally The Attack. Four names that in their brevity summed up the instant flash of mod-pop appeal. They had more energy than an H-bomb after flash, and they hit the senses and the soul with a long awaited wake up call.Led by ex Ready Steady Go dancer Richard Shirman, aka Jivin’K. Boots (!), and future Nice guitarist David O’List , the Attack recorded singles for Decca, plus a number of unreleased tracks (including two only recently unearthed on acetate) and a radio session all included here.
Stand out tracks being Try It “bugged out insanity,with sexual overtones blowing the Standells version into oblivion”; We Don’t Know “a tight explosion of mod-soul”; Anymore Than I Do “a freak beat classic” - plus of course their pre-Jeff Beck version of Hi Ho Silver Lining.
A special package by Phil Smee, with full involvement of Richard Shirman, and notes by Chris Welch who followed the band for Melody Maker in 1968. A must for all Mod Collectors.
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