British Invasion
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- The Basics
In the mid-'60s, the British Invasion stormed across the Atlantic with life-changing force, slamming into our shores with more excitement than we'd experienced since the dawn of rock 'n' roll a decade before. Consider the Rolling Stones, whose street-fighting image redefined the pretty-boy pop ideal, and their Windy City way with the blues lit the fuse for that primal explosion of young lust, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." The Who just might've been the first punk rock band; just listen as they leer and stutter their way across the power-chord-propelled "My Generation." And on the poppier side, the Bee Gees blended seamless brotherly harmonies with a pinch of soul and a dash of tuneful tartness on the heart-in-a-handbasket plea "To Love Somebody."
Find out what made the British Invasion an unstoppable force, in Next Steps.$27.87 The Basics
Name Artist Time Price 1 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction The Rolling Stones 3:42 $1.29 View In iTunes 2 All Day and All of the Night The Kinks 2:21 $1.29 View In iTunes 3 House of the Rising Sun The Animals 4:29 $1.29 View In iTunes 4 Time of the Season The Zombies 3:10 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 For Your Love The Yardbirds 2:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 Do Wah Diddy Diddy Manfred Mann 2:23 $1.29 View In iTunes 7 My Generation (Mono Version) The Who 3:17 $1.29 View In iTunes 8 Wild Thing The Troggs 2:38 $1.29 View In iTunes 9 Bus Stop (Single Version) The Hollies 2:54 $1.29 View In iTunes 10 Gimme Some Lovin' The Spencer Davis Group 2:56 $1.29 View In iTunes 11 Itchycoo Park (Mono) Small Faces 2:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 I'm Into Something Good Herman's Hermits 2:33 $1.29 View In iTunes 13 To Love Somebody (Stereo Version) Bee Gees 3:02 $1.29 View In iTunes 14 Needles and Pins The Searchers 2:12 $1.29 View In iTunes 15 Gloria (Stereo Version) Them 2:36 $1.29 View In iTunes 16 I Only Want to Be With You Dusty Springfield 2:38 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 Ferry Cross the Mersey Gerry & the Pacemakers 2:22 $1.29 View In iTunes 18 I Can See for Miles The Who 4:08 $1.29 View In iTunes 19 Downtown Petula Clark 3:07 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 To Sir With Love Lulu 2:43 $1.29 View In iTunes 21 The Game of Love Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders 2:05 $1.29 View In iTunes 22 Here Comes My Baby The Tremeloes 3:02 $1.29 View In iTunes 23 Friday On My Mind The Easybeats 2:44 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 23 Songs - Next Steps
Being a music obsessive during the British Invasion was like being a kid with a sweet tooth locked in a chocolate factory — everywhere you listened there was yet another new-favorite-band set to explode. Before their white-satin nights, the Moody Blues were a Birmingham beat group, whose first singer, Denny Laine, held a world of sadness in his lovelorn voice on the tearful, R&B-tinged ballad "Go Now!" London's Yardbirds boasted a stellar staff of six-string superheroes, including Jeff Beck, who turned the world's ears inside out with his fuzz-guitar fury on "Heart Full of Soul." And while the Animals retooled U.S. R&B for their Newcastle blues, their organ-laced howl of frustration "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" sounded like nothing that had come before.
Dig deep into the heart and soul of the British Invasion, in Deep Cuts.$27.27 Next Steps
Name Artist Time Price 1 She's Not There The Zombies 2:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 Mellow Yellow (Single Version) Donovan 3:42 $1.29 View In iTunes 3 The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) Manfred Mann 2:53 $1.29 View In iTunes 4 Carrie-Anne The Hollies 2:54 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 Georgy Girl The Seekers 2:19 $1.29 View In iTunes 6 Love Potion No. 9 The Searchers 2:04 $1.29 View In iTunes 7 Paint It Black The Rolling Stones 3:22 $1.29 View In iTunes 8 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood The Animals 2:28 $1.29 View In iTunes 9 Heart Full of Soul The Yardbirds 2:29 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 There's a Kind of Hush Herman's Hermits 2:33 $1.29 View In iTunes 11 I'm a Man The Spencer Davis Group 2:51 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Love Is All Around The Troggs 3:01 $1.29 View In iTunes 13 A World Without Love Peter & Gordon 2:41 $1.29 View In iTunes 14 Bad to Me Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas 2:21 $1.29 View In iTunes 15 Here Comes the Night Them 2:45 $1.29 View In iTunes 16 Pictures of Matchstick Men Status Quo 3:17 $1.29 View In iTunes 17 Shout Lulu & The Luvvers 2:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Single) Dusty Springfield 2:50 $0.99 View In iTunes 19 Go Now! The Moody Blues 3:11 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Have I the Right The Honeycombs 2:58 $1.29 View In iTunes 21 Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying Gerry & the Pacemakers 2:37 $1.29 View In iTunes 22 New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Stereo Version) Bee Gees 2:10 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 The Hippy Hippy Shake The Swinging Blue Jeans 1:44 $1.29 View In iTunes Total: 23 Songs - Deep Cuts
Welcome to our British Invasion Deep Cuts, where you'll experience the full spectrum of Union Jack jams from every corner of the mid-'60s scene. You'll find hints of the psychedelic revolution just around the corner in Status Quo's wah-wah-washed "Pictures of Matchstick Men." If it's garage rock you're after, uncover raw, rootsy rock 'n' roll riots like the Swinging Blue Jeans' "Hippy Hippy Shake." And, remember, there was no "groups only" clause in the movement's charter, either — get ready for that lump-in-the-throat sensation from folk-rock troubadour Donovan's heartbreaking "Catch the Wind," or get a giddy jolt of Swingin' London pop from songbird Petula Clark's "I Know a Place." They're all part of British pop's original royal family.
$27.87 Deep Cuts
Name Artist Time Price 1 A Groovy Kind of Love The Mindbenders 2:00 $1.29 View In iTunes 2 Silence Is Golden The Tremeloes 3:08 $1.29 View In iTunes 3 All Day and All of the Night The Kinks 2:21 $1.29 View In iTunes 4 Look Through Any Window The Hollies 2:16 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 Midnight to Six Man The Pretty Things 2:19 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 I Can't Explain (Mono Version) The Who 2:05 $1.29 View In iTunes 7 Under My Thumb The Rolling Stones 3:42 $1.29 View In iTunes 8 We Gotta Get Out of This Place The Animals 3:13 $1.29 View In iTunes 9 Shapes of Things The Yardbirds 2:26 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 What'cha Gonna Do About It Small Faces 1:59 $1.29 View In iTunes 11 As Tears Go By Marianne Faithfull 2:38 $1.29 View In iTunes 12 I Know a Place Petula Clark 2:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 I'm Telling You Now Freddie & The Dreamers 2:07 $1.29 View In iTunes 14 Pretty Flamingo Manfred Mann 2:29 $1.29 View In iTunes 15 Matthew and Son Cat Stevens 2:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter Herman's Hermits 2:47 $1.29 View In iTunes 17 I Go to Pieces Peter & Gordon 2:25 $1.29 View In iTunes 18 Catch the Wind Donovan 2:54 $1.29 View In iTunes 19 When You Walk In the Room The Searchers 2:20 $1.29 View In iTunes 20 It's Gonna Be Alright Gerry & the Pacemakers 2:25 $1.29 View In iTunes 21 I'll Never Find Another You The Seekers 2:43 $1.29 View In iTunes 22 Everyone's Gone to the Moon Jonathan King 2:23 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 Little Children Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas 2:47 $1.29 View In iTunes Total: 23 Songs - Complete Set
In an era when girl groups and teen idols dominated the U.S. charts, the British Invasion stormed our shores like nothing before or since, its musical and cultural explosion not only making rock groups fresh and exciting again, but also redefining what "pop" could — and should — mean. In the mid-'60s, nothing seemed hipper to Yanks than being a Brit, especially one who swung a guitar or manhandled a microphone. From the back-alley, blues-drenched rock 'n' roll of the Rolling Stones and the Pretty Things to the heavenly harmonies and dazzling pop artistry of the Bee Gees and the Hollies, the leading lights of the British Invasion colored their music with the full 64-crayon box — and we've got 75 of the Invasion's greatest moments on wax to show you exactly what we mean.
$83.01 Complete Set
Name Artist Time Price 1 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction The Rolling Stones 3:42 $1.29 View In iTunes 2 All Day and All of the Night The Kinks 2:21 $1.29 View In iTunes 3 House of the Rising Sun The Animals 4:29 $1.29 View In iTunes 4 Time of the Season The Zombies 3:10 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 For Your Love The Yardbirds 2:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 Do Wah Diddy Diddy Manfred Mann 2:23 $1.29 View In iTunes 7 My Generation (Mono Version) The Who 3:17 $1.29 View In iTunes 8 Wild Thing The Troggs 2:38 $1.29 View In iTunes 9 Bus Stop (Single Version) The Hollies 2:54 $1.29 View In iTunes 10 Gimme Some Lovin' The Spencer Davis Group 2:56 $1.29 View In iTunes 11 Itchycoo Park (Mono) Small Faces 2:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 I'm Into Something Good Herman's Hermits 2:33 $1.29 View In iTunes 13 To Love Somebody (Stereo Version) Bee Gees 3:02 $1.29 View In iTunes 14 Needles and Pins The Searchers 2:12 $1.29 View In iTunes 15 Gloria (Stereo Version) Them 2:36 $1.29 View In iTunes 16 I Only Want to Be With You Dusty Springfield 2:38 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 Ferry Cross the Mersey Gerry & the Pacemakers 2:22 $1.29 View In iTunes 18 I Can See for Miles The Who 4:08 $1.29 View In iTunes 19 Downtown Petula Clark 3:07 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 To Sir With Love Lulu 2:43 $1.29 View In iTunes 21 The Game of Love Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders 2:05 $1.29 View In iTunes 22 Here Comes My Baby The Tremeloes 3:02 $1.29 View In iTunes 23 Friday On My Mind The Easybeats 2:44 $0.99 View In iTunes 24 She's Not There The Zombies 2:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 25 Mellow Yellow (Single Version) Donovan 3:42 $1.29 View In iTunes 26 The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) Manfred Mann 2:53 $1.29 View In iTunes 27 Carrie-Anne The Hollies 2:54 $0.99 View In iTunes 28 Georgy Girl The Seekers 2:19 $1.29 View In iTunes 29 Love Potion No. 9 The Searchers 2:04 $1.29 View In iTunes 30 Paint It Black The Rolling Stones 3:22 $1.29 View In iTunes 31 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood The Animals 2:28 $1.29 View In iTunes 32 Heart Full of Soul The Yardbirds 2:29 $0.99 View In iTunes 33 There's a Kind of Hush Herman's Hermits 2:33 $1.29 View In iTunes 34 I'm a Man The Spencer Davis Group 2:51 $0.99 View In iTunes 35 Love Is All Around The Troggs 3:01 $1.29 View In iTunes 36 A World Without Love Peter & Gordon 2:41 $1.29 View In iTunes 37 Bad to Me Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas 2:21 $1.29 View In iTunes 38 Here Comes the Night Them 2:45 $1.29 View In iTunes 39 Pictures of Matchstick Men Status Quo 3:17 $1.29 View In iTunes 40 Shout Lulu & The Luvvers 2:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 41 You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Single) Dusty Springfield 2:50 $0.99 View In iTunes 42 Go Now! The Moody Blues 3:11 $0.99 View In iTunes 43 Have I the Right The Honeycombs 2:58 $1.29 View In iTunes 44 Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying Gerry & the Pacemakers 2:37 $1.29 View In iTunes 45 New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Stereo Version) Bee Gees 2:10 $0.99 View In iTunes 46 The Hippy Hippy Shake The Swinging Blue Jeans 1:44 $1.29 View In iTunes 47 A Groovy Kind of Love The Mindbenders 2:00 $1.29 View In iTunes 48 Silence Is Golden The Tremeloes 3:08 $1.29 View In iTunes 49 All Day and All of the Night The Kinks 2:21 $1.29 View In iTunes 50 Look Through Any Window The Hollies 2:16 $0.99 View In iTunes 51 Midnight to Six Man The Pretty Things 2:19 $0.99 View In iTunes 52 I Can't Explain (Mono Version) The Who 2:05 $1.29 View In iTunes 53 Under My Thumb The Rolling Stones 3:42 $1.29 View In iTunes 54 We Gotta Get Out of This Place The Animals 3:13 $1.29 View In iTunes 55 Shapes of Things The Yardbirds 2:26 $0.99 View In iTunes 56 What'cha Gonna Do About It Small Faces 1:59 $1.29 View In iTunes 57 As Tears Go By Marianne Faithfull 2:38 $1.29 View In iTunes 58 I Know a Place Petula Clark 2:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 59 I'm Telling You Now Freddie & The Dreamers 2:07 $1.29 View In iTunes 60 Pretty Flamingo Manfred Mann 2:29 $1.29 View In iTunes 61 Matthew and Son Cat Stevens 2:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 62 Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter Herman's Hermits 2:47 $1.29 View In iTunes 63 I Go to Pieces Peter & Gordon 2:25 $1.29 View In iTunes 64 Catch the Wind Donovan 2:54 $1.29 View In iTunes 65 When You Walk In the Room The Searchers 2:20 $1.29 View In iTunes 66 It's Gonna Be Alright Gerry & the Pacemakers 2:25 $1.29 View In iTunes 67 I'll Never Find Another You The Seekers 2:43 $1.29 View In iTunes 68 Everyone's Gone to the Moon Jonathan King 2:23 $0.99 View In iTunes 69 Little Children Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas 2:47 $1.29 View In iTunes Total: 69 Songs
Customer Reviews
Get over it!
You want the Beatles, go search iTunes for the Beatles. Go ahead. Go look. Can't find them for some reason?
The Beatles are just not here, folks. They're not on iTunes at all. Please stop complaining about this mix lacking them. Personally, I feel that if you're interested enough to purchase this mix, then you probably already have the Beatles. As far as I'm concerned they could have omitted the Stones for that reason as well. I think this is a really nice compilation of some of the lesser known acts of the era mixed right in with some of the bigger acts. Just don't worry about the Beatles. No one's forgetting about them, and they are still very easy to find in stores other than iTunes.
The Beatles !!!!
they need The Beatles !!!! The Beatles were a MAJOR part in the British Invasion !!!!
An Excellent Collection
This group of songs contains the essence of the British Invasion in all its forms. From the Stones, the Kinks all the way to Tom Jones and Petula Clark, it is a more than decent sampling of the British sound.
I understand the previous poster's frustration in that it lacks a Beatles tune, but to be honest there have been legalities involving anything having to do with the Beatles which has proved difficult to overcome. In addition, one might say that the Beatles were the Vanguard of the British Invasion. That is, they spearheaded the movement and made way for it to happen, so to speak.
Regardless, the collection is very nice, even and balanced. A good choice for lovers of the British sound.
