Various Artists - Jon Savage's 1965: Year the 60S Ignited (CD)

Details: The second "book-end" to Jon Savage's hugely popular 1966 Faber book and Ace compilation and to last year's "1967" CD follow-up, this prequel double CD based around 1965 represents the lead up and context to all that was about to happen. A genre-spanning mix of hit singles, slow burners and lost gems from soul, funk, psych, garage and rock'n'roll, these are the 45s that defined the year, captured the mood and crystallised Jon Savage's personal memories of the year. Dylan, denim, soft drugs and political disaffection, 1965 saw the death of Churchill and the rise of civil rights. 1965 was the year the sixties ignited.

Tracklist:

1. Concrete and Clay - Unit Four Plus Two
2. Land of a Thousand Dances PT 1 - Thee Midniters
3. Shotgun - JR Walker ; the All Stars
4. Come and Stay with Me - Marianne Faithfull
5. That's the Way It's Got to Be - the Poets
6. Fortune Teller - Tony Jackson with the Vibrations
7. Twine Time - Alvin Cash ; the Crawlers
8. Stranger in Town - Del Shannon
9. Nowhere to Run - Martha ; the Vandellas
10. Iko Iko - the Dixie Cups
11. Boot-Leg - Booker T ; the MG's
12. Leaving Here - the Birds
13. I'm Alive - the Hollies
14. Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind - Vashti
15. Anyway Anyhow Anywhere - the Who
16. Incense - the Anglos
17. The Price of Love - the Everly Brothers
18. Boss Hoss - the Sonics
19. Nobody Knows What's Goin' on (In My Mind But Me) - Chiffons
20. Heart Full of Soul - the Yardbirds
21. Agent Double-O-Soul - Edwin Starr
22. In the Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
23. Too Many People - the Leaves
24. See My Friends - the Kinks
25. I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better - the Byrds
26. Buttermilk PT 1 - Sly
27. Anything - the Vejtables
28. Can't Seem to Make You Mine - the Seeds
29. Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl - the Barbarians
30. London Town - the Pretty Things
31. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - the Silkie
32. From a Buick 6 - Bob Dylan
33. If You Gotta Go Go Now - Manfred Mann
34. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag - James Brown
35. Ain't That Peculiar - Marvin Gaye
36. Can You Hear Me - Lee Dorsey
37. It's My Life - the Animals
38. You Just Gotta Know My Mind - Karen Verros
39. Blow Your Mind - the Gas Co
40. The Train from Kansas City - the Shangri-Las
41. You've Got What I Want - the Sorrows
42. Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness) - Donovan
43. Girl from the North Country - Link Wray
44. I've Got Mine - Small Faces
45. The Duck - Jackie Lee
46. The Story of John Hardy - the Sir Douglas Quintet
47. We Sell Soul - the Spades
48. My World Is Empty Without You - the Supremes