Ka-Pow! An Explosive Collection, 1967-68

Fun to listen to. The downside with cds is they are expensive to buy with little resale value. They should cost much less up front. I have not bought any in a year.

This is one of the most amazing bands out there. Thanks to Alec Palao for unearthing their story some 20 years ago. This remastered release sounds even better. And the best thing is, the band is once again playing live. If you like 60s music in the Who/Small Faces vein, you will love Powder.

GREAT!

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This band and compilation came out of nowhere for me, to such an extent I thought it must a modern band, faking it, masquerading as a "Swinging Sixties London mod group". I am so glad to be wrong, and can't imagine that I will ever find another band as consistently excellent, beautiful and energetic as this. A discovery beyond my wildest dreams.The second shock after finding that it is a genuine sixties group is that they are an American Band. They capture the sound of a Small Faces and Who drenched Carnaby street so perfectly in some of their songs, and better, I think than any other American band. Once "Turn Another Page" version 1 exploded on my stereo I knew I was in for something incredible, special and utterly remarkable. The album just builds song after song. Every song is outstanding, how many times can that be said? Interestingly version 2 of " Turn Another Page" sounds as if Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane and Kenney Jones are mucking around in the background, (... I know they're not but they could be!). Musically they are accomplished and the recording quality, as always with Big Beat is outstanding. There are some high octane US garage moments, even "tan-lines" of "Turtlesque sunshine", but, the overall direction of this compilation is of a very mid sixties Anglophile mod band, these guys must have been mainlining The Who, Small Faces and Kinks. Just check out " I Go To School " and pinch yourself when you realise it was NOT written by Pete Townsend in 1966. Or that "What the World Needs Now / Tired of Waiting For You / Joy to the World" is not an arrangement from Paul Weller that's been messed about by an early Pink Floyd.The compilation it seems is a very thorough collection of nearly all the tracks of the various line ups of Powder and their earlier incarnation the Art Collection. My only niggle is the omission of the b side to the fuzz inspired "Kick Me", "She's a Mod". Maybe it was too dated in comparison to the rest of the tracks, for completeness I'd have like it included, and it's not a bad track having listened to it elsewhere. The liner notes are fascinating written by Big Beat's Alec Palao with extracts and quotes from band member Rich Martin together with some outstanding pictures of the the band looking as hip as drive down The Kings road in a 1966 E-type with Twiggy. This is my find of the year, and if I could give it ten out of five I would. Anyone who enjoys sixties beat, mod and garage has to give this a go, it's thrilling!

Fab