Credits:

Various Artists

Description:

For those of you who love hard rock, this is a combination disc of Western music! A journey to discover the roots of hard rock through the numbers they covered. ＜Van Halen's debut song, "You Really Got Me," was a cover of the Kinks' "You Really Got Me," which was the first hard rock song on All Days Records. The loss of this great legend is hard to put into words. In this project, starting with Van Halen, we have mixed the old and new with Aerosmith, Kiss, Motley Crue, Guns N' Roses, etc., and spotlighted the oldies that they covered in order to get a deeper look into the fertile side of hard rock. The first seven songs and two closing songs are Van Halen-related, and the middle half of the album is a wide-ranging selection with no bias, but once again, I was surprised by the bands' great taste in song selection. The original versions of the songs selected as a set of offerings include the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, Roy Orbison, and many others, and the listener is invited to enjoy the genuine fragrance and rough-hewn charm of the original songs. If you can experience the "origin of rock music" through this disc, there is no better memorial than this. (Supervision and commentary: Shigo Marume)

Tracklisting:

01. YOU REALLY GOT ME (LIVE VERSION) / THE KINKS
02. OH PRETTY WOMAN / ROY ORBISON
03. DANCING IN THE STREET / MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS
04. YOU'RE NO GOOD / THE SWINGING BLUE JEANS
05. WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD TIMES GONE / THE ZOO
06. BIG BAD BILL / PEGGY LEE
07. JUST A GIGOLO - I AIN'T GOT NOBODY / LOUIS PRIMA & KEELY SMITH
08. THE HIPPY HIPPY SHAKE / CHAN ROMERO
09. SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL / SOUL BROTHERS SIX
10. LOOK AT GRANNY RUN RUN / HOWARD TATE
11. CAN YOU DO IT / THE CONTOURS
12. WALKING THE DOG / RUFUS THOMAS
13. THE TRAIN KEPT A-ROLLIN' / JOHNNY BURNETTE TRIO
14. ANY WAY YOU WANT IT / THE DAVE CLARK FIVE
15. KISSIN' TIME / BOBBY RYDELL
16. CONNECTION / THE ROLLING STONES
17. I AIN'T GONNA EAT OUT MY HEART ANYMORE / THE YOUNG RASCALS
18. LEADER OF THE PACK / THE SHANGRI-LAS
19. JAILHOUSE ROCK / DEAN CARTER
20. ITCHYCOO PARK / SMALL FACES
21. I AIN'T SUPERSTITIOUS / HOWLIN' WOLF
22. SINCE I DON'T HAVE YOU / THE SKYLINERS
23.TELL IT LIKE IT IS / AARON NEVILLE
24. COCONUT GROVE / THE DIRTY SHAMES
25. HAPPY TRAILS / ROY ROGERS