Sunday, May 20, 2018

Them - Here Comes the Night - Non-Album Tracks (1964-1966)

Van Morrison is another great artist I plan on posting a lot of. But before getting to his long solo career, I'll first deal with his short career with Them.

Them put out two British albums, "The Angry Young Them," and "Them Again," plus a bunch of stray tracks. There's a compilation called "The Story of Them" that does a really great job of collecting all of Them's studio recordings. However, I have a few quibbles with it. One is that I'm not so interested in hearing alternate takes that are only slightly different, and that has some. Two, it's missing one key song, "Mighty like a Rose." But most importantly, I think Them is best heard in album-sized chunks of about 40 minutes each, instead of two CDs of about 70 minutes each.

So here are all the stray tracks, including the missing one. Plus, I found a couple of really nice live Them performances in soundboard quality, so I've added them on as bonus tracks at the end. The album is 47 minutes long, which would have been very long for that era, but possible. Of course, the bonus tracks make it even longer than that. ;)

01 Baby Please Don't Go (Them)
02 Don't Start Crying Now (Them)
03 One Two Brown Eyes (Them)
04 Here Comes the Night (Them)
05 All for Myself (Them)
06 One More Time (Them)
07 Story of Them [Parts 1 & 2] (Them)
08 Philosophy (Them)
09 Baby What You Want Me to Do (Them)
10 It Won't Hurt Half as Much (Them)
11 Times Gettin' Tougher than Tough (Them)
12 Call It Stormy Monday (Them)
13 Friday's Child (Them)
14 Richard Cory (Them)
15 Mighty like a Rose (Them)
16 Turn On Your Love Light [Live] (Them)
17 Mystic Eyes - Gloria [Live] (Them)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700740/THM1964-1966_HreCmestheNght_atse.zip.html

I made the cover using bits and pieces I found on the Internet.

5 comments:

  1. Looks like this link is down too.

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  2. This link seems to be listed as "forbidden" - any chance of redoing it please?

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  3. I'm a great fan of Them and I have all their recordings including the two live versions (N° 16 & 17). Unfortunately, there is not a lot of their BBC and live appearences (as well as The Moody Blues R&B period).

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    1. Yeah, I would post an album of their BBC and/or live stuff if there was enough for an album.

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