ROUGH DIAMONDS, VOLUME 3 / PHIL AND THE FRANTICS  The first album featuring music by Phil and the Frantics came out in 1980 on the Bomp! Records label Voxx Records as Rough Diamonds, Volume 3 in their Rough Diamonds Series that consisted of entire albums by 1960’s garage rock bands that have more than one or two singles to their credit. The first side is in an earlier style and is what I imagine music at a “sock hop” might sound like (I was a little too young to have ever actually gone to one), while Side 2 collects music from the same period as “I Must Run”. Another of the songs on this album, “Till You Get What You Want” has been included on several garage rock compilation albums; I have a copy on Acid Dreams Epitaph. Nothing else is quite as good as “I Must Run”, but several of the other songs on the album are just as enjoyable. (August 2012) * * *
(Retrospective album by the UARB for August 2012, Phil and the Frantics, released in 1985 as Rough Diamonds, Volume 3 on Voxx Records)
(May 2013)
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