The Easybeats "Absolute Anthology" 1980

The wonderful guitarist for the band was George Young, who really was one of the nicer players of the era in a Keith Richards's mode. After the band broke up he and co-guitarist Harry Vanda became producers, their most successful project being a band formed with George's younger brothers Angus and Malcolm, AC/DC.The Easybeats hit the big time with "Friday On My Mind" in 1967 and followed up with an eccellent pop song called "Heaven and Hell". Unfortunately, US stations wouldn't play any song that had terms like heaven or hell in them and the BBC banned the song because of the line "hell is finding someone else in your bed". The Easybeats quickly replaced that line with "hell is finding that your love has gone dead", but it was too late and this great pop tune flopped everywhere but Australia. I always wondered why the Easybeats didn't re-record some of their Aussie hits, such as the eccellent "sorry" or "I'll make you happy" for American release and the former Easybeats drummer Snowy Fleet said that the reason was "that the music scene had changed"(??) I always felt that this was a big mistake as those songs were perfect for the US market. This album has some great tracks from the band, such as the above, and also "land of make believe, women, she's so fine, hello how are you" and others from a band that should have been much bigger had the right decisions been made. - amazon

traxfromwax:
Disc One:- 1.For My Woman 2.Say That You're Mine 3.She's So Fine 4.Wedding Ring 5.Easy As Can Be 6.Sad & Lonely & Blue 7.You Said That 8.You Got It Off Me 9.You Can't do that 10.Funny Feelin' 11.In My Book 12.Women 13.Come & See Her 14.I'll Make You Happy 15.Too Much 16.Sorry 17.Made My Bed Gonna Lie in It 18.Friday on My Mind 19.Pretty Girl 20Remembering Sam 21.Who'll Be The One 22.Do You Have a Soul? 23.Heaven & Hell
Disc Two:- 1.Hello How Are you? 2.Come In You'll Get Pneumonia 3.Good Times 4.Bring A Little Lovin' 5.The Music Goes Round My Head (fast) 6.Falling Off The Edge Of The World 7.The Shame Just Drained 8.What in The World 9.Land Of Make Believe 10.Peculiar Home In The Sky 11.Lisa 12.Saturday Night 13.Amanda Storey 14.Down To the Last 500 15.Lay Me Down And Die (vocal version) 16.Wait A Minute 17.I Love Marie 18.Rock & Roll Boogie 19.Can't Find love 20.St Louis