''Teenage Shutdown! You Treated Me Bad!'' (subtitled ''The Teener Side of the Mid-'60s Garage Explosion'') is a

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featuring material by

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garage rock Garage rock (sometimes called garage punk or 60s punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced a series of subsequent revivals. The sty ...

musical artists that recorded in the mid-1960s, and was previously available to only a handful of collectors. It is the second installment of the ''Teenage Shutdown!'' series and was released on

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on October 6, 1998 (''see''

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). The album compiles teen garage groups influenced by

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, and is somewhat raw and amateurish in its recordings. In comparison to the rest of the series, ''You Treated Me Bad'' is the most

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and

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-oriented as the majority of the featured musical artists attempted to appeal to public taste. Musical highlights include "Hurray for Hazel", by Terry Davidson and the Barracudas, which is an instrumental marked by its jangling freeform. Additionally, the Morticians' "It's Gonna Take a While" makes innovative use of fuzz-toned

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arrangements, and the Sound Extraction's "I Feel Like Crying" holds the novelty of the singer vocalizing the guitar solo. Arguably, the best known song on the album is

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' "You Treat Me Bad", which is considered a garage rock classic for its inclusion on '' Pebbles, Volume 1''. The album was reissued on LP in 2012.

Track listing

#The Gremlins: "Wait" - 2:06 #The Moxies: "Get a Move On" - 2:00 #J.D. Rogues: "Why Did God Make Girls" - 2:08 #Monday's Mondos: "I'm Cryin'" - 2:37 #Terry Davidson and the Barracudas: "Hurray for Hazel" - 2:12 #Little John and the Sherwoods: "Long Hair" - 2:16 #

The Quests The Quests was a Singaporean band. Some sources considered them the most successful Singapore band of the 1960s. History Formation and early years In 1960, Chong Chow Pin (referred to by his nickname "Jap"), Raymond Leong, Henry Chua and L ...

: "Scream Loud" - 2:28 #The Plagues: "I've Been Through It Before" - 2:37 #The Twiliters: "The Girl from Liverpool" - 2:06 #The Midknights: "Pain" - 1:32 #The Possums: "She's Loving Me" - 3:05 #The Morticians: "It's Gonna Take a While" - 2:34 #The Sound Extraction: "I Feel Like Crying" - 2:46 #The Messengers: "I've Seen You Around" - 2:02 #The Sānts: "Leaving You, Baby (On the Midnight Train)" - 2:16 #The Dead Beats: "She Don't Love Me" - 2:07 #The Mystery Men: "I've Got a Feeling" - 2:15 #The Shoremen: "She's Bad" - 2:25 #

: "You Treat Me Bad" - 1:51

References

{{Reflist Teenage Shutdown! (series) 1998 compilation albums