Let's Go! Joe Meek's Girls

Artist	Joe Meek
Format	CD
Genre	Rock
Label Name	RPM
Release Date	2000 01 17
Song List	1: Hobbies (2:07) 2: My Friend Bobby (2:10) 3: Dumb Head (2:04) 4: Heart and Soul (2:32) 5: This Little Girl's Gone Rockin' [#] (1:47) 6: Mama Didn't Lie [#] (2:36) 7: Please Don't Say Goodbye [#] (2:12) 8: He Didn't Fool Me (2:14) 9: Merry-Go-Round (2:10) 10: Big Boys (2:18) 11: I Lost My Heart at the Fairground (2:36) 12: My Johnny Doesn't Come Around Anymore (3:18) 13: Hey There Stranger (2:46) 14: Love Can't Wait [#] (2:24) 15: With This Kiss (2:27) 16: Little Star (Shine on Us Tonight) [#] (3:10) 17: Your Love Keeps Me Going [#] (2:04) 18: Who's the Girl (2:34) 19: Please Let It Happen to Me [#] (2:40) 20: Go on Then (1:57) 21: Christmas Calling (2:32) 22: Listen to Me (3:09) 23: Don't Tell Me Not to Love You (2:54) 24: Baby It Hurts (2:25) 25: Boy Trouble (2:31) 26: My Boy Comes Marching Home [#] (2:08) 27: Mr. Right [#] (2:41) 28: Let's Go See Gran'ma (1:49) 29: Cry My Heart [#] (3:04)
Style.Categories	Early British Pop/Rock, Instrumental Rock

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When you take the plunge into a Joe Meek rarity CD, you have fair warning that you're not going to encounter many lost masterworks. This compilation of 29 tracks by female singers he worked with in the early and mid-'60s, though, is one of the better ones on the market. None of these -- by the likes of Jenny Moss, Gunilla Thorn, Kim Roberts, and Yolanda -- were hits (ten tracks weren't even previously released), and frankly they didn't deserve to be, due to the extremely innocuous and slight nature of the material. That's not, however, what Meek connoisseurs are seeking with these archival releases. You want examples of Meek's inimitable outer space bathroom production techniques, whether highly polished or in progress, and you get them here, via the Casper-the-ghost strings, compressed percussion, and spooky keyboards. Which makes it a not half-bad document if you've got the Meek bug, even if the songs themselves are completely overshadowed by their embellishments, although the odd tune (Jenny Moss' "Hobbies," Pamela Blue's "Hey There Stranger," and especially Glenda Collins' dramatic "Baby It Hurts") carried some hit potential. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide