The Alchemist of Pop: Home Made Hits & Rarities 1959-1966

by Joe Meek

The Alchemist of Pop: Home Made Hits & Rarities 1959-1966 cover art

An essential retrospective celebrating the pioneering, highly eccentric recording techniques of the legendary British independent record producer. Bypassing traditional studios, Meek constructed wildly compressed, echo-drenched sci-fi pop masterpieces—like The Tornados' 'Telstar'—entirely within his cramped London flat. The anthology firmly cements his legacy as one of the original, tragic visionaries of electronic studio manipulation.

Genres

  • Rock & Roll
  • Pop

Tracklist

  1. What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For
  2. Be Mine
  3. Green Jeans
  4. Chick A'Roo
  5. Angela Jones
  6. Sunday Date
  7. Paradise Garden
  8. Can't You Hear My Heart
  9. Swingin' Low
  10. Ambush
  11. You Got What I Like
  12. Johnny Remember Me
  13. Tribute To Buddy Holly
  14. Night Of The Vampire
  15. Wild Wind
  16. Can You Hear The Beat Of A Broken Heart
  17. 'Til The Following Night
  18. Son This Is She
  19. It's Just A Matter Of Time
  20. Walk With Me My Angel
  21. Lonely City
  22. Telstar
  23. Stand Up
  24. Theme From 'The Traitors'
  25. Can Can '62
  26. North Wind
  27. Don't You Think It's Time
  28. Globetrotter
  29. Ridin' The Wind
  30. Jack The Ripper
  31. Robot
  32. I Lost My Heart At The Fairground
  33. Only The Heartaches
  34. Hobbies
  35. Wipeout
  36. Just Like Eddie
  37. Sky Men
  38. My Friend Bobby
  39. Country Boy
  40. All My Loving
  41. You Were There
  42. Have I The Right
  43. Questions I Can't Answer
  44. I Can't Stop
  45. Little Baby
  46. Something Better Beginning
  47. Diggin' For Gold
  48. That's The Way
  49. Crawdaddy Simone
  50. What'cha Gonna Do Baby
  51. Something I've Got To Tell You
  52. Please Stay
  53. You're Holding Me Down
  54. I Take It That We're Through
  55. Singing The Blues
  56. It's Hard To Believe It