 | The Decca Anthology 1965-67 by Small Faces
Buy used from: £9.99 Great pop tunes played with pace, passion and energy. The undisputed kings
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 | Our Music Is Red - With Purple Flashes by The Creation
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.74 Chuck the Small Faces, Who and Kinks in a melting pot and you get this. Started delving into psychedlica towards end of career; but always have that crazy freakbeat sound
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 | Eight Gigs A Week by Spencer Davis Group
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £8.50 'I'm a man', 'Give me some loving' and 'keep on running'. Arguably not freakbeat, but definitive mod songs
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 | Take a Heart by The Sorrows
Love these guys; pure freakbeat, decent tunes but they play this stuff so fast and with such aggression its 60's punk before punk was invented.
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 | Action Packed by The Action
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £7.00 Soulful tunes played with a great rhythm section; lacks enough punch to be considered freakbeat, but this is mod royalty
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 | The Collectors' Guide To Rare British Birds by The Birds
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £5.50 Most famous for being Ronnie Wood's first big break but only have about 12 different songs here. Still they're an underrated band and this is the definitive version of 'Leaving Here'
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 | Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond by Various Artists
Buy new: £63.09 / Used from: £42.47 Only available on import and costs a bomb. While some of this is psychedelic, its mostly freakbeat; underground and long forgotten UK garage bands at their best.
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 | The In Crowd - The Ultimate Mod Collection 1958 - 1967 by Various Artists
Buy used from: £75.00 Great mod collection; a lot of motown, atlantic and R&B soul records and a few freakbeat bands show up on disc 4. Can sound a bit tame in places but this shows how wide and ecelectic mod music is
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 | The Rhythm & Blues Years by The Pretty Things
Buy new: £4.98 This stuff is mostly just 12 bar blues, but the influence of this music on the underground scene makes this essential. Snarling vocals and backbeats
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 | The Story of Them Featuring Van Morrison by Them
Buy used from: £35.00 Same as above really, but they sound kind of like an early Rolling Stones with a lot more passion.
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 | Freakbeat Freakout by Various Artists
Buy used from: £8.90 Probably the best single disc compilation. A lot of really rare stuff that you'd have to shell out a fortune to collect the originals.
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 | Gary Crowley Presents Where the Action Is! by Various Artists
Buy used from: £2.90 A few obvious tracks but like the above a few rare cuts here. Nice mix of freakbeat and mod/soul
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 | Ultimate! by The Yardbirds
Buy new: £15.28 / Used from: £11.99 I'm not a massive fan; don't really like the singer and not great songwriters. More R&B than freakbeat, here for musical talent and influence only
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![My Generation [Deluxe Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518041EDGvL._SL75_.jpg) | My Generation [Deluxe Edition] by The Who
Buy new: £8.68 / Used from: £5.48 The mod band for the unitiated, but sceptical mod fans know they weren't true mods. Still the music itself is the perfect mix of R&B, mod and early freakbeat
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 | Kinda Kinks by The Kinks
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £2.20 They never let the grass grow under their feet long enough to be considered part of any one genre; but this is UK R & B at its brutal best with songs written by a true master reaching his peak
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 | The Kink Kontroversy by The Kinks
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £3.20 Till the end of day and Sitting on my Sofa are my favourite Kinks songs; pure mod with a superb performances by the rhythm section.
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 | You've Got to Be Loved by The Montanas
Hold on; fantastic blend of soul and beat music. A real pop band with an edge that made them stand out.
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 | The La's by The La's
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.49 Alright this isn't 60's. But listen to this and you realise that mod/freakbeat isn't period music, its about stripped down sounds, energetic performances. An authentic freakbeat sound from the 80's
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 | The Rubble Collection, Vol. 1-10 by Various Artists
Buy used from: £80.00 Like Nuggets, this touches on psychedelic music, but is mostly rare energetic UK guitar music. But then this isn't even available on Amazon, so its nearly as rare as the originals.
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 | The Rubble Collection, Vol. 11-20 by Various Artists
Buy new: £39.09 More of the above, 160 songs more to be precise. Great stuff though.
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 | Maladjusted by The Primitives
Buy used from: £16.48 Long forgotten, and I had to check to make sure they are actually British, not Italian. Aggressive vocals at start of band's life, but change in line up led to more souful mod cuts
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 | Reflections 1965-1969 by Les Fleur de Lys
Buy used from: £32.50 Mixture of soul mod/freakbeat. Great songs and particularly well crafted guitar performances, but a real oddball band and several band members went on to play part in the freaky prog rock scene.
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 | 1964-1969 by Rod Stewart
Buy used from: £26.81 Rod the Mod as he was then known. Kinda dissapointing as his work with Jeff Beck was seminal and he rarely lets rip here. Mostly simple R&B covers, but some great performances by his fellow musicians
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 | Maximum R and B (Doin' the Mod Vol. III) by Various Artists
Buy used from: £12.99 Another nice compilation, with some well-known tracks and few less known ones and 30 tracks as well.
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 | English Freakbeat Vol.1: 16 British Beat-Pop Pounders by Various Artists
Buy used from: £24.15 There's 6 editions of this, worth getting if you're unfamiliar with this type of music
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