Limited vinyl LP repressing. The Angry Young Them is the first album from the Northern Irish rock and roll group Them. The album was released in the UK in June 1965. The band's lead singer and songwriter was Van Morrison. In the U.S., the album was released as Them with partly different tracks. Six of the songs on the album were Morrison originals, including the famous garage band anthem "Gloria". Another song on the album, "Mystic Eyes", was a spontaneous creation that came out of the band just "busking around" in Morrison's words and after seven minutes of instrumental playing he impulsively threw in the words of a song he had been working on. "You Just Can't Win" was a Dylan inspired song about a gold digger, set in specific places in London such as Camden Town. "Little Girl" was about a boy's obsession with a fourteen-year-old school girl (an earlier take on Lord's Taverners charity album had been deleted when a four-letter word was heard in the fade out at the end). "If You And I Could Be As Two" starts with a spoken introduction by Morrison with an aggressive Irish accent. Three Bert Berns originals were included and a cover of John Lee Hooker's "Don't Look Back" was considered by Morrison to be his finest vocal to date.
J**E
Great Album.
Bought this album for a friends birthday. They were so surprised and couldn't wait to play it.
M**N
Van starts at the top
A great album. Everything Van does is amazing and this is another masterpiece.
S**Y
60’s punk
This is a great example of white soul. A bunch of Irish chaps that can rock harder than the punk rockers of the 70’s. Great garage rock
J**D
Great British R & B
Absolutely essential British R & B. The songs are great ("Mystic Eyes", "Gloria"). The band provides superb instrumental backups and the vocals by Van Morrison are magnificent. What more could you ask for?
R**E
No serious rock fan should be without this album
Subject line says it all
P**O
Great album from start to finish
Great album from start to finish! Who doesn't like Gloria? Greatest rock and roll song ever and puts the Shadows of Knight version to shame!
C**C
Five Stars
I LOVE Them!!! Great album.
M**.
Early Van Morrison
Early Van Morrison should be in any serious collection.
B**S
Excelente!!!
Them é demais!!!
T**T
super pressage son génial
super pressage son génial
A**)
Uno de los mejores discos debut de la historia del Rock
Tristemente ignorado por la crítica de su tiempo, este álbum es uno de los mejores discos-debut de la historia del Rock. Personal y con una producción que acercaba más a Them al garaje y al blues que al Pop que se oía en la época; "Angry Young Them" es un disco a la altura de los Who, Beach Boys, Los Beatles o los Rolling Stones.Con Van Morrison cantando con tono enfurecido, y una mezcla de Blues y Rock muy bien lograda; se logra un sonido duro, compacto, y lleno de puro músculo sesentero.Un disco que se hace totalmente imprescindible al final de su escucha para cualquier amante de la música de los años 60's. Maravilloso.
M**I
ristampa vinile
ristampa normale di un bel disco
K**.
It Still Sounds Fresh 55 Years On!
I love this album. I have all the Van Morrison era Them material on an excellent CD collection, but this was always on my list for getting again on vinyl. This is an excellent vinyl pressing and, like so many other albums it is great to listen to it in its original format. As a band they were clearly driven to approach the music they played with integrity but, perhaps Van Morrison was just too single minded in his vision to be contained in a group setting. It is unthinkable to consider a world without Van’s solo albums, we should be content that he hung around in Them long enough to record the two album, plus all the other songs on the the CD anthologiesIt is interesting to hear Them cover Route 66 here, just the year after The Rolling Stones had covered it on their debut album. Although superficially these two bands were drawing from the same influences and similar bands at that stage, the vocal approach of Morrison compared to Jagger sets the Them version apart, nobody who bought both albums at the time would be questioning Them decision to include the song.This album sounds as fresh today as it did in 1965, of its time but never dated
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