Downliners Sect - The Sect (1st Album UK Rock 1964)

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Of all the British R&B bands to follow the Rolling Stones' footsteps, the Downliners Sect were arguably the rawest. The Sect didn't as much interpret the sound of Chess Records as attack it, with a finesse that made the Pretty Things seem positively suave in comparison. Long on crude energy and hoarse vocals, but short on originality and songwriting talent, the band never had a British hit, although they had some sizable singles in other European countries. Despite their lack of commercial success or appeal, the band managed to record three albums and various EPs and singles between 1963 and 1966, with detours into country-rock and an EP of death-rock tunes. Although they recorded afterwards, it is the Sect's early work that continues to attract connoisseurs of '60s garage and punk. 

This is the group's rawest and most R&B-oriented album, firmly rooted in the same influences as the Rolling Stones and the Pretty Things and including punk covers of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, et al., along with a few originals in the same vein. For those who don't get enough rough-and-ready British-style R&B and rock & roll from the debut albums by the Stones or Pretty Things, or find the playing by either band a little too tame and mannered, The Sect should be their next stop. Nobody on the British isles, other than maybe Brian Jones in his private moments on the guitar and harp, was more charmingly primitive than the Downliners Sect were on this album, which trades so freely in Bo Diddley riffs and the latter's signature beat that latecomers could be forgiven for thinking that this band had a hand in inventing them. 

01. Hurt by Love  
02. One Ugly Child  
03. Lonely and Blue  
04. Our Little Rendezvous  
05. Guitar Boogie  
06. Too Much Monkey Business  
07. Sect Appeal  
08. Baby What's on Your Mind  
09. Cops and Robbers  
10. Easy Rider  
11. Bloodhound  
12. Bright Lights  
13. I Wanna Put Atiger in Your Tank  
14. Be a Sect Maniac

Bonus Tracks:  
15. Baby What's Wrong   
16. Little Egypt   
17. Find out What's Happening  
18. Insecticide

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