Original Cool

Original Cool Artist: The Stray Cats
Label: Castle Music UK
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5017615839524
ASIN: B000007472


Release Date: 1999-06-01

Original Cool


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Tracks:

  1. Somethin' Else
  2. Oh, Boy!
  3. Twenty-Flight Rock
  4. I Fought the Law
  5. Lonesome Tears
  6. Your True Love
  7. Be-Bop-A-Lula
  8. Blue Jean Bop
  9. Can't Help Falling in Love
  10. Flying Saucer Rock N' Roll
  11. Train Kept A Rollin'
  12. Stood Up
  13. Let It Rock
  14. Trying to Get to You
  15. Chet Ditty [Hidden Charms]

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  1. Rock Therapy
  2. Choo Choo Hot Fish
  3. Choo Choo Hot Fish
  4. Built for Speed
  5. Stray Cats/Gonna Ball/Rant N' Rave With the Stray Cats

Album Description

15 boss numbers by the cool rockin' daddies of modernrockabilly, including covers of classics like 'Oh Boy','Somethin' Else', 'Twenty Flight Rock', 'I Fought The Law',and 'Lonesome Tears'. All tracks are digitally remasteredfrom the original master tapes.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Oldies but goldies..........2004-06-10

Album is dedicated to their idols. Cover of "Be-Bop-A-Lula" is probably the best cover of this song I ever heard, "Can't Help Fallin' In Love" is very beautiful too. It's a beautiful collection of rockabilly's greatest songs.

3 out of 5 stars i'd rather listen to the originals.......2003-04-30

The Stray Cats are better instrumentalists than any of the rockabilly bands who's tunes they are covering this CD, but somehow this CD feels a little flacid. Granted, I knew it was all covers when I bought it, but I'd much prefer to hear some original tunes rather than just a great band phoning in some old rockabilly hits.

4 out of 5 stars Original Cool.......2000-12-06

All covers. Occasionally sounds like they are just going through the motions, but, overall a fine compilation. Check out the bad translation of the lyrics. Very funny.

5 out of 5 stars Stray Cats Turn it up a Notch.......1999-08-15

Absolutely no one does the rockabilly hits like the Stray Cats: nobody. This album proves it. 20 Flight Rock is so incredible, it must be heard to be believed. Somethin' Else just jams, I Fought The Law is almost better than the original, Be Bop A Lula, surpasses the orginal, Let It Rock is everything you expect it to be and Train Kept A Rollin' will keep you rollin' and wanting more. The rest are excellent as well, but these moments stand out. An excellent CD that is a must-have for any true Stray Cats fan and any true fan of rockabilly. Brian, Slim Jim, and Lee; you have done well.

4 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Somewhere in This Town ~ Seks Bomba
  2. Sweatbees ~ My Morning Jacket
  3. The Flat End of the Earth ~ The Life and Times
  4. Finally ~ Too Much Joy
  5. Blood Red River 1982 - 1984 ~ Scientists
  6. Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People ~ Califone
  7. Songs from Stamford Hill ~ Wood
  8. Psycho Acoustic Overture ~ Bernd Steidl
  9. Honeymoon in Red ~ Lydia Lunch
  10. You Were the Last High, Pt. 1 ~ The Dandy Warhols

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Cafe Trio: Live at Bradley's in New York City ~ Victor Jones

French Jazz ~ Claude Bolling

Ritmo Pa Gozar ~ Machito

Madcap ~ Chuck Owen & The Jazz Surge

At the Embers ~ Carmen Cavallaro

Harlem Stride Piano ~ James P. Johnson

Ai No Kotodama ~ Southern All Stars

Parfums d'Orient ~ Various Artists

Shinda Youni Nemuritai ~ Miho Haruna

First Live in Seoul ~ Tomoe Sawa