The Mysterians - Action album art, Question. The Mysterians - Question Mark & The Mysterians album art, Question. The Mysterians - More Action album art. As far as i know they only had 2 albums back in the day.' 96 tears' (12 songs) and 'action' (11 songs). And the cameo parkway has 27 songs. And all 23 songs from their 2 albums are on there as far as i can tell.
. And the Mysterians (also rendered Question Mark and the Mysterians) are an American garage rock band from Bay City and Saginaw in Michigan who were initially active between 1962 and 1969. But '96 Tears' isn't like those other riff-o-matics. For starters, the guitar sits this one out; this tadically radiant riff is dispensed via that most soulful of seemingly long-lost instruments, the venerable organ. And that opening burst of austere insanity- a staccato sputter of eighth notes, all two of them tepeated ad infinitum- is only the beginning. No sooner has it stunned you into instantaneous acceptance of its immortality than it morphs into another unbearably mind-numbing riff of equal enormity. The song could end right there and you'd die happier for having heard it.
What is this? What an odd name for a song, you're thinking. And the gtoup singing it is called—huh?—?
And the Mysterians? The singer is a punctuation mark? You've gotta be kidding me.
Is he a strange visitor from another planet or somethin'? Well, since you asked. The man who calls himself?, you see, was born on Mars. He's been around since the dinosaurs and regularly has conversations with The People From The Future. He's been famous for several lifetimes and his band, he once said, 'came together out of the clear blue sky.' They named themselves after a 1957 Japanese sci-fi movie in which alien Mysterians from the planet Mysteroid land on Earth looking to mate with our women. That's where?
Around '64, he just appeared, a dancing, snarling enigma, declaring himself the Mysterians' new vocalist and suggesting that the others take names like X, Y and Z to maintain their inscrutability (they passed on the offer). By then Robert (spies swear he's?' S brother) and Larry had found new lives in the military, replaced by Eddie Serrato (?' S brother-in-law) on drums and Frank Lugo on bass.
The now-solid lineup cut a couple of records that went nowhere. Then came '96 Tears,' which began its ascension to garage band eminence one day when Rodriguez began noodling on his keyboard. (And get this, trivia fans: Contrary to long-standing assumptions, Frank played the omnipotent riff on a Thomas organ, not a Farfisa, as is so often assumed.)? Once told this writer how the song materialized from the depths of his subconscious: 'As soon as Frank hit the first chord, I said, 'We can't use that because I've heard it before.'
We were all trying to figure out where we'd heard it. Then I realized that I wrote the song a long time ago.' Had called his composition, which he'd penned as much as four years earlier, 'Too Many Teardrops.' Guitarist Bobby Balderrama picks up the story: '? Started singing it, and then Eddie said, 'We should give it a number, like how many teardrops?'
He said, 'Let's call it '69 Tears.' ' I was only 15 at the time, but I knew what that meant.
So he said, 'Let's turn the numbers around.' And so we went with that.' In March of 1966,? And the Mysterians shuffled into a makeshift studio in Bay City, Michigan, and cut '96 Tears' and its B-side, 'Midnight Hour.'
The Mysterians Band The band's manager, Lilly Gonzales, issued approximately 750 copies on her own Pa-Go-Go Records label, and? Himself began promoting it, calling radio stations and visiting record shops all over Michigan. But that wasn't all, folks, and now, finally, all of the group's amazing slabs of pure teenage Tex-Mex bliss can be found in one place. What you've got here are 27 pristine examples of unadorned, unadulterated dementia: the entire contents of the two albums?
And the Mysterians spewed out for Cameo, 96 Tears and Action, the non-LP single 'Do Something To Me'V'Love Me Baby (Cherry July),' and two previously unreleased tracks, an early, slower and bluesier take of '96 Tears' and an outtake of 'Midnight Hour'—both in glamorous stereo! By the time the Mysterians recorded their second album, rock had grown fuzzier - heavier, as they said back then.?
Was in the vanguard, as amply demonstrated in 'Girl (You Captivate Me),' the early '67 single that hinted at a proto-Detroit rock sound that would shortly be taken to extremes by the likes of the Stooges and the MC5. There's more upfront bass; louder, more depraved guitar;?' S vocal is chewier- things are getting more mind-blowing by the minute.
'Can't Get Enough Of You, Baby,' which preceded 'Girl' by a few months, was virtually a '96 Tears' clone, although?' S vocals swim in a sea of reverb. There are nods to the soul and pop sounds of the day.
'Got To' borrows a page from the Otis Redding soul book, while the band's cover of the Isley Brothers' 'Shout' rivals any of the hundreds of other versions recorded back then. 'Do Something To Me' borders on bubblegum and preceded Tommy James' hit version by a year.? And the Mysterians didn't hold on for long. Cameo-Parkway soon scaled back operations and although the band recorded for other labels in various guises, by 1968 they were through.