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The Very Best of the Standells,The Standells

- The Very Best of the Standells
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The Standells
Released 1998

Why Pick on Me
02:42
9 plays

Did You Ever Have That Feeling
03:03
6 plays

Barracuda
03:08
40 plays

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songs

- 1
- Dirty Water
- 02:48
- 1,078 plays

- 2
- Hey Joe
- 02:13
- 30 plays

- 3
- Medication
- 02:44
- 27 plays

- 4
- Why Did You Hurt Me?
- 02:30
- 23 plays

- 5
- Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White
- 02:39
- 24 plays

- 6
- Black Hearted Woman
- 02:44
- 25 plays

- 7
- Mainline
- 02:08
- 25 plays

- 8
- Mr. Nobody
- 02:38
- 19 plays

- 9
- My Little Red Book
- 02:24
- 11 plays

- 10
- Why Pick on Me
- 02:42
- 9 plays

- 11
- Riot on Sunset Strip
- 02:24
- 20 plays

- 12
- Try It
- 02:53
- 23 plays

- 13
- Did You Ever Have That Feeling
- 03:03
- 6 plays

- 14
- Barracuda
- 03:08
- 40 plays

- 15
- Can't Help But Love You
- 02:53
- 22 plays

- 16
- Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do)
- 04:10
- 13 plays

- 17
- Dirty Water [Stereo Remix][*]
- 03:06
- 148 plays

album review

The Standells were a one-hit wonder, and that hit was "Dirty Water," which appropriately opens and closes this compilation (the second version is in stereo). Among the 15 other tracks are the group's less successful follow-ups to their hit, notably "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White," and LP tracks from their three albums of 1966-67, including their versions of standards like "Hey Joe," "My Little Red Book," and "Ninety-Nine and a Half." Of course, nothing is as good as "Dirty Water," even if many of the tracks echo its snotty garage rock appeal, especially the taunting "Try It," a single that Cub Koda's entertaining liner notes reveal was banned in Boston, which, for a band that declared (falsely), "Boston, you're my home" on its hit single, must have been traumatic. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide