Big Dog 92-7 Music Guide

Through Mysts of Time

RELEASE
October 05, 1999
LABEL
Voxx
GENRES
Pop/Rock, Jangle Pop, Alternative/Indie Rock, Surf Revival, Garage Rock Revival

Album Review

Rougher and rawer than this old English power pop quartet's otherwise fun singles and LPs, this 71-minute, 25-track collection of earlier demos, outtakes, and other rarities replaces such works as 1981's Drop Out and 1983's Mean Time as the definitive statement on a truly underrated '60s-infested band. The Barracudas were looking back in the midst of a punk revolution -- covering Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Little Red Book" just like Love or the Standells -- and succeeding just the same, probably because, like the unrelated but not totally dissimilar mod revival bands of the time, they brought a purely modern crunch and crackle to the thick guitars underneath the songs about girls. This is boy/girl punkish pop before it became an '80s/'90s staple!
Jack Rabid, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Don't Let Go
  2. Neighborhood Girls
  3. Rendezvous
  4. I Wish It Could Be 1965 Again
  5. His Last Summer
  6. Surfers Are Back
  7. Little Red Book
  8. I Want My Woody Back
  9. Subway Surfin'
  10. Tokyo Rose
  11. Summer Fun
  12. Grammar of Misery
  13. On a Sunday
  14. Ballad of a Liar
  15. Shades of Today
  16. I Can't Sleep
  17. Inside Mind
  18. His Last Summer [Kenny Laguna Mix][*]
  19. Bad News [*]
  20. Watching the World Go By [*]
  21. I Need [*]
  22. Campus Tramp [*]
  23. Love Is Fun [*]
  24. If She Cries [*]
  25. Subway Surfin' [*]