Pebbles, Volume 28

Pebbles, Volume 28 is a compilation album among the LPs in the Pebbles series. It is one of the 10 albums in the sub-series The Continent Lashes Back and is sub-titled Sweden, Part 3. Pebbles, Volume 20 and Pebbles, Volume 26 also feature music by Swedish bands.

Release data

This album was released circa 1988 as the final LP in the Pebbles series by AIP Records (as #AIP-10046) and was kept in print for many years. In the following year, ESD Records released the first of 4 CDs in the Pebbles series, and AIP Records released their own series of CDs beginning in 1992.

Notes on the tracks

This version of "Suzie Q" was recorded after that of the Rolling Stones, but before Creedence Clearwater Revival released the song in 1968 (when it became their first hit song). Two other cover songs of venerable classics, "Route 66" and "Louie Louie" are also included on the album; the former song was the opening cut on the first album by the Rolling Stones. The last song on Side 1 is a novelty song about Alfred E. Neuman, the Mad Magazine mascot. A series of compilation albums of Swedish garage rock music called Who Will Buy these Wonderful Evils takes its name from the opening cut on this album.

Track listing

Side 1:

1. The Shakers: "Who Will Buy these Wonderful Eyes?" – Rel. 1967
2. The Cads: "Call My Name" – Rel. 1966
3. Los Comancheros: "It's So Right" – Rel. 1966
4. The Dee Jays: "Not that Girl"
5. The Dee Jays: "Striped Dreams" – Rel. 1967
6. The Demons: "You" – Rel. 1964
7. The Gents: "Honor Bright"
8. The Madmen: "Alfred E. Goes Surfing" – Rel. 1965

Side 2:

1. The Dee Jays: "You Must Be Joking" – Rel. 1965
2. The Slamcreepers: "Nobody" – Rel. 1966
3. The Bootjacks: "Route 66" – Rel. 1965
4. The Namelosers: "Suzie Q" – Rel. 1965
5. The Flippers (Sweden): "Louie, Louie" (Richard Berry)
6. The Lea Riders Group: "Got No Woman" – Rel. 1966
7. The Lea Riders Group: "But I Am, and Who Cares?" – Rel. 1966
8. The Bootjacks: "Stoned"