CQ

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Product Description The American writer Richie Unterberger called them not justthe finest Dutch group of the '60s, but the finest group from anon-English speaking country, period.Holland's Outsiders have a posthumous reputation that growsand grows. Their 1968 album CQ was a benchmark, one of thegreatest albums of the late '60s from anywhere.RPM International is proud to issue the legendary CQ on CDoutside the Netherlands for the first time. Staggeringly itapparently sold just 500 copies when it was originallyreleased.Our package carries bonus tracks from a professionallyrecorded1968 concert of CQ material at The Fanstasio, inAmsterdam, their home town, by radio station VPRO.As important as other belatedly-recognised classics like TheZombies' Odessey and Oracle, The Pretty Things' SF Sorrowand The Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society, CQ wasmade by a band with their own identity. As influenced by themusic of front-man Wally Tax's Russian heritage as JacquesBrel, songs like Daddy Died On Saturday , have the intensityof White Light White Heat Velvet Underground. Prison Songis the atmospheric equal of The Doors' The End .Mike Stax, the editor of Ugly Things magazine, long-timeOutsiders' champion and friend of the band has contributedliner notes. With its iconic original cover art, this is thedefinit ive reissue of CQ.