Alexis Petridis on Boys Blue

'Let's hear it for sexual frustration'There is a grainy, black-and-white video of the Boys Blue performing You Got What I Want on YouTube. It is, unequivocally, among the great lost 60s records. Howling, distorted and mad, it fizzes with frantic, bug-eyed intensity; the Boys Blue appear to have made it as an ­alternative to vandalising something. ­According to YouTube, the video is from 1966, but the sleevenotes of the compilation Rubble 14: Freak Beat Fantoms claim the track was recorded ...

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