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232 posts tagged psychedelic
Stained Glass - Piggy Back Ride and the Camel
Stained Glass started out as a Beatles cover band, and this song, Piggy Back Ride and the Camel, really drives that home with its kazoo tomfoolery.
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Stained Glass - Light Down Below
I’d been told that Stained Glass had released 2 albums, but I’d only ever come across Aurora, the follow-up record. Just before I went to Italy, I found a copy of their debut, Crazy Horse Road, and it’s most of what I listened to while away. It’s so good that I’m going to post a pair of songs off of it. This one’s called Light Down Below.
It turns out that the band put out a number of great singles, bundled onto a CD reissue of this album because none of them wound up on Stained Glass’ LPs.
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Quest For Fire - The Hawk That Hunts The Walking
I went on a bit of a music dig this week so that I’ll have lots of new albums to listen to on my flight to Italy. I think I’ve come across a bunch of promising stuff.
Quest For Fire is a Canadian psychedelic rock band that put out their self-titled debut in 2009. They sound similar to Tame Impala, so like a spaced out Sam Roberts, but they write longer, open-ended songs in the vein of post-rock groups like Pelican. I have a feeling this record is going to get a lot of attention from me this summer.
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Sugar Bear - Moccasin Mona
Next up on this list of Radioactive Records reissues is a band out of 70s Florida called Sugar Bear. They released just the one self-titled record in 1970. This song, Moccasin Mona, is ridiculously catchy. Me and my room-mate have been obnoxiously singing the chorus to each other for a few days now, and so it’s become out go-to car music. The record generally reminds me of other light psychedelic rock bands like The Collectors and Stained Glass (also reissued by Radioactive Records!) mixed with some Canned Heat. So basically they sound like all my favourite things.
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Zerfas - Stoney Wellitz
Zerfas was another American private press psychedelic band that put out this obscurity in 1973. As is usually the case with bands that have such a limited run, there’s not a lot of readily available information on them. The band is named after a pair of brothers in the band, and according to some notes on the album, they were big DIYers, making their own wine and their own synthesisers.
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Judy Henske & Jerry Yester - Horses On A Stick
This one of the albums I came out of the record store with on the weekend. The owner remembered a bunch of the albums I’d been pestering him for and had set them aside in a nook for me. It made me feel pretty awesome.
Judy Henske and Jerry Yester’s Farewell Aldebaran is wonderful bit of 60s strangeness. This married psychedelic folk duo, on Frank Zappa’s advice, recorded this 1969 record of Henske’s poetry put to a variety of types of music. The album bounces between psychedelic belters, hymns, and pop parodies while maintaining a death grip on listener’s attention through Henske’s deep and powerful vocals.
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Mountain Bus - Rosalie
More cheery psychedelia is in order!
Mountain Bus was a short-lived band out of Chicago that put out this single 1971 record, Sundance. No one talks about the band without mentioning how clearly influenced they were by the Grateful Dead, and I refuse to be original right now. They’ve got a chill jam rock sound right up the Dead’s alley, dense but not cluttered, wandering but not aimless. They use great, clean guitar tones, see-sawing between Americana and psychedelic blues influences. If you’re a dead-head, I guarantee this record will bring a grin to your face
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The Move - Flowers In The Rain
It seems like December is taking its toll on everyone I’ve met today. I think that means its time for some super cheerful psychedelia! Here’s Flowers In The Rain, a bouncy number off of The Move’s 1968 self-titled record.
The Move was the psychedelic rock band that, after [its] 1971 release, relabelled itself as Electric Light Orchestra. Basically so many people left The Move that when their singer bailed, the remaining members decided to create ELO so that they could move wholly into the progressive rock scene.
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Alcatraz - Vampire State Building
Fair warning: Alcatraz’s Vampire State Building is a 13 minute long krautrock jam epic, and as such it can get a little silly, but it’ll wander into some beautiful moments. I don’t really know anything about this band, but there are 8 other bands of the same name on Last.fm and all of them combined are less popular than other obscurities I post about. This record is loose all over, good for closing your eyes to and just getting lost in it.
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Judy Henske & Jerry Yester - Raider
The guys down at the record store tried to say that Judy Henske & Jerry Yester’s Farewell Aldebaran had only one good track on it (Snowblind, which I’ve posted before) but that is all sorts of wrong. This is Raider, another American folk marvel.
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