Records That Sound Nothing Like They Look
pickwick33
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Soul On Ice, ca. 4/3/05:
Well, this is the thread!- I had mighty high hopes for "Mr. Penguin" by Lunar Funk on Bell...funk, it is...good, it is not. (Although I understand the followup, "Slip The Drummer One," is really good, judging by the needle swipe I heard at a friend's house.)- The Candymen's two albums on ABC...five mod-dressing guys on the cover, you expect it to be a lost Southern garage-rock classic...turns out its' limp pop-psych, and it's not even good for what it is! Add on...I would love to start a thread about 45's people bought where the title was like, "Funky Funking MotherFunker," on a usually good label, say, Sussex, and the artist's name was like, "Willie McSoul," and you get it home, hands shaking as you put it on the turntable, and it turns out to be bluegrass with kazoos!!
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records ... I feel what you are saying, you hope they'll
sound like the Gants or something, but they're nowhere near
as bad as you make them out to be, IMHO.
Here it is three years later and I was laffing my ass off at the "funky McFucker/bluegrass kazoo" bit, so you must have been doing something right. It's from a thread on dollarbin 45's...
funny
a fine album, I like it...but not even close to the psychedelic mind fuck the cover promises
Maybe I need to hear them again. Understand, I'm a huge fan of Garage-Lite and pop-psych bands like the Cryan Shames, the Buckinghams and the Robbs, so I know that not all of this stuff is gonna sound all hard and punkish. But for some reason, the Candymen just left me stone cold.
While we're on the topic of psychedelic covers where the print is unreadable...I'm still wondering what the deal is with that album by the band Touch, on the Coliseum label...
OVER 1 MILLION PUBIS MONDS BRUNT AND COUNTING!
These guys?
This album is not too bad, they're like a cross between King Crimson, SRC, and early Fleetwood Mac. They get intensely heavy in some parts, and within the same song they'll start adding a bit of folk melodies with pianos and whatnot. If you're familiar with Gypsy's In The Garden[/b] album, it's a bit like that. Melodic heaviness, I guess would be a good way of describing it.
yes, this album was a grave disappointment to me, no doubt because of the cover.
heres a classic "no it aint":
Oh, thanks, but I actually have the album. I guess when I asked what the deal was, I meant why do people think this LP is so hot. I was kinda underwhelmed myself.
Not "hot" to me either, in fact I was kinda
On that same tip...a single called "C&W Meets R&B" by Urel Albert. Turns out it's a bunch of lame impressions of country stars singing AM Gold hits of the day (early seventies). Were they THAT out of touch in Nashville (or wherever) to think that R&B is a euphemism for Top 40 K-Tel pop?
I actually like this record too, but by today's standards, this really shouldn't be colored "funky."
distinction between what "funky" means pre-and-post "Cold Sweat"
... I mean, there are a ton of jazz records from the late 50's
and early-mid 60's that have song titles like "Gettin' Funky" -
if you buy a Milt Jackson LP from 1961 looking for breakbeat raer,
you really have nobody to blame but yo' own damn self.
And there were a surprising amount of country and surf records from the sixties that used "soul" as a catchphrase. Even though its' fairly well-known that country and older soul had a lot in common, I've seen that word used in the titles and liner notes of some of the most "mayonnaise" country records you've ever heard.
My 45 has Mr Penguin backed with Slip the drummer one. I like the latter. The former, yeah, kinda tepid.
Your 45 must be a reissue on Flashback (which was Bell/Arista's "oldies" label).
The copy I (used to) have is on Bell. IIRC, the B-side was "Mr. Penguin, Pt. 2."
There's a part 2? Don't really think I need to heart that... Gimmick funk can really go either way. I have a soft spot for The Goat, though.
If it's the same record I'm thinking of (Freddy & the Kinfolk?), those nanny-goat noises get on my last good nerves.
Goes for crazy money, but what does it sound like?
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Oh, that private press shit-fest? The one with the whiteys in the tree on the cover? Not even worth the dollar I spent on it.
w-o-r-d.