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Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 29, 2020 16:01:57 GMT
Probably for a different thread, but I tend to think there are more 60s bands that remain underrated (or at least overlooked) mostly from the US - Elephant's Memory, WCPAEB, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Ultimate Spinach, Pearls Before Swine etc. etc. I'd add the Electric Prunes and The Seeds in there too, but the Electric Prunes were barely a band by the end.
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Post by DarknessFish on Jul 29, 2020 16:16:42 GMT
Ultimate Spinach is the worst shitty student rock band name in the history of the world.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jul 29, 2020 16:46:40 GMT
Ultimate Spinach is the worst shitty student rock band name in the history of the world. I wouldn't be so sure of that.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Jul 29, 2020 17:58:07 GMT
Ultimate Spinach is the worst shitty student rock band name in the history of the world. Car Seat Headrest Ejector Seat Pushbutton Old Lady Pet Budgie Nigel's Sister's Baby's Pram
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jul 29, 2020 18:34:33 GMT
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
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Post by toomanyhatz on Jul 29, 2020 19:17:15 GMT
The Animals might almost make my list - they're pretty hit and miss - but I think that even people that love them realize that.
They're also simultaneously overrated and underrated if that makes any sense - people tend to forget just how many hits they had, as well as how adventurous and different "House of the Rising Sun" sounded before we all heard it thousands of times.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jul 29, 2020 19:52:03 GMT
One fuck of a recording, that. Really bold to have them stretch out (organ vamping, extended verses) on a 45 at least a couple of years before bands like The Doors made it almost standard practice.
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Post by Charlie O. on Jul 29, 2020 22:08:59 GMT
The Animals might almost make my list - they're pretty hit and miss - but I think that even people that love them realize that. I love them, and I realize that. I'm sure even Eric Burdon realizes that. A biographer once asked Eric about some of the daft stuff on the psychedelic era LPs - long spoken word things, skits, absurdly long solos/instrumentals, etc. - and he more or less shrugged and said (I paraphrase) "We tried those things because nobody else had. Why not? How do you know it's not gonna work if you don't try it?" Funny thing is, a lot of that stuff totally (or almost totally) works for me. Not just in a "psychedelic kitsch" way (though there's quite a lot of that) but rather in a... "well, yeah, I'VE never heard anything quite like THAT anywhere else" way. Example: the last track on the Every One Of Us LP, "New York 1963 - America 1968". It's nearly 19 minutes long. The first 6 minutes are a rather prosaic ballad about Eric's impressions coming to Greenwich Village for the first time (he's got the year wrong, but anyway); then there's 3 minutes (I'd have sworn it was much longer, but I just checked) of an unidentified black American man, someone who worked at the studio I think, talking (unaccompanied) about his experiences; then there's a tape cut to Eric and the band in the studio improvising a song about freedom, about how Eric wants to be free, about how he feels free, about how he feels free because he's stoned... at which point the unidentified black man starts singing a response vocal about how Eric's full of shit (though not in those words), which Eric in his freely stoned state doesn't know how to respond to, and this all goes on for more than 9 minutes. I mean, bless him - how many lead singers' egos would have allowed that to go on the album, let alone make it the last statement (as it were)?
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Jul 30, 2020 0:19:21 GMT
The Animals, Yardbirds, Mc5, Sabbath, Edgar Broughton Bros, Stooges, etc., were messy during a time of the music's expansion, and of it taking chances, moving away from the AM radio band. Not every band was going to be neat and cute with matching pants and shirts and sing in perfect harmony. The music was going to get harder because technology would allow it: Marshalls, Sunns, Dumbles, Joyces, Hiwatts, etc., Fuzzes, phasers, etc., The exploring was guitar anchored but not only, Mellotrons, VCS3s, etc., percussion, funky/soul/jazz derived rhythm sections all compelled to propel. This same thing would happen again later in the 70s with an explosion in new technology combining and propelling the music. Thank God.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Jul 30, 2020 4:30:01 GMT
That's wild stuff, Charlie! And yeah, I admire that level of daring - I don't think Burdon was worried at all about looking silly - I think the silliness was part of the appeal for him.
That said, I almost wish it was a little bit better - like a Doors epic - or a little bit worse - like "Friends of Mine" level bad.
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Post by Charlie O. on Jul 30, 2020 4:31:38 GMT
That said, I almost wish it was a little bit better - like a Doors epic - or a little bit worse - like "Friends of Mine" level bad. I can understand that.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 31, 2020 13:00:27 GMT
The Animals might almost make my list - they're pretty hit and miss - but I think that even people that love them realize that. They're also simultaneously overrated and underrated if that makes any sense - people tend to forget just how many hits they had, as well as how adventurous and different "House of the Rising Sun" sounded before we all heard it thousands of times. It's funny you say that, Dave. I've been listening to them a fair amount on my lunch time walks. They sure loved their John Lee Hooker, but I've found that I'm enjoying a lot of their songs far beyond their hits. House of the Rising Sun, We Gotta Get out of This Place, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood are huge - three immense songs you'd have to include in any representative compilation of the British Invasion.
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