So what are your favourite 60s/soft/psych/weird pop records of all time?

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I've overloaded on the recent noise thread and I need some nice Wilson-esque melodies. Any decade, but pref with nice tunes and harmonies and silly bits.

My nominations:

The Tokens: Intercourse
Beach Boys: Smiley Smile
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart
dEUS: In A Bar Under The Sea
Os Mutantes: Os Mutantes
Belle & Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister

It's a pretty wide scope so please think hard about your nominations, don't just post the first half-baked indie record that pops into your head.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle
David Axelrod - Earth Rot
Rotary Connection - Songs/Hey Love
Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges - Clube da Esquina
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
Nino Ferrer - Nino & Radiah
The Millenium - Begin
Nilsson - Aerial Ballet

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

Brigitte Fontaine & Areski - Le Bonheur

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

The Smoke "My Friend Jack"

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

The Left Banke: There's Gonna Be a Storm (exhaustive compilation)

Sagittarius, "My World Fell Down" (I haven't heard the rest of their material yet)

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

Chad & Jeremy - The Ark
Inner Dialogue
Beach Boys - Surf's Up
Free Design - Kites are Fun
Wendy & Bonnie - Genesis
The Four Freshmen
The Carpenters

Sagittarius, "My World Fell Down" (I haven't heard the rest of their material yet)
i've got Blue Marble and I always think I don't like it and then I put it on and am pleasantly surprised

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

Margo Guryan - Take a Picture

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

obv, i'm totally in a soft pop kick right now too.

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

nick nicely "psychotropia". it's a compilation, but it's bloody good. 60s psychedelia meets sweet sweet 80s analogue electronics. awesome.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

I cannot stand the singing in Earth Rot, but Songs of Innocence is one of my fav records. (Songs of Experience is purdy good, too)

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

"moving in a circle" by the executives is my fave australian soft psych single ever. nice trippy chorus, too.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

the new young tradition album is a good example of this sort of pop. it's very nice.

west coast pop art experimental band's 'a child's guide to good and evil' is pretty great too.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

Who is making this kind of music in present-day? I'd like to discover some new stuff in this vein, particularly if the harmonies are high and the horns are peppy.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

of montreal, saturday looks good to me..

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

the soft set

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

Who is making this kind of music in present-day?

Cornelius.

and i used to really like Music Tapes "1rst Imaginary Symphony for Nomads"

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

I like the Dovers oeuvre - I always hope someone will uncover a lost album or two by them, but as far as I know they released only four singles.

I like Timon's "The Bitter Thoughts Of Little Jane"

Gary Usher's symphonic tribute to Brian Wilson is surprisingly good.

Also underrated were some of Chad & Jeremy's experimental soft folk pop.

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

monkee's 'head ' soundtrack - especially the dolphin song .

― javy dones, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

Also underrated were some of Chad & Jeremy's experimental soft folk pop.

^ look up :) ^

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

i just pulled out this mix cd i made some time back and was reminded of two AMAZING Harper's Bizzare songs.

"Wichi-Tai-To" (one of my all time fave songs) and "The 59th St Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" -great vocal harmonies at the end!

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

Beau Brummels' "Magic hollow" kills.
also the Turtles, Montage (left Banke spin-off) and some Curt Boettcher solo stuff

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 07:06 (twenty years ago)

the inner dialogue lp is wonderful, its quite close to the free design i suppose, but somehow clinical and weird

fun & games - topanga canyon road
love generation - montage from 'how sweet it is' (jimmy webbs 2nd best song)
dino, desi & billy - thru spray colored glasses (from the 1969 stu phillips scored surf film 'follow me')
the sandpipers - never can say goodbye (from their last lp in 1972)
the sandpipers - misty roses (one of their bigger hits)
stoufville grit - cause i dont have you (from the soundtrack to 'bs i love you)
jackie & roy - didn't want to have to do it (from the 1967 lp changes, i think this is a lovin spoonful cover)
dave grusin - california montage (this was from bs i love you as well)
gary usher - sacramento (slightly countrypop ish story song from 1964)
wendy & bonnie - i realized you (best track on the lp by far)
mort garson - big sur (best song ever! from the 1969 weirdonoisefest wozard of iz, but this is a totally incongruous beautiful little song towards the end)
the groop - jet song (not that groop, but the other groop, which other groop? how many groops were there? 1969 7")
year one - will you be staying after sunday (a british song! and, superior to the more famous peppermint rainbow original)
steve & stevie - merry go round (maybe not really softpop, but i think it fits. carousel themed pop from melbourne 1968)

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2GFASXXPGGSCK2WA2Z7XDXB6S6

stoufville grit - cause i dont have you

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 07:49 (twenty years ago)

http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3FQQZODF14QCZ2EII2P13K8VZW

the love generation - montage from 'how sweet it is'

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3MFWS1O6VE9W62FBKVCILNPE09

mort garson - big sur

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

John Carter - Measure For Measure: The Anthology 1962-1977

The missing link between Lonnie Donegan and Saint Etienne.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1BMHXSIE4KS3O02MW6EA9A7YGE

inner dialogue - yesterday the dog

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

the rest of the fun & games lp isnt as good unfortunately, but i'd like to hear more of gary zekleys stuff (i think fun & games were the only actual band he produced, the other 'bands' he produced were just him in the studio with various others, i think)

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 08:07 (twenty years ago)

Jaxon otm. Key Cornelius releases are:
69/96 (Japan only, but P2P friendlee)
Fantasma (my favourite album next to Thriller/Off The Wall)
CM: Cornelius reMixes
Point
CM2

as well as his old band, Flipper's Guitar. Their last album, Dr Head's World Tower is a fantastic pop mix of Screamadelica, MBV, Madchester and proper psych weirdness and a precursor to 69/96 and Fantasma.

Others:
The Shortwave Set - The Debt Collection (out next month, currently my album of 2005 and definitely a decade highlight. "St Etienne in a Peters and Lee-style fantasy.")
Mum and Dad - s/t (a hugely underrated Sabbath do Broadcast up the ass-Twisted Nerve released LP)
The United States of America - s/t (how can I be the first to mention this?)
The Avalanches - Since I Left You (the band are fans of both Brian Wilson and Cornelius and there's a definitely psychedelic element to the record that no one talks about)
Wonderful - God Bless Our Pad (this is a side project of the United States of Electronica, and are infinitely better for my tastes. Middle ground between the Avalanches and Cornelius)
The Beta Band - s/t (mad as a hatbox of jelly and dicks)
Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - Cartooom! (Treads the line between Disneyworld J-Pop and total madness)
And here's a soft spot vote for Prince - Around The World In A Day

― BARMS, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

I hardly think that no one talks about the Avalanches record. Indeed, if you look at ILM posts from 2001-2, they talked of little else.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

If Belle et Sebastien qualify, I guess Neil & Iraiza (From Tokyo) do too. Key albums are Johnny Marr? and New School.

Also, The Shortwave Set: http://lastsoundofsummer.blogspot.com/2005/06/shortwave-set.html

(Check comments box for extra mp3)

x-p MC, that's not exactly what I said, and even so, then I'd've expected it to have been mentioned in this capacity before I even turned up.

― BARMS, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

well what you do mean no one talks about it then?

are you in the shortwave set?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)

Haha, no, it was inspired by Gareth's YSI effort. Besides, you assured me you'd listen to the record, so there are their singles for you to start with! Anyway, what's wrong with enthusiasm, eh?

well what you do mean no one talks about it then?

It's just that on a place like here, where Since I Left You is one of ILM's top 5 albums of the decade thus far, it would have been one of the first answers or cropped up as soon as Joseph asked for modern examples, ahead of (yes) Cornelius even. I may go in the archives later, but I don't think the pop weirdness or psychedelics of our Oz friends are noted so much ("it's all samplin', maaaan").

Why, even talking about it has reminded me of Disco Inferno, and I'd expect Dog Latin to mention them here before me!

Also, Cut Copy - I Thought Of Numbers (psyche dance, with sunshine numbers to boot)

― BARMS, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 09:06 (twenty years ago)

Not really Brian Wilsonesque though, is it, and it doesn't even have much in the way of "nice tunes" apart from all the ones they nicked from everybody else.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2V1GTDTAIIM0R2A9S59JTRNRLY

A track from Tim Smith's solo album Oceanlandworld, also worth checking out are his other projects Sea Nymphs and Spratley's Japs.

Not classically psychedelic but quite florid and, where the Sea Nymphs are concerned, pastoral/dreamlike.

― mzui (mzui), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

Slum did an excellent single called "Twilight Mushrooms" on Warp. Not exactly soft pop but excellent, hazy summertime stuff bordering on MBV style loveliness.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

then: The Milennium
now: Skygreen Leopards

― rizzx (rizzx), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

You can download the Wonderful album at http://www.mannheimworldwide.com/

― BARMS, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

Slum later changed their name to Parsley Sound & continued along the same lines with releases on Mo Wax

― Wandering Boy Poet, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

Didn't know that, but they're a good band. I loved the first Parsley single.

― BARMS, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

a few, off the top of my head...

todd rundgren - a wizard, a true star
judee sill - s/t
fleetwood mac - tusk
love - da capo, forever changes
emitt rhodes - s/t
broadcast - ha-ha sound
robert wyatt - rock bottom

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

For more recent stuff: Circulatory System's self-titled album is a personal fave as well as Olivia Tremor Control's Black Foliage & Dusk at Cubist Castle.

― pasty paste, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Wilsonesque? You can't go wrong with the real thing:
American Spring - s/t

Silly bits?
Simultaneus Ice Cream and Algebra Spagetti comps on Siesta both cover in a very playful way many of the artists listed above

Weird?
Joe Meek - I Hear A New World

― marianna, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone mentioned Jennifer Gentle yet? Valende immediately sprung to mind when I saw this thread.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

What about the Bee Gees 1st record and Billy Nichols - Would You Believe

― marianna, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

recently listening to Giles, Giles and Fripp. Kevin Ayers esp. Joy of a Toy. The Del Shannon stuff produced by Andrew Oldham.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Gareth, you my dog, dude.

― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

heh, was about to mention Valende by Jennifer Gentle, also first thing that popped into my head. Also, UK Nirvana, definitely the Bee Gees (My personal faves are the first album and Odessa, which is a little moodier, I guess).

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

I saw a record at a thrift store once, it was silver and almost reflective, the cover had a giant eye superimposed over a picture of the band (featuring Bill Wyman of the Stones). The band was The End and the record was "Introspection" and it has grown to be one of my favorite psych pop albums of all time. I have no idea if this is one CD tho...

I also really like the Grapefruit album, the one with "Marianne" on it. They're quite Beatley in parts, which makes sense cos they're on Apple. There's a good group from Atlanta (I think) called Smoke who put out an excellent album with a Brian Wilson-influenced lead-off called "Cowboys and Indians." Right now I'm deep in "Unicorn" and "A Beard of Stars" by Tyrannosaurus Rex but any of theirs will do!

I never got the Left Banke hype. I got that compilation and it just sort of bored me. Maybe I should listen again..

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

The George Harrison soundtrack for "Wonderwall" is fantastic and there's a lot more on it than just the good Indian drone stuff. If you can find an mp3 of him and Remo Four doing "In the First Place" it's bloody amazing. It sounds almost exactly like a lost Circulatory System track.

Btw, Wonderwall is a fantastic movie, and the group of gypsies in it is called The Fool and they have their own record out too. A bit like the Incredible String Band, but more poppy and more gypsy too.

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to see Wonderwall again. I remember getting restless and finding it a bit dull when I saw it years ago, but it was a Scala Cinema triple bill and I'd already sat through The Trip and Head.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Wonderwall is better than both the Trip and Head, but maybe it's because the other two are so ubiquitous compared to Wonderwall.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000068ZWX.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― david day (winslow), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

New favourite thread. Silver Apples are very good, and I'm looking for my/a copy of Parsley Sounds. The YSIs are fantastic, and thank you to all. I will arrange soon to YSI a track from most of my noms.

― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

i just remembered another fave album Gabor Szabo & The California Dreamers "Wind Sky & Diamonds". he does GREAT soft-pop, choral covers of all sorts of 60s hits ("White Rabbit", "Lucy in the Sky", "Guantanamera", "A Day in the life", and the reason i bought the record Eric Burdon's "San Franciscan Nights" that PUTS sampled)

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 23 June 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

and they seem kinda dorky, but the Lennon Sisters (Lawrence Welk's tv singing band?) do an amazingly dark version of "My Favorite Things". gives me chills

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 23 June 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

you should all get yr hands on the Deram Originals - The UK Psychedelic Scene (Various UK Psychedelia 1967-69) comp.

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 23 June 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

i count one other female on this thread. tsk tsk.

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 23 June 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

that's a great comp. lovely to have all that stuff in sweet sweet mastertape sound. not a single mediocre track on it either.

xpost

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 23 June 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

jody/jim, do you guys have a link or any info on that comp? is it soft rock stuff? i can't find any info from google. is deram mostly a british jazz label?

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 23 June 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

here: http://www.soybomb.com/garage-comps/classic/index.php?code=1125&format=CD

deram did a decent amount of freakbeat/psych stuff, but in the 60s/early 70s they put out stacks of prog lps..

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 23 June 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

they also dabbled in folk and northern soul..

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 23 June 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.marmalade-skies.co.uk/deram.htm

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 23 June 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

they put out the terry durham lp too

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 23 June 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1P307JH2VXTER30OA1VOS97M0T

dino, desi & billy - thru spray colored glasses

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 23 June 2005 05:29 (twenty years ago)

holy crap!

A Hollywood trio that were barely into their teens when they hit the charts in 1965, Dino, Desi & Billy anticipated the bubblegum fad with records that usually featured none of their own contributions, except their characterless vocals. That may be phrasing matters too kindly. The best bubblegum is far more distinctive and catchy than the lowest-common-denominator L.A. session pop-rock that they recorded. But they knew the right people, as they say in the business, which made them stars for a brief time, although they never had an ounce of credibility.

their voices are way lower than i thought they'd be (i thought they were kids). i've been looking for something from them for a while. i'm assuming that wasn't a Lee Hazlewood production?

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 23 June 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

i doubt it. ive assumed it was a stu phillips production, as he does the rest of the soundtrack

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 23 June 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2X30GIM4KKNIX3PW9IG8UJ2CYA

the groop - jet song

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 23 June 2005 05:50 (twenty years ago)

http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=27IZE3VPAELM9246JUC2M8LDHP

year one - will you be staying after sunday

anyone who knows the peppermint rainbow version, which do you prefer?

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

so was this stuff ever hip when it was being made? or was this like family/church/white bread music? were the kids listening to this stuff?

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

jim: thanks for posting all the deram links. i know i got summoned to respond too, but i was asleep. :-)

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Here are mine:

Mum and Dad - 'Kiss Of Death' (2001)

http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=31RZGA0YAXSSG2QC0JURNUCI8T

Cornelius - 'Brand New Season' (1995)

http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0IPACLMK4A6O21FV6552NK3X3D

and 'Clash' (1997)

http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1AM29GRDLGS0F2O1LECGFCL167

Flipper's Guitar - 'Dolphin Song' (1991)

http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=17NH4YFG6FMM63PUREVRMGUQKN

Neil and Iraiza - 'Oracle Noises' (2002)

http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2M0XWTBGM7HIS3MJG7S4L2YJZB

Wonderful - 'My How You Come Alive' (2004)

http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=19U4EZ7IL3W1T03XUE7DGZXYDG

Enjoy.

― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Monday, 27 June 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

And l'd love to hear more from the rest of you.

― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Monday, 27 June 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

Os Mutantes: Os Mutantes

I'll second this. Finally got it last week. So good.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 27 June 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Modern producers - Andy Votel tries at this, but seems to fail more often than not (where's the tune etc).

― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

The Electric Sugarcube Flashbacks comp is amazing, as is Pebbles Vol 3: The Acid Gallery-- and an mind blowing comp called Fun with Mushrooms.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Getting back to the harmonies/Beach Boys thing (requested in the first post): The Four Seasons "The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette" which is 60's, soft, psych, and weird. Available on (OOP) CD, but it's worth buying the vinyl for the packaging even if you don't have a record player.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

that love generation track is pretty amazing... how does the rest of their stuff compare to it?

― brad k! (brad k!), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

year one - will you be staying after sunday

anyone who knows the peppermint rainbow version, which do you prefer?

Just YSI'ed the Year One version from you - thanks!! I really like the Peppermint Rainbow version better. Neither pretends to actually mean the lyric, but while Year One takes its cues from perkyites like Lesley Gore and Lulu, Peppermint Rainbow gives it the full-throated Spanky & Our Gang treatment. Since the song is pretty much just a vocal exercise with peppy backing chirps, I'll take the big vocals.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 05:29 (twenty years ago)

i've been very curious about the groop for a while now, and that song is teriffic.

what is known about the groop?

― reo, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

this thread is really right up my alley..

i've been listening to my love generation and lemom pipers albums a lot lately, on repeat.

― reo, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

oooh, can anyone ysi "we can fly" by the cowsills and the "spring the park and other things" one!?!?!?

that would rock my world.

― reo, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

i would upload some songs as well, if someone wouldn't mind telling me how to do it. i'm pretty lo-fi, and am actually quite new to the whole downloading of mp3s thing, ha..

― reo, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

the rest of the love generation stuff is nowhere near as good as montage from how sweet it is, but then thats often the way with this stuff! one great song is fine by me

i like the year one version of will you be staying after sunday more than the peppermint rainbow version, because its somehow very MFI, british 70s, slightly stilted, very anglia tv 1972. normally i prefer american versions of stuff like this, but not in this case

dont know much about the groop at all, there seemed to have been 3 groops at this time, and its really not clear what is what

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

i just bought the cd reissue featuring both albums by The Happenings (The Happenings, and Psycle). both very recommended, great harmonies, melodies and arrangements. don't listen to the lyrics, and you will love it.

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

I've been listening to Nino Tempo and April Stevens's "All Strung Out," I nominate that. The Chad Everett versions of some of those songs are choice, too.

*Billy Nichols - Would You Believe * and his mid-'70s "Love Songs" is pretty amazing too, he sounds like Speedy Keen from Thunderclap Newman (whose "Hollywood Dream" fits in here too, I think).

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

hey josh, who reissued the happenings?

― reo, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

incredible string band -5000 spirits
pearls before swine- balaklava
USA
os mutantes
revolver

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

hey reo, joan-not-josh
rhino collectables did. the website on the back cover is www.oldies.com

― joan vich (joan vich), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

To add to the set I posted above:

Marxy - 'We Won't Be Sold' (2004, by an American living in Tokyo. Think of him as an American Cornelius)

http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0BQGIZLDZCG5Q0DAZMIMLWU4RL

The Beta Band - 'It's Not Too Beautiful' (1999)

http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0WM4L70TZI6YC2SCHFZ6QSU6IL

― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

JOSEPH WINS

with the Spanky & Our Gang reference. PERFECT fodder for this thread.. especially their second of three albums Without Rhyme Or Reason

(which reminds me, I just got the CD version of this, and i need to re-mp3 the "Leopard Skin Phones" track I put on the ilMIX0r blog mix called Maximalism, so it doesn't have all the crackles and pops of the vinyl version I digitized then.)

― donut e-g (donut), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

Dan's my homey for mentioning Kevin Ayers.. though I'll say Joy Of A Toy, Shooting At The Moon (which isn't soft really.. it's rather rough and free sounding, VERY good), Whatevershebringswesing (which has some really great dark moments like "Song From The Bottom Of A Well".. my god!), and Bananamour.

― donut e-g (donut), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I'm finally getting around to contributing to this thread....

"Laboratorio" - Manolo Diaz

http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3C7GVZIPP5KP707XZOU3UJDSZY

Apparently, he had something to do with Los Bravos of "Black is Black" fame.

― Gogi Ormsby-Gore (Arthur), Friday, 26 August 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

"29 Septembre" - Equipe 84. Italian beat group does Lucio Battisti.

http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3OFX339HC9YVN0XX00GXRK303F

― Gogi Ormsby-Gore (Arthur), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

Bernard Chabert-"Il Part en Californie". French Canadian, I think. Sort of Simon & Garfunkel meets Duane Eddy.

http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RAYPPHYJUD7Q0KJHRWGR24H8Z

― Gogi Ormsby-Gore (Arthur), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

Smokey & His Sister-"Creator of Rain". Ain't it just the twee-est thing....twee-er than the Claudine Longet version, even!

http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0FLS7ZA46NSYB14WYW9COCV4ZJ

― Gogi Ormsby-Gore (Arthur), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

Les Rotomagus-"Nevada". Couldn't find anything about this group. Are they from Rouen?

http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0NRLTP8GDTYPN1C0BR5I4XTQKE

― Gogi Ormsby-Gore (Arthur), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

Jim & Jean-"Topanga Road". This was written to protest a drug bust involving Buffalo Springfield, say Jim & Jean. Although it was the Byrds they kicked around and took downtown.

http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=07DZYZ83ZGMED31AU1WQLEOSF5

Sorry fot the atrocious sound quality of all these, by the way

― Gogi Ormsby-Gore (Arthur), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

Pleasure Faire-"Stay Around for the Good Times" More traditional sunshine pop stuff.

http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=32119MTMYW0AU2FMMYZ3C1VXZS

― Gogi Ormsby-Gore (Arthur), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

my vote would be for Dukes of Stratosphear "Chips from the Chocolate Fireball." Although it's not from the 60s, it might as well be. it's awesome!

― -vest, Friday, 26 August 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

Last one! Yankee Dollar-"City Sidewalks". Not that soft, really. Pissed off back-to-nature raga rock with Grace Slick overtones.

http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2XFZ6JKLIC2AC0OVJF5ZUI4ZFZ

― Gogi Ormsby-Gore (Arthur), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

do you know, i didnt know that the sandpipers misty roses and never can say goodbye were covers until today (tim hardin and jacksons). haven't heard either original though, and...im not sure i want to now

― 688, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Two excellent albums not yet mentioned are The Idle Race's "The Birthday Party" and Kaleidoscope's "Tangerine Dream".

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 2 March 2007 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! and the Wombles...

Man I can't believe I missed all these yousendit links!

― Saxby D. Elder, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

The 5th Dimension deserves to be at least mentioned here no? not sure if this link will work, it's my first one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WL_8T5WHkU

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Here are they too doing a great song by Laura Nyro, fine composer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMhWQgkZ8c

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Reminds me, Rotary Connection deserve a mention

― Saxby D. Elder, Friday, 2 March 2007 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

beau brummels, Triangle

― QuantumNoise, Friday, 2 March 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Peter & Gordon Hot Cold and Custard although I notice AMG was none too thrilled with it...

― Saxby D. Elder, Friday, 2 March 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

The Association, And Then...Along Comes The Association and Insight Out
The Bells, Fly Little White Dove Fly (AKA Stay Awhile)
Poppy Family, Which Way You Goin', Billy and Poppy Seeds

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Ladybug Transistor - The Albemarle Sound

― nabisco, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

nabisco not otm

― jaxon, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

The Association, And Then...Along Comes The Association and Insight Out
The Bells, Fly Little White Dove Fly (AKA Stay Awhile)
Poppy Family, Which Way You Goin', Billy and Poppy Seeds

very well done! :-)

Anyone into the NL band Zen? They are stupidly underrated/unknown.

― Saxby D. Elder, Saturday, 3 March 2007 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

albemarle sound is terrific, funny that all of the other lt records have not been very good.
the premise of this thread is pretty much Siesta's label manifesto, recent records by Magic Whispers, Rita Calypso, Las Escarlatinas and related, Scarlett's Well and most of their compilations all fit the bill. Even the faux soul of Edwin Moses would work.

― keythkeyth, Saturday, 3 March 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

well, it is a 60's thread...

Speaking of Siesta, new Orchids record out this week! Anyone catch them last night in London?

― Saxby D. Elder, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Not only is the new Scarlet's Well album very nice (and thanks for the help finding it) but it also seems somewhat more adult in its whimsicality, which isn't necessarily an improvement or decline...I do think that people put off by the English school girl aspects of the earlier albums (I am not one of these people) might find Black Tulip Wings easier to swallow. The fake Bond theme is really fun.

― dlp9001, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

I confess that two of my selections are actually from '70-71and I posted 'em knowing full well that 60s titles were requested. But as well as feeling like they're from the '60s, Stay Awhile and Poppy Seeds were from Canada and therefore a coupla years behind the times anyways.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 5 March 2007 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

well, the 60s ended with Watergate, right? Much of the best soft rock is from the 70's, although pop-sike ended in/by 1970, as best as I can determine. Poppy Family were a bit psych for sure, though, but owing to their roots as the Chessmen, I give them a pass as a sixties thing. ;-)

― Saxby D. Elder, Monday, 5 March 2007 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

Nick Garrie's "the Nightmare of JB Stanislaus" is a really amazing album. Heron's anthology is great too.

...and the Lazy Farmer lp is up there.

― Drooone, Monday, 5 March 2007 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

...I think all of those are from the early 70s but the question was about "psych"

― Drooone, Monday, 5 March 2007 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

"No More Songs," Phil Ochs

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 5 March 2007 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

yeah but the "soft" thing kinda makes it murky, some people would say Poppy Family was soft psych... whatev, it's all good.

― Saxby D. Elder, Monday, 5 March 2007 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

heavenly vs satan

― davie, Monday, 5 March 2007 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

I'm sure I started a thread a wee while back about bands who went "psychedelic" for one album in the wake of Sgt Pepper. I love these sorts of things - the Tokens, Frank Sinatra, The Temptations and The Four Seasons all went down this route, but I'd like to know if anyone else did this, either out of a genuine love for psych or as an exploitative marketing ploy?

― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Monday, 24 January 2011 17:03 (fifteen years ago)

i have to ask : which was franks psych album !?

― mark e, Monday, 24 January 2011 17:04 (fifteen years ago)

[cos i'm going to need to hear that !]

― mark e, Monday, 24 January 2011 17:04 (fifteen years ago)

"Watertown". It's great but it's not psych. It's Bob Gaudio/ Jake Holmes - same as "Genuine Imitation Life Gazette"

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Monday, 24 January 2011 17:08 (fifteen years ago)

ahh .. of course.
that's one of those i will one day get that type of albums.

― mark e, Monday, 24 January 2011 17:09 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, took me a while too

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Monday, 24 January 2011 17:10 (fifteen years ago)

No, it's not strictly psych, but it's definitely influenced in the way that it's a concept album with a clear narrative, and the Gaudio/Holmes influence.

― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Monday, 24 January 2011 17:11 (fifteen years ago)

Concept albums not exactly a novelty for Frankie

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Monday, 24 January 2011 17:12 (fifteen years ago)

The Association, And Then...Along Comes The Association and Insight Out

I would say "Birthday" and "The Association" fit the bill far more than those two

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Monday, 24 January 2011 17:13 (fifteen years ago)

i'm obsessed with these too.

here's Jackie Gleason's - The Now Sound...For Today's Lovers

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/jg_nowsound.jpg

which skates right on the edge of psych and exotica cuz he brings in sitar & a bunch of ethno instruments. pure swankadelic

― Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Monday, 24 January 2011 17:18 (fifteen years ago)

(xp) Belong on the Vocal Harmonies POX thread too of course!

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Monday, 24 January 2011 17:19 (fifteen years ago)

there's the really wacked-out stuff like Sonny Bono - Inner Views and William Shatner - The Transformed Man, but one of my favorites is

Johnny Rivers - Realization

where the Secret Agent Man takes Leary's advice and moves to Big Sur to get his head together. great panoramic soul-searching psych, takes it's cues more from Pet Sounds than Peppers

― Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Monday, 24 January 2011 17:29 (fifteen years ago)

Never heard that album but love "Rewind"

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Monday, 24 January 2011 17:30 (fifteen years ago)

Also Lou Christie went all post-psychedelic for a while too

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Monday, 24 January 2011 17:35 (fifteen years ago)

I haven't heard Martin Denny's Exotic Moog album, but I can't imagine it not being psych. I don't know if it's full-fledged pop-rock or just mooged-up exotica; the latter would probably be more interesting.

― the loneliness of the dexys midnight runner (unregistered), Monday, 24 January 2011 19:12 (fifteen years ago)

Don't know if this counts:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3356/3278959863_ff29fec84e.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradley_loos/3278959863/&usg=__tl0D7VxxT6v9moOgButMcmD4yhA=&h=492&w=500&sz=203&hl=en&start=2&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=SIQ51LYmGG3eGM:&tbnh=128&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3D101%2Bstrings%2Bastro%2Bsounds%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DN%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=cNA9TZL6CYf6swPxqMWRAw

― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Monday, 24 January 2011 19:25 (fifteen years ago)

http://d21uwzfkfy2yiv.cloudfront.net/101_strings_astro_sounds_from_beyond_year_2000-LSD006LP-1167773322.jpeg

― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Monday, 24 January 2011 19:26 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8cPKZMRJGY

― jaxon, Monday, 24 January 2011 20:14 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgqTS3XcAuI

― Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Monday, 24 January 2011 20:19 (fifteen years ago)

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/moog-enoch-light-spaced-out.jpg

and
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade: Permissive Polyphonics

― Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Monday, 24 January 2011 20:21 (fifteen years ago)

i love that raquel welch video. do you know what the music is in it?

― jaxon, Monday, 24 January 2011 20:23 (fifteen years ago)

it's the original music from the TV special afaik

― Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Monday, 24 January 2011 20:26 (fifteen years ago)

might as well mention the Barbarella soundtrack by The Bob Crewe Generation while I'm at it

― Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Monday, 24 January 2011 20:34 (fifteen years ago)

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