Sweet Christ! What were the Head Shop boys on?

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and where can we get some?

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Saturday, 18 June 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Head Shop Boys = psychedelic Pet Shop Boys covers band?

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 18 June 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.wiesner.de/covers/177.jpg

these ones?

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 18 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

yes, that ones. potent shit.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Saturday, 18 June 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

it's a good album, especially for one you can find cheap (usually around $7, don't know if they're represses).

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 18 June 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

i guess what i'm asking is, why aren't we, the listeners, reeling from the lysergic afterburn of "Listen with a Third Ear" and "I Feel Love Comin' On" the way we still feel other Summer of '69 voluntaries like "Mountains of the Moon," "Who Do You Love?," and An Electric Storm even 36 years on?

and, assuming that The Head Shop's uncommon potency is more the doing of producer Rick "Milan" Rodell than of "Drew, Jesse, Joe, Geoff, and Danny," was this the same "Milan Radenkowich" who penned "How Many Teardrops?"

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Saturday, 18 June 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

"it's a good album, especially for one you can find cheap"

those are reissues. the original is pretty pricey. and i too love it to death.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 June 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

well, around 60 to 100 dollars for a nice copy. not megararepsychmonster pricey, but pricey for me.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 June 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

couple of reviews from acid archives:

This has been making waves with dealers and collectors recently, though I can't say I'm too impressed with what I've heard, sorta clichéd post-Iron Butterfly heavy hippie psych. Was a bargain bin item for long and has some of that vibe surrounding it, maybe you'll like it more than I. [...]
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Average late-60s psych album, full of sound effects, fuzz guitar and creative arrangements, but without the songs to elevate it to keeper status. A couple of Beatles covers are particularly ill-advised. The heavier songs are probably the highlights. Good but not great. [AM]

kind of sour grapes 'i didn't discover this first therefore it has no interest' vibe i'm getting there. typical of the hardcore psych collector crowd, really.

kind of confused as to why aorta's 50+% dull first album gets more love than head shop.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 18 June 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

cuz they are all loozers. people have been digging it for years. at worst, you could call it exploito-psych and that ain't no sin to me. it sounds great. psychscuzzballs always have bad shit to say about major label product.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 June 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

el sabor, send me your address. i still want to tape you the truly horrible womb album. i'm thinking now i might put "For Collector's Only" on the other side for you and Tim. It's a hilarious tape that local Philly legend Hoppy The Frog made about psych collectors. All in song!

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 June 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

actually, you know what i'd like to do? make you and tim a tape of the worst womb song, "the happy egotist", skip the rest of the album (it's all horrible, but the happy egotist is "you got to hear it to believe it" bad. and the idea of taping the whole album for you guys seems cruel.), tape you chubby checker's excellent acidrock album, and tape you "for collectors only". i think that would make a nice well-rounded tape.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 June 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

alright, i emailed you scott. i am down.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Sunday, 19 June 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Aw, can I hear all this too?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 June 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

"chubby checker's excellent acidrock album"??????

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Sunday, 19 June 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

"chubby checker's excellent acidrock album"??????

yeah...woah dude...drop some science on that scott....this for real?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 19 June 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Are the Beatles covers slowed down like the Moving Sidewalks' Beatles cover and Fever Tree's Beatles cover and Vanilla Fudge's Beatles cover and Deep Purple's Beatles cover and Yes' Beatles cover and that Freakbeat cover of "Please Please Me" by the Score?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 19 June 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Scott! Please come back and tell us all about Chubby Checkers acid rock album!!!!!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Oops, sorry, actually what i wrote about that album will be in the next ugly things magazine! my very favorite magazine! originally i had posted it on the freelance mentalists site, but i wanted more people to read it/about it, so i sent it to mike stax. i'll try and find it now.

here it is:

http://thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_thefreelancementalists_archive.html

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

thanks scott.
i think my mind melted........

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

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