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Why are they so shit?

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

What a great question

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

You know, I've never heard the whole first album. "I Had Too Much to Dream" is great, obviously. I agree that stuff like Mass in F Minor is bad - think that was a different band, though.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

That song's Ok, yeah. V Ok. They were never their own band, maybe. Aww.

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

I had a CD comp packed full w/supposedly all of the best stuff, and there were like 2 good tracks on the whole album, so I suppose they weren't too hot, really were they. I have no idea why. Maybe they were just w/o much of an idea, but w/a good band name.

That said, the 2 (or poss 3, I forget) good tracks were very good, so if I saw the comp again, and if it was, like, 3 quid, I'd probably buy it, I mean I bought B.O.C. "Imaginos" for one pound, and that's only got one good track on it, but I didn't feel too ripped off at that.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Blue Oyster Cult is a WAY better name tho

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Yes isn't it. "soft White underbelly" also.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

"Electric Prunes" >>>>>> "Blue Oyster Cult"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

only if 60s beat 70s, surely

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

lmao. 3 good tracks vs one of the fucking great back catalogs.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 5 September 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

You guys are crazy. The Electric Prunes are fantastic and Mass in F Minor is completely underrated. Two songs. WTF.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I freely admit that the last person I ever expected to be an Electric Prunes obsessive was you, Alex.

― Ned elsewhere (rogermexico), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

I was just referring to the band names, fulez!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Why is everyone always so shocked when I express love for 60s psych acts on these threads?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

ok fair enough Tim, tho I think "blue oyster cult " is a great band name, especially when you see it on all those weird looking covers they used to have.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Btw I can't get into Blue Oyster Cult much at all. Three uneven albums >>>>>> fucking boring as fuck back catalogue.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

It was just more dada nonsense. I like "the Stalk-Forrest Group" better - it's funnier. Meltzer suggested that they be called "Cow" at one point.

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― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Yeah "Stalk Forrest Group" is good too.

I never got that pre-BOC SFG CD comp that came out a few years ago, it was like some fantastically limited edition or something. Was it any good?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

BEST THING THEY EVER DID.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Alex, Mass in F Minor is "inconsistent?" You mean, like the Kyrie is great but the Credo kind of sucks - stuff like that?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Haha no I guess Mass is pretty consistent (even "Kyrie Ellison" is obviously much better than pretty good rest of it.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Woops I missed a couple of words there: even if "Kyrie Ellison" is obviously much better than the pretty good rest of it.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

I would certainly buy Mass in F Minor again if I saw it in a dollar bin.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

listened to 'big city' the other day after digging out the spacemen 3 version on 'recurring' - not that impressed. great name tho'.

― s.r.w. (s.r.w.), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

WTF. Holy are you! That's at least...one great song

― what time (monia.l), Monday, 5 September 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Underground is my fave album by them. I love that album. i don't think i have ever heard Release Of An Oath or the NEW IMPROVED Electric Prunes album that came after that.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 September 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Electric Prunes >>>>>>>>> Blues Magoos

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 September 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm not that into the Blues Magoos, though "We Ain't Got Nothing Yet" is a classic.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 5 September 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

are you guys fucking mad?! Release of an Oath is one of the very best funky psych rock records in the world. i know it's more of a David Axelrod album than a prunes record, but it fucking kicks ass. 10,000 times better than Mass in F Minor (which is still pretty cool). and look at the cover.

http://www.bull.net.au/adam/peckas%20pics/prunes.jpg

― JAXON (jaxon), Monday, 5 September 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

so sue me, i never bought a copy. i can't buy everything. good lord i know i've tried.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 September 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

scott, don't make me get my lawyers. btw, have you heard Axlerod's "Songs of Innocence" or "Songs of Experience"? they're very, very similar to release of an oath.

― JAXON (jaxon), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

As big a garage fan as I am, the first two Electric Prunes albums (the self-titled debut and UNDERGROUND) always sounded rather ordinary, to me. "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night" was the big shining moment, for me. Everything else is okay.

Now, those first two Blues Magoos albums (PSYCHEDELIC LOLLIPOP and ELECTRIC COMIC BOOK), on the other hand, are a bit more on the money.

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I find that many of those '66-67 psych LPs tend to be kinda uninspired, compared to the hit single or two from which they originate.

(Pashmina, I can burn you a copy of that Stalk-Forrest Group thing if you'd like, and maybe you can send me something in return.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

"listened to 'big city' the other day after digging out the spacemen 3 version on 'recurring' - not that impressed"

really? I love that song and I think it has been a massive influence on Spacemen 3. Also, I think that a killer track like "You never had it better" has been criminally underrated. Btw, Dave Hassinger did a marvellous job with the Prunes.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Y godda gt me to the worllld on tymeee ah!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

for weeks now i'm totally addicted to cd2 of this comp. wonderful stuff. (besides "too much to dream" i don't know any EP though, only picked this up because it's axelrod)

― willem, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:07 (seventeen years ago)

Underground is v classic.

― Trip Maker, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:26 (seventeen years ago)

agreed

― mark e, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

you know, i think i read that two months ago and then looked for the comp!
its sounds are so gorgeous. the drums, the guitars. the guitar sound on "angus dei" is v. reminiscent of what thin white rope would do 15 years later, imo.

― willem, Monday, 4 August 2008 15:53 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

listening to the first two albums...first one is pretty meh, but Underground is actually v. good. Only listened to it once, but I quite liked it.

― some hills are never seen (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 15 January 2011 04:18 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

RIP Electric Prunes bassist Mark Tulin (forgot that he played in Smashing Pumpkins for a couple gigs)

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 06:43 (fourteen years ago)

ten years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxbaiXPCR-I

― Bastards of Fish (Tom D.), Saturday, 5 February 2022 16:30 (three years ago)

Prunes singer Jim Lowe appears in the Sparks documentary as engineer of the Halfnelson album and producer of A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing.

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 6 February 2022 00:26 (three years ago)

The box set Cherry Red released the other month is pretty damn spectacular:

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/the-electric-prunes-explore-then-came-the-dawn-complete-recordings-1966-1969-here/

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 February 2022 00:40 (three years ago)

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