It's the ILM CLASSIC PSYCHEDELIC Listening Club

1. NICK GARRIE - The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas - 1969
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2. TINY TIM - God Bless Tiny Tim - 1968
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3. THE TOKENS - Intercourse - 1969
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But how...

Three odd-men-out to kick things off. I'll let someone pick some others next week :-)

Thoughts on these?

I'm in on this one. I have waxed long and lyrical on "God Bless Tiny Tim" here before.

The late sixites seemed to be a time where unless you were doing psychedelic pop, you didn't count. Another two albums I'd have liked to have put in here were Frank Sinatra's "Watertown" and the Four Season's "Imitation Life Gazette". Like the Tokens and Tiny Tim, they are psych-pop albums by bands you wouldn't necessarily ever think of operating in this sphere.

Another two albums I'd have liked to have put in here were Frank Sinatra's "Watertown" and the Four Season's "Imitation Life Gazette".

Oh yes. Former not very psych though.

No not really; but for Frank it was as esoteric and disassociated as it got.

Both albums written by Gaudio + Holmes, of course

Tom - have you heard the other two records?

The Tokens were best known as a doo-wop band ("The Lion Sleeps Tonight" remains their best known hit by far), but this is a strange, sketchy little album of the "Smiley Smile" variety.

Nick Garrie's is the Beatles album Paul McCartney never wrote.

Never heard them

Tiny Tim's is an incredible album - almost a pastiche of what psych-pop should be. I definitely don't hear it as a novelty any more.

I know everybody who would click this thread already knows about this, but just in case...

http://techwebsound.com/

I didn't know about it - cheers grisly

My pleasure -- TWOS is pretty much my go-to internet listening when WFMU isn't hitting the spot.

oh man, i don't even really listen to psychedelic music but that looks neat and i'm gonna bookmark it and check it out. thanks dude!

Dude told me he won't add any Soft Machine, but otherwise he's pretty much getting it right.

Your source for the Fruit Machine, the Apple Pie Motherhood Band, Peanut Butter Conspiracy, the Wild Cherries, Orange Swirl Society, etc etc

hahaha, now playing The Master's Apprentices - "Our Friend Owsley Stanley III" -- thought it was Jethro Tull at first

I'm glad this thread has been a roaring success with dozens of contributors.

Would anyone like to choose three albums for Thursday?

You might have got a bit more discussion going if you'd provided links to enable folks to stream/download the albums, as seems to be the norm for these clubs.

spotify links?

well that's one option but it excludes the US and most of Europe. zipping the files and putting them on a file hosting service seems like a better bet.

Can't discuss what you've never heard. I've heard God Bless, but it's been years and I don't own it.
I ought to. And I ought to own more Kinks records, or at least one other Kinks record besides Muswell Hillbillies.
But I don't. Go figure.
FWIW I am very interested in hearing the other two.
Would Simon Finn's "Pass The Distance" merit inclusion in these discussions?
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I don't know it Trip. But I will try and track it down. I guess we can play fast-n-loose with psychedelia, but stuff like Boredoms etc is for another thread.

I thought YSI-style links were a no-no on ILX?

It's a lost late sixties apocalyptic psych folk record that features David Toop as one of the band members.
Reissue on David Tibet's label. I have been listening to it lately.
I imagine it may have something in common with the records at the top of the thread, somehow.

Sounds like something I need to hear!

YSI? ;-)

http://www.filestube.com/4f7dce286099bf5003ea,g/Nick-Garrie-The-Nightmare-of-JB-Stanislas-1969.html

I found this - I don't know if it works.

First time I heard "God Bless Tiny Tim" I was grinning from ear to ear for at least the first half of the record. Brilliant, whimsical 60s production & arrangements, really fun song choices. Tiny sounds like a total lunatic, completely bonkers on most of this stuff. "Loving in the Sunlight" is great. His Ringo impression on "Old Front Porch" is so OTM. Nico's guest spot on "I Know That I'd Be Satisfied With Life" is a huge treat. My favorite track ever by tiny is the environmental catastrophe/Biblical Flood song "The Other Side". THE ICECAPS ARE MELTING AH HAHAH HAHAH!! So trippy, so spooky!! <3 <3 <3

Yes! The Other Side is so underrated! He sounds like Heath Ledger's Joker revelling maniacally over disaster.

The only one I think spoils the pace is "Daddy, What Is Heaven Like?" which is some "My Mummy's Dead" level of downers.

Never knew Nico was on this album - every day's a school day I guess.

After hearing it i was trying to find out more about Tiny, and he's an enigmatic figure. He seemed to me a born-again hard-line Christian evangelist who comes across deeply troubled, like a potential serial killer or something.

I get mixed up between God Bless and the slightly less great (but still pretty good) 2nd album. Does God Bless have The Viper on it?

There's definitely something sad and disturbing about how unadulteratedly gleeful he is on tracks like "Ever since You Told Me That You Love Me".

Just the opening of that album, the spooky Willy Wonka-esque "Welcome to My Dream" and the way it fades into cavernous reverb. It's brilliant!

is anyone posting any more?

Somebody pick three albums - I'm at work and can't root around for links.

His Ringo impression on "Old Front Porch" is so OTM

What Ringo impression?

Someone save this thread and suggest an album or two...

who is next?

you if you like - i don't know how to link to albums.