For no real reason, this month's mix happens to be the least eclectic and also contains zero electronica or ambient—the genre that, until now, has felt like the unifying thread of all my monthly mixes. At any rate—as usual, this mix is meant to be listened to in order. Aside from the Andrew Bird track, everything here dates from 1972 or earlier, and most fall on the narrow spectrum between folk and country. So be it! If you like any of these songs, visit my sources to hear more. Blossom Toes: [...]
Variously described as "the finest popsike album ever recorded", "a quirky look at British life in the late 60s with tea and cakes on the lawn, budgerigars and balloons wafting in the breeze" and "Georgio Gomelsky's Lonely Hearts Club Band", you might conclude that this definitive whimsy-psych opus was a premeditated attempt to upstage the Fabs and the Kinks at their own game by a similarly professional outfit. In fact it was the more-or-less accidental result of a dissolute R'n'B covers band ingesting lots of pharmaceuticals, reluctantly writing their own material, being impelled by their uber -persuasive manager/producer to [...]
Original copies of We Are Ever So Clean are pretty hard to come by. I've seen a couple in the past year (mono and stereo UK), but that is because I'm usually lucky. It's hard to believe that a record like this came out during the same year as The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band . That album was (obviously) a critical success and expanded on the musical themes of the band's earlier works, while incorporating more "psychedelic" elements like reversed tape loops and echo. Meanwhile, the Blossom Toes were taking those same elements [...]
If you want a prime example of dandy English psychedelic rock, look no further than the Blossom Toes . Blossom Toes use the same level of spacial exploration heard on Pink Floyd's Piper at the Gates of Dawn (although not as freaky) and the Beatles' Sgt. Peppers (although not as expensive and conceptual). Both aforementioned albums were released in 1967, the same year as Blossom Toe's debut, We Are Ever So Clean . This post has: 1 Image 1 MP3
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