Every now and then something unexpected hits you in a way that leaves a deep and lasting impression. For me, one of those occasions came with Chicago garage band The Cryan' Shames' recording of the old Drifters hit "Up On the Roof," off their incomprehensibly under-appreciated psychedelic classic A Scratch In the Sky . Granted, "Up On the Roof" itself has been overplayed to the point of nausea since it first made the scene back in 1963, but the Shames take the old Tin Pan Alley standard and turn it into a soaring, tightly woven piece of teenage magic [...]
While the Pharaohs may have dwelt amidst and been ceremoniously embalmed within pyramids planted atop Ancient Egyptian sands, Fair Ohs seem set to build upon Salt Flats, the east London trio's latest single this week released via X-Ray Recordings . Continuing to emulate West African funk while channeling it potently through crackling, nostalgia-flecked psychedelia à la The Cryan Shames, the result is an inebriating and more significantly exhilarating brew of lo-fi jubilation, skin-splitting bongo backdrop and fleeting fretboard trickery from lead vocalist Eddy Frankel. Reminiscent of Bos Angeles were they intent on creating the delectable rather than [...]
The Cryan' Shames The Sailing Ship
The Cryan' Shames - The Sailing Ship To me this sounds more like a '90s retro-psych outfit trying to write a psych tune than an actual '60s psych tune. (Indeed, the Brian Jonestown Massacre covered it.) Kudos to Jim Fairs for the Baby You're A Rich Man-style psychedelic bagpipes. Official Cryan' Shames National Fan Club P.O. Box 473 Oak Brook, Illinois
What the fuck is pop music, anyway? I mean, I know it's short for popular music, and I know in terms of marketing it's usually geared towards a younger audience, but how do you distinguish pop from rock? What's pop-rock, what's pop and what's rock? What about pop punk or psychedelic pop? It's fucking confusing, I tell you. So this week I've asked some friends and associates to suggest to me what they would consider to be the best pop song most casual music fans have never heard. It sounded like an easy enough question, but I ended up with [...]
Voici un groupe qui vaut son pesant de cacahuettes... Il a tendance a être un peu réévalué ces jours ci (sur certains blogs bien informés) et ce n'est que justice. Je parle ici des Cryan' Shames, groupe méconnu des années 60 bien sur, qui au moment ou Beach Boys et autres Beatles triomphait, cherchaient naïvement un soupcon de succès. Leur seule gloire est de figurer dans la compilation Nuggets , avec une reprise. Certains aiment leur coté Beach Boys/Zombies, c'est par là que j'ai commencé, et il faut bien dire que It Could Be We're In [...]
Quand on pense à la différence entre la notoriété de certains grands groupes (Beach boys, Beatles, Byrds...) et l'anonymat total de certains autres presqu'aussi talentueux, c'est assez vertgineux. Le seul titre de gloire des cryan'shames est d'avoir un titre (une cover en plus, de Sugar & spice ) dans le premier Nuggets. Ils sont pourtant assez hallucinants, et, pour les 30 ans du summer of love, voilà un titre exceptionnel de 1967 (ou de 66 on s'en fout en fait), absolument parfait pour une compile de l'été... Je ne sais pas si mon acolyte connait ça, mais il adorera, [...]
Hey... Wanna take a walk down memory lane? Well at least mine, in case you weren't alive 20 years ago, Run DMC & Aerosmith teamed up to do a remake (for newbie's that's a kind of precursor to the mash up, where you actually get permission), of Aerosmith's 1974 hit Walk This Way. Well they're doing it again, on Hard Rock's Ambassadors of Rock Tour – hitting spots like London's Hyde Park this summer. Here's Daryl McDaniels aka DMC to you, perform "Walk This Way." Check out some video from a recent [...]
The Cryan Shames - Ben Franklin's Almanac Destination Records 45, 1966 The Blue Things - Orange Rooftop Of Your Mind RCA Records 45, 1967 Most of the time the trained ear can, upon hearing a mid-60s 45, determine if the band is of US or UK origin, but here are two fine [...]
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