The 60's Psych Thread (lyrics, singer, blues, country, instrumental)

[Molecules]

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Totally Fuzzy : MP3, Music, Music Videos
^ for some reason the searchbox here comes up with different stuff. There was a comprehensive 60's page called chrisgoesrock.blogspoct which has now sadly been removed

[Mojo]

I've never been to that Totally Fuzzy page. Thats added to my favourites now, it looks helpful.

[jackhammer]

Are we going to get a review of the Luv Machine album J?

[Molecules]

Originally Posted by jackhammer

Are we going to get a review of the Luv Machine album J?

i'ma bang out some reviews soon, the ultimate aim would be to have a base on the forum for all the weird and wonderful records of the era linked up in the first post... it's a grimekid day today though

[Molecules]

Luv Machine - Luv Machine (1971)
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Okay, so the Barbados heavy-psych group Luv Machine's only album came out in 1971, but this is stipulated as the cut-off year in the first post so it's okay

This isn't classy music, this isn't clever music, it's the bastard offspring of Hendrix, Cream and HP Lovecraft (the band). So you're getting lots of lyrical references to the female of the species, lots of guitar solos and a genuinely satisfying amount of strutting riffage and wah-wah in every song.

Honestly I don't know if Barbados is a boring place, but I'm sure the natives get fed up of lounging on the beach and complaining about tourists all the time and maybe this is why Luv Machine were so relentlessly fidgety. They just can't seem to keep still, which is a hallmark of the late 60's/early 70's progressiveness creeping into the sound of heavy garage groups who smoked far too much marijuana.
This is just as well because it makes the band far more fun to listen to. And maybe it stands to reason then that you tokers will love this, but it's important to remember that most rock albums back then were stoner albums and this is surely one of the forerunners to the stoner rock genre that would blossom into droning magnificence decades later.

One for the turntable/ music player then, and surely one of the great lost examples of Riffology refined to a science along with Leaf Hound's 'Growers of Mushroom'. As with all of the albums I've covered so far that are hard to find, there's a blog link in the header.

4.0/5

[jackhammer]

Great review mate. I'm glad that between us we managed to grab the album. As you say it's just damn good no frills Rock music. I'm hoping Comus will give this a listen.

[Mojo]

Downloading now. Sounds like it may well be worth it! Good review.

EDIT: On first listen I am impressed. Lots of nice solo's. I'll have to give it another few listens.

[Molecules]

cheers guys, the quality sucks on all the ups i've found but it's solid. Now we take it to the outer fringes of musical sanity!

Love Live Life + One - Love Will Make A Better You (1970)
Rink

Recipe for Love Will Make A Better You:

* Take as your base one Ikuzo Orita - Polydor Records label boss, forger of a 'unique Japanese underground culture' and producer for the renowned Foodbrain label and it's ambitious 'super sessions'.

* Add the highly adept jazz-trained backing band and ferocious horn-section of national pop star/crooner Akira Fuse, aka The Japanese Tom Jones. Whisk.

* Pour in jazz-guitar mentalist Takao Naoi.

* Simmer and stir for 48.2 hours in desire to create fusion of Sun Ra free-jazz with psychedelia, heavily distorted guitars and tight, stomping soul sounds.

* Sauté in ungodly super-sessions and liquid LSD.

* For want of a rock vocalist fit to complement the dish, use Akira Fuse, aforementioned household name and family favourite. Throw in preheated oven and drive off a cliff in a hippy VW. On fire.

* Later, sift through the wreckage and recover the completed record. Reheat in microwave then listen (just don't try eating it)... instant classic!

No video for this unfortunately, you'll have to take my word for it!

4.4/5.0


BUT here's a video of Fuse doing his thang, with music typical of the Ventures-inspired, sanitized instrumental rock that was the Japanese public's staple diet. Meanwhile the West was moving on with records like Revolver and Pet Sounds. Needless to say Love Live Life sounds a bit different.

[Gavin B.]

Wow! I thought I knew about almost every psycedelic group from that era but Luv Machine and The Rink are real finds.

No psych thread would be complete without including The Monks one of the most revered groups of that era. Drugs In My Pocket is one of my favorite songs from the Monks.
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[HatetheHakapik]

Ok, this is my first review and my first post on this site. I hope you enjoy! I'm 15 and have been hunting psych vinyl for 1 and a half years now. I don't have years of experience, but I do love the genre and the era. I also realize that The Animals are a bit more mainstream then some of these other ones but, then again, Iron Butterfly's In-A-Godda-Da-Vida was the first platinum record right?

Winds of Change by Eric Burdon and the Animals

I bought this album at an Antique Shop the other day and was NOT expecting the eerie psychedelic opening track to pop out of the grooves of an Animals record. A far cry from House of The Rising Sun, Inside - Looking Out, Don't Let me be Misunderstood etc. , Winds of Change put a tear in my eye.

The first few tracks of the album are echo-filled spoken word tracks with someone (eric?) blowing into the mic for a wind effect. Eric's voice seems distant as if he was singing from the top of a mountain. Great use of a violin in Poem by the sea as well.

Their cover of Paint it Black is in the style I imagine Vanilla Fudge would if they picked up the violin.

The Black Plague is another trippy spoken word song. I really don't have too much to say about this track. I can't imagine he expected commercial success with a song like this, which makes it all the better.

Track 5 answers Jimi Hendrix's question Are You Experienced? Yes.

Side 2 of this album turns less psychedelic and closer to the old animals, although there is no mistaking them for the mid-60's lineup. Personally Man-Woman reminds me too much of "Troglodytes" to enjoy, but it isn't bad.

"It's all Meat" sounds like the garage psych in earlier posts in this thread. Fast paced with a smooth solo and short cut in the song with a string instrument fill. I think this the 3rd or 4th song on the album that mentions Ray Charles too...

I tried to put some links in, but I need 15 posts first, if you want the links, I'll come back later and put 'em up. Or you could pm me. (couldn't put up the album art either)

Enjoy.