'the musical equivalent of carpet-bombing' haha. I am aware of their early material's reputation, but the earliest album I have by them is the tame, mostly terrible label-compromise album 'Emotions' from '67. I got it just cause the cover looked cool, but when you hear it you realise that was probably picked by the label too because it was 'groovy'.
Just take away the raucousness of that early stuff and the bleak and experimental album that we all know, force a string section and a brass section and some horrible lyrics on them and you have that album.
So yeah it's nice to read about the good stuff!
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