BECKY AND SANDY I Know Where I'm Going 1970s XIAN GARAGE PSYCH Shaggs LP LISTEN

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BECKY AND SANDY "I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING" LP

ORIGINAL 197? LP the US MISSION label, STEREO

COVER in EXCELLENT shape

VINYL looks good, shiny, plays EXCELLENT

Poor Becky and Sandy.  They wanted to rock, but Dad’s a big Bible-thumper, so the closest thing to rock ‘n’ roll he allowed in the house were a couple old Carpenters albums.  So the girls channel the Carps as if there were two Karens, and come up with some downright lovely melodies on songs like “10,000 Years,” “I Know Where I’m Going” and the breezy sunshine pop winner “I Wish We’d All Been Ready,” which also sounds a little like a born-again Harry Nilsson.  Still, it sounds a little creepy when such young, wide-eyed, Adam-Rich-haired girls sing stuff like “I’m on my way to heaven” when they’re, what, like 14 years old or something?  And where else but an album like this are you going to hear lyrics about “the mark of the beast” and “famine, pestilence and bloody war” worked into a fragile little folk pop melody?  It’s like Nancy Priddy covering Iron Maiden.  Of course, something so magical like Becky and Sandy’s bid to be the Honey Ltd of the Bible Belt couldn’t possibly go on forever.  And sure enough, big daddy (and he WAS big – just check the promo picture) David Lewis, who looks like he could’ve played linebacker for the Rams between sermons, pulls back the reins on Side 2 and uses the ENTIRE album side to deliver a you-gotta-hear-it-to-believe-it diatribe against the coming of the evil “human Satan (insert dramatic sting here)!”  After an ominous introduction of fuzz guitar and rolling tympani drums straight from an obscure Pink Floyd bootleg, Reverend Lewis warns of a “human Satan,” evil communism, the illuminati and “the Super President of the World (insert another dramatic sting here)!”  Foreboding stuff, especially when the Missus has a beehive that would make Peg Bundy jealous.  But Becky and Sandy, God love ‘em, got their shot at the big time, or at least a taste of what it might be like to be a more spiritual Shaggs, and did a pretty nice job of it.  Makes me wonder what they’re up to today.  Probably fronting a speed metal band.   

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