HIGHLY RATED 1967 THE BAROQUES = LOVE MEETS ELECTRIC PRUNES - ACID PSYCH GARAGE
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1967 ORIGINAL PSYCHEDELIC SOUNDS OF:
THE BAROQUES
USA - CHESS RECORDS - 1586 (stereo)
ORIGINAL 1967 fabulous first pressing in stereo with speaker separation (important for this LP) ... of one of the best psychedelic albums ....
You'll be hard pressed to find a garage psych album that's as consistent and has as much greatness as this one - the Only album by The Baroques. A lot of the time albums of this ilk are spotty with some decent originals and then a bunch of covers to flesh out the rest of the record. This album is all originals of The Baroques moody, kinda dark and a little bit dangerous songwriting. It's tough to pick any highlights as it's all of such a high standard. It's one of those records where there are no tracks to skip, no embarrasing misteps, no moments wondering what it the hell possessed them, etc.. In many ways their vibe reminds one of The Electric Prunes meeting Arthur Lee & Love tho' there is nothing here that is as produced as Love's seminal stuff - but like Love's best stuff there is a discernable air of danger to the album.
If Arthur Lee barged into an Electric Prunes recording after obliterating his mind in an all-night drug binge it might have sounded something like this.
With song titles as preposterous as “A Musical Tribute to the Oscar Meyer Weiner Wagon,” who knows what the famed RnB label Chess Records was thinking when they decided to sign Milwaukee’s The Baroques in 1967. They did manage to stir up a little controversy with their anti-drug (so they claimed) song, “Mary Jane,” but besides that it looks like Chess was stuck with a very strange, unmarketable record. And don’t expect an onslaught of spacey sound effects and weird noises a la the early Pink Floyd, this is a less overt type of psychosis that slowly but surely embeds itself under your skin.
The Baroques had a fuzz-guitar/keyboard-damaged sound that retained much of the garage intensity of ’67 while plunging into the acid rock experimentation that marked the latter part of the decade. Sure, there are traces of the Byrds and the Zombies, but by the time the Baroques have had their way with a melodious pop craft song, it’s like the deformed bastard child of those bands hobbling around on one leg. As on “Rose Colored Glasses,” where Jay Berkenhagen’s infectious odd, deep vocals bounce along with awkward (yet insanely catchy) riffs until settling into a gorgeous, harmony-laden chorus. “Nothing To Do But Cry” is an exceptional folk-rocker that’s dirtied up with some nice distorted jangling and raw power-chording. At their highest they veer into outstanding psychedelic laced nuggets (“Iowa, A Girl’s Name” “Musical Tribute…”). But what really sets them apart from other similarly-minded bands is the excessively gluoomy atmosphere which pervades most of the album. The sludge-folk of “Purple Day” and “Seasons” comes off like there is something absolutely hypnotizing lurking in the uncommonly dark textures of these songs.
A: Iowa, A Girl's Name Seasons Mary Jane Rose Colored Glasses Musical Tribute to the Oscar Mayer Weiner Wagon In Silver Light B: This Song Needs No Introduction There's Nothing Left to Do But Cry Bicycle Purple Day Boop Love in a Circle
CONDITION: The cover : is solid all over, rated VG+ front (light soil)/light shelf wear, the back cover strong M- ...there are NO delete marks,NO bends, NO writing and NO split seams
The vinyl is rated VG+ side one, there are two long hairlines, plays well despite light ticks in few places, side two strong VG++ few minor scuffs, plays great ... both Chess labels are clean
A... GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTIBLES!
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EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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