KITCHEN CINQ ORIG 1967 garage fuzz psych LP EXC LISTEN

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WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS…

KITCHEN CINQ "Everything But"

Original 1967 LP on the LHI label, STEREO E12000

Cover:  VG++

Vinyl:  Normal wear, no marks/scratches, plays EXCELLENT!

Absolute CLASSIC garage punker from Amarillo, Texas – the Kitchen Cinq’s Everything But…the Kitchen Cinq LP from 1967.  Despite the filthy fuzz-fueled punk clamor they create all over this album, I get the feeling that the Cinq were much more than that.  Maybe it’s their promo photo, which shows the band to look like a jam session between the members of British ska band Stump and those two guys from They Might Be Giants – and remember, they sported this look in 1967, when long hair and facial hair made you cooler than George Harrison!  Or maybe it’s those intricate vocal harmonies that seem to hover over the fray, like the Cinq are telling you they coulda been the Association if they weren’t so taken with the Thirteenth Floor Elevators.  Or maybe it’s their melodies, which are pure pop masterpieces – and you just might notice a few after you pick all the layers of fuzz out of your ears from prolonged exposure.  Of course, they coulda been dumb as a brick too, what do I know?  I once thought Courtney Love was smart.

Sure, there are some folkier moments on Everything But, but who cares?  Especially when you’ve got a downright incendiary 200 mph fuzz punker like “Determination,” a blistering buzzkill romp through garage punk heaven that gets in and out of your skull in less than two minutes, like it oughta be.  Or “Please Come Back to Me,” which pleads its case in great big shards of distorto-fuzz and another fuel-injected Big Daddy Don Garlits Mopar Hemi rhythm section.  Not to mention a bass solo that would make the disembodied spirit of John Entwistle mighty proud.  Besides, these kids HAVE to be smart – or at least smart-a**es – to throw in 4 tension-filled WTF seconds of silence smack dab in the middle of the chorus to “You’ll Be Sorry Some Day,” yet another classic garage punker with rolling thunder drums and chiming Roger McGuinn guitar.  It’s one of rock’s best delays EVER – a genuine garage punk China Brush in the Summer of Love.  And when you look like the guys in They Might Be Giants, any help in the bedroom you can get is much appreciated.

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