LA DE DA'S Find Us A Way 1967 ORIGINAL NZ MONO LP MOD POP ART FREAKBEAT PSYCH

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One year later, one album in and New Zealand’s La De Da’s have changed gears faster than any of their British counterparts.  All punked and modded out on their 1966 debut, this 1967 sophomore album FIND US A WAY shows them indebted to the Stones’ BETWEEN THE BUTTONS and the Kinks’ Carnaby Street dandiness a whole lot more.  Although they still find time to hit up some classic soul and dancefloor grooves in between (mostly Side 2).  The title track sounds like a Yardbirds pastiche with echoes of “Still I’m Sad” crashing headlong into “I’m A Man.”  “Rosalie” is pure Carnaby Street Granny Takes A Trip foppery a la the Kinks and the Stones BUTTONS 1966 era with dancing harpsichord and an ending that plays with anyone dancing along.  And the truly demented “All Purpose Low” sounds like one of those weirder songs on the first Electric Prunes album or, once again, BETWEEN THE BUTTONS.  “There’s a lot of blood splashed on the ceiling,” they sing, obviously not trying to corner the Kiwi housewife market, “I think there’s something quite wrong in your head!”  While percussion during the rudimentary acid guitar solo is provided by what sounds like a man spitting.  The album ends with a song called “Thank You For the Flowers,” called “quite a big jump ahead for us” by bandmember Trevor Wilson in the liners, and it was off to flower power full blown concept psychedelia for their next outing one year later.  Times sure do change faster down under, don’t they? 

Original 1967 pressing on the New Zealand Philips label in glorious, raw and thunderous MONO!  Vinyl has marks, nothing too bad, plays GOOD/VG MINUS because someone played this thing ALL THE TIME (as they should), but there’s still plenty life left.  Cover is very solid but has some small brown stains on the back (yeah, right, I wonder…) so I’d say VG+.

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Media mail shipping with delivery confirmation starts at $4.00 in the US, with each additional record only $1 additional shipping.  Overseas shipping has, unfortunately, gone way up in the fast few months, which translates to $15 for the first LP to Canada ($3 each one thereafter) and $24 for the first LP everywhere else in the world, with each add'l LP an extra $5 (so it pays to buy more, nudge nudge wink wink).   I accept payments through Paypal. 

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SHIPPING AND PACKAGING

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