NEW LORDS same 1971 ORIGINAL GERMAN FUZZ PSYCH PROGRESSIVE POP LP VG++ LISTEN

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12 years of being Germany’s leading beat band and what does that get you?  Having to reinvent yourselves for the 70’s, that’s what.  So now the Lords are the NEW Lords.  Just like the Yardbirds became the NEW Yard…er, Led Zeppelin.  “They ranked with the top bands of the German pop scene,” sez the back cover, “For nearly 12 years.  But progressive tendencies in music urged the group to change its style.”  And pose among purple reeds.  Those expecting the once-just-Lords to know be rattling off 20-minute krautrock epics on the green Brain label just don’t know the Lords too well.  They’re still beat rockers at heart, it’s just that now their hair’s a little longer.  And they’re posing among purple reeds.  “Power” promises heavier, headier stuff and delivers, in that kind of distinctively Germanic gruff vocal 70’s rock way.  A big swirly T Rex glam guitar riff anchors it nicely, and the song’s got a much more ragged, loose Stonesy vibe than the Old Lords could ever achieve.  “World Of Emotions” is great catchy prog/pop, the kind that would make those old handmade hand numbered vinyl comps back in the 90’s.  And the catchiest, and probably best song here is the teenage would-be soundtrack theme “Goodbye Groupie Girl” (which, sadly, didn’t make it to the Groupie Girl film), which starts off optimistically with the sound of a thousand groupie girls screaming and near-operatic background singers.  “You only love the geetar pluckin’ man,” they sing, apparently recognizing the power Buck Owens has on young women.  “Goodbye groupie girl, I’m grown up now so my lover has to be a lady.”  The youngsters, they were fine for the OLD Lords.  But sorry, girls, we’re the NEW Lords.  We’ve changed our sound to reflect the progressive style.  We’re heavier, and so is our music.  And we like to pose among purple reeds.  Dig that, if you can.

Original 1971 LP on the German EMI Columbia label.  Vinyl plays VG+ to VG++ with occasional pops.  Cover’s in VG shape, 3” seam splits on top and bottom edges, sticker on front.

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