OLA & THE JANGLERS Underground 1968 SWEDISH MOD PSYCH BEAT LP Rubber Soul LISTEN
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OLA & THE JANGLERS "Underground" LP
ORIGINAL 1968 LP ON THE Swedish GAZELL label, STEREO GMG 1211
COVER IN EXCELLENT shape, even has cool psychy inner sleeve!
VINYL plays VG+ with light crackle
Not sure this is technically “underground,” to be honest - you might wanna run that by fellow Swedes Kabnekaise and Flasket Brunner before declaring your Beatlish pop to be the bastion of hippie subculture first. But Ola & the Janglers’ 1968 album Underground sure is a nice Scandinavian equivalent of, say, the Beatles’ Rubber Soul or the Hollies’ Butterfly. “A Certain Misunderstanding” has that same lilting baroque quality as the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” or “Norwegian Wood,” while the big organ sound of “Under the Ground” recalls Procol Harum moreso than, say, Baby Grandmothers. And the driving full-speed-ahead mod soul shaker “You Don’t Know Where Your Interest Lies” would fill a Swedish dancefloor in seconds flat, and you can’t say that about your average Algarnas Tradgard song. For better or worse. So don’t crown ‘em the purveyors of the Swedish subculture just yet. But Underground sure makes a pretty popsike topsider.
hear it!
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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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