SEALED psych LP “MARKLEY: A GROUP” on FORWARD “West Coast Pop Art” ’69 orig WOW

$

35

Artist:  MARKLEY                  

Title:   “A Group”

Label:   FORWARD ~ # ST-F-1007.  Stereo pressing.  No barcode.  

Personnel:

Dan Harris - guitar

Shawn Harris - bass

Michael Lloyd – guitar

Jim Gordon - drums

Bob Markley – lyrics and vocals

Year:  1969

Condition:   STILL SEALED in original factory shrink wrap.  Bottom left corner is clipped indicting the album was originally sold as a cutout/deletion.  Bottom right corner has some light staining.  Shrink wrap has several small breaks, but no seam splits. 

Track Listing:

Side One:

• Booker T & His Electric Shock
• Next Plane To the Sun
• Roger the Rocket Ship
• Elegant Ellen
• Little Ruby Rain
• Message for Miniature

Side Two:

• Sarah the Sad Spirit
• Truck Stop
• Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!
• Sweet Lady Eleven
• The Magic Cat
• Outside/Inside

Review:

“The final West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band album didn't even feature the band's name (although for once all four band members, including Michael Lloyd, were properly credited in the liner notes): Bob Markley had suggested that they change the band's name for this release, and the rest of the group consented, perhaps simply tired of dealing with Markley's legendary egomania.  Surprisingly, this is actually not a bad record at all (certainly it's better than the last-gasp efforts of the group's former labelmates the Electric Prunes and the Beau Brummels, which came out around the same time), including both some excellent string parts by Lloyd and some of Danny Harris' best vocals.  (Brother Shaun Harris appears only on the final track, a superior remake of "Outside/Inside" from 1969's Where's My Daddy?)

Musically, the simple, often delicate sound is most akin to the group's first indie album from 1966 (reissued on Sundazed in 1997).  The soft-edged arrangements prominently feature Lloyd's keyboards and overdubbed harmonies courtesy of Harris and Lloyd; most of the guitars are acoustic for once.  Lyrically, however, Bob Markley seems to be continuing Where's My Daddy?'s creepy themes of paranoia, class resentment (for someone who funded the band through his trust fund, Markley seemed to write an awful lot of songs about wealth redistribution), and, perhaps most tellingly in light of the lyricist's eventual legal troubles, a predilection for underage girls.  That blend of musical beauty and lyrical ickiness is, at heart, the true legacy of the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.”

(review courtesy of Stewart Mason, allmusic.com) 

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