Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints US MONO - PROMO - LIKE NEW

$

160

ORIGINAL 1967 PSYCHEDELIC CLASSIC           
RARE MONO SONG MIXES = MINT CLEAN VINYL !

                                 
     STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK

      Incense And Peppermints   

                                         

  USA - UNI Records - 73014 - MONO/PROMO

 

rare ... seldom seen format ::::

THE MONO SONG MIXES!

Original 1967 first pressing on the UNI label of the very first Strawberry Alarm Clock album ... classic sunshine psych uplifted by paisley swirled patterns and good vibe grooves ...

Although the Strawberry Alarm Clock (a Los Angeles psychedelic rock band) was best known for their 1967 hit "Incense and Peppermints" and are often noted by hitsville critics as a "one-hit wonder", they actually charted five Top 100 songs as well as two Top 40 songs. More important they offered terrific albums filled to the top with outstanding psychedelic laced melodic & memorable self penned compositions...

The group took its name as an homage to the Beatles' psychedelic hit 'Strawberry Fields Forever'.

The resulting first SAC album is arguably the most intense blast of pure American psychedelia ever released. SAC is generally remembered as being a bright, breezy California head band, but this first effort has moments that are considerably darker than their sunshine image. Helped by Randy Seol's twisted imagination, tracks like "Lose To Live" and "Hummin' Happy" (an ode to sadism!) have a sinister undercurrent. Given that the album starts with an extended psychedelic explosion entitled "The World's On Fire", and that even the stream-of-consciousness lyrics of the title track make mention of "games we choose" with "little to win", the album has a lot more in common with the Doors than one might imagine. Indeed, the quirky "Paxton's Backstreet Carnival" sounds like the Doors on laughing gas. Nevertheless, the album, on the whole is a terrific slice of swirling grooves that are guaranteed to take you to 'where its at' .... 

The album is highlighted by wonderful psychedelic passages via organ/fuzz guitar ~~ "The World's On Fire", the ultra trippy "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow" and "Strawberries Mean Love" are complex, quintessential examples of the sixties psych genre that the listener is assured of getting blissfully lost in.

Side 1

"The World's on Fire" - 8:26

"Birds in My Tree" - 1:55

"Lose to Live" - 3:17

"Strawberries Mean Love" - 3:03

Side 2

"Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow" - 3:06

"Paxton's Back Street Carnival" - 2:05

"Hummin' Happy" - 2:26

"Pass Time With the SAC" - 1:23

"Incense and Peppermints" - 2:49

"Unwind with the Clock" - 4:14

 

CONDITION:
The cover: is solid, light trace of contact rub, nothing much. Has WLBB radio ink stamp on back. Cover edges have a bit of damage where you'd slide the record back in, maybe the brush of a thumb to get inside to the goodies. Also a bit of crate wear. Nothing major.

The sleeve: Liner sleeve is original, and has discoloration from age. Very crisp, no wrinkling. My removing the LP for the photo /may very well be/ the first time it was touched since the late sixties.

The vinyl: shiny  clear over both sides, clean UNI labels on each side.

I seriously doubt my father nor Rhubarb Jones (whom dad worked with) would have *ever* played this on air! I, however, was delighted to find this in storage, and i'd keep it if I didn't have an upcoming expenditure. ????

Sold AS-IS, NO RETURNS
WILL BE SHIPPED PRIORITY MAIL WITH SIGNATURE CONF.
$25 shipping ESTIMATE due to cost of proper insurance. Album will be insured for full amount, and shipping rate will be adjusted.

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