“THE SMOKE” s/t garage psych LP on SIDEWALK orig ’68 NM SHRINK
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Description
Artist: THE SMOKE
Title: “The Smoke”
Label: SIDEWALK ~ # ST 5912. Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl. Yellow label with black text.
Date: 1968.
Condition:
DISC: Vinyl is NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found. Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care. Labels are clean. Fidelity is superb. This is as good as it gets!
JACKET: Jacket is EXCELLENT in original factory shrink wrap. Original owner taped shrink wrap to inside of jacket with clear scotch tape. Front and back panels are overall clean and bright; faint spotting along the opening edge. Excellent seams and corners except bottom right corner has a couple inches of creasing due to tight shrink wrap. No writing, stickers, or cutout marks.
Track Listing:
Side One:
- Cowboys and Indians
- Looking Thru the Mirror
- Self-Analysis
- Gold is the Colour of Thought
- The Hobbit Symphony
- The Daisy - Intermission
Side Two:
- Fogbound
- Song Thru Perception
- Philosophy
- Umbrella
- Ritual Gypsy Music Opus 1
- October Country
- Odyssey
Review:
“Copies of The Smoke's self-titled album are highly valued by collectors of West Coast soft rock and psychedelic music. The album certainly deserves its reputation as one of the masterpieces of 1968. It opens with the organ-driven "Cowboys and Indians," which was producer/songwriter Michael Lloyd's personal homage to Brian Wilson's "Heroes and Villains" and lyrically makes mention of war (obviously the Vietnam War was very much on everyone's minds at the time). Lloyd had met Wilson after Beach Boy Bruce Johnston invited him to the recording sessions for "Good Vibrations." In addition to Beach Boys-style production values, there are also references to the Beatles' “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band” throughout. (The chorus to "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is even quoted in the fade to Lloyd's "Fogbound.") Other references pop up in the warm "Gold Is the Colour of Thought," which features an amazing arrangement encompassing Sgt. Pepper's-esque bursts of trumpet, strings, harpsichord, and sweet harmonies. The harpsichord-driven "October Country," a song previously recorded by the Lloyd-produced group of the same name earlier that year, reappears here with Lloyd handling the vocal lead chores this time, wrapped around bright strings. The album is dedicated to Stuart Sutcliffe. Fans of post-Pet Sounds West Coast psych-pop or Curt Boettcher-produced groups (the Millennium, Sagittarius) will love this album.”
(review courtesy of Bryan Thomas, allmusic.com)
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