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THE WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND

BOB MARKLEY, DAN HARRIS, SHAUN HARRIS, MICHAELL LLOYD

One of the more offbeat acts to emerge during the psychedelic era, the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band 

were certainly eclectic and ambitious enough to live up to their slightly clumsy moniker, capable 

of jumping from graceful folk-rock to wailing guitar freakouts to atonal, multilayered, avant-garde compositions 

at a moment's notice, but they also reflected a strongly divided creative mindset, 

with Bob Markley, the lyricist and ostensive leader of the group, on one side and the rest of the band on the other

"THE WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND PART ONE"

LP     REPRISE RECORDS      REP 54 108

MADE IN GERMANY for the DUTCH MARKET       1980 REPRESSING

SINGLE COVER + COMPANY INNER SLEEVE

NOTES: Same as the German reissue but with STEMRA rights society instead of GEMA.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

Label Code: LC 0322

Other (distribution or price code): Germany: ?

Other (distribution or price code): France: WE 341

LABEL: REPRISE - TAN LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) REP 54 108 (RS 6247)

 Catalog on labels: REP 54 108 (RS-A-30647) / REP 54 108 (RS-A-30648)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): 54108-A WEA RS-6247-A  F  (Scratched out): 58104-A

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): WEA- RS-6247-B 54108-B\PF   (Scratched out): 58104-B

On labels: 2-line rim text reads "Alle urheber......vermetung......Made in Germanyby WEA Musik GMBH........company"

"All rights......unauthorized copying........prohibited"

STEMRA(boxed)

Produced by Bob Markley and Jimmy Bowen

? 1980 Warner Bros. Records Inc.

On Back Sleeve: Liner notes from 'Los Angeles Times' and 'Career Magazine'

Produced by Bob Markley and Jimmy Bowen

? 1980 Warner Bros. Records Inc.

Reprise Records........Made in Germany by WEA Musik GmbH A Warner Communications Company

W (embossed, bottom right)

tracklisting

Side A: SHIFTING SANDS - I WON'T HURT YOU - 1906 - HELP, I'M A ROCK - WILL YOU WALK WITH ME

RECORD NEAR EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band's first album for Reprise was the best of the group's career, in large part because it was 

the most song-oriented. It was still plenty weird, almost to the point of stylistic schizophrenia, but when you got down to it, much 

of the record was comprised of fairly catchy songs in the neighborhood of two and three minutes. At times they sounded 

like reasonably normal, fairly talented Byrds-like folk-rockers ("Transparent Day," P.F. Sloan's "Here's Where You Belong"); 

at others, a Kinks-like garage band ("If You Want This Love"); and at others, a fey Baroque pop outfit (the orchestrated 

"Will You Walk With Me"). There was an undercurrent of unsettling weirdness and even paranoia, though, in some cuts with 

otherwise pleasing tunes, like "Shifting Sands," with its sizzling distorted guitars; "I Won't Hurt You," with its heartbeat bass and disconnected 

vocals; and "Leiyla," where a standard teen garage rocker suddenly gets invaded by spoken dialog that seems to have been 

lifted from a vampire B-movie. The cover of Frank Zappa's "Help, I'm a Rock" flung them into freakier pastures...(AllMusic)