THE WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND Vol.2 LP REPRISE 1967 US orig+stereo
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THE WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND
BOB MARKLEY, DAN HARRIS, SHAUN HARRIS
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
"VOL.2"
1967 LP REPRISE RECORDS STEREO 6270
PRINTED IN U.S.A. ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING
3-COLOUR + STEAMBOAT LABEL
THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)
WITH COMPANY INNER SLEEVE
Barcode and Other Identifiers
LABEL: REPRISE - "3-COLOUR" + STEAMBOAT LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: 6270
Catalog on labels: RS 6270 (30,703 / 30,704)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): 30703 RS 6270 A 1A
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): 30704 RS-6270 B 1A
On labels: rim text reads "Made in U.S.A. Warner Bros. Records, Inc."
Produced by Bob Markley and Jimmy Bowen
On Back Sleeve: Notes by Bob Markley
Performance Rights on All Selections: BMI
Reprise Records. A Division of Warner Bros. Records, Inc.
4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California; 321 W. 44th Street, New York, New York.
Made in U.S.A.
from my records collection
tracklisting
Side 1: IN THE ARENA - SUPPOSE THEY GIVE A WAR AND NO ONE COMES
BUDDHA - SMELL OF INCENSE - OVERTURE-WCPAEB PART II
Side 2: QUEEN NYMPHET - UNFREE CHILD
CARTE BLANCHE - DELICATE FAWN
TRACY HAD A HARD DAY SUNDAY
grading
RECORD from VG(+) to VG+ but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, no strangers to weirdness on their prior 1967 album Part One,
had still often stuck to relatively straightforward, concise, and pop-flavored songs on that LP.
Here they stretched out into less structured, more avowedly psychedelic (and indeed experimental) territory, with mixed results.
"Smell of Incense" (covered for a small hit by Southwest FOB) was sublime psych-pop.
The prominent track on this album is probably the highly original Tracy Had A Hard Day Sunday.
Unlike much of the other material on the album, this tune had considerable commercial appeal.
A later 45, Smell Of Incense was taken from this album. It must have made quite an impression
'cos it was also recorded by The Abstracts on their LP, The Pawnbrokers and by Southwest F.O.B..
In fact, the single was only belatedly released a year after the album in response
to the latter's hit version of the song...(AllMusic+Fuzz Acid & Flowers)
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