THIS IS THE 1988 UK REPRESSING on ZAP! label. The single cover is in VG+ condition: normal wear on front/rear BUT mild creases on edges, discolouration/wear on spines/corners, left spine is readable, for details see photos. The vinyl is in EX condition and plays wonderfully.

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THEM

After Morrison left the group, Them splintered into the Belfast Gypsies, who released an album that (except for the vocals) approximated Them's early records, and a psychedelic outfit that kept the name Them, releasing four LPs with little resemblance to the tough sounds of their mid-'60s heyday.

<reissue, originally published in 1968>

tracklisting

Side A: WITCH DOCTOR - WHAT'S THE MATTER BABY - TRUTH MACHINE - SQUARE ROOM

Side B: YOU'RE JUST WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR TODAY - DIRTY OLD MAN 8AT THE AGE OF SIXTEEN)

NOBODY LOVES YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT - WALKING IN THE QUEEN'S GARDEN

I HAPPEN TO LOVE YOU - COME TO ME

LP       ZAP!  RECORDS       ZAP 6

Barcode: 5 015733 200615

LABEL: ZAP! - WHITE LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: ZAP 6

Catalog on labels: ZAP 6

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): ZAP 006 A∙1   LYN 21804

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): ZAP 006∙B∙1   LYN-21805

On labels: Original sound recording made by Tower Records

Issued under license from EMI Records Ltd.

℗ 1968 Tower Records    © 1968 Tower Records

Produced by: Them/Marty Cooper/Ray Ruff

All rights.........prohibited.

On back cover: Tracklist + Credits + Notes

Issued under licenses from EMI...........Original release on Tower Records (USA) - ST 5104

ZAP! Records, distributed by Revolver via The Cartel.......Manufactured in England.

RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

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

The average '60s rock fan should be aware of this vital fact about Now & Them right away: This is not the version of the band that is most familiar, with Van Morrison on lead vocals. In fact, Morrison does not appear at all on this album, the first of the obscure LPs recorded by a reorganized Them after Morrison's departure for a solo career. For that simple reason, it cannot be compared to Them's previous recordings, either in quality or in style. Getting beyond that, it's not a bad record. Perhaps because this was recorded in Hollywood (where Them was based at the time), it has a surprisingly American sound in many places. Yet their new sound, whatever it was, didn't coalesce, and the record seemed almost the work of several bands rather than one. There was fairly hard-nosed British R&B in the cover of John Mayall's "I'm Your Witch Doctor," American-styled blue-eyed soul on the cover of Timi Yuro's "What's the Matter Baby," bubblegummy psych-pop on "Truth Machine," echoes of the Monkees and the Association on "You're Just What I Was Looking for Today," a muted "Gloria" rewrite on "Dirty Old Man (At the Age of Sixteen)" (whose Strawberry Alarm Clock-like harmonies dilute the original arrangement, cut by the group slightly earlier on a non-LP single), disposable jazz-blues on "Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out," Standells-styled garage rock on "Walking in the Queen's Garden," and an inferior cover of "I Happen to Love You" (done better by both the Myddle Class and the Electric Prunes). The big problem, however, was that the group simply did not have a lead singer miles within Van Morrison, nor did they write original material miles within what Morrison penned for the earlier Them records. For all that, it does contain one nice, lengthy, haunting raga rock piece, "Square Room," undoubtedly the most original work on the record, and the album's highlight...(AllMusic)