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Blues Magoos - 1967 - Electric Comic Book

(2004 Expanded Reissue) [mp3@320]



Blues Magoos


Blues Magoos 1967


Wikipedia:
The Blues Magoos are a rock music group from The Bronx, New York. They were at the forefront of the psychedelic music trend, beginning as early as 1966. They are best known for the hit song "(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet".


Electric Comic Book



Release Date: August 30, 2004
Original Release Date: 1967
Label: Repertoire [REPUK 1050]
ASIN: B00042YBT0
Genre: Psychedelic Blues Rock
Total Time: 00:57:23

Madcap music and special effects helped these all-American hippies create a crazy blend of Pop Art and cartoon-ish musical lunacy that brightened up the late sixties. Featuring Mike Esposito on guitar, this was the Magoos' second album, released in March 1967. Informative sleeve notes and band interviews by Mike Stax, plus 11 bonus tracks - including single versions and rarities - complete this 'must-have' 60's limited digipak reissue. Repertoire. 2004.

Wikipedia:
Electric Comic Book is the second album by the American garage rock band Blues Magoos, the follow-up to their successful debut release Psychedelic Lollipop. The psychedelic rock/garage rock formula is followed again on this release but without a high-charting single. A couple of tracks, "Intermission" and "That's All Folks" (a very brief, hard-rocking parody of the Looney Tunes end theme) showcase the band's bizarre sense of humor.
Three singles were released from Electric Comic Book, "Summer is the Man", "Life is Just a Cher O'Bowlies", and "There's a Chance We Can Make It", the latter being the only to chart and its B-Side, "Pipe Dream," charting higher.

AllMusic Review by Mark Deming:
The Blues Magoos' first album, Psychedelic Lollipop, earned the band a major hit single, "(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet," and in the grand tradition of striking while the iron was hot, the New York-based quintet were back with their second LP, 1967's Electric Comic Book, less than five months later. The sophomore effort is a noticeably more ambitious piece of work than the Magoos' debut, and while psychedelia was a catchphrase more than anything else on the first record, Electric Comic Book sounds trippier and a bit more expansive by comparison (the goofy "Intermission" tosses in some fairly obvious marijuana and cocaine references which would have been almost unthinkable in 1966, and the drug angle in "Pipe Dream" isn't exactly subtle). In addition, a few months of playing live had tightened up a combo who already sounded pretty good together, as well as bolstering the confidence in Ralph Scala's vocals and keyboard work and the fuzzy interplay of guitarists Mike Esposito and Emil "Peppy" Thielhelm. However, the blues and R&B elements that were a large part of Psychedelic Lollipop's strength have faded into the background here (except for a overdone cover of Jimmy Reed's "Let's Get Together"), and though the band could come up with a respectable pop tune, "Baby, I Want You" and "Take My Love" sound like throw-aways that were tossed together quickly to fill out a record not quite 30 minutes long (though "Take My Love" does have the very memorable line "Take my love and shove it up your heart"). Psychedelic Lollipop is well short of a classic, but overall it's a stronger and more coherent set of songs than Electric Comic Book, which sounds like the quickly recorded follow-up that it truly was, though it does have moments that suggest the band could have made another album as good as the debut with a bit more time and attention.




01. Pipe Dream (Gilbert, Scala) - 2:26
02. There's A Chance We Can Make It (Gilbert, Scala) - 2:14
03. Life Is Just A Cher O'bowlies (Gilbert, Scala) - 2:35
04. Gloria (Van Morrison) - 6:02
05. Intermission (Esposito) - 1:05
06. Albert Common Is Dead (Gilbert, Scala) - 1:48
07. Summer Is The Man (Esposito, Scala) - 2:59
08. Baby, I Want You (Gilbert, Theilhelm) - 2:42
09. Let's Get Together (Reed) - 3:06
10. Take My Love (Gilbert, Scala) - 1:50
11. Rush Hour (Daking, Gilbert, Esposito) - 2:35
12. That's All Folks (Blues Magoos) - 0:08

Bonus Tracks (Single Versions):

13. So I'm Wrong And You Are Right (Shorter, Lewis) - 2:25
14. The People Had No Faces (Shorter) - 2:50
15. Pipe Dream (Gilbert, Scala) - 2:25
16. There's A Chance We Can Make It (Gilbert, Scala) - 2:14
17. One By One (Gilbert, Theilhelm) - 2:45
18. Dante's Inferno (Gilbert, Scala, Theilhelm, Esposito, Daking) - 3:26
19. Summer Is The Man (Gilbert, Esposito) - 2:59
20. Life Is Just A Cher O'bowlies (Gilbert, Scala, Theilhelm) - 2:35
21. Jingle Bells (Adapted by Blues Magoos) - 2:35
22. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (H. Gillespie, J. F. Coats) - 1:25
23. So I'm Wrong And You Are Right (Alternative Stereo Mix) (Shorter, Lewis) - 2:25


Personnel:

Ralph Scala - Keyboards, Vocals
Emil “Peppy” Theilhelm – Guitar, Vocals
Ron Gilbert – Bass, Vocals
Mike Esposito – Guitar
Geoff Daking – Drums, Percussion


Note:
This is not my rip.
My thanks to the original uploader (whoever that may be).










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