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Various Artists - Buzz Buzz Buzzzzzz Vol.1-2: The High Art of the Groovy '60s Psychedelic Instrumental Жанр: Psychedelic Rock Лэйбл: Arf! Arf! Records Год выпуска дисков: 2000 Производитель диска: USA Аудио кодек: MP3 Тип рипа: tracks Битрейт аудио: CBR 192-224 kbps Продолжительность: 02:25:16 Два сборника психоделического инструментала из 60х от Arf! Arf! Records.
Раритет на раритете сидит и раритетом погоняет: три четверти - только здесь (*).
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Now HERE'S an idea whose time has come. Two compilation CDs, each jam-packed with over 70 minutes of garage/psych/surfreak INSTRUMENTALS. The perfect party concept, assuming it works. And with Erik Lindgren at the Compiler's Helm, so to speak, you know you're in for an interesting (if bumpy) ride. (Just in case you blew right past the word "surfreak", Dear Reader, I'll have you know I just now made it up. It's MINE. Strewth. I get a royalty every time you use it. Okay?) Where was I? Oh, yes. You might assume that a collection of 50-plus songs of this nature (the two discs are sold separately) would consist largely of throwaway B-sides, which were "written" about 12 seconds before they were recorded. And you'd be right. And that's what makes most of this stuff so great. It's urgent, and it's GONE. Precisely as it should be. After plowing through the 25 songs on Volume 1, you will remember perhaps one or two little hooks only. Yes! Now, you already know that garage/psych/surfreak (remember, I warned you) instrumentals fall into essentially three categories. Think cinematically. They are: the "Wow-This-Is-A-Really-Groovy-Party-All-The-Chicks-Are-Frugg ing-In-Their-White-Boots" category; the "Wow-This-Is-A-Really-Groovy-Day-At-The-Beach-All-The-Chick s-Are-Frugging-In-Their-Bikinis" category; and finally, of course, the "Little-Wendy's-Unpleasant-Blue-Acid-Experience-At-The-Afo rementioned-Party" (NEVER at the beach, let's have that clear) category. You know the difference, you can hear it right away. The press release for these CDs shows they have the right idea, and I quote: "...somewhere in the orbit between `Telstar' and `Third Stone From The Sun'..." But that doesn't really tell the story. You have to hear these. And, unlike most of the music you'll read about in these hallowed pages, this is PERFECT BACKGROUND MUSIC. Finally! I can listen to these while reading. Or writing. Or pouring lye in my eyes. Oh, wait, no... sorry... Don't, however, get the impression that it's all good. Some of this stuff is truly dreadful, and not the so-bad-it's-good kind of dreadful. What what WHAT was the producer (if there was one) of Electrified People's "1000 Dimension In Blue" THINKING... when he put the ENTIRE TRACK through a very fast tape-echo, and randomly turned the echo up so loud as to completely erase the entire rhythm? I guess that's what we used to call "experimenting." Suffice to say that it's a safe bet George Martin was not in attendance on these recordings. Also, Volume 1 ends with "Don't Make Waves" by the Tea Company... a band who made some pleasant-enough psychedelia in their day; but who, herein, seem to think it's a fair artistic statement to blow unaccompanied bubbles through an unaccompanied straw, record it, and sell it to humans for money. To take these track-by-track for you would just about fill this magazine, so no point to that. I'll also note that there is virtually NO info of any kind given on the songs, artists, or anything else. No composer credits either. But that's not a criticism. There would never have been space for that, without providing a 24- or 30-page booklet. So, just highlights, then: Volume 1 kicks off with a manifesto of sorts, "Buzzzzz" by Jimmy Gordon. This is the quintessential "groovy-party" sound mentioned above. And then straight into the Last Heard's "East Side Sound" - which is a brilliant rip of "I Can Only Give You Everything" with the chords turned inside out. I love stuff like that. Although Arf Arf did miss a major trick in not including Boenzee Cryque's "Ashbury Wednesday", from Psych-Out - which is "Purple Haze" turned inside out. But the most brilliant piece of thievery hereon is by a (probably) non-existent "band" called "The Rock Revival". I noticed, while looking at the track listing for Volume 2, that there are THREE songs by this "artist", right in a row. Why, I wondered. What, in this sort of undertaking, could be THAT good?? The puzzle compounds itself when you glance at the booklet... which contains lovingly-reproduced photos of many of the labels of the records these little slugs were mastered from. And there, right in the middle, is a picture of an 8-TRACK TAPE - with no label name or imprint - presumably bought at a Texaco station in the middle of the Nevada desert, and it's called "Motorcycle Baby" by The Rock Revival... replete with a photo of an, ahem, "Motorcycle Baby". Don't use your imagination, BUY THIS and see it for yourself. Well, Jimmy Page has nothing on these guys, whomever they were... what they have done here is to record absolute, exact instrumental copies of not one, not two, but THREE of your favorite and Completely-Recognizable-Even-By-Your-Mom sixties tunes, and GIVEN THEM NEW TITLES AND KEPT THE PUBLISHER'S CREDITS! Twelve bonus points just for balls. I mean, you've seen people do this many times by changing the odd lyric here and there. But THESE SONGS HAVE NO LYRICS! They're identical!! So I do imagine you will pay special attention to these three songs - which are called, at least NOW they're called, "Down In The South", Motorcycle Meredith", and "Hot Boogie Gone Cold". Indeed. [One pointed note: I am crossing my fingers and hoping against hope, here, that someone is not going to ring me and say "Didn't you know? That's a very famous recording made anonymously by Rick Wakeman, Rick Nelson, Rick Roberts, Richard Tepp, Dick Dale, Dick Taylor, Dick Van Patten and a bunch of other Dicks in 1966 and EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT EXCEPT YOU, MIKE."] Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree here... maybe these tunes are by Lindgren HIMSELF. It wouldn't be his FIRST hoax. Hmmm... Anyway. "Freak Out Pt 2", by the Soundz, is the best backing track the Chocolate Watchband never recorded. Sounds just like them. And you even get some stuff by bands you actually KNOW, e.g. "The Challengers Take A Ride On The Jefferson Airplane". Wow. Now there's your surfreak. The drummer is so far out ahead of the rest of the band that you can almost hear their shoes scraping the pavement as he drags them screaming behind the car. Go! I do need to highlight "Free And Easy" by the Disturbers... because it's one song that manages to find the EXACT MOMENT in our little movie where "Wow-This-Is-A-Really-Groovy-Party-All-The-Chicks-Are-Frugg ing-In-Their-White-Boots" ends and "Little-Wendy's-Unpleasant-Blue-Acid-Experience-At-The-Afo rementioned-Party" begins. This is not as easy as it sounds, and kudos to the participants. One more thing that will strike you as you listen to some of these songs: how comfortably they could fit into the New-Millennium-Garage-Revival ethos. After all, nobody sounds like Dave Aguilar, Sky Saxon, or Dick Dodd. But see if you don't think that "Five Minus Three" by the Chancellors would sound mega-neato if covered by one of our better modern-day Farfisa-Heavy revivalist bands, like, say, Les Sexareenos or Frigg-A-Go-Go. And many of the more guitar-oriented ones would be right at home at an Embrooks show. Just a thought. You need these discs. You will enjoy them, your friends will enjoy them, and also they will get you laid. - Mike Fornatale(Originally published in Ugly Things #19, 2001)
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Buzz Buzz Buzzzzzz Vol.1: The High Art of the Groovy '60s Psychedelic Instrumental -- 01:13:30, CBR 192-224 kbps
Arf! Arf! Records #AA-084 01.Jimmy Gordon - Buzzzzzz // U.S.A.* 02.Bob Seger & The Last Heard - East Side Sound // Detroit, MI, U.S.A. (released 1/1966) 03.The Growing Society - The Big Red Tomato // Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. (released 6/1967)* 04.The Sun Lightning Incorporated - Quasar 45 // Sangralea Valley, IN, U.S.A. (released 1969) 05.Hot Dog Stand - Zilch 06.The Soundz - Freak Out (Part 2) // (released 1967)* 07.The Sunliners - Well One // Detroit, MI, U.S.A. (released 1967)* 08.The Galaxies IV - Piccadilly Circus // Trenton, NJ, U.S.A. (released 1967) 09.The Mugwump Establishment - Mondo Hollywood Freakout // U.S.A. (released 1967) 10.The Royal Guardsmen - Om // Ocala, FL, U.S.A. (released 1967)* 11.Inner Lite - All The Way In // Marshaltown, IA, U.S.A.* 12.Peter Pan & The Good Fairies - Balloons // Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. (released 1967)* 13.Disturburs - Free 'N Easy * 14.The Peepl - Please Take My Life * 15.The Swamp People - The Swamp * 16.The Electric Tomorrow - Sugar Cube // CA, U.S.A. (released 1966)* 17.Electrified People - Electrified People 18.The New Breed - One More For The Good Guys // Sacramento, CA, U.S.A. (released 9/1966)* 19.Nobody's Children - Girl, I Need You (instro ver) // Chicago, IL, U.S.A. (released 1967)* 20.The Challengers - The Challengers Take A Ride On The Jefferson Airplane // Waukesha, WI, U.S.A. (released 9/1967) 21.The Significant Others - Ode To Carrabasset Fats // ME, U.S.A.* 22.The Cords - Cords, Inc. // Pulaski, WI, U.S.A. (released 1970)* 23.The Celebrated Renaissance Band - Vibration 22 // (released 1969)* 24.The Wanderers - B.S.R.S. // CT, U.S.A.* 25.The Tea Company - Don't Make Waves // New York, NY, U.S.A. (released 1968)*
Buzz Buzz Buzzzzzz Vol.2: More of the High Art of the Groovy '60s Psychedelic Instrumental -- 01:11:46, CBR 192 kbps
Arf! Arf! Records #AA-085 01.Mercy - Fireball // Winter Haven, FL, U.S.A. 02.The Cords - Ghost Power // Pulaski, WI, U.S.A. (released 1970) 03.The Buff Organization - Upside Down World // Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. (released 1968)* 04.The Lost Ones - Trouble In The Streets // CA, U.S.A. 05.The Chancellors - 5 Minus 3 // Lansing, MI, U.S.A. (released 7/1966) 06.The Cobblestones - Down With It // Bloomington, IN, U.S.A. (released 11/1967) 07.Peter Pan & The Good Fairies - Kaleidoscope // Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. (released 1967) 08.Electrified People - One Thousand Dimension In Blue * 09.Bobby Arlin With The Hustlers - Mushroom Machine (Part 2) // Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.* 10.The Looking Glasses - Migada Bus // Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. (released 1967)* 11.Jimmy Gordon - Test Pattern // U.S.A.* 12.Michael John & The Pendulums - You're Wrong Girl (instro ver) // MI, U.S.A. (released 1966) 13.The Scotland Yardleys - Some Guys Have It (Some Guys Never Will) * 14.The Gates Of Eden - Elegy // New York, NY, U.S.A. (released 1967)* 15.Hal Blaine - Wiggy (November) (45 ver) // Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. (released 1967)* 16.Inner Lite - Tabula Rasa // Marshaltown, IA, U.S.A.* 17.The Electric Tomorrow - Electric Tomorrow // CA, U.S.A. (released 1966)* 18.The Rock Revival - Down In The South // U.S.A.* 19.The Rock Revival - Motorcycle Meredith // U.S.A.* 20.The Rock Revival - Hot Boogie Gone Cold // U.S.A.* 21.Pump - Pappy's Rug (alt ver) * 22.Crazy Elephant - Dark Part Of My Mind // Camden, NJ, U.S.A. (released 1968)* 23.Blizzard - Health * 24.Demons Of Negativity - Ressurection (instro ver) // Boston, MA, U.S.A.* 25.Vessel - Beginning Of The End * 26.Family Souls - Cyke * 27.The Projection Company - Kimeaa // Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.* 28.[unknown] - [Bonus Mystery Track] *
