Laughing Soup Dish
Teenage Lima Bean

THE REVIEW

I bet my turntable that when on a beautiful sunny day in 1985 the late Greg Shaw retrieved a tape from the mailbox of his Voxx from Long Branch, New Jersey, signed by the unknown Laughing Soup Dish and titled "Teenage Lima Bean", he surely thought "here's another group of weirdos!" (L.S.D.?!?). In truth, his small and commendable record label already counted quite a few eccentric individuals with bowl cuts and floral shirts dedicated to the revival of '60s psychedelic and garage sounds: Plan 9, DMZ, Miracle Workers, Tell Tale Hearts, Eyes of Mind, Gravedigger Five... so why not give these five tripped-out guys a listen too?

WOW!!!! For a good five minutes, in Greg's head, the gem generateda kaleidoscopic explosion of multicolorwithout any chemical aid. The sonic acid spread through all his doors of perception; sparkling twanging accompanied the pure sixties two-part harmony singing, guitars bounced from one channel to another loaded with feedback, the bass quivered agonizingly on the raga carpet while the voices inexorably dwindled until they went offbeat and out of their minds. Crazy clocks on the walls, or perhaps plates shattered along the auditory ducts, announced the final litany that led to the only possible noise of the lysergic rock.

Once recovered from the trip, he contacted them to send a second track, "Rainy Day Sponge", miraculously at the same level as the first, and in a rush, he pressed the tapes onto a 45 rpm vinyl without any modification to the sound to make it available to those who cultivate a fragrant garden where beautiful little mushrooms sprout after the warm acid rains.

And today, how to tear apart, move, sublimate the mind without waiting for our man with twenty-six dollars ready in hand? By finding the gem in the collection "Be a Caveman- the Best of Voxx Garage Revival"!