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Welcome to the time machine. Take a seat. A very "psychedelic" lollipop comes complimentary.
"Psychedelic Lollipop", a journey into the eccentric sixties garage-rock, is the 1966 debut record of the New York combo Blues Magoos, permanent residents at the Nite Owl Café.
Forerunners of psychedelia (it's the first time the term “psychedelic” appears on an album cover) and famous for their electrifying stage suits, in the recording studio Blues Magoos certainly don't hang up their instruments. As soon as the needle drops on the vinyl of their debut album, the spark ignites. The Blues Magoos promptly reassure; it is only the beginning, "We ain’t got nothin’ yet", we haven't got anything yet (but it's well known that starting is already halfway there).
Without losing heart, they navigate ardently, brazenly, energetically in the swamp of sonic reverberations, among original tracks and covers, although projected towards the future, it is inevitable to cast a glance to the past, honoring the old American tradition with revamped and downright shocking, delirious renditions of great classics ("Tobacco Road", "I'll Go Crazy", "Worried Life Blues", "She's Coming Home").
Compositions with an explosive, gritty, rhythmic force, disturbed by fiery and damnably noisy guitar distortions, at times lysergic and hallucinogenic, yet with a strong melodic and catchy component (present in the ballads "Queen of my nights", "Love seems doomed", "Sometimes I think about"), delicately reinforced by intermittent, dreamy keyboards and tainted by garage-blues guitars.
The sweet, light, carefree, almost childlike harmony of the lyrics, wrapped and influenced by the bewitching, enchanting, mesmerizing sound momentum of the guitar, degenerates into mind-bending, infernal, devastating, pleasantly unbearable jams.
Slightly dazed, but happy, we return home, ready for a new electric and electrifying adventure.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet (02:18)
One day you're up and the next day you're down
You can't face the world with your head to the ground
The grass is always greener on the other side, they say
So don't worry, boys, life will be sweet some day
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
We made enough mistakes
But you know we got what it takes
Oh, we ain't got nothin' yet
No, we ain't got nothin' yet
Nothin' can hold us and nothin' can keep us down
And someday our names will be spread all over town
We can get in while the getting is good
So make it on your own, yeah, you know that you could
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
We got to make the break
'Cause we got too much at stake
We made enough mistakes
But you know we got what it takes
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By gluca1985
This psychedelic vein is more diluted compared to that proposed by other bands of the same period or a few years later.
‘Sometimes I Think About You’ in which Peppy Castro’s voice manages to touch even the hardest heart.
