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December 31, 2006
Most Dated 60s Album Ever?
I like to sample albums by 1960s groups when I scoop up entertainment at the Greenwich Library. Yesterday's haul included "Vincebus Eruptum" by the power trio Blue Cheer, from 1968. I gave it a spin this morning and found these Amazon reviews highly accurate.
The album kicks off with "Summertime Blues" and unswervingly stays in that sledgehammer mode. I liked the band, but the music has not aged too well, just for lack of variety. Still, it comes for a certain time and place, and is perfect for 60s nostalgists and movie soundtracks. Maybe I'll crank it up at midnight to create my own blue cheer.
For the ultimate meta-analysis of the album's cosmic meaning, go directly to this UK site, which says,
A crazy singularity, Blue Cheer’s debut album flows with a relentless feeling and attitude from the guts thrown as hard as possible against the studio wall and was captured as the double vulgar non sequitur tripped-out, biker Pig Latin-entitled vinyl slab, “Vincebus Eruptum.”
My thoughts exactly.
Van | 12/31/06 at 09:41 AM | Categories: Natural disasters
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When I hear the name "Blue Cheer", the first thing that comes to mind is "the band so loud they once killed a dog." And yet, had they come on the scene 20 years later they would have been celebrated as pioneers of punk, rather than the lamest West Coast band ever to get a major record deal.
Michael Edelman | January 2, 2007 09:24 AM
The amazon link includes a recommendation for the first album by Frijid Pink. Also, I would suggest, a bit dated. But in any case I would nominate as the most dated 1960s album ever "Farewell Aldebaran" by Judy Henske and Jerry Yester.
Rob | January 3, 2007 08:32 PM
Rob, we may be political opposites but we are such pop ephemera soulmates. I used to have that LP. And it was pretty sucky. But Judy Henske in her own element is one of the wonders of the universe, would you agree?
Judith Weiss | January 4, 2007 05:16 PM
PS speaking of vastly underappreciated 60s-vintage white female blues/soul/folk singers.... do you also have old Bonnie Koloc LPs stashed away? I made cassettes before I gave away the LPs, but the sound quality is pretty crackly.
Judith Weiss | January 4, 2007 05:19 PM
Soulmates indeed. Must be an age thing.....
I agree with you on Judy Henske (and I must sheepishly confess to owning a CD transfer of "Farewell Aldebaran" itself for when I want a timewarp moment).
Bonnie Koloc isn't a familiar name though, so I shall go a-hunting.
Thinking of blasts from the past, I recently bought Album 3 by Loudon Wainwright III, purely for "Dead Skunk In The Middle Of The Road" which I remember him doing in Cambridge back in the seventies. Though the whole album is good.
The timewarp album (bought as a student) which I got rid of and now regret (and not only because I just saw it on sale on the web for $120) is "The Carolyn Hester Coalition". We all make mistakes.
Rob | January 4, 2007 10:06 PM
Bonnie is still going strong and has a few current CDs but if you can find the LPs with "In the Dark" and "Jazzman" and her verison of Dave Bromberg's "Diamond Lil" - they are amazing.
Judith | January 5, 2007 04:47 AM
