Re: [bomp] Re: blossom toes & UK kaleidoscope and beatles

[michael baker <roky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Branigin" <euphorik6@yahoo.com>
To: <bomp@xnet2.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:21 PM
Subject: [bomp] Re: blossom toes & UK kaleidoscope


>
> simon
>
>  <<I must say I'll still sooner put on Kaleidoscope...>>
>
>  weird...as fixated on UK psych as i am (and i am, and i am), i have just 
> never been able to get into these guys too much. there's an early a (or b, 
> can't remember) side called "holiday maker" that i really like, but that's 
> more or less it. the second BTs album takes some getting used to, but that 
> first one....damn. that's a gin-yoo-wahn desert island record for me. not 
> everything is drop-dead brilliant, i could easily go another 4 or 5 
> billion years without hearing that annoying "frozen dog" song again, but 
> the stuff that's good is SO good...songs like "mr watchmaker," "love is," 
> and (especially) "telegram tuesday" are just flawless, 100% brick-house 
> perfect songs.
>
>  the BBC stuff on the sunbeam discs is epsecially good - all the poli 
> palmer-era stuff, the mellotron-and-vibes arrangements of "mr watchmaker" 
> and "love is" are just gorgeous, sort of like "magical mystery tour" meets 
> "edwin garvey"-era manfred mann.
>
>  i still think the LP tracks sound better on the early 90s japanese CDs 
> (and the late 90s - ahem - "canadian imports" sourced from them) sound 
> better, but as far as bang for buck, you can't argue with the sunbeam 
> discs. definitiely must-own stuff for anybody into UK psych.
>
>
> rob
>
> "...it is often a mark of talent to be useless."
> - allan pinkerton, 1878.
>
> http://www.myspace.com/14508200
>
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