where's my daddy?

popular opinion will tell you this is the weakest of their four lps but i would beg to differ. perhaps it's the bubblegum country sound of the album that fails to capture the imagination of many, it does lack the budget and experimentation of the earlier reprise record releases, but where it succeeds in its cohesion wherein each track works as part of the collective whole and nothing jars..

the whole fascinating story can be found here:

the legend of the west coast pop art experimental band

it would be pointless for me to try to paraphrase it and besides i'm far too lazy anyway..

the record was released on the tiny "amos" record label in 1969 and is currently unavailable, will it ever be again? this is a vinyl rip, and not my own i might add. it's not too hard to find online but i'm posting it because i love the music:

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france gall

syd in 1969

angela dorian

thank you masked man

along comes mary

the association are my favourite band of all time. too square for the "hip" crowd and too hip for the "squares" they fell between two worlds. on record they used session players but live they had an almost garage-rock intensity, fueled by brian cole's kick-ass bass lines, a strong unified band personality and well, most of all, they enjoyed themselves..

shock!

shock illustrated was a weird late-entry in the ec comics canon. the series lost money from the start and only three issues were published, this one being the first. it has lovely jack kamen art throughout and the stories are quite odd in any age, not least the 1950s, with themes of crime (not too odd), drug abuse (getting raunchy), psychoanalysis (i beg your pardon?) and wife-swapping (yikes!!)..



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the lovely france gall

and several camp men..

weird tales of the future

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the greatest band that ever lived!

robot woman

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