Psychedelic Lollipop

Description

The Blues Magoos launched their recording career with a major smash, hitting the Top Five with the brash garage-punk anthem (We Aint Got) Nothin Yet. That tune is just one of the multiple pleasures of Psychedelic Lollipop, notable as one of the first albums (along with the 13th Floor Elevators debut) to use the word psychedelic in its title. The band balances swaggering proto-punk attitude, a Beatlesque pop sensibility and adventurous acid-pop experimentalism on such tunes as Gotta Get Away, One by One and Love Seems Doomed. And the Magoos high-energy workouts on James Browns Ill Go Crazy and John Loudermilks Tobacco Road rank with the greatest versions of those much-covered garage-band standards.

This 60s garage-psych nugget is now available on Sundazed as a Limited Edition compact disc (1000 copies only!) and High Definition Vinyl, sourced from the original Mercury-label stereo masters, with the colorful original cover art meticulously reproduced.

In their 60s heyday, the Blues Magoos were one of the first garage-punk bands to achieve mainstream success, and one of the first to embrace psychedelia. Early in their existence, the Bronx-bred quintets high-energy live sets made them a popular attraction on the Greenwich Village club scene. Once they began making records, they quickly emerged as one of one of the earliest and most inventive exponents of the psychedelic sound. The bands 1966 debut album Psychedelic Lollipop and its 1967 followup Electric Comic Book, are two of that periods most beloved and enduring albums.