Psychedelic Lollipop [Import]

psychedelic lollipop [import]

Track Listings

1. (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet

2. Love Seems Doomed

3. Tobacco Road

4. Queen of My Nights

5. I'll Go Crazy

6. Gotta Get Away

7. Sometimes I Think About

8. One by One

9. Worried Life Blues

10. She's Coming Home

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Import reissue of 1966 debut album. Repertoire.

Psychedelic Lollipop,The Blues Magoos,Repertoire,Frat Rock,Garage Rock,Pop,Psychedelic,Rock,Rock/Pop

Psychedelic Lollipop [Import]

Psychedelic Lollipop / Electric Comic Book

Average customer rating:

they put the alkaline in acid-rock
TWO GREAT ALBUMS {ONE BY ONE}
Blues Magoos-'Psychedelic Lollipop/Electric Comic Book'
Psychedelic Pop At Its Best
Grotesquely underrated

Psychedelic Lollipop / Electric Comic Book
Blues Magoos
Manufacturer: Collectables
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JJAM
Release Date: 1999-07-27

Tracks:

(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet
Love Seems Doomed
Tabacco Road
Queen Of My Nights
I'll Go Crazy
Gotta Get Away
Sometimes I Think About
One By One
Worried Life Blues
She's Coming Home
Pipe Dream
There's A Chance We Can Make It
Life Is Just A Cher O' Bowlies
Gloria
Intermission
Albert Common Is Dead
Summer Is The Man
Baby, I Want You
Let's Get Together
Take My Love
Rush Hour
That's All Folks

Customer Reviews:

they put the alkaline in acid-rock.......2005-12-22

While it may be easy to poke fun at the Blues Magoos (the quintessential one-hit-wonders who could double as the Hee-Haw of psychedeia), the band put together, at the very least, one good album side of respectable 1960's rock. The sum of their production was one massive hit, 1967's 'We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet', which checked out at number 72 for the year, and number five at its peak in January. The band hailed from the Bronx in New York, but first gathered a following as residents at the Night Owl Club in Greenwich Village. They started out as The Trenchcoats, evolved into the Bloos Magoos (true to their psychedelic persona, though it's hard to believe any of this music is truly tripped-out), and became the Blues Magoos at the insistence of their manager, though the blues are hardly the band's forte, which appears to be recording garage-rock covers.

Aside from their singular hit, which leads off the first of two studio albums offered on this CD, the Magoos best work consists of cover songs, which fortunately are also the lengthiest tracks. The vocals on track three, the familiar 'Tobacco Road', sound much like the original version by The Nashville Teens, which hit number 14 in 1964. Though also covered by the likes of Eric Burdon, Rare Earth, and Jefferson Airplane, this version by the Magoos more than holds its own, and at four and 1/2 minutes is the second longest number performed. 'Psychedelic Lollipop' also features robust covers of David Blues 'Queen of My Nights', James Brown's 'I'll Go Crazy' (the lead song on Brown's famed 'Live At the Apollo' disc), and a sincere attempt at Maceo Marriweather's 'Worried Life Blues', although the Farfisa organ lines and vocals that don't bleed tend to mock rather than sing the blues. Their only other attempt at the blues, 'Sometimes I Think About', only serves to reveal the irony of the band's namesake. Another song of note on 'Psychedelic Lollipop' is 'One By One', a nice pop tune released as a follow-up single to 'Ain't Got Nothin' Yet', but which never cracked the Top-40 (a cover of Alan Gordon's 'Gotta Get Away', with its great chorus of "Gotta get away, gotta get away, gotta get away... I wanna be free!", probably had a much better shot at success).

Tracks 11-22 on this disc were originally released on vinyl as the band's sophomore effort, 'Electric Comic Book'. It is, in some respects, a novelty album (tracks 15, 'Intermission' and 22, 'That's All Folks' aren't really songs, but bookends intended to give the unrelated compositions a sense of cohesion; and the liner notes are actually a fold-out mini-poster featuring black and white comic book-like panels featuring the band members as characters). Another novelty track appears on the disc, 'Life Is Just a Cher O' Bowlies', which really makes little sense at all. The gradual deterioration of the compositions on 'Elecric Comic Book' reveal the lack of substance the band possessed. Side two of the original vinyl offered tracks which are just a cut above disturbing aural chaos, 'Albert Common Is Dead', and 'Take My Love'. Clearly, something is amiss by the time 'Rush Hour' begins delivering the questionable lyric "take my love and shove it up your heart". While some of the tracks may have represented passable attempts at late-1960's psychedelia ('Summer Is the Man' and the vibrato-lined sounds of 'Baby, I Want You', which are heavy on sunshine, flowers, and love), the cumulative effort here makes one wonder why the band ever got a shot at a third album, which I'm too afraid to hear. The band might have really had something going had they stuck to covers, such as their rich rendition of Van Morrison's 'Gloria' (which the Shadows of Knight took to number ten in 1966), track fourteen on this disc, which at just over six minutes is also the longest number. The song features some bold variatons on the original organ and guitar lines. If the Vanilla Fudge could subsist on cover songs, why not the Blues Magoos? I should have been a manager...

This two-fer 'Blues Magoos' disc is a fun CD to pop into your player for one or two listens, and there are some redeeming tracks, but by-and-large there is way too much filler here to make this a staple of any respectable music collection. It is an interesting artifact, indeed a caricature, of what was considered fashionable in the late-1960's rock scene. This band performed with neon tubes outlining their bell bottoms, and lava lamps decorating the stage. It's op-art, both visual and auditory. If you're a synesthete, you can probably smell and taste psychedelia all over this one, too. If you truly "dig" this, you either took the 1960's way too seriously, or way too superficially. I'm not sure which is the greater error, but a mistake it is.

TWO GREAT ALBUMS {ONE BY ONE}.......2005-03-09

THESE ARE TWO GROVEY ALBUMS, THE BLUES MAGOOS ARE A WONDERFULL
BAND. IF YOU LIKE PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC YOU LOVE IT

Blues Magoos-'Psychedelic Lollipop/Electric Comic Book'.......2004-09-13

Another great 2 lp's-on-one CD release brought to us by the Collectables label.Some of you may not remember much about the Blues Magoos.They were a Bronxe five piece that played some decent psychedelic garage rock that released six lp's from 1966-70,with the first three probably being their best work.This 2-on-1 includes two of those three albums.A total of 22 songs,starting off with their only hit,"We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet" along with many of their other decently penned tracks,like "Gotta Get Away","One By One","Pipe Dream",their outstanding six-minute cover of "Gloria"(one of the disc's best tracks) and "Let's Get Together".Aimed at fans and collectors of '60's psych/garage rock.Will appeal to fans of Shadows Of Knight,Strawberry Alarm Clock,The Creation,The Leaves and Count Five.

Psychedelic Pop At Its Best.......2003-12-20

This CD is a must from the psychedelic 60's. No they were not musicians of the caliber of the Yardbirds or Quicksilver, but there are a number of pop tunes on this CD that could have made top 40, given sufficient airplay and promotion, such as Queen Of MY Nights and Love Seems Doomed.These guys were the embodiment of the psychedelic era. Give them credit for cranking out some great psychedelic-garage rock.

Grotesquely underrated.......2003-10-28

While they may not have been as technically proficient or original as bands like Quicksilver Messenger Service or Vanilla Fudge, the Blues Magoos wrote some catchy psychadelic tunes...fully equipped to enhance your journey to the center of the mind (illegal substance-induced or otherwise), or just to sit back and enjoy, maybe whip out a few of those dated dance moves.

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THE BLUES MA-WHO'S?
+1/2 -- Essential garage rock in the psychedelic age
This is the one to get

Psychedelic Lollipop
Blues Magoos
Manufacturer: Repertoire
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00091SMQE
Release Date: 2005-04-04

Tracks:

(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet
Love Seems Doomed
Tobacco Road
Queen of My Nights
I'll Go Crazy
Gotta Get Away
Sometimes I Think About
One by One
Worried Life Blues
She's Coming Home
Tobacco Road [Single Version][*]
Sometimes I Think About [Single Version][*]
(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet [Single Version][*]
Gotta Get Away [Single Version][*]

Album Description

Repertoire reissue of 1966 debut from the psychedelic, garage band from The Bronx. Includes 4 bonus tracks 'Tobacco Road', 'Sometimes I Think About You', '(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet'-single version & 'Gotta Get Away'. Packaged in a digipak. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

THE BLUES MA-WHO'S?.......2007-06-20

Who are they, you ask?

These guys are one of my favorites from the sixties garage scene. The best way to purchase this disc is in the 2in1 album pack that pairs this up with the follow up album, Electric Comic-Book, because it's actually cheaper, and you can experience the good tunes from that one too.

This however is the far superior album of the small catalouge of The Magoos. Why so rare?

I think, mainly, that The Blues Magoos barely wrote any of their own material, and they weren't British. The Blues Magoos came from Brooklyn, NY... but they could really rock for a sixties garage band. Listen to them cover I'LL GO CRAZY. Its a two minute long jam! Very nicely executed. Check out GOTTA GET AWAY, with the group shout along choruses. Nice,nice,nice. A little pre-punk meets bubblegum, but heavy duty. Check out TOBACCO ROAD, with the drums kill keyboards kill guitar sequence in the middle. Pisser.
This album came out in 1965, listen to how it must've influenced great bands like The Doors and other sixties legends. Some bands seem to fall through the floorboards now and then... but it's pretty great when you manage to pry them out. ROCK!

+1/2 -- Essential garage rock in the psychedelic age.......2007-05-07

This Bronx-originated band had the misfortune to bust out their signature slice of garage rock, "(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet," just as the psychedelics kicking in to the audience at large. The title of this debut album suggests the band was tuning in and dropping out, but even with a jamtastic freak-out added to the Nashville Teens' "Tobacco Road," the group's whining Farfisa organ and pounding rhythms were still rooted in the garage. That's not a knock on their music, just a thought as to why they were unable to follow-up the top-5 success of the single.

The ten tracks that comprised their Mercury debut were recorded in 1966, just as rock was transforming from DIY garage into flower power and psychedelia. You can hear the impact in the ballad "Queen of My Nights," which takes in both the McCoys' "Hang on Sloopy" harmonizing and Country Joe & The Fish's acidy organ-and-bass. The similarity to CJ&TF's psych-blues is also heard on the original "Sometimes I Think About," with its terrific burbling guitar solo. Most powerful of all is the full-kit drum fills, jangly guitar solo and percussive, ricocheted background vocals on "Gotta Get Away."

Whether covering James Brown ("I'll Go Crazy"), interpreting blues standards ("Working Life Blues"), or rocking garage originals ("She's Coming Home"), the Blues Magoos had the magic touch of a garage band with psychedelic flair. Fans of the Seeds, Standells, Leaves and other bands that bridged frat rock to psychedelia should have this in their collection. Of all the reissues available, the 14-track CD on Repetoire is the one to get for sound quality and completeness, as it includes the album's original ten tracks, plus four singles versiona as bonuses. 4-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings. [©2007 redtunictroll at hotmail dot com]

This is the one to get.......2006-10-31

This psychedelipop classic is available in three forms, but don't be confused. This, the latest version, is absulutely the best. The sound, liner notes, and packaging are first-rate. Anyone familiar with releases on the Collectibles label can guess that the two-CDs-for-the-price-of-one edition (Lollipop/Comic Book) is not a real bargain. As for the older (2002)Repetoire version, well, it contains no extras, it's sound is not quite as good, it's packed in a standard crappy jewel case, and the liner notes are useless. Rolling Stone's Encyclopedia of Rock (~late 70's, I believe) wrote the Blues Magoos off as a flashy one trick pony that influenced no one. I guess they never considered a comparison to Pink Floyd's first album, which came a year later. The Magoos hit charted in the UK and you can bet Syd Barret payed attention since the Floyd was, at that time, playing more pop-oriented music. I'll add that, in the early 80s, I caught the Chesterfield Kings at DC's 9:30 club when they were a pretty new act. At that time (at least at that performance), they looked and sounded like a Blues Magoos tribute band. Enjoy this album. It's fun.

Average customer rating:

my first concert
60's psychedelica at its best
Pop, Garaje y Blues bañado en sicodelia

Psychedelic Lollipop
The Blues Magoos
Manufacturer: Repertoire
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000006ZEY
Release Date: 2002-06-11

Tracks:

(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet
Love Seems Doomed
Tobacco Road
Queen of My Nights
I'll Go Crazy
Gotta Get Away
Sometimes I Think About
One by One
Worried Life Blues
She's Coming Home

Album Description

Import reissue of 1966 debut album. Repertoire.

Customer Reviews:

my first concert .......2007-01-16

I was in the Lucas County children's home in Maumee Ohio when "We ain't got nothin yet" was a hit. Better, the band actually came to the home to perform for just us "homies" and a local radio station did a remote from our campus. The Magoos played in the gym and later gave away copies of the Psychedelic Lollipop lp ( I still have my rather beat up copy ) This was my first experince at a concert and remains one of my fondest memories, even after seeing many others including Zeppelin. Thinking of the effort made by the Blues Magoos to play for us still gets me emotional.
Oh, before I forget I would highly recommend this album, espicially when I think back and compare to what passed for music (Yummy, Yummy for example) at the time.

60's psychedelica at its best.......2004-05-30

Wow, this is a great album! I bought this record while in high school, living in Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota, that's ranger country people. Nothing much to do there, except listen to music. This album had been out of print for many years until recently released on cd. I have depended on reel to reel tapes to keep from losing track of this fine group altogether.

The Blues Magoos sounded like no one else in 1966, fresh and heavy with new psychedelic sounds and great vocal harmonies. "We ain't got nothin'yet" went on to be a big hit for the Magoos, but "She's coming home", "Queen of my nights" and the best version ever of "Tobacco Road" are my favorites on their first and best lp. If you like Aorta, early Country Joe & the Fish, Clear Light, Fever Tree or the Seeds you need this fine cd in your collection. Peace & Rock on

Pop, Garaje y Blues bañado en sicodelia.......2003-11-28

Los Blues Magoos no son el primer grupo sicodélico en Estados Undidos (el honor reace en los Byrds) pero en cuanto a discos, Psychedelic Lollipop, editado a fines del 66 podría considerarse uno de los primeros trabajos de la entonces incipiente sicodelia que se dispararía en todas direcciones y en todos los colores al año siguiente. Pero cuidado,los Blues Magoos no tienen mucho en común con los grupos de San Francisco, lo suyo es tomar distintos estilos y barnizarlos con tintes sicodelicos, especialmente con muchísimo organo. Así, (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet abre el album con 2 minutos de irresistible psycho-pop y en el mismo estilo se encuentra One By One. Love Seems Doomed y Queen Of My Nights son dos baladas con toques ácidos (organo y efectos), el blues se hace presente en Sometimes I Think About y Worried Life Blues, ambas con mucha presencia de teclados y en especial la última muy similar a los Animals. Las excelentes Gotta Get Away y She's Coming Home por su parte nos recuerdan que todavía estamos en 1966 y es el garaje quien domina la escena musical (aunque no los rankings). El cover de Tobacco Road es lo más extremo aquí. Comienza similar al de Nashville Teens pero hacia la mitad el tema se va desdibujando y pasa a ser una jam sicodélica muy lograda, por momentos cercana a las improvisaciones de los primeros Pink Floyd. Al escuchar Psychedelic Lollipop da la impresion de estar asistiendo al nacimiento de un estilo que se puede apreciar en su estado más primitivo e inocente, lejos de los excesos posteriores, aunque eso mismo puede extrañarse según donde se mire

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