Underground

Artist: The Electric Prunes
Label: Collector's Choice
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 617742013320
EAN: 0617742013320
ASIN: B00004W3KR

Release Date: 2000-10-10

Underground

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Tracks:

The Great Banana Hoax
Children Of Rain
Wind-Up Toys
Antique Doll
It's Not Fair
I Happen To Love You
Dr. Do-Good
I
Hideaway
Big City
Capt. Glory
Long Day's Flight
Everybody Knows You're Not In Love
You Never Had It Better

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Product Description

1. Great Banana Hoax, The
2. Children Of Rain
3. Wind-Up Toys
4. Antique Doll
5. It's Not Fair
6. I Happen To Love You
7. Dr. Do-Good
8. I
9. Hideaway
10. Big City
11. Capt. Glory
12. Long Day's Flight
13. Everybody Knows You're Not In Love - (bonus track)
14. You Never Had It Better - (bonus track)

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

I can hear the lyrics!.......2006-11-16

I'm glad that I ran across this CD. I have the original issue of the album, which was not mixed right. The vocals are barly audiable. There is an appology on the back cover for the "under nourished sounds". This is a great album, especialy now that I can hear what their singing!

The Best Music the Prunes ever did........2005-09-22

The Electric Prunes grow up on their second LP release.

Most fans of the 60's psych/punk genre include these guys 1st LP ('I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night') as an essential example of this type of music, but take the 2 singles off that album ('I Had too Much to Dream' and 'Get Me to the World on Time') and you have a pretty mediocre record.

What we have with 'Underground' is that absolute rarity... a genuine 60's Psych/Punk LP that you can listen to without having to skip tracks. The only other bands of the genre who managed that were the '13th Floor Elevators', 'The Music Machine' and possibly 'The Shadows of Knight', 'The Chocolate Watchband' and 'The Seeds'.

Listen with headphones to pick up the subtleties of David Hassingers wonderful stereo mix.

Best Tracks: The weird 'Great Banana Hoax', the spooky 'Antique Dolls', the sinister nursery rhyme 'Wind Up Toys' and the fantastic vocals on 'I Happen to Love You'.

Forget 'Mass in F Minor' - that's a studio concoction that involved more session musicians than band members (psychedelia by numbers for the tourists). 'Underground' is the Prunes lasting contribution to rock, and with their recent reformation it may finally get the recognition it always deserved.

Electric Prunes at their Best.......2005-08-13

If you liked I had too much to dream, I would highly recommend this album. The songs have beautiful harp-like sounds and excellent vocals. This is a must have for anyone who collects 60s music.

+1/2 -- Superb second LP of '60s garage psychedelia.......2005-06-30

Unlike their psychedelic contemporaries in San Francisco, the Electric Prunes retained their garage-punk sensibilities as they produced guitar-and-organ drenched psychedelia. This, their second LP, extends the variety of psych-pop heard on their debut, while honing a tighter and heavier sound. The album has great bass lines ("The Great Banana Hoax" and "Hideaway"), skewed country-blues ("It's Not Fair"), autoharp-stained sunshine pop ("Big City"), and plenty of the bluesy fuzz guitar and organ that marked the band's debut.

Additional highlights include a Seeds-like cover of the obscure Goffin & King tune, "I Happen to Love You," the lost-in-time "Antique Doll" (writ by the same pair of outside writers who penned "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night),") and the Thirteenth Floor Elevators-like "Long Day's Flight." Sundazed's crisply remastered stereo reissue adds a pair of bonus tracks, the single "Everybody Knows You're Not in Love" and its flip "You Never Had It Better." The B-side is the more ferocious rocker, but really, it's the album's tracks that make this worth buying.

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