Fapardokly

Fapardokly Artist: Fapardokly
Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 090771605924
EAN: 0090771605924
ASIN: B000003GYO


Release Date: 1995-01-01

Fapardokly


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Tracks:

  1. Lila
  2. The Music Scene
  3. Sorry For Yourself
  4. Glass Chandlier
  5. Tomorrow's Girl
  6. Suzie Cryin'
  7. Mr. Clock
  8. Gone To Pot
  9. No Retreat
  10. Too Many Heartbreaks
  11. When I Get Home
  12. Super Market
  13. The War
  14. Yes I Love You
  15. Run Baby Run

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  1. Things
  2. Tomorrow
  3. Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll
  4. Mu Compilation
  5. The United States of America

Album Description

If ever a reissue could make Merrell Fankhauser a household name, this is it! This scarce classic is nothing less than a moody, mysterious, eclectic junket to all charted depots of the inner psyche, along with several stops completely off the map. Wonderful and intriguing in the best Sundazed style. Includes 3 bonus tracks 'The War', 'Yes I Love You' and 'Run Baby Run'. 1995.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars WAY overrated.......2004-03-02

It's about time that the myth about Merrell Fankhauser was exposed for the fraud it is. His career has been a series of mediocre records with little to recommend them. Actually, this one's worse than mediocre; it's downright awful. Bad songs, bad production, and weak imitations of Merseybeat, folk rock, and Roy Orbison. Sorry, but to say that Fapardokly is on the level of the Byrds is pretty laughable.

The only worthy effort he ever made was the first Mu album (also available on Sundazed) -- but then, it's a great record mostly because of Jeff Cotton's slide guitar playing, even though Merrell contributes songs. Buy that one and skip overrated crap like this.

3 out of 5 stars Not Consistent.......2004-01-12

This album is very stylistically uneven because it was recorded between the years of 1964 to 1967, I believe. The record was released in 1967 and Fankhauser followed with such albums as Things by H.M.S. Bounty and Mu (his true original masterpiece). Giving this album 3 stars is quite generous. There are a few genuine classics on this album though. Lila is excellent and would not be out of place on 5th Dimension by the Byrds. In addition, Super Market sounds like a distant cousin to Do You Wanna Be A Rock N Roll Star (also by the Byrds). The Music Scene is another gem that almost reminds one of Bob Dylan. Tomorrow's Girl and No Retreat are brooding Zombies-like numbers that are very solid. The rest of the album is very weak. Clock On The Wall and Glass Chandlier are cheesy, immature attempts at creating folk-psychedelia. Gone To Pot sounds a little too much like Eight Miles High but without vocals (well it has moans though). As for the rest, well we have weak ricky nelson type ballads and rockers that are disgraceful. I prefer the band and album Mu from Fankhausers later recorded output. I bought this album because it was recommended by Richard Unterberger in his Unknown Legends of rock music book. He considered this the great lost folk rock album. I'm here to dispell such notions. This album is nothing special. Unterberger also wrote in a most recent book that Dillard and Clark's first album was average and that the Byrd's Sweetheart Of The Rodeo is overrated (Both these records are country-rock milestones/masterpieces). Well I guess we should ignore his foolish statements and judgements because this record proves him wrong.

2 out of 5 stars Mishmash of every 60's band you've ever heard.......2002-10-24

A pretty motley collection of singles that Merrell Fankhauser was involved with in some way, stuck together in one package and called by the name of one of his bands. This could have just as easily (and more truthfully) been called "Merrell and the Exiles," or "Merrell: The Early Years."

Overall this is a very disjointed sounding record; production values vary widely from song to song, which is to be expected, because the songs were recorded at widely different times from one another, in different studios, and even with different bands.

That in itself doesn't account for the two star review; what really sinks this record is the general awfulness of the songs. The songs are mostly a mishmash of every popular 60's band you ever heard of, with very little musical innovation. The lyrics are absolutely horrible, loaded down with cliches' and easy rhymes, and all about "girls."

There were any number of bands across the United States who were writing songs like this in the 1960s, and they disappeared into obscurity. These songs are no better, and by comparison with many of the garage bands playing at the same time, Fapardokly a/k/a Merrell and the Exiles don't really come off any better. On some songs, they come off considerably worse by comparison. But most of the songs are amazingly average, pleasant enough but completely derivative and unmemorable. There are no "Pushin' Too Hards" or "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Nights" hidden here. Just very average (and sometimes not even that) singing and playing on some very average songs. The liner notes and photos of the bands verge on Spinal Tap territory.

This recording makes me wonder, frankly, what the big fuss over Merrell Fankhauser's music is all about. There's very little here that would make me come back to this CD to listen to it again. Painfully average.

4 out of 5 stars Viva Merrell Fankhauser!.......2000-03-31

I just wanted to add that the last writer was WAY off baseabout the album Merrell Fankhauser and the HMS Bounty-- it is one ofthe best albums of its era and fans of melodic pop-psych are well advised to check it out. I like this album too, but it is really more of a stepping stone towards the excellent BOUNTY record.

5 out of 5 stars

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