Evil Hoodoo

Evil Hoodoo Artist: The Seeds
Label: Drop Out Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5015683108221
ASIN: B0000073OK


Release Date: 1995-12-12

Evil Hoodoo


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Tracks:

  1. March of the Flower Children
  2. Wind Blows Your Hair
  3. Tripmaker
  4. Try to Understand
  5. Evil Hoodoo
  6. Chocolate River
  7. Pushing Too Hard
  8. Fallin' off the Edge (Of My Mind)
  9. Mr. Farmer
  10. Up in Her Room
  11. Can't Seem to Make You Mine
  12. Pictures and Designs
  13. Flower Lady and Her Assistant
  14. Rollin' Machine
  15. Out of the Question
  16. Satisfy You

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Seeds - 'Evil Hoodoo' (Drop Out).......2006-12-03

Here's one Seeds compilation I've never seen until here recently. Good sixteen track retrospect of the garage / psych band's short-lived career. Tunes I liked best were "The Wind Blows Your Hair",the jamming "Chocolate River","Pushing Too Hard" and "Up In Her Room". Could swear I heard that Seed's main man Sky Saxon had made a comeback with a revamped line-up of the Seeds and toured with Electric Prunes (was it?). Don't you just love reunions of such? A should-have.

4 out of 5 stars The Seeds: Way more than just a few songs on Nuggets!.......2005-03-25

This compilation wisely eschews a chronological running order for a mix-and-match sequencing of the Seeds' various singles, album tracks and rarities. I say wisely because this band had two distinct phases in only a couple of years; first as proto garage-rock punks, then as a psychedelic "head" band. These two styles, though they happened in a remarkably short time in real life, might make for a CD that would seem more like two halves than a whole. Therefore, I really like the shifting songs and styles on this compilation from the late-80's on DropOut.

The Seeds' earlier 3-chord punk assaults have often been criticised as the hit "Pushin' Too Hard" re-recorded over and over. I've never really agreed with that somewhat lazy assessment, since if they mean 3-chords, raw performances and a ton of attitude, that pretty much describes garage rock as a whole. Still, there's a certain sameness of sound that makes the psyche era stuff a welcome change-up.

Being a single CD comp, Evil Hoodoo spares us any material from the horrible "blues" and "live" albums, but hasn't enough room for any of the later material from Sky Saxon and the New Seeds or even enough room for the entire "Up In Her Room," the band's penultimate garage/punk/psyche/sludge freak-out. It's presented here, regrettably, in edited form.

My favourites: the classic singles "Pushin' Too Hard" and "Can't Seem to Make You Mine." The aforementioned "Up in Her Room" despite the edit (grrrr) plus "Chocolate River," "Pictures and Designs" and the glorious and perfectly titled "Evil Hoodoo."

Music Album:

  1. Huey "Piano" Smith's Rock & Roll Revival ~ Huey "Piano" Smith
  2. Rock n' Roll Reunion: Class of 68 ~ Various Artists
  3. Free ~ Free
  4. Dancing With the Antichrist ~ Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids
  5. Light Fuse, Get Away ~ Widespread Panic
  6. The Negatives/Etc. ~ Lloyd Cole
  7. Cockles & Mussels: The Very Best of the Radiators ~ The Radiators
  8. Totally Exploited/Live Lewd Lust ~ The Exploited
  9. Midnight Moonlight ~ The New Riders of the Purple Sage
  10. Dig In ~ Lenny Kravitz

Music Album

Music Album

Music

Reinforcements ~ Brian Auger's Oblivion Express

Closer to Home ~ Courtney Pine

Jacquet a La Carte ~ Illinois Jacquet

TOM CHAFFEE & the Saturnalia

Molinos ~ Paperboys

I Love MPB ~ Quarteto em Cy & MPB-4

Super Exitos ~ Puerto Rican Power Orchestra

Con La Orquesta Riverside ~ Tito Gomez

E O Show, Vol. 2 ~ Amado Batista

O Melhor De Delley & Doryval: Grandes Sucessos ~ Delley & Doryval