H.P. Lovecraft
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Artist: H.P. Lovecraft
Label: Radioactive
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 827010001625
EAN: 0827010001625
ASIN: B0000DIGMT
Release Date: 2006-08-01 |
H.P. Lovecraft
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Tracks:
- Wayfaring Stranger
- Let's Get Together
- I've Been Wrong Before
- Drifter
- That's the Bag I'm In
- White Ship
- Country Boy and Bleeker Street
- Time Machine
- That's How Much I Love You, Baby (More or Less)
- Gloria Patria
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Album Description
This is one of the best second-division psychedelic albums, with strong material that shows the immediately identifiable Edwards-Michaels vocal tandem at its best. According to the notes the songs were largely inspired by novelist H.P. Lovecraft's 'macabre tales & poems of earth populated by another race.' It's more haunting than gloomy, though, with deft touches of folk, jazz, & horns. Originally released in 1967 it features 10 tracks. Radioactive.
Customer Reviews:
Maybe the best psychedelic rock album you have never heard.......2005-06-07
Your best bet is to pick up the CD that has both of the albums from the psychedelic rock group H.P. Lovecraft, but if you were only going to get one then their 1967 debut album would be the one. The group's second album has its moment, but it is not as focused as the first effort, which contains a nice blend of original compositions and covers of songs by the likes of Randy Newman ("I've Been Wrong Before") and Fred Neil ("That's the Bag I'm In" and "Country Boy and Bleeker Street"). The best song on this collection is "White Ship," written by band members George Edwards, Dave Michaels, and Tony Cavallari. One of the defining elements of the group was that Edwards and Michaels often sang dual vocals and while there are a couple of tracks you would do well to just program out of the mix when you play the album, this is certainly an above average album for the psychedelic rock genre (I certainly like H.P. Lovecraft a lot more than Vanilla Fudge).
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