APPLE 1972 DAVID PEEL POP SMOKES DOPE LENNON Beatles
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SCARCE 1972 APPLE RECORDS ORIGINAL
STILL IN FACTORY SHRINK WRAPPER
David Peel & The Lower East Side
The POPE SMOKES DOPE
USA - APPLE RECORDS - SW 3391
****IN ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAP****
1972 FIRST PRESSING = PRODUCED BY JOHN LENNON
Includes the hard to find double sided photos and sing-along lyrics !
David Peel's first effort for Apple - an album entitled "The Pope Smokes Dope", which had immediately set off an International furor. The record was banned in nearly every country of the world, except for the United States, Canada and Japan. The controversy was a bit reminiscent of Lennon's offhanded remark that The Beatles were "more popular than Jesus Christ."
Jim Morrison:
"David Peel is the only man I've ever known - whose subconscious craziness is on par with mine!"
John Lennon once compared Peel to artist, Pablo Picasso. The former Beatle confided in Andy Warhol's "Interview" magazine, that "producing David Peel was the highest point in his life".
THE POPE SMOKES DOPE opens the album with the upbeat "Everybody's Smoking Marijuana" -- which starts out with a homage to Country Joe & the Fish -- and the vicious Merle Haggard/"Okie from Muskogee" parody "The Hippie from New York City," both as laugh-out-loud funny as they were back when, and leading into the catchy and delightful "Ballad of New York City." And those are merely the preludes to a phantasmagoria of countercultural images, chants, phrases, and outrages. This is arguably the finest piece of musical agitprop to emerge from the '60s counterculture (even if it took till 1972 to appear). Under John Lennon and Yoko Ono's production, Peel is presented without compromise with the most rudimentary of guitar and percussion accompaniment, yet it all holds together in a coherent and cohesive statement, musical and otherwise. It's funny where it should be and serious in all the right places, and the result is a listening experience that's ultimately laugh-provoking and savage. Some elements of it recall Lennon and Ono's Sometime in New York City, but overall the album more resembles the Country Joe & the Fish Rag Baby EPs from mid-'60s Berkeley, only with some more subtle edges and quietly sophisticated attributes. Perhaps the high point is "F Is Not a Dirty Word," in which Peel goes through the origins and usages of the word in question -- he's not only grammatically correct throughout but musically adept and engaging. And he almost tops himself with "The Birth Control Blues," an account of youthful ingenuity and improvisation concerning the subject at hand set in an early-'60s rock idiom -- specifically recalling "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" -- that evolves into a stunning spoken word piece with musical accompaniment. And after all of that, "The Pope Smokes Dope" -- which helped get this album banned in every country in the world except the United States, Canada, and Japan -- is almost anticlimactic, except that it's so outrageous a song and filled with such irreverent conceits that it carries listeners to the end successfully.
1. I'm A Runaway
2. Everybody's Smoking Marijuana
3. Hippie From New YorkK City
4. The Ballad Of New York City
5- The Ballad Of Bob Dylan
6. The Chicago Conspiracy
7. I'm Gonna Start Another Riot
8. McDonald's Farm
9. F Is Not A Dirty Word
10. The Birth Control Blues
11. The Hip Generation
12. The Pope Smokes Dope
CONDITION: The cover is MINT in original factory shrink wrap ... solid all over wih no problems...no bends, no writing and no split seams ... the double sided inner sleeve is MINT.
The vinyl plays much better than visible, VG(+); both sides are glossy with minor top surface small hair marks -- so play grade is in excellent audio zones and enjoyable ... both APPLE labels are clean
keeper copy!
A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTIBLES!
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EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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