EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND Wasa wasa Orig UK Harvest Prog LP
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Edgar Broughton Band
Wasa Wasa
Very Rare Original UK LP released on Harvest Records in 1969. 1st UK pressing on the Green label, comes in a Laminated Gatefold sleeve complete with the original Harvest Inner sleeve.
Matrix No's
Side One - SHVL 757 A-1
Side Two - SHVL 757 B-1
Establishing themselves as an unholy collision between the still-nascent Pink Fairies and the legendary Fugs, the debut album by British free-festival favorites the Edgar Broughton Band almost literally re-created the spirit of their natural territory -- a muddy field full of sunbaked hippies -- with eight more or less epic tracks that, though their inspiration has long become the stuff of ancient history, remain essential listening to all but the most jaded ears. All maniacal cackle and frenzied riffing, the band's first single, "Evil," and the brutal bellowing of "Love in the Rain" are the most conventional numbers in that they were certainly written as crowd-pleasing stompers in the days before "Out Demons Out" established itself as the Edgar Broughton Band's all-consuming anthem. More impressive, however, are the numbers which see the band stretching both their capabilities and their audience's expectations -- the lengthy opus "Dawn Crept Away," the evocatively titled "Death of an Electric Citizen," and, best of all, "American Boy Soldier." Ranking alongside Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" as British rock's finest contribution to the Vietnam War, it is a Mothers of Invention-esque piece that blends sneering spoken word with a delightfully doo wop-ish invocation of all that war really has to offer and all that its servants leave behind. "Shot down from my plane/Never be the same again/I was just 16 years old." As jaggedly metallic as it is theatrically ambitious, Wasa Wasa (an Eskimo phrase meaning "from far, far away") stands alongside early albums by the Fairies, the Deviants, and Hawkwind as a dramatic snapshot of a very special moment in time, as the whimsical hopefulness of the late '60s gave way to the chilled cynicism of the early '70s. And, while the band would certainly produce better songs over the next three years, they never again unleashed such a potent mood.
TRACKS ARE :-
Side One
1. Death of an Electric Citizen
2. American Boy Soldier
3. Why Can't Somebody Love Me
4. Neptune
5. Evil
Side Two
1. Crying
2. Love in The Rain
3. Dawn Crept Away
The sleeve is the best I've ever seen with clean crisp edges especially on the opening edge, perfect edges with no wear, see pictures.
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Released on 'Harvest Records' in 1969
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Catalogue No. SHVL 757
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Disc is in Ex ++ condition
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Sleeve is in Near Mint condition
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