GENE CLARK NO OTHER { SEALED & NEW 180g VINYL }
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Description
Back at the turn of the 20th century (the so-called "American Century"), there was talk of the end of the American frontier, the wild blue yonder that set America apart and impelled everyone to seek their home there. Ever since that moment, there has been a search for the artistic experience which will bring back that cosmic consciousness of the land which has been lost. The great American novel. The great American film.
While there are many candidates for the two aforementioned art forms and perhaps they have still not appeared, the great American album does exist.
Its title is apt. It is No Other from native Missouri son Gene Clark.
No Other is the hidden gem of that decade of malaise (the 1970s) when the dreams of the 1960s faded.
Not only is No Other an artifact of this time which still haunts America, it is also a nostalgic looking back to an America which might never have existed in the first place. It is a paean to a lost age of innocence, recorded in a genre-defying and spiritual rush (the same rush as Astral Weeks, Spirit of Eden, Lazer Guided Melodies, A Storm in Heaven).
What makes No Other so powerful is not only its much maligned "louder than God" Thomas Jefferson Kaye transcending the Phil Spector Wall-of-Sound production, its top session musicians of L.A., or its vast soulful choir of female backup vocals.
It is Gene Clark laying his soul bare. A misunderstood Missouri man who briefly experienced the rock star fame of youth (the Byrds) and then retreated from the limelight, who was always dying from physical pain and abuse of his body through alcohol and other substances which could free him from this mortal coil.
From the celestial country music of opener "Life's Greatest Fool" with its wise and world-weary observations "Formed out of pleasure/Chiseled by pain" & "Children laugh and run away/While others look into the darkness of the day" to the poetic and poignant closer "Lady of the North", containing one of the greatest guitar solos of all time at the end, soaring heavenward straight to the eye of God, this truly is the great American album.
HEAD HERITAGE - 2011
ALL OUR VINYL STOCK ARE BRAND NEW COPIES, SEALED AND IN MINT CONDITION.
The LP will be packed in secure vinyl packaging and shipped on the day of your order if before 4pm (Monday – Friday). Any orders after 4pm will be shipped the following day.
Note if bought on a Friday after 4pm, item will be shipped on the following Monday.
SHIPPING TIMES
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REFUNDS
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