Griffin ORIG US LP World’s filled with love EX ’68 Psyche Garage Sitar Pop ABC

Griffin

The world’s filled with love

Rare Original US LP released in 1968 on ABC Records. Cat: ABCS634.  

t would take some nerve today to release an album called “The World’s Filled With Love,” or just sheer ignorance, but back in 1968, you could get away with it.  And that’s just what this obscure flower power pop psych band did – this is Griffin – no relation to Merv - with their 1968 ABC label album, optimistically titled “The World’s Filled With Love.”  And anyone with a sweet tooth for the first two Strawberry Alarm Clock long players, or the mystical but still pop-centrific later Monkees albums, or anyone who still believes the w orld is filled with bunnies and pink cotton candy clouds, will find Griffin’s naïve but surprisingly trippy outlook on life pretty reassuring.  Hey, if George Harrison could honestly believe that, without going out of his door, he could know all things on earth, then don’t fault the kids in Griffin for summoning up their inner Kahlil Gibrans when they sing “Know thyself is just a phrase, till some have passed through the haze.  I’ve figured out the maze, in my other life.”  As Ravi Shankar’s dad, I’m guessing, since they surround it with the same kind of floaty, mystical sitar and tabla head zones that George did on his passages to India, all bellydancing rhythms, snakey sitar lines and om-like chanting background vocals.  I’ll take a thousand of these ambitious, “Within You Without You” electric sitar headswirlers over another bad bar band boogie track, and that’s in this life and any of my past lives. Elsewhere, the excellent “Magic Carpet Ride” is not a cover of the Steppenwolf karaoke bar perennial, but a tremendous popsike original, with upbeat tempo, moody minor keys and groovy hip lounge bar vocals definitely a close musical cousin to anything off the first Strawberry Alarm Clock albums.  Not quite soft pop, since the frenetic fast-paced rhythm could power any Nuggets band’s next garage single, and not quite garage either, since the lush and trippy vocal harmonies sound positively Beatlesque – this one straddles the genres like some tougher flower power anthem, and features a super groovy electric piano solo that beats the Doors’ “Riders on the Storm” by three full years.  They’re still straddling genres on the killer “I’m Movin’ On”, a great organ-led pop punker with the kind of wild freakout break that lifted the Count Five’s “Psychotic Reaction” to legendary garage punk status.  But again, the melody’s more pop-savvy than your average Nuggets nugget, so this comes off sounding more like a harder, trippier Monkees think “Circle Sky” from the soundtrack to Head. 

Tracks: The world’s filled with love/ Baby, won’t you come with me?/ Give all your loving to that man/ Small talk/ I’m takin’ the freeway/ I’m movin’ on/ Magic carpet ride/ The world’s filled with love/ I could never leave you/ In my other life/ Who want’s a girl like you/ Lovely blossom/ Murder in the cathedral/ The world’s filled with love.

There are a few light spindle marks on labels. Record has some light scuff marks and is in Excellent condition. Cover has ring wear, surface tears around edges and the start of some small seam splits along top edge and is in VG condition.

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