I CORVI Bang Bang + 3 1966 RARE ITALIAN MONSTER FUZZ GARAGE PSYCH 7" EP LISTEN

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I CORVI "Datemi Una Lacrima Per Piangere" / "Bang Bang" / "Un Ragazzo Di Strada" / "Che Notte Ragazzi"

Original 1966 7" EP on the Italian ARISTON label

PICTURE SLEEVE is in VG+ shape, nice, small name written on back

Vinyl plays VG to VG MINUS, crackly due to it being an EP, 1 skip on the weakest (by far) track

More bang bang for your buck here, smart shoppers, as Italy’s I Corvi (The Ravens) dropped this 4-song EP way way back in Italian history, circa 1966 if you wanna ask your dad what that was like.  Supposedly “Un Ragazzo Di Strada (A Street Kid)” was their big one, but it doesn’t do much for me to be honest, especially since it’s the only song here that doesn’t get smothered with some killer razor sharp fuzz guitar.  Much better is “Datemi Una Lacrima Per Piangere (Give Me A Tear To Cry)” which opens right up with some ear-shredding fuzz and never ever lets up.  This one’s a bona fide monster snotty garage punker, with big “Buzzsaw” fuzz piled on in bulldozer sized piles.  “Che Notte Ragazzi (That Night Boys)” is cool too, dramatic spoken word passages alternate with big Sergio Leone spaghetti western flamenco themes, while that razor sharp synapse-splitting fuzz just bullies its way in from time to time.  But as great as those two biggies are, you just gotta love the sheer audacity of a group of young Italian kids covering Cher’s “Bang Bang,” and then even more when they turn it into a moody garage punk burner with great echoplex guitar, rat-a-tat bass and urgent, damn near suicidal vocals.  The backup singers cry and moan along too, like the massed wailing of a thousand tortured spirits in the ether, and there’s even a dramatic spaghetti western spoken word soliloquy too!  I mean, these kids had some cojones, didn’t they?  Or however you say “cojones” in Italian.  I say Coglioni I Corvi.  The balls of ravens.  

HEAR IT!

UPDATE: SORRY, I NO LONGER SHIP TO ITALY DUE TO A CORRUPT POSTAL SYSTEM (THERE, NOT HERE).

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