KOREAN BLACK EYES Burning Love + 3 GARAGE PSYCH EP HEAR

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40

WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS…

THE KOREAN BLACK EYES "Higher"/"Burning Love"/"Who's Making Love"/"Boo Booly Boo"

Original late 60's/early 70's EP on the Portuguese VITORIA label

PICTURE SLEEVE IN EXCELLENT SHAPE (stain on back, name written on back)

Vinyl:  Plays VG+

Wow, I don't know what to say here.  I mean, what CAN you say about these lovely young Korean babes, who clearly WANT to sound like rock stars, but have all the talent and musicianship of the Shaggs without their grasp of the language (and ya gotta admit, it was rather tenuous even with the Shaggs).  You know you're in for trouble right from the start when the girls are displaying their instruments on the cover of this rare EP like some kind of Asian Pink Floyd Ummagumma with t*ts, and one of the instruments is a friggin' saxophone!  Okay, so maybe live these girls can get away with it - let's face it, I'd get a massage from any of those girls in the back row - maybe not Roger Waters' mom kneeling in front but hey, with the lights out anything's possible.  On record, however, you can only play this for laughs - I mean, is it even possible that five Korean babes can come close to recreating the 60's psych-o funk sound of Sly and the Family Stone (or, "Sly & Family Stones" as it says on the back cover).  And what could they possibly do to "Elvis Presely"'s "Burning Love" that hasn't been done before?  Oh yeah, I forgot - give it a whole new spin courtesy of the language barrier.  Listen for yourself:

"Cold and mighty, be my ham-footed Dwighty,

Higher, higher, it's dough to my soul.

Poi, poi, poi, heat poi to set me higher,

My film is flaming, I got no two ways to go.

Your kiss has slipped me higher,

Your soy sauce has the power,

You love my morning scarlet pony lub."

All that talk of poi and ham and soy sauce's getting me hungry, so hey, strap on your bibs and let's dine on the Korean Black Eyes' second course, Johnnie Taylor's classic "Who's Making Ruv":

"All your bottles, yellow whammy

Let me cleave us some Gouda on ice

Gonna gonna gonna astronaut,

You gotta knee old Roddy twice.

Wally wah, chicken and a woman

Something you never dream of.

Who's making love to your old Reddy?"

There we go again.  Even more food.  Gouda cheese, chicken and Reddy Whip, something I'm sure I could find a use for on any of the girls in the band.  Still, despite (or maybe because of) the language mutilation, I know there's a market for this kind of crude real-people garage rock, and you can't deny the enthusiasm and ambition behind these ladies' music.  And besides, the rudimentary beats, thrashing drums and farting saxophone has all the charm of any halfway-decent mid-60's teen combo from Des Moines.  I mean, these girls are so accidentally punk, they even called themselves the Black Eyes forgodsake!  So yeah, if people are paying big bucks to hear the out-of-tune ramblings of Indonesia's Dara Puspita, then why not the equally thrilling sounds of these flare-legged full-body masseuses from Korea?  Time to get on board the Korean Black Eyes bandwagon.  It's dough to your soul, it's Gouda on ice, a yellow whammy of funk and garage and chicken and the very soy sauce of rock and roll.  And just look at 'em.  Why, they're adorable! 

 HEAR IT!

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NOW IT’S YOUR TURN…

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