LOVE DEPRESSION - Love Depression - LP 1968 Shadoks
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Original Erscheinungsjahr: 1968 Year originally published: 1968 Label: Shadoks Label: Shadoks Zustand: Neuware Condition: New Land: Venezuela Country: Venezuela Stil: Psychedelic Style: Psychedelic Herstellungsjahr: 2006 Date manufactured: 2006 Medium: LP Media: LP Gewicht.: 397 g Weight.: 397 g Artikelnr.: Shadoks 037 Cat. no.: Shadoks 037
Bemerkungen / Comments:
The members of the Love Depression were 17 and 18 years old when they
recorded this album in their native Venezuela in 1968. They were lovers
of rock music, and like many teenagers they started a band to pay
tribute to their idols. Unlike a lot of garage bands that have been
uncovered by a number of compilations, The Love Depression does not do
much to aspire to 'lost classic' status. With only one original song
that bows at the temple of Cream and Hendrix, and eleven covers of
various hits of the 1960's, The Love Depression is a strong contender
for the least essential release of the year. Their repitoire revolves
around the hits of their era (and much of classic rock radio today).
From 'Crossroads,' attributed to Robert Johnson in the credits yet
clearly more informed by Eric Clapton, to 'Stone Free,' it's a pretty
mundane ride through the jukebox. There are some surprises, like the
appearance of Otis Redding's 'Sweet Soul Music,' and some inexplicable
choices like Cream's 'Toad' complete with extra-long drum solo. It's not
exactly up to Ginger Baker standards. Take that however you wish. When
singer Jesus 'Torito' Toro throw himself into Procol Harum's 'Whiter
Shade of Pale,' it's difficult to sort through the mixed emotions that
the song provokes. On the one hand, there is the disappointment of
having to endure the tuneless rendition. On the other hand, I found
myself becoming angry. The only motivation for releasing this that I can
conceive of is so these tracks can be relegated to ironic mix tapes or
goofy soundtracks so everyone can laugh when he pushes through the lyric
about 'sissteen vestal birrrrgins' through his thick, Venezuelan accent.
Musically, they capture the song decently, but it's hardly anything
special. I don't know if it's the sense of earnestness in which they
perform 'Whiter Shade of Pale,' or the memory of the original song in my
mind, but by the song really did affect me. Not in a transcendent,
revelatory way that so-called lost classics should, but in a rather
gloomy way, skeptical about the potentially sneering motivations and
intentions behind the release. Their cringe inducing cover of Percy
Sledge's 'When a Man Loves a Woman' manages to produce an effect I like
to call 'sympathetic embarrassment,' the feeling you get when you are
embarrassed for the performer, but god bless them for getting up there
and trying it. These performances are usually followed by loud, yet
uneasy applause. The Love Depression sounds like a moderately talented
cover band whose singer does his best to work around those foreign
pronunciations and his unfortunate tendency to bleat and slur the words.
There's something to be said for culling the archives for ridiculous,
obscure records that serve no other purpose than to amuse modern tastes.
Usually they involve singing Christian puppets or overblown, pretentious
'what were they thinking' acts. The Love Depression seems like a bunch
of guys who just wanted to have fun playing their favorite songs, and
though they don't exactly stand the test of time, I don't think they
deserve excess ridicule. If you disagree, I have an old cassette of my
high school band doing a musical version of T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song
of J. Alfred Prufrock' that segues into 'Born Under a Band Sign' I'd be
willing to sell you. I honestly hope no one uncovers that in thirty
years. - Michael Patrick Brady
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