LOVERS 2000 Light Years From Home 1968 GERMAN STONES PSYCH COVER EP 45 LISTEN
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THE LOVERS "John Brown's Body"/"Dear Eloise"/"Daydream Believer"/"2,000 Light Years From Home"
Original 1968 7" EP on the German TEMPO label
PICTURE SLEEVE is in VG+ condition
Vinyl plays VG to VG+
Aw yeah, give these boys extra points for ambition! A lot of bands back in the late 60’s covered Rolling Stones songs, but how many picked space-age Satanic Majesties Request freakout “2000 Light Years From Home” for their choice of cover? That’s why you gotta give these German kids props for tackling it in 1968, when it was still relatively fresh in the younguns’ minds. They can’t replicate the original’s far-out sound effects or space cadet atmosphere, of course, but who had the budget to back then? Certainly not the Lovers, who take the song straight to the garage with this crude, lo-fi version, full of homemade sound effects lifted from well-worn copies of Saucerful of Secrets, and backing vocals that sound like the little munchkins on Syd Barrett’s “Scream Thy Last Scream.” Pretty cool, actually, if you could imagine Syd and Roger and Mick and Keith if they never made the big time and instead tooled around in Charlie’s garage making lo-fi psychedelic demos. Too bad they got the words for the last verse completely wrong, though, or perhaps that’s just more added charm.
Elsewhere on this rare EP, the Lovers tackle the Hollies’ big-budget popsike epic “Dear Eloise,” the Monkees’ “Daydream Believer”…and “John Brown’s Body” for whatever reason, all with the same lofty ambition and shoestring budget. They had two similar EPs after this, tackling such hits as “Green Tambourine,” “The Mighty Quinn,” “Judy In Disguise” and “The Legend of Xanadu.” Their foray into Satanic Majesties Request had got to be their bravest, however. Wish they would’ve tackled Days of Future Past.
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