OUTSIDERS or Insiders ORIG 1966 DUTCH GARAGE PUNK PSYCH LP Zipps Bintangs LISTEN

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Various Artists "OUTSIDERS OR INSIDERS" LP

ORIGINAL 1966 LP on the Dutch CNR label, STEREO GA 5501

COVER in GOOD/VG shape - back has some mildew damage, corner cover starting to peel, sticker, staining (pics highlight all the defects)

VINYL is clean and shiny, plays VG+ with light crackle

It’s a catchy title, I’ll give ‘em that, but while the Outsiders are probably happy – they get only a third of the album but their name’s in the title like it’s their record – I can’t help but feel the Zipps, Bintangs and Cuby & the Blizzards must be feeling a little slighted at being all lumped together as the “Insiders.”  True, the Outsiders do steal the show here, but then again they usually do.  Both “Sun’s Going Down” and “You Mistreated Me” are killer cuts – the first a great crude snotty stab at Dutch freakbeat proto-psychedelia with twangy mod guitar and off-key wailing vocals;  the second a monster pop art mod freakbeat slasher set to a frenetic stop/start Bo Diddley runaway train rhythm and fitted with those killer Creation/Smoke-style slide ‘n’ slash pop art violin bow guitar shreds.  But the Bintangs keep up with the killer “Groovin’,” another slice of 300 mph full-speed-ahead adrenaline blooz garage punk as only the Dutch (and the Pretty Things) could bring, a locomotive-out-of-control pace and big blasts of harmonica like steamtrain whistles clearing the track ahead.  Their “Splendid Sight” is great too, but a different animal altogether.  It’s a trippier floaty early acid-riddled track with monklike backing chants and Jethro Toe flute, an early stab at psychedelia like the Yardbirds’ “Still I’m Sad” or something off Roger The Engineer.  The Zipps and Cuby’s Blizzards can’t quite keep up, and consequently get only 4 of the 12 tracks here.  But since both the Outsiders and the Bintangs both brought their A-games, they don’t really need to.  Outsiders or Insiders is a stronger album than the Outsiders’ first or anything the Insiders released on their own.  The girl screaming her brains out on the front cover knows the score.  This is Dutch freakbeat at its dreamiest.  Who needs the Beatles when you’ve got bad boys this good?

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