Richard Twice baroque 60s psych a la Left Banke Beatles on Philips

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Artist:  Richard Twice 

Title :  Same

Numerical scale of cover cleanliness (10=Best):  7

Additional Info: Underrated baroque pop lp ... gets a rave from Aaron Milenski: "The world of record collecting is often random and hard to explain. A record shows up on someone’s want list one time in 1982 and for eternity certain groups of collectors must have it, no matter what they learn about it over time. There’s no other way of explaining why people will still pay $300 every time the Steve Drake Band album shows up for sale even though it has been long exposed that it’s just a collection of songs from a few easy-to-obtain albums by Babe Ruth, Be-Bop Deluxe, Nutz and Stackridge. Similarly, there are many cases where two albums of similar rarity and quality, records comparable in every possible way, remain in perpetuity separated only by value, one in the multi-hundred dollar range and another selling for $20 or $30 or less. There are a lot of relatively rare major label popsike albums that have become huge collectors’ items over time, but given the vagaries of the collector mindset there will always be others that are not. Among the best of these is the only album by Richard Twice (named because it’s a duo of guys named Richard), a record that is not only as solid a piece of late 60s/early 70s harmony guitar pop as you will ever hear, but also contains one of the most stunningly gorgeous baroque psych songs ever recorded. Indeed, “If I Knew You Were The One” is one of the most beautiful and majestic pop songs in any genre. When it appeared on the excellent Fading Yellow Volume 7 compilation, it blew everyone away, being the obvious standout among some pretty choice company. Nonetheless, the album from which it came still remains a virtual unknown, despite being jam packed with tremendous, wonderfully arranged songs that, by virtue of coming about two years behind the trend, managed to escape both the pop charts and collector mania."

Condition:  NM disc/ VG+ cover

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