SHANES VI 1967 ORIGINAL SWEDISH MOD FREAKBEAT FUZZ PSYCH LP Sgt Pepper LISTEN

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THE SHANES "SHANES VI" LP

ORIGINAL 1967 LP ON THE SWEDISH COLUMBIA LABEL, STEREO SSX 1030

COVER IN VG++ SHAPE, NAMES WRITTEN ON BACK

VINYL PLAYS VG+ WITH SOME SURFACE

Here it is, the Shanes' own Sergeant Pepper, their psychedelic pop masterpiece, and not for nothing their final album.  They've partaken of the psych-o-delic hashpipe for this one, and everything they touch turns to freakbeat gold this time out.  Spanky & Our Gang never sounded cooler, believe it or not, when the Shanes ramp up the fuzz and bang out a groovy sunshine pop mind trip cover of "Sunday Will Never Be The Same."  They also fuzz-ify Bob Lind's classic "Elusive Butterfly" and turn it into something that Austin Powers would have no trouble shagging to.  There's also a spooky take on Gerry Marsden's "Without You," and a brilliant dramatic Brothers Gibb run-through of whoever wrote "Love Me, Please Love Me."  And "Away From You" is a bona fide fuzz-fueled freakbeat STORMER, with chunky Chocolate Soup drums and constantly buzzing wasp fuzz.  But the biggest stroke of full-blown head-blown psychedelic genius here is reserved for the band original, the awesome Carnaby Street Rubble brilliance of "My Mind Cries."  It's at that moment that you wish Shanes songwriter Kit Sundkvist would WRITE more and COVER less, even though his taste in covers is impeccable, and the band almost always IMPROVE on the originals.  Had they put together a whole album full of "Away From You"s and "My Mind Cries"s, we'd be talking about SHANES VI in the same reverent tones as the Outsiders CQ.  After all, their mentors in the Beatles stopped doing covers at this point.  But hey, this is still a great record, and easily their trippiest.  If only they'd stuck together to record the brilliant mindblower they were obviously heading for.  But if you believe in Quantum Physics and string theory, maybe they already did.

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