Thor's Hammer If You Knew Parlophone Export 1966 45 Freakbeat
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Thor's Hammer
If You Knew / Love Enough
UK Parlophone export EP
1966
EX / EX (original OCS)
Side One: If You Knew
Side Two: Love Enough
Copious amounts of fuzz guitar, lashings of explosive feedback, snotty punk-ass vocals, absolutely berserk drumming and other bracing elements of this true monster.
MONSTER TIME!
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All the Parlophone tracks are incredible, "I Don't Care" is certainly one of thee nastiest garage numbers of the '60s. The drumming on all the EP cuts leaves Keith Moon in the dust!
Special mention should be made of the folkier numbers on the 45s as well. They are amazing both musically and lyrically, particularly coming from Icelandic teenagers! "Once" is about the most crushingly sad and poetic love song I've ever heard.
The second Parlophone export only 45, "If You Knew" is pure magic Nordic beat. Think if the Beatles hired The Who's rhythm section for the day. The drummer is unstoppable!
Somehow, "If You Knew" (originally recorded by them in their native tongue as "Er Tu Med") made it's way to Bermuda and was rewritten by garage legends The Savages as "He's A Man" on their hellishly rare Live & Wild LP. I think there were naval bases on both islands and maybe that's how it got there. It IS a small world after all!
"Love Enough" is in more of a melancholic Hollies-Zombies vein (though even that description is selling it short.) Cavernous 12-string guitars and absolutely gorgeous harmonies coupled with stunningly astute lyrics for a bunch of teenagers stuck in such a far flung outpost.
Thors Freakbeat Garage Punk Psych Mod
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