WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND Part One LP REPRISE 1967 ITA orig SRI6247
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THE WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND
BOB MARKLEY, DAN HARRIS, SHAUN HARRIS, MICHAELL LLOYD
One of the more offbeat acts to emerge during the psychedelic era, the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band were certainly
eclectic and ambitious enough to live up to their slightly clumsy moniker, capable of jumping from graceful folk-rock to wailing
guitar freakouts to atonal, multilayered, avant-garde compositions at a moment's notice, but they also reflected a strongly
divided creative mindset, with Bob Markley, the lyricist and ostensive leader of the group,
on one side and the rest of the band on the other
"PART ONE"
1967 LP REPRISE RECORDS STEREOMONO SRI 6247
MADE IN ITALY ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING
3-COLOUR + STEAMBOAT LABEL
LAMINATED (on front) SINGLE SLEEVE + FLIPBACK (top & bottom)
This version: Part One (on front); Part 1 (on spine & labels)
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
LABEL: REPRISE - "3-COLOUR" + STEAMBOAT LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: SRI 6247
Catalog on labels: SRI 6247 (6 30647) / SRI 6247 (6 30648)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): RS 6247-A- 30647- 1D- (Stamped): 0
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): 30648 RS 6247 B 1-A (Stamped): 0
On labels: Reprise Records Made in Italy Tutti i Diritti Riservati
POP SERIES
? 1967 DR(boxed)
Prod. B. Markley e J. Bowen STEREOMONO
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Part 1
Rights Society: DR
On Front Sleeve: StereoMono
On Back Sleeve: Liner notes from 'Los Angeles Times' and 'Career Magazine'
Produced by Bob Markley and Jimmy Bowen
Distribuzione Messaggerie Musicali-Milano-Roma
Stampato in Italia su licenza Reprise Records, U.S.A. da Compagnia Generale del Disco - Milano
Stampa Reparto Grafico C.G.D
tracklisting
Side 1: SHIFTING SANDS - I WON'T HURT YOU - 1906
HELP, I'M A ROCK - WILL YOU WALK WITH ME
Side 2: TRANSPARENT DAY - LEYLA - HERE'S WHERE YOU BELONG
IF YOU WANT THIS LOVE - 'SCUSE ME, MISS ROSE - HIGH COIN
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RECORD VG+ (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ (please, see pictures and read above description)
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band's first album for Reprise was the best of the group's career, in large part because
it was the most song-oriented. It was still plenty weird, almost to the point of stylistic schizophrenia, but when you got down
to it, much of the record was comprised of fairly catchy songs in the neighborhood of two and three minutes. At times
they sounded like reasonably normal, fairly talented Byrds-like folk-rockers ("Transparent Day," P.F. Sloan's "
"Here's Where You Belong"); at others, a Kinks-like garage band ("If You Want This Love"); and at others,
a fey Baroque pop outfit (the orchestrated "Will You Walk With Me"). There was an undercurrent of unsettling weirdness
and even paranoia, though, in some cuts with otherwise pleasing tunes, like "Shifting Sands," with its sizzling distorted
guitars; "I Won't Hurt You," with its heartbeat bass and disconnected vocals; and "Leiyla," where a standard teen garage rocker
suddenly gets invaded by spoken dialog that seems to have been lifted from a vampire B-movie.
The cover of Frank Zappa's "Help, I'm a Rock" flung them into freakier pastures...(AllMusic)
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