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Psychedelic Lollipop is a 1967 album by the American garage rock band the Seeds. It is their fourth album and their first psychedelic album. The album was produced by Bob Wyld and Art Polhemus. The album features the hit song "(We Ain't Got) Nothing Yet" which was written by J.D. Loudermilk and produced by the Seeds. The song was originally recorded by the American rock band the Troggs in 1968. The album also features the hit song "Queen of My Nights" which was written by D.Blue and produced by the Seeds. The song was originally recorded by the American soul singer Queen in 1966. The album also features the hit song "One By One" which was written by the Seeds and produced by the Seeds. The album features the hit song "Gotta Get Away" which was written by the Seeds and produced by the Seeds. The album features the hit song "I'll Go Crazy" which was written by James Brown and produced by Mike Esposito. The album features the hit song "Check Out the Jangle Mayhem on Gotta Get Away" which was written by the Seeds and produced by the Seeds.
(We Ain't Got) Nothing Yet is an extraordinary and magical two
minutes and ten seconds which, like the Box Tops' The Letter, is
one of those little two-minute blasts of pop which brought the
transistor radio to life and which is the proverbial breath of
fresh air on oldies radio stations daring enough to play
psychedelia. Psychedelic Lollipop is the real thing, the band
looking on the LP cover like Captain Kirk abandoned them on some
forgotten Star Trek planet, the music inside authentic acid pop.
They stretch J.D. Loudermilk's Tobacco Road across four and a
half Seeds-style minutes, obliterating the Nashville Teens' 1964
hit recording in the process. D.Blue's Queen of My Nights may
have inspired the Troggs' 1968 hit Love Is All Around. The melody
might be different, but the intro music is identical to what Reg
Presley gave the world a couple of years after this. Producers Bob
Wyld and Art Polhemus do a great job of keeping the intensity up
across two sides of this album. James Brown's I'll Go Crazy gets
splashy garage rock sounds and Mike Esposito's guitar work cannot
be denied. Check out the jangle mayhem on Gotta Get Away.
According to the LP The History of Syracuse Music, Vol. 7, Esposito
performed in the Escorts with Felix Cavaliere, and that vibe from
the Rascals' rendition of Laurie Burton's I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My
Heart Anymore is the same type of authority these kids pour all
over Psychedelic Lollipop. One By One has that band going from
the garage group to the Beatles transition -- and what's so
disappointing is that they couldn't mature in this direction. Had
this lineup stuck around for the ABC albums, who knows what they
might have been capable of? Psychedelic Lollipop is a solid and
precious gem from the Nuggets vaults, the difference between this
and other one-hit artists being that you can play the entire album
repeatedly, quite an accomplishment coming from the era of the hit
single. That such a tremendous smash like (We Ain't Got) Nothin'
Yet kicks the whole thing off is just an added bonus. ~ Joe
Viglione
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