Okay, We'll See If This Works. My First Attempt To Transfer Vinyl To MP3. This One Is For Tim & El Sabor. I promised Them Godawful Hippie Acid Nightmare And Here It Is. I Hope.

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It's only 17 minutes long but it feels much much longer(!!). One of the worst hippie messes i've ever heard. womb's "happy egotist" from their self-titled debut.

http://dutchtoenglish.com/womb - the happy egotist ('69).mp3

― scott seward (121212), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 03:39 (seventeen years ago) link

er, just cut & paste that whole address.

― scott seward (121212), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link

This is kind of awesome as hippie messes go.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow

it just keeps giving

― milton parker (milton parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 04:25 (seventeen years ago) link

4:50 - 8:05 thereabouts = birth of no-wave?

― amon (amon), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Really the only major problem with this is the strutting hippie dude singer dork.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I think there are more problems than that.

― Tim Ellison is number one proponent of Beatle!!!Mania!!! on nu-ILX (tim ellison), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, fine, the female singer isn't Mariska (RIP) and the male singer isn't Kim Fowley in Outrageous! mode.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks, Scott!

None of the tracks are as extreme as this, but that Tarantula album on A&M I mentioned on the worst psychedelic albums thread is kind of comparable to this, I think. Had to have been intentionally bad? Intentional badness as psychedelic weirdness method? The Tarantula album has such tracks as "Electric Guru," "T.V. Repairman," and "Peach Fuzz and Peppermints." They have flute, too!

― Tim Ellison is number one proponent of Beatle!!!Mania!!! on nu-ILX (tim ellison), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link

this is ruling. and i'm only six minutes in.

― GAWD PVNCH (yournullfame), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 07:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks, Scott! It is truly awesome. That skronking in the middle section sounds like some long-lost SST freakout, like Saccharine Trust.

Smarmy review:
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=oid%3A3374

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

jackson griffith is such a tool.

somebody tape him "tie your boots tight" by the $27 snap-on face.

― GAWD PVNCH (yournullfame), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

This not bad! Could do without the long outro part, kind loses its momentum in the last couple of minutes

― tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

"kind of"

― tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, i had no idea there was a whole article on the song!!! it's weird too, cuz i've thought about writing something about it.

― scott seward (121212), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Do it! I'm most certain yours will be better than Herr Griffith's.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't know, i don't mind that thing so much. i don't know that dude. it's pretty accurate! i've never heard womb's second album. i figured it hat to be kind of a letdown after hearing the first album. what could top it? the first side of the womb album is actually pretty cool in parts. some skronkiness involved. i never play it though. i always go straight for the showstopper.

― scott seward (121212), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

He doesn't accurately convey the magic of "The Happy Egotist", though. Yeah, on some level it's "bad", but on some other fucked-up level it's really really good.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

but isn't that what he's trying to say with the ed wood talk? it IS kinda like that.

when i bought this record at a flea market i asked my friend bob dickie from the strapping fieldhands if he had heard of it - i hadn't listened to it yet - and he said "oh my god, that album is terrible!!" and i said something like, aw, that's to bad, i thought maybe it was some decent psych and he said "No, no, but it's great, you have to hear it!".

― scott seward (121212), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

posting the mp3 again as something I can right-click download:

happy mp3

― milton parker (milton parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

this is so hot

― paresthesia hilton (get bent), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, these guys were feeling it

― milton parker (milton parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

blooooooooooooddddddddddddyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
blooooooooooooooddddddddddddddyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy messsssssssssssssssssssssssss

― paresthesia hilton (get bent), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

why did you leave me here
toooo
diiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeee

― paresthesia hilton (get bent), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

you left me here alone to die in a bloody mess
you left me all alone to die to die to die
I'm going to die, you know, I'm going to die

― milton parker (milton parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I might have located a copy of their second album. Jinkies!

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i found the entire album on a blog but both sides seem to be corrupt.

― GAWD PVNCH (yournullfame), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link

major stars ??

― jeffrey / secret eye (jeffrey secret eye), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

So, the 2nd Womb album, Overdub. Some really nice moments, I'm convinced they'd be remembered more fondly if their lyrics/vocals weren't so damn silly. "Two Levels" is like Beefheart-lite with its herky-jerky chromatic horns and harmonica, and "Flush" is hushed and creepy (until you realize Laryl Boddy is singing "going to, going to, my first prom, my first prom..." - I don't know, maybe that is really creepy).

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/womb_overdub.jpg

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 7 December 2006 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link

uh, KARYL Boddy.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 7 December 2006 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link

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