er, just cut & paste that whole address.

This is kind of awesome as hippie messes go.

Wow

it just keeps giving

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

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

I think there are more problems than that.

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

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!

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

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

jackson griffith is such a tool.

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

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

“kind of”

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.

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

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.

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.

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!”.

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

happy mp3

this is so hot

yeah, these guys were feeling it

blooooooooooooddddddddddddyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

blooooooooooooooddddddddddddddyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy messsssssssssssssssssssssssss

why did you leave me here

toooo

diiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeee

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

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

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

major stars ??

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).

uh, KARYL Boddy.