Few psychedelic bands are able to hold a sugar cube to the 13th Floor Elevators. Formed by Austin University undergraduate Tommy Hall who despite not being a musician had a clear vision of the route the band should. Tommy took an already successful local Texan band The Lingsmen and recruited ... Read review
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Few psychedelic bands are able to hold a sugar cube to the 13th Floor Elevators. Formed by Austin University undergraduate Tommy Hall who despite not being a musician had a clear vision of the route the band should. Tommy took an already successful local Texan band The Lingsmen and recruited Rocky Ericsson from the spades onto vocals to form the 13th Floor Elevators. The band were serious about psychedelic mind expansion, and Rocky eventually paid ... ...from Rocky. Beneath all the psychedelic gleam there is a great band here from the initial haunted yelping of Rocky on the punk rhythm and blues of "you're gonna miss me" onto the haunted surf guitar picking of "Roller Coaster" during which rocky sounds truly tortured, and the tenderness of the country gospel "Kingdom of Heaven" there are already glimpses of Rocky's Genus.
Few psychedelic bands are able to hold a sugar cube to the 13th Floor Elevators. Formed by Austin University undergraduate Tommy Hall who despite not being a musician had a clear vision of the route the band should. Tommy took an already successful local Texan band The Lingsmen and recruited Rocky Ericsson from the spades onto vocals to form the 13th Floor Elevators. The band were serious about psychedelic mind expansion, and Rocky eventually paid a fairly high price for this, spending years in a Texan asylum for the criminally insane, after pleading guilty to Marijuana possession.
Anyway onto the music Tommy Hall took on the role as lyricist and band guru, he also played the Electric Jug which created a sort of bubbling sound in the background of the music. This album has its feet fairly squarely in the garage rock of the time with the odd folky influence from Rocky. Beneath all the psychedelic gleam there is a great band here from the initial haunted yelping of Rocky on the punk rhythm and blues of "you're gonna miss me" onto the haunted surf guitar picking of "Roller Coaster" during which rocky sounds truly tortured, and the tenderness of the country gospel "Kingdom of Heaven" there are already glimpses of Rocky's Genus.
It is not just Rocky that shines here Stacy Sutherland is one of the most underrated guitarists in the history of psychedelic rock his guitar work reverberates around the songs adding layers of texture to the music in a truly psychedelic fashion, the haunted surf line on "Through the Rhythm" sends shivers up and down as it stalks through the song.
The recording quality at times on this CD lets things down and a proper remastering is well overdue. It also contains 10 bonus tracks 8 of which are almost unlistenable live recordings, due to the quality of the mastering not the quality of playing. However it does includes 2 songs by Rocky's previous band The Spades, the country folky "Wee Sell Soul" and their version of "You're Gonna Miss Me" which makes up for the other eight.
Considering that this album was released in 1966 it is way ahead of it's time and possibly the first of it's kind. Their influence still reverborates through music today with Robert Plant , Primal Scream, R.E.M and the Butthole Rurfers all cite them as an influence.
However I am going to recommend that you do not buy it for all it's brilliance it is unlikely that Rocky and the rest of the band are going to get any cash from it, and considering that the TrustRocky fund is approving a whole load of properly remastered Rocky Erikson releases this year then it would be better for him if you get those instead.
Track List:-
1. You're Gonna Miss Me 2. Rollercoaster 3. Splash 1 4. Reverberation (Doubt) 5. Don't Fall Down 6. Fire Engine 7. Thru The Rhythm 8. You Don't Know 9. Kingdom Of Heaven 10. Monkey Island 11. Tried To Hide 12. Everybody Needs Someone To Love (bonus track) 13. Before You Accuse Me (bonus track) 14. I'm Gonna Love You Too (bonus track) 15. You Really Got Me (bonus track) 16. Roll Over Beethoven (bonus track) 17. Word (bonus track) 18. Gloria (bonus track) 19. She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own) (bonus track) 20. We Sell Soul (bonus track) - Spades 21. You're Gonna Miss Me (bonus track) - Spades
Champ666 12.05.2005
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Product details
Title
Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators, The [Digipak]
Performer
13th Floor Elevators (The)
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Psychedelic
Release Date
24/01/2005
Recomended Retail Price
8.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1966
Label / Distributor
Snapper / Snapper Music/Proper
Engineer
Bob Sullivan
Producer
Lelan Rogers, Gordon Bynum
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
803415122523
Catalogue Number
SNAP 225CD
Additional notes
Album Notes
13th Floor Elevators includes: Roky Erickson, Tommy Hall, Stacy Sutherland. Recorded at Summit Sound Studio, Dallas, Texas. Includes original release liner notes by Lelan Rogers. The 13th Floor Elevators might have been remembered simply as one-hit wonder of the '60s--the Texas equivalent of the Count 5, for example--had it not been for two things. First, they were the only rock band in history to feature a guy playing a continuous obligato on electric jug, which added a deeply weird element to even their most straightforward three-chord rockers. Second, and perhaps more importantly, they were fronted by a genuine howling weirdo and cult figure-to-be, the incomparable Roky Erickson. Roky, who took more acid trips than Jerry Garcia had hot meals, was nonetheless a gifted songwriter who sang every word (however bizarre) as if his life depended on it. This debut album--reputedly the first rock album on which the word 'psychedelic' appears-- features the band's sole national hit, the garage punk classic "You're Gonna Miss Me." The other material here is nearly as good, however, including the Stones-y "Reverberation" and the oft-covered "Fire Engine."
Titles on disc 1
1.
You're Gonna Miss Me
2.
Rollercoaster
3.
Splash 1
4.
Reverberation (Doubt)
5.
Don't Fall Down
6.
Fire Engine
7.
Thru The Rhythm
8.
You Don't Know
9.
Kingdom Of Heaven
10.
Monkey Island
11.
Tried To Hide
12.
Everybody Needs Someone To Love (bonus track)
13.
Before You Accuse Me (bonus track)
14.
I'm Gonna Love You Too (bonus track)
15.
You Really Got Me (bonus track)
16.
Roll Over Beethoven (bonus track)
17.
Word (bonus track)
18.
Gloria (bonus track)
19.
She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own) (bonus track)
20.
We Sell Soul (bonus track) - Spades
21.
You're Gonna Miss Me (bonus track) - Spades
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