(Prog-PsychRock) Pink Fairies - What a Bunch of Sweeties 1972, UK - UK, FLAC (image+.cue)

Pink Fairies - What a Bunch of Sweeties 1972, UK

Жанр: Prog-PsychRock
Год выпуска диска: UK
Производитель диска: 1972
Аудио кодек: FLAC
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Трэклист:
Paul Rudolph (guitar, vocals) (The Deviants, Hawkwind)
Duncan Sanderson (bass, vocals) (The Deviants)
Russell Hunter (drums) (The Deviants)

1 Prologue 1:24
2 Right On, Fight On 8:08
3 Portobello Shuffle 4:18
4 Marilyn 5:25
5 The Pigs of Uranus 3:19
6 Walk Don't Run 9:04
7 I Went Up, I Went Down 8:12
8 X-Ray 3:03
9 I Saw Her Standing There 3:02
Bonus tracks
10 Going Down[previously unreleased]5:35
11 Walk Don't Run [first version; previously unreleased] 10:35
Доп. информация: After an awesome psych-punk debut album Never Never Land, the Pink Fairies ditched the acid-addled style of tracks like "Heavenly Man", instead going for lengthier, riff mad jams.

The best-loved of the original Pink Fairies' three Polydor albums is also, contrarily, the lesser of them all. Recorded in 1972 at a time when the band's own reputation as hippie hell-raisers was already being eclipsed by the soaring Hawkwind, What a Bunch of Sweeties found the band realigning themselves with the twisted Americana rock sensibilities of the latter-day MC5, high on noise but, sadly, low on the blistering commitment that was the hallmark of their debut album. The loss of founding member Twink may or may not have contributed further to the collapse, although there is no denying that, in full instrumental overdrive, the three-piece (plus guests) incarnation of the group was at least as dramatic as its predecessor. Indeed, a nine-minute assault on the Ventures' "Walk Don't Run" rates among the finest Pink Fairies recordings of all time, while the bonus inclusion of an even longer version lends this reissue even greater gravitas. There's also a hot version of the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There," the twisted country opus "Pigs of Uranus," and, rounding off the bonus tracks, a grimy reinvention of Don Nix's "Goin' Down." Elsewhere, however, What a Bunch of Sweeties founders on too many weak ideas drawn for far too long and too much reliance on churning rock jam riffs that could have been peeled off by any half-competent festival bill-filler of the era -- a status that the Pink Fairies should never have been reduced to. by Dave Thompson