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THE WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND

BOB MARKLEY, DAN HARRIS, SHAUN HARRIS

One of the more offbeat acts to emerge during the psychedelic era, the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band were certainly eclectic and ambitious enough to live up to their slightly clumsy moniker, capable of jumping from graceful folk-rock to wailing guitar freakouts to atonal, multilayered, avant-garde compositions at a moment's notice, but they also reflected a strongly divided creative mindset, with Bob Markley, the lyricist and ostensive leader of the group, on one side and the rest of the band on the other

"VOL.2"

<reissue, originally published in 1967>

LP     REPRISE RECORDS      RS 6270

MADE IN GREECE       1987 REPRESSING

SINGLE COVER

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Label Code: none

LABEL: REPRISE - TAN LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine) REPRISE RECORDS-6270  (rear) R 6270  RS 6270

Catalog on labels: RS 6270 (RS 6270 S A) / RS 6270 (RS 6270 S B)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): REP 6270A  MT410  W618

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): REP 6270B  MT410  W618

On labels: rim text reads "All rights......Made in Greece"

AEPI

℗ 1987 Mfd. by G.P.I. S.A.

Produced by Bob Markley and Jimmy Bowen

On Back Sleeve: Notes by Bob Markley

Performance Rights on All Selections: BMI

WEA Records S.A. Messogheion 319, HALANDRI - Mitropoleos 51 - THESSALONIKI

tracklisting

Side A: IN THE ARENA - SUPPOSE THEY GIVE A WAR AND NO ONE COMES

BUDDHA - SMELL OF INCENSE - OVERTURE-WCPAEB PART II

Side B: QUEEN NYMPHET - UNFREE CHILD - CARTE BLANCHE - DELICATE FAWN

TRACY HAD A HARD DAY SUNDAY

grading

RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, no strangers to weirdness on their prior 1967 album Part One, had still often stuck to relatively straightforward, concise, and pop-flavored songs on that LP. Here they stretched out into less structured, more avowedly psychedelic (and indeed experimental) territory, with mixed results. "Smell of Incense" (covered for a small hit by Southwest FOB) was sublime psych-pop. The prominent track on this album is probably the highly original Tracy Had A Hard Day Sunday. Unlike much of the other material on the album, this tune had considerable commercial appeal. A later 45, Smell Of Incense was taken from this album. It must have made quite an impression 'cos it was also recorded by The Abstracts on their LP, The Pawnbrokers and by Southwest F.O.B.. In fact, the single was only belatedly released a year after the album in response to the latter's hit version of the song...(AllMusic+Fuzz Acid & Flowers)