Sold Date: October 20, 2015
Start Date: July 25, 2014
Final Price: $19.99 (USD)
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ARTIST: Various Artists
TITLE: Wavy Gravy: For Adult Enthusiasts
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: Beware
CATALOG #: BEWARE-001LP

RECORD CONDITION: NEW
JACKET CONDITION: NEW

  review by Cub Koda allmusic

If real-deal (not fake retro) mid-'60s garage band music is your thing, then you'll definitely want to track down this collection, loaded up with 16 tracks all dating from 1965 and 1966, or -- as the liner notes so acerbically put it -- "the prime years of acne-inspired caterwauling." From the opening riffs of the kickoff track, Angie & the New Raiders' "It's a Lie," all the key musical elements of this fascinating subgenre are firmly in place, with the out-of-tune fuzz guitars, Farfisa combo organ, tambourine, and teenage adolescent angst vocals spilling onto the magnetic tape in true "original punk rock" fashion. But surprisingly enough, for a bunch of teen combos doing their American-level best to be ////, there's a large amount of original material to sample here. Anywhere the laser beam falls is going to dredge up some incredibly teenage moment of high-school combo genius, and for fans of the sound and the style, you just simply can't go wrong adding this one to the collection. For evoking a period and a style, give this one all the stars you got.

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