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Original 1966 first pressing in TRUE stereo with dynamic song separation

The great first album by the impact sound of the Music Machine who hit the lights with their 1966 garage punk nugget "Talk Talk" ...just the start...

The Music Machine (1965-1969) had a classic garage punk and psychedelic sound, headed by singer-songwriter Sean Bonniwell (and his infectious deep throated vocals). Based in Southern California, The Music Machine was one of the most intriguing fuzz guitar-wielding "garage"-type bands coming into prominence in that golden year of 1966 when psychedelic music was still raw and relentless, having not yet decayed into boring, meandering, endless blues jams of San Francisco bands or boring, meandering, endless pseudo-classical jams of progressive rock acts. The biggest Music Machine hit was the fierce 'Talk Talk', truly punk rock.
The Music Machine were forerunners in other ways, too. Preceding also gothic rock by some fifteen years, the band were uniformly dressed in black, wearing black gloves too (though curiously only in the right hand for each member), and even dyeing their moppish "beat" haircuts black. This sinister look was quite a sight to see among all the colourful groups of the day when hippie style, with its often-garish "day-glo" colours, was already emerging in the underground.

Some similarly gloomy overtones were also reflected in the band's music: the best psychedelic garage, more than flowers and mellow peace feelings of the hippies, always verged on the raw, gloomy feel of existential angst and even bad trip psychotic breakdown. With some extra luck and less music business shortcomings than eventually befell them, The Music Machine -- with Sean Bonniwell as their charismatic but enigmatic frontman with growling vocals and dark lyrics like Jim Morrison had, though admittedly with less "poetic" pretensions -- might finally have reached the same magnitude as The Doors did. If only...

Talk Talk

Trouble

Cherry Cherry

Taxman

Some Other Drum

Masculine Intuition

The People In Me

See See Rider

Wrong

96 Tears

Come On In

Hey Joe

I got me a complication
And it's an only child
Concernin' my reputation
As something more than wild
I know it serves me right
But I can't sleep at night
Have to hide my face
Or go some other play-ay-ay-ay-ay-ace

I won't cry out for justice
Admit that I was wrong
I'll stay in hibernation
'Til the talk subsides to gone
My social life's a dud
My name is really mud
I'm up to here in lies
Guess I'm down to size
To size

Can't seem to talk about
The things that bother me
Seems to be
What everybody has
Against me
Oh, oh, all right

Here's the situation
And how it really stands
I'm out of circulation
I've all but washed my hands
My social life's a dud
My name is really mud
I'm up to here in lies
Guess I'm down to size
To size

Talk talk Talk talk Talk talk Talk talk

CONDITION: The cover: Solid for collection, rated: solid collectible M- a TOP COPY = VERY clean all over ... NO delete marks, overall strong collection copy given the fact that most surviving copies show wear SO easily. There are no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ...retaining bright colors... 

The vinyl: all glossy clean M- over both sides, plays fantastic....collectible all the way ...clean "Original Sound" labels ...