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THE 13th FLOOR ELEVATORS - THE PSYCHEDELIC SOUNDS OF - NEW VINYL LP

You're Gonna Miss Me 2:24 Roller Coaster 5:00 Splash 1 (Now I'm Home) 3:50 Reverberation 2:46 Don't Fall Down 3:00 Fire Engine 3:22 Thru The Rhythm 3:05 You Don't Know 2:38 Kingdom Of Heaven 3:05 Monkey Island 2:38 Tried To Hide 2:43 
Deep in the heart of Texas is where you find the birth of one of the best albums of 1966.

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators's opening track, "You're Gonna Miss Me", is worth the price of the album alone. Following Roky Erickson's amazing howl over top of a guitar tone that created the blueprint for garage rock, The Elevators''s debut starts to gallup more inwards to the less explored parts of the brain. Tip-toeing around the scary parts of the psyche, within arms-length, yet never becoming an unwelcome guest inside your head.

The title and cover probably make it clear that this is a very 60's sounding album. It is not a cliched psych-rock LP full of odes to San Francisco and rainbows. It's better than that - more soulful and textured. Listen to any 5 seconds of it and that unmistakable 60's sound becomes obvious though. Lots of that bubbly, wobbly sounding guitar riffs, kooky lyrics, and trippy/moody playing that seems to be made to be listened to while enjoying some of your favourite jazz cigarettes (and probably the heavier stuff too.)

Bandleader Erikson is one of the great loons in rock-n-roll, and his story is a sad one, but he and his band seem to be having a ton of fun at this point.

A must for fans of 60's psych/pop...or music in general really.



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