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An Electric Storm is justly renowned among techno boffins as one of the first albums to fuse pop and electronic music before the advent of the Moog synthesizer. But you don't have to be versed in the language of sine waves and oscillators to enjoy this mostly delightful and hugely inventive album. For although the White Noise were almost exclusively composed of virtuoso knob twiddlers and tape splicers moonlighting from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, luckily they were no slouches when it came to penning a decent tune. There's also anarchic humor at play on the manic "Here Come the Fleas," which contains more edits in its two minutes than the whole of Sgt. Pepper's.Yet it's the retro-futurist textures that still grab the ear most. These are sounds that will be familiar to anyone who knows the soundtrack of Forbidden Planet or the early series of Doctor Who, but they had never before been deployed in the service of pop music, nor have they since. And whereas the Moog would supplant all of these primitive, time-consuming techniques of sound generation and manipulation within the year, it also destroyed much of electronic music's spirit of adventure in the process. How could you boldly go where no man had gone before when your sound universe was suddenly overlaid by tram lines and route maps? So although most of the songs that make up the first half of An Electric Storm are pretty much your standard-issue polite British psychedelia (the somewhat embarrassing United States of America-style orgy of "My Game of Loving" aside), the way they're dressed up still sounds innovative decades later. Sometimes songs dissolve into bleeps, whooshes, and gurgles that hurtle between your speakers, but compared to the extended guitar and organ solos that were common currency at the time, they are the very essence of restraint. That said, restraint was put to the sword on the final two tracks, the 12-minute "The Visitations" and the seven-minute "The Black Mass: An Electric Storm in Hell." The former is a decidedly spooky "Leader of the Pack"-style drama with a supernatural twist. The biker, having departed this life, attempts to make one last attempt to cross over and console his grieving beloved, only to fall agonizingly short. If you can suspend your disbelief -- and persuade yourself that the biker's departing spirit doesn't sound like a cappuccino machine -- it's spine-tingling stuff that you won't dare listen to with the lights off. Which is more than can be said for the concluding track, a would-be satanic jam session botched together in a hurry to meet Island's suddenly imposed deadline.

180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL
FIRST AND FINAL STUDIO ALBUM BY BRITISH PSYCHEDELIC ROCK
BAND VELVETT FOGG

LIMITED EDITION OF 750 INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED COPIES ON
TRANSLUCENT GREEN & WHITE MARBLED VINYL

Vinyl with scuffs, hairlines and a couple of deeper marks. Cover with spine damage

Cover slightly yellowed.

Japanese pressing without OBI!

Seam split.

Sticker on label.
Record is close to VG+.
Cover with faint ring wear and seam split.

Record has surface marks and light scratches. Cover has ring wear. Orange RCA label.

Vinyl close to VG+

Vinyl with a couple of scuffs and hairlines. Cover with creasing

The teen girl falling in love with greasy biker melodrama that set The Shangri-Las on the scene was beaten to the core when English high society child Lynn Ripley -better known as Twinkle- took it to the next level on her own composition "Terry". Penned at the tender age of sixteen, Twinkle's lyrics were found so twisted and bad tasty that the song got the honour of being banned at the BBC thirteen years before the Sex Pistols ran the same luck with "God Save The Queen." A ban that, as you would have guessed, instead of hiding the song from the era's teenage record hunters made it even more coveted. Thus "Terry", Twinkle's first 45 issued on Decca in October 1964, became an instant top 5 hit in the UK and was released successfully worldwide as well as covered by many bands (like Claude François French version or Los Extraños cover sung in Spanish).

Tears in spines. Original US stereo album.

Red Translucent Vinyl.
Inlcludes booklet.
Box set is missing.
Original black printed inner sleeves included.

Stamp on label.

Heavenly, crystalline psychedelic sounds, in our favored stereo mix! Jazzy, acoustic guitars and stacked Association-like harmonies showcase Tiffany Shade’s gorgeous originals and a rendition of Love’s “Softly To Me.” Pressed on lavender vinyl!

After a chance meeting in a record store, this Cleveland band got their start on Upbeat!, a local teen dance show similar to American Bandstand. Though their album was cut in two days over the course of 2 eight hour sessions, their arrangements shine through what was a scattered recording session. “We really worked hard in the studio even though we didn’t have enough time to do all the things we wanted to do with music,” bassist Robb Murphy remembers.

“We were pretty excited. We just had no experience with that sort of thing. We had heard things but never had any experience. We were really babes in the woods. It was a terrific experience looking back on it. It was really a hell of a lot of fun, we loved the idea of being able to overdub even though we didn’t get to do too much of that, it was still fun. That was pretty high tech in those days, being able to lay down a couple of tracks with your voice.” guitarist Mike Barnes recalls.

Similar to the Bosstown sound (Orpheus, Ultimate Spinach), Tiffany Shade lean towards harmony-driven vocals that combine their clever pop sensibilities with a versatile showcase of keys, organ, and scintillescent guitars. After their album’s release in ‘68, they had the opportunity to open for Big Brother & Holding Co., but because of poor sales (and like many Mainstream artists) the band didn’t last and went their separate ways in ‘69.

Record has many hairlines and a few superficial scuffs.

close to NM. 2020 reissue.

Japanese pressing without obi | Faint foxing inside gatefold otherwise VG+, no seam splits, tears ...

Japanese pressing, no Obi.

Cavity-causing Cordovox-driven 1969 girl-group garage! A delightful romp through 'Oye Como Va,' 'Proud Mary,' 'Walkin' The Dog,' 'Son Of A Preacher Man,' their chicle sticky original title track, and so much more! Cordovox organ, trumpet, bass, drums, congas, and tambourine! Not a guitar in sight! Out of sight! Pressed on cloud white vinyl!

Shelley Pressing.

Small light scuffs on both sides.
Cover lamination is peeling.

Small writing inside gatefold.
OBI not included.

2012 reissue. Still sealed with hype sticker.

Just one word to say: Essential!

Still sealed with hype sticker. 2012 reissue.

Scranton Pressing.

Note: INCOMPLETE!
Disc 2 Side C&D only.
Record has some hairlines and a few superficial scratches.
Writing on label.
Ships in a brand new plain sleeve.

Numbered 1973 reissue: A151010. Japanese pressing without OBI. No pin-ups, with folded poster. Vinyl has a bit of foxing on the matrx runout and the cover has yellowing. Overall copy close to VG+.

Just one word to say: Essential!

Just one word to say: Essential!

Just one word to say: Essential!

2012 reissue on 180gr vinyl. Still sealed with hype sticker.

Just one word to say: Essential!

Just one word to say: Essential!

2012 reissue. Still sealed with hype sticker.

Just one word to say: Essential!

Still sealed with hype sticker. 2012 reissue. 180gr vinyl.

"Formed in 1961 when Dennis Wilson, the only Beach Boy to regularly visit the beach, asked his brother Brian to write a song about the sport of surfing. The Beach Boys reached number 75 in national charts with their first single (the resultant song 'Surfin'') and were immediately signed to a major label. Though many debut albums in the early '60s were mainly built around a few smash-hits, the Beach Boys' 1962 full length debut on Capitol (featuring such hits as 'Surfin' Safari,' '409' and their version of the Eddie Cochran classic 'Summertime Blues') remains one of the greatest first steps in American pop culture, and a mandatory chapter in the history of rock and roll."

Original US mono pressing. Small tear in bottom spine.

Promo copy. With OBI and insert. Tiny wear. Japanese reissue.

Taped spine. Santa Maria Pressing.

Japanese pressing without obi. Foxing inside gatefold and discoloration on back cover.

Cover with stains and yellowing.

A Timeless Reflection on America and Ourselves: Simon & Garfunkel’s Searching Bookends Searches and Asks Big Questions, Includes “Mrs. Robinson” and “A Hazy Shade of Winter”

Mastered on MoFi’s Renowned System and Limited to 4,000 Numbered Copies: Mobile Fidelity’s 180g SuperVinyl 33rpm LP Magnifies the Brilliance of the Original Recording Sessions

1/4" / 15 IPS analog copy to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe

Concept album, career-making moment, industry-defying creation, years-long pursuit of perfection: Simon and Garfunkel’s Bookends adheres to all those descriptions and more, the record at once a defining statement of the late 1960s and salient reflection on relationships, identity, society, and mortality whose enduring relevance attests to its exceptional merit. Ranked by countless sources as one of the greatest records of all time, the 1968 work transcends styles, trends, and generations.

Vinyl is close to NM. Sticker on cover. UK reissue.