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| 1. (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet | |||
| 2. Love Seems Doomed | |||
| 3. Tabacco Road | |||
| 4. Queen Of My Nights | |||
| 5. I'll Go Crazy | |||
| 6. Gotta Get Away | |||
| 7. Sometimes I Think About | |||
| 8. One By One | |||
| 9. Worried Life Blues | |||
| 10. She's Coming Home | |||
| 11. Pipe Dream | |||
| 12. There's A Chance We Can Make It | |||
| 13. Life Is Just A Cher O' Bowlies | |||
| 14. Gloria | |||
| 15. Intermission | |||
| 16. Albert Common Is Dead | |||
| 17. Summer Is The Man | |||
| 18. Baby, I Want You | |||
| 19. Let's Get Together | |||
| 20. Take My Love | |||
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I first came across this band on one of the Nuggets compilations. With its strong verse-chorus structure and extended improvisational middle section, their track Tobacco Road was easily the best on the album. It marked Blues Magoos as very promising indeed. These two albums (collected together on one disk) certainly pay out on that promise. The second, Electric Comic Book, is one of the best garage psych albums I've heard; containing some extremely well penned tunes, complete with some of the most spacious instrumentation ever committed to tape. For me, Gloria is the best track. It's a whacked-out, trippy version of a Van Morrison song and it really rocks. Rush Hour is another highlight, but to be honest there's not a duff track on the whole album. The first album, psychedelic Lollipop, is almost as good, but without so many spacey bits. (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet and the afore-mentioned Tobacco Road are the stand outs. Two consistent psych classics for the price of one. Not bad at all!
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Blues Magoos-'Psychedelic Lollipop/Electric Comic Book'
13 Sep 2004
Format:Audio CD
Another great 2 lp's-on-one CD release brought to us by the Collectables label.Some of you may not remember much about the Blues Magoos.They were a Bronxe five piece that played some decent psychedelic garage rock that released six lp's from 1966-70,with the first three probably being their best work.This 2-on-1 includes two of those three albums.A total of 22 songs,starting off with their only hit,"We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet" along with many of their other decently penned tracks,like "Gotta Get Away","One By One","Pipe Dream",their outstanding six-minute cover of "Gloria"(one of the disc's best tracks) and "Let's Get Together".Aimed at fans and collectors of '60's psych/garage rock.Will appeal to fans of Shadows Of Knight,Strawberry Alarm Clock,The Creation,The Leaves and Count Five.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
They Made Psychedelia Fun
30 Jun 2001
Format:Audio CD
If ever a band made psychedelic music fun and knew how not to take it or themselves so seriously as to come forth as a gang of self-righteous twits, the Blues Magoos were they. They jerked one classic cut into the top 40, "(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet," and if you were there at the time and could resist that dopey organ-and-bass riff which hook the whole thing in the first place, you just didn't know how to have a good time. These first two albums of theirs were pretty basic: psychedelicised garage-band R and B with tongues partly in cheek and about as unpretentious a way with it as you could ask in the middle of the haze. Influential beyond their years, in its way, too: on the one hand, their style seems to have been a soft curlicue to the striking and (admit it) even more dopey-fun bubblegum craze of 1969-72 (imagine the like of the Ohio Express - whose Kasnetz-Katz stable practically forged a career out of squishing up the Magoos' organ riffs - as Blues Magoos Lite, and with none of the Magoos' romping guts); on the other hand, the Magoos - especially "Gotta Get Away," the flip of "Nothin' Yet" - also runs a direct line to the garage-punk revival of the late 1970s-early 1980s (the Fleshtones, for one, probably owed as much to the Blues Magoos as they seemed to owe to the like of the Yardbirds or the Standells).
The rest of these tracks mostly romp the same road. "Tobacco Road" has kept the band's legacy alive, too, by way of its inclusion on the ancient, original "Nuggets" compilation and subsequent remakes thereof. The Blues Magoos actually got semi-serious a couple of years later - they cut a surprisingly spry, classically funky R and B set, "Never Goin' Back To Georgia," long lost but well worth the hunt to find it. But it's these two albums which will end up defining their real legacy: For a couple of years at the crest of the psychedelic era, the Blues Magoos managed to remind people not to forget that rock and roll was also supposed to be fun.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Grotesquely underrated
27 Oct 2003
Format:Audio CD
While they may not have been as technically proficient or original as bands like Quicksilver Messenger Service or Vanilla Fudge, the Blues Magoos wrote some catchy psychadelic tunes...fully equipped to enhance your journey to the center of the mind (illegal substance-induced or otherwise), or just to sit back and enjoy, maybe whip out a few of those dated dance moves.
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