- Audio CD (20 Feb 2006)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Original recording remastered, Import
- Label: Airmail Japan
- ASIN: B000EOTDXW
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 824,419 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I first heard of this album about a year ago (mid 2005) and eventually got a copy of it a few months later. I'm amazed this band and this album particularly is'nt better known.
This is soft-psyche at it's best. I have rarely heard such interesting chord sequences and vocal harmonies in what is essentially pop music, with the possible exception of the wonderful Brian Wilson.
The guitar work is superb. Not the wild freak-out guitar of Hendrix or early Clapton in fact there are no solos on the album at all, but there is a lot of well thought out guitar interplay which is reminiscent of early Steve Howe when he was in Tomorrow. This also reminds me at times of The Pretty Things (S F Sorrow), The Idle Race, The Move, The Left Banke and occasionally early Floyd (Piper....).
There are a few VERY silly songs on this, The Remarkable Saga Of The Frozen Dog and Mrs Murphy's Budgerigar to name but two. The only song that gets a little bit too silly for me is The Intrepid Balloonist's Handbook, Volume One. But hey this was the late sixties what do you expect.
For me this platter is worth the price for the absolutely beautiful Mister Watchmaker (marvelous string arrangement) and Telegram Tuesday, a song with possibly the shortest verse ever, one line and you're straight into the chorus.
It's a shame that their second album Only For A Moment wasn't anywhere near as inspired with them sounding like a slightly heavy version of Wishbone Ash, didn't work for me.
WE ARE EVER SO CLEAN.... buy it, I did and never looked back.
This is soft-psyche at it's best. I have rarely heard such interesting chord sequences and vocal harmonies in what is essentially pop music, with the possible exception of the wonderful Brian Wilson.
The guitar work is superb. Not the wild freak-out guitar of Hendrix or early Clapton in fact there are no solos on the album at all, but there is a lot of well thought out guitar interplay which is reminiscent of early Steve Howe when he was in Tomorrow. This also reminds me at times of The Pretty Things (S F Sorrow), The Idle Race, The Move, The Left Banke and occasionally early Floyd (Piper....).
There are a few VERY silly songs on this, The Remarkable Saga Of The Frozen Dog and Mrs Murphy's Budgerigar to name but two. The only song that gets a little bit too silly for me is The Intrepid Balloonist's Handbook, Volume One. But hey this was the late sixties what do you expect.
For me this platter is worth the price for the absolutely beautiful Mister Watchmaker (marvelous string arrangement) and Telegram Tuesday, a song with possibly the shortest verse ever, one line and you're straight into the chorus.
It's a shame that their second album Only For A Moment wasn't anywhere near as inspired with them sounding like a slightly heavy version of Wishbone Ash, didn't work for me.
WE ARE EVER SO CLEAN.... buy it, I did and never looked back.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album and "If Only for a Moment" were gound breaking albums and paved the way for bands like Wishbone Ash and subsequently Thin Lizzy in the use of harmony twin-lead guitars. This band shaped my whole approach to guitar and I cannot believe that they are as relatively inaccessible as appear to be, especially as members of the band rose to quite prominent careers, eg Jim Cregan, Kevin Westlake, Pol Palmer. The industry should be proud of this formative contribution and shout it out loud! It shaped a landscape we now so easily take for granted. Back in those days this was unchartered territory.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Just a perfect psychedelic masterpiece!!!!!!!!
8 Sep 2005
Probably, this must be one of the most dificult psychedelic records to get on cd, but in the last week I finally bought a canadian edition with a fine sound, hélas!!! And, what can I say, it's just a perfect psychedelic masterpiece and I don't know why so underrated... In a top sixties classics, in my humble opinion, is top-ten record!!! Rich and bold arrangements, happy-face lyrics, sometimes a gloomy and shivering-skin guitar & strings (sublime "What's It For"), sometimes an excentric hautbois or tuba creating an eclectic atmosphere song, in a Sgt. Pepper's Beatles manner (delightful "Mister Watchmaker"), beautiful and sparkling love-songs ("Love Is" and "You", the last one with a groovy interplay guitar-percussion),a bit of Oscar Wilde, a bit of social analysis, what an attitude!!!!!!!! This first Blossom Toes should be a cult classic, so superb is this music!!! It's the kind of psychedelic record that make you feel so positive... a MASTERPIECE!!
(The second "If Only For a Moment" from 1969 is heavier but also perfect).
(The second "If Only For a Moment" from 1969 is heavier but also perfect).
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Blossom Toes..not your average Psych. group.
18 Nov 2005
The "We Are Ever So Clean" cd is really somthing out of the ordinary, but has a certian charm to it. The Blossom Toes are a group you actually have to appreciate, because they were not anything like there fellow UK Psych. groups, They had their own sound that when you first hear it you may not like, but it will grow on you the more you listen to it. It is a good CD, but I woulnd't recomend it for the average Psych. fan, if u are like me and wanna appreciate the oddities of the Psych. music world, this is a cd for you.
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