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| 1. Radio Gnome |
| 2. You Can't Kill Me |
| 3. I've Been Stoned Before |
| 4. Mister Long Shanks |
| 5. O Mother I Am Your Fantasy |
| 6. Dynamite |
| 7. I Am Your Funeral |
| 8. Wet Cheese Delerium |
| 9. Squeezing Sponges Over Policemen's Heads |
| 10. Foghat Digs Holes In Space |
| 11. Tried So Hard |
| 12. Tropical Fish |
| 13. Selene |
| 14. Gnome The Second |
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This 1971 release was the first "real" Gong album (1970's MAGICK BROTHER was really Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth with friends, recorded before the band's official debut). It's a psychedelic/space-rock classic, hinting at the conceptual/musical heights reached by the forthcoming "Radio Gnome Trilogy" but characterised by harder-edged riffing and fewer ethereal moments (Steve Hillage and Tim Blake had not yet come aboard).
Allen's underground-oriented psycho-sexual, beatniklyrics are a winning combination of wisdom and whimsy, but it's the music that makes CAMEMBERT. Allen's patented "glissando guitar" style (a spacy, flowing sound achieved with delay effects and a slide) puts the band in early Pink Floyd territory, as do the long, atmospheric jams. There's also a distinct jazz influence in both Pip Pyle's bop-inspired drumming and Didier Malherbe's freaky sax. These elements combinedwith Gilli Smyth's ambient/erotic "space whisper" backing vocals and Allen's winning tunesmithery to create some of theleast pretentious art-rock ever heard.
Allen's underground-oriented psycho-sexual, beatniklyrics are a winning combination of wisdom and whimsy, but it's the music that makes CAMEMBERT. Allen's patented "glissando guitar" style (a spacy, flowing sound achieved with delay effects and a slide) puts the band in early Pink Floyd territory, as do the long, atmospheric jams. There's also a distinct jazz influence in both Pip Pyle's bop-inspired drumming and Didier Malherbe's freaky sax. These elements combinedwith Gilli Smyth's ambient/erotic "space whisper" backing vocals and Allen's winning tunesmithery to create some of theleast pretentious art-rock ever heard.
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