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Greetings from Planet Love
Backwards tracked stuff and trippy weirdness is the order of business here. This is freaky stuff. |
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Rainbow People
Beatles-like trippy, pop sensibilities drive this cut. It manages to rock out like crazy, too. |
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Love Tonight
Bouncy, pop oriented and pretty psychedelic, this is an entertaining piece. This feels more like The Beach Boys than it does The Beatles. |
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Chasing My Tail
Weird trippy effects are heard at the start of this. Tue cut has a warped, warbled effect at play. I can hear some Beatles, but perhaps also some early Bee Gees on this. It turns to dreamy pop styled psychedelia later in the track. |
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Swirl
A short cut, this has twisted, freaky circus music at its heart. It's sort of an interlude. |
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Tuba Rye and Will's Son / Balloon in the Sky
This is a dynamic and growing piece. It has plenty of 1960s pop music along with prog and psychedelia. It's one of the most intriguing and evocative songs on this album. |
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King of Showbiz
A more rocking song, this is all class. It really doesn't feel like any of the bands referenced before. It's a more mainstream pop rock song with perhaps a bit of a Todd Rundgren thing at play. |
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Whirl
This short instrumental piece is packed full of psychedelic weirdness. It has a little clip of Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz." |
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Freelove Baby
Here we get more Beatles-like sound in the form of rocking psychedelically tinged tune. This is fun stuff. The guitar soloing is classy, and the horns are a nice touch. There is a weird, drugged out party scene at the end. |
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Groovy Party at Jimmy's Magic Pad
This feels precisely like the image the title paints for me. It turns pretty sexual with a female voice mid-track. |
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It's Beautiful
Less than a minute long, this has a real atmospheric vibe early. It turns to more of a fully developed mellow song later. |
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Wink of the Third Eye
Leaning on weird trippiness, I think I hear spoken Beatles voices as sound clips in the backdrop at times. This is another psychedelic journey. |
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It Has No Eyes But Sight
This short interlude has trippy symphonic music and a spoken voice. It feels like something Spinal Tap might do. |
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Twirl
Symphonic, and feeling a little like "Eleanor Rigby," this also has some things that feel a bit like the "Psycho" soundtrack to me. It's a short instrumental. |
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Space and Time
Classy 1960s pop rock is on the menu here. This feels quite a bit like The Byrds to me. |
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Time Is Standing Still
Trippy, spacey sounds are on display as this gets going. That eventually gives way to more of a bouncy, pop sort of groove. There are definitely Beach Boys vibes here. There is a weird channel hopping thing at the end. |
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Ride the Snake
Here Gold channels The Doors pretty directly. It's solid. |
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Mr. Plastic Business Man
This seems to merge The Beatles with Bob Dylan. It's another intriguing and classy tune. |
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Ccosmicc Ccarnivall
Here we get another short trippy bit of psychedelia. |
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Tomorrow Drop Dead
I love this killer psychedelically drenched rocker. It's so much fun. It's one of my favorites here, and I really love some of the guitar work on this so much. Backwards tracked stuff is a great touch, too. This earns a parental advisory. It seems to end, but then a freaky, tripped out reprise comes up. It turns out to weird echoey space stuff after that ends. |
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