LOCOMOTIVE We Are Everything You See LP ZAP 1970 UKre+bonus ZAP5 HECKSTALL-SMITH
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LOCOMOTIVE
This Birmingham-based band included Chris Wood who was later a founder member of Traffic.
They enjoyed a Top Thirty hit at the time with their ska-styled Rudi's In Love. Nowadays their rare album attracts interest
from connoisseurs of progressive rock. Far and away the best track on it is Mr. Armageddon, a stunningly powerful
slice of doomy psychedelia with brass (!), which deserved far more success than it achieved when issued as a 45.
The album, produced by Gus Dudgeon, also includes versions of Coming Down and Love Song For the Dead Ché
(songs written by Joseph Byrd and performed with his band The United States Of America on their album).
Certainly an album well worth investigating...
"WE ARE EVERYTHING YOU SEE"<reissue, originally published in 1970>
LP ZAP RECORDS ZAP 5
MADE IN ENGLAND 1988 REPRESSING
WITH 2 BONUS TRACKS [originally published as 7" on Parlophone R5758 and R5801 in 1969]
SINGLE SLEEVE
Barcode and Other IdentifiersBarcode: none
LABEL: ZAP - WHITE LABEL w/LOGO on TOP LEFT - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: ZAP 5
Catalog on labels: ZAP 5
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): ZAP 5 A1 PR-P- LYN 21717
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): ZAP 5 B1 PR-P LYN 21718
Other / Runout (on both sides, Stamped): Penthouse
On labels: ? 1970 *? 1969 Original Sound Recordings Made By EMI Records Inc.
Original Album PCS 7093
All rights........prohibited
Rights Society / Publishing: MCPS, April Music
On Back Sleeve: Produced by Gus Dudgeon of Tuesday Productions in association with Tony Hall Enterprises
Recorded at E.M.I. - Abbey Road
? 1970 *? 1969 Original Sound Recordings made by EMI Records Inc.
Original album issued on Parlophone PCS 7093. © 1988 ZAP! Records.
Made in England
Manufactured & Distributed by Revolver via The Cartel
tracklisting
Side A: OVERTURE - MR. ARMAGEDDON - NOW IS THE END / THE END IS WHEN
LAY ME DOWN GENTLY - NOBODY ASKED YOU TO COME
YOU MUST BE JOKING - THERE'S GOT TO BE A WAY*
Side B: A DAY IN SHINING ARMOUR - THE LOVES OF AUGUSTUS ABBEY (Part One)RAIN - THE LOVE OF AUGUSTUS ABBEY (Part Two) a) Coming Down b) Love Song For The Dead Che
THE LOVES OF AUGUSTUS ABBEY (Part Three) - TIMES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS
I'M NEVER GONNA LET YOU GO*
*bonus tracks [originally published as 7" on Parlophone R5758 and R5801 in 1969]
grading
RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Locomotive's only album was an oddball piece of second-tier British psychedelia, stuck somewhere between psych and progressive rock, and mixing in a lot of soul music, a good deal of jazz, and a bit of classical. In those respects, they were similar to Traffic and Family, though putting more emphasis on soul music. The influences didn't cohere as well as they did in Traffic and Family, though, and the material wasn't nearly as effective. Of-the-day traits like swirling organ, fishbowl-distorted vocals, and phased drumming provided the freakiest elements, along with the band's liking for throwing in jazzy tempo changes. Melodically and lyrically, Locomotive were uncommonly grim for a late-'60s British psychedelic band, and there was a touch of Procol Harum in the vague tormented metaphysical questing of some of their lyrics and vocals. It's a reflection of their relatively inaccessible original material that the most memorable song is their cover of the United States of America's "Coming Down/Love Song for the Dead Che," an imaginative choice, considering the original must have been barely known in Britain at that time...(AllMusic)
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