TAGES Extra Extra orig Swedish freakbeat psych LP 1967
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VERY RARE ORIGINAL 1967 stereo pressing of the Tages "Extra Extra" LP on the Swedish Platina label. How many times do you see this one, if ever? The title of the album implies some breaking news, and it's right. Listen as Sweden's finest beat soul bands (they were around since 1963 playing mostly r&b/beat covers) grows by leaps and bounds on this album. Here the band gives us 6 originals and 6 covers - an improvement of the previous album, "Tages 2" - and the originals show the band incorporating some very creative influences. The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" is a clear influence on some of these songs, as is the Small Faces - elsewhere, you'd swear the band was influenced by "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Odyssey and Oracle" until you realize that those albums hadn't even been RELEASED yet! Which makes the Tages accomplishments on this little-known album even more remarkable. The opening song "Mohair Sam" is less like Mustang Sally's brother and more like a combination of "96 Tears" and "Hey Bulldog", with a pounding piano line like the latter and some swirling organ like the former. It ends with some trippy backwards effects, ushering in the psychedelic scene to remote Scandinavia, which cross neatly into the next track, the utterly trippy "Secret Room". The backwards cymbals that ended "Mohair Sam" provide the rhythm for "Secret Room", much like Jimi Hendrix did with "Are You Experienced?" (again, the Tages were FIRST!). The song glides along on this trippy bed with a nice chunky freakbeat bassline, while the melody is strikingly similar to the Zombies "Care of Cell 44" (don't even need to mention that the Zombies were still at least a year away from writing that melody). The gentle baroque orchestrated nursery rhyme melody that anchors "Gone Too Far" continues in the "Odyssey and Oracle" style, while a straight cover of the Small Faces "Understanding" provides a link to their soul-influenced dancefloor past. Even the old rockabilly rave-ups like "Howlin' For My Baby" are tripped-up in the early Who mod freakbeat style - this one opens with some sounds-great-on-headphones cuckoo clock sound effects, followed by an ear-piecing scream and the sound of either something breaking or someone falling down the stairs. The Tages save the best for last - the almost-title track "Extra" is a beautifully-realized, extremely intricate Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" homage that sounds like the Dukes of Stratosphere's "Pale and Precious" 30 years earlier. The Tages replicate Brian Wilson's sound perfectly - the metronome-like rhythm, melodies that change constantly and hinge on some very intricate, lush vocal harmonies, faroff clattering percussion including some dramatic tympani, big church organ, some odd early synthesizer touches - it's all very "Heroes and Villains/Good Vibrations", and it's all very, very good. Possibly one of the finest Brian Wilson-styled creations NOT created by Brian Wilson. And all this from a Swedish band way back in late 1966/early 1967. And while Jimi Hendrix, the Zombies and the Small Faces might not EVER cite the obscure Tages as an influence, in many ways, the obscure Tages got there first. Extra Extra, indeed. Hear all about it right here. Original 1967 stereo pressing on the Swedish Platina label. Cover in VG++ shape, vinyl also plays VG++. Winning bidder pays $4.00 media mail shipping in the US, $8 air mail to Canada, $14 air mail everywhere else. Paypal, Bidpay, cash, checks and money orders accepted. Please check out my other auctions for more obscure pop, psych and garage albums!
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