THE WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND Vol. 2 LP REPRISE 1967 GREECE reissue
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THE WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND
BOB MARKLEY, DAN HARRIS, SHAUN HARRIS
One of the more offbeat acts to emerge during the psychedelic era, the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
were certainly eclectic and ambitious enough to live up to their slightly clumsy moniker, capable
of jumping from graceful folk-rock to wailing guitar freakouts to atonal, multilayered, avant-garde compositions
at a moment's notice, but they also reflected a strongly divided creative mindset,
with Bob Markley, the lyricist and ostensive leader of the group, on one side and the rest of the band on the other
"VOL.2"
<reissue, originally published in 1967>LP REPRISE RECORDS RS 6270
MADE IN GREECE 1987 REPRESSING
SINGLE COVER
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LABEL: REPRISE - TAN LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine) REPRISE RECORDS-6270 (rear) R 6270 RS 6270
Catalog on labels: RS 6270 (RS 6270 S A) / RS 6270 (RS 6270 S B)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): REP 6270A MT410 W618
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): REP 6270B MT410 W618
On labels: rim text reads "All rights......Made in Greece"
AEPI
? 1987 Mfd. by G.P.I. S.A.
Produced by Bob Markley and Jimmy Bowen
On Back Sleeve: Notes by Bob Markley
Performance Rights on All Selections: BMI
WEA Records S.A. Messogheion 319, HALANDRI - Mitropoleos 51 - THESSALONIKI
tracklisting
Side A: IN THE ARENA - SUPPOSE THEY GIVE A WAR AND NO ONE COMES
BUDDHA - SMELL OF INCENSE - OVERTURE-WCPAEB PART II
Side B: QUEEN NYMPHET - UNFREE CHILD - CARTE BLANCHE - DELICATE FAWN
TRACY HAD A HARD DAY SUNDAY
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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, no strangers to weirdness on their prior 1967 album Part One, had still often
stuck to relatively straightforward, concise, and pop-flavored songs on that LP. Here they stretched out into less structured,
more avowedly psychedelic (and indeed experimental) territory, with mixed results. "Smell of Incense" (covered for a small hit
by Southwest FOB) was sublime psych-pop. The prominent track on this album is probably the highly original
Tracy Had A Hard Day Sunday. Unlike much of the other material on the album, this tune had considerable commercial appeal.
A later 45, Smell Of Incense was taken from this album. It must have made quite an impression 'cos it was also
recorded by The Abstracts on their LP, The Pawnbrokers and by Southwest F.O.B.. In fact, the single was only
belatedly released a year after the album in response to the latter's hit version of the song...(AllMusic+Fuzz Acid & Flowers)
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