R. Dean Taylor: C/D, S&D

One cool thing about R. Dean Taylor is that he made stuff that sounded downright twee psych. Which is something that no other Motown act did.

And this is not meant as an attack on Motown in general, as they provided the world with some marvellous pop music, but they sounded a bit out of date during the psychedelia explosion in 1967-68. The orchestrated arrangements on some Four Tops singles were getting close, but sadly there aren't a lot of sitars, mellotrons or phasing to be heard in 67-68 Motown recordings. No lyrics about pink elephants flying through marshmallow skies either.

"Shadow" is creepy and gross enough that I can't help but feel that it colors my perception of the rest of his output.