West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band: S&D

I don't know how many WCPAEB guys played on Kim Fowley"s Love Is Alive and Well album, but THAT is a freaking classic. As a fan of Godz 2, dude, I am reasonably sure that you would like that record.

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Some good bands on it for a tribute lp.

"I Won't Hurt You" probably my fave cut.

that Sundazed comp of the earliest material is reeeealy spotty. for shure. don't even sweat that one, Ian -- ya ain't missin nothin. but the first two Reprise albs are definitely solid.

I've never heard "MArkley, An A Group" either! so who knows, maybe that's the keystone. or something.

haven't heard markley but it's supposed to be soft jams.

wasnt there another lp after the markley lp, under another name, i forget

the wcpaeb story is so bizarre. its my favourite pop music story, sometimes

The one with their first album and extra material? It's not so bad. Yeah, it's a lot of covers (Dylan, Kinks) but they're done pretty well and early versions of some tracks that appear on the Reprise LPs, so I wouldn't dismiss it outright. Great liners, too. That said, I've only listened to it once and I've had it for a while now.

My fave songs by them (no order): "Smell of Incense", "Buddah" and "Here's Where You Belong". I've only heard Volume One, Part One and Volume Two, though, so I'm limited in my choices.

been kind of digging the first album lately. Favorite song is 'Will You Walk With Me'--it has this unearthly creepiness that perfectly sums up the mood around my neck of the woods in the last week or two...

(by first album, I mean Part One, the one with the cover of Zappa's Help I'm a Rock)

HEY EVERYBODY check out Markley, it is great stuff. Just don't expect super psychedelic rock, it's mellower.

I like the Markley album: not too sure about my grasp of the lyrics, but a couple of songs seem positively deranged.

It's probably because of my knowledge of the weird unsavoury history of this band and Bob Markley in particular but the song "In the Country", superficially a fairly jolly number about escaping the pressures of city life, always strikes me as unsettlingly suggestive of the Manson Family. Were this 'band' any good? I can't decide tbh.

Yes imo but there is a creepy vibe to a lot of their stuff

Also interesting how these older, in many ways parasitical and opportunistic, individuals like Markley and Kim Fowley were so influenced by Zappa and the Mothers, Zappa being much closer to their ages, and far more a product of the '50s than the 60s... Manson also!