Still fresh after all these years
11/18/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Review on "In Side Out"I am a record collector and waited over 3 years to get hold of this album - worth the wait. This is a cult band. Fresh and timeless in every sense of these words. Every song is an individual masterpiece. The first 3 songs are rolled into one, with mood swings and interesting lyrics, going from acoustic to electric. Two songs give a feeling of alienation and loneliness - "Homes fit for heroes" and "Chilly morning mamma". To show the van Vliet influence there is "The rake", but as a hole the band has gone soft. (Their heavy album being "wasa wasa", which could have been a thread for the heavies of those days.) "Double agent" - written by brother Steve - makes me think of a Roy Harper song. (Maybe an influence since he drummed a few albums for Harper.) "It's not you" - a voice in the wilderness - strong vocals. This is a long one, but with lots of twists it keeps ones attention. Aggression mixed with the feeling of a strange trip, not pretentious though which I find a band like "the doors" sometimes can be. "Swinging and swimming clinging to visions of ups down I go" - I think this can be DEADLY under the influence! This is the overlooked band of the 70's, definitely among my top 5. Maybe I'm their youngest fan at only 23, but I will never Judas them. If you find the 90's bands monotonous, try this one out, you would not be sorry!"
What if babies went on strike?
02/13/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"After a heavy experimental first lp (wasa, wasa) and an even more original..lp (sing brother sing) these are the third and fourth lp of a cult band. They never hit the charts, were more ugly than the Pretty Things, made music that my mom hate and would stand up ('I got mad at soledad') for unethical behaviour by politicians ('Up yours'). It's great music. It's a mix of folkish ('Piece of my own'), heavy ('the birth'), mystical ('It isn't you'), melodish (' Double agents'). All the moods you're in, Edgar Boughton (vocal, guitar), his brother Steve(drums), the linking bass of Arthur Grant and Victor Unitt (second vocal, guitar)delivers it. One of those bands in the 60 and 70th that was much understimated."
Make it right.
gosibro | Athens Greece | 03/20/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Take a trip back to time with this double l.p. of Edgar Broughton's band first two albums. A much underatted art rock band that never really enjoyed the broader success it deserved and slowly drifted unaknowledged into oblivion at the end of the 70s, performing some reform concerts in the next two decades and enjoying a cult following in record collectors circles and avid rock music listeners alike. The music on this c.d. is dreamy, rocky, bluesy, psychedelic, experimental and even subtly political at parts. Edgar Broughton has a strong Beau Brummels-y male vocal, the rhythm section (esp. the drums) rock and the songs range from the seminal and great to the listenable relic of a period in time with plenty of flower power, drugs, revolution and hope.Also included here is the gorgeous "Evening over rooftops", "the air was thick like honey looking from a room, the room had open windows to let the spring time through..",which one could say makes this cd worth buying just for the sake of this magical, mystical, spell-binding song."
Track Listings (26) - Disc #1