A GIFT FROM EUPHORIA Capitol Green label LP PSYCH/FUZZ
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Here's a great album from EUPHORIA titled A GIFT FROM EUPHORIA. This is an original U.S. pressing released on the green label Capitol label, SKAO-363, in 1969. Tracks include:
- Lisa
- Stone River Hill Song
- Did You Get The Letter
- Through A Window
- Young Miss Pflugg
- Lady Bedford
- Suicide On The Hillside, Sunday Morning, After Tea
- Sweet Fanny Adams
- I'll Be Home To You
- Sunshine Woman
- Hollyville Train
- Dockers' Son
- Something For The Milkman
- Too Young To Know
- World
Here's a review I found on the Internet at Acid Archives:
"This ridiculously rare album begs the question: why was Capitol squandering such huge production budgets to create records that no one would ever hear? I suppose it wasn't the world's easiest marketing job. Who would expect the public to latch on to an album that alternates heavily orchestrated dream-state music with country rock with fuzz-guitar freakouts, not to mention lyrics that are equal parts spirituality and suicide? There's nothing else quite like this. The orchestration is as heavy as on the Food and Common People albums, but sounds completely different. The country songs sound "authentic," but also don't really sound like any other country or country-rock artist. The fuzz-guitar blowouts manage not to sound "heavy." The piano playing is equal parts Paul McCartney and honkytonk. The highly disturbing lyrics could either signal the apocalypse or treat suicide as a joke, and either way it's riveting. (By the way, most reviews of this album mention lyrics about drugs, but unless I'm totally misinterpreting something, I don't see them.) This is one instance where two madmen threw everything they had against the wall, and it pretty much all stuck. At its best this is the kind of record that will remind you why you got into psychedelic music in the first place-there's so much originality, so much willingness to experiment, and so many ideas here that whether it all works or not it's bound to be a completely fascinating listen. They also had a non-LP 45, a few tracks on "A Pot Of Flowers" and some unreleased stuff recorded during their spell in Houston, all of it ranging from good to great."
Gatefold cover has bumped and rubbed corners and a hole punch at top right corner. Vinyl looks virtually unplayed and is in NEAR MINT (NM) CONDITION.
U.S. buyer to pay 4.00 shipping. International rate will vary. Due to Paypal chargebacks for lost International mail this album must be shipped registered to any International location.
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