DAVID EXPLOSION Bright To-Morrow 1971 Belgium Beatles PSYCH POP PROG ROCK N MINT
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WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS…
David Explosion "A Bright To-Morrow"
Original 1971 LP on the Belgian SUGAR PLUM label.
Cover: EXCELLENT .
Vinyl: Nice thick press, NEAR MINT
What if The White Album was a single album and recorded by a Belgian band in the early seventies? It’d be A Bright To-Morrow by the David Explosion, most likely. These Beatles-obsessed Belgians have created one of the first tribute albums to the Fab Four, a lovingly-crafted trip through all things English psychedelia – a Magical Mystery Tour bus trip through Pepperland, around the Sea of Holes and right past the Village Green. If this thing were any MORE into the Beatles, it’d be named Yoko.
Hey, and it doesn’t even matter whether you prefer John or Paul, because they’re both represented here! “Mister Hardy” is a bouncy McCartney-ish number somewhere between “All Together Now” and “Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da,” with a nice psychy warbled vocal chorus. While “Mother Jacobs” travels into “I Am the Walrus” and “Strawberry Fields Forever” territory, with trippy distorted lead vocals and childlike “la la la” backing vocals. There’s a little bit of There Are But Four Small Faces in there, too – suggesting that the band might’ve bought a few non-Apple-label albums too. At any rate, it’s got the sound – y’know, THE sound – a rumbling Chocolate Soup vapor trail of Rubblesque goodness, rumbling bass and biting fuzz – you could slide this one on the end of the Five Day Week Straw People album and no one would blink.
They’ve also been listening to Donovan, whose gentle sleepy time stoned folk psych sounds are referenced in the beautiful “Lena Lena” (which even SOUNDS like a Donovan song title!), a trippy acid-soaked lullaby with vocals bathed in a Grand Canyon of psychedelic echo. And definitely Village Green Preservation Society, which influenced the mad marching band chorus of the very Kinks-like “Hide and Seek.” And check out the opening riff, which sounds EXACTLY like Led Zeppelin’s “Trampled Under Foot” – hey, you wouldn’t think Page and Plant would rip off someone else’s guitar riff, do you? Nah, of course not. And I really DO think New Kids on the Block are ready for a comeback.
So who WERE behind the band who took their name from an unfortunate stage accident that occurred during one of Mr. Copperfield’s magic acts? Ahh, here’s where things get tricky. They were a Belgian band, that we know, but many of the songs on A Bright To-Morrow were released in Germany under the band name Cockpit (yeah, it’s true, they somehow managed to find a name WORSE than the David Explosion), so it’s hard to tell WHICH band name came first. Or why the band wanted TWO bad names in the first place. Whatever the case, the David Cockpit Spencer Blues Explosion give us a dazzing display of Swinging London fireworks here, a giant Technicolor blast of paisley psychedelia as bright as the High School Community Art Show third-prize winning sunrise painting on the front cover. It’s gonna be a bright to-morrow after all.
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