JELLY BEAN BANDITS RARE orig '67 garage psych LP SHRINK

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WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS…

The Jelly Bean Bandits "The Jelly Bean Bandits"

Original 1967 pressing on the MAINSTREAM label, MONO 56103

Cover:  NEAR MINT (still in shrinkwrap!)

Vinyl:  Plays VG+ with light crackle.

I shouldn’t have to hype this one, so I’ll keep it short.  No disrespect to the Bohemian Vendetta (who are also great), but the Jelly Bean Bandits’ 1967 album might very well be the BEST garage punk psych album to be released on the mighty Mainstream label.  Normally I’d describe the highlights, but I gotta be honest, EVERY SONG here is a highlight.  Take any one of ‘em, and you got yourself a gen-yoo-wine garage punk Nugget worthy of your finest mixed tape and then some.  Many of these songs you’ve already heard before – the blistering “Generation” appeared on Pebbles and Mayhem & Psychosis, while “Poor Precious Dreams” found a home on the delightfully-named Turds on a Bum Ride.  I won’t go into just how f**ing brilliant those slabs of caveman mayhem are – if you don’t already know them, you’d be much better off spending your Ebay time trying to win that Air Supply box set.  Their smooth harmonies cannot be beat.

But even if you’re already aware of just how perfect the Jelly Bean Bandits are at primal teen punk, I should at least mention their lesser-known forays into psychedelia.  “Plastic Soldiers” ain’t comped, and that’s a shame – it might be the single best Syd Barrett-era Floyd rip since Robyn Hitchcock got a record contract.  They’ve got the meandering Rick Wright organ, the wildly distorted vocals, and the slow methodical acid-riddled tempo.  Plus lyrics like these:

“The world is wrapped with leaves

And the universe beyond is cellophane.

The faces in the window are voting to come in out of the rain.

Radishes aren’t always red,

And the Jack of Knaves may lose his head on that…

And all that matters in the sky is written in a caterpillar’s eye.”

And smoked on a caterpillar’s hookah too.  Which might go a long way toward also explaining why the Bandits somehow got duped into dressing up like extras from Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia on the album cover.  Those expecting mariachi music are sure to be disappointed.  But if there’s one album on the Mainstream label that’s deserved of its reputation (and in this case, probably deserves even more), the Jelly Bean Bandits delivers on all its supercharged manic garage punk cylinders.  If this one doesn’t get you off, you’re either dead, or you’re digging that unreleased home demo version of “Making Love (Out of Nothing At All).” 

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