MINT 1968 UK *FLIPBACK* Orig FREAKBEAT MOD POPSIKE THE HERD PARADISE LOST psych
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FANTASTIC ALL-MINT FIRST PRINTING
ORIGINAL BRITISH 1968 FIRST PRESS
UK FREAKBEAT POPSIKE!
THE HERD
Paradise LOST
UK (black/silver) FONTANA - STL 5458
FANTASTIC ARCHIVE '68 UK ORIGINAL!
BEST YOU'LL EVER SEE!
STUNNING MINT ACROSS THE BOARD!
SUPER NICE very first BRITISH 1968 pressing with "flipback" seams ... The long lost and underestimated HERD popsike grooves....
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THE HERD "Paradise Lost" the first album from the English popsike rock group that launched Peter Frampton's career, also features Andy Bown who went on to join Status Quo, including the singles "I Can Fly" "Paradise Lost" and From The Underworld; housed in a flip-back picture sleeve.Their 1968 LP Paradise Lost, is a precious and overtly British period popsike-rock affair; "From The Underworld," with its dense production and booming harmonies, is just ONE highlight, and elsewhere features straightforward rock tracks with progressive and blues influences like "On Your Own" show the band's more serious aspirations. Another hopeful assemblage of post-Mod beat boys featuring puppy-eyed teenage guitarist and lead singer Peter Frampton, the Herd’s time was relatively brief. Opening with their first 45, a delightful slice of Brit popsike, “From The Underworld,” was a hit for the band and containsa funereal bells, undertaker’s plunking bass, Gregorian chanting and an Oedipal lyrical complex and still gets the occasional radio play, but the follow up 45, title track of their Lp "Paradise Lost" has seemingly become lost on everybody and never gets revived. A shame, because as gaudily great as “From The Underworld” is, “Paradise Lost” is arguably much, much stranger. The title track, also released as a 45 - is the kind of single which could only have appeared in 1967 – it was released at the very end of the year, reaching the Top 20 in early 1968 – its beginning sounds like a stripper's grind before dissolving into a sombre variant on the “Underworld” model with mournful motets of plainsong as Frampton muses: “In the deepest dungeons of my mind/I dredge the shadows” ...as I said, only in 1967 could something like this occur. As he cries over the “scene of my innocence departed,” the song opens up to allow pirate radio beat boom harmonies and cavernous chambers of choir and backing arrangements.
Essentially dwelling on the loss of a certain kind of sexual innocence…remember, Frampton was sixteen going on seventeen at this stage…he wanders confused, thinking of the now surrendered self-pleasures of youth (“Once I could love without desire/Her glance could warm me without fire”) but sounding hurt and almost enraged about his inability to…get the real thing (“Experience has dulled my eyes/With repetition, wonder dies”) or his agony over the fact that he can never experience it again for the first time (“She was my promise and my dream”).
As the cascades of “Teenage Opera” blare fanfares make metaphorically clear, “Paradise Lost” is less to do with Milton than with “Pictures of Lily” (do you see the alliteration there?), but since he hasn’t actually lost his virginity yet (the tantalisingly unreachable sweetness of the violin balanced with the irretrievable loss of childhood of the lullaby glockenspiel) all he can do is wearily turn the pages again and go through the mechanics as the dream fades and the crass “Stripper” stomp returns, this time not to be moved, until someone finally comes to show him the way.
From The Underworld
On My Way Home
I Can Fly
Goodbye Groovy
Mixed Up Minds
Impressions Of Oliver
Paradise Lost
Sad
Something Strange
On Your Own
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
Fare Thee Well
CONDITION: The cover: Very fragile, colorful UK cover: strong MINT The cover retains fresh original colors, no delete marks, no bends, no writing and no split seams ... Beautiful collection worthy rarity ...
The vinyl: Clean and glossy over both sides, rated TOP COPY M- expect play grade to be with very clean & enjoyable audio, with NO distracting surface problems ... both UK FONTANA labels are clean...altogether a beautiful final collection copy indeed!
A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !
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