MINT SHRINK "PsychOmodo" Cockney Rebel GLITTER psych BOWIE Infectious DARK Drama
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54
$ 54
Sold For
Oct 4, 2020
Sold Date
Oct 1, 2020
Start Date
$ 10
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5
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USA
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- BRITISH (only) ~ 1973 ORIGINAL
- Still In Factory Cellophane and MINT!
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- ... The PsychOmodo ...
- Cockney Rebel
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- "Made In England" ~ EMI ~ EMC 3033
- Original 1973 U.K. pressing STILL IN FACTORY CELLOPHANE
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- for the USA import market!
- MINT !
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- ...From the opening strains of "Psychomodo/Sweet Dreams" to the remarkable grandeur of "Tumbling Down", Bowie/Brian Ferry figurehead vocalist Steve Harley takes you on a tour into his beautiful but often twisted psyche. Ironically, Harley's self-proclaimed anti-rock & roll/cast the electric guitar into oblivion stance gives way to some of the hardest hitting songs that Cockney Rebel ever produced. Featuring the bizarre "Mr. Soft", "Singular Band", and a personal favorite, the nearly 9-minute epic "Cavaliers", beginning as most of the songs do with backing atmospheric flourishes & featuring a keyboard plugged into a fuzz pedal to replicate the sound of a distorted electric guitar playing the repetitive chord progressions.
The last song on the album is the aforementioned classic "Tumbling Down", which, next to "Sebastian", is the most beautiful & emotive song Harley has ever penned. Once again, the lush backing arrangements form the basis of the song, and the catchy outro singalong chorus "Oh dear/look what they've done to the blues" will stick in your head like glue & you'll be singing it for weeks.
On a tragic note, original Cockney Rebel bassist Paul Jeffreys & his wife were among the passengers killed on Pan Am Flight 103 which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in December 1988. As a tribute, Steve Harley often dedicates "Sebastian" to Jeffreys in concert; this can be heard on the rare import bootleg-only CD "The Great Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel Live", released in 1989 shortly after the tragedy occurred. And yes, the Alan Parsons who produced the album is THE Alan Parsons of Project fame! - The FAN MAN adds:
- The bands first album, The Human Menagerie, Cockney Rebel's debut album, was a journey into the bowels of decadent cabaret, The Psychomodo, their second, is like a trip to the circus. Except the clowns were more sickly perverted than clowns normally are, and the fun house was filled with rattlesnakes and spiders.
- Such twists on innocent childhood imagery have transfixed authors from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, but Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel were the first band to set that same dread to music, and the only ones to make it work. The Psychomodo was also the band's breakthrough album. The Human Menagerie drew wild reviews and curious sales, but it existed as a cult album even after "Judy Teen" swung out of nowhere to give the band a hit single in spring 1974. Then "Mr Soft" rode his bloodied big top themes into town and Rebel-mania erupted. The Psychomodo, still possessing one of the most elegantly threatening jackets of any album ever, had no alternative but to clean up. Harley's themes remained essentially the same as last time out -- fey, fractured alienation; studied, splintered melancholia, and shattered shards of imagery which mean more in the mind than they ever could on paper. Both the swirling "Ritz" and the ponderous "Cavaliers" are little more than litanies of one-liners, pregnant with disconnected symbolism ("blow-job blues and boogaloos"... "morgue-like lips and waitress tips"), but they are mesmerizing nevertheless. Reversing the nature of The Human Menagerie, the crucial songs here are not those extended epics. Rather, it is the paranoid vignette of "Sweet Dreams," surely written in the numbing first light of that precipitous fame; the panicked brainstorm of the title track; and the stuttering, chopping, hysterical nightmare of "Beautiful Dream" (absent from the original LP, but restored as a CD bonus track) which stake out the album's parameters. The hopelessly romantic "Bed in the Corner" opens another door entirely -- relatively straightforward, astoundingly melodic, it was (though nobody realized it at the time) the closest thing in sight to the music Harley would be making later in the decade. Here, however, it swerves in another direction entirely, the dawn of a closing triptych -- completed by "Sling It" and "Tumbling Down" -- which encompasses ten of the most heartrendingly breathless, and emotionally draining minutes in '70s rock. Indeed, though the latter's final refrain was reduced to pitifully parodist singalong the moment it got out on-stage, on record it retains both its potency and its purpose. "Oh dear!" Harley intones, "look what they've done to the blues." The fact is, he did it all himself -- and people have been trying to undo it ever since.
"Psychomodo" 4:03
"Mr. Soft" 3:17
"Singular Band" 3:00
"Ritz" 7:17
"Cavaliers" 8:33
"Bed in the Corner" 3:32
"Sling It!" 2:43
"Tumbling Down" 5:58
- CONDITION:
- The cover: rated: M- the fragile cover should be graded a rare mint but there is some minor wear in one spot at very pocket edge so we'll discount that from MINT in original shrink wrap, It looks as nice as the photo. Not easy to find especially without ring wear and worse! There are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ...
- The vinyl: Rated: M- extremely CLEAN all over, looks and plays fantastic - perfect without any issues what-so-ever! Both EMI labels are spotless!
- ... The PsychOmodo ...
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- Cockney Rebel
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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GRADING SCALE: M, M-, EX, VG++,VG+, VG, VG- M Completely clean, no marks, plays clean
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EX Faint scuff or superficial mark, near M-, high gloss, plays clean VG++ Glossy with minimal scuffing or light mark playing very nice, enjoyable
VG+ a bit more scuff or marks still plays well with very minimal surface at worse VG more marks/scratches only minor, nothing deep, no loud clicks or pops this grade is abused by many, VG here does not mean "trashed" VG- surface noise present, will not have skips or jumps ALL PAYMENTS SHOULD BE MADE WITHIN 5 DAYS Of AUCTIONS END BIDDERS PLEASE = Do Not Bid If You Are Not Serious About Following Through The Transaction! ALL ITEMS GUARANTEED FOR WINNING BID - LESS SHIPPING!
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