RARE 1968 UK THE HERD PARADISE LOST MOD POPSIKE
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$ 55
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Jan 17, 2010
Sold Date
Jan 14, 2010
Start Date
$ 10
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RARE 1968 FIRST PRESSING ~ UK MOD POP CLASSIC SWINGING LONDON!
The HERD
PARADISE LOST
\ UK - FONTANA - STL 5458
RARE first pressing BRITISH "FONTANA" Original ...1968 album by the band that featured Peter Frampton and Andy Bown. Comes in a flipback sleeve, the way the British produced their covers in the sixties, flipping the seams over the back of the cover ...this one, harder to find than you imagine, a popsike swinging London "happening band" in England's sixties...
Another hopeful assemblage of Mod beat boys featuring puppy-eyed teenage guitarist and lead singer Peter Frampton, the Herd’s time was relatively brief; “From The Underworld,” their debut hit with funereal bells, undertaker’s plunking bass, Gregorian chanting and an Oedipal lyrical complex (though Scott Walker’s “Oedipus” offers a subtler and yet somehow far more hysterical variation on the same theme), still gets the occasional radio play, but the follow-up has seemingly become lost to follow-up and never gets revived. A shame, because as gaudily great as “From The Underworld” is, “Paradise Lost” is arguably much, much stranger. 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 is enough to make the listener wonder whether they have purchased a Frankie Vaughan single by mistake; sliding “Stripper” arrangements, high-kicking “Don’t Bring Lulu” drums, awaiting the arrival of top hat and cane; but then it meticulously dissolves 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 mentioned, 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.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” trumpet 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 Vaughan Williams solo 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 Mindes Impressions of Oliver Paradise Lost B: Bad Something Strange On Your Own She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not Fare Thee Well
CONDITION: The fragile laminated cover is clean, very sharp and colorful stiff and crisp with 4 sharp corners, M- ...
The vinyl all glossy smooth & clean, M- a couple minor feather hairthin scuffs, nothing. Plays TOP Minty clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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