The Electric Prunes - Just Good Old Rock And Roll (1969/2013)

2016-05-18T16:05:17Z

The Electric Prunes - Just Good Old Rock And Roll (1969/2013)


01. Sell
02. 14 Year Old Funk
03. Love Grows
04. So Many People To Tell
05. Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers
06. Giant Sunhorse
07. Violent Rose
08. Thorjon
09. Silver Passion Mine
10. Tracks
11. Sing To Me

Ron Morgan - guitar
Mark Kincaid - guitar, backing vocals
John Herron - organ
Brett Wade - bass, backing vocals, flute
Dick Whetstone - drums, lead vocals

Just Good Old Rock and Roll by the Electric Prunes has an ominous "the new improved" before their name on the cover of this effort, and despite original producer Dave Hassinger's contributions, it fails to come anywhere near the greatness of "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night." A good tune like "So Many People to Tell" is offset by the difficult "Giant Sunhorse," which destroys any momentum created by the aforementioned best track on the disc, much like a double play in a tight baseball game. The boring riff goes nowhere and it is a disappointing way to lead off side two, when the first five songs show some bit of promise. If Stephen Stills fronting Country Joe & the Fish by way of the Grateful Dead with lackluster material is your cup of tea, side two descends into that dysfunctional morass, a band sliding sideways and not living up to the psychedelic power their first big hit boasted. If you ever wondered what you didn't like about Rare Earth, it might be that the drummer was doing the singing. Dick Whetstone has "drums and lead vocals" under his name and there you go. None of the original band members from the first two discs or the live album from 1967 are here. Dave Hassinger is like Maurice Starr trying to put together another New Kids on the Block with new faces. This is the Electric Prunes in name only, and if you place it next to "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night," this album gives Milli Vanilli credibility. ---Joe Viglione, Rovi

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The Electric Prunes ‎– The Electric Prunes (1967/2017)

2018-02-21T16:06:57Z

The Electric Prunes ‎– The Electric Prunes (1967/2017)


1 	I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)	2:55
2 	Bangles		2:57
3 	Onie	2:43
4 	Are You Lovin' Me More (But Enjoying It Less)	2:21
5 	Train For Tomorrow		3:00
6 	Sold To The Highest Bidder		2:16
7	Get Me To The World On Time		2:30
8 	About A Quarter To Nine		2:07
9 	The King Is In The Counting House	2:00
10 	Luvin'		2:03
11 	Try Me On For Size		2:19
12 	Tunerville Trolley		2:34
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13. Ain't It Hard 		2:14
14. Little Olive 		2:40

James Lowe – lead vocals (tracks 1, 2, 5-14), autoharp, rhythm guitar, tambourine
Ken Williams – lead guitar
James "Weasel" Spagnola – rhythm guitar, backing and lead vocals (tracks 3, 4)
Mark Tulin – bass guitar, piano, organ
Preston Ritter – drums, percussion

Though they got considerable input from talented L.A. songwriters and producers, with their two big hits penned by outside sources, the Electric Prunes did by and large play the music on their records, their first lineup writing some respectable material of their own. On their initial group of recordings, they produced a few great psychedelic garage songs, especially the scintillating "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night," which mixed distorted guitars and pop hooks with inventive, oscillating reverb. Songwriters Annette Tucker and Nancie Mantz wrote most of the Prunes' material, much of which in turn was crafted in the studio by Dave Hassinger, who had engineered some classic Rolling Stones sessions in the mid-'60s. "Too Much to Dream" was a big hit in 1967, and the psychedelized Bo Diddley follow-up, "Get Me to the World on Time," was just as good, and also a hit. Nothing else by the group made it big, and their initial pair of albums was quite erratic, although a few scattered tracks were nearly as good as those singles. Although they began to write more of their own material on their second album, their subsequent releases were apparently the products of personnel who had little to do with the original lineup. Their third LP, Mass in F Minor, was a quasi-religious concept album of psychedelic versions of prayers; a definitively excessive period piece, its best song ("Kyrie Eleison") was lifted for the Easy Rider soundtrack. None of the original Prunes were still in the lineup when the band dissolved, unnoticed, at the end of the '60s. ---Richie Unterberger, allmusic.com

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The Electric Prunes - Just Good Old Rock And Roll (1969/2013)

The Electric Prunes ‎– The Electric Prunes (1967/2017)