Filed under: music, stupid stuff | Tags: album artwork, ORGANS!, STRINGS!, vinyl
Boing Boing oddly linked to a site I’ve enjoyed called LP Cover Lover. The site serves as an online warehouse for curious record covers, most of them several decades old. The stranger the subject, the greater the likelihood a record has been recorded in honor of it. Case in point: Music to Help Clean Up Stream Pollution By. Of course, I spend time on sites like this one, in part, because it gives me great cover options for my theme mixes, like ORGANS!. Here’s the cover BB posted about, as well as a few other good ones from the site.
I had the opportunity to pick up the following one at WILL’s Vintage Vinyl sale a few summers ago, but passed because it was $15 and in poor shape. The Makers spoofed this cover for a 7″ of the same name they released many moons ago.
Hmm, maybe I’ve found the cover for STRINGS! … ? How would my face look on this?
I used a song by Beefeaters on the ORGANS! comp, and I’d like to follow up with a bit more about them since they’re widely unknown to most people. Not to be confused with the pre-Byrds group The Beefeaters, this Denmark band got its start as a beat group in 1964, touring in support of big names like The Kinks and The Pretty Things. About the time that most bands were morphing into psychedelia, Beefeaters instead followed John Mayall into the blues. They released a self-titled full length in 1967 that is decisively bluesly yet still in the garage rock vein, toured in support of Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, then followed that release in 1969 with Meet You There, which fully transitioned the band out of the garage rock category and into blues rock. On their 1967 release, they sound like a tougher Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers, minus the horns. Beefeaters were not above recording bluesy piano ballads alongside covers like “Crossroads” and “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag.” It’s from their 1967 record that I took “Hey Little Girl” for ORGANS!. The following two songs also appear on the same album and showcase Farfisa organist Morten Kjærumsgård and vocalist Peter Thorup. Enjoy.
Beefeaters — “I Want You”
Beefeaters — “Let Me Down Easy”
ORGANS!, the long-awaited (by me anyway) follow up to last year’s smashing success, HORNS!, is ready to hit the shelves. If you’d like a copy, leave me a comment.
01 Introduction
02 Memphis Black: Why Don’t You Play the Organ, Man?
03 ? and the Mysterians: 96 Tears
04 Elvis Costello & the Attractions: The Imposter
05 The Small Faces: What’cha Gonna Do About It?
06 The Clean: Tally Ho!
07 Kim Fowley: Bubblegum
08 The Cyrkle: Red Rubber Ball
09 Adrienne Posta: Something Beautiful
10 Beefeaters: Hey Little Girl
11 Jonathan Fire Eater: Give Me Daughters
12 The Crazy World of Arthur Brown: I Put a Spell on You
13 Yo La Tengo: Sudden Organ
14 Blues Magoos: (We Ain’t Got) Nothing Yet
15 Status Quo: Green Tambourine
16 Mouse & the Traps: Cryin’ Inside
17 Clinic: Distortions
18 Rocketship: I Love You the Way I Used to Do
19 Camera Obscura: If Looks Could Kill
20 Adventures in Stereo: Down in the Traffic
21 Chubby Checker: Stoned in the Bathroom
22 Elfstone: Louisiana Teardrops
23 The Artwoods: One More Heartache
24 The Modern Lovers: Old World
25 The Lyres: She Pays the Rent
26 XTC: Are You Receiving Me?
27 The Galaxies IV: Piccadilly Circus
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