The
Electric Prunes were an American Garage Rock band who first achieved
international attention as an experimental psychedelic group in the late
1960s
allmusic.com biography: 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.
allmusic.com biography: 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.
Artist : The Electric Prunes
Album : Underground
Genre : Psychedelic Rock
Year : 1967
Songs : 12
Playtime : 00:36:31
Size : 84,01 MB
Codec : MPEG 1 Layer III / Lame 3.99 / 320 kbps
001. The Great Banana Hoax (04:09)
002. Children Of Rain (02:37)
003. Wind-Up Toys (02:26)
004. Antique Doll (03:13)
005. It's Not Fair (02:04)
006. I Happen To Love You (03:19)
007. Dr. Do-Good (02:26)
008. I (05:14)
009. Hideaway (02:42)
010. Big City (02:46)
011. Capt. Glory (02:14)
012. Long Day's Flight (03:15)
Album : Underground
Genre : Psychedelic Rock
Year : 1967
Songs : 12
Playtime : 00:36:31
Size : 84,01 MB
Codec : MPEG 1 Layer III / Lame 3.99 / 320 kbps
001. The Great Banana Hoax (04:09)
002. Children Of Rain (02:37)
003. Wind-Up Toys (02:26)
004. Antique Doll (03:13)
005. It's Not Fair (02:04)
006. I Happen To Love You (03:19)
007. Dr. Do-Good (02:26)
008. I (05:14)
009. Hideaway (02:42)
010. Big City (02:46)
011. Capt. Glory (02:14)
012. Long Day's Flight (03:15)
allmusic.com
says: According to Electric Prunes members Jim Lowe and Mark Tulin,
producer Dave Hassinger enjoyed enough success as a result of the
group's early hit singles and their subsequent debut album that he was
too busy to spend much time with them as they were recording the follow
up, and that was arguably a good thing for the band. While Underground
didn't feature any hit singles along the lines of "I Had to Much to
Dream (Last Night)," it's a significantly more consistent work than the
debut, and this time out the group was allowed to write five of the
disc's twelve songs, allowing their musical voice to be heard with
greater clarity. As on their first LP, the Electric Prunes' strongest
asset was the guitar interplay of Jim Lowe, Ken Williams and James
"Weasel" Spagnola, and while they became a bit more restrained in their
use of fuzztone, wah-wah and tremolo effects, there's a unity in their
attack on Underground that's impressive, and the waves of sound on
"Antique Doll," "Big City" and " "Children of Rain" reveal a new level
creative maturity (though they could make with a wicked, rattling fuzz
on "Dr. Do-Good"). If Underground ultimately isn't as memorable as the
Electric Prunes' first album, it's a matter of material -- while the
outside material that dominated the debut was sometimes ill-fitting, it
also gave them some stone classic tunes like "I Had Too Much to Dream"
and "Get Me to the World on Time," and the band themselves didn't have
quite that level of songwriting chops, while the hired hands didn't
deliver the same sort of material for Underground. Still, the album
shows that the Electric Prunes had the talent to grow into something
more mature and imaginative than their reputation suggested, and it's
all the more unfortunate that the group's identity would be stripped
from them for the next album released under their name, Mass in F Minor.
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