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Elephants On Acid

GENRE(S): Rock, Rap / Hip-Hop

Condition: New & Sealed

Regular price $25.99
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Facts

UPC

4260038313602

Label

Decade Recorded

Format

Speed

Vinyl Weight

Disc Quantity

3

Vinyl Color

Black

Album Preview

Tracklist & audio may vary from the vinyl version

Description

Genuine reissue of D.R. Hooker's The Truth (1972) from the original audio sources; new analog transfer with improved mastering. "It's a miracle any copies of this privately pressed album survived - but be thankful it did, for here is an individual vision. Some people worry about when we'll run out of oil. A rather smaller proportion of us worry about when we'll run out of discoverable, deep-end thrills like this. There is just no way in the world items like Donald Hooker's 40-year-old privately pressed LP should even exist as a thing - it more than likely only ran to about 99 copies in it's original format, so how the hell did even one of those survive to create these new digital and analogue versions decades later? Connecticut-based Hooker - a tall, slim hippy with a history of substance abuse - was much given to wearing the sort of austere robe he sports on the sleeve, a fairly outré move even then. In early 1972 he hired a gang of local scene musicians to flesh out his wonderful songs and after a few brief rehearsals the band began recording. As soon as they were done they split - some never even heard the finished album, and what a treat they missed. Hooker's arrangements are truly beautiful; a simple, swinging pop song like Weather Girl exists somewhere between the Doors and Curtis Mayfield, whereas The Bible ('If they're knocking the Bible, be sure they are bent/ Just see and you'll understand the book is heaven sent') has the propulsive drive of a pained George Harrison ballad crushed up against some of Neil Young's freeform, string-banging joy. Then there's The Sea, with it's rolling religious allegories and the remarkable Free which marries a growling hard rock throb to a vampirically groovy synth line. Hooker's masterpiece is Forge Your Own Chains, which is part conga-led, lounge-funk soul and part, questing psychedelic dream. To think this entirely individual worldview would have once languished, unloved, in a series of under-the-racks cutout bins. And how much more magic like this is there out there?" -Rob Fitzpatrick, "The 101 strangest records on Spotify: DR Hooker - The Truth, " The Guardian, April 24, 2013

Tracklist

Side A
  1. Tusko
  2. Band Of Gypsies
  3. Put Em In The Ground
  4. Satao
  5. Jesus Was A Stoner
  6. Pass The Knife
Side B
  1. LSD
  2. Oh Na Na
  3. Holy Mountain
  4. Locos
  5. Falling Down
Side C
  1. Elephant Acid
  2. Insane OG
  3. The 5th Angel
  4. War Lord
  5. Reefer Man
Side D
  1. Thru The Rabbit Hole
  2. Crazy
  3. Muggs Is Dead
  4. Blood On My Hands Again
  5. Stairway To Heaven
CD1
  1. Tusko
CD2
  1. Band Of Gypsies
CD3
  1. Put Em In The Ground
CD4
  1. Satao
CD5
  1. Jesus Was A Stoner
CD6
  1. Pass The Knife
CD7
  1. LSD
CD8
  1. Oh Na Na
CD9
  1. Holy Mountain
CD10
  1. Locos
CD11
  1. Falling Down
CD12
  1. Elephant Acid
CD13
  1. Insane OG
CD14
  1. The 5th Angel
CD15
  1. Warlord
CD16
  1. Reefer Man
CD17
  1. Thru The Rabbit Hole
CD18
  1. Crazy
CD19
  1. Muggs Is Dead
CD20
  1. Blood On My Hands Again
CD21
  1. Stairway To Heaven

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