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Random Vinyl 11/9-11/13

Posted at 11:40 AM on November 13, 2009 by Jill Riley
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Monday: Various Artists, "Psychadelic Dream" (1982)
This complilation features tracks from The Byrds, Aorta, The Hollies and The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, amongst others. I was pleasantly surprised to find a Great Society jam on here.

Before Grace Slick was in Jefferson Airplane, she was in a band called Great Society with her then husband, Jerry Slick. The Great Society version of "White Rabbit" is a much longer jam and it featured Grace soloing on... oboe?!

Tuesday: "Si Si Senorita"
(Listen to the audio to hear the awesomeness)

Wednesday: Elvis Presley, "A Date With Elvis" (1959)
This is another one of those Japanese pressings (handed down from her mother) that Jill grabbed from her personal collection. The sleeve looks like a cheap photo copy of the "A Date with Elvis" cover. Could this rare gem be worth some money? We enjoyed "Baby, Lets Play House."

Thursday: The Sherbs, "The Skill" (1980)
Here's one from the wacko-obscuro vault: An Australian band that went by the name "Sherbet" from 1970-1979 and then regrouped under the moniker The Sherbs in 1980 with a more poppy, new-wavey sound. Upon playing the title track (the album's only single), Steve was forced to admit this was definitely a case of "I remember this song being so much more awesome than it actually is."

Friday: Utopia, "Oops, Wrong Planet" (1977)
Todd Rundgren's band that began as a prog-rock jam-out experiment took a turn for more concise (although still occasionally spacey) pop hooks on this record, which contained "Love Is The Answer" - a tune later covererd (and made somewhat more famous) by the soft-rock duo England Dan and John Ford Coley. For Steve's money, that pap-pop version can't hold a candle to the original, especially given it's heavily multi-tracked Rundgren vocals.

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