Hot Knives, Q: How can you go wrong with the mighty SENDELICA? It’s a testament to this group that albums are brought up not only that I’ve never heard, but artists I’ve never heard of. I've always thought that, overall, their output was very variable.
Based around the misunderstanding and mystery of schizophrenia, Split takes a raw, bottom-heavy recipe of spirited, spunky guitar riffs (some of the best that McPhee has … 2) 3. Split is a 1971 blues rock studio album recorded by The Groundhogs, originally released by Liberty Records in 1971 with catalogue number LBG 83401. And Tony 'TS' McPhee was never better than on Split in my opinion. Peter Dawson: Still love this album as much as I did when I first heard it, always remember when the BBC started having artists on TOTP playing a track from an album in the album charts, one week they had The Groundhogs on playing Cherry Red from Split, it was hilarious watching the teenyboppers trying to dance to it. Streaming and by permanent download to your computer and/or device, Via Google Play Music app on Android v4+, iOS v7+, or by exporting MP3 files to your computer and playing on any MP3 compatible music player, By purchasing this item, you are transacting with Google Payments and agreeing to the Google Payments, Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 4.0. 2 Take 3) 11. Split (Pt.1 instrumental) 10. This album, along with 1972's Who Will Save the World?, are regarded as two of the strongest efforts from the Groundhogs, but Split instills a little bit more of McPhee's vocal passion and dishes out slightly stronger portions of his guitar playing to emphasize the album's theme. (Julian Cope), "Split is not an album for the faint hearted, opening as it does with a four part progressive rock epic which was apparently written by McPhee during a panic attack. He describes the band's playing as "a shamanic whirling that shattered and scattered the beat around in several directions at once" and it's easy to see what he means. A version of the band is still going under the moniker 'Ken Pustelnik's Groundhogs' but I've not been tempted to check them out. BA1 1UA. As a footnote, the last time I saw The Groundhogs was about a dozen years ago in a small pub on the outskirts of Barnsley in South Yorkshire. Split reached number 5, spending 27 weeks in the UK Albums Chart and achieved gold record status, while a single release from the album, "Cherry Red", was featured on BBC Television 's Top of the Pops programme on 22 April 1971. A bona fide inspirational rock classic. Split (Pt. Brian Carr: With this, uh, interesting week, I was unable to delve into this week’s selection until today. There's nothing here that excites me as much as Cherry Red, but like past picks by Spirit or the Pretty Things, it's a grower with melodies and lyrics becoming clearer with each listen. I'm not among them. Receive news and offers from our other brands? Receive mail from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors?
A: You simply cannot! The ground breaking album by the ultimate power trio who morphed blues into hard rock and spawned punk.
Actually, it even sounds dated for when it was released.
Overall it's a decent album with a couple of tracks that I will probably add to my collection, but the experimental aspects sound dated now and too often break the flow of the songs for my taste. With the choppy guitar riff propelled along by a driving bass and some frenetic drumming, Split 2 nevertheless swings and the incendiary middle eight is fantastic. The album’s central theme was McPhee’s sole brush with drugs – he calls it his “mental abberation” – after a day out with his landlady and her son in London’s Green Park. Some of the bands and albums which passed me by as I was a toddler when they were around have really inspired me to seek out more.
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Please refresh the page and try again. They are best listened to as a suite and on the bounce though. But the group’s fans embraced it all – released in the spring of 1971, the album reached No.5 in the UK. Julian Cope, of The Teardrop Explodes fame, is a big fan of The Groundhogs. A Year In The Life 7. I’m so grateful to have this music during these precarious times. John Davidson: So this was a total mystery to me before this week.
Psych/Blues ramblings, interspersed with some really great song ideas. The album improves after you turn over. Alexander Taylor: Fantastic album, a monster mix of garage blues, prog and almost punk. After gathering himself together psychologically, he put together a collection of acoustic songs called Nocturne In A Flat, only to throw the title away for being “too pompous”. It entered the UK album charts in July 1974 reaching number 31 but remained in the charts for only one week.
“We played it through and it sounded crap – then Martin realised the tape was on backwards!”. File under great, under appreciated British bands of the early seventies, alongside Budgie, Man, Atomic Rooster, to name but three. This is heavy rock at it's best, Michael Baryshnikov: Well, it may be a great album, possibly, but it's 100% weaker than the previous Thank God For The Bomb and the following Hogwash. Andrew has done me a great service by bringing my recordings into the 21st Century. 4 unlisted take with overdubbed guitar). 2) 3. All rights reserved. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 3, 2017, Laurence Vanay - Alone in the rain (Get away bonus) (1975 Female French Folk Jazz Rock Experimental)by Laurence Vanay, THE PAVILION OF MAGIC AND THE TRIALS OF THE SEVEN SURVIVING ELOHIMby SENDELICA, Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp, Essential Releases: Indie, Alternative Rap, Video Game-Inspired Jazz, and More, Essential Releases: Introspective Pop, Alternative Soul, Houston Funk, and More, Essential Releases: Avant-Garde Jazz, Shoegaze, Latin American Electronic and More. Aside from McPhee's singing, there's a noticeable amount of candor in Peter Cruickshank's baggy, unbound percussion, which comes across as aimless and beautifully messy in order to complement the blues-grunge feel of the album. The second side delivers the mighty Cherry Red, McPhee’s take on The Beatles’ A Day In the Life, a sideswipe at junk foodand a glorious interpretation of John Lee Hooker’s Groundhogs Blues. I think that the group is still in doubt what kind of music they are going to play. Split (Pt. Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. The second side delivers the mighty Cherry Red, McPhee’s take on The Beatles’ A Day In the Life, a sideswipe at junk foodand a glorious interpretation of John Lee Hooker’s Groundhogs Blues. It was reissued on CD reissue in 2003 by Liberty / EMI Records, with catalogue number 07243-584819-2-1. The second of three ground-breaking albums by the ultimate power trio who morphed blues into … Cherry Red 6. Add me into the ‘meh threshold’ I guess. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Parts 3 and 4 take a bit more getting into and see Tony McPhee introduce more experimental sounds into the music. Sandhy & Mandhy (Beat Garage Rock * Argentina) (1969). The history of rock, one album at a time. '[2], Learn how and when to remove this template message, Who Will Save the World?
According to Tony McPhee's sleeve notes for the 2003 CD reissue, the lyrics for Split were inspired by a panic attack experienced by him in May 1970, and the studio version of "Cherry Red" was recorded live in a single take. I think so, though I suspect many will judge it to be of its time. A: You simply cannot! A Year In The Life (instrumental) 14. To me, this is the pivotal Groundhogs track. Split (Pt.
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