Album of the Day

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This is a thread where I post an underrated classic album each day and you all check out the song I post and comment or whatever.

Lucia Pamela "Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela (1969)"
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Once called the missing link between Sun Ra and the Shaggs American singer/songwriter Lucia Pamela got into her car and headed to the moon to write and record her one and only album. It's debatable whether or not she was crazy, if she wasn't she certainly knew how to put on the act of the eccentric musician very well, she once complained about the air up on the moon where she supposedly recorded her album. The production is very lo-fi adding another level of strangeness to this already very weird pop album. It's very hard to explain this album, it's like if your crazy grandmother got drunk one Christmas and then proceeded to try and impress you with her made up stories and to add to the fun she's doing it almost Captain Beefheartish instruments behind her. It's a very weird concept that Wakeman and co. only wish they had the genius to write.

Notable influences: Stereolab, Patrick Wolf
Song: Lucia Pamela - Hap-Hap-Happy Heart.mp3
 
I'm going to be gone over the next few days so I'll do a few more to tide everyone over.

Phil Ochs "I Ain't Marching Anymore (1965)"
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We all know about Freewheelin but there were folk albums just as good at the same time. Phil Ochs's I Aint Marching Anymore is a much more focused and passionate released. Opening with the firey protest song proclaiming "It's always the old to lead us to the war / It's always the young to fall / Now look at all we've won with the sabre and the gun / Tell me is it worth it all?" it sets the mood for the rest of the release preaching Ochs's political beliefs and telling stories of the war. I Ain't Marching Anymore proves not only to be one of the most underrated folk albums ever, but one of the best that holRAB all the right ideals in its heart.

Notable Influences: The Clash, Pete Seeger, Marianne Faithfull, Billy Bragg
Song: 07 the highway man.mp3
 
Vashti Bunyan "Just Another Diamond Day (1970)"
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Vashti Bunyan is a British folk singer who in the mid-60s had some very big shoes to fill. She was hyped to be the next Marianne Faithfull and the female Bob Dylan, but the female Nick Drake would
 
I am just 20 years old i dont understand or you can dont have the knowledge of the old classical music and the old banRAB so i can t really pass comments on it but it will be good for the old people who hear them.:shycouch:
 
Linda Perhacs "Parallelograms (1970)"
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If Joni Mitchell smoked a bit of weed and dabbled in shrooms (back in her prime mind you) it would hopefully sound something like this. Linda Perhacs takes the bliss of Vashti Bunyan and throws in a bit of psychadelic music along with some art-rock and produced an album that sadly no one really knows about. She supposedly has a new album or two recorded and Devendra Banhart said it was amazing, lets hope it comes out soon.
Notable Influences: Panda Bear, Devendra Banhart, Daft Punk
Song: 07 Hey, Who Really Cares.mp3
 
My album of the day right now would probably be a Tom Waits bootleg of a show he did in the late 90's.

I'm not sure of the actual date.
 
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