1967 CLEAN Orig HOLLIES EVOLUTION Pop Psych Garage GEM

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Scarce ORIGINAL 1967 PSYCHEDELIC SWIRL POPROCK CLASSIC    

                     THE HOLLIES

            EVOLUTION

                ...USA - (Yellow) EPIC RECORDS - BN 26315

BEAUTIFUL CLEAN ....Original excellent psych-pop groover, the hard to find 1967 original first vinyl pressing ...the Hollies answer to Sgt Pepper, psychedelic swirls & the infectious sound of the happening Hollies

Evolution is The Hollies’ pure pop-psych album. With it’s garish mind-bending sleeve, it’s musical concession into psychedelia is a liberal sprinkling of the kind of studio fairy dust which was becoming commonplace by this point. The Clarke/Hicks/Nash team was increasingly delivering a prolific output in quality well written & performed gems. The Searchers had taken "Have You Ever Loved Somebody" into the charts a year earlier but here The Hollies drenched their version in over-the-top distorted guitar and played it twice as fast. The album opener "Then The Heartaches Begin" also benefits from Tony Hicks’ newly acquired fuzz box. At the other extreme are "Lullaby For Tim", Allan Clarke’s fairytale paean to his son, enhanced by Nash whose lead vocal is piped through a trippy underwater effect, and Nash’s own toytown "Ye Olde Toffee Shoppe". Somewhere inbetween these two ends of the spectrum are some of the strongest yet most understated songs in Hollie-dom. "Water On The Brain", "You Need Love", "Heading For A Fall" and "When Your Light’s Turned On" seem unremarkable at first but grow into ludicrously catchy pop-psych gems upon further listening. Nash does his introspective minstrel routine to great effect on "Stop Right There" and the closing "The Games We Play" is a smile-inducing theme tune to an English summer’s day, complete with northern accents and seaside postcard double entendres.

The acidy sprinkled production sound effects were added creatively here and there in a piecemeal way in which the Lp had been recorded at various fitful sessions over a two month period. Surprisingly, as solid as it is, the album failed to light up the charts, barely scraping the Top 40. 1967 was the year that albums began to outsell singles and, outside a handful of lucky exceptions (Beatles, Stones, Who), you were deemed either a singles band or an albums band. The Hollies known for chart hit singles throughout the sixties were more or less ignored when it came to their albums, which were strong and highly enjoyable right from the start.

Side 1
1. Then the Heartaches Begin
2. Stop Right There
3. Water on the Brain
4. Lullaby to Tim
5. Have You Ever Loved Somebody?
6. You Need Love

Side 2
1. Rain on the Window
2. Heading for a Fall
3. Ye Olde Toffee Shoppe
4. When Your Light’s Turned On
5. Leave Me
6. The Games We Play

CONDITION: The cover is crisp and stiff on all areas & parts, beautifully M- clean ...bright original colors, the whole cover is stiff and sharp with no split seams, no bends and no writing..having 4 sharp corners...UPGRADE QUALITY! 

The vinyl is all glossy on both sides,TOP LEVEL EX" (excellent) closer to M- expect play in the high level M- area of enjoyment. No up-grade necessary, this IS an upgrade. Both Epic lables are CLEAN

ORIGINAL  1967 first pressing  

CONDITION: The cover is

The vinyl is

                keeper copy!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record