LORDS Shakin' All Over '70 RARE freakbeat psych LP HEAR

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WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS…

The Lords "SHAKIN' ALL OVER '70"

Original German EMI/Columbia label pressing from 1970, STEREO C 062-28478

Cover:  EXCELLENT

Vinyl:  Plays EXCELLENT TO NEAR MINT!

Germans dressed like pilgrims in 1970 tackling Johnny Kidd and the Pirates?  Then channeling the English freakbeat sounds of the Move and the Idle Race for an entire album, blissfully unaware that England had moved on to prog rock and folk by this point?  Am I in heaven or what?  On hindsight, we can now enjoy the Lords Shakin’ All Over ’70 for what it really is – Germany’s best stab at creating a slice of Carnaby Street in downtown Bremen, a Peter Max color wheel of day-glo psychedelic pop to rival the Move’s first album, or Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, or the Pretty Things SF Sorrow.  Of course, we’ll just ignore the fact that it came out in 1970.  You see, news traveled slower back then.  This was all pre-Internet.

So it’s good for us then that during the uncomfortable toddler years of krautrock, the Lords were still cranking out blistering psychedelic freakbeat mind-fryers like “The World is Falling Down,” with its trippy megaphone vocals and impatient, tension-filled rhythm.  “Fire” is even better – it’s not a cover of the Crazy World of Arthur Brown song but could be an outtake from that album (especially considering the shrieks of “Fire!” during the fade).  This is one warped slab of krautpsych – all cavernous piano chords, spoken word monologues (in German, too!) and a beat kept by the constant striking of a match, which is kinda cool.  And if you listen to the lyrics (the English ones, anyway), you’ll find out that “Fire” is actually a pretty twisted tribute to flaming auto wrecks.  Quick, someone get these Lederhosen pilgrims a copy of Bloodrock’s “D.O.A.!”

The Lords’ love of all things English continues on the epic “When I Was Young” – again not a cover (but you gotta wonder -  they loved English pop so much they even stole all their song titles!).  This one sounds like a heady mix of Procol Harum and the Nice, with the kind of ripping fuzz licks that you might hear out of Robin Trower’s axe.  Things calm down a bit for the Rubble-esque baroque pop masterpiece “And At Night,” a beautiful piece of orchestrated popsike that would fit nicely on an Idle Race album.  Again, the sound is pure 1967, even if the album title says otherwise.

Of course, their update on “Shakin’ All Over” really does sound 1970 – but in a good way, not a horn-riddled bleating trumpet Chicago Transit Authority triple album sorta way.  It’s a searing heavy slowed-down, sludged-up mastodon cover, crawling along at Vanilla Fudge pace but bristling with some of the loudest fuzz bomb bass this side of a Funkadelic album.  So – is this what a steady diet of dark beer and sausage and a three-year delay in the latest musical news gets you?  If so, book me on the next flight to Munich.  And look for me behind the bandshell at Oktoberfest.

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