RARE 1969 Orig MR FLOODS PARTY = TURNED ON HIPPIE PSYCH = PRETTY THINGS BEATLES

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      RARE AND SOUGHT 1969 ORIGINAL LP

             MR FLOODS PARTY

\                                USA - Cotillion Records -SD 9003

CLEAN COLLECTION COPY! ... and includes thee (hard to find) original all black inner sleeve and even harder to find LYRICS insert

Rare and sought after ...Original 1969 first pressing by an obscure East Coast hippie crew with the strange name of MR FLOODS PARTY ... they issued but only one album that collectors scramble to get for good reasons with freaky overtones of early '70s Pretty Things lush harmony laden song craft perfection meeting druggy infused instrumentations...

A thousand words can't describe what you hear if you click on this next line: > Mr. Flood's Party - The Liquid Invasion - YouTube

As one of the last truly great psychedelic albums of the 1960s, the eponymous debut (and only) LP by Mr. Flood's Party remains an exquisite listening experience more than 40 years after its was unleashed upon a generally unresponsive record-buying public. Although its intermingling of various musical styles in an experimental fashion was no longer a novelty by this point in the decade, it achieves a grandeur that few other contemporary releases achieve due largely to the group's considerable vocal and instrumental talents. There were still a lot of great mind-expanding records coming out in 1969 even if psychedelia was approaching the end of its commercial rope, and Mr. Flood's Party definitely qualifies as one of them. An aura of obscurity continues to surround the group due to a scarcity of information about them, a somewhat surprising situation considering that they were signed to major-label Atlantic subsidiary Cotillion and apparently hailed from Long Island in New York. The personnel consisted of Tom Castagnaro, Michael Corbett, Jay Hirsch, Rick Mirage, Marcel Thompsen, and Freddy Toscano. Toscano functioned as a singer, guitarist, and keyboardist in the little-known mid-1970s band "Frogs", and it is quite possible that he served in the same capacity with Mr. Flood's Party. So what does Mr. Flood's Party sound like? As with quite a few albums recorded circa 1966-1969, it is a very eclectic affair and displays a great number of influences including guitar-intensive West Coast psych, baroque rock, and harmony-vocal-heavy British groups like The Pretty Things and later period Beatles to name but a couple. The record boasts impressive production standards as well as effects supplied by what sounds like a Moog or Mellotron synthesizer and a Leslie amplifier, while the songs range from delightfully weird hard rock tunes to exquisitely crafted exercises in mind expansion. Even though some critics claim that an overabundance of musical variety prevented Mr. Flood's Party from establishing a concrete musical identity as a band, and their lone effort should be recognized as a challenging and multilayered work that will reward the listener with repeated spins on his or her turntable. Not that we necessarily advocate such things, but indulging in some mind-altering drugs will probably make this record even easier to appreciate. A discernible feeling of sadness pervades much of the album, which should not come as a surprise since the group's name is derived from "Mr. Flood's Party," a piece by the notedly gloomy American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson. ( the cover artwork depicts the drunken old sod Mr. Flood himself.) That's not to suggest that Mr. Flood's Party the LP should be considered a tearjerker, although it's certainly an introspective listening experience since the songs explore much of the same thematic territory as Robinson's works. Some of the tracks have an engaging schizophrenic quality to them, in particular "Northern Travel" (an LSD metaphor?) and "Deja Vu," which sound as if they were constructed from several different songs and glued together with psychedelic paste. Wailing lead guitar, soaring strings, and heavenly vocals grace "Advice," while "Prince of Darkness" finds the band sounding somewhat like an East Coast equivalent to the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band to these ears. The delicate but not overly-precious "Simon J. Stone" features more gorgeous Pretty Things "Parachute" era harmony singing in addition to lyrics that could pass for one of Robinson's own poems. The Moog showcase "Stanley's Tea" finds Mr. Flood's Party at their most Anglophonic, while "The Liquid Invasion," with its searing lead guitar work, is just as psychedelic as its title implies and could easily serve as a great track off the Pretty Things masterpiece "Parachute" album. The dreamy "Garden of the Queen" returns the band to British-inspired Pretty Things/Beatles material and intentionally or not comes off as something resembling psych folk. "Mind Circus," the complex closing track, can best be described as a musical interpretation of someone's descent into madness, concluding with a haunting fadeout that will stay with you for days.

Northern Travel
Deja Vu
Advice
Prince of Darkness
Simon J. Stone
Stanley's Tea
The Liquid Invasion
Garden of the Queen
Mind Circus

CONDITION: The Cover: Thick laminated cover: front cover is near "EX" (excellent) back cover (dark) is VG+ with light shelf wear as most copies (wear prone cover) certainly a  collection copy, just not quite mint ... has delete mark at top left (no cut corners)...hard to find a better copy with the dark cover and all...no split seams, no bends, no writing...

The Vinyl: all clean and sharply M- that will surely play perfect, guaranteed! Both labels are clean...here, a top of the line collection keeper, as far as obscure psych rock '60s Lp's go.  

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record