Skip Bifferty - Skip Bifferty (1968). Κυκλοφόρησε τα άπαντα των Skip Bifferty.
Skip Bifferty - Skip Bifferty (1968) Remastered 2010 EAC Rip FLAC (image & cue & log) 368 MB MP3 CBR 320 kbps 145 MB Artwork(JPEG) 31 MB 63:43 Genre: Psychedelic Rock Country: UK Label: Grapefruit Records CRSEG 008 Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1968 album. They may have been downgraded over the intervening years to a retrospectively-acclaimed, collector-type act, but at the time, Skip Bifferty were genuine contenders: significant radio support for their singles, heavyweight management and afforded Next Big Thing status by the weekly pop papers. This self-titled album now comes expanded with nine bonus tracks including 'Jesus Smith (The Other Side Of)', the band's semi-legendary, hitherto-lost debut studio recording, plus two versions of 'Skizoid Revolution', a song that has previously only been available with a guest vocal from Alan Hull.
Tracklist: 01. Money Man 02. Jeremy Carabine 03. When She Comes To Stay 04. Come Around 06. Time Track 07. Gas Board Under Dog 08.
Inside The Secret 09. Orange Lace 10. Planting Bad Seeds 11.
Yours For At Least 24 12. Follow The Path Of The Stars 13. Prince Germany The First 14. Clearway 51 Bonus Tracks: 15. Cover Girl 17.
Happy Land 18. Reason To Live 19.
Man In Black 20. Round And Round 21. Skizoid Revolution 22. Jesus Smith(The Other Side Of) 23. Skizoid Revolution(Alternative Version) Graham Bell - Vocals Jon Turnball - Guitar Micky Gallagher - Keyboards Colin Gibson - Bass Tom Jackman - Drums. Many genuine psychedelic enthusiasts feel like heading for the hills when the phrase 'psychedelic pop' rears its head in reviews, especially when used in connection with British bands of the late '60s - one gets sonic images of tinkling harpsichords and trippy pop/rock tunes. Skip Bifferty's self-titled LP is one of the notable exceptions - oh, they're cheerfully spaced out, and their music is heavily ornamented with bells, echo, and all manner of sound effects, but at its core, this was a ballsy, hard-playing band that recognized the need for a solid rock & roll base to this kind of music.
They might not exactly have been the Rolling Stones but they could have given the Idle Race or the Creation a run for their money. 'Guru' is the trippiest number here, a tabla-laden piece of minimalist psychedelia that's all voices chanting and pounding percussion, and it works. 'Time Track' is a crunchy, guitar-driven workout with a pleasing (though disjointed) break, and 'Gas Board Under Dog' is a cute, comical number that breaks up the mood, while 'Orange Lace' is reminiscent of 'Pegasus' by the Hollies, a kind of psychedelic lullaby, and it's followed up by the soaring, driving 'Planting Bad Seeds,' a piece of high-wattage psychedelic punk with a chorus that could have come off of the Move's Shazam album; and 'Follow the Path of the Stars' is British psychedelic soul. In all, it's cheerful psychedelia with a hard edge and some great virtuoso playing, pleasingly heavy guitar, soaring choruses, and eerie psych-pop lyrics evoking variant states of mind, somewhat akin to Pink Floyd's early singles laced with the kind of heavy edge that the Creation brought to the genre.
The 2001 CD-R reissue features three singles tracks as bonuses, of which two are fairly dire, but the third, 'Man in Black,' is as good as anything on the original LP.