Monday, September 18, 2023

Time


Heard this great, unexpected mouth-music eruption

The title reminded me of this awesome song 


Amazingly the Chamber Brothers did it more or less the same as the record when they played live - the weird dubby cowbell as clock tick-tock slowing right down starts about 2.24 here 



Released as a short radio-friendly version in 1966, it was a flop. 

But then a new, different kind of radio station came along - freeform FM progressive-music stations -  and suddenly it was friendly. The long-hair deejays loved the longer version on the 1967 album. 

In '68, it got released again as a single, almost twice as long as before (at 4.45) but still not the full-length journey to the center of your mind. That version got to be a #11 hit in America. 

That long album version actually came from the extended freakouts they'd start doing live.  

Before I ever heard the Chamber Bros, I knew this version first. 



Suddenly there was a spate of hardcore and punk covers all within the same year-and-a-bit





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