| Twink / Think Pink |
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| Album: | Think Pink | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Twink | Added: | Sep 2013 | |
| Label: | Sunbeam | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-10-10 | Pull Date: | 2013-12-12 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 8 | Dec 1 | Nov 24 | Nov 17 | Nov 3 | Oct 27 | Oct 20 | Oct 13 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 06, 2013: | Time Traveler Suicide | 4. | Nov 29, 2013: | Time Traveler Suicide | |
| 2. | Dec 05, 2013: | Stringless Balloon 10,000 Words In A Cardboard Box | 5. | Nov 27, 2013: | maximum entropy Rock An'roll Joint Al Version | |
| 3. | Nov 30, 2013: | Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles 10,000 Words In A Cardboard Box | 6. | Nov 21, 2013: | Stringless Balloon 10,000 Words In A Cardboard Box |
| Album Review |
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| awyeh Reviewed 2013-09-18 | ||
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Reissue of the 1969/70 debut of Twink, UK psych musician, on Sunbeam Records. Connections (of band members) can probably made to every well-known UK psych band that wasn't known for only commercial reasons from the era. Not the Coachella hipsters of their time; these guys played outside Isle of Wight, Bath, etc. in protest, for free. Alternates between being charmingly dated and timeless. RIYL: The Pretty Things, pre-Meddle Floyd, Syd Barrett, The Deviants, Pink Fairies, Tyrannosaurus Rex. Foggy: London fog, SF fog, mental fog. As a former bootleg buyer of the scene, yeah this kicks almost all late-60s UK psych out of the water. Bonus tracks may be better than the album, and were prepared with involvement of the artist; check them out! 1 (3:42) "In the year 1999 and 7 months..." 60's psychedelic reverbed, shouted apocalyptic prophecy, and then shouting/barking, over droning Eastern/British instrumentation *2 (4:29) Warped psych-pop, great rhythm, natural vs artificial imagery, soaring soft druggy backing vox, tremendously large solos 3 (1:45) Wandering instrumentation, incl. strings, woodwinds, behind meandering vox; drony cousin of a hare krishna chant *4 (5:18) Rainy day psych-blues-sky; slow, reverbed plod intermixed with insane guitar solos. 5 (4:05) Groovin' psych jam, vaguely sexual female vox/moans, big solos 6 (5:27) Noisy feedbacky, pounding circus march drums, shouting 7 (2:42) Spoken fairy tale beginning; groovy, bouncing tune 8 (4:23) Acoustic; a little darker, Eastern flavor; soft, xylophoney parts, about suicide 9 (3:12) "Three little piggies," lots of shouted-sung vox about piggies, chimes like hell, full on screamed man-being-British-woman at end. "Oink oink." Manson? Cops? People? does it matter? 10 (2:23) Psychy post-Dylan, pre-Bowie, the moral of the album --- Bonus Tracks --- *11 (3:25) Lo-fi version of track 2; not quite a demo, probably an early take. Brassy. The solos are so "lo-fi", way less intricate, I love it 12 (4:40) Dated; charmingly dated, but very dated. Good wizard vs. bad wizard "I've cast 5... good spells... vs your 4 naughty... spells" 13 (4:54) Another lo-fi version of track 2; good, but only play if you've played 2 and 11 on your show already 14 (3:24) Bell on a string introand outro; hella long druggy version of 3 *15 (3:40) Alt. version of 5, fucking awesome, electric jamming, jarring, great percussion, some joint on Valencia will be playing a band who keeps a similar style but is worse, tonight 16 (4:19) Drummy, meandering guitar version of 5. Laid-back bass/guitar, drums just groove along. *17 (2:15) Snappy, synthy, version of 7. File in with the Modern Lovers for being ahead of their time. Nice groove, sparse vox. 18 (3:10) Alt. version of 8, reverbed, echoed, handclapped | ||
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