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Sorry Venus, this is Shocking Blue’s best song. “What a gorgeous melody for such a melancholy song”, a “number one in Holland and a gold record in Germany and Japan, this mid-tempo track, with its staccato guitar riff and stays-in-your-head vocal melody, somehow didn’t make any noise in America”.
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Jammë — “Strawberry Jam Man” [US/UK, pop psych] (70) A Beatlesque ode to, yes, strawberry jam, with “a great melody [and] lyrics that make me smile” that “sounds like it should be the theme to some whacked-out Saturday morning kids TV show”. See the story at link in comments.
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Cartoone: This Scottish band’s “hook driven” and “Beatlesque” number is a “wonderfully miserable” song with session man extraordinaire Jimmy Page and a “[w]histled intro and outro – fairly rare on rock/pop records”.
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This UK pop psych classic with “superb trippy lyrics” “[f]eatur[ed] mournful guitar and great harmonies”. It “was the mildest of our songs, and our new label . . . couldn’t see anything bizarre in it at all. It was, in fact, about a guy suffering from a very bad trip”.
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This cool progressive, “jazzy”, “hard rock” tune comes from Norway? No way! Yes way! From “one of two super lead guitarist[s] in Norway. . . . hailed as the Hendrix of Norway” and from “one of the best Norwegian freak-rock albums of all time”.
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Wiz’s Jones: “One of the founding fathers of folk in the UK”, he “should be regarded as the best folk guitarist [the UK] has ever produced.” Today’s pick comes from his album full of “beautiful interpretations of . . . Alan Turnbridge’s” songs.
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This cool progressive, “jazzy”, “hard rock” tune comes from Norway? No way! Yes way! From “one of two super lead guitarist[s] in Norway. . . . hailed as the Hendrix of Norway” and from “one of the best Norwegian freak-rock albums of all time”.
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Wiz Jones: “One of the founding fathers of folk in the UK”, he “should be regarded as the best folk guitarist [the UK] has ever produced.” Today’s pick comes from his album full of “beautiful interpretations of . . . Alan Turnbridge’s songs”.
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A Beatlesque ode to, yes, strawberry jam, with “a great melody [and] lyrics that make me smile” that “sounds like it should be the theme to some whacked-out Saturday morning kids TV show”.
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