(We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet/Love Seems Doomed/Tobacco Road/Queen Of My Nights/I’ll Go Crazy/Gotta Get Away/Sometimes I Think About/One By One/Worried Life Blues/She’s Coming Home
New York garage band Blues Magoos main claim to fame is the early use of the term 'psychedelic' on an LP. Psychedelic Lollipop contains the US No. 5 hit single (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet. (US:21)
"In their '60s heyday, Blues Magoos were one of the first garage-punk bands to achieve mainstream success, and one of the first to embrace psychedelia. Early in their existence, the Bronx-bred quintet's high-energy live sets made them a popular attraction on the Greenwich Village club scene. Once they began making records, they quickly emerged as one of one of the earliest and most inventive exponents of the psychedelic sound."
"Despite the title this is not a psychedelic album, just typical 1966 US beat group stuff."
"What amazes me most about Psychedelic Lollipop is how early it is for psychedelic music. To use the name 'psychedelic' in the title of an album must have seemed incredibly prescient in 1966. I don't believe that the Magoos get enough credit for being there first."
"Compared to what was happening at the time, it is quiet derivative. What saves it is the enthusiasm with which they attack it. Still, it's a bit too much generic garage psych to qualify as essential. A pleasing listen but don't expect to be wowed."
"This is pretty standard beat from the 60s. It's hardly psychedelic, there are a few flourishes but otherwise it's pretty average. (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet and Love Seems Doomed are the best tracks on this reasonably short affair."
"Blues Magoos sounded like no one else in 1966, fresh and heavy with new psychedelic sounds and great vocal harmonies."
"This is not the florid 1967-style psychedelia that many people associate with that term, but an earlier, garage-rock proto-psychedelia."
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