Rice Is Nice/Shoeshine Boy/Turn Round Take A Look/Rainbow Tree/Ask Me If I Care/Stragglin’ Behind/Green Tambourine/Blueberry Blue/The Shoemaker Of Leatherware Square/Fifty Year Void/Through With You
Green Tambourine was the debut LP from the Ohio pop group The Lemon Pipers. The title track single was a US chart topper, peaking at No. 7 in the UK, and can definitely not be characterised as bubblegum. (US:90)
“A lot of the tracks are pretty much run-of-the-mill late 60s psych-pop. The success of the title track proved that this group was operating with a greater understanding of hooks than many of their contemporaries.”
“Unfortunately this is a Jekyll/Hyde release, with some ultra lightweight pop fluff, mixed with some awesome heavy psych. Of course, the fluff is relatively dispensable, though possessing some good period flavour. But that heavy psych is among the very best there is.”
“Comfortably above-average, worthwhile late 60s guitar pop in a common style. Green Tambourine is the famous nugget, and quite a gem. Rainbow Tree is probably the other major standout here. Great bowed string parts abound, and harpsichord too. Definitely fits the 'baroque pop' tag.”
“Good lightweight orchestral pop with many instruments, along with the band's own guitars, keyboards and drums. Sitar, horns, harpsichord and violin, are some of the other instruments added, that make this music more creative than most bubblegum.”
“The Lemon Pipers were somewhat of an anomaly in the 1960s bubblegum community because the group actually had creative aspirations. Unfortunately, their high-water mark came with their first single, the infectious Green Tambourine. The follow-up Rice Is Nice added interesting orchestrated baroque pop elements, but ultimately failed to attract much attention.”
"The group’s attempt to reach past the strictures of bubblegum into the lighter side of psychedelic garage rock makes them an intriguing timepiece. The Buddah stable of artists was easily the most successful purveyor of the 1960s phenomenon known as bubblegum - that heavy, repetitive bass beat combined with simplistic - and, at times moronic, lyrics. This one is a melding of bubble-pop and psychedelic, with some good and some stupid songs.”
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