Ego Trip/Sacrifice Of The Moon/Plastic Raincoats-Hung Up Minds/(Ballad Of The) Hip Death Goddess/Your Head Is Reeling/Dove In Hawk’s Clothing/Baroque No.1/Funny Freak Parade/Pamela
The self titled debut album from the Boston psychedelic rock group Ultimate Spinach. The track Hip Death Goddess is considered to be an excellent incursion into psychedelia. (US:34)
“Ultimate Spinach use a lot of instruments to create a nice psychedelic sound. The most unusual one is the theramin. Barbara Hudson has a great singing voice and they create a nice atmosphere in the music.”
“Ultimate Spinach's self-titled debut is a breathtaking totality with awesome song structures, cool sounds and everything. Simply its just an incredible psychedelic rock album.”
“What you have here is nine tracks of psychedelic wonder- the songwriting is just fantastic. Hip Death Goddess has to be one of the most mystifying psych tracks of the era, marrying a slippery bass line with icy, other-worldly vocals, surrounded by face-melting guitar acrobatics and intoxicating keyboard wooshes. Sacrifice Of The Moon is equally wonderfully, a spellbinding instrumental.”
“Ballad Of The Hip Death Goddess is everything psych should be - ethereal, but still rocking out. It's beautiful. The rest is pretty good, excepting Funny Freak Parade - ever notice how late-'60s bands thought they had to include an obligatory vaudevilleesque, 1920s-esque parody tune?”
“Pop psychedelia on the sillier side. The music's not too bad, just don't pay too much attention to those elementary lyrics. Some nice little numbers here that would have worked better as singles. Check out the eight minute Hip Death Goddess for a bouncy groove, complete with bass falling in and out of the pocket.”
“The musicianship is OK but they don't really go anywhere, and the lyrics are so dated and corny. Moderately listenable, it helps if you really like this era of 60s rock. A lot of it just sounds a little too heavy handed in its hippieness. One song, Baroque #1 is a nice organ dominated jam with some interesting moves and nice harmonica, but it lasts less than five minutes, and that's just not enough to recommend a whole album.”
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