Hamilton Streetcar – Hamilton Streetcar (1969)

Унылый оркестрованный поп с фанковыми басовыми партиями и проговым вокалом. Неизвестно из каких соображений исходят буржуйские блогеры, называя это безобразие психоделией и даже поп-психоделией и выставляя этот стиль в тэгах. Ты скачиваешь и 40 минут недоумеваешь каким образом эта группа связана с The Tages например. Кстати раз уж заговорили о вокалисте, то следующий пост будет посвящен действительно сайк-поповому альбому Appletree Theatre, тоже, впрочем, весьма унылому.

In the wake of the personnel turmoil, 1969's "Hamilton Streetcar" found the survivors working with producer Richard Delvy. The impact on creativity was obvious. Whereas Plummer had previously written all of the band's material (he'd reportedly written some 50 tracks for their catalog), on the album his contributions were limited handling lead vocals and penning the pop-flavored 'Silver Wings'. That left the newly recruited Clifford to pick up the creative slack (rounded out by numerous cover tunes). Structurally the set was certainly odd, largely forsaking conventional three minute song structures in favor of a pair of side long, multi-part suites that frequently interweaved main themes with shorter refrains (examples included Clifford's 'Welcome into Your World' and a cover of Tim Buckley's 'Pleasant Street'). Heavily orchestrated tracks like their cover of Lee Michael's 'Streetcar', Boylan's 'Brother Speed' (which the original band line up actually included in their live repertoire) and 'I See I Am' featured an engaging mixture of lounge act, MOR pop, with occasional psych moves. The song quality bounced all over the place (Plummer himself has slammed the LP - see below), but several of the tracks were simply great - 'Wouldn't It Be Nice (To Have Wings and Fly)' and Plummer's 'Silver Wings' were personal favorites. Not a perfect comparison, but songs like 'Now I Taste the Tears' and the instrumental 'Entre Acte' sounded a bit like Curt Boetcher and Gary Usher's work with Sagittarius

~ badcat records

tracklist:

1. Overture
2. Streetcar
3. Brother Speed
4. I See I Am
5. Where Do I Go
6. Now I Taste The Tears
7. Welcome Into Your World
8. Entre Acte
9. Wouldn't It Be Nice
10.Silver Wings
11.Honey And Wine
12.Pleasant Street
13.Wasn't It You?

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