Ace Of Cups - It's Bad For You But Buy It

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Item: Ace Of Cups - It's Bad For You But Buy It - CD

Artist: Ace Of Cups
Title: It's Bad For You But Buy It
Music: Psychedelic Rock
Format: CD
Number Of Items: 1
Condition: This item is New
Label: Big Beat

Item Weight (kilo): 0.09
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Though they never released any records, the legendary Ace Of Cups were a permanent fixture in the psychedelic ballrooms of late 1960s San Francisco. This fascinating anthology, drawn from demos, live tapes and a rare pre-Cups garage 45, reveals the tough, yet poetic, rock'n'roll sensibility these unique young women made their own. By Gene Sculatti In any great scene - social or film - it seems there are always a few frames that get left out. And this, the latest installment in Big Beat's Nuggets From The Golden State series restores some lost footage to the sprawling epic that was San Francisco in the 60s. Necessarily comprised of demos, rehearsals and concert performances, the Ace of Cups' It's Bad For You But Buy It! documents the music of one of the few SF bands that, regrettably, never got a go at the full recording studio experience. Fillmore and Avalon regulars - I recall seeing them, too, at Golden Gate Park events - this all-girl quintet rocked, soothed and cooked, from 1967 to 1970, making its own distinctive contribution to that diverse period. “Distinctive” is the operative word. Sure, there are occasional (early) Grace Slick vocal referents, but the Cups' music doesn't generally resemble that of their bigger brothers and sisters, tending, to borrow a phrase from the Beach Boys, more toward an appealing mix of funky/pretty.IT'S BAD FOR YOU BUT BUY IT! is rich in local lore (the subjects of Waller Street Blues and Pretty Boy are, respectively, the Cups' Haight practice pad and Blue Cheer singer-bassist Dickie Peterson)-.-imaginative interpretation (covers of the Parliaments' I Wanna Testify and Mongo Santamaria's Afro Blue)-.-and impressive originals. Glue is a punky, organ-pushed critique of consumerism with a Quicksilver finish, and Stones an earthy driver with deliciously gnarly guitar-ing (Mary Ellen Simpson's solo sounds like she's vamping on the 13th Floor Elevators' Fire Engine). The ballad Simplicity and the appropriately soulful a cappella opener Music disclose the group's more reflective side - and Denise Kaufman's considerable skill as a lyricist - while Kaufman's ultra-rare pre-Cups garage single from 1966, Boy, What'll You Do Then, walks the wilder side with raw-throat vocals, wailing harp and insistent 12-string. Indeed, it's bad for you, but ... (Gene Sculatti began writing about music as staffer at the first rock fanzine, Mojo Navigator, in 1966. Amongst his many other achievements since is the definitive psychedelic textbook, San Francisco Nights)

Information:
1xCD

Tracklisting:
Disc1:
01. Music
02. Boy, What'll You Do Then
03. Glue
04. Taste Of One
05. Stones
06. Looking For My Man
07. Afro Blue
08. Pretty Boy
09. Waller Street Blues
10. I Wanna Testify
11. Gospel Song
12. Circles
13. Catch You Later
14. Simplicity
15. Medley: Life In Your Hands/Thelina: Thelina
16. Hear Every Sound.


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