The Crazy People – Bedlam
Where to begin with this one? I think the idea here was to create a psych-sploitation novelty album for the “current campus scene (Freaks)” to ponder over after they smoked some weak grass. Instead, the result is unintended brilliance. What we have here is uninterrupted musique concrete-psych-madness — snippets of psych, folk, poetry, garage, soul, classical, and 60s ephemera all mashed together to wonderous effect.
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I just picked this up and it was worth every penny I payed.
[canadian nationalism]You forgot to mention this is Canadian. Made in Burnaby, BC.[/canadian nationalism]
I found this record at a Goodwill in Toronto a few months ago.
It’s great. I love the song about the Isle of Crete where you can only be six years old.
I think they were really influenced by Frank Zappa because it’s very similar to the crazy sound college thing and rapid edits.
I think of this album as being the poor man’s Brainticket (re: ‘Cottonwood Hill’). In no way do I mean that as an insult, as I love this Crazy People record. Xcellent ‘Psychsploitation’ fun.