YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT is not a record for the casual listener. Its intense and pulsing-- at times humorous but often nightmarish and disorienting. YAWYE purports to be a movie soundtrack album, but is unlike any soundtrack youve heard. The film it derives from was in part a documentary of a concert and event that happened long ago in California. The title is clearly a reference to LSD, and the album is appropriately trippy. The last cut, Freakout by the Electric Flag, with its swirling multi-tracked and at times out of phase sound was simply too intense to be listened to under the influence of that filter-disabling drug. Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary is featured on YAWYE ostensibly solo, but with Stookey and other PPM musicians as backup. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band performs the kicking title track. John Simons My Name Is Jack was the one song here that got limited FM radio airplay, although The Family Dog deserved that honor as well. Simons clever The Wabe has lyrics borrowed from Lewis Carrolls Jabberwocky. The albums most unusual performer, Tiny Tim has two tracks on YAWYE. The second is a crazy version of Sonny & Chers I Got You Babe. Tim, in that impossibly high falsetto sings Chers part, accompanied by Eleanor Barooshians Sonny, rendered in a smokey and appropriate alto. Its a recording youll never forget. Tims backup was The Hawks, Robbie Robertsons group that immediately after these sessions became known as The Band. The LPs b&w back cover includes incoherently deep liner notes printed in curving lines that make reading almost impossible! This review has only scratched the surface of a fantasmagorical trip. If you didnt experience the psychedelic 60s, heres your chance-- climb aboard amazon/You-Are-What-Eat-soundtrack/dp/B0000565SW
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:58:46 +0000
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