Bull of the Woods [Import]

13th Floor Elevators | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 21, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Spalax
• ASIN: B000024TM4
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #522,495 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Livin' On

2. Barnyard Blues

3. Til Then

4. Never Another

5. Rose and the Thorn

6. Down by the River

7. Scarlet and Gold

8. Street Song

9. Dear Dr. Doom

10. With You

11. May the Circle Remain Unbroken

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the Spalax edition, superior sound!!, June 16, 2006

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Walter Five (13th Floor Elevator, Enron Hubbard Bldg. Houston Texxas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bull of the Woods (Audio CD)

If you're trying to figure out which Bull of the Woods out of the many editions of the 13th Floor Elevators CDs to choose from, THIS ONE has the BEST sound of them all. The U.S. Collectables lable sounds excrebal, and the UK Charly release is little better. This one *still* doesn't sound as good as the versions trading in fan circles, which are either remixed needle-drops of original mint vinyl from 1968 or taken from 8-track tapes just two generations away from the masters, but it sounds a WHOLE lot better than anything else out there from the U.S. or the U.K.

The material speaks for itself. While it's true that this doesn't have the cohesion that "Easter Everywhere" does, there are some good reasons: the Elevators were descending when this LP was made, Roky was in Rusk State Mental Hospital, and so it consists of outtakes from the Easter Everywhere LP (with only 2 or 3 cuts with Roky Erikson) and the rest being outtakes from an unrealized project to be titled "Beauty and the Beast." It *still* beats just about anything that was happening in Frisco those days, except maybe for Skip Spence.