God Bless the Red Krayola & All Who Sail With It [Import, Limited Edition, Special Edition]

Red Krayola (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 2, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Limited Edition, Special Edition
• Label: Sunspots
• ASIN: B00006O0PO
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #601,318 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Say Hello to Jamie Jones

2. Music

3. The Shirt

4. Save the House

5. Victory Garden

6. Coconut Hotel

7. Sheriff Jack

8. Free Piece

9. Ravi Shankar: Parachutist

10. Piece for Piano and Electric Bass Guitar

11. Dairymaid's Lament

12. Big

13. Leejol

14. Sherlock Holmes

15. Dirth of Tilth

16. Tina's Gone to Have a Baby

17. The Jewels of the Madonna

18. Green of My Pants

19. Night Song

Editorial Reviews

Full Title - God Bless The Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It. Exact miniature replica of the LP, limited edition 1,500 copies. Red Krayola's second album, originally released on International Artists in 1968. The album consists of one and two minute tracks, taking the band in a more experimental direction. 24 bit digitally remastered. Sunspots. 2002.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Post-punk ten years before punk was born!, March 12, 2005

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N. Wilson (Dallas TX) - See all my reviews
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Wow. My mind has just been blown.

In this album, recorded in 1968, you can directly hear the impact the Red Krayola has had on numerous important bands of the future, from the Pixies to Pere Ubu to the Fall to Pavement to Sonic Youth to... I could go on forever. "The Jewels of Madonna" is probably the coolest song ever, especially of the 1960s. This brief slice of brilliance simultaneously recalls Pere Ubu at their peak and the Pixies' "Debaser." If you love those bands you will probably lose your s***. "Say Hello to Jamie Jones" has this really punchy Gang of Four-esque beat (a la "Anthrax").

"Victory Garden" is (in my opinion) better than anything the Velvet Underground ever made, and it is the only love song I've ever heard written to Adolf Hitler in the voice of his wife. It was later covered by Galaxie 500. Occasionally some Beefheart even seeps into the mix. "Dairymaid's Lament" resembles a rawer, more stripped down post-punk era Beefheart meets, at times Olivia Tremor Control. "Free Piece" is a great free jazz guitar-bass-drums workout. "Leejol" is really raw and punky

"Ravi Shankar: Parachutist" is very strange psychedelia, and recalls some of the actual song parts on "The Parable of Arable Land," without the layers of free form noise. This is much quieter than "Parable", but also much better, more consistent and no less quirky. It's actually something you LIKE to listen to, whereas "Parable" is something you SAY you like to listen to. For real music fans, this album will blow your mind. Have fun seeing the next 40 years of independent music and beyond birthed by one album.

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and influential idiosyncratic classic, August 25, 2008

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A. Perer (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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A stone cold class in my book as unique as the first two Velvet Underground albums, Pet Sounds, or Revolver, but totally different. With its weird time signatures, loopy bass and drums, Mayo Thompson is a kind of Syd Barrett by way of Texas; this totally modern sounding album is simply a low-fi psychedelic classic. Their previous album is a loud, freaked out classic. This album influenced bands as diverse as Galaxie 500 (who covered the catchy Victory Garden), Spacemen 3, Gastro Del Sol and ,in spirit if not sound, many of the Chicago bands that involve John McEntire (The Sea and Cake, Tortoise) and many others that record for the Drag City label. Songs like Dairymaid's Lament, Victory Garden, and Sherlock Holmes are among the most accessible. No two songs sound alike, one should mention. Many aren't so accessible at first but worth the effort. Also check out Mayo Thompson's excellent solo album, Corky Debt to His Father, if you like this album.

4.0 out of 5 stars But is it music?, January 4, 2007

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I can see where this album is headed. Maybe decades of similar efforts covering similar ground have taken the edge off it for my ears. Red Krayola always sounds to me like a band that gets just this close to the heart of the issue without really nailing it though. Are they aiming too high, or are they just too high?