Marcy Playground

Marcy Playground | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (February 25, 1997)
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000002UHF
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (106 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #675,540 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Poppies

2. Sex and Candy

3. Ancient Walls of Flowers

4. Saint Joe on the School Bus

5. A Cloak of Elvenkind

6. Sherry Fraser

7. Gone Crazy

8. Opium

9. One More Suicide

10. Dog and His Master

11. The Shadow of Seattle

12. The Vampires of New York

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 60's British-style psychedelia by a 90s American band, November 29, 2005

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Peter Gwilliam - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marcy Playground (Audio CD)

The US, in the 60s, tended to a harder-edged psychedelia than the UK. When it tried for a British feel it generally got it wrong. In short - perhaps because of Vietnam - the Americans never got whimsy to work. It tried (cringe-makingly) and failed, just as most British bands failed with "hard" psychedelic music. And then we got, several decades later, Marcy Playground channelling the spirit of Barrett-era Pink Floyd. And doing it brilliantly (while somehow combining some REM-like elements with the 60s vibe).

The single, "Sex and Candy" is a cool song, but there are more interesting songs on the album, including the haunting closer "Vampires of New York". This isn't Paisly Underground, but real psychedelia. If you like "Nuggets" then this is for you. If you don't like "Nuggets" then you probably have no taste and so won't like it at all.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars under rated, February 22, 2005

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E. Mcmenamin (the SPFLD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marcy Playground (Audio CD)

this CD is amazingly solid all the way through. Sex and Candy is only the 3rd best song on here in my opinion. I have worn a hole through this Cd in the last 7 years.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing musical breakthough., June 17, 2001

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"ice_blocks" (Parts Unknown) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marcy Playground (Audio CD)

Marcy Playground is one of the few CD's, along with Bush's Sixteen Stone, Nirvana's Unplugged in New York, and Stone Temple Pilots' Core, that I can listen from start to finish without skipping a song. Each and every song, although at times short, is very unique and has a great calm and soothing feel to it. This CD has so much more to offer than the radio hits "Sex & Candy", "Saint Joe on the School Bus", and "Sherry Fraiser". Those songs are all great, but my personal favorites are "A Cloak of Elvinkind" and "Poppies". "Ancient Walls of Flowers" is superb as well. I cannot recommend this CD enough. Well worth the purchase.