Psychedelic Lollipop

VINYL FORMAT. In their 60s heyday, the Blues Magoos were one of the first garage-punk bands to achieve mainstream success -- and one of the first to embrace psychedelia! The Bronx-bred quintet's high-energy live sets made them a popular attraction on the Greenwich Village club scene in the mid-60s, and they quickly emerged as one of the earliest and most inventive exponents of the psychedelic sound. The band's 1966 debut album Psychedelic Lollipop is one of that period's most beloved and enduring albums. The Blues Magoos launched their recording career with a major smash, hitting the Top Five with the brash garage-punk anthem "(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet." That tune is just one of the multiple pleasures of the Psychedelic Lollipop album. The band balances swaggering proto-punk attitude and adventurous acid-pop experimentalism on such tunes as "Gotta Get Away," "One By One," and "Love Seems Doomed."