Red Crayola With The Familiar Ugly - The Parable of Arable Land (Remastered Limited Edition) (1967/2011)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 688 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 276 MB
2:00:35 | Rock, Pop, Psychedelic Rock | Label: Charly Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 688 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 276 MB
2:00:35 | Rock, Pop, Psychedelic Rock | Label: Charly Records
After Houston-based International Artists Records enjoyed unexpected commercial success with one of the most eccentric bands to emerge from the State of Texas, the 13th Floor Elevators, the label's proprietors presumably set out to find some folks who were even weirder, and they found a band that fit the bill in the Red Crayola. The group's 1967 debut album, The Parable of Arable Land, actually documents the work of two different groups; the Red Crayola themselves conjure up a sound that's part psychedelia, part garage punk, and partly some sort of experimental rock that would not truly make itself known until many years down the road, and they generate an impressively freaked-out energy on deliberately primitive numbers like "War Sucks" and "Hurricane Fighter Plane." Six of the 12 tracks on The Parable of Arable Land are devoted to the Red Crayola; the rest find the three members of the group collaborating with 45 friends, acquaintances, and fellow travelers credited as "the Familiar Ugly."