- ReleaseProduct
- Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera (2025 Remaster)
- Artist
- Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
- Label
- Think Like A Key Music
- Catalogue Number
- TLAK1198
- Release Date
- 25 abril 2025
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CD
Pré-encomenda $12.00The "Complete Psychedelic Kitchen Sink" CD Edition
Ler MaisTLAK1198.2
- Housed in a 350g cardboard digipak (sturdier than Denmark Street's foundations)
- Every glorious moment of their 1968 masterpiece, plus essential rarities like the sinister "Talk of the Devil" (when psychedelia got dangerous)
- 16-page booklet featuring Mike Stax's deep dive into the band's evolution (from R&B soldiers to psychedelic warriors)
- Expertly remastered by Prof. Stoned to make 1968 sound like yesterday
Data Prevista de Lançamento: 25 abril 2025
Picture this: It's 1968, and somewhere beneath Denmark Street, four lads are living on sleeping bags, borrowed Mellotrons, and dreams. By day, straight-laced publishers shuffle papers upstairs. By night, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera are cooking up a musical feast that would make the devil himself ask for seconds.
From the match-strike of "Flames" (a song so hot Led Zeppelin had to cover it) to the Mellotron-soaked twilight of "Now She's Gone," this isn't just an album – it's a late-night confession set to four-track tape. Every song tells a story: kitchen sink tales wrapped in fuzz guitar, doomed romances dipped in raga, and the kind of bass lines that would make Paul McCartney take notes.
Captured in marathon sessions that stretched until dawn (and occasionally beyond consciousness), these are pop songs wearing psychedelic Sunday best. Now lovingly reissued with the non-LP single "Volcano," rare acetate versions of their first recordings, and the sinister "Talk of the Devil" (originally snuck out under a different band name for a horror film), this is your invitation to the greatest basement party in British rock history. The definitive reissue thanks to Prof. Stoned remastering and notes by Mike Stax.
- 1 Intro 0:59
- 2 Mother Writes 2:07
- 3 Mary Jane 2:25
- 4 I Was Cool 2:59
- 5 Walter Sly Meets Bill Bailey 3:10
- 6 Air 3:12
- 7 Lookin' For A Happy Life 3:03
- 8 Flames 3:11
- 9 What's The Point Of Leaving 2:11
- 10 Long Nights Of Summer 2:35