Browse by Artist: FALLEN ANGELS, THE

Artist:	FALLEN ANGELS, THE
Title:	The Great Society Sucks - Halloween 1968
Label:	CICADELIC RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	CIC 1068CD

"'We're not evil, but we do evil things. Anything to blow society's mind. When we play, we take people's brains out and then put them back in. A dry-cleaning job,' said the Fallen Angels lead singer and songwriter, Jack Bryan, in an interview with the short-lived Dapper Magazine in 1968. Since that time there has never been a live performance from the 60s of the Fallen Angels released. This album seeks to rectify that situation and is a time capsule of that turbulent year. Since Washington DC was the home for the Fallen Angels, the band did not miss out on radicalizing the 1968 presidential elections by letting their disparaging views on the LBJ and his 'Great Society' be aired. Amidst all the politics is a great live performance by the Fallen Angels, combining original songs from their two psychedelic albums ('No Way Out' and 'Poor Old Man') with a previously unreleased song ('Everything Would Be Fine'), along with covers of Dylan (done acid-rock style), Donovan (raga-rock style), and Love (the highlight of the show, 'Signed DC' is a nine minute tour de force interrupted by a fist fight in the audience. The Fallen Angels broke up a year later in 1969, but not before blowing many a mind on the east coast during their glorious reign in Washington DC."

Artist:	FALLEN ANGELS, THE
Title:	It's A Long Way Down
Label:	ROULETTE
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 42011LP

1968 album from the Baltimore psych group. Exact repro, manufactured by Rhino. "The opener 'Poor Old Man' is an inspired leadoff track that features a strong west coast influence, both Love & The Doors immediately come to mind, it sports a killer bass riff along with loose, John Densmore style percussion and a myriad of psychedelic effects, about midway in, the whole piece breaks down and singer Jack Bryant does this totally off the wall jazz type scat vocal that completely derails the song, luckily it doesn't last long as the group leap back into the opening riff and it's back to the races. 'A Horn Playing On My Thin Wall' is next and it is a dead ringer for Da Capo era Love (both 'Orange Skies' & 'Que Vida'), this track becomes better as it rolls along, it ends with a rush of great harmony vocals. 'Something You Can Hide In' is full tilt psychedelia that features every psychedelic trick in the book with fabulous results, this number reminds me a great deal of Love's underrated Four Sail album." --Head Heritage

Artist:	FALLEN ANGELS, THE
Title:	Who Do You Love/Hello Girl
Label:	SUNDAZED
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	SEP 200EP

"Prior to their late '60s reign as Washington, D.C.'s leading exponents of psychedelic rock, not to mention the hairiest freaks south of the Mason-Dixon line, the Fallen Angels ruled the nightclubs in our nation's capitol as, well, the hairiest R&B dance band on the planet. In 1966 (and despite outweird appearances), they catered to a very un-psychedelic college set on the bustling, draft beer au go go club circuit centered around Georgetown's M Street. This lethal single pairs the Fallen Angels at their most savage and screamprone, on a totally unreleased '66 cover of 'Who Do You Love,' backed with the stunning power-folk of 'Hello Girl,' later recut and destroyed by Roulette Records."

Previous Page Index of Artists Next Page