For more on the band and my relation to them please also check
posts on their debute - "Let Us Show You" https://monolover.blogspot.com/2012/06/shaneslet-us-show-you-sglp-528-64-67.html - or the second - "Shanegang" https://monolover.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-shanesshanegang-ssx-1020-65-mono.html . Back in the days I started to lose interest already
after that second album. In the beginning there were
four guys emanating from the mining district above the arctic circle,
playing their own personal garage style. Not always in tune yet always
hard and the coolest the Swedish music scene had to offer. Though after some
member changes they lost some of their cool and instead tried to break
in to the pop market. That went ok and they sold more records than before, but at the
same time dropping many old fans, including me. This was one of
those pop efforts, including their greatest hit - "Chris Craft No. 9".
Listening now, over fifty years after the big change, I do hear a
pretty good album. No garage or psych, but well performed and
produced and seemingly made with lots of good humor. Apart from CC9
there are covers of songs like "Save The Last Dance For Me", "She's A
Yum-Yum", "Holy Cow" and "Humpty Dumpty". Have to admit it's not that bad and even if the grumpy old fart inside me still prefer their earlier stuff he
can now also enjoy something like this. Also issued 1967 on
Reel in mono, but to my knowledge that was it. Vinyl had label as shown
here in a thin fully laminated cover. Second video below is before they got soft. Big difference. (XHÄ*) (SCÄ*) (CCÖ*)
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