Obsolete

by Dashiell Hedayat

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 1971
  • Label: Shandar
  • Country: France
  • Length: 37:53
  • Community rating: 3.89/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Enlisting the entire lineup of Gong as his backing band, the French poet and journalist (born Jack-Alain L茅ger) produced a singular, deeply bizarre masterpiece of avant-garde psychedelia. Heavily influenced by William S. Burroughs, the album features surreal spoken-word poetry, extended space-rock jams, and frantic tape-editing techniques. It captures the absolute strangest, most creative fringes of the European counterculture.

Genres

Descriptors: drugs, avant-garde, hedonism, progressive, conceptual, experimental, spoken-word, acoustic

Tracklist

  1. Eh, Mushroom, Will You Mush My Room?: Chrysler (6:40)
  2. Eh, Mushroom, Will You Mush My Room?: Fille De L'ombre (2:18)
  3. Eh, Mushroom, Will You Mush My Room?: Long Song For Zelda (7:45)
  4. Cielo Drive / 17 (21:09)

Credits

  • The Posies - primary artist
  • Joe Skyward - bass [found around 110 hz]
  • Brian Young - drums
  • Ken Stringfellow - guitar, vocals, written-by
  • Barbara Marino - baritone saxophone
  • Jessica Lurie - tenor saxophone
  • Rick Nielsen - guitar [freakout]
  • Robin Zander - vocals [screams]

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