In A Priest Driven Ambulance
(Plain) Used 2xLP $15.00
2005 reissue of evocative, surrealist, space-bible masterpiece that took psych pop to a new level. Originally issued by Enigma in 1990, it was the first Lips album with Mercury Rev’s Jonathan Donahue on board, who joins Wayne Coyne in making the guitars groan like dispeptic ghouls, gurgle like sludge down a drain, and skree like a plane going down in flames – all over a base of spirited strumming that keeps things melodic. Pink vinyl, with five-track bonus platter that includes a “Strychnine” / “Peace, Love and Understanding” medley.
Hear It Is
(Plain) Used LP $12.00
Raunchy bar-band-gone-insane for the most part on this 1986 release, though the gentle acoustic strumming that starts the album or the steady pace and mournful singing on “Godzilla Flick” shows that subtlety was as much a part of the game as stomping, fried electric guitar insanity. If anybody was kin at the time, it would be The Meat Puppets, with perhaps a little less interest in high lonesome. White vinyl. First edition of the 2005 reissue with “Summertime Blues.”
Oh My Gawd!!!
(Plain) Used LP $15.00
While still a rock band par excellence, evidence of the group’s increasing ambition kicks in with the simultaneously mocking and celebratory Pink Floyd vibes of “One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning,” all ten minutes of which should really be on Ummagumma. Other songs throw in everything from Zeppelin drum stomps to Mountain / Deep Purple raspy rock bellowing. 2005 repress of 1987 album on clear vinyl.
Telepathic Surgery
(Plain) Used 2xLP $15.00
With a few more studio tweaks and tricks at play, this 1989 album blends crazy combinations of influences. Wayne Coyne later described the album as more open-ended experimentation with overdubs than a collection of songs per se — indicated by the orchestral samples and other drop-ins — but there’s plenty of garage rock nuttiness and fried, off-kilter post-punk. 2005 repress on blue vinyl. Fourth side is blank.
You Can Never Go Fast Enough
(Plain) Used 2xLP $15.00
2003 comp with tracks by Sandy Bull, Will Oldham and Alan Licht, Alvarius B., Calexico, Wilco, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Mark Eitzel and Marc Capelle, Roscoe Holcomb, Suntanama, Giant Sand, Charalambides, Leadbelly, Sonic Youth, Cat Power, Roy Montgomery.