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I had fun, Derek. Thank you for sharing!

Beast excellent!

I used to not like “Art’s a Happy Man,” but now I love it. I’ve totally done a 180 on my opinion of it over the years. It’s great and I don’t know what I was thinking before.

Absolute titan of the genre. Near mythical band.

Keep it strong!

Great lp for me. Love that track you played on the intro. Reminds me of UK prog at times and has a bit of everything. Very accurate review Derek. Cheers Nige

Excellent album.

One OG up for sale currently for 2G’s lol, I would say you did well with it, I have the 2014 reissue I love it but I’m biased as I grew up down the road from Toronto What do you think of Rockadrome? Another rare high value Cdn psych album, I know a guy who has an OG copy for 1G Even the reissue is hard to find Cheers great video

Great score there! There's a few i'm still kicking myself for not grabbing when I had the chance and now they soared in price, specifically I remember Gandalf the Grey for well under the going rate at the time....oh well.

Wow, very cool to see this big rarity. Congrats!

Nice to have an original copy Derek. To me, they have a bit of a U.K. psych vibe, ala Kaleidoscope or The Fairytale, (Listen To Mary Cry feel to some of their songs, with a fuzz o.d. added), comes to mind..., the mind..., the mind.

I got the CD.

I'd be happy to have that. - me (Art B.)

Truly a great one! I had the "authorized" re-ish on Void Records (NJ) back in 1999. Think I have a CD release of it now as well.

Another excellent overview. There were bootlegs before the late 90's Void label, 2014 and subsequent reissues. I still have the BSF boot together with my original on Allied that cost me $3 at an annual Ontario Orchestra fundraiser vinyl sale (I wasn't even in the first 20-30 mouth-foamers that lined up for hours beforehand - most head first to the B for Beatles and L for Ledd Zepp bins. I managed to find a spot at the P table). As a Canadian with a large local collection I fall into the "not as good as its reputation" category. I find there is too much fuzz ( as you mentioned, and which was exemplified in the piece you used as your intro). It is unrelenting and Mike Cadieux should have turned it down - strummed some chords - during the vocal choruses at least. Similar criticism applies to Dragonfly (I consequently purged mine) and the first album by McKenna Mendelson" Blues" on Paragon. More nuanced Canadian pop-psych can be found on British North-American Act and A Passing Fancy.

Hey man. Plastic Cloud is top tier psychedelia. Great choice. ✌ ☮ 🕊

Very good stuff Derek thanks for posting

It's a fine one,have it on cd.its one of the candian best,along with the Bent Wind sussex and the first mother tucker yelloe duck albu.

Thank you!

Ah even though i did say im not "over the moon" about it, i am mighty jealous of that original lol. Im happy with my reissue too and not purging it and if i had a shot at an orignal, i would take it. My criticism is its a bit samey to me by the end but still, excellent fuzz and great songwriting. Nice feature and never have seen those pics!

Wow, is this our first $1000 entry in the Acid Archives Diaries? I have had a digital copy since 2011, but haven't seen an actual copy. Listening to You Don't Care while watching your video. Thanks, Chris

Wonderful album

This is a favorite of mine. I don’t think it is very Canadian. It is good.

"You dont care" is an amazing song. Grooving to it as i write! Thanks for the review!

Wow!!! What an awesome record to have in your collection!!! Yeah, I’m definitely jealous. NICE FIND😀

Little Waterfall is my jam!

Derek look for the first Dwight Tilley band lp Sincerely. I think you'll like it too. Do you ever put album rips on Soulseek? Still lots of good music cannot be bought digitally which is a shame.

Great segment Derek! Just came across this interesting little band. I'll leave a link to them here. Very cool groove on this album. Cheers from Canada...czcams.com/video/BswuwCn1hBo/video.html

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I've only been aware of this one by reputation, but never listed to it. Certainly don't see it much. Canadian psych records are always worth taking a listen though. That is a great sub-topic, though would be quite extensive

That Mandred Mann is killer and pretty cheap heat really. Can be found for $10. Did you mention the track "One Way Glass"? maybe you did. Amazing track. I have the other album on Vertigo which is also quite good but needs a revisit. Love that Peter Green lp and the oh Sees. The End of the Game was pretty out of step with the times to me. An instrumental trippy guitar album that walks the line between jazz and blues and something else? Very interesting.

Just wondering if this rare album here is a connecting with Sweden. Arne Anderson is a name from the north here....

Arnie Anderson sounds great - never saw that one - nice find/discovery! ...The others from the "bargain bins" were also cool - seems like a "go to" shop to me! I have to say that I've never had (or even seen) any of these records except for Dwight Twilley LP you showed. Thanks for showing these!

Deep cuts album edition tnx for sharing

Dwight Twilley was from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Great video Derek! One of the best things to come out of 1980 was...ME!!!

Thank you!

Hey man. Arnie Anderson looks very interesting. I've never seen it. I'm going to have to check that out, it sounds right up my alley. Andy Roberts I'm unfamiliar with. Dwight Twilley I also don't own, as I don't have many power pop lps. Dando Shaft I'm after. Peace ✌ ☮ 🕊

Andy Robertson was in Liverpool Scene,Plainsong, GRIMM, and many other recordings including solo efforts like The Great Stampede, Urban Cowboy....he ventures into folk rock sounds a fair bit,but his discography is eclectic, but the late 60s into the early 70s for me are very interesting.

Hey Derek, that Arnie album sounds really good, I’ll have to check it out. Great vid/ thnx

That Arnie Anderson sounds like it might be right up my alley! Great score!

Sounds cool.

Me, my uncle, grandmother, and older brother knew the band a little bit. They rented a big old stone mill house along the Darby Creek outside Phiily. My grandmother owned the old George Burnley textile mansion and mill sites. It was a three story mill house across the Darby Creek from Sycamore Ave, on one side and Garrett Road on the other. It was secluded and in an old hamlet called Addingham. It was the perfect place for a band to live and practice since there were no neighbors to complain. Led by Warren Bloom, they were the nicest guys all around. We were just 10 year olds but they would allow us to listen to them rehearse. LOUD! Hippies coming and going, girlfriends galore, and who knows how many other musicians from the Philaelphia scene came and went. They kept all-night hours and didn't seem to have ordinary jobs, but they never were anything other than good guys. My grandma liked them a lot. Always payed the rent on time. They were in that old tenement house for 2 or 3 years at least, 1970-71-72 and while as a little kid I was not sold on the genre of music I thought they were all the coolest guys. They didn't chase me away, and despite my Uncle cautioning me about 'the hippies" they were happy that I would hang a round a little and listen. My Uncle was more worried that I would bother them somehow I think. My grandma's old mill works was sold to the township in 1976 and it is since then apparently some sort of park. The old Burnley Mansion still shows up on the statellite pics at the bend in the Darby Creek where Garrett Road and Sycamore Avenue. Their house I am refering to was demolsihed a few years ago. Warren Bloom lives in Connecticut I think and has a web site: www.bloomtunes.com/ I presume the Faceancers album was written in this house, now sadly gone; darbyhistory.com/ValleyHouse.html Thanks for the video.

Thank you!

During the period the Facedancers were making that record, they rented an old, secluded house on my grandmother's property in Upper Darby, PA. I still have my autographed copy of that album.

Hey man. Peter Green lp has been hard for me to find. I often consider myself an acid casualty. Peace ✌ ☮ 🕊

Now that's an album I found in the bargain bins back then - bought one but was very disappointed - the vocalsand general lack of direction killed it for me.

I remember looking for that Fraction album a few years ago - no luck

Thanks Derek. Yet another album that I don't know. I used to find examples of a lot of these Acid Archives type albums in music blogspots, but I think CZcams has become the new source except without the write-ups that the blogs would provide. - Chris