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List of 25 Vinyl Albums by Break-In Master

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1		Aorta Aorta My friend, Carla Beck (R.I.P.) loved this album and said that these guys must be from outer space!! I like the album, it's pretty good but, I wouldn't consider more than about 1/4 of the album to be psych. One really cool bit they did can be found at the end of side one and the start of side two! I had an idea to do something like this years before I ever bought or heard this album. I had no idea it was already done! If memory serves correct (I've been away from my collection for the past few years and HOPE to get it all up here very soon!!), there was a band in the Chicago area in the mid to late `60's called, The Excecutves (it's their name I'm not 100% sure of). and they did a few singles, most likely for Quill records. After those couple singles, they split up into two other bands. Half of them became Aorta, the other half started Chicago Transit Authority! Before breaking up (as far as I know) Aorta did a second album but, it pales greatly in comparison to this album! Again, I bought a copy about 15 years ago, heard it once and that was it. It'd be the same as: if The Beatles followed Magical Mystery Tour with Let It Be, their biggest yawn-fest. You have your head ripped open with MMT and expect more of the same, if not better and, you get bored to tears.		Columbia USA	CS 9785	Mar 1969	LP
2		Chamaeleon Church Chamaeleon Church		MGM USA	SE-4574	Sep 1968	Stereo LP
3		Dantalian's Chariot Chariot Rising No idea why the original pressing isn't here but, if you can get past this singer's sometimes off-key vocals, this is a great psych album. At least half of the tracks are psych.		Tenth Planet UK	TP 015	1995	LP
4		Eric Burdon And The Animals Winds Of Change About half of this album is good psych.		MGM USA	SE 4484	Sep 1967	Stereo LP
5		Eric Burdon And The Animals The Twain Shall Meet This entire album is gonna be in, "The Enpsychlopedia". After this, they didn't have much psych, if any at all.		MGM USA	SE 4537	Mar 1968	Stereo LP	$26
6		Eric Burdon And The Animals Love Is Oops! Forgot about this one! But, only side 4 is any good and it was practically lifted straight from the Dantalion's Chariot album, because it IS Dantalion's Chariot with Eric's added vocals.		MGM USA	SE-4591-2	Dec 1968	Double LP	$20
7		Gandalf [USA] Gandalf A lot of these are trippier versions of non-psych tunes. Before they recorded as Gandalf, they recorded more psych stuff under the name, Barracuda.		Capitol USA	ST-121	1969	LP
8		H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft Another psych band from the Chicago area. From what I recall, there's really only two songs on this album that are actually psych.		Philips USA	PHS 600-252	Sep 1967	Stereo LP
9		H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft II Psych or not, I would've bought this one just for the cover!! As it turns out, the albums Is pretty good psych via every track on it. "Nothing's Boy" is my fave and wreaks of that psych feel I mentioned a bit ago on the West Coast Pop Arty Experimental Band album. Sadly, the track is WAY too short!! The only thing I don't like about these guys is that they tend to sound a lot like the Jefferson Airplane, vocally. That's actually a guy that sounds like Grace Slick. I recall there being a third psych album but it doesn't appear to be here. Either that or I'm remembering wrong. I've been through hell the past few years (and more to come!!!) and forgot some stuff I used to know quite well! However, as seems to be the way of quite a few psych bands, once they've done their "magnum opus", their next album(s) is/are a GREAT departure (and disappointment) from what they were known for on their first 2 or 3 albums! Such is the case with this band, too! Once they did their best stuff, they shortened their name to, "Lovecraft" and pretty much because a disco band!		Philips USA	PHS-600-279	Sep 1968	LP
10		Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold As Love This one has a lot more psych than the first album.		Reprise USA	RS 6281	Jan 1968	Stereo LP
11		The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced? There's only a couple songs on this that I thought were psych..		Reprise USA	RS 6261	Aug 1967	Stereo LP
12		The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland This one's also got a lot of good stuff on it.		Track UK	2657 001	Nov 1968	Double LP
13		Kaleidoscope Tangerine Dream There were a number of good "pop psych" tracks on this album. after at least 3 albums, they changed their name to Fairfield Parlour and released a couple more fairly good psych records. One of which includes another mind fucker called, "Music". When you get to that song, get your headphones on,turn up the volume and get ready to lose your mind!		Fontana UK	STL 5448	Nov 1967	Stereo LP
14		Kaleidoscope Faintly Blowing This is the one that has the mind fucker on it! A few of the other tracks on it are pretty good psych, too. Not too terribly long after they released this album, for some reason, they changed their name to Fairfield Parlour and did at least 2 more albums of good, but not exactly psych, stuff.		Fontana UK	STL 5491	Apr 1969	LP
15		McGough And McGear McGough And McGear I'm a bit perplexed by this one. I first heard it via cassette from a psych collector on the west coast and, among all the tapes he sent me, only this one sounded slightly sped up and the vocals were warbled, like it was ONLY the vocal that were manipulated on the entire album. I've heard another recording of it and they WEREN'T manipulated at all but the music was the same tempo and pitch! So, I'm using the version I have in, "The Enpsyclopedia". Other than that, it's not exactly a psych album but the last track on it certainly is no matter how normal the vocals are. Mike McGear is actually Paul McCartney's brother. On the last track, Jimi Hendrix plays guitar and, from what I'm told, it's also got his first sitar solo. Also, I was told that song was only available on a single! But, according to this listing, it's actually on the album, too!!		Parlophone UK	PCS 7047	May 1968	Stereo LP
16		Orpheus Orpheus About half of this is pretty good soft psych.		MGM USA	SE4524	Jan 1968	Stereo LP
17		Rainbow Ffolly Sallies Fforth It's not entirely a psych album but it has it's moments and, because all oof the tracks run together, I decided to include the entire album in The Enpsychlopedia an each entire side would act as one track. From what I'm told, this album was a great inspiration for The Beatles to record Sgt. Pepper. I've also heard the same about The Beach Boys' album, Pet Sounds but, I can't, for the life of me, figure out why everyone thinks that album is so great but not this one isn't. Pet Sounds is just a collection of songs, this one's more of an experience. The CD re-issue of this album has a non-album cut at the end that's not bad, either. From what I know, this band never did another record.		Parlophone UK	PCS 7050	Jun 1968	Stereo LP
18		Small Faces Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake Great album of its day and at least half of the first side is set for use in The Enpsychlopedia but all of side two will be, if it hasn't already. Side two is a psychedelic fairy tale told by the band via the 6 songs on that side and interspersed by the actual story being told by the late, great Prof. Stanley Unwin in his own language, Unwinese. Sitty on your botty and let it fill your ear droves! Goodly how!		Immediate UK	IMSP 012	24 May 1968	Stereo LP	$102 - $190
19		Spanky And Our Gang Anything You Choose b/w Without Rhyme Or Reason S&OG only had 3 studio albums and, the first two weren't psych at all. This one, for as incredibly psych as the cover, sleeve and labels let on, wasn't really all that psych, either. But, it's still a great album and has at least 4 or 5 good psych tracks on it. The album is laid out as a 12" version of a new single in that, the cover looks like a single sleeve, complete with the holes you normally find in single sleeves. All the songs on each side run into each other as if each side is one track on a 7" single. Their next and final outing was a live album. Side note: Spanky McFarlane was good friends with George Carlin and sang at his funeral.		Mercury USA	SR-61183	Dec 1968	LP
20		Ultimate Spinach Ultimate Spinach Although I'm not a big fan of this album, and I'm not even sure why, for some reason, I'm using nearly the whole thing in The Enpsychlopedia!		MGM USA	SE-4518	Jan 1968	Stereo LP
21		Ultimate Spinach Behold & See This one's the opposite of the first album: I like it better but, I'm only using 2 or 3 songs from it in The Enpsychlopedia! The song, "Mind Flowers" is one of only about 6 or 7 songs that I call, "mind fuckers"! I never noticed the similarity between that and the song title until just now! I haven't heard their third album, yet but, judging by the lead single from it, it's probably too commercial and too pop for my needs.		MGM USA	SE-4570	Aug 1968	Stereo LP	$94
22		West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Vol. III: A Child's Guide To Good & Evil At least this album is loaded with great psych and is even more sophisticated than the stuff on the previous album. There was another album after this but, from what i understand, only Bob Markley was ion the "band" on that album and it was hardly psych at all. Unless you want all of their stuff, I wouldn't even bother going after that album. I found a copy about 15 years ago and played it once. Bob started hanging out with and even having sex with, little girls which got him into some hot water.		Reprise USA	RS 6298	May 1968	LP
23		The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Part I This is actually their second album. Although it's slightly amateurish, there's still some pretty good psych tracks on this. The next two albums are the gems!		Reprise USA	RS 6247	Mar 1967	Stereo LP
24		The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Volume II The entire first side is great and a couple tracks on the flip are great, too. This one's much more professionally done and shows it! It has a really nice feel/sound to it that kinda screams, "late `60's psych!"		Reprise USA	RS 6270	Nov 1967	Stereo LP
25		The White Noise An Electric Storm Although "Firebird" is psych, it's the only song on this album I chose not to use in "The Enpsychlopedia". It's okay to listen to when playing the whole album but it not the best song on the album and is more electronic than psych.		Island UK	ILPS-9099	1969	LP	$25