378) The Zipps — “Kicks and Chicks”
“Well I’m a bloody guy with a knack. I read all the books of Jack Kerouac.” I so love Dutch garage rockers with their over-exuberant use of the English language. “Kicks and Chicks”, a Zipps ‘66 A-side, is “cocky beat-punk rebellion” (Richie Unterberger, https://www.allmusic.com/album/be-stoned%21-dig-zipps-mw0000952858) and a “stone cold killer of a second single [with the singer’s] accent . . . mak[ing] an already stonking performance a masterpiece.” (Joe Whimister, http://northeastbeast.blogspot.com/2012/03/zipps-kicks-and-chicks.html?m=1)
After this single, Jason Ankeny says the Zipps “steered their garage-influenced sound towards [drug-soaked] psychedelia, and thanks in part to their hallucinatory light show, they earned the sobriquet ‘The Dutch Pink Floyd.” https://www.allmusic.com/artist/zipps-mn0000581348). “All in all, it’s just another finger in the dike.”
Here are the Zipps live:
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