The Ali Baba Revue — “Rats in My Room”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 10, 2025

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD

1,489) The Ali Baba Revue — “Rats in My Room”

Unlike yesterday, today we have neither a gorgeous nor whimsical song about a room at the top of the stairs. Rather, we have “a rather amazing, incredibly strange tune” (Patrick Lundborg, The Acid Archives, 2nd ed.), “very odd and bizarre quasi-psych-garage with hilarious bad trip lyrics”(SleepObsessed, https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/ali-baba-revue/let-it-all-hang-out.p/) about a room infested with rats!

As to the Ali Baba Revue and it’s sole LP, Patrick Lundborg writes:

One of the few known LPs on the legendary garage 45 Boss label, this mid-60’s album looks like it could be a lounge title, but except for a few dull ballads . . . it’s more of an east-coast club/r’n’b) album, with an unual, sleazy undertone. I think these may have been the guys who played before the stripper came on! In addition to the seedy sax-organ-guitar r’n’b[, we have “Rats in my Room”!]

The Acid Archives, 2nd ed.

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