THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,806) Sugar Cube Blues Band — “My Last Impression“
“Heavy pounding garage psych” (oscarowski, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUgIn98FX-w) from Mississippi — “ominous garage-psychedelia, complete with pounding fuzzy riff, half-shouted surly lyric, quasi-Eastern guitar solo, and swirling organ”. (Richie Unterberger, https://www.allmusic.com/album/sugar-cube-blues-band-mw0000957093) It’s like a hurricane hitting the Gulf Coast! I think the unreleased version (featured above) is much more effective than the speeded-up A-side version (below). You be the judge.
Richie Unterberger dissolves the Cube:
From Grenada, MS, the Sugar Cube Blues Band were not a blues band, but more a garage-psychedelic group, as heard on their sole single, 1967’s “My Lasting Impressions.” That and about an album’s worth of unreleased material — some of it also garage-psychedelia, but some of it minor-keyed folk-rock, and some of it acoustic with a demo-like quality — was issued in a 500-copy limited-edition self-titled LP on Rockadelic in 1997. . . .
[T]here’s no blues or blues-rock here. Instead, it’s a mixture of folk-rock, folk, garage rock, and psychedelia, all written by singer Bill Crowder. While the range of songs is considerably greater than that of the average period garage band . . . musically it’s average to below-average. The lyrics show greater ambition than the usual such act, and at times it sounds just a bit like the stranger groups recording on the Austin scene speared by 13th Floor Elevators. But Crowder aims too high for his vocal range, and his straining, sometimes faltering singing can be frankly irritating at times, especially when exposed more nakedly on the acoustic folky tracks. There’s often a bent toward moody minor-keyed folk-rock . . . . [O]n the whole this sounds like the work of a band not really ready for or deserving of an album release.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sugar-cube-blues-band-mn0001820073#biography, https://www.allmusic.com/album/sugar-cube-blues-band-mw0000957093
Harsh! Talk about a surly lyric!
Here’s the A-side:
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