THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
2,070) Paul’s Collection — “Music Is My Life”
Killer hard pop psych out of Antwerp. “The opening of this song always fuzzes my brain to such a degree I’m totally intoxicated when I deejay this killer 45”. (narinderdhanjal221, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW_-f2SChT0) “[It’s t]he best thing ever made in Belgium.” (JohnvanEggelen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW_-f2SChT0) What — ever hear of Belgian waffles, Belgian chocolate, Belgian beer, Belgian fries?
Belgian Metal History tells us:
The story of Antwerp-based Paul’s Collection is in fact that of singer Paul Syniawsky. He started singing in local bands [in] 1967, until he grounded his “collection” in 1969 to find manager Louis Devries immediately interested in his cracking rock tunes. It was the big RCA-Victor label who decided to add the band to their roster. So the next year there already was a first single in the shops entitled “Music In My Life” backed with “Man”. Both numbers showed off early influences of such acts as The Who [see #119, 548, 833, 976, 1,912, 2,055], Iron Butterfly [see #1,040, 1,543], Cream or Blind Faith. This single was well received so RCA decided to stumped up the money for a second release. After a bit of restructuring as the keyboard player left the band, Paul’s Collection retuned as a four-piece with “Time For A Change”/“What Have I Done”, where this time they skirted around the edges of Savoy Brown or once more The Who. Quite fast after this second single the third “Who Could See”/”Song for the Lonely” was already for sale in May 1971. This 45-er contained for the first time Koen De Bruyne’s piano and organ playing while it also sounded more progressive than the first two vinyl’s. Especially “Who Could See”, a song in the vain of Spooky Tooth really had potential, although it failed to climb the charts. Manager Louis Devries got them a lot of concerts at gigs or festivals he organised, as a Paul’s collection concert was known to be a pretty intense event, a truly heavy concert-experience with a lot of solo’s. . . . Early 1973 Paul decided to stop the band while right after he started singing jazz-rock with a band named Artisjok . . . . When in 1976 this band finally scored a recording contract, they decided to change name once more to Paul’s Collection as also main composer Paul Geluykens suited this name. . . . The single who came out in March 1977 “Losing”/“Kill Me With Your Love” . . . turned out to be much more than jazz-rock; a true commercial pop-soul approach not exactly what record-buying Belgium wanted to hear. The single never made it to the charts and although there were plans for a follow up (a song named “Smile”) this never materialised as Paul’s collection probably fell apart early 1978.
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