Action - Rolled Gold
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Artist: ActionEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-07-30
Music Label: Reaction Records
Soundtracks:
- Come Around
- Something to Say
- Love is All
- Icarus
- Strange Roads
- Things You Cannot See
- Brain
- Look at the View
- Climbing Up the Wall
- Really Doesn't Matter
- I'm a Stranger
- Little Boy
- Follow Me
- In My Dream
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Music Review: +1/2 -- Mod turns heavy on shelved 1967 classic
Rating: 4 Stars
Having failed to break out of the clubs as a mod band in the mid-60s (despite sponsorship from George Martin and a deal with EMI), the Action entered 1967 with some heavier sounds in mind. Their Small Faces-like R&B sound was still at the core, particularly in Reggie King's vocals, but their compositions, playing and production had been liberated by the flourishing acid culture. These aren't the studio-crafted sounds of the Beatles' Revolver or the minor-key brilliance of The Zombies, but they're of the same stripe.
The songs were no longer rave-up trifles for pilled-out dancers, and the lyrics weren't aimed at the radio. One could draw a parallel to San Francisco's Moby Grape, in that the Action balanced depth and brevity. In contrast to the Fillmore-styled hippie jams that would prevail later in the year, the Action managed to free up their instrumental playing with flights of psychedelic guitar and song structures that went beyond verse-chorus-verse, but at the same kept to three- and four-minutes. This is the sound of what was coming in "Odyssey and Oracle," "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake," "S.F. Sorrow," and other touchstones of the era.
As others have noted, there's a transitional quality to these tracks, one foot in the mod clubs and one foot into the psych world of UFO and the Haight-Ashbury. Amazingly, these recordings were shelved by EMI, and only rumored to exist until their release 35 years later. So while they appeal as missing links in retrospect, they didn't actually have any first-hand impact. Today they retain their magic and power, even more impressively for being demos rather than finished tracks. The playing is a bit rough in spots and the sound quality isn't as sparkling as EMI was capable of recording in 1967, but those are trifles - this still sounds fantastic. 4-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings. [©2007 hyperbolium dot com]
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