Only album by this obscure English band, recorded by unknown studio musicians and intended to appear in films and TV programs at the time. Composed of 13 short tracks, the first 6 of which (side A) are sung and the other instrumentals, the sound is guided by the sixties psychedelia, with strong doses of freakbeat and garage rock, where we hear great passages of fuzz and organ guitar, accompanied by battery and bass. As for the tracks, highlight for "I Am the Man", "Who's Gonna Buy?" and "Unpack Your Bags", although consistent.
Great pearl for garageiro and psychedelic 60's rock fans, recommended!
This was still available at De Wolfe in the late 1980's and we sold a number of copies back then in the early days of Ultima Thule, along with lots of other curios on the label. Since then it's become a collectable! This psychedelic pop collection is a bit like the Electric Banana albums, but with hints of The Kinks, The Move or even The Troggs. Lots of nice fuzz guitar and slightly stoned flower-power feeling. The album is used as the soundtrack to at least two movies of the time, a Tigon and an Amicus film if I remember correctly (got them somewhere), including one scene where the band in the film are obviously miming to a song from this record .
”Psychedelic rock beat library music composed by Johnny Hawksworth and Peter Reno, played by The Lemon Dips in vocal and instrumental versions featuring heavy drums, electric guitar and organ.”
”Recorded by an anonymous studio band, musically 1969’s “Who’s Gonna Buy?” was a major curiosity. The album was divided into a side featuring six vocal performances and a side with seven instrumentals. Five of the side two instrumentals were apparently the same songs without the vocal tracks. Missing in action from the instrumental side was ‘I Am the Man’- though there were two ‘new’ tracks – ‘Wild Types’ and ‘Leather People’. Assuming J. Hawksworth and P. Reno were the main members (they were given writing credits for all 14 selections), the album offered up a wonderful selection of garage rock and psych moves. Tracks such as ‘I Am the Man’, ‘Who’s Gonna Buy?’ and ‘Unpack Your Bags’ offered up great tunes, excellent snarling vocals, all punched up with tons of feedback guitar and walls of keyboards. Always loved the brief descriptions that accompanied each track, e.g. ”Winter Song’ was described as a ‘strongly melodic lament’.”
Text: Discogs
More Info: Bad Cat Records
The Lemon Dips - 1969 (MP3 192 kbps):
THE LEMON DIPS - Who's Gonna Buy? - 1969
01 I Am the Man 2:52
02 Who's Gonna Buy? 2:40
03 Traveling Man 2:25
04 Unpack Your Bags 2:06
05 Poor Lonely Woman 2:34
06 Winter Song 3:37
07 Who's Gonna Buy? 2:40
08 Traveling Man 2:25
09 Unpack Your Bags 2:06
10 Poor Lonely Woman 2:34
11 Winter Song 3:37
12 Wild Types 2:27
13 Leather People 0:54
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