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Today in psychedelic history (12/15) 1
#13636108 - 12/15/10 09:47 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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- 1967: The Who release the album The Who Sell Out
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The Who Sell Out is the third album by the English rock band The Who, released in 1967 by Track Records in the United Kingdom and Decca Records in the United States. It is a concept album, formatted as a collection of unrelated songs interspersed with faux commercials and public service announcements. The album purports to be a broadcast by pirate radio station Radio London. Part of the intended irony of the title was that The Who were making commercials during that period of their career, some of which are included as bonus tracks on the remastered CD.
The album's release was reportedly followed by a bevy of lawsuits due to the mention of real-world commercial interests in the faux commercials and on the album covers, and by the makers of the real jingles (Radio London jingles), who claimed The Who used them without permission. (The jingles were produced by PAMS Productions of Dallas, Texas, which created thousands of station ID jingles in the 1960s and 1970s.) In 2003, the album was ranked number 113 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Album information
The cover is divided into panels featuring a photograph by David Montgomery of each of the band members, two on the front and two on the back. On the front is Pete Townshend applying Odorono brand deodorant from an oversized stick; Roger Daltrey sitting in a bathtub full of Heinz baked beans (holding an oversized tin can of the same). Roger Daltrey is said to have caught pneumonia after sitting for a prolonged period in the bathtub, as the beans had been frozen. On the back is Keith Moon applying Medac from an oversized tube; John Entwistle in a leopard-skin Tarzan suit, squeezing a blonde woman in a leopard-skin bikini with one arm and a teddy bear with the other (an ad for the Charles Atlas course mentioned in one of the album's faux commercials).
"I Can See for Miles" was released as a single and peaked at #10 in the UK and #9 in the US. Original vinyl copies of Sell Out end with an audio oddity that repeats into a locked groove. The music in the locked groove is an instrumental version of what was originally intended to be a vocal jingle for The Who's U.K. label Track Records.
This album is also notable in The Who discography for not featuring Roger Daltrey as the sole lead singer on most of the songs; he alone provides lead vocals to only three songs: "Tattoo", "I Can See for Miles" and "Rael". "Heinz Baked Beans", "Medac" and "Silas Stingy" are sung by John Entwistle; "Odorono", "Our Love Was", "I Can't Reach You" and "Sunrise" by Pete Townshend; on the remaining songs—"Armenia City in the Sky", "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand" and "Relax"—Daltrey and Townshend share lead vocals.
When the LP was released on Track Records in the UK in 1967 (Track 612 002 Mono & Track 613 002 Stereo), a poster was included inside the first 1000 copies (500 stereo and 500 mono). They came with sticker on the front cover stating 'Psychedelic Poster Inside'. Due to its rarity, first pressings with poster and sticker have sold for more than £600, and have been known to sell for much more.
A two-disc Deluxe Edition of the album was released on 16 March 2009 in the UK and 2 June 2009 in the U.S.
Track listing
All tracks written by Pete Townshend except where noted.
Side one
* "Radio London" (Days of The Week)
1. "Armenia City in the Sky" (John Keen) – 3:12 * "Wonderful Radio London" 2. "Heinz Baked Beans" (John Entwistle) – 0:57 * "More Music" 3. "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand" – 2:04 * "Premier Drums" * "Radio London" (Instrumental) 4. "Odorono" – 2:16 * "Radio London" (Smooth Sailing) 5. "Tattoo" – 2:42 * "Radio London" (Church of Your Choice) 6. "Our Love Was, Is" – 3:07 * "Radio London" (Pussycat) * "Speakeasy" * "Rotosound Strings" 7. "I Can See for Miles" – 4:17
Side two
1. "I Can't Reach You" – 3:03 2. "Medac" (John Entwistle) – 0:57 3. "Relax" – 2:38 * "Rotosound Strings" (1995 remix only) 4. "Silas Stingy" (John Entwistle) – 3:04 5. "Sunrise" – 3:03 6. "Rael (1 and 2)" – 5:44 (retitled "Rael 1" on 1995 reissue) * "Track Records (Instrumental version) (This track repeats into the endless locked groove at the end of Side 2)"
Released 15 December 1967 Recorded May–November 1967, Talentmasters Studios, New York City, New York, United States; IBC Studios, Pye Studios, De Lane Lea Studios, CBS Studios, and Kingsway Studios, London, England, United Kingdom; and Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, California, United States Genre Rock, psychedelic rock, pop, art rock Length 37:23 Language English Label Track Producer Kit Lambert
(https://en.wikipedia.org)
- 1994: Walter Houston Clark dies
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Erowid Character Vaults
Walter Houston Clark
1902 - Dec 15, 1994
Summary Walter Houston Clark was a professor of psychology of religion at Andover Newton Theological School in Massachussetts. He explored the relationship between mystical experience and religion, including the use of psychedelics. In the 1960s he participated in religious ceremonies with peyote and other psychedelics.
Author of (Books) Religious Experience: Its Nature and Function in the Human Psyche (1973) Chemical Ecstasy (1969) The Psychology of Religion (1958) The Oxford Group: Its History and Significance (1951) Author of (Articles) Religion and the Consciousness Expanding Substances (1964) Religious Aspects of the Psychedelic Substances and the Law (1967) The Psychedelics and Religion (1970) Hallucinogenic Drugs Controversy (1974) "Bad Trips" may be the Best Trips (1976) Art and Psychotherapy in Mexico (1977) Ethics and LSD (1985)
Remembrances New York Times Obituary, Dec 21 1994
(https://erowid.org)
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: Learyfan] 2
#13636127 - 12/15/10 09:53 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks Leary! Love these threads!
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: curenado] 2
#13636153 - 12/15/10 09:59 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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excellent
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: curenado]
#13637789 - 12/15/10 04:17 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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The Who Sell Out - full album
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: Learyfan]
#15519256 - 12/15/11 06:09 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: curenado]
#17395925 - 12/15/12 09:12 AM (11 years, 1 month ago) |
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45th anniversary of The Who Sell Out today.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#19278087 - 12/15/13 07:43 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Psychedelic 1967 performance of "I Can See For Miles" on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: Learyfan]
#20978192 - 12/15/14 05:41 AM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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Here's a collection of studio session outtakes from The Who Sell Out. Interesting.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: Learyfan]
#22657459 - 12/15/15 05:36 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: Learyfan]
#23928411 - 12/15/16 05:42 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: Learyfan]
#23929427 - 12/15/16 01:36 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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This is the first I've seen of this "today in history" thread, but are you really just bumping the same Who album every year??? Why not mix it up? For example, in 1933 the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution officially repealed the 18th Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, allowing people to legally booze up again. Or how in 1973 the American Psychiatric Association voted to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders.
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irequirechocolate said: This is the first I've seen of this "today in history" thread, but are you really just bumping the same Who album every year??? Why not mix it up? For example, in 1933 the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution officially repealed the 18th Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, allowing people to legally booze up again. Or how in 1973 the American Psychiatric Association voted to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders.
Those moments in history don't have anything to do with the psychedelic drug or music scene that's why they aren't mentioned in this thread I'd assume.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: AVShroomer]
#23930307 - 12/15/16 05:53 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm sure there are better examples than what I put forth, but concepts such as that being gay isn't a disease or mental state and that prohibition doesn't work seem like pretty important 'mind revealing' moments to me. Especially since the failure of alcohol prohibition works as a strike against the 'war on drugs' or whatever.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: AVShroomer]
#24847133 - 12/15/17 05:14 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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You are correct, AV. Seems pretty obvious, but thank you for stating it. Anyway, today is the 50th anniversary of The Who Sell Out! It's my favorite Who album naturally. He's a Rolling Stone review of the album from early 1968.
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The Who: The Who Sell Out
By Rolling Stone February 10, 1968
This album is fantastic, it has an exquisite sense of humor (songs of the humbly homespun) and consummate musicianship. The cover, of course, is amazingly funny: deodorant, pimple cream, baked beans and the Charles Atlas course, each shot perfectly suited to the character of the person in the group. It's almost too English.
The first thing you are going to see are the commercial plugs and Radio London spots. They take various forms; the cover is the first. The others include segues between the songs which are either real singing house ads from Radio London, or the Who's versions of commercials for other products. Some of the songs themselves incorporate stories of products, for instance Peter Townshend's bitterly funny "Odorono." It is the tale of young chick singer who has a successful performance, meets the handsome man backstage where the following ensues: "But his expression changed,/She had seen,/As he went to kiss her face./It ended there, he claimed a late appointment,/She quickly turned to hide her disappointment./She ripped her glittering gown,/couldn't face another show, no,/Her deodorant had let her down/She should have used Odorono."
What makes the song so good — and the whole album so fantastic — is not the surface concept of incorporating commercials but the absolute musical mystery which is used to bring them off. The girl who should have used Odorono is obviously meant to be a laugh, but it is bittersweet laughter. The Who have caught the embarrassing reality of it, and reality is the essence of humor (as is more readily apparent with the Beatles in most everything they do.)
The opening song of the album, "Armenia City in the Sky,' is one of the best tracks on the album, and one which well illustrates why the Who are among the very best of the contemporary groups. First of all, they have such a firm grasp of the basics of rock and roll that they, like the Beatles, do not stumble when they move on to newer and more creative endeavors in rock and roll; they've learned their stuff and are thus practiced enough to come up with a wholly original instrumental sound.
Within that framework, the Who set various electronic miniatures, including passages of guitar feedback and distortions, variations on a theremin and a tonal puddle from an organ. These are not extended breaks completely outside the structure of the song (which is the mark of a group trying to be experimental with too little real substance,) but tight and intelligently thought out placements. And, there are the lyrics: "If you ever want to disappear, just take off and think of this: Armenia City in the Sky."
"Marianne With the Shakey Hands," has a Spanish beat and guitar strum. The barely-beneath-the-surface humor of the lyric and whole Who attitude is reflected stroke for stroke in the music.
"Tattoo" is one of those gems of guitar playing from Peter Townshend, one which shows flawless mastery of rock and roll chording. "Our Love was Is" has some fine choral work of "la, la, la" simplicity and graceful harmony and mixing, which is another part of the Who's sound. "I Can See For Miles" is a fine demonstration of Keith Moon's insanely strong drumming, perhaps at his recorded wildest, slamming and scattering rim shots all over the place and hitting the bass drum on every beat. It's a curious ecstasy. Townshend's one note fuzz line in one of the inside instrumental bridges is a fine use of this rock and roll cliche.
"Silas Stingy" — the money, money man, there goes mingy stingy — recalls the mini-opera of their last album. Entwhistle blows five seconds of fine french horn. It is a longish story with an organ added which becomes light in its heaviness and heavy in its lightness. "Sunrise" is a strange piece for the Who; the voices call to mind Simon and Garfunkel as well as the instrumental work — a double tracked acoustical guitar.
"I Can't Reach You — Spotted Henry," which opens side two, makes use of a piano. One supposes that some member of the group also plays it, as they are themselves responsible for all the other sounds on the record. Like all the others, the track is characterized by alternating soft and hard chord patterns set in interplay with Moon's drums and over John Entwhistle's loping bass patterns. The "Spotted Henry" part of the song is the amusing pimple commercial ("This adolescent little fella was nicknamed by his friends 'Old Yellah,'") The underside of the Who is incredibly hard.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: Learyfan]
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: Learyfan]
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: Learyfan]
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: Learyfan]
#28098479 - 12/15/22 09:41 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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55th anniversary of The Who Sell Out today.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/15) [Re: Learyfan]
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