Finally, some Joe Meek magic! So many of his trademark production ideas are present on this "death disc" - the clackety rhythm, the climbing and falling keyboard, the heavenly choir, the pumping feel of the compression, the high lonesome almost out of tune guitar solo. It conjures up images of some low budget western horror nightmare. Even more so when you listen to the singer. He sounds like he's right out of some poor quality negative colorized film version of Oklahoma! on a fuzzy UHF channel (like channel 44 in Chicago in the 70s), and you have to keep manually adjusting the horizontal bar on the tv set. And he sings with such gusto - 'how I loved and lost my baby took her life as well', like he's out riding on the range to hell. Just your typical messed up romantic killer psycho tunes. No one else sounds like Joe Meek, a cross between easy listening and beautiful scary weirdo pop music. This recording is taken from the great Joe Meek compilation It's Hard To Believe It.
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