More fuzz guitar! It's time for The Mops, with their own theme song, I'm Just A Mops. This song appears on the Nuggets II box set. It's also on the Mops album Psychedelic Sounds in Japan. They are remembered as the first psychedelic band in Japan. OK, they were only 'psychedelic' in the purloined imitation marketed corporate way, like Strawberry Alarm Clock or 'My Green Tambourine'. Yeah, just stick in some effects and have some counter-cultural lyrics and we'll sell a lot of records. Wow, man...psychedelic. That's heavy. Let me put on some love beads and sunglasses and we'll go down to Rainbow Bridge Park and dance around in a big circle.
The best part of this song is the endearingly imprecise grammar of the English lyrics:
But I don't care of them
so I'm just a mops
When I come back to home
my mother says I'm a mops
Mops, like moptops. Cute Asians with their straight black hair. The bass is good. The opening guitars remind me of G-l-o-r-i-a. The guitar solo is like something from the Monkees. There's also that stutter into a quasi-Yardbirds middle rave-up section at 1:00.
Hello, we are just a Mops! We went to Carnaby Street. Now we are officially groovy.
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