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V.A. The Cool-Aid Benefit Album

Vinyl 2LP | 2012 / US – Original | New
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Item Description
At the end of the 1960’s, there was a house in Vancouver that was a home solely for Hippies and homeless youth; it was known to locals as "the Cool Aid House." When the Canadian government withdrew funding in 1970, the house was in danger of closing. All of the top bands in the Vancouver area offered to record songs for a benefit album—and since the local music scene produced some of the best bands in Canada, the album that resulted was stunning; it has long been a much sought-after collector's item. What no one knew until recently was that the original “Cool Aid Benefit Album” was intended as a two-record set: contractual problems with Capitol Records forced Cool Aid House founder John Walsch to drop tracks by Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck—tracks that are now restored to this package. Other cuts include the strange proto-electronic burbles of Mock Duck (quite unlike almost everything else they ever recorded) on ‘As the Bullet Enters Anton’ and ‘Pointillistic Scherzo’; the vicious snarl of Black Snake’s ‘Carousel,’ and the strange Spalding Grey-ish acoustic song/poem ‘The Planet Man.’ Hydro Electric Street Car have left little behind them, but their lovely ‘High Memory’ sounds like a lost Grateful Dead track from their early, dreamy period. A terrific discovery!

The end result of the joint efforts of Light in the Attic and Lion Productions is this deluxe 2xLP package, jam-packed with stand-out music by Vancouver’s top bands of the day: Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, Papa Bear's Medicine Show, Mock Duck, Hydro Electric Streetcar, Route Nine, Blacksnake Blues Band, Nancy, Spring, and Greydon Moore and Leo Jung. Obscure cuts available nowhere else, in a wide variety of styles: weird electronic sounds, heavy garage fuzz guitar freakouts, stoner rock, and acoustic folk.
Item Details
Item No: 269119
Artist: V.A.
Title: The Cool-Aid Benefit Album
Label: Light In The Attic / Lion Productions
Catalog No: REGEN1103LP
Format: Vinyl 2LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: US – Original
Release Date: 2012
Genre: Rock & Indie
Style: Folk
Available since: 2012-04-03
Condition: New
Price: $ 21.81
Weight: 500g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 Spring - Bring Yourself Down To Earth Lovin Blues Baby
A2 Route Nine - Girl Of The Night Suite
A3 Blacksnake - Catfish
A4 Blacksnake - The Reason
B1 Mock Duck - Pointilistic Scherzo
B2 Mock Duck - Do Re Me
B3 Mock Duck - As The Bullet Enters Anton
B4 Papa Bear's Medicine Show - Golden Girl
B5 Hydro Electric Streetcar - I Realise
B6 Hydro Electric Streetcar - Gardens & Flowers
C1 Mock Duck - Borrowed Song
C2 Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck - Mountain Joy
C3 High Memory - Hydro Electric
C4 Spring - Wordplay
D1 Nancy - No Time / Got A Feeling
D2 Blacksnake - Carousel
D3 Mock Duck - Hastings East
D4 Greydon Moore & Leo Jung - The Planet Man
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