KIM FOWLEY "Outrageous" 1968 LP FIRST PRESS gatefold NM SONIC YOUTH "Bubble Gum"

Description: In a way LA in 1968 was like this record. There's a fantastic energy and fantastic insincere affect at the same time; it's almost earnest about being jive, a mirror image of any Frank Zappa album of the same period, which made the same fun of itself but also has the awareness to be satirical about other people even more. Kim Fowley, even in his youth, lived entirely in his own head, and was exactly the people Zappa was complaining about. There are a lot of things to say about this guy but you can look it up. I DIDN'T know until just now that Kim was the writer and performer calling himself "The Hollywood Argyles" who did the great novelty record "Alley Oop" in 1960 and brightened my life when I was 5. That makes him immortal if you ask me. 16 years later the unstoppable weirdo would show up on all our radars as producer/Svengali/creep/creator of the Runaways, R.I.P. Kim Fowley does go all the way back, and each unsuccessful album kept on trying to put one over on the kids, and convince them that he's really authentically whatever-it-is-this-year. Mere months before this 1968 album with all its Velvet Underground S&M visual trappings [check out the gatefold sleeve with him being whipped in leather in a cistern] and Doors-y indulgence in rock poetry (and burps), he did an alleged flower child persona on "Love is Alive and Well," an album perfect for a love-in, if it's a love-in held at some astro-turf meadow in Burbank somewhere. Maybe most important: Sonic Youth fans, this here record is the source of the original song "Bubble Gum" that SY covered so well on EVOL. (Hints and overtones of Fowley's aura of personal piggery added to that cover version brilliantly by Kim Gordon.) 1968 was riddled with contradictions, which is why this is the best Kim Fowley album. If you get into him, start here. If you get into him, you'll be unique among your friends. If you get this and love it, note that I'm also listing his 1972 LP "I'm Bad" in which his antennae or let's say his cilia were already pre-sensing the 1977 punk rock moment via the not-yet-successful attempts in the early 70's by rare acts like Suzy Quatro to bring garage-rock back, and with it the rebellious sneer that is so essential to us all and was so rare that year. Kim knew what was up, and he was always trying. Biker rock, glam, sci-fi, punk, good clean fun--if you had a fad, he was there for you. What's amazing is that the crazy records are such great listening! True first pressing on Imperial Records, the one with 114 on the matrix. Free shipping and insurance. Some of the weirdest music this side of Wildman Fischer.

Price: 68 USD

Location: Jersey City, New Jersey

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