I already made mention to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls‘ incredible fashion. Here are some examples from the first twenty minutes of the movie:

Notice the mother-of-pearl vest.

Ascots are big at Z-man’s parties.

Grey jacket’s bow speaks for itself.

The shirt/tie/jacket combo=win.

Ladies and gentlemen: The Strawberry Alarm Clock.

The third and last unsealed record I recently purchased at the amazing record store Rockit Science. Take a look at how youthfully young  The Lemondrops are; not a single one of these acid droppers could buy a carton of cigarettes now in the United States.

One of the great features about Rockit Science is they list what the band sounds like on the dust jacket. The Lemondrops’ tag read “Pop-psych gems”: this being the night I open the record and finally listen to it, I have no idea if the write-up is true or not, but I already bought the record, so it doesn’t really matter.

The review was accurate: pop-psyche gem

Here is the back of Astro Sounds. It is worth the time and the photons to read the names of some of the songs.

Somehow this record is 101 Strings

I particularly like “A Disappointed Love with a Desensitized Robot” and “Bad Trip Back to ’69″ as titles. This entire album has an incredible history that is amply explored by PopMatters.com. If this album ever comes to a fiefdom or barony within 3 leagues, spend the gold pieces and buy it.

This album is something else. I only wish I could have been either hip enough to know about it in the middle 1960s or square enough to have known about it in the middle 1960s. It is far, far out.

2000 was not this cool

The flip side to The Smoke’s It’s Smoke Time. They must be cool since they are posed with a fancy-pants German car [bottom right corner]. You don’t see that treatment given to Clear Light or The Corporation. I guess that one hit in Germania paid off.

Smoke up