The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine (1967/1989) [FLAC] torrent

Band: The Lemon Pipers
Album: Green Tambourine
Year: 1967/1989
Origin: US
Genre: Bubblegum, Psychedelic Rock

Tracklist:

1 Rice Is Nice 2:18
2 Shoeshine Boy 3:25
3 Turn Around Take A Look 2:46
4 Rainbow Tree 2:23
5 Ask Me If I Care 3:08
6 Stragglin' Behind 2:35
7 Green Tambourine 2:25
8 Blueberry Blue 2:28
9 The Shoemaker Of Leatherwear Square 2:00
10 Fifty Year Void 5:44
11 Through With You 9:05

Unlike the majority of bubblegum bands, the Lemon Pipers' albums are actually quite good, not least because they were one of the few bubblegum bands who were a proper band with their own songwriters (although outside writer/producers did provide the two hits, the inescapable "Green Tambourine" and the actually even better "Rice Is Nice," a sweet, harp-laden depiction of a wedding day). Even the album tracks are pretty groovy, like the Cat Stevens-like character sketches "Shoeshine Boy" and "The Shoemaker of Leatherwood Square," which effectively use trippy string sections and playful harmonies. The snottier folk-rock of "Ask Me if I Care" and the far-out "Fifty Year Void," to say nothing of the nine-minute freakout "Through With You," give Green Tambourine a harder edge than most bubblegum albums, though it's still closer to, say, the Cyrkle than Cream. Seek it out, bubblegum snobs: you'll find yourself pleasantly surprised.