Listening - Listening (Limited Coke Clear with Yellow Swirl Vinyl Edition)

Format: Vinyl
Catalogue No.: RLGM17361PMI
Barcode: 848064017363
Release Date: 19 Jun 2024
Genre: Rock

While most of the bands (Orpheus, Ultimate Spinach, Beacon Street Union) associated with producer Alan Lorber’s “Bosstown Sound” signed with MGM Records, Listening recorded their only album in 1968 with Vanguard. And it’s a highly prized one, at that, with original copies selling for triple figures. One reason for that is, unlike many of their more poppy Boston-based peers, Listening boasted an original, swirling, hard-edged sound, full of jazzy and even proggy passages, and keyboardist/singer/ songwriter Michael Tschudin’s lyrics were openly countercultural. That’s future (post-Lou Reed) Velvet Underground member Walter Powers on bass, and blues wunderkind Peter Malick on guitar.
A talented band, underappreciated at the time... in other words, right up our Real Gone alley! Coke clear with yellow swirl vinyl pressing, limited to 700 copies. First U.S. reissue!

SIDE ONE
1. You’re Not There
2. Laugh at the Stars
3. 9/8 Song
4. Stoned Is
5. “Forget It, Man!”
SIDE TWO
1. I Can Teach You
2. So Happy
3. Cuando
4. “Baby: Where Are You?”
5. Fantasy
6. See You Again