The Day After The Sabbath 58 All Thy Sons Command Canada pt 2
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TDATS 58 is my second collection of Canadian tracks. I was sure I had exhausted the possibilities on my first Canadian collection, [EDIT: there is now also a third: Vol92] but with some help from various online cohorts and some more extensive searches I have come up with another winner!We kick off with what I consider one of the best tracks I have ever found, at any time. Torontos "The Churls" made a couple of albums in 68 and 69 and this track is just about as good as heavy psych can be, but its also a progressive rock pre-cursor with its excellent production and considered structure that builds up layers of intensity. Vancouvers Trooper are up next, they created a fair few albums of melodic pop-rock to varying success in the late 70s and to be honest, were not that great but I do dig "In Trouble Again" a lot, just fun, heavy driving rock, the kind that you wanna play on the highway. Montreals Offenbach are impossible to describe, they were all over the rock spectrum, singing in French and English. What ever they turned their hand to was done well, be it hard rock riffing of "High But... Low" or the Hammond organ atmospherics of "Mourir dAmour", both tracks are on here.
The next track from Montreals Sex was a contentious inclusion, Id obviously rather have not used a song with these plainly ludicrous lyrics, but musically its the most rockin, Sabbathist track on their debut s/t album, so make of it what you will. Next is Winnipegs Next..., an obscure one-shot band which was a pleasure to find, not particularly heavy but with a unique prog sound and great vocals. Torontos Its All Meat made one great heavy psych album in 1970, the hammond and proto hard-rock riffs mix to perfection with the attitude-filled vocals, great stuff! Mashmakhan were a reasonably well known and successful pop/rock band, not normally ripe for TDATS inclusion but I do like this Deep Purplish track thats tucked away on the b-side of their 1972 single Dance a Little step. This song has been responsible for holding up the release of this comp for a while, as I waited for a better quality rip, but alas I dont think there is, so here is the best one I can find, please let me know otherwise though!
I used Hamiltons Simply Saucer once before on my proto-punk comp. Its hard to believe this material is from 1975, they certainly created a swirling mix of punky aggression, along with a fair amount of Krautrock abstraction. Montreals Emerald City offer us some extremely fine Hendrixian guitar from their sole 1976 album "Waiting for the Dawn" and after that is my first inclusion of a rather better-known Canadian band, April Wine. This is a fairly commercial track from one of their mid-70s albums; "Stand Back", excellent track though. Torontos Luke & The Apostles recorded a few great heavy psych singles and band members went on to form other notable Canadian bands such as McKenna Mendelson Mainline, Kensington Market and The Modern Rock Quartet (The MRQ). We finish up with Torontos Max Webster, who almost made it in to the first Canadian comp, I have since found some more from them and I dig the quirky sounds on the debut self-titled from 1976.
Track List:
01. The Churls - Time Piece (1968)
02. Trooper - In Trouble Again (1975)
03. Offenbach - High But... Low / Mourir dAmour (1972)
04. Sex - I Had To Rape Her (1970)
05. Next - Strange Mood (1971)
06. Its All Meat - Roll My Own (1970)
07. Mashmakhan - One Night Stand (1972)
08. Simply Saucer - Electro Rock (1975)
09. Emerald City - Little Red (1976)
10. April Wine - Victim For Your Love (1975)
11. Luke & The Apostles - Been Burnt (1967)
12. Max Webster - Hangover (1976)
Thanks for listening! Rich
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