Leader Of The Pack (Vinyl LP) 60s 70s Psych Prog Rock

Leader Of The Pack (Vinyl LP) 60s 70s Psych Prog RockThe Shangri Las had several pop hits in the early 1960s with melodramatic songs full of runaway girls and bad boys who were sinking fast, and a general cast of despair, disapproval, and even death. Songs like Leader of the Pack, the urgent, insistent Out in the Streets, Remember (Walkin in the Sand), and He Cried (a remake of Jay & the Americans She Cried that ups the emotional stakes considerably) were hardly cheerful, and in retrospect, theyre

The War On Drugs conjure an ambling drone that conceals real pop-hooks and allows classic-rock colours to seep through

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presciently foreshadowing an era of political division

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also from 1972

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vaguely Southern drama of voices

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