My Friend Jack
Released: May 18, 1999
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Released: May 18, 1999
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Regardless of who came up with the term "freakbeat" -- either Bam Caruso czar Phil Smee created it in the mid-'80s or Richard Allen came up with it as the name for his psych fanzine -- it's...
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High in A Room
Released: 2002
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Released: 2002
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New arrivals to this compilation might ask, "Will the real Smoke please stand up?" One minute the band exudes classic '60s mod aloofness on its epochal song, "My Friend Jack," in which grating fuzz...
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My Friend Jack - 1974
Released: 1974
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Released: 1974
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A retitled reissue of the It's Smoke Time LP. For a long time it was the only Smoke record available. But now you're much better off with the Repertoire CD of It's Smoke Time, which doubles its...
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My Friend Jack - 1988 COMPILATION
Released: 1988
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Released: 1988
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Unsatisfyingly skimpy 12-song compilation of the group's work, presenting seven of the 12 cuts from the It's Smoke Time album, and adding some non-LP tracks, including a 1965 number by the Shots...
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It's Smoke Time
Released: 1967
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Released: 1967
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Besides "My Friend Jack," other highlights of the group's only album (all but one of whose tracks were group originals) include the beautiful mid-tempo ballad "Waterfall" and the bee-humming...
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The Smoke
Released: 1966
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Released: 1966
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This hard-to-find title contains one dozen sides from the U.K. psychedelic/pop rockers The Smoke, and was issued on the short-lived Motown subsidiary Gull Records in 1967. Essentially, this disc is...
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