Ranking right up there with the mighty "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)", this obscure, single-only track finds one of Los Angeles' finest groups of the era in excellent form. This track was also The Prunes last gasp of freaky, danceable garage psych before they were guided into the massive failure that was their Mass In F Minor LP; a record whose pretentious nature was truly the antithesis of a garage rock band (although it DID yield the excellent track "Kyrie Eleison", as heard in Easy Rider). Sadly, the group itself was basically shut out of the recording of that LP (with the exception of the "Kyrie"); the groove the band cuts here (and also on the incredible Live In Sweden '67 recording, which was commercially issued in the 90's) shows what a mistake that was, as the group is so tight they're downright ferocious.
from 1968...
THE ELECTRIC PRUNES - YOU'VE NEVER HAD IT BETTER
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Fantastic. Never heard this one before.
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