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This record is not just in living Stereo... it's a living stereotype.
If you were writing an episode of The Simpsons that called for a stereotypical 1960's hippie band singing about peace and love, you might easily come up with a group called the "Love Generation" singing a hit song called "Groovy Summertime", and laugh about it all day. You might even think about putting out a fake "Love Generation" album in the tradition of the Rutles and Spinal Tap, ripping off chords from early Beatles records or the Mamas and the Pappas along the way. Yet here is the genuine article. I searched high and low for some clue that this record is someone's idea of a practical joke, but it appears they were serious when they made this thing. It's even on Liberty Records, a respectable label best know for giving us The Ventures. You might expect something like this to show up on one of those shoddy me-too record labels like Oscar Records, or perhaps the half-serious Buddah. But the folks at Liberty should have known better. With song titles like "The Love In Me", "Meet Me At The Love-In", and "A Touch Of Love" (are you seeing a theme here?), it's hard to imagine even the most die-hard peacenik listening to this album without vomiting his organic brown rice all over the record player. In the title song, "Groovy Summertime", these guys leave nothing to chance, using the "g" word an amazing three times in the first four lines of the song: It's a groovy day, you're a groovy girl, throw your cares away, it's a groovy world. I can't wait until the weather warms up so I can pop this baby into the cassette player of my VW Beetle and head for San Francisco! |
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Groovy Summertime (MP3) | This song is groovy. I mean, it's really really groovy. Did I mention it was groovy? |
When The Sun Goes Down (MP3) | When the sun goes down... town... I'll be dreaming about California on such a winter's... whoops, wrong song. |
See Also:
The Establishment, The Now Generation: Come Together
I Really AM the Walrus
says: Oh, this is just so, so hep! It's so grovvy it's, like, you know, not groovy... Seriously, they suck. "Groovy Summertime" lends fresh meaning to the word "derivative". YOU HAVE DONE THE WORLD A SERVICE, by making this available to Musicologists of the Future (who may not quite appreciate it for what it is). Superb! (06-11-2002)
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