The Baroques Purple Day 1967 1968 USA, brilliant Garage Psychedelic Pop Rock

The Baroques - Purple Day 1967-1968 (USA, brilliant Garage Psychedelic Pop-Rock) The Baroques - a group of Milwaukee (staff Wiskonsin). only LP (The Baroques, 1967), singles, demos (1968).If Leonard Cohen barged into an Electric Prunes recording after obliterating his mind in an all-night glue-sniffing binge it might have sounded something like this. With song titles as preposterous as “A Musical Tribute to the Oscar Meyer Weiner Wagon,” who knows what the famed RnB label Chess Records was thinking when they decided to sign Milwaukee’s The Baroques in 1967. They did manage to stir up a little controversy with their anti-drug (so they claimed) song, “Mary Jane,” but besides that it looks like Chess was stuck with a very strange, unmarketable record. And don’t expect an onslaught of spacey sound effects and weird noises a la the early Pink Floyd, this is a less overt type of psychosis that slowly but surely embeds itself under your skin. The Baroques had a fuzz-guitar/keyboard-damaged soun