I have to admit that I bought this record just because it looked too loony to pass up. I was right. The deranged liner notes were clearly written by someone who had done way too much acid, and the lyrics were weird. But I came to love many of the songs and finally to appreciate the later career of the lead singer, Roky Erickson. Hospitalized for paranoid schizophrenia at one point, he also claimed that a Martian had inhabited his body.
He died last year, but between 1966 and 2019 he created a unique body of wonderfully crazed music.
From 1985, his classic, "Don't Slander Me.
From 1985, his classic, "Don't Slander Me.
Sample lyrics: Don't slander me, don't slander me, mama
Never say don't I don't know why
Don't slander me just, just for you, me, and I, I
Don't slander me, don't slander me, mama
Let the red lights riot, let the red lights riot
The Martians won't put you in a bad zoo
A bad form of the blues are nothing is not too hot for you
Not too hot, not too hot, not too hot for you.Perhaps his most sublime effort: "Two-Headed Dog," which he wrote about the infamous experiment by Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov.
The lyrics need to be appreciated in full:
Two-headed dog, two headed dog
I’ve been working in the Kremlin
With a two-headed dog
Peace brought back, bought back
Relaxed be nyet brought back
Did you dry her out
Wind her out like jerky?
To me she’s healed to attack
Two-headed dog, two headed dog
I’ve been working in the Kremlin
With a two-headed dog
Children nailed to the cross
Pain does not look our hell
Certainly is not a spell
Sweet waste from a well
Two-headed dog, two headed dog
I’ve been working in the Kremlin
With a two-headed dog
Winds quiet in the night
Her body just blows messiah
Sickening sweet sight left or right
Is all right does not please my appetite
Two-headed dog, two headed dog
I’ve been working in the Kremlin
With a two-headed dog.
Vlad and his dog.
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