I absolutely adored said album (Definition, released by MGM) and after getting myself over to YouTube and listening to it for the first time in about 40 years, I thought I'd get all self-indulgent and share.
I find both of those genuinely haunting, and IMHO there are several songs on the album at least as good (yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking). That said, if you conclude that their whole gestalt is just insufferably twee, I will not dispute you. I mean, at the very least, it's hard to argue that they were not, shall we say. very much of their time.
I should add that I saw them live (twice, I think) and their songs sounded vastly better in that context; as much as I dig the record, the production is pretty undistinguished/undernourished. I should also add that I think singer Nancy Nairn has one of the coolest voices ever and (you'll have to take this on faith) that they had a lot of charisma onstage.
Self-indulgence now over. More recent music, more suited to the actual theme of this here blog, resumes on the morrow. 😎
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"Cynthia Gerome" sounds like Donovon on downers. Although it does have hints of Costello's "So Like Candy" (which has its own hints of another 60s song I can't place right now).
My older brother brought home the Chrysalis album when it was new and I was smitten. Yes, it was rather precious in spots but sincerely pretty too. I played it a LOT. Many years later, I spotted a classified in Rolling Stone that asked if anyone had Spider Barbour's whereabouts because they were holding royalties for him.
Words fail me. Not in a good way.
Jai Guru Dave
The band and album 'Chrysalis' is a perfect example of how interesting the musical times were in the mid to late 1960's.
Captain Al
One man's 'haunting' is another man's 'dreary.'
Also I want to make it clear that I'm not saying the late sixties period was unique but that all periods have their own special sounds. The early Seventies brought us 'Prog' and 'Heavy Metal'. :-)
Captain Al
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