Artist: Cykle
Title Of Album: Cykle
Year Of Release: 1969/1997
Label (Catalog#) Gear Fab[GF 106]
Country: USA
Genre: Psychedelic / Garage Rock
Quality: FLAC (image + cue,scans)
Time: 00:52:04
Full Size: 314mb(+3%)
AllMusic Review by Stanton Swihart
Cykle produced one album's worth of solid garage rock, and it certainly proves that the band was an enthusiastic bunch of musicians. Despite claims to the contrary, Cykle's music cannot be called psychedelia; instead, it's closer in sound to the garage punk that started to come out a couple years before the album was released, in 1969. The record is not as distinctive as the work of top-tier rock bands of the day, nor is it on par with the best garage from a few years before, but that is not to say it is unworthy. Jimmy Sossamon came up with decent songs, and the band played the hell out of them. Cykle may have been somewhat derivative, but they could occasionally be thrilling, too, and their playing sometimes bursts with a teenage energy that makes the songs fun to listen to. Rave-ups like "If You Can," "Walkout," "Walkin' Through My Mind," and "It's Her" are exciting punkers full of scorching guitar along the lines of the Chocolate Watchband and the great, final raga-fied incarnation of the Vejtables, although Ken Allen's near-spoken vocals flatten out the sound too much. But it is easy to see why the music probably made the teenage girls of Lumberton, North Carolina scream and swoon as if they were watching the Rolling Stones. [A Gear Fab reissue adds some recordings from Sossamon's pre-Cykle band, the Young Ones, who were certainly of their day, combining hints of the Beatles, instrumental party music, soul, and beach music. The album is filled out with a couple of songs Sossamon wrote for and helped record with the Rhodes Scholars. A distinct departure from Cykle, the Rhodes Scholars played straight pop/rock with full brass arrangements -- much closer to the sound of bands like Chicago and the Buckinghams -- and their songs were actually pretty solid, with quite a bit of commercial potential.]
Tracks:
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1. Too Much Lovin' - The Young Ones (The Young Ones) - 2:12
2. Harbor Melon - The Young Ones (Trad. Arr. The Young Ones) - 2:49
3. Big Teaser - The Young Ones (Sossamon, Hayes, Warwick) - 1:55
4. It's You - The Young Ones (Warwick) - 2:14
5. If You Can - Cykle (Sossamon) - 2:40
6. Walkout (Of My Mind) - Cykle (Sossamon) - 2:13
7. Maiden Girl - Cykle (Sossamon) - 3:06
8. Walkin' Through My Mind - Cykle(Sossamon) - 2:30
9. A Little Faith - Cykle (Sossamon) - 2:49
10.It's Her - Cykle (Sossamon) - 2:01
11.Lesson To Learn - Cykle (Sossamon) - 3:14
12.In Love My Friend - Cykle (Sossamon) - 3:38
13.Do My Thing - Cykle (Sossamon) - 4:03
14.What You Do To Me - Cykle (Sossamon) - 7:26
15.In My Dreams - Jimmy Sossamon (Sossamon) - 2:45
16.In My Dreams - The Rhodes Scholars (Sossamon) - 3:49
17.What's On Your Mind - The Rhodes Scholars (Sossamon) - 2:17
Personnel
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The Young Ones
Carlton Warwick - Lead Guitar, Lead Vocals
Johnny Hayes - Bass Guitar, Vocals
Ronnie Baxley - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
Jimmy Sossamon - Drums
Dicky Britt - Organ
Cykle
Ralph Stephens - Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Backup Vocals
Ken Allen - Lead Vocals
Jeff Hardin - Rhythm Guitar, Backup Vocals
Grady Pope - Bass Guitar, Backup Vocals
Rick Wilson - Organ, Backup Vocals , Lead Vocals ("It's Her")
Jimmy Sossamon - Drums, Piano, Harpsichord, Vibraphone
The Rhodes Scholars - 1969
Mike Emmitt - Lead Guitar, Vocals
Steve McCrae - Keyboards, Lead Vocals
Bill Hartman - Bass Guitar, Trombone, Vocals
Scott Beazley - Saxophone, Vocals
Ray Purvis - Trumpet, Vocals
Bob Whitfield - Drums, Vocals
The Rhodes Scholars - 1969 -1970
Cleon Nally - Bass Guitar, Vocals
John Wayne - Lead Guitar, Vocals
Steve McCrae - Keyboards. Lead Vocals
Jimmy Sossamon - Drums
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Edited news vyc - 15-02-2022, 19:02
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