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Electric Prunes

Electric Prunes's Genre:

Psychedelic/Garage, Garage Rock, Acid Rock, Psychedelic Pop

Biography

Though they got considerable input from talented L.A. songwriters and producers, with their two big hits penned by outside sources, the Electric Prunes did by and large play the music on their records, their first lineup writing some respectable material of their own. On their initial group of recordings, they produced a few great psychedelic garage songs, especially the scintillating "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night," which mixed distorted guitars and pop hooks with inventive, oscillating reverb. Songwriters Annette Tucker and Nancie Mantz wrote most of the Prunes' material, much of which in turn was crafted in the studio by Dave Hassinger, who had engineered some classic Rolling Stones sessions in the mid-'60s. "Too Much to Dream" was a big hit in 1967, and the psychedelized Bo Diddley follow-up, "Get Me to the World on Time," was just as good, and also a hit. Nothing else by the group made it big, and their initial pair of albums was quite erratic, although a few scattered tracks were nearly as good as those singles. Although they began to write more of their own material on their second album, their subsequent releases were apparently the products of personnel who had little to do with the original lineup. Their third LP, Mass in F Minor, was a quasi-religious concept album of psychedelic versions of prayers; a definitively excessive period piece, its best song ("Kyrie Eleison") was lifted for the Easy Rider soundtrack. None of the original Prunes were still in the lineup when the band dissolved, unnoticed, at the end of the '60s. ~ Richie Unterberger

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Electric Prunes

This station plays the best music from and music from related artists like The Seeds, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Blues Magoos, The Count Five, Love, The Standells, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Amboy Dukes, The Chocolate Watchband, Blue Cheer and more.

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Electric Prunes's Selected Discography (14)

Electric Prunes

1967 Reprise Records201312 Songs

I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)

2004 Warner Bros. Records Inc. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing.200812 Songs

Just Good Old Rock & Roll

1969 Warner Bros. Records Inc. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.200711 Songs

Underground

2005 Warner Bros. Records Manufactued & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing200514 Songs

Rhino Hi-Five: The Electric Prunes

2007 Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company20075 Songs

Release of an Oath

2005 Warner Bros. Records Manufactued & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing20057 Songs

Mass in F Minor

1968 Reprise Records20006 Songs

Too Much to Dream - Original Group Recordings: Reprise 1966-1967

2007 Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group CompanyCOMPILATION200741 Songs

California

200714 Songs

Feedback

200610 Songs

Artifact

200215 Songs

I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)

200014 Songs

Rewired [DVD]

200315 Songs

Stockholm '67

20028 Songs

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