Sky Sunlight Saxon and The Seeds
Information and reviews for 1960s psychedelic garage-rock pioneers The Seeds. Including Sky Saxon's numerous projects 1960-2009 and beyond.
Album of the day
Ah, the debut album by The Seeds: an audacious and brutal missive from a band of sneering reprobates with the merest of musical proficiencies but with unlimited punk attitude. At least, that's how it must have seemed when The Seeds was released in June 1966. The world had already been introduced to Sky Saxon, Daryl Hooper, Jan Savage, and Rick Andridge on the group's three singles, but this was an entire LP, and it didn't let up from start to finish. The fact that they were actually nice, regular guys (generally speaking) was hard to tell amidst the demented clamor rising from the LP's grooves. The music on The Seeds has its roots in the primitive garage sounds of bands like The Kinks but it's further out there than anything else of the time. On this debut album, Sky and his gang tear through a collection of simple tunes at warp speed, doggedly recycling a limited repertoire of musical ideas and skills. What makes it hold up to repeated listens is the band's sheer conviction. Every note is bursting with breathless emotion — technical proficiency be damned. In fact, the three instrumentalists, especially keyboardist Daryl Hooper, were quite
Some songs from Sky Saxon and The Seeds
"Throw Some Rice" is a merry, psychedelic pop song by The Hour, apparently a Sky Saxon-led project from the 1980s or 1990s. It can be found (for lucky buyers, for it's as
Sky Saxon covered "The Singer Not The Song" for one side of a 7" single in 2004. The other side was "Something Happened To Me Yesterday" by The Lairds. The split record was
The five-minute piece "Chapel Of Love" (no relation to the 1960s pop song) opens with the sound of gently running water, as befits the nature-psych realm of A Spring Honeymoon
Sky Sunlight Saxon begins his 2006 "SSS Protest Song" by extended growling and barking like a dog: you know we're going to be in for a good time on this one. In fact, the
Following on from the "Little Red Book" of the same style, Sky Saxon is again (or still) fried out of his brain in Transparency's third song, "Star Setter". Over
Sky Saxon and Seeds-related Singles and Collectibles
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Discographies, biographies, interviews and more. For the dedicated Seeds/Sky Saxon fanatic.