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
So how does a band follow up a debut album that reveled in its crudity and hinted at a new psychedelic outlook? By amping up the psychedelia, overtly referring to drugs, and grasping the string of the mind's balloon as it floated skyward, ever further from the distorted landscape of that debut. At least, that's how The Seeds handled the situation for their second album, A Web Of Sound, released in October 1966. A Web Of Sound is soaked in drugs and sex in a more blatant and obsessive way than The Seeds was: "Mr. Farmer" and "Rollin' Machine" deal with marijuana, while "Pictures And Designs" and "Tripmaker" pay homage to the LSD that was sloshing around the L.A. scene – and especially in Sky Saxon's brain. Take the legendary "Up In Her Room", a long, brainlessly repetitive ode to screwing a girl in her titular hippie pad. If certain uptights had been worried about Elvis's influence on the youth of the 1950s, The Seeds must have represented an unimaginably depraved bluntness. While the songs on A Web Of Sound retain the primitive underpinnings of the first album (and really, with Sky Saxon's wild wolf-growl voice, would anything else have been
Some songs from Sky Saxon and The Seeds
The Seeds' unusual blues-drenched album A Full Spoon Of Seedy Blues opens with the song "Pretty Girl". It may have touches of the blues but "Pretty Girl" is really
"Should I build you a shrine when you don't even believe in my Father God?" demands a scandalized Sky Saxon on his song "Darlin", released on the 2006 CD Tyrants In The
The Seeds included the erratically awesome "Girl I Want You" on their legendary debut album The Seeds in 1966. It's one of the more genuinely psychedelic performances
With collaborator Mike Oak, Sky Saxon released the song "Summer Of Love" on the 2008 CD Back To The Garden, which was (misleadingly) credited to The Seeds. "Summer
For years, "Satisfy You" was a Seeds fan favorite that existed only in annoying and bastardized form. And few knew how hard The Seeds worked to get the perfect version of
Sky Saxon and Seeds-related Singles and Collectibles
Deep Sky
Discographies, biographies, interviews and more. For the dedicated Seeds/Sky Saxon fanatic.