Nuggets: The Trip by Kim Fowley

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1. Wait… 31 albums? How did that man get the chance to do 31 albums? Yea I love the odd and psychedelic…but this…not that much.
   I had to check out some of the other stuff he did…he sounded better talking.

   • I think probably financial independence gave him the chance to make 31 albums. Certainly not a reflection of his talent.

2. That’s pretty bad.

   • Seconded, it’s weird devoting a whole post to a terrible song

3. This song is stupid as fuck. even tho I kinda like the underlying music cuz it’s super-garagey and 60s and stuff.

   • That’s a strong opening description.

4. Yes, it is pointless drivel, but there is a bit of a bizarre late sixties appeal to its nonsense, and, like Bobby says, I quite like the music too.

   • Yeah. A lot of those dumb 60s psychedelic songs could actually be pretty good as long as the music was okay. And a lot of times it was.

     • I find it hard to get past the Kim Fowley brand in this particular case.

       • I knew he did some other things that I knew besides The Runaways but I couldn’t remember what they were so I looked it up and there’s a lot. Like Alice Cooper, Kiss, Paul Revere, The Murmaids, Soft Machine, Helen Reddy. A whole shitload of stuff.

         • I feel like he was great at spotting talent, but almost invariably those artists did their best work with someone else.

         • I only looked at a big huge list of people he produced but I didn’t even look to see which songs they were.

       • Never heard this one. I’m the outlier ‘coz I kinda dig it. It has a ‘Gloria/Doors’ vibe and would not have been out of place in some 60s movie about revolution or something. It is ‘far out, man.’

         • I think it actually was in a movie. maybe that one called The Trip in the late sixties and I think it had Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson wrote it or he directed it or something. I saw it at a drive-in in the 90s but I can’t remember too well but it was all about he took an LSD trip and it was real wild and crazy and trippy and so was the music but I can’t really remember what any specific songs were.

         • You’re doubtless thinking of ‘Easy Rider.’ It occurred to me too that this song would have been ideal for that 60s artifact. There’s a tripping sequence in it.

           But this spurred me on to some further research. It turns out that Madonna’s ex-husband Guy Richie made a movie called ‘Rocknrolla’ and this little gem is on the soundtrack.

           https://www.discogs.com/release/1328358-Various-RockNRolla-Original-Film-Soundtrack

         • No, no. The Trip is a real movie. Look it up. It is a little bit like the trip in Easy Rider except the whole movie is about the trip.

         • Yep, got it. Corrected myself.

         • Actually, you are correct about The Trip movie, a Fonda/Nicholson joint. Electric Flag with Mike Bloomfield played on that. If it turns out this song was on the soundtrack, you win the Internet.

         • How weird that it was the Electric Flag, but I wouldn’t have known that at the time cuz I was like high school age when I saw it and I didn’t know who they were back then. But now I know who they are.

         • I only know that one Guy Richie movie about Smoking Gun or something like that. And I looked while I was at Discogs and there really is a soundtrack album to The Trip by Electric Flag. Unfortunately Kim Fowley isn’t on it. But the song titles sound wild and I would love to hear it.

         • Ask and ye shall receive.

           https://open.spotify.com/album/0t48F4v6e5Rv89qLCfnZ0x?si=QWN0zjP5QHafVuaX5rvqew&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A0t48F4v6e5Rv89qLCfnZ0x

         • That was totally insane. And very interesting, to say the least. I also like how the song titles about sex and drugs are totally not very subtle. A Little Head, Gettin’ Hard, Peter Gets Off, Passing a Joint. Now I wanna see the movie again. Ha.

         • Far out, man!

         • I’m surprised Electric Flag sounded like that. I thought they would sound different like blues rock or something instead of all weird and stuff.

   • I think for me, it’s too hard to get past his persona. Maybe I’d have been kinder to it in a vacuum.

5. After the next two records you’re gonna hit another of my Top 5 Nuggets and then another
   two weeks after that. I can’t really narrow it down any farther than top five or even top 10 really. There’s just way too many tracks on it to get it down any further.

   • I look forward to it. I’ve mostly been taking it one track at a time, so no idea what’s coming up