Most people are familiar with The Electric Prunes as the one-hit-wonder group who did the song "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night”. And while that song rocks, (as does the entire album it is from), my favorite album from the Prunes is their second album, UNDERGROUND.
Unlike the first album, this one featured a more focused group that was branching off into psychedelia and concept songs. Like the first album, the songs balanced between rocking, bluesy and just plain silly songs, but here the group started really experimenting with effects and studio trickery, and you end up with a far out album that is as great as any of the other concept albums around ’68.
Highlights for me are “The Great Banana Hoax” (which has nothing to do with bananas or hoaxes, but features a groovy rumbling drum beat!), “Captain Glory” , “Hideaway”, and the mystifying dreamy rocker “Antique Doll” .
Even the silly songs here are catchy enough...(though not enough that I felt like uploading 'em here!) and the zany song "Dr. Do-Good" was even released as a SINGLE?! Sounds a bit like "They're Coming to take me away!"
Heck, I even like their take on Nashville in the wacky country tune "It's Not Fair"!
