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The Invaders was started by Ralph Richardson in Bermuda in 1968. It included Lloyd Williams as well. Williams had come in to replace the saxophonist. In 1969, the band produced its first hit 45, "Spacing Out", written by Richardson, which made it to the top of the Bermuda charts and remained there for several weeks. Within a few months, the band produced its first album with the same title. Both 45 and album were underwritten by Eddie De Mello. By late 1969, Phillips Recording Studios in the UK offered the band a six-month tour of Europe and a recording contract. By 1970, the band, whose members where then part-time musicians, decided to call it quits.

Ralph Richardson, Sr - Trumpet Sturgis Griffin Jr - Congas Lloyd Williams - Alto Sax / Flute Artie Simmons - Tenor Sax (Guest) Stan Gilbert - Bass John Burch - Guitar Mike Stowe - Drums
 
13th Floor Elevators "You're Gonna Miss Me," a psychedelic song mainly known (other than for Roky Erickson's subsequent descent into insanity) for the use of the electric jug.

Roky basically got caught with some weed, pulled an insanity defense, which was slightly true, but ended up in a One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest situation, ending up even crazier than before after ECT and a bunch of other psychiatric voodoo of the time.

As long as we're on psychedelia, here's this absolutely ridiculous and incredibly British video of Pink Floyd during Barrett's tenure of Astronomy Domine, where there's some parody of an upper-class Brit, who is actually an obvious German Nazi, smoking a cigarette while dissing the band before playing Astronomy Domine, then contemptuously questioning them about it.

What's funny to me is it's actually a lot better than current journalism. The Nazi, who obviously despises the Floyd, still doesn't interrupt them and actually allows them to answer his questions, and plays their whole performance (of one of the best songs on Piper), and they have a semi-civilized discussion, while obviously despising each other, and the host reserves his final moment for a contemptuous comment.

I'd like to watch more groups interviewed by this guy, because he's obviously a complete asshole, but not an idiot.

ETA: Apparently his name is Hans Keller and he is famous both as a musician himself and as a music commentator. He still comes across as a parody of an Austrian, despite being an actual Jew.
 
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These guys were teenagers when they recorded this. Great shit, and the bass kicks ass.
 
The night the lights went out in Georgia (1972). One of the classic mom-songs I grew up with.


It's a chilling tale but for many years I had no clue what the lyrics mean.
 
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I'd say this is one of my all time favorites if I had to choose 1 song.

Close runner up:

Both of these songs do a good job hyping me up when I need it and both are also great running songs.
 
"Born to be alive" from Patrick Hernandez, it was a big hit from the dusk of the disco era (althought some people said then disco music hold to the mid-1980s) who was a big one-hit wonder.
 
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