(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: Remember when "Lost Classics of the 1960s" did "twee weekend" (which some later dubbed "the tweekend")? Well, much of this entry in the series is the opposite: historic, heavy, genre-birthing music. I hope you'll listen and subscribe! sethabramson.substack.com/p/lost-classic…
I don't think any entry in the series has covered so much ground. This entry has punk, funk, heavy metal, gospel, prog-rock, pop, twee, and the gentlest song of the 1960s. There's something for everyone here, and a song—there's always one—I bet no one reading this has ever heard.
Has there ever been yodeling in a Parliament song? Did a group of U.S. soldiers stationed in Germany shave bald spots on their heads to give birth to punk in 1965? Has a band ever made a concept album about a single game of chess? All these questions are answered with this entry.
I know it's hard to imagine a Kinks song being a "lost classic"—but remember, the band was banned from America 1964-69, so when they recorded one of their best songs and then kept it off their biggest flop album (except in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand)...it's possible.
(PS) If anyone else hears notes of Pearl Jam in Grand Funk Railroad's 1969 song "Winter and My Soul" (#7 on this list), let me know.
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