#208/1353
1986 Housekeeping
The Vietnam Veterans
In Ancient Times
Genre: Psychedelic Pop
4.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Let it Rain
Ancient Times
Curanderos
Three Months Every Year
You’re walking around the city one day. You’ve already hit your favorite record store and the second hand clothing shop and you wander into some sparsely decorated wannabe tschotchke store and you notice, by the window, a couple milk crates full of albums. None cost more than a couple bucks and you think, “The Vietnam Veterans”? Who would name their rock band that? Welp, it’s just $2.
Then you bring it home and put it on and you are amazed to discover…this is a French band, singing in English (and occasional Spanish) and playing decidedly retro Psychedelic rock and doing it really freaking well.
Then you pull out your pocket computer (because fuck the narrative of this story, it’s 2019 now) and you look em up and have to really research it cuz there’s so little on the web about them only to discover that the leader, Mark Enbatta has a band called Mark Embatta’s Tribe and he’s been making music and putting out albums for the last 37 years.
I’m rating this album relatively high for a couple reasons. One, I actually like it more than the retro garage of the era but mainly cuz, Two, I often get asked what surprises I found on this project and it’s easiest to look at the top rated records to find them for discussion.
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