It’s
All Meat were a late 60s/early 70s band that hailed from Toronto and
released this excellent album in 1970 (Columbia). Prior to that, It’s
All Meat had been known as The Underworld. The Underworld released a
superb, crude garage single (“Go Away”/”Bound” – the label is Regency)
in 1968 and also recorded some fine unreleased material captured on
acetate. As mentioned before, some of the members of The Underworld
would form It’s All Meat. In 1969 this new group would release their
debut 45, “Feel It” coupled with “I Need Some Kind of Definitive
Commitment.” The A-side combined MC5 energy with New York Dolls-style
swagger and features plenty of feedback and great guitar breaks. It’s
one of the great proto-punkers.
Their
album was released the following year and feartured 8 fresh original
numbers written by drummer Rick McKIM and keyboard player/lead vocalist
Jed MacKAY. There are a bunch of good, solid stonesy garage rockers
that form the axis of this lp: “Make Some Use Of Your Friends,” “Roll My
Own,” “You Brought Me Back To My Senses,” and “You Don’t Know The Time
You Waste.” The latter track would be released as the group’s second
and final single but “Roll My Own” and “Make Some Use Of Your Friends”
were just as good, featuring fine psychedelic guitar work and raw
vocals. Other note worthy tracks flirted with blues (“Self-Confessed
Lover”) and folk-rock (“If Only”) but the lp’s brightest moments were
its two 9-minute marathon compositions. “Crying Into A Deep Lake” was
full-blown Doors psychedelia with spacey keyboards and spooky Jim
Morrison influenced vocals. The other lengthy track, “Sunday Love,”
sounds like a strange Lou Reed/John Cale concoction with lots a great
psychedelic guitar noise and soft folk-like passages sprinkled with
light garage keyboards. So while these last two tracks are very long,
they never wear out their welcome and are required listening for both
garage and psych fans. The album’s production teeters between a
primitive recording sound and the typical major label gloss, making it
just right.
It’s
All Meat is a fine, consistent trip all the way thru. It’s one of the
best late period (really late) garage rock albums I know of. The
album’s hard rock and proto-punk sounds give it a nice, visceral edge.
It’s All Meat was reissued in 2000 by Hallucinations though originals
are not hard to come by either. (http://therisingstorm.net/its-all-meat-its-all-meat/)
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