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In any great scene - social or film - it seems there are always a few frames that get left out. And this, the latest installment in Big Beat's Nuggets From The Golden State series restores some lost footage to the sprawling epic that was San Francisco in the 60s. Necessarily comprised of demos, rehearsals and concert performances, the Ace of Cups' It's Bad For You But Buy It! documents the music of one of the few SF bands that, regrettably, never got a go at the full recording studio experience. Fillmore and Avalon regulars - I recall seeing them, too, at Golden Gate Park events - this all-girl quintet rocked, soothed and cooked, from 1967 to 1970, making its own distinctive contribution to that diverse period. Distinctive" is the operative word. Sure, there are occasional (early) Grace Slick vocal referents, but the Cups' music doesn't generally resemble that of their bigger brothers and sisters, tending, to borrow a phrase from the Beach Boys, more toward an appealing mix of funky/pretty."
Tracklist
01 Music
02 Boy, What'll You Do Then
03 Glue
04 Taste Of One
05 Stones
06 Looking For My Man
07 Afro Blue
08 Pretty Boy
09 Waller Street Blues
10 I Wanna Testify
11 Gospel Song
12 Circles
13 Catch You Later
14 Simplicity
15 Medley: Life In Your Hands/Thelina
16 Hear Every Sound