Paradox City

 

 

If I find a garage rock song on one of the many compilation albums in my collection that I truly love, I will often try to track down a retrospective album by the band to see what else they have recorded.  In this case, I found a 22-track CD on Distortions Records called Enough.  Unlike many such albums, which are basically a collection of miscellaneous, unconnected songs, this Bohemian Vendetta CD really sounds like an album.  Highlights include the early single “Like Stoned” (which has the feel of a Dutch “Nederpop” song with its offbeat tune and unusual vocal style), their last single “Riddles and Fairytales” (both the album version and the 45 version are included), “Charity Killjoy” (which was bumped from the Mainstream Records album in favor of “Satisfaction”), the willfully eccentric “Paradox City”, and of course “Enough”, a plaintive plea from a guy who is fed up with his girlfriend.

 

(April 2011)

 

 

One of my recent acquisitions is a Voxx Records compilation CD put together by Greg Shaw of crazed psychedelic material called Beyond the Calico Wall.  That album includes another Bohemian Vendetta song, a brain-twister called “Paradox City”; it is also available on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNiJ6HnMptI . 

 

(April 2013)