who do you love

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The Misunderstood - Before The Dream Faded (1966) - USA Acid Garage Rock (1963 -- present) - The Misunderstood were an American garage rock band, formed in Riverside, California in 1963. They recorded an LP in 1966, entitled Before the Dream Faded that was belatedly issued in 1982. Their music is characterized by a mix of early English R&B similar to that of groups like The Yardbirds and The Animals, as well as proto-psychedelic guitar rock. Review ______ It's been a while since I reviewed last good, badass garage band. Well,The Misunderstood was on their way to the cult garage bands, but misunderstood circumstances led to their late issue of album almost 20 years later. Their first tune on this album is mean, acid-fueled guitar screech-hymn in Children Of The Sun, with amazing steady tempo, ready to break you breath in two while "that's the way love is spoken". Nothing less of great amount of psychedelic surprise is poured into great cover of Who Do You Love. This is much more creeepier and darker aproach to this old classic, especially felt when ghostly-calling guitar screeches over bottlenecked solo, fastly returning into neck-breacking acid beat. Another cover, but named differently - I Unseen (cover of Byrd's I Come And Stand On Every Door) is but another totally different approach to other's tune - this one, with hot-melting guitar tone and harp solo is like evil brother of Byrd's tune, that eventually got hooked on acid. Next one, Find A Hidden Door, is standard garage kicker with traces of The Seeds, singing in layered vocals and with their lyrics directed to openmindness. I guess acid was amazing then. One of my favorites is next, I Can Take You To The Sun, is brilliant mix of greasy intense of garage rock with mindmelting psychedelic passage to equally mesmerizing acoustic arrange at the end. I have a little story about how I found this band - I went to Zagreb to see Igra Staklenih Perli, amazing Ex-Yu psychedelic band that recently reunited that I also reviewed here, and after the gig I met friendly stranger who told me to check out this band. When I listened to first few songs, this tune was one of them and immidately I got hooked. I mean, just listen to those few last second of the song, when amazing fingerpicking get so fast it just becomes surreal. And the trippy hard-cooking jam just before the start of second part, The Who would be proud. Experimental heavy psychedelic jam with fuzzed out guitar and Interstellar Overdrive-style tempo of heavy-rocking is exploding your way in I'm Not Talking. Just as an answer to the same amount of blues badassery, or a question in that matter, Who's Been Talking? is something most heaviest and blues-rootyest I've heard in a while. Most catchiest and hypnotizing riff ever in combination with Delta deep-summer-shade lazy tempo, with ever-gold sound of muddy, dusty harp. The Misunderstood Blues does not end yet, for it is continued walking "down the road I'm goin'". Another amazing blues tune "You Dont Have To Go Out", captured beautifully with classic harp solo makes a statement that these maybe guys were garage boys on the look, deep inside they were true bluesmen. Garage pop try-out with "I Cried My Eyes Out" and mellower approach is appriciated and gives a thought that being a cool guy isn't just about loud fuzz. Although having a loud fuzz would make you cooler. Another heartbreaking prome-queen-went-wild ballad, Like I Do, is better tune, however. I love sunny feeling of surf guitar and high-school sentimentalia on back voices. Praciticing letter "A" may be helfpul with next song, "You Got Me Crying Over Love". Intro is good introduction to next sheer garageness on faster part, but back voices on later interlude maybe were unnecesarry. This is last song and that's where this fast flashback to garage haydays of mid 60s does not fades away, but continue to live on when you scroll down and download that link and continue rocking to this great band. Fans of Mo...