Flamingo/Teenage Head [PA]

Performer: The Flamin' Groovies
Distributor: Infinity Entertainment Gr

Notes: This twofer containing the Flamin' Groovies' third and fourth albums marks the period where they came into their own. FLAMINGO (1970) and especially TEENAGE HEAD (1971) are where the band moved from raw, bar-band garage-rock into bluesier, more intense spaces, with the latter album bearing a distinct Stones influence. TEENAGE HEAD is also singer/guitarist Roy Loney's swan song; the band would go on without him after this, pursuing a poppier, more British Invasion-influenced sound.

Q (Magazine) (p.115) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hese were their two defining efforts. Flamingo kicks off with the stompingly paranoid 'Comin' After Me' and barely pauses for breath until its frenetic finale, 'Road House'..." Record Collector (magazine) (p.91) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The anthemic TEENAGE HEAD alone cements their place in punk posterity, but there's plenty more gems here, including classic originals such as 'Roadhouse' and 'City Lights'..."

Something of an American underground institution, San Francisco's the Flamin' Groovies started out in the mid 1960s as a Stones-tinged throwback to the early days of rock & roll. Although the band had its fans, they were too out of step with the Summer of Love to break through to the mainstream. Though this era would produce one of their two signature songs, "Teenage Head." By the '70s, the band switched up their sound and recast themselves as power-pop songsters. It was during this period that the Flamin Groovies would release their other beloved classic, "Shake Some Action," one of the all-time great power-pop tunes.

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