#Open mind magic potion tabs cracked

The opening track, вЂњDear LouiseвЂќ, has the same sinuous riffing and driving beat, but the distortion is dialed back and the chorus is sweetened (slightly) by rough group harmonies. The Open Mind didnвЂ™t have all that much range as songwriters, so all of the albumвЂ™s songs are marked with the unmistakable sound that вЂњMagic PotionвЂќ would perfect. On the whole, the song is unbelievably heavy without being ponderous, and seems like a prescient blueprint for late 1990s stoner rock. You get a sense of the incipient danger in вЂњseeing things you never saw beforeвЂќ: you get the feeling these would not be cellophane flowers and marmalade skies, but something chthonic and unspeakable. вЂњMagic PotionвЂќ is psychedelia purged of all whimsy and wonder and utopian overtones instead is a feeling of churning menace - underscored by apocalyptic hoof-beat drumming, quasi-raga licks, and droning open-string riffs played through thick distortion and a truly toxic wah-wah - that makes it hard to believe when singer Terry Martin bellows, вЂњUpon my soul, I feel fineвЂќ. (Happily, the track is also included on this reissue, along with its similar-sounding flip side, вЂњCast a SpellвЂќ, and a 1967 single issued when the band was still called the Drag Set.)

#Open mind magic potion tabs cracked

Largely ignored by the record-buying public in its day (perhaps because of its dopey cover, featuring the band crawling out of a statueвЂ™s cracked skull - get it?), the Open Mind made its reputation years later by the subsequent appearance of its non-LP single вЂњMagic PotionвЂќ on any number of psych-rock compilations. Released in 1969 by Philips, this London groupвЂ™s sole album has long been an obscure collectorвЂ™s item, revered as the apotheosis of the prog-psych that evolved out of the mid-1960s freakbeat sound typified by such bands as the Yardbirds, the Attack (who would transmogrify into pioneering prog-rock outfit Andromeda), and the Creation.