The demos were finally packaged as Rolled Gold in 2002. (In the meantime, after a few personnel changes, the band changed their name to Mighty Baby and issued a few albums of sprawling psychedelia slightly reminiscent of Traffic or the Dead.) The Action were a second-tier British Invasion act, with a number of minor R&B and pop singles comparable to (but not nearly as compelling as) contemporaneous hits from the early Stones, Pretty Things, and Small Faces, later joining their counterparts with some mild psychedelia.īetween 19, they recorded over a dozen demos, apparently for an album to be produced by Beatles producer George Martin, but the songs were never finished and were stashed in a vault for decades. A buried classic that somehow bridges psychedelia with power pop, Rolled Gold belongs right there in the pantheon of great lost albums alongside Smile and Lifehouse. John and Philipa Cooper - The Cooperville Times (S.Is this the best 60s album you've (probably) never heard? I'm gonna go with yes.The Wizards From Kansas - The Wizards From Kansas.The Action - Rolled Gold (uk 1967-68, British psyc.Justin Heathcliff - Justin Heathcliff (Japan 1971).Faine Jade - Introspection: A Faine Jade Recital (.Huckle - Wild Blue Yonder (Canada 1976).Rodriguez - Coming From Reality (us 1971).Krayon Angels - Nineteen Sixtynine (uk 1969).Relatively Clean Rivers - Same (us 1975).Case closed.įilename: The Action - Rolled Gold (uk 1967-68, British psyched.rar Size: 143.67 MB Supposedly demos, the recording quality is excellent, just not bells-and-whistles Sgt. All 15 of these songs are incredible slices of pop genius, one after another. The most unlikely fluke oversight of the era. Of any unreleased music in the history of pop, this is by far the best album-that-could've-been. ~ (David Fricke - Rolling Stone Magazine). The Action never became stars, but Rolled Gold justifies the legend. Rolled Gold has an unfinished air, but that can't hide the invention in the Action's acid soul: the rolling wah-wah-guitar thunder in "Brain" the snorting fuzz and dirty-cherub harmonies in "Follow Me." The huge jangle and magnetic chorus of "Something to Say" would make Oasis ache with envy. But the band broke up, and the tapes were shelved - until now. After their '65-'67 singles with Martin fell shy of hitsville, the Action cut their own set of demos. The Action were the other great English band produced by George Martin in the 1960s: London mods who pressed guitar havoc and the airtight pop of Martin's star clients, the Beatles, into a sparkling R&B sealed by the exquisite agony of singer Reg King. Related Artists: Ace, Mighty Baby, Speakeasy! The Action - Rolled Gold (uk 1967-68, British psychedelia, released in 2002)
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