Unwind with Strawberry Alarm Clock
UnwindWithSAC.com is the web's most exhaustive collection of information about Strawberry Alarm Clock's music and career. Every album and every song has its very own dedicated page. This is where you learn about the band, leave comments, buy new or used CDs and vinyl LPs, and download MP3s.
Strawberry Alarm Clock had a #1 hit for one week in 1967 with "Incense And Peppermints", and that song is how most people remember the band today. Which is a shame; it's a good song but the band was more than one fluke hit. Strawberry Alarm Clock released four albums and several singles, including a bunch of sides as Thee Sixpence before changing their name to SAC. On all these records, lost classics abound.
The band's first album, Incense And Peppermints, is awash in the floating mid-1967 California feeling that permeates the best music of the era. Flutes and harpsichords enhance an often dark and unsettlingly surreal world. The next album was Wake Up... It's Tomorrow, where SAC increased the gentle wistfulness on some tracks and plumbed further depths of darkness and weirdness on others. The World In A Sea Shell (1968) followed, adding dense orchestration to a grab bag of hammy Tin Pan Alley schmaltz and inspired band originals. Good Morning Starshine was full of stripped-down blues boogie alongside some classic SAC ethereality.
Strawberry Alarm Clock has been recording new songs and new versions of older SAC songs and is planning on releasing them in 2010. The first release will be a newly-recorded version of Sky Saxon and the Seeds' "Mr. Farmer" on a Sky Saxon tribute CD. So now is a great time to take a closer look at the band on UnwindWithSAC.com... "Strawberry Alarm Clock": Nouns? Yes. Meaningless? Never!
NOTE: This site is not officially affiliated with the band Strawberry Alarm Clock or any of its individual members. We're just fans!
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1. Strawberry Alarm Clock - World in a Sea Shell
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$41.29
2. The World In A Sea Shell
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$11.71
3. Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints [Vinyl]
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$15.60
4. 1967 Incense and Peppermints Vinyl LP Record
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$8.84
5. Strawberry Alarm Clock - World in a Seashell
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$11.28
6. Strawberry Alarm Clock (re 45) "Incense & Peppermints"
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$5.00
7. STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK INCENSE AND PEPPERMINTS
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$0.99
9. Strawberry Alarm Clock - Anthology
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$9.37
10. STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK, Barefoot In Baltimore.
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$1.55