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Strawberry Alarm Clock's oldest song could be considered to be "Long Days Flight", which was the a-side of the first single released by the band's original carnation, Thee Sixpence. That band released a half-dozen songs, and the lineup was virtually the same as SAC.

The first Strawberry Alarm Clock songs proper were the two from the single "Incense And Peppermints" b/w "The Birdman Of Alkatrash"; the band's first album Incense And Peppermints contained several more band originals. Wake Up... It's Tomorrow, considered by some to be the band's high point, was full of more great SAC originals.

The band's third album, The World In A Sea Shell, featured several tracks written for the band by outside writers as well as several originals; the final LP Good Morning Starshine featured all original Strawberry Alarm Clock songs except the title song. After that final LP, the band released several non-LP singles with both Jim Pitman and Paul Marshall on vocals. They also contributed two songs to the 1970 movie soundtrack of Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and two new songs on a 1971 compilation album, Changes.

In 2010 Strawberry Alarm Clock were planning on releasing a new recording, "Mr. Farmer", for a Sky Saxon/Seeds tribute album, as well as an entire new SAC album with new songs and re-recorded classics.

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"An Angry Young Man" — "An Angry Young Man" is a track from Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1968 album The World In A Sea Shell. Although its title would suggest a tough, aggressive rock song, the recording is in fact quite mellow and rich. It does feature a few interesting touches — particularly when a piercing sitar note squirts up here and there, propping the song up like poles in a sagging tent, an echo of ...

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"Barefoot In Baltimore" — "Barefoot In Baltimore" is the first song on side 2 (seventh track on the CD) from Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1968 album The World In A Sea Shell. As one of the songs on the LP whose music (but not words) was actually written by the band, it is one of the better and more heartfelt performances on the album, while retaining the gentle and playful air of the album in ...

"The Birdman Of Alkatrash" — The b-side of the #1 hit song "Incense And Peppermints", "The Birdman Of Alkatrash" is a simple, garage-y pop song by Thee Sixpence (later called Strawberry Alarm Clock — the song is considered to be by both bands, albeit of the exact same recording). The song was originally the a-side of a single on the All American label, but then "Incense And Peppermints" started getting all the attention from DJs ...

"Birds In My Tree" — "Birds In My Tree" is the second track from Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1967 album Incense And Peppermints. A short and rather conventional pop song, it features vaguely psychedelic touches such as an adventurous melody, lyrical references to drugs and a new ideal existence, and a real sense of wonder: "Hand me my bag, Frederick Stretch out your mind, feel good" "Come live a better life All is what you strive ...

"Black Butter, Future" — "Black Butter, Future" is the final in a trilogy of songs that closes Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1968 LP Wake Up... It's Tomorrow. If "Black Butter, Past" was the sound of rock music past and "Black Butter, Present" was the sound of circa-1968 psychedelia, "Black Butter, Future" is decidedly non-futuristic sounding. Beginning with a merry little chrous of a cappella la-la-la-la-la-las, this shortest of the "Black Butter"s (just under 1:30) transfers ...

"Black Butter, Past" — "Black Butter, Past" is the first in a trilogy of songs that closes Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1968 LP Wake Up... It's Tomorrow. A straight-ahead rock song, "Black Butter, Past", true to its title, seems to hearken back to a musical era before the song's own — a mere two years prior, perhaps, around 1966 when garage rock was just coming into its own. The first half of the song may ...

"Black Butter, Present" — "Black Butter, Present" is the second in a trilogy of songs that closes Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1968 LP Wake Up... It's Tomorrow. Self-consciously psychedelic, with a prominent sitar, backwards-echo (a technique of recording something and applying echo to it as the tape runs backwards, so when listened to forward, the echo fades in, before a sound, rather than fading out after it — it's very disorienting), and loopy singing, "Black ...

"Blues For A Young Girl Gone" — The second track on Strawberry Alarm Clock's third album, The World In A Sea Shell (1968), "Blues For A Young Girl Gone" is a rather lush pop song in keeping with the less-psychedelic feel of the album, as compared with the band's previous albums. It is actually one of the album's better songs, and one of two co-written by Carole King. "Blues For A Young Girl Gone" is defined by ...

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"California Day" — "California Day" is a non-LP song released as a single in 1970 by Strawberry Alarm Clock. The track featured the band's last lead singer, Paul Marshall, who had replaced Jim Pitman. "California Day" is a pleasant and perky ode to driving around sunny California's open highways (and by extension to the state itself). There is some interesting drumming, banging out a rather crude beat, and a busy guitar figure that ...

"Can't Explain" — "Can't Explain" is a cover of a song by Arthur Lee and Love recorded and released by Strawberry Alarm Clock's early incarnation Thee Sixpence in 1966. It was the b-side of the band's first single, which had "Long Days Care" on the a-side. While not as great as Love's version, Thee Sixpence's "Can't Explain" actually has a faster feel than the original, while the band plays it pretty close to ...

"Changes" — "Changes" is the song that closes out Strawberry Alarm Clock's final album, Good Morning Starshine from 1969. It is a slow, dramatic blues, featuring some great soloing, ethereal organ atmospherics, and Jim Pitman's gutbucket wailing. Built around a simple chord sequence, "Changes" is an opportunity for the Clock to stretch out and take its time, slowly sculpting a tower of blues-rock in a way they had not been able to ...

"Curse Of The Witches" — "Curse Of The Witches" is the fifth song on Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1968 album Wake Up... It's Tomorrow. By far the longest track on the album, it's arguably the most adventurous and certainly the most epic in scope. The song boasts some of the most unusual sonic excursions ever undertaken by the band; "Curse Of The Witches" is arguably the centerpiece of the album, with its daring grandness and highly ...

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"Dear Joy" — "Dear Joy" is the 10th song (5th song on side 2) from Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1969 LP Good Morning Starshine. The song is firmly in the classic SAC mold: wistful and adroit, with a decided denseness to the arrangement that is tempered by some pleasant, psychedelic asides, all in a cheerful little tune tinged with subtle melancholy. As a gentle song from singer Jim Pitman, "Dear Joy" joins "Write Your ...

"Desireé" — Strawberry Alarm Clock released the non-LP single "Desireé" in 1969 backed with "Changes" from the Good Morning Starshine album. "Desireé" is a great song, and one of SAC's real lost classics. The performance features the vocals of 1969-era Clock singer Jim Pitman, as well as an interesting horn section. "Desireé" is catchy in the best sense — not annoyingly so, just a hell of a lot of fun. It begins ...

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"Eulogy" — "Eulogy" is the shortest song on Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1968 album The World In A Sea Shell and one of the album's more daring sonic sculptures. It has a mid-tempo pace, an opaque sheen to the vocal chorale, and some striking tonal dissonance in its sneaky chord changes. A fat, distorted electric guitar line is a main feature of the backing track, as is often the case with SAC songs.The ...

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"Fortune Teller" — Thee Sixpence covered the popular song "Fortune Teller" on their second release, a 45 rpm single on All American backed with "My Flash On You", the band's second cover of Arthur Lee's Love. (Thee Sixpence later evolved into Strawberry Alarm Clock.) Many bands in the 60s covered "Fortune Teller", including the Rolling Stones and the Who ('and Wayne Fontana — 'e did it'). Thee Sixpence's version shows the band significantly ...

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"Girl From The City" — "Girl From The City" was one of Strawberry Alarm Clock's final singles, a non-LP song with vocalist Paul Marshall. The song was recorded for the Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls soundtrack from Russ Meyers' 1971 cult classic movie. The b-side was the evergreen "Three". "Girl From The City" doesn't strive to be great or profound, just to be a fun little rock song — and it succeeds in this ...

"Go Back (You're Going The Wrong Way)" — "Go Back (You're Going The Wrong Way)", from Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1968 LP Wake Up... It's Tomorrow, is perhaps the silliest song the band ever released, musically speaking. Mostly in 3/4 time, with slight, circus-like organ flutters emphasizing the goofiness of the waltz, the track tells a simplistic tale that takes, as usual for this band, an unexpected, unexplained, and often-overlooked dark turn. Without context or background, the ridiculous but ...

"Good Morning Starshine" — Strawberry Alarm Clock recorded "Good Morning Starshine" for their fourth and final LP, and even named the album after the song. A jarring anomaly on the album, the song was not the idea of the band members, who otherwise had managed to wrest musical control from the managers and producers who had done so much to muddle up the previous album, The World In A Sea Shell. "Good Morning Starshine" ...

"(Gotta Get The) First Plane Home" — "(Gotta Get The) First Plane Home" is the b-side of a single by Thee Sixpence, who later became Strawberry Alarm Clock. The song's a-side was "Heart Full Of Rain". It was released on the All American label in early 1967. "(Gotta Get The) First Plane Home" sounds a little regressive after the forward strides made by the band on recent songs like "Heart Full Of Rain" (which had the band's ...

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"Heart Full Of Rain" — "Heart Full Of Rain" is one of the final songs released by Thee Sixpence in early 1967, shortly before the band became Strawberry Alarm Clock. "Heart Full Of Rain" was released on the All American label with two different b-sides: "(Gotta Get The) First Plane Home" and the previously-released "Fortune Teller". (Both versions, confusingly, had the same catalog number.) "Heart Full Of Rain" is an obvious bridge between the garage ...

"Heated Love" — "Heated Love" is a song from Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1968 LP The World In A Sea Shell. Written by the same band members responsible for some of Wake Up... It's Tomorrow's stranger moments, "Heated Love" has a loose and unconventional structure, even though the actual arrangement and performance are much gentler than that 1968 album's whacked-out "Nightmare Of Percussion" and "Curse Of The Witches". As a song, "Heated Love" is ...

"Hey Joe" — "Hey Joe" (misspelled "Hay Joe" on the label) is the b-side of Thee Sixpence's third single, "In The Building", from 1966. (Thee Sixpence would soon evolve into Strawberry Alarm Clock.) This record was released on the All American label, and re-released on a compilation album in 1998. (In addition to the song name being misspelled, the band's name is rendered incorrectly on both sides of this single: "The" instead of ...

"Hog Child" — "Hog Child" is the fourth track on Good Morning Starshine, Strawberry Alarm Clock's final LP from 1969. The overall vibe of "Hog Child" is one of bluesy, organ-fuelled rock, in keeping with the general feel of the album (especially as compared with the group's previous LP, the curiously lush The World In A Sea Shell). SAC uses the song to again show off some interesting arrangements and studio trickery, including ...

"Home Sweet Home" — "Home Sweet Home" is the fifth song on the 1968 album The World In A Sea Shell by Strawberry Alarm Clock. Although written by the same songwriters who contributed "Sea Shell" to the album, John Carter and Tim Gilbert, "Home Sweet Home" is decidedly peppier than that drowsy song — even funky. "Home Sweet Home" is one of the more recommended songs from the controversial side 1 of the LP ...

"Hummin' Happy" — "Hummin' Happy" is the seventh track (third track of Side 2 on the vinyl issue) of Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1967 LP Incense And Peppermints. A fast rock song with strikingly cynical lyrics, "Hummin' Happy" is notable as perhaps the most negative of the band's little-acknowledged dark side (seen also on songs like "The World's On Fire", "Lose To Live" and "Curse Of The Witches"). Featuring the usual lovely harmony vocals ...

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"I Climbed The Mountain" — "I Climbed The Mountain" is one of Strawberry Alarm Clock's final singles, and is a non-LP song that was backed with "Three" in 1969 after the released of the band's final LP, Good Morning Starshine. "I Climbed The Mountain" is a nice but unremarkable orchestrated pop song with a subtle air of spiritual redemption (mostly in the lyrics, which quote the title of the well-known 1937 gospel song "Peace In ...

"I'm Comin' Home" — "I'm Comin' Home" is a Strawberry Alarm Clock song released only on the soundtrack of the 1971 movie Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls. It represents the final release from the final version of the band, who broke up soon after the movie's release. "I'm Comin' Home" is a pretty nice slice of catchy guitar-driven rock, a little more distorted even than usual but mixed rather low. There is also ...

"In The Building" — "In The Building" is the third single from Thee Sixpence, the band which evolved into Strawberry Alarm Clock. It was released on the All American label in 1966 and backed with "Hey Joe". (Not only is that b-side's title misspelled on the label as "Hay Joe", but on both sides the band's name is misspelled: "The" instead of "Thee".) Basically, "In The Building" is a slow-ish blues workout — but ...

"Incense And Peppermints" — "Incense And Peppermints" is Strawberry Alarm Clock's most famous song, the band's only #1 hit, and one of the most well-known classics of the classic 60s psych/pop era. It was recorded when the band was still known as Thee Sixpence and was intended as a b-side to "The Birdman Of Alkatrash" on All American. When the band changed its name to Strawberry Alarm Clock and their new record company Uni ...

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"Lady Of The Lake" — With "Lady Of The Lake", Strawberry Alarm Clock closes out side 1 of its 1968 LP The World In A Sea Shell with its second Carole King-penned song (with Toni Stern), another ditty featuring a tasty melody but with an overall inconsequential effect. The most interesting thing about the track is the repetitive trumpet, blaring an insistent single note over the singers and giving the song just enough edge to ...

"Long Days Care" — "Long Days Care" is a song by Thee Sixpence, later Strawberry Alarm Clock. It is from the first single ever released by the band, on the All American label, with a cover of Love's "Can't Explain" as the b-side. The "Long Days Care" single was released in 1966. As a mid-60s garage punk number, "Long Days Care" is pretty good; the band is genuinely out there and sweaty on this ...

"Lose To Live" — "Lose To Live" is the third track on Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1967 album Incense And Peppermints. Weird and angular, "Lose To Live" is defined by a piercing, harpsichord-like keyboard part, deranged vocals, and constantly changing musical forms. The track follows the shorter and gentler "Birds In My Tree", and recalls the album's opener "The World's On Fire", another strangely restless song. "Lose To Live" also leads into "Strawberries Mean Love" ...

"Love Me Again" — "Love Me Again" is the 10th song overall, and 4th song on side 2, from Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1968 album The World In A Sea Shell. At only 3:30, it's still the album's longest song and (significantly) one written by the band rather than outside composers. With a blistering lead guitar throughout, and with vocals considerably wilder than the album's other songs, "Love Me Again" is a great jam but ...

"Love Story" — In 1995 Strawberry Alarm Clock released a new song called "Love Story" on the various-artists compilation World Jam. "Love Story" was written by longtime SAC member Lee Freeman, the man responsible for much of Strawberry Alarm Clock's classic 60s sound. "Love Story" was the band's first new release since two tracks on the 1971 soundtrack of Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls. World Jam was a 5-CD set comprising 47 ...

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"Me And The Township" — "Me And The Township" is the first song on Strawberry Alarm Clock's final studio album, 1969's Good Morning Starshine. With its gritty performance and lack of any non-rock instrumentation, the track immediately announces that the Clock on this LP is in a different mood than the previous album, The World In A Sea Shell. "Me And The Township" is a bare-bones rock song, sounding more like the James Gang than ...

"A Million Smiles Away" — The title of "A Million Smiles Away", a song from Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1968 LP The World In A Sea Shell, would seem to suggest that it's a particularly soft performance on an album known for its gentle string arrangements and sleepy, baroque pop. But, as one must constantly realize when dealing with SAC, things are not as they may seem: "A Million Smiles Away" is a pretty fast and ...

"Miss Attraction" — "Miss Attraction" is a song from Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1969 album Good Morning Starshine which was also released as the b-side of the single "(You Put Me On) Stand By". There were two versions of the song on the album, the single version and a longer version with more jamming by the band. "Miss Attraction" is one of the band's best-ever songs, dominated by a very righteous chorus of overdubbed ...

"Mr. Farmer" — Strawberry Alarm Clock is planning on releasing its first new recording in some time: a cover of the Seeds' "Mr. Farmer" for a Sky Saxon tribute CD to be released in June 2010. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first new Strawberry Alarm Clock recording since 1995's "Love Story". The band began work on the song in January 2010; Clock keyboardist Mark Weitz says "Mr. Farmer" sounds ...

"My Flash On You" — "My Flash On You" is the b-side of Thee Sixpence's second 45 rpm release, the a-side of which is "Fortune Teller". It is the second 45 in a row on which the band covered a song from Love's self-titled 1966 debut album. (Thee Sixpence was the original version of Strawberry Alarm Clock.) Unlike the band's other Love cover, on "My Flash On You" finds Thee Sixpence putting their own unique ...

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"Nightmare Of Percussion" — "Nightmare Of Percussion", which starts off Strawberry Alarm Clock's second LP Wake Up... It's Tomorrow (1968), immediately serves as notice to listeners that this album isn't going to be playing it safe musically. A bouncy, slapdash drums-and-bass intro leads to a guitar slowly feeding back — already stranger than most of the band's first LP Incense And Peppermints. And then come the vocals: sung in an itchy near-monotone, the herky-jerky ...

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"Off Ramp Road Tramp" — "Off Ramp Road Tramp" is the second song on Strawberry Alarm Clock's final album, Good Morning Starshine (1969). It's another breathless blues-rock anthem with gravelly, passionate vocals and a stately 70s-rawk vibe. "Off Ramp Road Tramp" could almost have been a recording by Deep Purple. The track is another notice to the record-buying public that the Clock was moving on from the saccharine orchestration and complex vocal harmonies of the ...

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"Pass Time With The SAC" — "Pass Time With The SAC" is a short instrumental song and the eighth track (fourth track on the vinyl Side 2) from Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1967 LP Incense And Peppermints. Apparently conceived as and included as filler for the short album, "Pass Time With The SAC" is a pretty fiery performance, with Ed King's distorted guitar twisting all over the place as a jumpy organ pumps the song along. It ...

"Paxton's Back Street Carnival" — "Paxton's Back Street Carnival", the sixth song from Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1967 LP Incense And Peppermints (second song on vinyl's Side 2), is an aggressive rock song evoking the spirit of California psychedelia's middle period (early/mid 1967). The very notion of a street carnival was very endemic to the time and place, and the swirling images in the song's lyrics fit the mood very well. Musically, a tough guitar dominates ...

"Pretty Song From Psych-Out" — "Pretty Song From Psych-Out" represents perhaps Strawberry Alarm Clock's all-time high point. Dynamic and strong, the unimaginatively-titled but otherwise excellent song was composed by Strawberry Alarm Clock for the 1968 movie Psych-Out, and appeared on the band's 1968 album Wake Up... It's Tomorrow. One of Strawberry Alarm Clock's finest songs, "Pretty Song From Psych-Out" is exactly as its title would suggest: its very pretty melody is full of soaring phrases ...

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"Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow" — "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow" is the fifth track (first on Side 2 of the vinyl LP) on Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1967 album Incense And Peppermints. Both dense and flowing, it is one of the album's more prominent psychedelic moments, and one of the highlights of SAC's entire career. Beginning with a dashing flute, and led throughout by bongos, the lyrics of "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow" are a perfect mirror for ...

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"Sea Shell" — "Sea Shell" is the leadoff track on Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1968 album The World In A Sea Shell. A dense, lush and slow-moving song, "Sea Shell" has a gorgeous melody but some ill-conceived ocean sounds and sappy orchestral overdubs, resulting in a song that may be too somnambulistic for fans of the band's previous work. The overall theme of "Sea Shell" is pretty simple, and maudlin: a broken-hearted "boy from ...

"Shallow Impressions" — "Shallow Impressions" is the last track on Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1968 album The World In A Sea Shell. It is an experimental instrumental (the only song without vocals on the album, and the first such song by the Clock since "Pass Time With The SAC" from the 1967 LP Incense And Peppermints. It was written by the band's legendary keyboard player, Mark Weitz. Beginning with some wind-like studio effects, "Shallow ...

"Sit With The Guru" — "Sit With The Guru" is the first song on Side 2 (and the sixth track overall) on Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1968 album Wake Up... It's Tomorrow. It was also released as a single in 1968. "Sit With The Guru" is jaunty and poppy, with an aggressive guitar vying for supremacy with the lovely, melodic vocal work. The relative placidness of "Sit With The Guru" comes as something of a relief ...

"Sitting On A Star" — "Sitting On A Star" is a track from Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1968 album Wake Up... It's Tomorrow. Another of the album's musically adventurous tracks, the song features a harsh, militaristic beat throughout its verses along with spidery, Doors-like choruses and the occasional faux-funky jazz interlude. The singing is rather high and plaintive, with a subdued harmony chorus mixed rather low in the background; the lyrics are pretty uneventful, describing a ...

"Small Package" — The third song on Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1969 LP Good Morning Starshine is the quite entertaining "Small Package". The performance has some of the gutsy blues-rock feel of the album's first two songs ("Me And The Township" and "Off Ramp Road Tramp") but "Small Package" is actually more of an extension of the band's adventurous song writing and arranging from the 1968 LP Wake Up... It's Tomorrow. "Small Package" starts ...

"Soft Skies, No Lies" — "Soft Skies, No Lies" is the second track from Strawberry Alarm Clock's second album, 1968's Wake Up... It's Tomorrow. It is the precise polar opposite of the terrifying album opener "Nightmare Of Percussion". An extravagantly sunny pop song, praising nature for creating such soft skies, there is almost a kind of meta-irony in its extreme inoffensiveness, due to its place on the album between that first song and later dirges ...

"Starting Out The Day" — "Starting Out The Day" is notable as an upbeat, horn-driven Strawberry Alarm Clock song released as a single in 1969. Its b-side was "Small Package", taken from the Good Morning Starshine album. "Starting Out The Day" has been released on various compilations since its original release and is one of the few Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks that can be downloaded as an MP3. "Starting Out The Day" has a very ...

"Strawberries Mean Love" — "Strawberries Mean Love" is the fourth song on Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1967 debut LP Incense And Peppermints, and the last song on the vinyl version's side 1. It is the second track to feature a more placid and conventional pop sound, the first having been "Birds In My Tree", and follows the chaos of the scrambled "Lose To Live". It is also one of the more genuinely psychedelic tracks on ...

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"They Saw The Fat One Coming" — "They Saw The Fat One Coming" is a standout track from the Strawberry Alarm Clock album Wake Up... It's Tomorrow from 1968. A psychedelic tone poem with shimmering guitar and a ghostly chorus delivering the unusual poetry of the lyric throughout, it features an acoustic guitar (rare for the band) and a meditative, funereal pace. As on several other Strawberry Alarm Clock songs, "They Saw The Fat One Coming" sports ...

"Three" — "Three" is the name of a Strawberry Alarm Clock song distinguished by the fact that it was released three times on the b-sides of three different singles, apparently as a joking reference to the title (and maybe as a testament to a dearth of material being written by the band's final incarnation, with Paul Marshall as the lead singer). "Three" is more fun than some of Marshall's other work with ...

"Tomorrow" — "Tomorrow" is Strawberry Alarm Clock's second-best known song (after "Incense And Peppermints"), and is the third song on the band's second album Wake Up... It's Tomorrow (1968). The de facto title song of the album (if not technically), "Tomorrow" is classic SAC in that it moves through several different sections, showing off a surprising number of arrangements and instrumental solos in a short time. Unlike past examples of this ("Incense ...

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"Unwind With The Clock" — "Unwind With The Clock" is the final track on the 1967 album Incense And Peppermints by Strawberry Alarm Clock. Mostly instrumental (until a verse sung towards the end) and similar in title to the filler track "Pass Time With The SAC", "Unwind With The Clock" is actually the second-longest song on the album and a very groovy, enjoyable end for an interesting album. The song is led first by a ...

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"Wooden Woman" — "Wooden Woman" is the second song on side 2, and 8th song overall, on the album The World In A Sea Shell, Strawberry Alarm Clock's third album from 1968. The ballad has a rather lugubrious air about it, as does virtually the entire album, and is highlighted by a heartbreaking chord sequence and delicate vocals. The band makes use of its oft-employed distorted-electric-guitar-as-wallpaper technique here, underscoring the gentleness of the ...

"The World's On Fire" — "The World's On Fire" is the first track on Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1967 LP Incense And Peppermints. At over eight minutes, it is the band's longest-ever track and is one of the better "long" psychedelic grooves of the era. It was presumably conceived in the spirit of other mid- and late-60s tracks that stretched far beyond regular single length, such as Bob Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands" and "Desolation ...

"Write Your Name In Gold" — "Write Your Name In Gold" appears on Strawberry Alarm Clock's 1969 album Good Morning Starshine. A slow-paced, highly dramatic song, "Write Your Name In Gold" has some excellent, sparkling organ work and an uncluttered, effective drum track to go along with its melodic vocal parts and relatively straightforward rhythm guitar. The song proves that Strawberry Alarm Clock could handle lush balladry, such as is found on the group's previous album ...

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"(You Put Me On) Stand By" — In 1969 Strawberry Alarm Clock released the song "(You Put Me On) Stand By" from the LP Good Morning Starshine as a single. The track is a throwback to the band's classic sound of fat, buzzy lead guitar lines, chirpy, rhythmic organ work, exciting drumming, and soaring, searching vocals. "(You Put Me On) Stand By" is very short, and its length is unfortunately matched by its slightness. It's a pleasant ...