Something 4 The Weekend # 213

The United States Of America: The United States Of America: "The Garden Of Earthly Delights" [mp3]

The United States Of America (the country) can safely be called the home of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. (Right?)

The United States Of America (the band) was a rock band in the late 1960's, the time when sex and drugs fully arrived in Rock and popular culture, once and for all.

The United States Of America (the album) is perhaps the greatest album from that era that you've never heard on your local Classic Hits™ station. This album is sexy and druggy and really fucking weird at times, and undeniably beautiful at other times. It's raw and loud despite the fact that there's not a guitar to be found anywhere, and it's political without being too strident or silly. To me this album sounds like the very epitome of 1968, a year I don't remember.

Hotcha! Hank