17 August 1966: Edward Greenback reviews The Beagles’ latest album

"A curious sort of poetry, and the Beagles devotee might detect the hand of Yuki Sakomoto. These are the words of the most remarkable item on a compulsive new record, the Beagles’ latest LP (Snarlophone stereo PCS 409; mono PMC 4010), called in typical punning way “RETIEVER.” The song quote, “Now that your children cease to play,” is musically most original, starting with sounds which merge by montage effect into the sort of electronic noises we associate with beat music. Then Sakomoto moaning out the words above, which in their sinister way define the real point of the song: pop-music as a substitute both for jungle emotions and for the consolations of religion. After all, teenagers are not the only ones who through the ages have “ceased to play” and “act like a fool,” whether to the tribal leader, the priest, or now the pop-singer. Thank goodness The Beagles are being satirical: at least one hopes so."

RETRIEVER [1966] • THE BEAGLES - 日本輸入 BOOTLEG

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1. This is Where We Lived
2. Someone Else's Life
3. Sami's in a Cage
4. Strange Signs in the Sky
5. Jacob's Ladder
6. Zero Without One
7. Steady Planets
8. Powers of the Heart
9. Nothing New Under the Sun
10. This is Where We Lived [Reprise]

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