Once the distortion has given your speakers a workout, you'll also want to put on our reissue of the psychedelic $100 Fine for the complete picture. Featuring the secret-agent aura of (Under the Screaming Double) Eagle and a Vanilla Fudged extension of She's Not There, the 1968 opus shines in a dayglo red, white, yellow, and aqua hue that reflects The Litter's expanded musical horizon. And speaking of expansion, we've thrown on enough bonus cuts to double the length of the original album. Both releases include unseen photos and extensive historical essays by Goldmine/Ugly Things scribe Doug Sheppar
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$100 is The Litter's second album and accounts for the first 11 songs on this CD - the rest are bonus tracks. The album find the band moving away from their garage roots, and into hard rock territory - though the first few songs (Mindbreaker, Tallyman...) would fit on their debut album Distortions fine.Highlights, for me, are the aforementioned Mindbreaker, Under the Screaming Double Eagle (with a great riff running through it) and Here I Go Again. Remember the `60s vogue for extending a song over a whole side of an album? She's Not There sounds like The Litter's attempt; it's not my favourite track.Alternative versions of some of these songs (plus several other songs from this period) appear on Distortions as bonus cuts; they're fab too.However, the bonus cuts on this CD are a disappointment - they feature the Litter doing session work for other artists. Only He Couldn't Find One Anywhere and I'll Never Love Again (aka The Egyptian) sound anything like band we know and love.
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