Group 1850 – Paradise Now

Deze reissue is om te huilen, heb m destijds snel teruggebracht, klonk als een aap.Moest lullen als Brugman maar kreeg mijn geld terug!!!

As famously Nigel Powers said, "there are two things I abhor: intolerant people and the dutch".

One of the best Psych albums from Holland. 1850 was called the Dutch Pink Floyd.

I buying this as a poverty stricken student in the mid 1980s from Funhouse Records, 12 quid I think, quite a lot back then. It blew my mind and I also thought it was rarest of the rare. As it turns out, this LP is not SO rare and it was actually issued on a budget label run by the chain store Vroom and Dressmann, the Dutch equivalent of Woolworths.

So this would have been available to the sort of people who wouldn't normally have gone into an underground record shop or bought a hippy record. So, was this LP the reason why the druggy 60s counter-culture came closest to 'winning' in The Netherlands? Certainly Holland went into the 60s as conservative as anywhere but came out the most liberal country on the planet. Were Groep 1850 responsible for sowing children, middle-aged people and the suburbs with psychedelic seeds that blossomed in the 70s? I like to think so. Paradise Now!

Hey! My copy has YELLOW vinyl! And it should say GAT (gatefold)

What is unofficial about this release ?
Seems the original release to me.

It was released separately, I own a copy.