{"id":8214,"date":"2015-08-17T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=8214"},"modified":"2015-10-19T12:59:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:59:47","slug":"album-mini-review-wizzz-french-psychedelic-1966-1969-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/17\/album-mini-review-wizzz-french-psychedelic-1966-1969-volume-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Wizzz! French Psychedelic 1966-1969 Volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/wizzz280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/center>File Next to: <em>Nuggets II: British Empire and Beyond<\/em>, Roman Coppola&#8217;s <em>CQ <\/em>Soundtrack<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00ET7QGLW&amp;asins=B00ET7QGLW&amp;linkId=LO3TYYEBODYJXNPW&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>France has long been notorious for its musical insularity. Listen to a bootleg of the <strong>Beatles<\/strong>&#8216; February 1964 show \u2013 the height of worldwide Beatlemania \u2013 and you can hear the group just fine; the Parisians merely clap. And they simply couldn&#8217;t accept the real <strong>Elvis Presley<\/strong>; they had to mint one of their own, <strong>Johnny Hallyday<\/strong>. France was seemingly resistant to outside musical influences, and that worked both ways: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=283\"><strong>Fran\u00e7oise Hardy<\/strong><\/a> and <strong>Serge Gainsbourg<\/strong> were huge stars at home, but got relatively little traction internationally. But a newly-reissued collection shows that French musical artists did pay attention to what was happening elsewhere. Fuzztone guitars, combo organs and simple, trashy melodies are all the rage on this fourteen-track set. Is it derivative? Sure. But it&#8217;s always undeniably French, with a vaguely square caf\u00e9 jazz vibe applied to songs worthy of (if not <strong>The Seeds<\/strong>, then) <strong>Nancy Sinatra<\/strong> and <strong>Lee Hazlewood<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>An edited version of this review previously appeared in the<\/em> Colorado Springs Independent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" name=\"graphics3\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" align=\"BOTTOM\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\"> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File Next to: Nuggets II: British Empire and Beyond, Roman Coppola&#8217;s CQ Soundtrack France has long been notorious for its musical insularity. Listen to a bootleg of the Beatles&#8216; February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,57,62,64,65],"tags":[2390],"class_list":["post-8214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garage","category-psych","category-rawk","category-reissue","category-review","tag-wizzz","cat-33-id","cat-57-id","cat-62-id","cat-64-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8974,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions\/8974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}