Rating: *** (3 stars)
Title: The Eggplant That Ate Chicago
Company: Go Go
Catalog: 22 17 002
Year: 1967
Grade (cover/record): VG+/VG+
Comments: minor corner wear
Available: 1
Price: $35.00
Signed by the small Go Go label (cool company logo),1967's "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago" teamed the band with producer Tony Marner. With Greenbaum penning the virtually all their material, the album featured an oddball hybrid of jug music (the title track), mixed with outright wierdness (check out the title track and the autobiographical "Weird") and proto-psychedlic lyrics ("How Lew Sin Aint" - aka "hallucenate"). To be honest, the album's way different and simply hard to aptly describe. All acoustic (with a penchant for kazoos), be forewarned that it's not a classic rock album. Released as a single the title track b/w "You Can't Fight City Hall Blues" (Go Go catalog number 00100) hit the top-100. The success did little to keep the band's momentum going and by the end of the year they'd called it quits with Greenbaum subsequently reemerging as a solo act (see separate entry). It's equally interesting in that, even though it's rare (we've seen three copies in our collecting days), it has yet to attain much recognition in collector's circles. As such, it's still a reasonable buy. (By the way, the track listing shown on the liner notes doesn't match the actual playing order.)
"The Eggplant That Ate Chicago" track listing:
1.) Patent Medicine (Norman Greenbaum) -
2.) Summer Love Song (Norman Greenbaum) -
3.) How Lew Sin Ate (Norman Greenbaum - Bonnie Wallach) -
4.) Dominating Baby (Norman Greenbaum) -
5.) Look At Her Now (Norman Greenbaum) -
6.) The Eggplant That Ate Chicago (Norman Greenbaum) -
7.) Modern Day Fish (Norman Greenbaum) -
8.) Nora (Norman Greenbaum) -
9.) The Old Frut Peddler (Norman Greenbaum) -
10.) Weird (Norman Greenbaum) -
