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From Toronto, Ontario. The stand-out track on their album is Sunday Love, which ranges from soft to strident keyboard-dominated psychedelia. Crying Into The Deep Lake is also excellent, a superb slice of psychedelia with a haunting keyboard intro. The remainder of the album pales into insignificance alongside these two tracks, but is nonetheless worth obtaining.

Both their 45s were issued in black and white picture sleeves. The first is a wild non-LP punker, written by MacKay and McKim, with particularly eerie lyrics and frantic delivery.

MacKay and McKim also produced the Underworld's single Go Away, and wrote the flip side Bound.

The band's material has received good compilation coverage in recent years:- Feel It on Pebbles, Vol. 9; Make Some Use Of Your Friends, Crying Into The Deep Lake, Roll My Own and You Brought Me Back To My Senses are also all included on Valley Of The Son Of The Gathering Of The Tribe (Gott 3); and Sunday Love can also be found on the Compositions (Gathering Of The Tribe, Vol. 4) compilation. Feel It has also been covered by Question Mark and The Mysterians on their 1999 LP release.

Originals of the album and first 45 are prized collectors items, but the album did enjoy a limited repress recently, and the recent official CD issue includes many extra bonus tracks, from their 45s, plus previously unreleased demos etc.(Border)

It's All Meat came from Toronto, Ontario and released a superb, but little known album on the Columbia label in 1970. The band consisted of RICK ASTON (bass), JED MacKAY (organ, piano), RICK McKIM (drums), WAYNE ROWORTH (guitar) and NORM WHITE (guitar) MacKay and McKim both previously played together with Toronto's Underworld, whose lone single, "Go Away", released in 1968, is considered one of Canada's most sought after garage bands songs. The music of Its All Meat at most times sounds like the Doors (Crying Into A Deep Lake, Self-Confessed Lover) while at other times the band is a dead ringer for the Rolling Stones (Make Some Use Of Your Friends). This reissue, the second CD release on the Hallucinations label, features the entire It's All Meat album along with six bonus unreleased tracks and demos recorded by the band between 1969-1971 . It also features the band's first non lp single, the garage punk rocker "Feel It" released in 1970. This package of 15 songs is an excellent example of early 70's keyboard-dominated psychedelia, garage punk, and haunting keyboard sounds. The CD packaging reproduces the original album graphics but the only draw back to the set is that unfortunately it is missing an essay or some sort of biography on the band. The sound has been digitally remastered and for the most part it appears to have been taken from a vinyl source as there is an occasional vinyl static in places. Overall the sound quality is fairly good. Considering the rarity of the original "It's All Meat" album this release is welcomed by any fan of the early 70's garage and psychedelic sounds. (Keith Pettipas - All Music Guide)

01. Feel It (1st Single 1969) - 3.29
02. You Don't Notice The Time You Waste (The Album) - 3.25
03. Make Some Use Of Your Friends (The Album) - 3.38
04. Crying Into The Deep Lake (The Album) - 9.12
05. Roll My Own (the Album) - 5.47
06. Self-Confessed Lover (The Album) - 4.33
07. If Only (The Album) - 4.20
08. You Brought Me Back To My Senses (the Album) - 3.23
09. Sunday Love (The Album) - 9.28
10. Pity In The City (Bonus) - 2.43
11. (I Need Some Kind Of) Definite Commitment (Baby) (Bonus) - 3.49
12. Astrology (Bonus) - 3.09
13. I Don't Need You Above Me (Bonus) - 2.39
14. Can't Get Together (Bonus) - 1.56
15. If Jesus Were Alive Today (Bonus) - 2.37