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Seeds - Flower Punk - Disc 1 of 3 (1967)

Track listing:
  1. Can't Seem To Make You Mine 3:03
  2. No Escape 2:17
  3. Evil Hoodoo 5:14
  4. Girl I Want You 2:24
  5. Pushin' Too Hard 2:35
  6. Try To Understand 2:52
  7. Nobody Spoil My Fun 3:54
  8. It's A Hard Life 2:40
  9. You Can't Be Trusted 2:12
  10. Excuse, Excuse 2:21
  11. Fallin' In Love 2:48
  12. Mr. Farmer 2:52
  13. Pictures And Designs 2:45
  14. Tripmaker 2:48
  15. I Tell Myself 2:31
  16. Faded Picture 5:20
  17. Rollin' Machine 2:32
  18. Just Let Go 4:21
  19. Up In Her Room 14:45

Notes

The Seeds did write two garage rock classics with "Pushin' Too Hard" and "Can't Seem to Make You Mine," but that didn't mean their remaining records were as interesting as that pair of raw, vital rockers. Flower Punk acts otherwise, compiling all of the group's albums onto a triple-disc, book-bound collection. It's a beautifully packaged set and no song is overlooked, yet Flower Punk is only for serious garage rock and Seeds fetishists, since the band rarely ever hit the heights of "Pushin' Too Hard" and "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" again. Indeed, for many listeners, a simple greatest hits collection can sound samey, but over the course of three CDs, it becomes apparent that the Seeds and Sky Saxon were only capable of a few sounds, and you already have to be indoctrinated to find more than a handful of cuts on Flower Punk interesting.