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Locomotive - We Are Everything You See (1969)

Track listing:
  1. Overture 2:03
  2. Mr Armageddon 4:25
  3. Now Is The End, The End Is Now 3:14
  4. Lay Me Down Gently 3:59
  5. Nobody Asked You To Come 3:15
  6. You Must Be Joking 3:59
  7. A Day In Shining Armour 3:29
  8. The Loves Of Augustus Abbey, Part I 1:07
  9. Rain 3:25
  10. The Loves Of Augustus Abbey, Part Ii 1:29
  11. Comin Down, Love Song For The Dead Che 4:29
  12. The Loves Of Augustus Abbey, Part Iii 1:22
  13. Time Of Light And Darkness 4:34
  14. Mr Armageddon 4:38
  15. Theres Got To Be A Way 3:46
  16. Im Never Gonna Let You Go 3:14
  17. You Must Be Joking 4:01
  18. Moving Down The Line 2:46
  19. Roll Over Mary 3:03

Notes

Locomotive's only album was an oddball piece of second-tier British psychedelia, stuck somewhere between psych and progressive rock, and mixing in a lot of soul music, a good deal of jazz, and a bit of classical. In those respects, they were similar to Traffic and Family, though putting more emphasis on soul music. The influences didn't cohere as well as they did in Traffic and Family, though, and the material wasn't nearly as effective. Of-the-day traits like swirling organ, fishbowl-distorted vocals, and phased drumming provided the freakiest elements, along with the band's liking for throwing in jazzy tempo changes. Melodically and lyrically, Locomotive were uncommonly grim for a late-'60s British psychedelic band, and there was a touch of Procol Harum in the vague tormented metaphysical questing of some of their lyrics and vocals. It's a reflection of their relatively inaccessible original material that the most memorable song is their cover of the United States of America's "Coming Down/Love Song for the Dead Che," an imaginative choice, considering the original must have been barely known in Britain at that time.