YAYS
& NAYS "Yays & Nays"
Monster
rare USA private pressing from 1968,
rated with 6 stars in the Hans Pokora 3001
Record Collector's Dreams book. The Yays
& Nays were a groovy, hip group (says
so on the original LP jacket!) comprised of
three guys and three girls. Theirs is a
truly unique sounding album, full
of creative songwriting and vocal
arrangements and a style that defies
categorization. There’s garage
folk-rock—the opening track 'Gotta Keep
Traveling' is really astounding!, tracks with
vocals in a kind of 'Kicking Against the
Pricks"-era Nick
Cave-channelling-Tony-Joe-White-meets-Johnny
Cash vein, a little country flair, and some
cuts of an ''Incredible Strange Music'' type.
Weird and wonderful, in it's own peculiar way.
Reissued for the first time, in
collaboration with band members, and with
original artwork.
"...mighty obscure LP, in which the
three-man, three-woman combo fuse rather
catchy early-'60s style troubadour "gotta
travel on" folk-pop (with a hint of country)
with more contemporary folk-pop-rock
arrangements, some of which even verge
on garage rock rawness. The songs
have their catchy elements, never
more so on the most garage-folk-rockish cut,
'Gotta Keep Traveling.' Other
cuts show some surprising stylistic
versatility, with hints of early-'60s
pop/rock surfacing in
'Contrary Mary' and 'Easy Woman'
(which could almost pass for a Lee
Hazlewood-Nancy Sinatra duet)... and
certainly makes it stand out in a sea of far
more predictable obscure LP releases from
the same era." —Richie
Unterberger, AllMusic
•One of the rarest USA private press
albums of the psychedelic era
•Official vinyl reissue in conjunction with
Groovie Records
•LP limited to 500 copies
Track List:
Side A
01 Gotta Keep Travelling 2:23
02 Nature Is My Mother 3:39
03 Some Do, Some Don't 2:23
04 Contrary Mary 2:56
05 Easy Woman 4:24
06 It's What's Happening
Baby 2:30
Side B
01 Call Me A Dog 2:57
02 If 3:18
03 Take It Easy Baby 2:27
04 Let It All Hang Out
05 What Women Do 6:58
06 Onstage Revelations 2:32
Catalogue number: Groovie GR00 0020
UPC: 778578302016