2:57
single, 1966
Written by Keith Relf, Jim McCarty, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page
This is an archetypical example of psychedelic British garage-rock as it gets, I think. The lyrics are transcendentalist hippie nonsense: "Happenings ten years time ago / Situations we really know / But the knowing is in the mind." There's a general ominous feel to the music in the first section. But the dual guitars by Beck and Page bring some unusual and exploratory, if not melodic, touches. The guitars wail like a siren, mimic explosions or roaring engines, and underneath Beck is making incomprehensible Cockney noises. Throw some liquid light shows on the walls and you have the era in a nutshell.
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