Tyrannosarus Rex - My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content To Wear Stars on Their Brows (1968)

Before T.Rex became the coked out, glam rock superstars that they are best known as, they were known as Tyrannosaurus Rex and released psychedelic folk albums. My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content To Wear Stars on Their Brows was their first release and sounds like a bunch of hippies in the woods indulging in some mushrooms and playing around a campfire. It almost sounds like the Incredible String Band but with many more great improv freakout moments. This album has great minimalism, with most songs being played solely with acoustic guitar and bongos (man they rock the bongos), sometimes with accompaniment by what sounds like a xylophone. This was a pleasant surprise to find considering how much i abhorre T.Rex's later albums. If only they had continued with their mushroom adventures, but as they say, cocaine is a hell of a drug.

PS. i read somewhere that this is the first English pop record to feature a hare krishna chant (3 years before George Harrison's My Sweet Lord)

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