Godz Two

• Artist: The Godz
• Rating:
• Release Date: 1967
• Total Time: 40:32
• Genre: Rock

Review

Even further out than Contact High with the Godz, Godz Two is, at times, one of the most deliberately annoying, purposefully incompetent albums ever made. White Light/White Heat has nothing on it, though admittedly the much purer in intent, Philosophy of the World has it beat for sheer cacophony. But it's hard to get one's head around tracks like "Squeak," a nearly five-minute violin solo by Larry Kessler that sounds like what might happen if someone slowly fed a Stradivarius through a crosscut paper shredder, and the bewilderingly random "Riffin'," which sounds like the work of a set of off-their-meds paranoid schizophrenics posing as the Holy Modal Rounders. Other tracks, however, foretell the almost normal pop song direction that the Godz would explore on their next album: "Soon the Moon" and the closing "Permanent Green Light" foreshadow both the streamlined motorik sound of Neu! and other Krautrock-based bands and the inspired amateurism that was the stock in trade of the Flying Nun Records stable in the mid-'80s. A hacksawed cover of the Beatles' "You Won't See Me" splits the difference. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Radar Eyes	Jim McCarthy, Larry Kessler, Jay Dillon	The Godz	(2:12)
Riffin'	Paul Thornton, Jim McCarthy	The Godz	(3:10)
Where	Jim McCarthy	The Godz	(4:17)
New Song	Jim McCarthy	The Godz	(1:44)
Squeak	Larry Kessler	The Godz	(4:45)
Soon the Moon	Jay Dillon, Jim McCarthy, Larry Kessler	The Godz	(4:02)
Crusade	Jim McCarthy, Larry Kessler, Paul Thornton, Jay Dillon	The Godz	(8:37)
You Won't See Me	Paul McCartney, John Lennon	The Godz	(5:45)
Travelin' Salesman	Jim McCarthy, Larry Kessler	The Godz	(2:07)
Permanent Green Light	Jim McCarthy	The Godz	(4:02)

Credits

Herb Abramson (Engineer), Larry Kessler (Viola), Jay Dillon (Keyboards), Jay Dillon (Harp), Jay Dillon (Organ), Jordan Matthews (Cover Art Concept), Urban Gwerder (Liner Notes), David Michalowski (Design), Paul Thornton (Drums), Paul Thornton (Vocals), Jim McCarthy (Guitar), Jim McCarthy (Vocals), Paul Thornton (Group Member), Jay Dillon (Group Member), Jay Dillon (Piano), Jim McCarthy (Group Member), Willy Sparks (Drums), Larry Kessler (Violin), Larry Kessler (Group Member), Jay Dillon (Autoharp), Richard Alderson (Engineer), Larry Kessler (Vocals), Larry Kessler (Guitar)