13th Floor Elevators - Sign of the 3 Eyed Men

... If the sampler wasn't enough, or for those of you that didn't manage to pick up the box set reissue of the 13th Floor Elevators stuff back in 2009, you can now get the whole thing from the excellent Young Moss Tongue Blog - here

Those unfamiliar with their work may want to kick things off with "The Psychedelic Sounds of...", "Easter Everywhere" and "Bull of the Woods" their 3 officially released albums.

From what I can remember, the publicity for this reissue stated that the stereo mixes were "alternate". I'm not sure what they meant by that, but since then, these albums have been released as double disk issues, containing the original stereo mix (remastered from the master tapes) and the mono mix (remastered from an original mono edition vinyl ... something that fans did on the Roky CD Club internet-distributed stuff). These double-disk reissues really are worth buying, as they have great sleeve notes by Paul Drummond who did the superlative Eye Mind book (get if from a proper bookshop if you can, failing that use Amazon..!). Not to mention that fact that the CD box set is now long since sold out & going for silly £$ on eBay.