Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye (a tribute to Roky Erikson)

A few years after first hearing the Elevators courtesy of John Peel, he played a few tracks from an album called "Where The Pyramid Meets the Eye", a tribute to Roky Erikson.

Chances are you'll already know the Primal Scream track, it was to be included on Screamadelica. It's still amazing how many people don't know it's an Elevators track. Highlights for me are the Julian Cope cover/re-write of Roky's "I have always been here before", (Cope's version is now included on the deluxe version of his "Jehovahkill" album). Bongwater, Butthole Surfers and Jesus and Mary Chain's takes are also worth a listen. And I have to say that hearing fellow Texans ZZ Top do their high-octane distortion, Eliminator beardy-boogie to Reverberation is always entertaining! The album looks like this:

1. Reverberation (Doubt) - ZZ Top
2. If You Have Ghosts - John Wesley Harding & The Good Liars
3. I Had to Tell You - Poi Dog Pondering
4. She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) - The Judybats
5. Slip Inside This House - Primal Scream
6. You Don't Love Me Yet - Bongwater
7. I Have Always Been Here Before - Julian Cope
8. You're Gonna Miss Me - Doug Sahm & Sons
9. It's a Cold Night For Alligators - Southern Pacific
10. Fire Engine - Richard Lloyd
11. Bermuda - Vibrating Egg
12. I Walked With a Zombie - R.E.M.
13. Earthquake - Butthole Surfers
14. Don't Slander Me - Lou Ann Barton
15. Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog) - Sister Double Happiness
16. Burn the Flames - Thin White Rope
17. Postures (Leave Your Body Behind) - Tabby Thomas, Chris Thomas
18. Nothing in Return - T-Bone Burnett
19. Reverberation (Doubt) - The Jesus and Mary Chain

Take me back to Texas, or at least 1990