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  • "Crew! Howl with me so that we might set the seven seas ABLAZE with fear! AWOO!"

    "Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!"

    "LEEDLE LEEDLE LEEDLE LEE!"

  • Oh God...this was our makeout music...first love, before sex, even...most intense experience ever. And then when I was forcibly removed from her, I listened to this over and over and over...the voices!!

  • @Trollificusv2 umm... ok

  • Sometimes you'll hear a song you've sworn you've known all your life even though you've never heard it before. Cheesy, I know, but that's this song for me, and for a lotta folks, I bet, that are just discovering it, judging from the 261 likes.

  • In the Land of Sona-Nyl there is neither time nor space, neither suffering nor death; and there I dwelt for many aeons. Green are the groves and pastures, bright and fragrant the flowers, blue and musical the streams, clear and cool the fountains, and stately and gorgeous the temples, castles, and cities of Sona-Nyl. Of that land there is no bound, for beyond each vista of beauty rises another more beautiful.

  • yes but on lsd this sounds nothing like this at all

  • Oh God! I haven't heard this in about 40 years!! This is so cool. It makes me high again to hear it! LOL Puts me right back into the late 60's......such a good place to be, musically speaking that is. Thanks for posting!

  • As good now as it was all those years ago. Takes me back to an era of my youth that l will always remember with affection

  • Hauntingly Beautiful ... Metaphoric Intensity ... So Fine a Vocal / Instrumental Blend ; Forty years + on , and the LP has banished with time , but still .... WOW !

    Thanks to Mr Steve Smith and YT .

  • I had this 45 since I was a kid. I would listen to this in the dark and the song took me to new and dark places. As a 15 year old this was my "Nirvana"

  • a stonking tune!!

  • Let´s set sail wit´ da peace-pipe dude! .-)

  • ____________que buena mierda_____________

  • still high on my must read list.h p lovecraft was not available in our local sleepy town library.believe me if they had i had absorbed him already.this track feeds my hunger.i`m on the case now.thank you very much for sending tripplettam.

  • @cosmicrider287 nice to see u out lol

  • these guys are, were, really great. I`m still alive to say I saw them live at the Filmore in San Francisco. They really did capture what I think H.P. Lovecraft meant to with his stories. This was an exceptional band live.

  • This song got played a lot on KMPX in San Francisco in the late sixties...brings back those old memories... nice post

  • what do you reckon this song's about :) lol

  • another nice late night tune, groovy chilled psychedelia

  • wonder if anyone notice that this sounds kinda like cofortably numb

  • Hey!!!! is there any white ship to send me back to those years? I need it...I missed it once...but now, it's different...

  • I listen to HPLC every day but hey, that' s the bag I'm in...

  • ugh this is so annoying! I keep looking for H.P. Lovecraft audio books on youtube, and I get these!!

  • @SillyNerdify If only there was some source other than YouTube for H.P. Lovecraft audio books.

  • @urkotic yea, oh well I suppose.... I think you can download them somewhere.... lol I don't usually listen to audio books, but sometimes they're pretty good.

  • Thank you for posting this to you tube.. Beautiful vocals... everything is great

  • beautiful!

  • Discovered this track/band a couple of days ago. Subsequently, this has been on heavy rotation. Majestic and a clear influence on multitudes (check Brian Jonestown Massacre track 'Sailor' for instance).

  • @lonefools3 BJMassacre song "Sailor" is actually "The Sailing Ship" by the Cryan Shames, from their 1967 album A Scratch in the Sky.

  • Out of my mind, nothing flows. Alone on the shore, but that's how it goes. Everyone knows how the wind blows.

  • The white ship has sailed and left me here again

  • stunning, majestic track...60's art rock at it's finest

  • taking the the trio & quartet folk sound and making it beautifully psychedelic. I wish this was still popular to do.

  • Beautiful track, thanks for uploading this, had forgot the great bands of my teen years!

  • hello je ne comprends pas pourquoi plein de gens appellent la ville ryleh car c'est r'lyeh, avez vous fait ca pour une question de droits?

  • @targard allo! ce n'est pas une question de droites. la plupart des personnes simplement sont paresseuses ou n'ont pas lu Lovecraft aussi soigneusement que vous.

  • @zizek Hell'O Je viens de m' apercevoir que mon commentaire était destiné a une autre vidéo, erreur de manip ^^

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  • Saw them perform in Sacramento in 68 or 69 and sing this song. They played a very long set because we wouldn't let them stop playing this. It was mystical and magical and they were funny as hell backstage and stoned as hell.

  • One of the great, mystical anthems of the era.

  • I think its just a metaphor for death!

  • or a short story by lovecraft or both

  • H.P Lovecraft's astonishing stories( I believe mostly written in the 1930's ) are the work of a masterly and erudite writer who, sadly, only lived to be 33 years old. His work is a perfect antidote to ecstatic excursions to other worlds. Also, some fans of science fiction might enjoy Olaf Stapleton's work, also very early in the genre.

  • this is pure lysergic

  • note the elasticity of time in the music

  • I honestly think they didn't like drugs any more or less than any one else at the time... they were great moody band with much connections to the Writer HP Lovecraft. Now there was a guy that had to have been doing something with chemicals to come up with his stories...

    the Movie Section Nine has Aliens like he wrote about and the frustrations of some of his short stories...

  • @scottylarue Respectfully, I don't think H. P. used anything but imagination

  • @scottylarue

    so they liked drugs?

  • Music sort of reminds me of Jefferson Airplane. They had this freaky, hippie sort of way about them. Talking about white rabbit and stuff. Drug inspired I'm sure. Did these guys take drugs?

  • I think this is cool, but HP was a horror writer. I expected something...darker? This band has a cool name, but I don't think it follows the themes of Lovecraft's writings. Maybe the lyrics and titles follow. But, I expected something torturous, like the music I imagined from "The Music of Erich Zann"

  • @arkangelzero it's from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath or The Silver Key stories by HP

  • Oh, I know that, but I don't feel as if their music is maddening enough. Thank you for putting effort into your info though. I am sure others are unaware.

  • @arkangelzero Respectfully, I don't know how any popular music could produce the sheer terror of some of his stories

  • There is always the possibility that you are right. I think if people created a song based on the Chromatic scale however(if it was used correctly) could indeed have a maddening effect. I think the only things that come close enough are the Ring 2 soundtrack(American version), and the group Nox Arcana.

  • @murkatable: Not all of Lovecraft's stories were horror, however. Many of them were fantasy, and even a few science-fiction. I think a few bands have captured a Lovecraftian feel in their music. Black Sabbath, King Crimson and some of the more avant-garde bands and composers.

  • @thesithempire

    I think VDGG is lovcrafty

  • the music of hp lovecraft is like the writings of its namesake they didnt just stumble across it it was destined for them to find.and now youve found the secret ...thirty years later.

  • let go at times yes... we all do,

    i think we make our own future... you see.. this song,time,memory,was deep for me then..so please no more talk bout this

  • does anyone really care where it's going?

  • was asking myself a existential question back then..,and Yes..some of us do care

  • questioning ones existence is good but dont u think that sometimes u need to just let go?  in the book they were looking for a place to call home.... but in the song, it could take u anywhere in the limitless possibilities of your mind....tell me if i'm wrong......

  • The first and second HP Lovecraft albums available on one CD. I saw them at the Fillmore when they opened for Traffic in 1968.

  • thank you so much "SQUAREPYRAMID99" guy for turning me on to HP LOVECRAFT....as time goes by it takes more & more to blow my mind and...well...YOU FUCKING SUCEEDED!

  • OH YEH it might sound a tad flat but old records do that,apparently.

  • DLUB83 heres the chords,theres subtle inversions on the Dm chord too.capo 1....

    C A C A . D[D6] D7[D6] . Dm Dm7. A Em

    out of my mind.....G F G F Em C A

  • hypnotic!

    you don't need drugs to be amazed by this masterpiece...

  • @Azargled but oh how drugs can add new vistas of perception, I'm listening to it while smoking some KB and I couldn't be in a better place!

    I do agree however, drugs are not needed for this work of musical art.

  • george edwards said it was about heroin when I asked him about it back in Chicago 1966.He might have been jivin this young kid,but no matter;I took it to be a song about God,and I think it is....

  • For a junkie, they are the same thing.

  • this recording seems to be a bit lower in key than the other recordings ive heard... maybe contributed to the tape stretching out?

  • Although some of you here may not like the music, the lyrics to Solitude Aeturnus's song White Ship are much better, look it up, still based on lovecraft's short story...lovecrafts work seems to fit the heavy metal genre perfectly! i must admit the music here is excellent though, HPL's a great band.

  • an excelent short story!

  • it is !

  • More than music..

  • Incredible.

  • Like it. Will someone pass the tabs please? Need em for the full experience.

  • Absolutely love this group.

  • takes you on a journey.

  • i wanna take that journey......

  • The white ship was one of Lovecraft's short stories

  • This was Bill Graham's favorite band!

  • i remember recieving this album in the early 70s. i had heard it on a late night radio station when i was 13 years old. my son later did a paper on it in school. we loved the music

  • Still an amazingly hauting piece. I remember, back in the 60's in my brother's house, this album playing over and over as the room filled with smoke, and we just drifted away with it all....Ahhh, youth, sweet youth!!!

    Anybody know where to get a disc of this album?

  • I guess you can order a copy on Amazon, they have everything there. :)

    But you could also Download it on a Blogspot website..just type in: "the album-name + the year + Blogspot", in Google, and you should be able to find it.

  • oh my god, what an unexpected treat. first song I have ever heard from this group and I am completely blown away. love this so much. thanks for uploading it.

  • Listen to 'Beck's Bolero"  on YT.

  • Not at all. PATGOD was all Syd, typically eccentric if that's not a contradiction. playful and very pastoral. These vocals sound very SF evidently they were originally from Chicago. O Yes the anagram of Piper ends in God Very Syd.

  • The singer sound a bit like the singer from Muse =D

  • Mesmerizing, totally;listening to it makes you feel kind of drugged and stupefied as if you really were "sailing" to some weird remote locale. Beautiful harmonizing..

  • love these guys too, thanks man

  • When I was 17 I was in a band and we played an outdoor concert with these guys at the university of California Santa Cruz. They were a great band and great guys!

  • @ddrucilez Lovecraft at UC Santa Cruz, that must have been a trippin' Time, ha

  • I've been reading Lovecraft for years and just recently found out about this band. They seem to have had a good sense on HPL's moods of strange otherworldliness.

  • Exactly - I love the song as much as I do the story per se.

  • @yoxodo I would say so for a band you would expect from the late 60s. Nowdays I would say the band that best catches that sort of otherworldly sound would be KoRn. Would you have any other bands in mind from the last 20 years or so that sound like something that would belong in a Lovecraftian film?

  • @CrossCreed4800 I like Nox Arcana's "Necronomicon"...

  • @yoxodo - They were originally from Chicago, where I saw them perform live a few times early on, but moved fairly quickly to San Franscisco.

  • Thanks for the post! I remember being fairly wasted watching this band, many years ago! They were incredible live so you just had to buy the album / 8 track tape!

  • haunting..to where!?

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  • I just read The white ship today. Interesting to find a song about it.

  • incredible! i had the record! i thought nobody Knew them! I have lost the records somebody know where a can have it? faboulus music lod time good time!

  • fantastic! I had the records, i have lost.

    Somebody knos where i can find them. i think nobodt kw them. i am happy. Thanks! Old time good time.

  • You can purchase it from Amazon, as I did. Great buy that brought back many nice memories, as I had seen them straight and under the influence of Mary Jane. Smooth, talented singers and instrumentalists. Too bad they didn't become more popular.

  • H.P.Lovecraft were an incredible psychedelic group from Chicago. They moved to the Haight sometime in 1967. A great highly underated group from an interesting time in rock/popular music. They had a unique way of singing harmonies, a very deep psychedelic sound to them overall.

  • Thanks so much for the info. The lead sounds like a folksinger, but the keyboard player has a really incredible voice on the high high hrmony part.

  • so beautiful....if only todays kids could hear what real music is

  • ...I can remember hearing this as a kid of 13 all the freaking time-about 1968...Got a lot of airplay in northern California...Where were these guys from?

  • "ArtRock," early enough in the era when neither half of the term was a perjorative... at the time of its release, completely non-derivative, and by any aesthetic standard, completely beautiful. Listen carefully, children, yet unborn: This is the epitome of the concatenation of unaffected inspiration, musical preparation, and combined talent(s). (I wish this posting had retained the reprise of the "harpsichord" figure at the end, Bach, I believe...)

  • Their maqnum opus...

    two other contemporary songs it sounds somewhat like:

    Buffalo Springfield-Out of My Mind

    It's a Beautiful Day-White Bird

  • You can definitely hear the influence of Ravel's Bolero (and that is not intended as either a criticism or a put-down - I love both pieces of music).

  • why hav i never heard of these?

  • This song is fantastic...I have a promotional 45 of this on Philips with a long and short version of "White Ship". I first heard the band in 1972 on KPRI in San Diego.

  • what a new discovery for me!

  • great post and great song.. KMPX in San Francisco used to play this song all the time..a real fm radio classic

  • I would be very grateful if you could post a song by them called at the mountains of maddness.

  • Awesome!

  • Awesome! I found this by accident and it is great. Serendipity.

  • i'm too stoned to write anything...

  • Great!!! Finally the full version!! One of the finest songs to come out that year....thanx,

    They also did a great job on Burl Ives' Wayfaring Stranger....

  • and also their cover of the youngbloods tune-Lets Get Together- These guys were as good as the best. Harmonies and voices were truly extraordinary- can anyone put Wayfaring Stranger on the Tube?

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