Tricky Woo – Sometimes I Cry

Sometimes I Cry (1999) is Tricky Woo’s defining cult masterpiece. Yielding a “should’ve been a crossover hit” in “Fly The Orient,” Sometimes I Cry married eyeball-bursting technicolor artwork by frontman Andrew Dickson, with riffs borrowed from everyone from Funhouse-era Stooges and the MC5, to far less likely inspirations such as Uriah Heep, AC/DC and even Aerosmith. Embracing massive riffs, fuzzed-out space echo guitar, bad-vibe lyrics about electric orchards, fields of fire, falling from clouds, this was clearly no longer garage rock, or garage punk, but a kind of weird, maximum energy “acid punk”. Something like Blue Cheer’s Vincebus Eruptum played at 45rpm.

Tracklisting:

1 Altamont Raven
2 Fly The Orient
3 Born Due
4 Allright
5 Let The Goodtimes Roll
6 I Need Love
7 Sad Eyed Woman
8 Hypnotic Persuasion
9 Electric Orchard
10 Fell From A Cloud
11 Tails Of A Sunray
12 Lady Of The Wind