

And kid George strangles strings throughout in that sloppy, excitable, addictive way he’d abandon forever in a matter of months.


Ringo turns a Carl Perkins plaint lustier and punkier than you’d think the stalwart sweetheart had in him. John clanks out a stellar slice of pop-metal angst and throws a restive glance back at Larry Williams (“bbbbbbbb!”). Paul burns down the rest of his discography in one effortless swoop animating Little Richard’s title track into something even more fiery and lascivious. Saccharine Trust - Paganicons (12', Tip) Label: SST Records, SST Records Cat: SST 006, sst-006 Media Condition: Media: Very Good Plus (VG+) Will show some signs that it was played and otherwise handled by a previous owner who took good care of it. But as this towering little toss-off, best known for 30 years as ten great minutes of Past Masters, survives to remind us, not only were those steps forward quite conscious, but some of the less ‘progressive’ skins they deliberately shed along their evolutionary way were as monumental as any of their beatific blows against convention. Each of those eight wondrous LPs and startling singles is a disorienting leap onto another plane of imagination and craftsmanship. Replaying their galvanic five-year run as Parlophone pharaohs, from the faintly auspicious “Love Me Do” to the kaleidoscopic pop dreams of ‘67, you can almost hear this peerlessly confident old quartet (heard of ‘em?) barely believing the rate at which they’re breaking through.
