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My record collection
[291] Magic Hour - After Tomorrow (10")

Magic Hour’s second release, just ahead of their first album, came out on Ché Records in 1994 and contained, on the a-side, a couple of tracks from Magic Hour’s first albun No Excess is Absurd After Tomorrow and World of One, which was only on the CD versions of the album. On the b-side is a fifteen minute version of Permanent Green Light, originally released by NY psych-rock band The Godz on their second album.

Magic Hour - After Tomorrow
Magic Hour - After Tomorrow

I managed to miss out on Permanent Green Light on my originals series a few years back, mostly I imagine because it didn’t state on the sleeve that it was a cover and I was unfamiliar with The Godz. It did mention that it was written by Jim McCarthy on the label so I ought to have picked up on it, but suspect that I just hadn’t pulled it out of the sleeve enough to notice.

In 2016 Magic Hour released a digital only compilation of non-album tracks which is where I was alerted to the omission as the Bandcamp page clearly stated “‘Permanent Green Light by the Godz’”. The Godz original was just four minutes long but I could imagine it being stretched live, and Magic Hour’s version is exactly how I’d imagine it to sound if it were, Lots of noise, lots of feedback, and a motorik relentlessness. It hits my psych-rock buttons that normally end up in me digging out Hawkwind LPs.

You can hear the original four minute version by The Godz on YouTube, and you can listen to, and buy, the Magic Hour version on Bandcamp for a dollar!

The randomness of my method of selection has been particularly odd with Magic Hour who turned up seven times in the first 100 posts and only twice in the almost 200 since then, and this is the first Magic Hour entry since in eighteen months - and there are (currently) only two more after this one.