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singles chart. Eventually, "Mr. Farmer" also charted at #86 nationally in early 1967, although The Seeds were far more popular in their hometown of Los Angeles where both "Pushin' Too Hard" and "Mr. Farmer" made the top 10 of KRLA Requests.
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was produced by Saxon under the pseudonym Marcus Tybalt; Saxon also wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on the album (two credited under the Tybalt alias), as well as the liner notes. Side one consists of six tracks, beginning with the single
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as being "more adventurous" than the band's debut album, and said it "brimmed with scratchy mid-60s classics". Don Jacobson of
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highlighting demented vocal sermonizing on such reliable topics as sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll".
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conceptualized the album's cover design depicting the four Seeds members trapped in a spider's web.
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did not receive much attention in the United States for several months until after the band's "
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All Yesterdays' Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print, 1966-1971
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All Yesterdays' Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print, 1966–1971
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Johnson, Pete (1967-04-02). "Dirt Band and Seeds Sprout Hits".
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Raw & Alive: The Seeds in Concert at Merlin's Music Box
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called it "one of the all-time craziest mid-60s pioneering
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5–29 July 1966, Columbia Studios, RCA Victor Studios
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Index


Studio album
The Seeds
Hollywood
California
Genre
Garage rock
psychedelic rock
proto-punk
acid rock
Label
GNP Crescendo
Producer
The Seeds
The Seeds
Future
Singles
Mr. Farmer
album
garage rock
the Seeds
Mr. Farmer
Sky Saxon
Mr. Farmer
garage rock
bottleneck guitar
fuzz-bass
electric piano
tambourine
drums

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