Various Artists - Those Shocking Shaking Days: Indonesian Hard Psychedelic Progressive Rock and Funk (70-78) (Now Again, 2011)

Various Artists

Those Shocking Shaking Days - Indonesian Hard Psychedelic Progressive Rock and Funk (70-78)

Now Again

2011

Rating: 7 stoned pearl divers out of 10

Let's be honest - I'm not well versed on the seventies Indonesian psychedelic scene, so this was a real pleasant surprise.  Turns out the music they were making wasn't all that different from the psych rock the US and Europe was putting out, though maybe slightly delayed as they were doing much of their creation after they had already soaked up the work of the western world.  Like any compilation, some songs are great and others are mediocre, but mostly you just feel like you've discovered a treasure trove of great classic rock regardless of it's country of origin.  There is no reason any of these songs wouldn't fit in well on classic radio, outside of the fact that almost no one has heard these tracks.  Rock dads and rock kids alike should be able to find joy in this collection.