“Wish Me Up”

by The Seeds
1970 song

"Wish Me Up" appeared on The Seeds’ first (of two) MGM singles in 1970. As the B-side of the ferocious "Bad Part Of Town", "Wish Me Up" had the task of balancing out the mood of the 45. And it does it perfectly, with a scintillatingly psychedelic and watery guitar riff that sounds like it was run through a rotating Leslie speaker. It’s gorgeous.

"Wish Me Up", as a post-GNP Crescendo lost Seeds classic, was added to various quasi-legal compilations over the years. Using one of these, a 1982 LP called Bad Part Of Town, Sky needle-dropped the song from that LP and added haphazard new vocals and keyboards to it for a 1987 German-released album called Takes & Glories. He also added the original (in low quality) to a 2001 CD-r called Golden Vaults Volume 1: Timeless but this version sounds different yet again: the keyboards are more prominent, possibly newly recorded and added on top.

"Wish Me Up" was released in a double-7″ gatefold set for Record Store Day 2013, and finally appeared officially on CD for Big Beat’s Singles As & Bs 1965-1970 in 2014.

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"Bad Part Of Town"

song by The Seeds (1970)

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Takes & Glories

album by Sky "Sunlight" Saxon and The Original Seeds (1987)

A very odd German album with old 1960s recordings with slapdash new overdubs plus a handful of new recordings – by Sky Saxon, but *not* the original Seeds.

Singles As and Bs 1965-1970

compilation by The Seeds (2014)

The final CD release by Big Beat of Seeds classics, this new compilation collects all the single sides including rare versions and the four 1970 MGM tracks.

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