“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.
