“You Can’t Be Trusted”
by The Seeds
1966 song
Sounding like Them’s "Gloria" but inside out, "You Can't Be Trusted" from The Seeds is one of the sweaty garage psych classics from the early Seeds. With a dynamic structure – all crazy guitar and unexpected bunches of rhythmic chord changes – and Sky Saxon following an audacious melody up and down, "You Can't Be Trusted" is compelling and more than a little weird.
Impressively, "You Can't Be Trusted" is very early Seeds – the band did four takes of it on their second-ever session, on July 20, 1965. Nothing else sounded like it then, and that was still true when the song finally was released a year later on the debut LP.
The version chosen for The Seeds was Take 4. Take 3 of "You Can't Be Trusted" was issued on a 2015 7″ single with picture sleeve from Record Collector. This take was then added to a double-LP vinyl reissue of The Seeds in 2016, where it was misleadingly labelled “previously unissued”.
