Okay, you might have been expecting something else if you followed a text link here, but since you are here, have a listen to this utterly magnificent apocalypso-beatnik free-form freakout from Kim Fowley and TURN IT UP LOUD.

“Baby,
Is America dead?
Are we the brave new world
Or the end instead?
Baby,
Is America dead?”

Seth the Man writes, in a review of Fowley’s 1975 album Animal God of the Streets found at the Head Heritage site:

The epic “Is America Dead?” is as exploratory and totally off onto the furthest reaches of the thinnest branch of the associative free form tree as “When The Music’s Over” and just as true to its vision. Mentally checking his country’s pulse, the song suffers innumerable instrumental breakdowns, ravings, musings, deep truths, jokes, insults, snatches of patriotic hymns and…you name it: it’s all there, up against Kim’s streaming organ chords of flapping freak flag flying. “Is America Dead?” stretches out all the way to Europe and back as Kim ponders, fumbles, moans and freaks out uncontrollably, while the chorus continually asks and prods the song’s title’s question.

Hit play, crank it up loud and enjoy...

Read more: Animal God of the Streets: Kim Fowley (Head Heritage)
 

 
Thank you Elixer Sue!