DAVE ARVEDON ‎– The Best Of Dave Arvedon Volume 1

Limited edition of 200 copies. Silk-screen sleeve.

He was in a group called The Psychopaths who released one 7″ way back in 1967, and has been doing his own music ever since, continuing up until the present day, complete with a personal website that would make Geocities proud.

Anyway, this collection is way more fun than we expected – it’s goofy, quirky, piano-driven and quickly memorable, somehow prophesizing the arrival of Billy Joel, DEVO, KISS and R. Stevie Moore before any of them started making music. He’ll do multiple vocal tracks just to stage an argument with himself, write a love song to a dog and pepper it with canned dog-bark sound effects, and while I probably just lost a lot of you on the idea of checking this out because of that (and the Billy Joel comparison), his unbridled corniness is the sort of thing we wish to celebrate, not dismiss.

"Crazed garage basement goof with low-rent humor, idiosyncratic vocals, and primitivist songwriting rivaling The Shaggs."—Acid Archives