Mad Heads. Psycholula.

Now, when almost 10 years have passed since the time this group was organised, they also perform songs in Ukrainian. It is good, still it is not so much important, because the main appeal lies not in lyrics, but in music. This appeal, I must admit, is rather amusing. Now I would like to touch upon history a bit. May be, nobody of those who is interested in counter-culture and rock-music has ever avoided such phenomenon as rockabilly. In due time it was exactly stalwarts of rockabilly who did those things, which were later energetically taken up by punks and their successors. “To live quickly, to die young”, as “Jetro Tull”, if I am not mistaken, sang in one of their old songs. In other words, this is a hot music and in a Ukrainian version, I think, it has not become chilled, though it seems that it has got some Ukrainian intonations. One more small remark. Here in front of you there is a reissue of the album issued in 1966, that’s why I must say that for Ukraine this group and this album present a real classical music. Even today there are not so many groups, which are interested in real rockabilly, and the group “Mad Heads” is undoubtedly the best known among them. If I were an American, I could say how much genuine they are, but since I am not an American, I just listen – and smile.

Anton Jozhik Lejba (Hedgehog)