The Mushrooms "The Taste Of Mushrooms" 1986

GREAT '60'S PUNK PSYCH STYLE WITH A CONTEMPORARY EDGE, SNARLING ATTITUDE, SCORCHING GUITARS, GREAT MELODIES AND VIBE!Thessaloniki's heavy garage band The Mushrooms was one of the first of the genre to come to the attention of audiences outside of Greece, with their 1986 release "Taste Of ...", a mixture of psychedelia and the heavy sound of the eighties. They're also of interest for the label that signed them: their debut album was the second record to come out on Pegasus (for those of you who won't rest until they know: the first one was "A Way Out" by The Anti- Troppau Council, who shall go down in history as the band that started the famous Athens scene around the legendary Pegasus Club). This independent little firm would go on to become the purveyor of some very fine Greek sounds indeed (read on ...). The Mushrooms came together in December 1984 "having already played with other groups, they joined forces in a more psychotropic effort" it says on the liner notes. Although they didn't gig very often they played with The Dream Syndicate, The Chills, Robyn Hitchcock, T.V. Personalities and Died Pretty when those bands visited Greece. After changing guitarists and gigging more regularly both in and out of the country they started work on a second album that saw the light of day in 1990 (as the sixth Pegasus release) but sadly they disbanded a year later. - from Crohinga Welltrax:
01 Taste of the mushrooms 02 Swinging child of the tide 03 Yard of my head 04 Downstairs drops 05 Subnormal night 06 Deviation 07 Yellow moon 08 Rain 09 Human replica