The Vietnam Veterans "Green Peas" 1985

Taken from two live shows recorded in June 1985, it includes the lengthy "Human Love" which takes up the entire third side of the album as well as a version of Kim Fowley's "The Trip". Snarling garage-psych from one of the best bands of their era.
The Vietnam Veterans are a french band, that first started playing in 1982. They play a very unique and fantastic psychedelic music style, there is no other band like this!
The very first members were: Mark Enbatta, Lucas Trouble, Greg Jones, Angelo Jupp, Steve Palermo (Drums), D.D. Richardson (harmonica). In this formation they produced the first LP "On the right track now"(1983).
On the second LP "Crawfish for the notary"(1984), there is a little change, Steve Palermo and D.D. Richardson left the band and Martin Joyce became the new drummer of the Vietnam Veterans. That should be the final formation of this band.
In 1985, the band released Green Peas, a record featuring the band's first two live gigs in Germany. This album features the best songs from the first two albums and had other songs that were completely improvised on the stage during the show- more proof of the band's unique chemistry. In my opinion, it's the best album to start with for someone who wants to learn about the Vets. It's also their best selling album so it's probably the easiest one to find (of course, because their albums are relatively rare, you should start with any album you can find).
Peas (and the next two albums) was released by a Dutch friend of Mark named Hans Kesteloo. He also purchased the rights for their first two albums after their first label (Lolita) stole some of their royalties in order to compensate for the label losing money on another band which Mark brought to them (the Inmates).
During this time, the band got quite a reputation on the European scene and because of their growing fame, they almost never played in small places- at a Frankfurt show, they had audience of about 2000 people. from: http://www.furious.com/Perfect/vietnamveterans.html

traxfromwax:
1. You're Gonna Fall 2. Dreams Of Today 3. Curanderos 4. Dogs 5. Liars 6. Critics 7. Wrinkle Drawer 8. Tower Of Babel 9. What Are You Hiding 10. Is This Really The Time 11. Don't Try To Walk On Me 12. Out From The Night 13. Human Love 14. Medley: The Trip / Dreams Of Today 15. Peas On Earth