The Red Krayola was a psychedelic, avant-garde rock band from Houston, Texas, formed by art students at the University of St. Thomas (Texas) in 1966. The band was led by singer/guitarist and visual artist Mayo Thompson, along with drummer Rick Barthelme. Their work predated punk and the no wave scene in 1970s New York City.
Thompson has continued using the name, in its legally-required permutation The Red Krayola, for his musical projects since. Read Full BioThe Red Krayola was a psychedelic, avant-garde rock band from Houston, Texas, formed by art students at the University of St. Thomas (Texas) in 1966. The band was led by singer/guitarist and visual artist Mayo Thompson, along with drummer Rick Barthelme. Their work predated punk and the no wave scene in 1970s New York City.
Thompson has continued using the name, in its legally-required permutation The Red Krayola, for his musical projects since.
They make noise rock, psychedelia and occasionally folk/country songs and instrumentals in a DIY-punk fashion, an approach that presaged the lo-fi aesthetic of many 1990s US indie rock groups. Negative reviews have come often during The Red Krayola's history. A critic once wrote, "It's a band that has no idea how to play its instruments. In fact, they don't even know what instruments are, or if the guitarist has the ability to remain conscious long enough to play whatever it is a 'note' might be." He added, "This is a band that was paid ten dollars to stop a performance in Berkeley. If Berkeley's not having it, you know you're in for rough sledding."
Thompson has continued using the name, in its legally-required permutation The Red Krayola, for his musical projects since. Read Full BioThe Red Krayola was a psychedelic, avant-garde rock band from Houston, Texas, formed by art students at the University of St. Thomas (Texas) in 1966. The band was led by singer/guitarist and visual artist Mayo Thompson, along with drummer Rick Barthelme. Their work predated punk and the no wave scene in 1970s New York City.
Thompson has continued using the name, in its legally-required permutation The Red Krayola, for his musical projects since.
They make noise rock, psychedelia and occasionally folk/country songs and instrumentals in a DIY-punk fashion, an approach that presaged the lo-fi aesthetic of many 1990s US indie rock groups. Negative reviews have come often during The Red Krayola's history. A critic once wrote, "It's a band that has no idea how to play its instruments. In fact, they don't even know what instruments are, or if the guitarist has the ability to remain conscious long enough to play whatever it is a 'note' might be." He added, "This is a band that was paid ten dollars to stop a performance in Berkeley. If Berkeley's not having it, you know you're in for rough sledding."
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Listen to This
The Red Krayola Lyrics
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Adis
Listen To This might by my favourite song ever
boris
yeah just listened to an old usb stick music player of mine, and i heard that song on it, 1 second long. not a single other song of theirs was on it, and i had neer heard of this band prior to now. kinda weird...
Banks_2477
It’s almost scary how “ahead of their time” this group was...
Machete Moonlight
Texas bore some fabulous weirdos in the 60s.. The 13th floor elevators, et al.
Sleep
Leejol sounds like post-punk that showed up to the party 10 years early.
jon-eirik strøm
Kind of shocked-absolutely NOTHING here that sounds like the '60s... I would suggest this would be post punk around '79-80! Really ahead of it's time! Even the cover looks like '90s lo-fi.. and the music is just great! Just ordered it from discogs! (A re-isdue off course. I dont pay € 120...)
bucyrus.be
this is the greatest album of the 60s totally inexplicable, even for that far out decade; no wonder the fall did work with mayo Thompson, totally saturated in weirdness-save the house is solid gold hit damn if it we'rent so HEAVY
TechnicLePanther
Most of this stuff could have fit on No New York pretty easily.
TomorrowNeverKnows
But it is certain that this influence in the movement no wave and post-punk. Apart in "no new york" I hear enough of free jazz and milimalistic music
yurt5
I like Save The House especially.