Group 1850 – Paradise Now

Name: Group 1850 - Paradise Now
Rating: 4.38 (160 reviews)

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Tracklist

A1		Paradise Now Written-By – Sjardin*
A2		Friday I'm Free Written-By – Sjardin*
A3		Hunger Written-By – Sjardin*
A4		Circle Written-By – Sjardin*
A5		Lonelyness Written-By – Sjardin*
B1		Martin En Peter Written-By – Sjardin*
B2		? ! Written-By – Sjardin*
B3		Purple Sky Written-By – Sjardin*

Released in a flipback front-laminated cover with a black/silver label.
Second cat.nr. on back cover.

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
New Submission	Paradise Now (LP, Album, Reissue)	Killroy	KFA 13058 KL	Netherlands	1978
New Submission	Paradise Now (CD, Album, Reissue)	Free (5)	Free 910501-2, FREE 910501-2	Netherlands	1991
Recently Edited	Paradise Now (LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 180 Gram)	Pseudonym	VP99.044	Netherlands	2013
New Submission	Paradise Now (LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, clear green vinyl)	Pseudonym	VP99.044	Netherlands	2015
New Submission	Paradise Now (LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Yellow)	Pseudonym	VP99.044	Netherlands	2015

pompeiu Nov 1, 2024
As famously Nigel Powers said, "there are two things I abhor: intolerant people and the dutch".
Dutchbeatcol Sep 26, 2023
One of the best Psych albums from Holland. 1850 was called the Dutch Pink Floyd.
RhubarbRhubarb Jul 1, 2020
I buying this as a poverty stricken student in the mid 1980s from Funhouse Records, 12 quid I think, quite a lot back then. It blew my mind and I also thought it was rarest of the rare. As it turns out, this LP is not SO rare and it was actually issued on a budget label run by the chain store Vroom and Dressmann, the Dutch equivalent of Woolworths.

So this would have been available to the sort of people who wouldn't normally have gone into an underground record shop or bought a hippy record. So, was this LP the reason why the druggy 60s counter-culture came closest to 'winning' in The Netherlands? Certainly Holland went into the 60s as conservative as anywhere but came out the most liberal country on the planet. Were Groep 1850 responsible for sowing children, middle-aged people and the suburbs with psychedelic seeds that blossomed in the 70s? I like to think so. Paradise Now!