The Silencers

Cyclerify Sounds (Total Energy)
by Jon Sarre

Fuzz-drenched Motown instrumental nobodies happily laid down to shiny digital CD mystery-metal by Mick Collins. He probably had a good time with these “Hawaii Five-O Theme”-meets-the-right-side-of-a-fuzzbox surferific cro-mags, so he’s probably not pissed that they splash his name all over the place. Not like it’s remotely relevant (what really is?), cuz it doesn’t even sound close, but The Silencers named one of their instrumentals “Mouldy’s Theme,” which, title-wise, sorta recalls the similarly titled “Moulty’s Theme” (aka “Moulty”) credited to ’60s Beantown garage rockers the Barbarians, but actually recorded as a vocal by the group’s one-handed drummer backed by the Hawks (soon to morph into the better-known Band). It cracked the Pop 100 in 1966. In the same vein, the Silencers’ “6 & 7 is…” is obviously a reference to Love’s “7 and 7 is” (which, also in 1966, made it all the way to #33 on the countdown). While we’re at it, “Run, Run, Run” is not a Velvet Underground or a Who cover and “The Man From F.U.Z.Z.,” although a play on the ’60s James Bond spoof, The Man From U.N.C.L.E, has nothing to do with the theme from that series which was, of, course, Johnny Rivers’ classic “Secret Agent Man.” Ah, trivia!
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