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{{Infobox album
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== Recording ==
The Familiar Ugly were recorded on [[April Fool's Day]] 1967 in a three-hour evening session on one master tape, it was done on eight tracks with eight microphones, one per channel. The other tracks
"Our first album was recorded mono. [The simulated stereo mix] is Walt Andrus' studio wizardry. We made the mono version and then like two days later I was around the studio, and they said, 'Come here, what about this for a stereo album?' And I sat there and listened to it and I said, 'sounds okay to me, crazy, but sounds okay.' For the stereo mix the songs were processed through a stereo effects chamber with added psychedelic effects (such as loops, reversed tapes, speed fluctuations and sound effects).<ref name="tapeop.com">{{cite web | url=https://tapeop.com/interviews/16/mayo-thompson/ | title=Mayo Thompson: Red Krayola recording history|website=Tapeop.com }}</ref>
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[[Mayo Thompson]] talked about the [[Red Krayola|Red Krayola's]] relation with [[punk rock]]: "I would say, the mindset of those people in the '70s was something like our mindset in the mid-'60s. They hated everything too that had happened before--'we're not necessarily going to clean the slate, but we're going to burn everything down and then we're going to start over again. Or in the process, we're going to burn down everything as a starting over again.' And this relation was understood. So some people would say, this is [[proto-punk]] - that was where we got lumped, a little bit. But the same things that were talked about the music then are the same things that people talk about it now - 'jazzy, broken, [[dada]], blah blah.'"<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.richieunterberger.com/mayo2.html | title=Mayo Thompson Interview Part 2|website=Richieunterberger.com }}</ref>
[[Frederick Barthelme|Rick Barthelme]] had this to say about their music: "From our vantage out on the edge, [[Frank Zappa|Zappa]] and [[Velvet Underground]], and other more conventionally strange bands, were ordinary musicians trying to do something different and still function within the rock & roll framework. We said fuck the framework, listen to this, motherfucker. And then busted your eardrum. And we did it over and over from 1966 to 1968. The first LP, ''The Parable of Arable Land'' is a wonder if you are wasted, and a poor example otherwise, as the nice guy who recorded it did it on two tracks instead of thirty-two, thus flattening the thing out somewhat."<ref name="frederickbarthelme.com"/> When asked about the [[proto-punk]] label he responded with "I don't really know if that's true, but wouldn't it be lovely to think so?".<ref>https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Audio/Archive-Stereo-Review-IDX/IDX/90s/Stereo-Review-1992-11-OCR-Page-0146.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2024}}</ref>
== Production ==
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According to [[Lelan Rogers]], ''The Parable of Arable Land'' originally sold
The ''[[Berkeley Barb]]''{{'s}} Ed Denson briefly reviewed ''The Parable of Arable Land'' in an article about the 1967 [[Berkeley Folk Festival]] which included a short set by the Red Krayola. The band's performance met with a negative reception: "Their first LP was released by that strange Houston company International Artists, and it is selling far more than it should be because it looks like a [[rock music|rock]] LP and the liner notes, which are deceptive, make it sound sort of like [[The Mothers of Invention|the mothers]] or something else which is recognizable". Denson described the Familiar Ugly tracks as "just background noise", and wrote "I like two of the cuts very much: 'War Sucks' and 'The Parable of Arable Land', and no doubt so will you about the third time thru. It took me that long."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28033132 | newspaper=[[Berkeley Barb]] | last=Denson |first=Ed |title=Folk Scene: Even Mellow Yellow Has a Mark-up? | date=July 21, 1967 |page=8 | volume=3 | issue=101 }}</ref>
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[[Jimi Hendrix]] owned a copy of ''The Parable of Arable Land'' - [[Kathy Etchingham]] believes that [[Hendrix]] picked up the album on an impulse because the cover artwork was similar in style to his own drawings.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/jimi-hendrix-record-collection-2281529|title = Inside Jimi Hendrix's blood-spattered record collection|website = [[NME]]|date = 4 April 2018}}</ref>
[[Record Mirror]] wrote about the album in 1978, assessing "Transparent Radiation" as "almost a normal song" and comparing [[Mayo Thompson|Mayo Thompson's]] voice to sounding "terribly like [[Talking Heads]], [[David Byrne]]" and the song as a whole as a "total effect not unlike some [[Roxy Music]] opus, whilst "War Sucks" was spoken briefly about as an "odd [[raga]] weaving in and out".<ref>https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/70s/78/Record-Mirror-1978-10-28.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2024}}</ref>
Irish radio broadcaster [[Joe Harrington (broadcaster)|Joe S. Harrington]] featured the LP on his "top 100 albums of all time" list.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Blastitude 11 |url=http://blastitude.com/11/pg14.htm |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=blastitude.com}}</ref>
In a retrospective review, [[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] critic Alex Linhardt praised ''The Parable of Arable Land'' as "one of the most visionary album[s]" of 1967,<ref name="Pitchfork"/> also noting that "listeners weren't sure whether the racket was the result of sharp intellectualism, sheer incompetence, or buzzed-out substance abuse."<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Red Krayola: Introduction |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9107-introduction/ |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}}</ref>[[Trouser Press]] wrote that the album "boasts a more engaged intelligence than most of the era's aural acid baths".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=red_crayola |title=Red Crayola (Red Krayola) |last1=Grant |first1=Steven |last2=Robbins |first2=Ira |last3=Kenny |first3=Glenn |author-link3=Glenn Kenny |work=[[Trouser Press]] |access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref>
The album has also been assessed as a precursor to [[post-rock]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=April 22 |first1=Thomas Peake Saturday |last2=Edt |first2=2000 12:04 Am |title=A pre-post-rock parable |url=https://creativeloafing.com/content-159424-a-pre-post-rock-parable |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=Creative Loafing |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-08-14 |title=A Brief History of Post-Rock |url=https://thethinair.net/2014/08/a-brief-history-of-post-rock/ |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=The Thin Air |language=en-US}}</ref>
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[[Pink Stainless Tail]] were a rock band which formed in [[Melbourne, Australia]], who named themselves after the song.
[[Osees]] are an American rock band that borrowed the bass riff of "Hurricane Fighter Plane" for "Block of Ice," the opening song on their album ''[[The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.terminal-boredom.com/larsvsohsees.html|title=Terminal Boredom - You Will See This Dog Before You Die|website=www.terminal-boredom.com}}</ref>
[[John Dwyer (musician)|John Dwyer]] remarked: "[[The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In|Block of Ice]] was obviously inspired by [[Red Krayola]]. We were doing a show with them, and have always loved them. Also [[Malcolm Mooney]] from [[Can (band)|Can]]. Really a blatant rip off, but bent towards what we are capable of. When we opened with it at the show, they ended up doing 'Hurricane Fighter Plane' for like 15 minutes. Pretty rad."
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; The Familiar Ugly (known members)<ref name=":1">{{Cite AV media |title=The Parable of Arable Land 2014 Deluxe Reissue Gatefold |type= Vinyl Liner Notes|url=https://imgur.com/gallery/6dpkAUh}}</ref>
* Haydn Larson
* Roger Hamilton AKA William West
* Butch Caraban
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