Denmark was already cool before The Killing and Borgen. Julian Cope said Young Flowers’s "The Moment Life Appeared”, from their first album was, "magical”. He also praised their "totally full on freakout style” and pointed to them as precursors of Krautrock.
Take Warning: The Complete Studio Recordings is the first time all of Young Flowers’s recordings have been brought together and anthologises both their albums, their non-album debut single, contributions to the film soundtrack Quiet Days In Clichy and a trio of live tracks which show how raw they could be. This is the Denmark of 1967-1969 at its freakiest.
Young Flowers formed in summer 1967. They headlined Copenhagen’s Festival of the Flower Children in September 1967.
The first Danish hippy band, the first Danish rock band to sing in their native language and the first Danish band to play the States; they were pioneers.
Members later played with the legendary Culpeper’s Orchard and Savage Rose. They immediately hit big with debut album Blomsterpistolen (Flower Gun), recorded as the soundtrack to surreal TV series.
A trio, and although influenced by Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience, their intense music had an experimental edge. They set Walt Whitman's poetry to music. The definitive, band-approved, collection, Take Warning: The Complete Studio Recordings is a tribute to a unique band.
DISC ONE
1. OVERTURE/TAKE WARNING STK. 1
2. THE MOMENT LIFE APPEARED STK. 2
3. 25 ØRE
4. OPPE I TRÆET STK. 3
5. TO YOU STK. 4
6. DOWN ALONG THE COVER STK. 5
7. APRIL ’68
8. LIKE BIRDS
9. CITY OF FRIENDS
10. BEHIND THE GOLDEN SUN
11. MENILMONTANT
12. PARTY BEAT
DISC TWO
1. YOU UPSET ME BABY
2. AND WHO I SHOULD BE 4
3. CALYPSO 4
4. WON’T YOU TAKE MY PLACE IN THE QUEUE
5. SLOW DOWN DRIVER
6. THE DAYBREAK
7. KRAGERNE VENDER
8. HEY PRINCESS (LIVE, ÅRHUS STADIONHAL)
9. TONIGHT (LIVE, ÅRHUS STADIONHAL)
10. WON’T YOU SIT DOWN (LIVE, ÅRHUS
STADIONHAL)
