Illés-Nehéz az út LP 1968

1968 was the year of the New Economic Mechanism in Hungary, and the State Record Company (MHV) took up some Budapest beat bands which can released their first LPs in Hungarian language. These bands were : Omega, Metro, Illés. These bands were the "Holy beat trinity" in the late 60s. Omega wanted to became the "hungarian Rolling Stones", the Metro didn't want to became... they played their own shitty pop, and Illés became THE "hungarian Beatles". And the lyrics composers Szörényi-Bródy became the Hungarian Lennon-McCartney.I don't like too much these bands too much, but i accept that the Illés's first LP is the one of the important Hungarian record.  Look at the LP and the songs!
The front made in the fashionable psychedelic style. The band members sitting on the old tractor, over them the LP title with really cool 60s style: NEHÉZ AZ ÚT (The road is difficult), and you can read some strange subtitle on the tracktor wheels: EX MUSIC - ILLÉS STORY.
About the songs: the LP there are 12 songs, and the songs included rock and roll, folk, pop, and beat. Every songs is the protest songs stand by the youths, just you have to read the song titles : Óh, mondd (Oh, say) , Amikor én még kissrác voltam (When i was the kid) , Sárga rózsa (Yellow rose), Ne gondold ( Don't thinking),  Az ész a fontos nem a haj (The brain is the importat, not the hair).
Look at the lyrics!

01. Óh Mondd (Oh, Say) : It's a hint allusion to the 60s sexual revolution : "Who say  you that wait me? / Who say  you that wait me? Oh, Say! Oh, Say! Why I am? Why I am?" or " Don't wait anymore, come to me!/ Don't wait , just come, just come!/ Call if you come! No! Just come! " Good song, the music is a fast beat, i very like it!

02. Nehéz az út (The Road Is Difficult): Typical stuffing song, with avarege lyrics.

03. Amikor én még kissrác voltam (When I Was The Kid) : It's a song about the 60s generation, about the life: the boy still young, he look up to the adults, he grow up, full of hope, in the hope that the life is good and the world is changeable,but he disappointed in EVERYthing. "Then i looked up to the adults/ I thought it will be good if i grow up." Sad.
04. Sárga Rózsa (Yellow Rose) : Song about the dead relationship: the rose similar to the love. The rose is dry, the love is over. The band playing a cool folk style. "My friend do you know / why don't dare nobody admit/that the things which we believe in/ passed and never come back/" Sad, but true.
05. Átkozott féltékenység (Damned Jealousy): Folk song about the love and the jealousy. The singer singing about the typical love story: the guy love the girl, but the girl love the another guy. One way love. "Damned ideas/Why attack to me?/I wish i have a ice-heart/ I don't be unprotected/" or "I can't stand calm down/I don't be believe to the girl/"
06. Little Richard : Fast rock and roll about Little Richard, the band singing that they respect Little Richard's rock and roll.

07.Eltávozott a nap ( The sun is go down): Hint allusion about the sexual revolution again. The music is a bit psychedelic, like the Beatles-Sgt. Pepper. " Don't wait that the sun is go down/ Looking for the another now!/ At night, if no light and the wind is blowing/ She lie down next to you, and want you now/  Why i need the love?/ Because nothing to help me/ Why i need a love? /Because it's so easy!"
08. Nézz rám (Look at me) : Beatles cover song, typical love song for the girls. The singer singing about the clumsy girl, and later the girl believe that the man will cheat her. " You thinking I am the faithless/ I know why thinking it/ Because you believe everything/ Anything they say"

09. Ne gondold (Don't thinking): The real rebel beatnik song AGAINST the fuckin' olds and petty bourgeoises. It was the hit song in Hungary in the late 60s, the song lyrics show the 60s youths life-feelings.
" Don't thinking , oh, no, that the world is yours/ The luck won't beg for you/And now the word is yours/ But don't believe it's stay eternal/ I say, get out from here"

10. Szerelem (Love) : Psychedelic & folk song about the love. Typical topic: "I never leave you- Just call me" . 

11. Az ész a fontos nem a haj (The brain is important not the hair): Protest song stand by the long hair. The music is not beat, it's a chanson. But the lyrics is good, it was the rebel song in the 60s Hungary. Why? Because the long hair was the forbidden thing behind the Iron Curtain 'till the early 70s It was the big social problem in the 60s Hungary, because every youths (the boys) grew the long hair, like the Beatles or the western beat bands. Lot of people hated the long hair kids (mainly the police), "Long hair-little brain" - was the fashionable sleng in 60s Hungary.
12. Mondd, hogy nem hiszed el (Please say, that you not believe it) : Love song with psychedelic music.

So, it's great beat LP, enjoy! About the lyrics: between the songs, you can listening some running commentary from the fashionable Hungarian radio DJ, "Cintula", who speaking with the band members, or just joking.

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