The Plastic People Of The Universe - Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned (1978) [Reissue 2010]PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 52:26 minutes | Scans included | 1,53 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 1,33 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,06 GB
Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned is an album by Czech underground band The Plastic People of the Universe. It was recorded in 1974/75, mainly at Houska Castle, enabled by the castle's then warden Svatopluk Karásek, with some songs being recorded in Prague. The album could not be officially released and distributed under the former Communist regime in Czechoslovakia; instead fans duplicated tapes with one another, often resulting in poor technical quality. It was released in 1978 in France by SCOPA Invisible Production. In the Czech Republic a remastered version was published on CD in 2001 by Globus Music. The album title is a parody of The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Most of the songs on the record are settings of poems by Egon Bondy.