Pussy – Pussy Plays (Pink Vinyl)

The Pussy Pussy Plays (Pink Vinyl) vinyl is one of those records that stops you cold the moment you come across it, and for more reasons than the name alone.

Who Was Pussy?

Pussy were a British psychedelic rock band operating in that fertile late-1960s space where experimentation was currency and major labels occasionally took wild bets on strange, uncommercial acts. Their name, which invited the kind of schoolboy reaction the band presumably enjoyed provoking, obscured the fact that they were serious about their craft. They recorded one album, released in 1969, and then, as far as the documented record goes, that was it. One shot. Gone. That kind of brevity tends to sharpen a record’s mystique considerably, and Pussy Plays has accumulated exactly that kind of cult reputation over the decades.

The Record: Pussy Pussy Plays (Pink Vinyl) vinyl on Morgan Blue Town

The original 1969 release came out on Morgan Blue Town, a small label that put out a handful of notable psychedelic and progressive titles during the era. Catalog number BTP 5002. The album’s cover art was, by all accounts, a deliberately bizarre image, in keeping with the band’s general approach to presentation. This pressing maintains that identity while adding a significant visual and tactile dimension: the vinyl itself is pressed in pink. That is not a trivial detail for collectors. Coloured vinyl pressings of obscure late-60s psychedelic records are comparatively rare, and pink in particular suits the off-kilter, slightly tongue-in-cheek character of everything Pussy seemed to represent.

Why This Copy Belongs in Your Collection

If you collect psychedelic rock from the British Isles, particularly the stranger, harder-to-classify material from 1967 to 1971, Pussy Plays is exactly the kind of record that fills a genuine gap. It is not a well-known title. It does not appear on the standard lists of psych classics that every collector already owns three copies of. It is obscure in the proper sense: genuinely difficult to find, from a label that was not churning out pressings in large numbers, by a band that made precisely one album and left. The pink vinyl format adds collectibility on top of rarity. You are not buying a reissue of something endlessly available. You are buying a specific, coloured pressing of a one-and-done album on a minor label from 1969. That combination of factors is why records like this matter to serious collectors. It belongs on the shelf alongside your other deep cuts, not as a curiosity, but as a legitimate piece of psychedelic rock history that most people simply never tracked down.