Jefferson Starship (Jefferson Airplane) - Red Octopus (1975)

Year: June 13 1975 (CD ????)
Label: RCA / Legacy Records (US), 82276 71223 2
Style: Soft Rock
Country: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Time: 62:34
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 394 Mb

Charts: US #1, AUS #69, CAN #13, NZ #15. US: 2x Platinum.
Technically speaking, Red Octopus was the first album credited to Jefferson Starship, though practically the same lineup made Dragon Fly, credited to Grace Slick/Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship. The difference, however, was crucial: Marty Balin was once again a fully integrated bandmember, writing or co-writing five of the ten tracks. And there can be little doubt that it was Balin's irresistible ballad "Miracles," the biggest hit single in the Jefferson Whatever catalog, that propelled Red Octopus to the top of the charts, the only Jefferson album to chart that high and the best-selling album in their collective lives. This must have been sweet vindication for Balin, who founded Jefferson Airplane but then drifted away from the group as it veered away from his musical vision. Now, the collective was incorporating his taste without quite integrating it -- "Miracles," with its strings and sax solo by nonband member Irv Cox, was hardly a characteristic Airplane/Starship track. But then, neither exactly was Papa John Creach's showcase, "Git Fiddler," or bassist Pete Sears' instrumental "Sandalphon," which sounded like something from an early Procol Harum album. Slick has three strong songs, among them the second single "Play on Love." Like Dragon Fly, Red Octopus reflected a multiplicity of musical tastes; there were ten credited songwriters, seven of whom were in the band. If there is any consistency in this material, it is in subject matter (love songs). The album is more ballad-heavy and melodic than the Airplane albums, which made it more accessible to the broader audience it reached, though "Sweeter Than Honey" is as tough a rocker as the band ever played.
(allmusic.com/album/red-octopus-mw0000194323)

01. Fast Buck Freddie (03:30)
02. Miracles (06:53)
03. Git Fiddler (03:11)
04. Ai Garimasu (There Is Love) (04:17)
05. Sweeter Than Honey (03:23)
06. Play On Love (03:46)
07. Tumblin' (03:29)
08. I Want To See Another World (04:36)
09. Sandalphon (04:11)
10. There Will Be Love (05:08)
11. Miracles (Single Version) (03:30)
12. Band Introduction (Live at Winterland, November 7, 1975) (01:15)
13. Fast Buck Freddie (Live at Winterland, November 7, 1975) (03:35)
14. There Will Be Love (Live at Winterland, November 7, 1975) (04:58)
15. You're Driving Me Crazy (Live at Winterland, November 7, 1975) (06:45)

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Paul Kantner, Grace Slick & David Freiberg (Jefferson Airplane) - Baron Von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun (1973)

Year: May 1973 (CD 1997)
Label: RCA Records (US), RCA 07863 67418-2
Style: Rock
Country: U.S.
Time: 40:22
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 254 Mb

David Freiberg (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. August 24, 1938) - Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, and Jefferson Starship.
Paul Kantner (San Francisco, California, U.S. March 17, 1941 - January 28, 2016) - Jefferson Airplane, and Jefferson Starship.
Grace Slick (Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. October 30, 1939) - The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship.
Credited to Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, and David Freiberg, Baron von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun was the first album made by these erstwhile members of Jefferson Airplane since the breakup of that group. Like such other spin-off projects as Blows Against the Empire and Sunfighter, this one featured a supporting cast of San Francisco Bay Area musicians including present and former members of a variety of groups, such as the Grateful Dead (lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, percussionist Mickey Hart, and lyricist Robert Hunter, who wrote the words to "Harp Tree Lament"), Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (singer David Crosby), and the Flying Burrito Brothers (bassist Chris Ethridge), as well as other former members of the Airplane and future members of Jefferson Starship. The Pointer Sisters even guested on one track. Despite the co-billing, the album's guiding force was Slick, who sang on every track and wrote or co-wrote six of the ten songs, though there was still room for the unbilled Jack Traylor to write, play acoustic guitar, and sing lead vocals on the song "Flowers of the Night," a celebration of monarchial overthrows throughout history. Perhaps more outside songwriting should have been employed, since the compositions here were second-rate. The public was catching on, too: Kantner's Blows Against the Empire had reached the Top 20, but Baron von Tollbooth didn't come near the Top 100. The team would attempt one more splinter project, Slick's "solo" album Manhole, before reorganizing as Jefferson Starship in 1974 with the notable return of singer/songwriter Marty Balin.
(allmusic.com/album/baron-von-tollbooth-the-chrome-nun-mw0000084215)

01. Ballad Of The Chrome Nun (04:00)
02. Fat (03:14)
03. Flowers Of The Night (04:17)
04. Walkin' (02:31)
05. Your Mind Has Left Your Body (05:47)
06. Across The Board (04:37)
07. Harp Tree Lament (03:38)
08. White Boy (Transcaucasian Airmachine Blues) (04:16)
09. Fishman (02:43)
10. Sketches Of China (05:15)

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The Great Society (Jefferson Airplane) - Born To Be Burned (1965)

Year: 1965 (CD Jan 19, 1996)
Label: Sundazed Music (US), SC 11027
Style: Psychedelic Rock
Country: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Time: 42:21
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 270 Mb

Born to Be Burned is a compilation album by the San Francisco garage rock and psychedelic rock band the Great Society. The album is made up of material recorded during the band's short-lived association with Autumn Records in 1965, with the majority of it previously unreleased. The exceptions to this are the songs "Someone to Love" and "Free Advice" (tracks 1 and 2 on the album), which had both been issued as a single on Northbeach Records, a subsidiary of Autumn Records, in February 1966.
The album contains many of The Great Society's signature songs, including "Free Advice", a drone-laden piece of raga rock, greatly influenced by Indian classical music, and "Father Bruce", a song inspired by comedian and counterculture hero, Lenny Bruce. The oriental-sounding "Daydream-Nightmare-Love" and the darkly psychedelic "Born to Be Burned" are also included. "Someone to Love" is arguably The Great Society's most famous song, due to the later hit single version by Jefferson Airplane (retitled "Somebody to Love"). The Great Society's vocalist, Grace Slick, joined Jefferson Airplane in late 1966 and consequently she sings lead vocal on the Airplane's recording of the song, which became a Top 5 hit in the U.S. in May 1967.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_to_Be_Burned)

01. Free Advice (02:32)
02. Someone To Love (03:06)
03. You Can't Cry (02:35)
04. That's How It Is (02:29)
05. Girl (02:12)
06. Where (02:12)
07. Heads Up (01:19)
08. Free Advice (Alternate Version 2) (02:09)
09. Father Bruce (03:10)
10. Born To Be Burned (02:07)
11. Double Tripamine Superautomatic Everlovin' Man (01:57)
12. Love You Girl (03:09)
13. That's How It Is (Alternate Version) (02:25)
14. Right To Me (03:06)
15. Where (Alternate Version) (02:15)
16. Free Advice (Alternate Version 1) (02:12)
17. Daydream-Nightmare-Love (03:18)

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Grace Slick (ex Jefferson Airplane) - Dreams (1980)

Year: March 18, 1980 (CD November 2, 1998)
Label: Si-Wan Records (South Korea), SRMWP 1010
Style: Pop Rock
Country: Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. (October 30, 1939)
Time: 46:19
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 287 Mb

Charts: US #32, AUS #46, NLD #39, NOR #22, UK #28.
Paul Weller had 22 of them. Lennon had a number nine one. McCartney had one of his mother Mary. David Crosby had one about a ‘Shadow Captain’ leading him astray. Ray Davies didn’t have any and wrote about his insomnia instead. No, we’re not talking about cakes or gold records here – we’re talking about dreams, one of the most common and useful songwriting ideas after love and romance. Grace Slick, she of the Jefferson Airplane and Starship, isn’t the kind of singer you usually associate with dreams and imagination (songs about real events and experiences have always been her strong point) but that's what makes this surreal, hazy yet bitey album all the more remarkable - easily the greatest and most essential purchase of her four solo albums. In one way this is in many ways her least dream-like album of all, full of stunning insights into her own life with the cold splash of trouble and tribulation, like the sober morning after an alcoholic binge and as tough as old boots. And yet there’s a magical, mystical quality to this album, which sounds – especially on the three-track tone poem on the second side – like the mystical side that's always been there in the background of the Airplane/Starship sound breaking through at last. A neat summation of that twilight time between sleep and awake, 'Dreams' is a forgotten and neglected work that sounds like the work of Grace's sub-conscious trying to find the right path and caught between scary realistic insight and the hazy realisation that there are still things to do and places to go.
(full version: alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2009/08/news-views-and-music-issue-39-grace.html)

01. Dreams (05:08)
02. El Diablo (05:58)
03. Face To The Wind (05:31)
04. Angel Of Night (03:50)
05. Seasons (03:26)
06. Do It The Hard Way (04:59)
07. Full Moon Man (05:07)
08. Let It Go (05:43)
09. Garden Of Man (06:33)

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Three Dog Night - Coming Down Your Way [Japan Ed.] (1975)

Year: May 1, 1975 (CD Apr 24, 2013)
Label: Universal Music (Japan), UICY-75572
Style: Pop Rock, Rock
Country: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Time: 35:52
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 226 Mb

Three Dog Night garnered three hits off of their 1974 release, Hard Labor, with material from John Hiatt, Allen Toussaint, and David Courtney/Leo Sayer. This time around they obtain their 21st and final Top 40 entry with a Dave Loggins song, "'Till the World Ends," and it is no "Pieces of April," the lovely composition from the same songwriter which landed in the Top 20 for the group two-and-a-half-years earlier. The problem with the song is the same dilemma faced by the album, Coming Down Your Way, the band seeking another genre to conquer while keeping their eye off of the precise and major Top 40 activity which was their bread and butter. Keyboard player for the Blues Image, Frank "Skip" Konte, joins Jimmy Greenspoon on the ivories with the Monkees/Barry Manilow bassist Dennis Belfield onboard as well. Their addition makes for a very musical album with Danny Hutton, Cory Wells and Chuck Negron emulating the Band and some kind of pseudo-slickGrateful Dead rather than sticking with the formula which made them so very successful. Jimmy Ienner's production doesn't have the sparkle it did four months earlier on Grand Funk Railroad's "Bad Time," a heavy metal band sounding more like Three Dog Night than Three Dog Night. Tracked at Colorado's famed Caribou Ranch, the disc also fails to come up with something as extraordinary as Elton John's "Island Girl," a song manufactured in the same recording facility and hitting number one two months after " 'Till the World Ends" brought the group's six-and-a-half-year chart run to a close. Jack Lynton's "Coming Down Your Way" is a reflection of Leo Sayer's "The Show Must Go On" and the closest thing to familiar Dog Night as this disc gets. Jeff Barry's "When It's Over" puts it all into perspective, Negron phrasing the lament which states the obvious for the once magnificent radio-friendly pop production machine. A frustrating outing because all involved were certainly proficient enough to come up with something more substantial than these ten performances which play like unfinished outtakes. Associate Producer on this effort, Bob Monaco, would take the remnants of the group down a disco path with the 1976 release, American Pastime, effectively closing the door and pointing the band toward their next phase -- that of an oldies act.
(allmusic.com/album/coming-down-your-way-mw0000854393)

01. 'Til The World Ends (03:31)
02. You Can Leave Your Hat On (04:14)
03. Good Old Feeling (03:10)
04. Mind Over Matter (02:56)
05. Midnight Flyer ('Eli Wheeler') (04:33)
06. Kite Man (03:39)
07. Coming Down Your Way (03:11)
08. When It's Over (03:38)
09. Lean Back, Hold Steady (03:46)
10. Yo Te Quiero Hablar (Take You Down) (03:11)

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Arktis - Arktis (1973)

Year: 1973 (CD 1998)
Label: Garden Of Delights (Germany), CD 005
Style: Krautrock, Hard Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: Germany
Time: 44:55
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 292 Mb

The German psych/prog label called Garden of Delights recently made a campaign to reissue a bunch of lost krautrock classics, Arktis is at the top of these 70s obscurities. Formed in 1973, the band released their first album the same year. This self title album revisits a conventional heavy rock style mixed with freak out improvisations largely made of fuzzy guitars. In 1974 has been published an album with many demos. Konrad Plank was the producer. After a rather poor commercial support the band split. In 1975 will be released an other effort including many Arktis demos tape sessions. The music always features colourful heavy fuzz jams.
(progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2615)

This is a pretty cool sounding band from Germany listed under Krautrock here.This is very much a guitar driven, heavy Psyche album with a female vocalist. Not the proggiest album out there although we do a get a side long suite which is the highlight of this 1974 recording. I'm just a sucker for this style of music, especially the upfront guitar.This is a self-released album by the band as they were trying to get signed by a label. In fact the next two albums would also be self-released and they never could get signed oddly enough even with the help of Conny Plank.
"Student's Idyll" hits the ground running with a rumbling heavy sound and the guitar leading the way.The vocals join in quickly.They are in English throughout. I'm just not a fan of this straight-forward tune though.The guitar starts to solo before 2 1/2 minutes and continues until after 3 minutes when the vocals return. "Outcasted" has more of a focus on the vocals although there is still this good raw sound. It settles after 3 minutes as the vocals stop and the guitar leads. She's back after 4 1/2 minutes. It's okay.
"Jeff The Fool" has these lyrics that describe how bad he (Jeff) is and she ends the line each time with "...people say i'm crazy hey !". Oh boy. Another uptempo, guitar led tune. Love the guitar solo from after a minute until after 2 1/2 minutes.
"Rare Girl" is the over 20 minute closer. This is the one that saves this album from being very average. This has a darker sound to it as the guitar opens then bass, drums and vocals join in. She's even singing in a more serious manner and with some attitude. A change 2 minutes in to a brighter sound and no vocals until 3 1/2 minutes in. It kicks into a fuller sound at 5 minutes with the guitar leading and no vocals. It settles 6 1/2 minutes in with the guitar still leading and sounding great. A calm 9 1/2 minutes in then it kicks in heavily until 18 minutes in. Nice.Then the opening soundscape with vocals is reprised. Amazing tune!
3.5 stars from me, but it could have been so much better.
(progarchives.com/album.asp?id=12859)

01. Student's Idyll (04:03)
02. Outcasted (05:35)
03. Jeff The Fool (03:27)
04. Rare Girl (20:10)
05. Is It Real (02:47)
06. Sky Drive (04:30)
07. Don't Hang Around (04:21)

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Sundome And The Night - In Lean Hours (1993)

Year: 1993 (CD 1993)
Label: Penner Records (Germany), CD 003
Style: Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelic, Alternative Rock
Country: Germany
Time: 67:34
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 424 Mb

This neo-psychedelic band isn't like most of the other bands that have release(s) out on the Garden Of Delights label. Mainly because it's material from the '90's. Have to admit, I liked what I was hearing. Their influences are from the likes of the Doors and maybe early Pink Floyd or even Nirvana. Just a couple of tracks worth mentioning are "I Ran For You", the awesome rocker "Codine" and "Borderline". Personnel: Uwe - vocals, Christian - guitar, percussion & vocals, Michael - bass, UC Kuhlmann - organ, guitar & piano and Pete - drums. Have to wonder why these players don't use their last name. Nontheless, not a bad pick.
(amazon.com/Lean-Hours-Sundome-Night/dp/B01K8QFR2Q)

'Neo-psychedelic with grunge and garage elements. Guitar-dominated and good. Influenced by The Doors, Litter, REM and Green on Red. Doesn’t fit well with the style of the other releases on this label. Playing neo-psychedelic, the band formed in Coesfeld in 1986, is a bit beyond the scope of this label. So far they released a single ("I ran for you" / "So the good will last") in 1991, a mini album ("Details of possession") in 1988, an album ("Reverend Ripov’s media meltdown") in 1994 and in 1993 the CD "In lean hours".
(rekopisznalezionywarkham.blogspot.com/2009/09/sundome-and-night-reverend-ripovs-media.html)

01. I Ran For You (05:05)
02. Melville (03:45)
03. Codine (05:34)
04. R.O.C.I. (05:01)
05. There Was A Time (03:54)
06. Borderline (06:43)
07. Cool, Calm And Collected (05:28)
08. Prometheus (06:01)
09. Never Be Going Away (04:52)
10. Colourblind (02:40)
11. Hello (03:53)
12. She (00:58)
13. Memphis (09:20)
14. It's Alright (04:17)

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Marianne Faithfull - North Country Maid [Japan Ed. 3 bonus tracks] (1966)

Year: 1 April 1966 (CD Mar 21, 2002)
Label: Universal Music (Japan), UICY-3298
Style: Folk Rock, Ballad
Country: London, England (29 December 1946)
Time: 42:49
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 256 Mb

North Country Maid is the third studio album by British singer Marianne Faithfull. It was released only in the United Kingdom. The arrangements were by Jon Mark and Mick Taylor. Gus Dudgeon was the engineer and Gered Mankowitz was the photographer. The guitarists included Jon Mark and Big Jim Sullivan.
Half of the songs had been released months earlier in the United States on the album Go Away from My World.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Country_Maid)

Faithfull was still known primarily as a pop singer when she put out North Country Maid, but this is in fact very close to a pure folk album, with a bit of influence from pop, rock, blues, and jazz. Largely overlooked even by Faithfull fans, it's actually a quite respectable effort, and probably her best LP (other than greatest-hits compilations) from the time when her voice was still on the high side. Ably backed by sessionmen including guitarists Jon Mark and Jim Sullivan, she interprets mostly traditional material on this record, including "She Moved Through the Fair," "Wild Mountain Thyme," "Sally Free and Easy," and "Scarborough Fair." There are some mid-'60s covers too, though, including Donovan's "Sunny Goodge Street" and Tom Paxton's "Last Thing on My Mind." Sometimes, when the bass gets prominent and the arrangements swing, this isn't too far from early Pentangle, as unexpected as that comparison is. The use of sitar on "She Moved Through the Fair" and "Wild Mountain Thyme" is adventurous, and she sings pretty well throughout, with dignity and purity if not utmost imagination or grit. The 1990 CD reissue on Deram U.K. adds three worthwhile bonus tracks: "The Most of What Is Least" (from a 1965 EP) and alternate versions of "Come My Way" and "Mary Anne" (the originals of which had appeared on her 1965 album, Come My Way).
(allmusic.com/album/north-country-maid-mw0000711124)

01. Green Are Your Eyes (02:58)
02. Scarborough Fair (03:07)
03. Cockleshells (03:17)
04. The Last Thing On My Mind (02:17)
05. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (03:58)
06. Sally Free And Easy (02:52)
07. Sunny Goodge Street (03:21)
08. How Should I Your True Love Know (01:19)
09. She Moved Thu' The Fair (03:10)
10. North Country Maid (02:37)
11. Lullaby (02:42)
12. Wild Mountain Thyme (03:38)
13. The Most of what Is Least (bonus track mono) (03:03)
14. Come My Way (bonus track) (02:30)
15. Mary Ann (bonus track) (01:57)

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Adrian Belew (ex King Crimson) - Lone Rhino [Japan Ed.] (1982)

Year: April 26, 1982 (CD Dec 25, 2002)

Label: Universal Music (Japan), UICY-9237

Style: Avant-garde, Punk, New Wave

Country: Covington, Kentucky, U.S. (December 23, 1949)

Time: 36:38

Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz

Size: 253 Mb

Lone Rhino is the debut solo album by American musician Adrian Belew, released on April 26, 1982. It features the musicians and much of the repertoire of Belew's pre-King Crimson band GaGa.
The album was recorded following years of Belew playing as lead guitarist for Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, and seven months after his 1981 debut as the lead singer, lyricist, and second guitarist of King Crimson with Discipline. A video was produced for the track "Big Electric Cat", filmed in 1982 in New York City that opens with a shot of the World Trade Center. Belew's daughter Audie (four years old at the time) duets with her father on the last track, "The Final Rhino" (which was produced when Belew secretly recorded a piano piece improvised by Audie and then added a guitar line). She also coined the word "momur" which meant anything that frightened her (monster). The song "Animal Grace" was originally called "Buy That Face" and was written about David Bowie. Members of the Springfield, Illinois High School band were enlisted to play the 7/8 coda on "Adidas in Heat".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Rhino)

 

01. Big Electric Cat (04:53)
02. The Momur (03:44)
03. Stop It (02:51)
04. The Man In The Moon (03:50)
05. Naive Guitar (04:03)
06. Hot Sun (01:30)
07. The Lone Rhinoceros (04:02)
08. Swingline (03:28)
09. Addidas In Heat (02:47)
10. Animal Grace (04:02)
11. The Final Rhino (01:23)

 

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Jean Michel Jarre - Zoolook (1984)

Year: November 12, 1984 (CD January 2, 2015)
Label: Sony Music (Germany), 88875046352
Style: Ambient, New Age, Electronic
Country: Lyon, France (24 August 1948)
Time: 37:56
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 265 Mb

Charts: AUS #69, AUT #28, GER #24, NL #27, SWE #21, SWI #30, UK #47, NZ #35. UK: Silver.
Much of the music is built up from samples of singing and speech in 25 different languages recorded and edited in the Fairlight CMI digital sampling synthesizer. The album spawned two singles: the title track and "Zoolookologie".
"I've always been involved in ethnic music, though I thought the way a lot of people have been using ethnic music was a little superficial. Sometimes it works, like the Brian Eno stuff, it worked the first time, but for me what was more interesting was not making a particular statement about recording in Africa or in China, but taking some sounds and having exactly the same attitude as when you were in front of a Moog 55 or a modular system, replacing the oscillators with a bank of actors or people, treating them through the Fairlight or the EMS synth, and establishing an orchestration using only voices."
Some of the vocals were recorded during Jean-Michel's travels, while others are instead the result of his work with Xavier Bellanger, a French ethnologist who during his travels recorded "a large collection of tapes". For this album, Jarre used the synthesizers Moog 55, ARP 2600, some by EMS, the LinnDrum machine, the Yamaha DX7, the Matrisequencer 250 designed by French sound engineer Michel Geiss for Equinoxe (1978), and the E-mu Emulator. The different languages as listed in the album's liner notes are: Aboriginal, Afghan, Arabic, Balinese, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, English, Eskimo, French, German, Hungarian, Indian, Japanese, Malagasy, Malayan, Pygmy, Polish, Quechua, Russian, Sioux, Spanish, Swedish, Tibetan, and Turkish.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoolook)

01. Ethnicolor 1 (11:48)
02. Diva (07:22)
03. Zoolook (03:52)
04. Wooloomooloo (03:18)
05. Zoolookologie (04:21)
06. Blah-Blah Cafe (03:21)
07. Ethnicolor 2 (03:52)

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King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon [Japan Ed. 24 Karat Gold] (1970)

Year: May 15, 1970 (CD Mar 1, 2000)
Label: Discipline Global Mobile (Japan), PCCY-01422
Style: Progressive Rock, Art Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 41:03
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 236 Mb

Charts: UK #4, AUS #17, CAN #28, US #31.
The album opens with an a cappella piece called "Peace – A Beginning". An extended version of this piece, "Peace – A Theme", adds a middle eight and is performed on an unaccompanied acoustic guitar. This track appears at the beginning of side two, perhaps conceived as the mid-point of the album, and a third version, "Peace – An End" appears at the conclusion of the album. "Peace – An End" is to some extent a combination of the other two versions, containing both vocals and acoustic guitar as well as the middle eight, but the lyrics are entirely different from those of "Peace – A Beginning".
The strongly jazz fusion-influenced "Pictures of a City" was originally performed live, often extended to over ten minutes and was called "A Man, a City". An example of such a performance appears on the live compilation album Epitaph.
The ballad "Cadence and Cascade" is about two groupies.
The longest track on the album is a chaotic instrumental piece called "The Devil’s Triangle". This was adapted from the 1969 band's live arrangement of Gustav Holst's "Mars: Bringer of War" (from his The Planets suite), later released on Epitaph (where it is titled merely "Mars"). "The Devil's Triangle" employs a different staccato riff than the one from "Mars". In 1971, a brief excerpt from "The Devil’s Triangle" was featured in "The Mind of Evil", the second serial of the eighth season of the BBC television series Doctor Who. The track includes part of the chorus from "The Court of the Crimson King", a track from the band's first album, using a studio technique known as xenochrony. Despite this, Ian McDonald, who composed "The Court of the Crimson King", is not given co-writing credit on this segment of "The Devil's Triangle", only on the opening section, "Merday Morn".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Wake_of_Poseidon)

01. Peace - A Beginning (00:50)
02. Pictures Of A City including 42nd at Treadmill (08:01)
03. Cadence and Cascade (04:37)
04. In The Wake Of Poseidon including Libra's Theme (07:56)
05. Peace - A Theme (01:15)
06. Cat Food (04:55)
07. The Devil's Triangle (11:34)
08. Peace - An End (01:52)

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Heart - Little Queen (1977)

Year: May 14, 1977 (CD Jun 28, 2004)
Label: Epic / Legacy (Europe), 508342 2
Style: Rock, Pop
Country: Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Time: 52:06
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 334 Mb

Charts: US #9, AUS #22, CAN #2, NL #9, SWE #44, UK #34. CAN: 2x Platinum; US: 3x Platinum.
After Dreamboat Annie became a million seller, Mushroom took out a full-page ad in the December 30, 1976, issue of Rolling Stone magazine touting the band's success, using the headline "Million to One Shot Sells a Million". The ad looked like the front page of the tabloid newspaper National Enquirer and included a photo from the Dreamboat Annie cover shoot. The caption read: "Heart's Wilson Sisters Confess: 'It Was Only Our First Time!'"
After this ad surfaced, a Detroit radio promoter asked Ann Wilson about her lover—referring to Nancy, thus implying that the sisters were incestuous lesbian lovers. Ann was outraged and retreated to her hotel room to write a song. When she relayed the incident to Nancy, she, too, was infuriated. Nancy joined Ann and contributed a melody and bridge. The song became "Barracuda", which entered Billboard Hot 100 on May 28, and peaked at number 11. and remains one of the band's signature songs.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Queen)

01. Barracuda (04:22)
02. Love Alive (04:18)
03. Sylvan Song (02:14)
04. Dream Of The Archer (04:31)
05. Kick It Out (02:44)
06. Little Queen (05:12)
07. Treat Me Well (03:24)
08. Say Hello (03:36)
09. Cry To Me (02:51)
10. Go On Cry (05:56)
11. Too Long A Time (Recorded 1976) (Bonus track) (03:33)
12. Stairway To Heaven (Live 1976) (Bonus track) (09:20)

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Marianne Faithfull - Blazing Away [Live] (1990)

Year: Recorded: '88-'89. 1990 (CD Apr 17, 1990)
Label: Island Records (US), 842 794-2
Style: Rock, Ballad
Country: London, England (29 December 1946)
Time: 72:38
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 405 Mb

Charts: AUS #66, AUT #28, NL #75, NZ #19, SWE #44, US #160.
Fully established as a dramatic, innovative singer with astonishing appeal and energy thanks to her string of excellent '80s releases, Faithfull concluded her renaissance decade with Blazing Away, an excellent live album recorded in New York's St. Anne's Cathedral. The crackerjack backing band deserves note in and of itself, including members ranging from the Band's Garth Hudson to Dr. John, plus regular collaborators Marc Ribot, Fernando Saunders, and her key partner Barry Reynolds. Faithfull and the players fit hand in glove track for track, with the emphasis on subtler arrangements and performances suiting the hushed, striking atmosphere of the performance. When the band shows its muscle, as with the snarling strut of "Guilt," there's no question of this being anything like easy listening. In general, though, the sense of cabaret meets modern nightclub dominates, with Faithfull's singing capturing the cracking tug of her vocals just so. The selection of songs ranges from the intriguingly obscure to the familiar enough -- "As Tears Go By" and "Broken English" take unsurprising bows, as does a lengthy brood on "Sister Morphine," "She Moved Through the Fair," and a commanding rip through the harrowing "Why'd Ya Do It?" There are two new numbers as well. The title track is the one song recorded in studio, with Reynolds and Saunders, plus a number of other musicians; it's got a nice steel guitar twang to it, and Faithfull tries for the high lonesome sound in her own wonderful way. Other flat-out highlights include a grand take on "Times Square" and a slow crawl through "Working Class Hero" that seethes with fire, both from the musicians and Faithfull.
(allmusic.com/album/blazing-away-mw0000207925)

01. Les Prisons Du Roy (06:52)
02. Strange Weather (05:18)
03. Guilt (07:59)
04. Working Class Hero (06:12)
05. Sister Morphine (07:41)
06. As Tears Go By (04:26)
07. Why'd Ya Do It? (06:48)
08. When I Find My Life (03:01)
09. Ballad Of Lucy Jordan (05:14)
10. Times Square (04:58)
11. Blazing Away (04:12)
12. She Moved Through The Fair (02:16)
13. Broken English (07:37)

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The Guess Who - The Best Of [3 bonus tracks] (1971)

Year: April 1971 (CD 2006)

Label: BMG Music (US), 82876 75924 2

Style: Rock, Classic Rock

Country: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Time: 49:19

Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz

Size: 316 Mb

Canada: Platinum; US: Gold.

The first half of the album contains tracks from 1968-1970, while the second half of the album contains tracks from the 1970 album "Share the Land". Some of the songs on this album are single edits. For example, the single version of "American Woman" is missing the acoustic introduction. The single version of "Undun", is used as well without the piano intro.

Randy Bachman appears as lead guitar for the first half of the album, while Kurt Winter and Greg Leskiw appear on guitar on the second half of the album.

In addition to the usual 2-channel stereo version, the album was also released by RCA in a 4-channel quadraphonic version on 8-track tape and reel-to-reel.

The first CD issue in 1988 by RCA replaced the single version of "American Woman" with the album version. A reissue by Legacy Recordings in 2006 had the single version restored and added three bonus tracks.

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_The_Guess_Who)

01. These Eyes (03:46)

02. Laughing (02:42)

03. Undun (03:25)

04. No Time (03:48)

05. American Woman (03:54)

06. No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature (04:54)

07. Hand Me Down World (03:28)

08. Bus Rider (02:57)

09. Share The Land (03:55)

10. Do You Miss Me Darlin' (03:56)

11. Hang On To Your Life (04:10)

12. Albert Flasher (02:27)

13. Broken (03:08)

14. Rain Dance (02:44)

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David Bowie - Bowie At The Beeb [2CD. 1968-1972] (2000)

Year: Recorded: 13 May 1968 – 23 May 1972 (CD 26 September 2000)
Label: EMI Records (Europe), 7243 528629 2 4
Style: Glam Rock, Pop Rock
Country: London, England (8 January 1947 - 10 January 2016)
Time: 73:16, 77:57
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 289, 290 Mb

Bowie at the Beeb is a compilation album by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie, first released in 2000. Originally, it came in a three-CD set, the third, bonus CD being a live recording made on 27 June 2000 at the Portland BBC Radio Theatre, part of his Mini Tour. Later editions contain only the first two CDs.
Releases:
The first pressing mistakenly included the second (disc 2, track 13) version of the song "Ziggy Stardust" twice on disc two, missing the first (disc 2, track 5) version. EMI declined to issue corrected replacement discs to customers, instead mailing out one-song CDs of the first version.
This compilation also features a previously unreleased song, "Looking for a Friend" (disc 1, track 15), which John Peel said would be released as a single by Arnold Corns. The single was later cancelled.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowie_at_the_Beeb)

I've become more leery of post-mortem releases of legendary acts, but this is an amazing collection. It's David Bowie at his best early in his career. My favorite recordings are live studio recordings because there's not the unnatural production of a well rehearsed multi-track recording or the distortion of the venue acoustics and the interaction with the audience. Because Bowie and friends are such pros this collection gives you really cool alternate versions of Bowie classics as well as some cool covers with all the spontaneity of a live performance. Really, I've envied how British music seems to have this vast library of live studio recordings which are every bit as great as the fully produced and engineered studio recordings.
This collection offers a nice cross section of David Bowie's early recordings as well as some interesting insight from his discussions with the host. This is a great collection worth having for the casual fan such as myself or the super fan.
(amazon.com/Bowie-At-Beeb-Radio-Sessions/dp/B00004Y5A8)

01. In The Heat Of The Morning (03:02)
02. London Bye Ta Ta (02:36)
03. Karma Man (03:00)
04. Silly Boy Blue (06:08)
05. Let Me Sleep Beside You (03:17)
06. Janine (03:24)
07. Amsterdam (03:18)
08. God Knows I'm Good (03:35)
09. The Width Of A Circle (05:21)
10. Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed (05:07)
11. Cygnet Committee (09:07)
12. Memory Of A Free Festival (03:18)
13. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (05:55)
14. Bombers (03:19)
15. Looking For A Friend (03:33)
16. Almost Grown (02:43)
17. Kooks (03:32)
18. It Ain't Easy (02:51)

01. The Supermen (02:51)
02. Eight Line Poem (02:56)
03. Hang On To Yourself (02:50)
04. Ziggy Stardust (03:26)
05. Queen Bitch (02:59)
06. I'm Waiting For The Man (05:24)
07. Five Years (04:24)
08. White Light - White Heat (03:48)
09. Moonage Daydream (04:58)
10. Hang On To Yourself (02:50)
11. Suffragette City (03:28)
12. Ziggy Stardust (03:24)
13. Starman (04:05)
14. Space Oddity (04:16)
15. Changes (03:29)
16. Oh! You Pretty Things (02:57)
17. Andy Warhol (03:14)
18. Lady Stardust (03:20)
19. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide (03:08)

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Grace Slick And The Great Society - Collector's Item From The San Francisco Scene [2LP on 1CD] (1971)

Year: 1965-1971 (CD ????)
Label: Columbia Records (US), CGK 30459
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Rock
Country: Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. (October 30, 1939)
Time: 67:07
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 375 Mb

This recording is a historical document of a band and time. It was two shows in 1966 at the Matrix in San Francisco recorded live. The music returns us to a simpler time when music was easy to understand and marvel at and the amps did not destroy our eardrums. It sounds alive and new as it was then - really good remastering of original audio tapes with and informative booklet.
(amazon.com) Review by Joseph G.
This is the first time I have seen this classic on cd. It is, ,admittedly, more expensive than my vinyl copy was at 12s6d but is definitely worth it.
It contains many great tracks in their earliest versions, ,notably "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" , but also "Sally Go Round the Roses" which is a favourite of mine, plus "Grimly Forming" ,"Arbitration" and a few others with an extra seven bonus tracks tacked on the end.
This was the first recording Grace made with her husband Darby Slick on lead guitar, his brother Jerry on drums, David Minor on rhythm guitar and Peter Vandergelder performing as the Great Society. (The " Grace Slick and the ..." tag was only added after the Great Society disbanded in early 1967 and she went on to find fame with Jefferson Airplane.)
The first ten tracks on this were originally released on vinyl titled "Conspicuous Only In Its Absence" from live recordings made at various San Francisco clubs between 1965 and I967 and have the authentic dreamy, spaced out feeling of that era. Long, dramatic raga-like guitar solos building back into razor sharp bursts of vocals characterise these tracks, matching the rainbow coloured light shows and psychedelic nature of these events. These tracks are very different from the tighter, more disciplined Jefferson Airplane ones but have a place in my heart.
(amazon.com) Review by limner

Personnel:
Grace Slick (Other names: Gracie, The Chrome Nun, The Acid Queen) - vocals, guitar, recorder, piano
Darby Slick - lead guitar, backing vocals
David Miner - rhythm guitar, vocals
Peter Vandergelder - bass
Jerry Slick - drums

01. Sally Go Round The Roses (06:32)
02. Didn't Think So (03:23)
03. Grimly Forming (03:53)
04. Somebody To Love (04:27)
05. Father Bruce (03:31)
06. Outlaw Blues (02:27)
07. Often As I May (03:43)
08. Arbitration (03:58)
09. White Rabbit (06:14)
10. That's How It Is (02:39)
11. Darkly Smiling (03:08)
12. Nature Boy (03:10)
13. You Can't Cry (02:57)
14. Daydream Nightmare (04:34)
15. Everybody Knows (02:36)
16. Born To Be Burned (03:13)
17. Father (06:34)

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Jefferson Airplane - Last Flight - Live At The Winterland Arena [2CD] (1972)

Year: Recorded September 22, 1972 (CD February 2, 2007)
Label: Charly Records (UK), SNAD 555 CD
Style: Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Time: 57:46, 45:46
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 360, 296 Mb

Last Flight is an authorized recording released in the United Kingdom, taken from the last live performance of the San Francisco rock group Jefferson Airplane prior to the band's dissolution in 1972. The concert was held at the Winterland Arena in San Francisco, and selected tracks were released on the 1973 album Thirty Seconds Over Winterland. Last Flight consists of the entire concert with the exception of the encore, Marty Balin's "You Wear Your Dresses Too Short", previously released on the Jefferson Airplane Loves You box-set. Balin sings lead vocals on "Volunteers" much to the surprise of the audience since he left the band in late 1970.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Flight_(album))

01. Introduction By Bill Graham (01:14)
02. Somebody To Love (04:39)
03. Twilight Double Leader (04:30)
04. Wooden Ships (06:17)
05. Milk Train (04:09)
06. Blind John (04:27)
07. Come Back Baby (07:01)
08. The Son Of Jesus (05:13)
09. Long John Silver (05:15)
10. When The Earth Moves Again (03:55)
11. Papa John's Down Home Blues (05:26)
12. Eat Startch Mom (05:35)

01. John's Other (06:08)
02. Trial By Fire (04:24)
03. Law Man (02:40)
04. Have You Seen The Soucers (04:04)
05. Aerie (Gang Of Eagles) (03:30)
06. Feel So Good (11:00)
07. Crown Of Creation (03:23)
08. Walking The Tou Tou (05:11)
09. Medley - Diana/Volunteers (05:21)

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Genesis - Foxtrot [Japan Ed.] (1972)

Year: 15 September 1972 (CD Nov 29, 1995)
Label: Virgin Records (Japan), VJCP-3209
Style: Pop, Rock
Country: Godalming, Surrey, England
Time: 51:11
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 292 Mb

Following the identity-sealing statement that was Nursery Cryme, Genesis were now intent on capitalising on their momentum. They continued to play every college gig going while writing song suites about godlike entities overseeing our destiny and dressing like a fox on stage. An average life for a mid-level band in the UK in 1972, then.
They’d fully incorporated the blast of a Mellotron into their sound and Phil Collins jazz leanings were pushing them in a slightly more interesting direction, away from the ponderous prog nonentity that awaited contemporaries like Gentle Giant. What’s more their live sound had become bolstered by the addition of Mike Rutherford’s bass pedals, allowing him to add yet more ringing twelve string into the mix while blasting the front three rows with his feet. Opener “Watcher Of the Skies”, with its tricky time signatures, displays this power to the max.
What follows is a consolidation of the promise shown on Nursery Cryme. The first big difference is the production, which suddenly brings all that chiming acoustic filigree up close and personal. The songs flow easily and the cod-historical tendency is toned down in favour of science fiction (“Watcher…”), an ill-judged ‘contemporary issues’ song (“Get ‘Em Out By Friday”) and biblical allegory (“Supper’s Ready”). You do still get the history-as-moral song with “Timetable” and one more which, for no good reason at all apart from the awful pun contained in the title, is about King Canute: “Can-Utility And The Coastliners”.
But the really big stuff on Foxtrot resides in their first bona fide masterpiece: The side-long epic, “Supper’s Ready”. These days Peter Gabriel himself probably couldn’t tell you exactly what the whole thing’s about, but it involves more puns, the Book of Revelations, atomic war and flowers. Someone probably has a webpage explaining it all…But never mind, for it’s an exhilarating, if slightly lumpy ride through some of the band’s best writing and playing. The best sections include the multi-voiced romp through insanity of “Willow Farm” and the clever-cloggery of “Apocalypse in 9/8 (co-starring the delicious talents of Gabble Ratchet)”. Guess which time signature that was in…
It allowed Gabriel to do even more dressing up, making their shows the hottest tickets in town. Unfortunately the album still stalled on the brink of the big league which contained proggers like Yes and Crimson. Genesis just needed one little extra push. And their next album would supply that. But with Foxtrot everyone had begun to take notice.
(bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/68dp/)

01. Watcher Of The Skies (07:23)
02. Time Table (04:47)
03. Get 'Em Out by Friday (08:37)
04. Can-Utility And The Coastliners (05:45)
05. Horizon's (01:41)
06. Supper's Ready (22:56)

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Jack Bruce - The Collection (1992)

Year: 1992 (CD 1992)
Label: Castle Communications (UK), CCSCD 326
Style: Rock, Jazz-Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: Lanarkshire, Scotland (14 May 1943 – 25 October 2014)
Time: 73:00
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 443 Mb

John Symon Asher Bruce (14 May 1943 – 25 October 2014) was a Scottish musician. He gained popularity as the primary lead vocalist and ?bassist ?of rock band Cream. After the group disbanded in 1968, he pursued a solo career and also played with several bands.
In the early 1960s, Bruce joined the Graham Bond Organisation (GBO), where he met future Cream bandmate Ginger Baker. After leaving the band, he briefly joined John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, where he met Eric Clapton. In 1966, after a short time with Manfred Mann, he formed Cream with lead guitarist Clapton and drummer Baker. He co-wrote many of their songs (including "Sunshine of Your Love", "White Room" and "I Feel Free") with poet/lyricist Pete Brown. After the group disbanded in the late 1960s, he began recording solo albums. Bruce put together a band of his own to perform material live and subsequently formed the blues rock band West, Bruce and Laing in 1972, with ex-Mountain guitarist Leslie West and drummer Corky Laing. His solo career spanned several decades. From the 1970s to the 1990s he played with several bands as a touring member. He reunited with Cream in 2005 for concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Bruce is considered one of the most important and influential ?bassists ?of all time. ?Rolling Stone magazine readers ranked him number eight on their list of "10 ?Greatest ?Bassists ?of All Time". He was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, and was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, both as a member of Cream.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Bruce)

01. Tales Of Brave Ulysses (02:53)
02. Swlabr (02:33)
03. White Broom (03:09)
04. Politician (04:14)
05. As You Said (04:22)
06. Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune (03:40)
07. Theme For An Imaginary Western (03:28)
08. Tickets To Waterfalls (03:01)
09. Spoonful (06:35)
10. Weird Of Hermiston (02:20)
11. Rope Ladder To The Moon (02:53)
12. He The Richmond (03:36)
13. The Clearout (02:38)
14. I Feel Free (02:55)
15. Folk Song (04:17)
16. Golden Days (05:07)
17. Running Through Your Hands (04:12)
18. Keep It Down (03:42)
19. Keep On Wondering (03:05)
20. Sunshine Of Your Love (04:12)

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David Bowie - Strange Fascination [2CD Live. Bootleg] (1974)

Year: September 5, 1974 (CD 1990. Unofficial Release)
Label: The Original Masters (Japan), TOM 001/002
Style: Glam Rock, Rock
Country: London, England (8 January 1947 - 10 January 2016)
Time: 53:50, 44:45
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 296, 274 Mb

Recorded Live at The Universal Amphiteater in Los Angeles on the 5th of September 1974.
A Japanese double CD made from the original tape. It is not fair to call it a re-issue of the European CD with the same title, because this one contains the 10 minute intro and the outro. The intro consists of lots of street sounds and the outro is the voice of the promoter announcing that Bowie has left the theatre after the final song. The sound quality is absolutely excellent, which means even better than the European issue, but if you can't compare you won't notice! Anyway, it's a true must!
(Notes from Bassman's David Bowie site (algonet.se/~bassman/))

01. Intro (09:57)
02. 1984 (03:38)
03. Rebel Rebel (02:32)
04. Moonage Daydream (05:14)
05. Sweet Thing (07:35)
06. Changes (03:44)
07. Suffragette City (03:46)
08. Aladdin Sane (05:52)
09. All The Young Dudes (03:16)
10. Cracked Actor (03:20)
11. Rock And Roll With Me (04:53)

01. Knock On Wood (03:24)
02. It's Gonna Be Me (07:26)
03. Space Oddity (05:15)
04. Diamond Dogs (06:56)
05. Big Brother (04:04)
06. Time (05:46)
07. The Jean Genie (05:35)
08. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (06:16)

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Rainbow - Rainbow Rising [Deluxe Edition 2CD] (1976)

Year: 17 May 1976 (CD 2011)
Label: Polydor Records / Universal Music (Europe), 5332266
Style: Hard Rock
Country: London and Los Angeles
Time: 77:20, 43:12
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 512, 293 Mb

Charts: UK #11, AUS #33, CAN #17, GER #38, JPN #12, SWE #23, US #48. UK: Gold (Original Edition); UK: Silver (Deluxe Edition); AUS & JPN: Gold.
Band leader Ritchie Blackmore retained only singer Ronnie James Dio from the previous album line-up, and recruited drummer Cozy Powell, bassist Jimmy Bain and keyboard player Tony Carey to complete the new roster. Recorded in Munich in less than a month, the album was overseen by rock producer and engineer Martin Birch. The band was originally billed as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow in the US, but was titled simply Rainbow on this release. In 1996 Cozy Powell told Record Collector magazine that much of the album was recorded in one or two takes, with some subsequent overdubs, which explains why no alternate or demo versions exist, just the original or rough mixes.
The album showpiece, the eight-minute-and-26-second track "Stargazer", features the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, and originally had a keyboard intro as evidenced on the 2011 Deluxe Edition's "Rough Mix" version.
Few of the album tracks made it into the band's live set: "Stargazer" and "Do You Close Your Eyes", written prior to the inaugural US tour in late 1975, featured in all the 1975 and 1976 shows, while "A Light in the Black" was dropped early in the 1976 tour, although it was reintroduced into the set during the Japanese dates. "Starstruck" was played in shortened form, usually as part of "Man on the Silver Mountain".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_(Rainbow_album))
Outside of the Re-Mastered LA-Mix version of this Album, and the Munich 77 concert, I know of few CDs/-recordings where the audio is so brilliantly great.The best thing about the Deluxe versions of these albums, is that it is the next best thing to getting the Japanese pressings. The German discs that I have bought so far have packaging made in other parts of the EU, but the discs are the key usually. The presentation has great packaging, pictures, and a superb booklet.
The New York Mix is not the greatest all-round mix, but if you want a mix that centres on the guitar on vocals, then the NY mix works. The best all round mix is the LA mix since it has the NY sound with the
depth of the Bass into the mix. The Rough mix on disc two comes very close to being as good as the LA mix, but
fails on some level. All in all these RAINBOW
discs are great.
The LA Mix makes a great Car CD for those who need that in their travels. Just a minor note; The sounds you can hear developing in RAINBOW were starting to come around in the latter part of DEEP PURPLE, and as the Booklet notes, Blackmore learning the Cello helped him expand his composing skills and find a sound for some of his tonal variations that were changing. Ever the temperamental artist, it was probably almost inevitable that Blackmore wind up playing in his current band, BLACKMORES NIGHT which has some skillful guitar work as well as brilliant ideas.
(amazon.com/Rising-2-CD-Deluxe-Rainbow/dp/B004DN3VEM)

01. Tarot Woman [New York Mix] (06:05)
02. Run with the Wolf [New York Mix] (03:43)
03. Starstruck [New York Mix] (04:08)
04. Do You Close Your Eyes [New York Mix] (03:00)
05. Stargazer [New York Mix] (08:31)
06. A Light in the Black [New York Mix] (08:13)
07. Tarot Woman [Los Angeles Mix] (06:06)
08. Run with the Wolf [Los Angeles Mix] (03:47)
09. Starstruck [Los Angeles Mix] (04:06)
10. Do You Close Your Eyes [Los Angeles Mix] (03:00)
11. Stargazer [Los Angeles Mix] (08:24)
12. A Light in the Black [Los Angeles Mix] (08:11)

01. Tarot Woman [Rough Mix] (06:08)
02. Run with the Wolf [Rough Mix] (03:50)
03. Starstruck [Rough Mix] (04:06)
04. Do You Close Your Eyes [Rough Mix] (03:06)
05. Stargazer [Rough Mix] (09:10)
06. A Light in the Black [Rough Mix] (08:15)
07. Stargazer [Pirate Sound Tour Rehearsal] (08:33)

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Paul McCartney and Wings - Wings At The Speed Of Sound [24 Karat Gold] (1976)

Year: 26 March 1976 (CD 1996)
Label: DCC Compact Classics (US), GZS-1096
Style: Soft Rock, Classic Rock
Country: Liverpool, England (18 June 1942)
Time: 57:29
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 325 Mb

Charts: UK #2, AUS #2, CAN #1, GER #32, ITA #8, JPN #4, NLD#3, NOR #2, US #1. US, UK & CAN: Platinum.
In his post-Beatles albums, Paul McCartney has proven himself a clever miniaturist whose records resemble collages built around simple musical fragments, each of which is painstakingly produced. While some have dismissed McCartney’s music as insufferably cute, uninspired trivia, all of his albums contain at least some worthwhile music.
At the Speed of Sound doggedly continues in the same vein, but with much less effervescence. Where Venus and Mars was framed by the astrological motif, At the Speed of Sound ostensibly invites the listener to spend a day with McCartney and Wings—a day in which the listener is gently harangued as well as entertained.
"Let 'Em In" begins with door-knocking sound effects, out of which steps a marching band. Like most of the rest, "Let 'Em In" puts a simple musical theme through carefully arranged changes. The melodic idea is small, but quintessentially McCartneyesque in its provincial jollity.
With the electronic soup-slurping sounds that open side two, one notes that it is almost time for lunch on this imaginary visiting day. But first the McCartneys answer those critics who lashed out at Venus and Mars's lovebird verses with a tract in defense of moon, June and spoon, "Silly Love Songs." It’s a clever retort whose point is well taken; the center of the song focuses on the syllables "I love you," which Paul and Linda reiterate with the insistence of phonetics instructors, weaving the phrase through a disarmingly lovely three-part chorus. Homeyness then climaxes with Linda singing "Cook of the House," complete with sizzling pan and running water. A surrealist concept like side one’s first-rate "The Note You Never Wrote," "Cook" is a rockabilly nursery rhyme. Though the instrumentation is excellent, the song fails because of Linda’s colorless, amateurish singing. (Those with feminist sympathies will also detest this celebration of scatterbrained wife-in-kitchen coziness.)
If "Silly Love Songs" is acceptably didactic, the album’s closing number, "Warm and Beautiful," pushes the point too far. The opening chords suggest a parody of Lennon’s infinitely superior "Imagine" and the ultrasimple melody and lyrics suggest a parody of Lennon’s "Love," serving up, with apparent sincerity, the stalest pop ballad clichés ever to emerge from an English music hall. Perhaps McCartney is trying to remind us that these tiresome clichés might well outlast the pop music many critics call art. Or perhaps it is an attempt to transcend cliche by being the biggest cliché. Or perhaps "Warm and Beautiful" is simply one of the worst songs Paul McCartney has ever written.
While there is much to admire on At the Speed of Sound, it is contained in the production more than the material. Ultimately, this album lacks the melodic sparkle of Venus and Mars, which in its turn lacked the energy, passion and structural breadth and unity of Band on the Run, Wings’ finest album. No one rocker on Speed matches the spirit of "Jet" or "Band on the Run" from Band, while no ballad even begins to approach the majesty of "My Love," from Red Rose Speedway. As a whole, At the Speed of Sound seems like a mysterious, somewhat defensive oddity by a great pop producer who used to be a great pop writer. Like all McCartney and Wings records, At the Speed of Sound is spectacularly well arranged and recorded, with McCartney continuing to demonstrate his special affinity for using brass in surprising and witty ways. The playing is laboratory perfect. McCartney, like almost no one else, seems able to play the studio as an instrument. Though it’s a wonderful gift, I hope it doesn’t distract him from songwriting more than it already has. For the best McCartney songs will most certainly outlast all the studios in which they were recorded.
(full version: rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/wings-at-the-speed-of-sound-87638/) Review by Stephen Holden. May 20, 1976

01. Let 'Em In (05:13)
02. The Note You Never Wrote (04:29)
03. She's My Baby (03:07)
04. Beware My Love (06:32)
05. Wino Junko (05:28)
06. Silly Love Songs (05:56)
07. Cook Of The House (02:45)
08. Time To Hide (04:31)
09. Must Do Something About It (03:43)
10. San Ferry Anne (02:09)
11. Warm And Beautiful (03:25)
12. Walking In The Park With Eloise (03:13)
13. Bridge On The River Suite (03:13)
14. Sally G (03:38)

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