Label: Ranbach Music Ltd. (Canada), L-00013
Style: Garage Rock, Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Time: 44:45, 50:41
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 251, 320 Mb
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the CD era, the catalog of the pre-Wheatfield Soul Guess Who has been
very hard to come by. Together with Sundazed's Shakin' All Over! (which
focuses on their hardest-rocking mid-'60s cuts), this two-CD Canadian
collection of rare and unreleased 1967-1968 recordings fills in the gap
well. A few of these songs did appear on non-LP Canadian and/or U.K.
singles, like the devastating garage punkers "It's My Pride" and "If You
Don't Want Me" (which are also on the Sundazed comp); the sappy 1967
ballad "His Girl," heard here in two versions, which was actually a
minor British hit; "Flying on the Ground Is Wrong," one of the first (if
not the first) covers of a Neil Young song; and unbelievably awful
versions of Steve Lawrence's "Pretty Blue Eyes," recorded by the band in
an attempt to get their label to release them from their contract.
("Croyez-Moi," an awkward French version of their 1966 single "Believe
Me," appears for the first time here.) Most of this set, however, is
devoted to unreleased material, recorded in 1967 and 1968 in the studios
for CBC TV shows. Some of those performances are marginalia, like the
almost note-faithful cover versions of "Light My Fire," "White Room,"
and "Love Is All Around," and the psychedelic instrumental "Sitar Saga."
Much of disc two, however, is devoted to late-'60s originals that find
the band starting to arrive at their own hard pop/rock identity,
including early versions of four songs apiece from Wheatfield Soul and
Canned Wheat. The standouts are early versions of "These Eyes" and the
Doors-ish psychedelic suite "Friends of Mine," which includes
contributions from members of the Winnipeg Symphony and some free jazz
sax near the end. A CBC version of the single "When Friends Fall Out"
(later to appear on American Woman), which alternates between grinding
riffs in the verse and contemplative balladry on the bridge, saw Burton
Cummings start to fully form his tense, belting vocal style. There's a
sense of a band fishing for a style throughout much of this anthology,
not always successfully, but it documents an important transitional
phase in the group's evolution.
(allmusic.com/album/this-time-long-ago-mw0000011209)
01. His Girl (02:57)
02. It's My Pride (02:49)
03. If You Don't Want Me (03:05)
04. Croyez-moi (03:03)
05. His Girl (03:03)
06. This Time Long Ago (02:26)
07. Flying On The Ground is Wrong (02:38)
08. There's No Getting Away From You (02:53)
09. Miss Felicity Grey (02:19)
10. Summertime Blues (03:47)
11. Love is All Around (02:49)
12. Sitar Saga (04:43)
13. Pretty Blue Eyes (02:36)
14. Pretty Blue Eyes (02:35)
15. We're Coming to Dinner (02:55)
01. Light My Fire (03:21)
02. Light My Fire (02:55)
03. Shadow Cross The Shadows (04:15)
04. These Eyes (03:42)
05. Wednesday In Your Garden (03:23)
06. When Friends Fall Out (02:57)
07. Maple Fudge (01:54)
08. I Found Her In A Star (02:09)
09. 6 a.m. or Nearer (03:58)
10. I'm In The Mood For Love (04:08)
11. White Room (04:31)
12. Of A Dropping Pin (02:22)
13. Friends of Mine (11:00)
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