Black Beard's Rock: 2022

18 Kasım 2022 Cuma

Genesis / Foxtrot (1972)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Pop Rock, Symphonic Prog, Progressive Pop, Rock Opera

Foxtrot was the first album I heard from Genesis, and I confess that I didn't like it on the first listen (this unfortunately happens), but today I think it's one of the nuggets of the golden age of progressive rock.

The album starts with the sensational ''Watcher Of The Skies'', a track that opens the A side in an excellent way, just that opening, it's worth having this record in the collection of those who enjoy progressive rock, really one of the best and the group's most famous songs of the time with Peter Gabriel. On the second track, we have ''Time Table'', we have a good 4 min song with a more romantic theme than the previous one. As for the third song, we have 8 minutes of a rock opera telling a story that involves 4 characters about a company employee who evicts tenants. In the next track, which even closes the A side, we have a song about a Norse king known as Canuto, conqueror for those who don't know, this mythological thing is something normal in the band.

Now we come to the B-side with "Horizons", a very beautiful acoustic guitar vignette but that soon ends for the entrance of "Supper Is Ready", a 22 minute song that has all the elements that guarantee its place as one of the brands- records of progressive rock with musical influences that go through folk, classical music and rock. Divided into 7 sections, in this song, the references of the lyrics are so many that no one has ever really been able to really know clearly what it is about but it can be said that it is about the battle of good against evil, evoked by the apocalyptic tone of the ending, which ends the disc in a masterful way.

Foxtrot is the band's first major work to be a big hit with audiences and critics, and in my opinion, it's not only one of the band's best albums, it's also one of the best albums of the 70's.

Members

Tony Banks (keyboards), Mike Rutherford (bass, guitar), Peter Gabriel (vocals, flute, oboe, 1967-75), Anthony Phillips (guitar, 1967-70), Chris Stewart (drums, 1967-68), John Silver (drums, 1968-69), John Mayhew (drums, 1969-70), Phil Collins (drums, vocals, 1970-96, 2006-07, 2020-present), Steve Hackett (guitar, 1970-77), Ray Wilson (vocals, 1997-98)

Track Listing

01 - Watcher of the Skies

02 - Time Table

03 - Get 'Em Out by Friday

04 - Can-Utility and the Coastliners

05 - Horizons

06 - Supper's Ready

i. Lover's Leap

ii. The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man

iii. Ikhnaton and Itsacon and Their Band of Merry Men

iv. How Dare I Be So Beautiful

v. Willow Farm

vi. Apocalypse in 9/8 (Co-Starring the Delicious Talents of Gabble Ratchet)

vii. As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs (Aching Men's Feet)

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17 Kasım 2022 Perşembe

Genesis / Nursery Cryme (1971)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Pop Rock, Symphonic Prog, Progressive Pop, Rock Opera

Pleasant and likeable, although quite immature progressive rock. You can't take away from this music that it is formally more ambitious than most rock, but it is already very pale in comparison to the greatest works of bands. You can hear here great ambitions, but greatly exceeding the band's skills, both composing and instrumental - there is no need for at least one man who would introduce some impressive virtuosity or give it a compositional touch. Genesis works more like "we have cool instruments, we have cool inspirations, we have cool stories in our heads, let's try a hundred different things and see what comes out." Sometimes something very good comes out, but a specific roughness to a greater or lesser extent usually envelops this music, and at times it even turns into a real brothel. Actually all the time listening to this otherwise enjoyable album, I would have been wondering why I'm not listening to Magma, King Crimson or even Yes now, if it hadn't been for Genesis's success in a slightly different field than the typical progressive rock field. This ensemble has an impressive and distinctive sense of telling stories with its pieces, for conducting suggestive musical narratives (by all means available). As a result, Genesis also managed to create an expressive fairy-tale atmosphere, strongly supported by British folk. It is by no means perfectly thought out and polished, but it somehow works, and often not somehow, but just great.

The first reason this album is worth checking out is The Musical Box, a slightly eccentric combination of a sentimental and erotic, romantic song with a threshold suite. However, for a suite of a recognized threshold ensemble, it is quite a conservative thing, a bit sluggish and technically limited, and the emotions are a bit too sloppy, and a bit too exalted (although both - in a still quite nice way), at least medium subtle this works very well in combination with each other. Everything that the piece consists of is subordinated to the musical narrative straight from symphonic poems. Emotionally expressive melodies (fitting like a glove to Gabriel's theatrical vocals), dynamic and agogic contrasts, constant juggling with instruments to transform the sound, generally large and frequent variability of individual fragments: all this allows the band to build a well-thought-out, narrative development of tension, emotions, moods, thanks to which the effect is actually very successful as an atmospheric musical story. A bit lower is The Return of the Giant Hogweed, heavier in sound and a bit more intense, moving in a marching rhythm, full of nice harmonic progressions and with a nice texture, in which the organ plays a particularly important role, despite the fact that it is heavy guitar riffs, expressive vocals and loud the drums are dynamically in the foreground. It also follows an interesting narrative path. In the third suite, The Fountain of Salmacis, it doesn't work that well anymore, but there are some pretty cool sonic escapades starring the melotron and nice epicness.

The rest are obvious stuffers, which can be divided into pleasant and nondescript trifles. This album is chaotic, very uneven, even fragments of individual tracks are uneven. Nevertheless, he is very successful, original, sincere, he does not try to pretend what he is not. Maybe not the entire album, but at least The Musical Box is a significant event for the genre.

Members

Track Listing

01 - The Musical Box

02 - For Absent Friends

03 - The Return of the Giant Hogweed

04 - Seven Stones

05 - Harold the Barrel

06 - Harlequin

07 - The Fountain of Salmacis

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16 Kasım 2022 Çarşamba

Genesis / Trespass (1970)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Pop Rock, Symphonic Prog, Progressive Pop, Rock Opera

A truly underrated album by critics. It is the album that marks the beginning of the group's progressive phase.

The compositions are bizarre, but demonstrate that this would be the fetus of what Genesis would be; twelve-string guitar junctions, integration of British folk and progressive rock and surrealist lyrics. Probably the band's most unique LP.

At that time Anthony Phillips was still the leader of the group, and in Trespass it is more than proven that he was the character that would define the definitive characteristics of Genesis as a symphonic progressive band (although he is not well recognized for that).

Members

Track Listing

01 - Looking for Someone 7:04

02 - White Mountain 6:40

03 - Visions of Angels 6:48

04 - Stagnation 8:46

05 - Dusk 4:11

06 - The Knife 8:55

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15 Kasım 2022 Salı

Genesis / From Genesis To Revelation (1969)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Pop Rock, Symphonic Prog, Progressive Pop, Rock Opera

This genesis of Genesis in 33 r.p.m. format, is a work that many fans of the classic formation, namely those who elected “Lamb Lies down” as one of the wonders of the century, will hardly tolerate, and that those for whom the band is that trio led by Collins probably won't even notice, since it's light-years from the synthetic Pop of the 80s; if this seems to me an almost inevitable conclusion after verifying that almost 1,500 votes on the album page failed to make it reach the threshold of 3 stars, and even taking into account the uniqueness of the content, I would not hesitate to push it above the waterline, as I find much more reason to be happy listening to it than I do with most of the Collins-era products. band, although often with alternative titles and/or other subterfuges intended to deceive the less enlightened; perhaps this is one of the reasons for the anger it arouses in many cases).

The 1st idea that remains is that this must be the only feature film where Gabriel participated containing more than half a dozen songs per side; next is that the vocalist had not yet defined his identity in terms of timbre and style, with everyone, except the drummer John Silver (except for the duly compensated exception by a certain David Thomas who also gave a little help in the choirs), contributing with parts vocals; right after that this is the band's work with more string, wind and brass arrangements, arrangements that are both vulgar and capable of submerging the group's instruments, in themes with sweet melodies and highly predictable harmonies; in fact, Gabriel seems to admit it when he sings “Music, all I hear is music guaranteed to please…”, which is confirmed when the melody of “In The Wilderness” seems exactly the same as that of “The Conqueror” that follows it”; however, right after that, he sings “…and I look for something else”, and really in this last song there is already a more Rock impulse, and even a very psychedelic guitar solozito at the end.

It's effectively from British-Psych that the best themes will drink, although what you hear could have been done by Tomorrow, or by Pretty Things among many others, or just like the various intros based on acoustic piano or 12-inch guitar. strings are reminiscent of the Gracious for example; on the other hand, although in terms of composition the ideas are still generally unidirectional, many of the same or other introductions are nothing but false starts before the song undergoes an unexpected change and change of direction, with theatrical ambitions suggesting sensations that go from menacing to hopeful (“The Serpent”), or to an arrangement where the 12-string and piano are joined by a harpsichord and flute, as well as some externalized oboe embellishments (“Am I Very Wrong?”) ; and although the succession of songs almost without silence between them is perhaps the most evident suggestion of a predisposition towards the Progressive and the concept-albums, these genes already seem to want to come to the fore in the above themes, or in others with some epic sense such as “ In Limbo”.

And given what followed, one might in retrospect consider Gabriel's words in “A Place to Call My Own” positively prescient.

P.S. the re-release of the CD album on which this text is based, includes, in reverse chronological order, the group's first two singles, plus drummer Chris Stewart, The Silent Sun / That's Me December 1967, and A Winter's Tale / One-Eyed Hound from May of the following year, just click on their links to find more details.

Members

Track Listing

01 - Where the Sour Turns to Sweet

02 - In the Beginning

03 - Fireside Song

04 - The Serpent

05 - Am I Very Wrong?

06 - In the Wilderness

07 - The Conqueror

08 - In Hiding

09 - One Day

10 - Window

11 - In Limbo

12 - Silent Sun

13 - A Place to Call My Own

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14 Kasım 2022 Pazartesi

Beggars Opera / Mrs Caligari's Lighter (2012)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog, Boogie Rock, Rock, Blues Rock

A very good album for new era Progressive Rock. Probably the last album of Beggars Opera.

Members

Ricky Gardiner (guitar, vocals, 1969-76, ?-present), Raymond Wilson (drums, percussion, 1969-74), Alan Park (keyboards, 1969-73, 1980), Martin Griffiths (lead vocals, percussion, 1969-72), Marshall Erskine (bass, flute, 1969-71), Virginia Scott [aka Virginia Gardiner] (keyboards, 1970-74, 1975-76, ?-present), Gordon Sellar (bass, guitar, vocals, 1971-74, 1975-?), Pete Scott (vocals, 1972-73, 1975-76), Linnie Paterson (vocals, 1973-74, 1980-90), Colin Fairley (drums, 1974), Colin Pattenden (bass, 1980-?), John Hollywood (drums, 1980-?), Lyndsay Bridgewater (keyboards), Gordon Neville (vocals), Tom Gardiner (drums)

Track Listing

01 -Mrs Caligari's Lighter

02 - Doris

03 - The Comforter

04 - Love is Just a Torrent

05 - Funny Eyes

06 - You Just Don't get It

07 - It's Friday Night You Know

08 - You have to Watch You Know

09 - How Long Before the Machine Rusts

10 - So Long

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13 Kasım 2022 Pazar

Beggars Opera / Promise In Motion (2011)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog, Boogie Rock, Rock, Blues Rock

It's a very good album. It's like a return to the old days of Beggars Opera. Of course, in a brand new time, with a brand new understanding.

Members

Track Listing

01 - Lions 6:27

02 - Her Hand in Mine 8:52

03 - Promise in Motion 8:03

04 - The Edible Woman Again 6:50

05 - You Misremember Me 6:44

06 - Bees 6:59

07 - Clyde 7:46

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12 Kasım 2022 Cumartesi

Beggars Opera / Lose A Life (2010)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog, Boogie Rock, Rock, Blues Rock

Much better than the previous album. An above average album.

Members

Track Listing

01 - Electrofire Invasion 11:53

02 - Electro Half Light 6:11

03 - Masts on My Roof 11:24

04 - Cosmic Tango 6:49

05 - Dr.Carlo 7:00

06 - Tango for the End of Time 4:34

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11 Kasım 2022 Cuma

Beggars Opera / Suddenly Ahead Ahead (2010)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog, Boogie Rock, Rock, Blues Rock

Pretty bad album for Beggars Opera. Maybe worth a listen. But not good enough for archiving.

Members

Track Listing

01 - Suddenly Ahead Ahead 5:00

02 - So We Crash 5:23

03 - Soft Umbilical Machine 5:36

04 - Towers Falling 5:38

05 - When You Were Rosy 5:01

06 - Sad Songs 5:48

07 - Dance to Me 5:49

08 - Shadow Psychology 4:59

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10 Kasım 2022 Perşembe

Beggars Opera / All Tomorrows Thinking (2009)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog, Boogie Rock, Rock, Blues Rock

It's not a very good album. But the legend of Beggars Opera continues with this album.

Members

Track Listing

01 - How She Swam 4:37

02 - Tomorrows Thinking 5:01

03 - Those Echoes 5:06

04 - Perfectly Lovely 4:50

05 - Catching on to You 4:59

06 - Save Me 4:55

07 - Faces in You 3:17

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2 Kasım 2022 Çarşamba

Beggars Opera / Touching The Edge (2009)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog, Boogie Rock, Rock, Blues Rock

The second best album of the new era. Beggars Opera is returning to the quality of its early days.

Members

Track Listing

1. Dancer in the Wind (5:19)

2. Million Miles (4:31)

3. Attraction gaze (5:07)

4. Escalator of Tall Stories (4:37)

5. Frozen on an Eye (5:22)

6. Dreamtime (5:25)

7. I Lie There (5:54)

8. I Wanted to Tell You (5:06)

9. River Over Me (5:12)

10. Auschwitz (16:34)

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1 Kasım 2022 Salı

Beggars Opera / Close To My Heart (2007)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog, Boogie Rock, Rock, Blues Rock

It's the best album they've recorded since their legendary debut of the first 3 albums.

Members

Track Listing

1. Secret (5:20)

2. Passing Her (4:35)

3. Close to My Heart (5:24)

4. A-Ha (6:09)

5. Tight Blue Lips (4:53)

6. Warm Eyes (5:12)

7. Apparently Uncontrolled (5:10)

8. Senselessness (6:13)

9. You Stranger (5:16)

10. Angelus Thread (4:44)

11. Meet Me (6:03)

12. Here Comes Everybody (4:50)

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31 Ekim 2022 Pazartesi

Beggars Opera / Beggars Can't Be Choosers (1975)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog, Boogie Rock, Rock, Blues Rock

The album that broke up Beggars Opera. It's also the epitome of the band's great start and lousy finish.

Members

Track Listing

1. I'm A Roadie (4:40)

2. Beggars Can't Be Choosers (2:55)

3. Hungry Man (3:40)

4. You're Not Welcome (3:30)

5. Young Blood Man (2:50)

6. Union Card (2:30)

7. We Must Love (3:45)

8. Keep Climbing (2:50)

9. Bar Room Pearl (3:50)

10. Death (9:35)

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30 Ekim 2022 Pazar

Beggars Opera / Saggitary (1974)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog, Boogie Rock, Rock, Blues Rock

It's a pretty weak, or even not good, Beggars Opera album.

Members

Track Listing

1. Sagittary (4:50)

2. Love Of My Own (2:37)

3. Smiling In A Summer Dress (3:54)

4. World Crisis Blues (2:36)

5. Just 21 (4:03)

6. Simplicity (2:52)

7. Freedom Song (3:19)

8. Something To Lose (2:58)

9. I'm The Music Man (4:23)

10. Jack The Ripper (2:52)

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29 Ekim 2022 Cumartesi

Beggars Opera / Get Your Dog Off Me! (1973)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog, Boogie Rock, Rock, Blues Rock

The album that marked the beginning of the end for Beggars Opera. It sucks next to the first 3 albums.

Members

Track Listing

1. Get your Dog off Me! (3:40)

2. Freestyle Ladies (4:20)

3. Open Letter (4:32)

4. Morning Day (4:32)

5. Requiem (2:18)

6. Classical Gas (4:28)

7. Sweet Blossom Woman (4:08)

8. Turn your Money Green (4:08)

9. La-di-da (2:53)

10. Working Man (4:33)

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28 Ekim 2022 Cuma

Beggars Opera / Pathfinder (1972)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog, Boogie Rock, Rock, Blues Rock

One of Beggars Opera's best albums. Even the best according to many people.

Members

Track Listing

1. Hobo (4:40)

2. MacArthur Park (8:20)

3. The Witch (5:26)

4. Pathfinder (3:44)

5. From Shark to Haggis (6:38)

6. Stretcher (4:50)

7. Madame Doubtfire (4:15)

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27 Ekim 2022 Perşembe

Beggars Opera / Waters Of Change (1971)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog, Boogie Rock, Rock, Blues Rock

Beggars Opera's second album. An album that you can personalize more, is easy and enjoyable to listen to.

Members

Track Listing

1. Time Machine (8:00)

2. Lament (1:51)

3. I've no Idea (7:42)

4. Nimbus (3:43)

5. Festival (6:00)

6. Silver Peacock (Intro)(0:22)

7. Silver Peacock (6:33)

8. Impromptu (1:14)

9. The Fox (6:52)

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26 Ekim 2022 Çarşamba

Beggars Opera / Act One (1970)

United Kingdom

Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog, Boogie Rock, Rock, Blues Rock

It is one of the best albums of "Symphonic Progressive Rock". Founded in Glasgow, Scotland in 1970, the group disbanded in 1976.

Members

Track Listing

1. Poet and Pesant (7:10)

2. Passacaglia (7:04)

3. Memory (3:57)

4. Raymond's Road (11:49)

5. Light Cavalry (11:57)

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12 Eylül 2022 Pazartesi

Cactus / Ultra Sonic Boogie, Live 1971 (2010)

USA

Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock

An amazing Cactus concert from 1971. This is when Cactus was at his best musically.

Members

Carmine Appice (drums), Tim Bogert (bass, 1970-2008), Rusty Day (vocals, 1970-71), Peter French (vocals, 1971-72), Duane Hitchings (keyboards, 1971-72), Jim McCarty (guitar, 1970-71, 2006-08, 2011-present), Werner Fritzschings (guitar, 1971-72, 2008-11), Jimmy Kunes (vocals, 2006-present), Randy Pratt (harmonica, 2006-present), Elliot Dean Rubinson (bass, 2008-11), Pete Bremy (bass, 2011-present)

Track Listing

01 - Evil

02 - Band introductions

03 - Bro. Bill

04 - Oleo

05 - No Need to Worry

06 - Token Chokin'

07 - Big Mama Boogie Pt.1

08 - Big Mama Boogie Pt.2

09 - Outro

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11 Eylül 2022 Pazar

Cactus / Fully Unleashed Live Gigs Vol. II 1971 (2007)

USA

Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock

Another live recording album. The recordings made in 1971 are pretty good.

Members

Track Listing

1.1 - Intro / Tuning

1.2 - Long Tall Sally

1.3 - Parchman Farm

1.4 - Mellow Down Easy

1.5 - Feel so Bad

1.6 - Walkin' Blues

1.7 - Scrambler / One Way ... Or Another

1.8 - Oleo

2.1 - Bro. Bill

2.2 - Token Chokin'

2.3 - Slow Blues (Medley)

2.4 - Heebie Jeebies / What'd I Say

2.5 - Evil

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10 Eylül 2022 Cumartesi

Cactus / Cactus V (2006)

USA

Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock

It is Cactus' comeback 5th studio album after many years. It is indeed a very good album.

Members

Track Listing

01 - Doin' Time 4:49

02 - Muscle and Soul 5:40

03 - Cactus Music 4:35

04 - The Groover 4:48

05 - High in the City 4:12

06 - Day for Night 5:49

07 - Living for Today 2:59

08 - Shine 3:57

09 - Electric Blue 5:40

10 - Your Brother's Keeper 4:33

11 - Blues for Mr. Day 1:22

12 - Part of the Game 5:02

13 - Gone Train Gone 4:50

14 - Jazzed 4:43

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9 Eylül 2022 Cuma

Cactus / Barely Contained: The Studio Sessions, 1972 (2004)

USA

Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock

Previously unreleased studio recordings. Different pre-recordings made for albums. Pretty good. One of the Cactus albums that should be in the archive.

Members

Track Listing

1.1 - Parchman Farm

1.2 - Bro Bill

1.3 - My Lady From South of Detroit

1.4 - You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover

1.5 - Let Me Swim

1.6 - No Need to Worry

1.7 - Oleo

1.8 - Feel So Good

1.9 - Sweet Little

1.10 - Rumblin' Man

1.11 - Sun Is Shining

1.12 - Long Tall Sally

1.13 - Rockout Whatever You Feel Like

1.14 - Rock 'n' Roll Children

1.15 - Big Mama Boogie (parts 1&2)

1.16 - Song for Aries

1.17 - Feel So Bad

2.1 - Hometown Bust

2.2 - One Way or Another

2.3 - Hound Dog Sniffin'

2.4 - Restrictions

2.5 - Token Chokin'

2.6 - Guiltless Glider

2.7 - Evil

2.8 - Alaska

2.9 - Sweet Sixteen

2.10 - Bag Drag

2.11 - Mean Night in Cleveland

2.12 - Bad Stuff

2.13 - Bringin Me Down

2.14 - Bedroom Mazurka

2.15 - Telling You

2.16 - Underneath the Arches

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8 Eylül 2022 Perşembe

Cactus / Fully Unleashed Live Gigs 1970 - 1971 (2004)

USA

Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock

Pure Dynamite from this Bluesrock Supergroup, one of the best of all time. Unstoppable energy of the Grar and forgotten Jim McCarthy in the Ax plus the most overwhelming rhythm section of the Genre, Boggert and Appice are devastating.

The ill-fated Rusty Day wasted away in a mad rush to Hell. He just burned out at Rock N Roll. On these live recordings (most of them) he is an undisputed prop, and at times becomes an Undeniable Leader.

Members

Track Listing

DISC 1

1.1 - Intro / Long Tall Sally 12:16

1.2 - Bag Drag 3:10

1.3 - Evil 16:11

1.4 - Parchman Farm 6:21

1.5 - Alaska 3:56

1.6 - Oleo 11:19

1.7 - No Need to Worry 20:18

1.8 - Let Me Swim 5:06

DISC 2

2.1 - Big Mama Boogie, Pts. 1-2 15:30

2.2 - Medley: Heeby Jeebies / Money / Hound Dog / What'd I Say 17:04

2.3 - No Need to Worry 5:08

2.4 - Parchman Farm 4:30

2.5 - One Way...Or Another 9:14

2.6 - Bro. Bill 6:11

2.7 - Swim 4:44

2.8 - Bad Mother Boogie 5:25

2.9 - Our Lil Rock-N-Roll Thing 6:59

2.10 - Bedroom Mazurka 4:58

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7 Eylül 2022 Çarşamba

Cactus / 'Ot 'n' Sweaty (1972)

USA

Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock

With Carmine Appice on drums, Tim Bogert on bass, 2/3 of Beck, Bogert & Appice and singer Peter French is serious business. The latter has also officiated in a lot of groups of which Atomic Rooster is the best known and he still has another dimension than Noddy Holder (singer of Slade), just capable of making the ovaries of 15-year-old pisses shiver. English girls from the early 70s... His career was moreover limited to his group of hard-teens...

Here we are dealing with big heavy, raw boogie-hard-blues with incendiary guitars, a voice that tears well, rhythm and dynamite in almost every track.

The 1st part is live with "Swim", surprising of vitality whose rhythm accelerates at the end. This might be the best bit here. The rest is a bit lacking and the ballad "Bringing Me Down" is a bit nondescript.

"Bedroom Mazurka" swings well with a good piano part while "Telling You" begins on the organ in a slower tempo. It's rather mysterious; the guitar continues and the tempo accelerates with the piano. Very good piece.

Although this album is quite recommendable, it fails in the fact that no track is really essential or grandiose. It hits well, it's big, even very big sometimes, but it's not a masterpiece.

Members

Track Listing

01 - Swim 4:40

02 - Bad Mother Boogie 4:55

03 - Our Lil Rock-n-Roll Thing 6:25

04 - Bad Stuff 3:08

05 - Bringing Me Down 5:27

06 - Bedroom Mazurka 4:33

07 - Telling You 5:10

08 - Underneath the Arches 0:30

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