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Shiver played psychedelic rock like many other bands from San Francisco in the flower power era of the late 1960s/early 1970s, but what differentiated them was their shear raw energy, making these acid rockers equally at home with the Haight hippy set and greasy redneck bikers. This album, recorded on a two-track recorder in 1972 with no overdubs, captures acid rock in its heyday, with crazed guitar solos, a wild rhythm section, and out-of-control screamed vocals. In fact, a more professional recording might have muted some of the vitality; what we get here sounds live and raw. "Tough as Nails" and "Bone Shaker" are full-throttled aggressive assaults, while "Interstellar Vision," and the lengthy "Alpha Man" slow things down slightly as the band soars into space for a far more psychedelic display of pyrotechnics. Some of the other tracks are not quite as strong, being more typical examples of early-'70s hard rock, though still quite un-commercial in sound, and certainly Shiver deserve to be rediscovered more than many of the other countless bands from that era whose releases are now being stuffed in the record store racks. ~ Rolf Semprebon
Recorded in 1972.
Personnel: Frank Twist (vocals, guitar); Neil Peron (bass guitar).
Recording information: 1972.
Shiver: Frank Twist (vocals, guitar); Neil Peron (bass); Don Peck (drums).
Shiver Songs | 1. | Tough as Nails |
| 2. | Fixer |
| 3. | Bone Shaker |
| 4. | Interstellar Vision |
| 5. | Alpha Man |
| 6. | Rocky Road |
| 7. | Keep on Rocking |
| 8. | Up My Sleeve |
| 9. | Winter Time |
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Purchase Shiver CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Christopher CD (1970)
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$11.29 From the psychedelic tribal blues opener "Dark Road" through to the end of the album, Christopher shows just how strong the second-level psychedelia of the late '60s could be. There was no shortage of great musicians hailing from Texas during the era, and the ones who remained in the state were forming some of the most idiosyncratic bands of the swirling, inventive times: top-flight bands such as Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Lost & Found, the Golden Dawn, and Christopher. Christopher, though, cannot exactly be lumped together with those peers. They had to leave Texas for California to make their mark, and indeed, Christopher owes a good deal to the music of that state -- songs such as "Magic Cycles" and "In Your Time" are informed by the dreamier qualities of the San Francisco sound, especially the extended atmospherics of Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. There are also hints of fellow Los Angeles bands the Doors and Spirit throughout the album, and like the best music coming ...
| | Tongue Keep On Truckin' CDs (1969)
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$11.29 KEEP ON TRUCKIN' contains all the tracks from the original LP of the same title as well as 2 previously unreleased songs recorded in 1970.
Yet another rock band that emerged out of the copious student population of countercultural Wisconsin, Tongue spent ten years developing into one of the most road-savvy ensembles in the state. But Keep on Truckin' was recorded near the beginning of their career, thereby capturing the band during the early peak of their powers. That power doesn't always manifest itself on their sole album, but it remains an enjoyable effort. There are significant similarities between Tongue and fellow Wisconsin band Tayles. Tongue doesn't dip into the good-time roll of Tayles' music too often, but they do have a blues-based, organ-heavy sound that is primarily earnest while verging at times on the musically whimsical, as on songs like "Get Your Shit Together" and the fabulous "Jazz on the Rag," a falsetto beauty like nothing else on the album. On the quickie country interlude "Slap Her Down Again Paw," they even show a comical side. There are bits of country-rock and jugband music (the title track cover of Donovan), ...
| | Haymarket Square Magic Lantern CD (1968)
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| | Day Blindness CD (1969)
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$11.69 A typical description of Day Blindness involves references to the theoretically similar but inherently antithetical West Coast bands the Doors and Iron Butterfly, and it does in fact play something like a cross between those two groups, though with none of the musical nuance and aesthetic vision -- and none of the existential considerations -- of the former and with all the unrelenting bombast and sonic pretension of the latter. What it does have in common with the Doors is its organ-heavy, acid-touched moodiness and its dense blues underpinning, though it is unable to do anything significantly innovative with either element. And like Iron Butterfly, Day Blindness draped their music in a sometimes smothering, cerebrum-numbing blanket of quasi-metal guitar. The band, indeed, took their hard rock very seriously, and that leads to a good number of earnestly overblown moments. It also causes the nearly 40 minutes of music to drag as a whole and to dull one's appreciation for their more enticing aspects. And such aspects, ...
| | Stone Garden CD (2002)
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$11.39 Stone Garden hailed from a state one could assume was among the last touched by the chemical stimulant-inspired revolution in rock music in the '60s. But you wouldn't be able to tell that from Stone Garden. Cobbled together from live and studio recordings made between 1969 and 1971, the reissue collects virtually every available note by the pack of Idaho teens, including both sides of their lone, extremely rare 45 ("Oceans Inside Me"/"Stop My Thinking"). Aside from that single, all the tracks remained unreleased until appearing as a superbly packaged 1998 Rockadelic LP, reproduced in its entirety on this Gear Fab CD. So is it worth all the archival fuss? Mostly, yes, it really is. Stone Garden is an always blistering and often thrilling racket that splits the difference between the plundering depths of hard rock and the mind-excursion highs of psychedelia (or, more precisely, acid rock), carving out a nifty Western patch of its own. A heady trick for a group of boys from the potato state in the year of Woodstock, and, if dated in minor ways, still body-rattling music decades after the fact. There is some dense riffage ...
| | Dragonfly CD (1968)
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$11.09 A favorite among some collectors of rare late-'60s/early-'70s psychedelic albums, Dragonfly's self-titled LP is a not-so-finely balanced mixture of the sort of overwrought bluesy hard rock by bands of the period like Iron Butterfly with the poppier, more power chord-driven hard rock of the late-'60s Who. While it might be predictable for a critic to prefer the Who influences to the more generic psychedelic hard rock ones, Dragonfly are at their best when they favor the former over the latter. When they get into more standard blustery macho rock à la "Blue Monday" (not the Fats Domino classic) or ...
| | Olivia Newton-John Back To Basics: The Essential Collection '71-'92 CD (1992)
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| | Dosia Waiting To Inhale CD (1998) Parental Advisory
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| | Muso Y Su Gran Sonora Tres Caras Del Son CD (1999) (Import) Sweden
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| | Jeff Buckley Songs To No One: 1991-1992 CD (2002)
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$11.39 Principally recorded at CBGB's, The Knitting Factory, Krypton, Club Roulette, New York, New York between August 1991 & April 1992. Includes liner notes by Hal Willner.
If Jeff Buckley hadn't have taken that fateful swim one late spring night in 1997, it's a fair guess that every single Buckley release besides Live at Sin-E and "Grace" would have never seen the light of day. And this has never been more apparent than with the 2002 release, Songs To No One 1991-1992, an 11- track compilation of live soundboard recordings, radio broadcasts, and demos. Included here are two early versions of Buckley classics, "Mojo Pin" and "Grace," co-written with ex-Captain Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas; "Mojo Pin" shows up as both a demo and a live version. Few of the other tracks on Songs To No One 1991-1992 are worthy of release. Exceptions include covers of "Hymne a l'Amour" (an 11-minute long album opener), and the lovely "Satisfied Mind" (a song that was played at Buckley's funeral). But the majority of the selections really never should have been released, especially the hard rockin' throwaway "Cruel," and the meandering "How Long Will It Take" (a fitting title). Another reason why Songs To No One 1991-1992 should be skipped over is due to the fact that a few overdubs were later added to the tracks, obviously without Buckley's input or consent (which brings to mind such now written-off posthumous Jimi Hendrix releases as Crash Landing). In a Rolling Stone news clip about the album's impending release in August of 2002, Buckley's mother admitted that the late singer/songwriter had put a note on top of a tape of this work that read 'Disgusto Garbage.' 'Nuff said. ~ Greg Prato
A chronicle of Jeff Buckley's pre-Columbia work with guitarist Gary Lucas ...
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| | She Will Have Her Way: Songs Of Tim & Neil Finn CD (2005) (Import) Australia
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| | Erasure Live At Nottingham Royal Centre 05-7- CD (2006) (Import) Import
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