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All songs written by Phil Shulman, Ray Shulman, Derek Shulman and Kerry Minnear.
More influential than successful, the U.K. prog-rock act Gentle Giant was always overshadowed by 1970s contemporaries such as Jethro Tull, King Crimson, and Yes. However, 1974's THREE FRIENDS reveals that, musically, the group, which featured brothers Derek, Phil, and Ray Schulman, was on par with the aforementioned bands, both in establishing mood (see the wonderfully dreamy passages of "Schooldays") and crafting complex, memorable tunes (the jaunty "Working All Day"). While later recordings found Gentle Giant taking a slightly more straight-ahead approach, THREE FRIENDS presents the ensemble at what is perhaps its adventurous best.
Formed at the dawn of the progressive rock era in 1969, Gentle Giant melded hard rock and classical music, with an almost medieval approach to singing. "Three Friends"' was their third album and is considered one of the great concept albums of the 1970s. The songs tell the story of three friends who lead very different lives after leaving school. It's a simple idea but the music is often complex and sophisticated. It will delight discerning fans of classic progressive rock.Record Collector (magazine) (p.87) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Weird harmonies, weirder time signatures....Listening to it again after two decades or so, it's possible to discern an affinity with the Canterbury school....A classic." Gentle Giant Three Friends Songs | 1. | Prologue | $0.99 | |
| 2. | Schooldays | $0.99 | |
| 3. | Working All Day | $0.99 | |
| 4. | Peel the Paint | $0.99 | |
| 5. | Mister Class and Quality? | |
| 6. | Three Friends | $0.99 | |
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Purchase Three Friends CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Hatfield & The North Hatfield & The North CD (1974)
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One of the Canterbury scene's most revered bands, Hatfield and the North made up for the brevity of their career with some fascinating music. Always adventurous, the quartet had the keen sense to realize that only the most hardened jazz fans respond to numerous key changes and exceedingly complex time signatures, and thus enlivened their live set with the odd gnome smashing, suggestive lyrics, and jokey song titles. It worked a charm, with the band quickly amassing a large, loyal following at home in Britain and across the continent. ...
| | Hatfield & The North Rotters' Club CD (1975)
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Hatfield and the North's second LP stands as a high watermark for the prog rock associated with England's Canterbury scene and, while filled with stunning musicianship, demonstrates both the strengths and some of the weaknesses of the Hatfield style. Dave Stewart on keyboards, Phil Miller on guitar, Richard Sinclair on bass and vocals, and Pip Pyle on drums (supplemented by a few guest instrumentalists and the ever-ethereal Northettes with their "la la" backing vocals) generally show an admirable sense of restraint and, like their Canterbury peers, are careful to avoid the pomposity and bombast of better-known prog rockers of the era, such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Yes. But the Hatfields might actually have been light to a fault, particularly whenever a segue from one of their convoluted instrumental passages into a Richard Sinclair vocal vehicle ...
| | Gentle Giant In A Glass House CD (1973) Anniversary Edition; 35th Anniversary Edition
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Gentle Giant was reduced to a quintet on In a Glass House with the departure of elder brother Phil Shulman, but its sound is unchanged, and the group may actually be tighter without the presence of his saxophones. The time signatures are still really strange, and the tempo changes are sometimes jarring, as is the wide range of dynamics, but this is also one of the group's most pleasing records -- they rock out in various places, and elsewhere perform all kinds of little experiments with percussion instruments ("An Inmate's Lullaby"), or create a strange, otherworldly sort of modern medieval-style music ("Way of Life"). None of it except possibly "A Reunion" is light listening, but the challenge does yield some rewarding sounds. ~ Bruce Eder
Gentle Giant's fifth album was the maker (or breaker) of their career. Evidently of no interest to Columbia Records or to England's Vertigo label, which had issued their prior albums, it marked a break in their commercial stride; fans in England could buy it on the WAA ...
| | Gentle Giant Free Hand CD (1975) Anniversary Edition; 35th Anniversary Edition
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The follow-up to 1974's surprisingly well-received THE POWER & THE GLORY, Gentle Giant's FREE HAND marks the pinnacle of the British prog-rock group's international success. (Like its predecessor, it appeared on the U.S. charts.) While the band's eccentricities--complex song structures, strange vocal harmonies--are present, these tunes are framed in a slightly more pop-conscious way, as on the funky, elastic title track. The ensemble also indulges in its occasional penchant for medieval music on the jaunty "Talybont," arguably making this the archetypal Gentle Giant ...
| | Gentle Giant Playing The Fool: 35th Anniversary Edition CDs (1999) Anniversary Edition
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This two-fer includes the originally double live album Playing the Fool, plus Civilian. ~ Keith Farley
Recorded live in Europe from ...
| | Danny Kirwan Second Chapter CD (1975) With Book; Limited Edition; Digipak
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The first solo album from Fleetwood Mac singer/songwriter Daniel David Kirwan has the future producer for Human League and Buzzcocks, Martin Rushent, utilizing those skills here, as well as engineering. The sound is crystal clear, and a feather in the cap for Rushent as well as Kirwan. It starts off with an uncharacteristic "Ram Jam City," which has more Lindsey Buckingham sounds than one would expect, especially since the two guitarists come from two different musical worlds. "Odds and Ends" is more lighthearted, the kind of music Paul McCartney toyed with on The White Album's "Rocky Raccoon." What Second Chapter immediately sets forth is the importance of Kirwan as a pop artist, and how, despite Fleetwood ...
| | Small Faces Best Of Immediate CD (2000) (Import) Japan
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| | Barbra Streisand My Name Is Barbra Two CD (1965)
Three Friends songs
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MY NAME IS BARBRA, TWO was a number three record and a very strong showing from Streisand when it was released in October 1965. It was the second of two releases that coincided with the My Name Is Barbra TV special (which won five Emmys). The ...
| | Ray Davies Working Man's Cafe CD (2007)
Three Friends album
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The Kinks stopped being a working band in 1996, but it still took frontman Ray Davies another decade to release his first proper solo album. The follow-up, WORKING MAN'S CAFE, came along a relatively speedy two years later. Those who are familiar with latter-day Kinks recordings will recognize a sonic thread here, but while there are some moments that lean toward harder-edged rock, WORKING MAN'S CAFE is ultimately a singer-songwriter album, with the highly melodic, elegantly crafted tunes serving the intentions of Davies's lyrics.
As has been the case since the '60s, Davies focuses his attention on sociopolitical themes, delving into both the political and sociological aspects of modern life. He alternately laments one man's inability to affect global politics ("Listen to Me") and rails eloquently against the misdirection of international economic practices ("Vietnam Cowboys"). Of course, this being the man who wrote "Waterloo Sunset" and "Days," those concerns are couched in musical frameworks so appealing that they taste like candy going down.
Ray Davies took his time crafting his first full-fledged solo album Other People's Lives, delivering it in 2006 -- a full 13 years after his last collection of original material, the Kinks' final album Phobia. Such a long gestation period seemed justified, as the album was an exquisitely written set of short stories that benefited from such exacting attention to detail, yet the length of time between Phobia and Other People's Lives also suggested that Davies would not be returning with his second solo album anytime soon. As it turns out, that wasn't the case: Davies hammered out his second album, Working Man's Café, with a speed recalling the '60s and '70s, when new Kinks albums arrived every year. Appropriately for its quick turn-around, Working Man's Café is a looser, edgier record than its predecessor -- there's polish, but the guitars and rhythms jump, there's a vitality to the performances and the songs themselves bristle with contemporary headlines, bearing references ...
| | Avsky Malignant CD (2008)
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| | Charles Wright Live At The Haunted House: May 18, 1968 CDs (2008) May 18, 1968
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| | Liturgy Renihilation CD (2009)
Three Friends album
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Brooklyn-based black metal band Liturgy don't embrace the tropes of their chosen genre. The members don't wear corpse paint; they don't even seem to wear a whole lot of black. Their album cover features a solar eclipse, but a prior EP had a photo of a bright, sunlit sky -- no black-and-white shots of wintry forests here. Indeed, song titles like "Beyond the Magic Forest" and "Behind the Void" could indicate that they're attempting to transcend black metal's self-imposed aesthetic and philosophical limitations and reveal to outsiders the glory that the music can offer. They've picked the perfect producer ...
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