| 1. Breakthrough |
| 2. Break The Ice |
| 3. Decision / Indecision |
| 4. A Spoonful Of Bromide Helps The Pulse Rate Go Down |
| 5. Black Snake |
| 6. Head In The Sky |
| 7. Rock |
| 8. Price |
| 9. Devil's Answer (Us Version) (Bonus Track) |
| 10. Breakthrough (Bonus Track) |
| 11. A Spoonful Of Bromide Helps The Pulse Rate Go Down (Bonus Track) |
Editorial Reviews
Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.
In Hearing of Atomic Rooster,Atomic Rooster,Sony Japan,England,Hard Rock,Pop,Rock
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Delius: Florida Suite RTvi/1; Pieces RTvi/19
Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00004W3JG Release Date: 2000-09-26 |
Tracks:
- I. Daybreak - Dance
- II. By The River
- III. Sunset - Near The Plantation
- IV. At Night
- I. Autumn
- II. Winter Landscape
- III. Dance
- IV. The March Of Spring
- On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring - London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Air And Dance - London Philharmonic Orchestra
Customer Reviews:
Gorgeous.......2007-02-19
Delius in Nature.......2005-11-30
From 1985 are two much larger works, the 40 minute Florida Suite and the 30 minute North Country Sketches. The Florida Suite is in four movements (Daybreak-Dance, By the River, Sunset-Near the Plantation, and At Night). Daybreak is announced by a flourish of flutes eventually erupting into a folk dance. Delius musically depicts each of the movements with much pictorialism; the river properly burbles, the plantation echoes the spiritual hymns sung by the workers, and the nighttime with soft evening breezes as nature begins to settle down. The work is the height of English Impressionism. Delius is an expert at working the woodwinds, brass, and strings in contrast and in harmony with one another, with occasional percussion colorings. The music is lushly orchestrated, the themes are cinematic in nature and convey a natural sense of drama.
The North Country Sketches are also in four movements (Autumn, Winter Landscape, Dance, and The March of Spring). Autumn, with its gently shifting and falling chords is evocative of the French compositional school rather than the English. The starkness of winter opens with extremely high violin and double reeds oscillating in an uncomfortable harmony, one which never really settles. The dance is not courtly, nor is it raucous, but a simple country folk dance. The modal folk melody conjures thought of Bartok or Kodaly, but it is all Delius. The March of Spring is altogether more upbeat and fantastical, ending the work on a positive note.
Vernon Handley conducts both the Ulster Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra with great finesse. Delius' music is trickier than it would seem; often his music is played all too slow with no forward movement. While Handley succeeds, there are better editions (Beecham or Mackerras on London/Decca). The playing on this disk, however, is good. The recording is very warm and resonant, a delight to listen to and at a mid-price range. While I might point you to the other recordings first, this is a good supplement, at a budget price.
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Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00019P6PE Release Date: 2004-03-16 |
Tracks:
- Marche Caprice
- I. Summer Evening
- II. Winter Night (Sleigh Ride)
- III. Spring Morning
- American Rhapsody
- The Walk To The Paradise Garden
- I. On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring
- II. Summer Night On The River
- A Song Before Sunrise
- Fantastic Dance
Customer Reviews:
Lloyd-Jones is a Worthy Successor to Beecham as a Delian.......2004-04-14
In between these two not-so-well-known pieces are some of his loveliest creations. There are the 'Three Small Tone Poems,' each named for a season: 'Summer Evening,' 'Winter Night,' 'Spring Morning.' There was originally a fourth piece called 'Autumn,' but it seems to be lost. These works, from the same time period as the early 'Marche Caprice,' confirm that Delius from early on was able to limn the characteristics of nature as well as any English composer ever has.
'American Rhapsody' is a shorter version of the later 'Appalachia' and does not contain a choral section. But it does contain worksongs from the African American workers whom Delius heard singing when he was in Florida running a family-owned orange plantation. It also includes extensive treatments of 'Dixie' and 'Yankee Doodle.' The piece was never performed as written until the 1980s.
'The Walk to the Paradise Garden,' from his opera, 'A Village Romeo and Juliet,' is, of course, one of Delius' most loved compositions. It is given a meltingly beautiful reading here. Following that are 'Two Pieces for Small Orchestra,' containing the vastly familiar 'On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring' and then the somewhat less-heard 'Summer Night on the River.' I was not aware until reading the excellent booklet notes by Hugh Priory that 'Cuckoo' quotes a Norwegian folksong that had also been used by Grieg. Again, Lloyd-Jones and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra do themselves proud. In fact, I don't know if I've ever heard a lovelier 'Cuckoo' either in concert or on recording. And that includes Beecham's famous recording. Simply splendid!
The CD is rounded out by 'A Song Before Sunrise,' written in 1918, the last of Delius' nature studies. 'Fantastic Dance,' dictated to Delius' amenuensis Eric Fenby after he became incapacitated, is rather more spirited than any of the foregoing and is a fitting close to this entirely glorious concert.
This is an impressive program well-played and -recorded, and all the more so when one considers the budget price.
Enthusiastically recommended.
Scott Morrison
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Ned Rorem: Selected Songs
Ned Rorem , and Carole Farley Manufacturer: Naxos American ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005QISU Release Date: 2001-11-20 |
Tracks:
- The Waking
- Root Cellar
- My Papa's Waltz
- I Strolled Across An Open Field
- Memory
- Orchids
- The Serpent
- Night Crow
- Snake
- Lilltel Elegy
- The Nightingale
- Nantucket
- Lullaby Of The Woman Of The Mountain
- Love In A Life
- What If Some Little Pain...
- Visits To St. Elizabeth's
- Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
- Spring
- See How They Love Me
- Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
- I Am Rose
- Ask Me No More
- Far-Far-Away
- Early In The Morning
- Alleluia
- Such Beauty As Hurts To Behold
- Sally's Smile
- Youth, Day, Old Age, And Night
- O You Whom I Often And Silently Come
- Full Of Life Now
- As Adam Early In The Morning
- Are You The New Person?
Customer Reviews:
Great vocal virtuosity.......2005-04-07
word and every nuance, giving each song and every poem their full character. The songs are a revelation. I recommend this recording without hesitation.
Christoph (Berlin, Germany)
Confuzzled.......2004-01-03
An American Composer of Art Song.......2003-04-02
This disc features 32 of Ned Rorem's songs for voice and piano. Soprano Carole Farley is the accomplished singer, and Ned Rorem himself plays the piano. The disc is special because it features settings of the works of American poets. The CD begins with 9 settings of poems by the mid-twentieth century poet, Theodore Roethke, and concludes with settings of 5 poems by Walt Whitman. The disc also includes settings of poems by William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, and Paul Goodman, among others. Thus the disc combines in a special way American creative effort in poetry and in music.
Rorem's songs are declamatory in style. Typically, the voice line delivers the text of the poetry in a sort of chant. The relationship between the voice line and the piano is far from Schubertian. Generally, the piano takes a separate line and accentuates the voice by means of large chords or by runs or by other comments and punctuation on the voice. The texts are well set and the music is effective. There are some unusual harmonies with jazz and blues influences. Rorem's piano accompanyment on this disc gives the recording a sense of authenticity -- we get a good idea of how the composer wants his songs to be conveyed.
The disc includes excellent program notes and texts of all the songs. Naxos has received deservedly high praise for its "American Classics" series which makes much music written by Americans available on CD at a low price. This disc includes some lovely, little-known songs. It is an excellent introduction to the American art song and to the music of Ned Rorem.
more German than Rorem.......2002-07-20
I can't call myself an unalloyed fan of soprano Carole Farley however. Her delivery here recalls the speak-singing style of German 12-tone composers (a specialty of hers), and can sound melodramatic, especially when she rushes the more delicate passages.
I prefer Rorem's softer, more melodious French side, the one that descends from Impressionism and is more warmly emotive. While Farley loses the shading of some of the more fragile songs, she is well-suited to the longer, more forceful pieces. I've heard many readings of "Early in the Morning" (one of Rorems most popular songs) by male and female vocalists, and its tale of wistful nostalgia is muted by Farley's direct approach. However, she nails "My Papa's Waltz," a fractured setting for a Roethke poem about a frightened child forced to dance with a drunken father. Here her acting skills come to the fore, and she perfectly captures the tipsy madness of the song. Rorem can be quite theatrical himself on occasion. She does almost as well with "See How they love me," a ballad with a regular pace that allows her assertive style to breathe.
At any rate it's great to hear these lovely songs in a recent (2000) recording, accompanied (rather emphatically, but perhaps he's matching his theatrical singer) by Rorem himself.
The similar Susan Graham album is more to my taste, but this is a more than competent bargain set.
delightful art songs.......2002-01-02
to group them by poet. the complete settings of roethke
are particularly compelling and edgey.
carole farley's voice is lovely, but her phrasing
and willingness to push her voice seems
a big departure from the styling of art songs i've
heard by poulenc and somers.
this takes some getting used to- at least 3 or 4 complete
listen-throughs in my case. her voice is almost jazzy,
kind of like early recordings by holly cole.
anyway, rorem accompanies her on piano so obviously
this reading fits with his intent; his playing is also delightful.
one small quibble- although there are 32 songs, the CD is
57 minutes- brief by naxos standards.
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Merry Fishes to All
Trout Fishing in America Manufacturer: Trout Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002QO4EU Release Date: 2004-07-20 |
Tracks:
- Chocolate Christmas
- My First Christmas
- Snow Is Falling
- Santa Brought Me Clothes
- Snow Day
- The Eleven Cats Of Christmas
- Just Because, Mrs. Claus
- I Got A Cheese Log
- Bob And Bob
- You Gotta Get Up
- My Birthday Comes On Christmas
- The Christmas Letter
Amazon.com
Leave it to a coupe of quirky Arkansas buskers preoccupied with all things snowy to deliver a uniquely hatched collection of original Christmas songs. Ezra Idlet and Keith Grimwood have made a name with a family brand of entertainment that combines humor, harmony and imagination. There's plenty of each on Merry Fishes to All, but this is truly a record wrapped with the kids in mind. Surveying the seasonal landscape, the flaky duo sizes up the disappointments of getting clothes for Christmas, having a birthday on December 25, and getting a Cheese Log! In between there's a whacky reworking of a classic called "The Eleven Cats of Christmas" and some simply lovely songs even a hardened old Scrooge could love, including "Snow Is Falling" and "You Got to Get Up," the enchanted desperate plea of every kid who ever burst from bed Christmas morning before sunrise. There's only a couple limp lines drifting off here, but overall the fish are jumpin' and Santa approves. --Martin KellerCustomer Reviews:
Great music!!!.......2007-01-10
merrileewesing.......2007-01-09
"The Eleven Cats Of Christmas" soon became a favorite of my grandson's and there are too many to list that are my favorites--"I Got A Cheese Log"; "Clothes for Christmas"; etc. Such good vocals, not heard since the 60's groups.
Well, Merry Christmas to me! .......2005-12-21
This isn't just a happy album, though. Trout Fishing shows you the good and bad side of Christmas. How many of you lament the year you got a cheese log, clothes---or the fact that your birthday is too darn close to Christmas?
And the "Christmas Letter" at the end is just too good. If you're feeling down this year, this CD will definitely get you smiling.
I got a cheese log!.......2004-12-25
Another Grammy nomination!.......2004-12-18
With the release of this holiday CD, our annual dilemna of "do we listen to Trout or holiday music?" has been solved. We now have the best of both worlds! The songs are for the most part their original works...you haven't heard them a gazillion times before, but they will become instant classics in your family. Every song is someone's "favorite" in our house, so there are no skipped tracks.
"Snow is Falling" is my personal favorite. I can't put it in words any better than another person who wrote that a real love and respect for children shines through. As I often do when I'm listening to Trout music, I find myself inspired to strive to be the kind of parent my children deserve.
"Snow Day", "Bob & Bob", a great song about 2 "flaky little snowflakes with ordinary names", "You Gotta Get Up" and "The Christmas Letter" are also on my list of favorites. This last one is a touching and pretty song, written much like the familiar Christmas letter sent by many families to keep in touch with loved ones.
"My First Christmas" is a very fun song that cleverly uses titles of popular Christmas carols to tell the story of a baby's first Christmas. "Just Because, Mrs Claus" is a plea for Mrs. Claus to help Mr. Claus lose a few lbs, because "when he was walking rooftops last year, ceilings started cracking." The words are hysterical! After listening to "I Got a Cheese Log" I guarantee you will find yourself humming this catchy little tune at your next holiday party when you come across the obligatory cheese log. "The Eleven Cats of Christmas", or as they call it at our house, "Meow-y Christmas", is The 12 Days of Christmas meets We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Fans of the album My World will be happy to hear a reference to Chicken Joe in this song.
To summarize...great words and music as always. Thanks Keith and Ezra and congrats on the Grammy nomination. I highly recommend this CD. There you go. There you have it.
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CBS Dinner Classics: Breakfast in Bed
Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000277J Release Date: 1991-01-09 |
Tracks:
- Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op. 46: Morning
- Carmen: Ent'Acte (Prelude To Act III)
- Morning Song, Op. 15, No. 1: Morning Song
- L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1: II-Minuetto
- Two Pieces For Small Orchestra: On Hearing The First Cuckoo Of Spring
- Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
- L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2: III - Menuet
- The Fountains Of Rome: The Fountain Of Valle Giulia At Dawn
- Serenade For Strings In E Minor, Op. 20: I - Allegro Piacevole
- Lyric Suite, Op. (54): III - Noturno
- Les Sylphides: Nocturne, Op. 32, No. 2
- Daphnis Et Chloe Suite No.2: Daybreak
- Jeux D'enfants: IV - Duo (Petit Mari, Petit Femme)
- Serenade For Strings, Op. 20: III - Allegretto
- Les Sylphides: Prelude, Op. 28, No. 7
- Khovanshchina: Dawn On The Moskva
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The Hearing & The Sense of Balance
Fury in the Slaughterhouse Manufacturer: Spv Germany ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000025MYP Release Date: 1995-02-13 |
Tracks:
- Down There
- Kiss the Judas
- Milk and Honey
- Ghosttown
- Hello and Goodbye
- Hang the DJ
- Dancing in the Sunshine of the Dark
- Your Love Won't Take Me Anywhere
- Next to You
- Spit into the Fire
- Princess of New York
- Rain April Day
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful album!.......2002-09-03
Stellar.......2002-06-15
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In Hearing of Atomic Rooster
Atomic Rooster Manufacturer: Repertoire ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000006Z65 Release Date: 1995-06-20 |
Tracks:
- Breakthrough
- Break the Ice
- Decision/Indecision
- Spoonful of Bromide Helps the Pulse Rate Go Down
- Black Snake
- Head in the Sky
- Rock
- Price
- Devil's Answer [*]
Album Description
Import reissue of 1971 album includes one bonus track, 'Devil's Answer'. Digipak. Repertoire.Album Details
Digipak with One Bonus Track.Customer Reviews:
Atomic Rooster - 'In Hearing Of...' (Repertoire) 3 1/2 stars.......2006-09-30
Great third album from Atomic Rooster.......2006-06-18
OK, so In Hearing Of was their third album with just as many lineup changes. Now the band included vocalist ex-Cactus vocalist Pete French alongside guitarist John Cann, organist Vincent Crane, and drummer Paul Hammond. Many people call Death Walks Behind You as their high point, and while I have yet to try that album if In Hearing Of is anything to go by, I'm going to be in for a real treat for that album.
Anyway, this is a truly wonderful combination of hard rock and prog, certain to please fans of both, as the opening cut "Breakthrough" demonstrates, with some great piano and organ work, and some nice bluesy vocals. "Break the Ice" features some truly guitar guitar riff from Cann himself, and more great organ work from Crane. "Decision / Indecision" is a piano-oriented ballad which is not typical for the album, but works fine. "A Spoonful of Bromide Helps the Pulse Rate Go Down" (luckily not a parody of "A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down" from Mary Poppins) is an instrumental piece and by far the most traditionally prog-oriented piece. "Black Snake" is a truly nice mellow number, dominated by Crane's organ work, while the band rocks once again with "Head in the Sky". "The Rock" is the album's other instrumental piece, with some Chicaco or Blood, Sweat & Tears-like horns (arranged by yours truly, Vincent Crane), imagine if those two bands sounded more like Atomic Rooster, this is what you get. The CD reissue also includes their hit single, "Devil's Answer", still an excellent song, even if includes Chicago or BS&T-like horns. Oddly, the American LP on Elektra has this on In Hearing Of, but not the British vinyl, so basically if you own the CD reissue with "Devil's Answer", you got the complete American LP. I guess Elektra wisely knew the American audience was not as likely to buy singles so that's why they tagged "Devil's Answer" to the end of side one of the LP (right after "A Spoonful of Bromide").
What's also interesting is the cover is by Roger Dean, perhaps one of his most down-to-earth covers, it bears so little resemblance to the Yes album covers he's best known for, but then Roger Dean had done covers that looked little like Yes album covers like Babe Ruth's First Base (1972) and Gracious' This Is... (1971).
This is an excellent album and a must have.
HEAR THIS.......2003-12-13
You Must Hear " In Hearing".......2003-02-16
With John Cann , Vincent Crane and Pete French together as they are here ( the only cd in which that is the case) is as great a hard rockin band as there has ever been!
Buy it crank it up and see what I mean!
I have reveiwed this cd one other time and my feelings are the same Guitar thru a cranked Marshall and a Hammond B3 thru a Leslie which also sounds monster is just the start of the pleasures of this gem!
In Hearing Of Atomic Rooster.......2001-09-14
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In Hearing of Atomic Rooster
Atomic Rooster Manufacturer: Castle Music UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001MXRL6 Release Date: 2004-04-19 |
Tracks:
- Breakthrough
- Break the Ice
- Decision/Indecision
- Spoonful of Bromide Helps the Pulse Rate Go Down
- Black Snake
- Head in the Sky
- Rock
- Price
- Devil's Answer [US Version]
- Breakthrough
- Spoonful of Bromide Helps the Pulse Rate Go Down
Album Description
Expanded deluxe reissue of Atomic Rooster's third album, originally released in 1971, includes three rare bonus tracks 'Devil's Answer' (US version), 'Breakthrough' (BBC in concert), & 'A Spoonful of Bromide' (BBC in concert), & a 16-page full color booklet with extensive liner notes, photos, artwork, & memorabilia. Slipcase. Castle. 2004.Album Details
Digitally Remastered Deluxe Reissue Includes Bonus Tracks and Live BBC in Concert Tracks.Customer Reviews:
notjustanotherbirdband.......2006-08-12
In The Hearing Of Mott.......2005-09-09
Upon arrival back in England it was decided to put a band together around these two musicians, like minded talents were then sought after, Brian Jones who had just left the Stones was due for a meeting with Vincent Crane the day before he was found drowned in a swimming pool, Rich Gretch was asked but had already hung his star to new supergroup " Blind Faith" with Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, and Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce was asked as well but was determined to forge out a solo career, when Bruce turned down the bass position John Paul Jones was singled out, but he was already in another heavy metal flyer Led Zeppelin. But all these names does let your mind wander into all the different possibilities that could of happened.
The newly branded Atomic Rooster was rolled out with it's debut album 'Atomic Rooster', (1969) with the relatively unknown Nick Graham completing the trio on Bass. The album met with great critical praise but little commercial success, the album is a bluesy affair with not much notice of the heavy rock carnage that was to come. Nick Graham promptly left, (Atomic Rooster never employed a bass player at any time in their following career, Vincent Crane preferring to play the bass notes on his Hammond organ, rather than trust another fickle bass man.) Followed by Carl Palmer who was lured away to be the "P'' in another supergroup "Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.
New recruits were sort and two new Roosters were found John Ducann, on lead guitar, who brought along young skinsman Paul Hammond . Immediate success was to follow with the Rooster taking on the hard heavy metal of the day. In November of 1970 this trio's first album was released " Death Walks Behind You" with it's ground breaking Hammond organ sound from Vincent Crane, guitar thunder from Ducann, and powerhouse drumming from Paul Hammond, Further progress was made when the song 'Tomorrow Night' was plucked from the album as a single and reached the Top Ten. 1971 was to prove to be Rooster's year, when they were right at the front of the heavy metal boom, alongside such luminaries as 'Deep Purple', and' Black Sabbath'. A follow up single 'Devil's Answer' was released and met with even greater success reaching Number Two.
Whilst in the studio recording this album it was decided to expand the line up to four with the addition of a vocalist and the services of ex-Cactus lead singer Peter French were employed ,an excellent choice. Although French's vocals were laid down so late in the day that the artwork for the album had already been done, so his head had to be painted onto the inside artwork at the last minute.
The album "In The Hearing Of" was released in September 1971 and went straight into the Top Twenty. The music is not quite as heavy as that of it's predecessor, but that does not mean it has lost any of it's aggression or grit. Vincent Crane's Hammond organ is not so much in evidence with the piano being used to great effect on a lot of the songs. This is spelled out right from moment go when the Rooster strut their stuff on opener 'Breakthrough', with Cranes hammering piano dominating the song as it pushes it's way into your subconscious, 'Breakthrough' is the perfect opener for this finely selected collection of hard rockin' classics. Of the nine songs on this album (Hit Single' Devils Answer' has been tacked on the end of the original eight album tracks as a welcome bonus) two are instrumentals, only five are sung by new vocalist Pete French, Vincent Crane taking lead vocals on the dark and broody ' Black Snake', whilst 'Devil's Answer' featured the vocals of John Ducann having been recorded before Pete French's arrival. Six songs were written by Vincent Crane, three by John Ducann. One song 'Decision/Indecision' does not even require the services of Ducann's guitar work, with Crane supporting French's emotional vocals on solitary piano, a haunting piece to be sure. Pete French gives a great display as a vocalist on his limited opportunities, but it is perhaps the two rockin' instrumentals, 'A Spoonful Of Bromide Helps The Pulse Rate Go Down' and "The Rock' that would of most pleased the fans from the previous album. The only time during the album that both Vincent Crane and John Ducann actually let go and give it some clout. `In The Hearing Of' was a great follow up to 'Death Walks Behind You.' With great development shown in all parts of the band, but obviously too much development, as each individual wishing to stamp his mark, as is easily seen by the development of each track on this album.
With Vincent Crane insisting upon sole leadership of the band, and his exacting standards, this proved too much for the other musicians in the band and before the end of the year the band had splintered leaving Vincent Crane to keep the Atomic Rooster flag flying , which he did with diminishing results with two more albums' Made In England '(1972) and 'Nice'n' Greasy' (1973) both of which departed from the Hard Rock of yore taking a very different Funk/Rock ' slant with vocalist Chris Farlowe on board, much to the horror of Rooster hard rock fans. Pete French went off and formed Leafhound who recorded ' Grower of Mushrooms (1972) Pete French was never to get the success his vocal talents clearly deserved. John Ducann, and Paul Hammond stayed with their hard rock roots and formed 'Bullet', who changed their name to' Hard Stuff', with John Gustafason on Bass and Vocals, recording two impressive albums for Deep Purples newly formed own record label under the Hard Stuff banner' Bulletproof' (1972) and Bolex Demention' (1973). Heavy Rock's waning popularity put paid to any lasting hopes of Rock immortality though.
In 1980 when Hard Rock made a major comeback The Rooster of 'Death Walks Behind You' fame reunited for another stab at glory, but their day had gone.
The name 'Atomic Rooster' still garners great respect in hard rock circles, but it was really only ' Death Walks Behind You' and 'In The Hearing Of ' that were the real thing. The reformation live album from the Marquee (1980), where funnily enough it is John Ducann's vocals, and guitar that are the most dominant is worth your pleasure if you have an inkling to listen to the live beast. But anything else with the Rooster badge on it is generally advised to be given a wide berth.
The world of Rock'n' Roll is not an easy or kind one. Vincent Crane unable to control his inner demons any longer took his own life on Valentine's Day 1989, He was sadly followed by Paul Hammond who could not cope with life outside of his beloved Rooster in 1991. A Tragic end to a band who could of been huge, one of the biggest. But they did leave behind two marvellous albums as an epitaph.
By Mott The Dog.
Atomic Rooster At Their Peak.......2005-05-03
Progressive / Classical meets Hard Rock.......2004-06-23
On this 1972 release, Vincent Crane played Hammond B3, Grand Piano, & foot pedal bass (all @ the same time) in a very aggressive, rocking style behind a very heavy & funky rhythm section...that often reminds me of Bonham & Page, with Emerson soloing over the top. The bloozy vocals are somewhat reminiscent of Spooky Tooth.
Most of the songs have brooding minor key atmospheres, with dark lyrics...but the band sounds like they were ready to fight, & never give up. Vincent performed spectacular solos on almost every song, although there's not much in the way of guitar solos, which ended up causing dissension in the group.
This version of the band broke up shortly after this album's release, & then Atomic Rooster moved into a somewhat more R & B / Rock direction, with subsequent albums.
But if you ever wondered what Keith Emerson might have sounded like playing over the top of the early Led Zeppelin rhythm section, "In Hearing Of" is for you. I saw this lineup play live in San Diego in early '72...they were awesome...& this record is an excellent representation of their live sound.
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Premier Pops
Manufacturer: Denon Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000008I2M Release Date: 1994-08-05 |
Tracks:
- Overture To A 'Pops' Concert
- The Thorn Birds: The Thorn Birds Theme
- The Thorn Birds: Arrival At The Vatican
- The Thorn Birds: Meggie's Theme
- The Thorn Birds: It's Shearing Your Hearing
- Movie Song Medley: Life In A Looking Glass
- Movie Song Medley: Crazy World
- Movie Song Medley: Song from '10'
- Hong Kong Fireworks
- Sunflower
- The 'Inspector Clouseau' Theme
- Charade
- Glass Menagerie, Pt. 1 (Tom's Theme)
- Glass Menagerie, Pt. 2 (Blue Roses/Laura's Theme)
- Three TV Themes: Hotel
- Three TV Themes: Newhart
- Three TV Themes: Remington Steele
- The Sons Of Italy
- Ohio Riverboat
- Main Title From 'The Great Mouse Detective'
- Moon River
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Vaughan Williams: Fantasia On Greensleeves, Etc.
Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000041LB Release Date: 1997-08-26 |
Tracks:
- Fantasia On Greensleaves (Arr. Ralph Greaves): Fantasia On Greensleeves
- The Lark Ascending
- Engllish Folk Song Suite: I March: Seventeen Come Sunday
- English Folk Song Suite: II Intermezzo: My Bonny Boy
- English Folk Song Suite: III March: Folk Songs From Somerset
- Serenade For Strings
- Capriol Suite: I Basse-danse
- Capriol Suite: II Pavane
- Capriol Suite: III Tordion
- Capriol Suite: IV Bransles
- Capriol Suite: V Pieds-en-l'air
- Capriol Suite: VI Mattachins (Sword Dance)
- A Shropshire Lad
- Two English Idylls
- The Banks Of Green Willow
Tracks:
- The Walk To The Paradise Garden
- The Opera 'Hassan': Intermezzo and Serenade
- A Song before Sunrise
- On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring
- Summer Night On The River
- The Opera Koanga: La Calinda
- Serenade For Strings, Op. 20: Allegro piacevole
- Serenade For Strings, Op. 20: Larghetto
- Serenade For Strings, Op. 20: Allegretto
- Sospiri For Strings, Harp And Organ, Op.70
- Elegy For Strings, Op.58
- The Spanish Lady - Suite
- Introduction And Allegro For String Orchestra And Quartet, Op.47
Customer Reviews:
A Most Beautiful Classical Recording!.......2000-02-22
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