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Shazam
Genres: International Music, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock
 
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Digitally remastered 1998 reissue on Repertoire of their second album, originally released in 1970 on the Regal Zonophone & now featuring nine live bonus tracks: 'So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star', 'Stephanie Kno...  more »

     
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All Artists: Move
Title: Shazam
Members Wishing: 5
Total Copies: 0
Label: Repertoire
Original Release Date: 1/1/1998
Re-Release Date: 2/20/1998
Album Type: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
Genres: International Music, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock
Styles: Europe, Britain & Ireland, Progressive, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, British Invasion
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 766484358524

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Digitally remastered 1998 reissue on Repertoire of their second album, originally released in 1970 on the Regal Zonophone & now featuring nine live bonus tracks: 'So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star', 'Stephanie Knows Who', 'Something Else', 'It'll Be Me', 'Sunshine Help Me' and previously unreleased versions of 'Piece Of My Heart', 'Too Much In Love', '(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher' & 'Sunshine Help Me'. 15 tracks total.

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Side 2 (songs 4-6) alone earn this classic top honors.
Douglas Vencill | San Diego, CA USA | 07/03/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)

"We got to talking about this fantastic album a few nights ago on the discussion thread "YOUR TRIPPIN' ALBUM IS ON ITS WAY--WHAT IS IT?" (Most of those threads are a lot of fun, by the way...and very addictive to us music junkies.) I just shared my thoughts with joeindover in response to his knee-slappingly funny review and feel compelled to give my 2-cents' worth to the masses here.



Everything you've read here is pretty much right on the money, although I can't (yet) attest to the supposed lower-sounding quality of the CD. Guess I'll find that all out in due time. What I want to share was how I was made aware of this album. During the sweet summer of 1970--back when underground FM radio still blissfully existed--I was in Long Beach, California on vacation with my mom, between my sophomore and junior year of high school, and VERY much into the burgeoning English rock and prog-rock scene. In those days, the Moody Blues and King Crimson were my new gods. One afternoon, I was sitting in my living room, listening to what was then for me the Radio Station From Heaven: KABC-FM 95.5. There was so much unspeakably cool music I got turned onto that summer that I could be sitting here for another hour just chronicling it....but I'll never forget this particular afternoon. Seated there on my couch, I had my little portable mono Channel Master cassette recorder, microphone attached, pointed at the speaker of an inconsequential little FM clock radio, and filling up several C-60 cassettes with random recordings of what I was hearing on this fantastic radio station. After one commercial break, here came disc jockey Tony Pigg with the announcement, "Here's one from The Move, a Tom Paxton song called 'The Last Thing On My Mind.'" Well, I remember hearing the Chad Mitchell Trio's original country/folkie version of the song, so I kept the recorder going...



...and cornball and over-the-top as this might sound to some, this was one of the defining moments in my musical development. As I sat there listening to this band of Brits I'd not yet even HEARD of taking this sad little breakup song and turning it into a psychedelic, acid-drenched, acoustic and electric 12-string wah-wah guitar sound painting, I was just stunned. I couldn't move (pardon the pun) for the next 7 1/2 minutes. For me, it was like hearing "Question," "The Court of the Crimson King," Procol Harum's "Repent Walpurgis" or Yes's "Yours Is No Disgrace" for the first time. I swear this to you: those were moments that brought me to states of consciousness that tapped me lovingly on the top of my head to remind me that humanity--even with all its flaws--were still capable of creating great masterpieces in the world of music. When the song reached its very UNpretentious conclusion--with the final chorus still ringing in my ears in near-perfect CSN-style vocal harmoney--I couldn't set about to finding the album fast enough.



Here's what I discovered upon hearing it for the first time: I wasn't nearly as knocked out by Side 1 as I was by Side 2....that's just my opinion for all it's worth. But those 3 tracks on Side 2..."Fields of People," "Don't Make My Baby Blue," and the one I just raved about like a lunatic...for me amounted to 3 of the greatest tracks in a row in British prog history, 23 minutes of near-bliss. The psychedelia and interspersed humor of "Fields," the near heavy-metal interpretations of "Baby" and the concluding masterpiece alone made this album worth having...I can listen to those 3 songs even today and still get the initial rush of hearing them for the first time. But when it comes to "Last Thing," as I shared with joeindover, I think Roy should be humbly proud for coming up with such an exquisite arrangement of a very cool song, and I can only wonder what Tom himself would have thought of it.



For all of you uninitiated ones--especially those of you who might be exploring the founding days of the British progressive rock onslaught of the 70's--you'd be well advised not to let this one slip through your fingers. Cheers....."
Deserve 5 stars for its musical quality
Akazgea | 01/19/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)

"It definitely has a strong touch. The album is actually worth buying for maybe the Fields of People (my favorite song from this album, even though may not be the best one). A mix of many styles, classic, rock and roll, hard rock; beautiful arrangements; catchy melodies. And it sounds better when listened together with Message From a Country, because of the strong connections."