nedjelja, 04.01.2009.
The Move - Looking On (1970) (Remaster Edit 2008)
In the wake of The Move's SHAZAM album, singer Carl Wayne departed & leader Roy Wood recorded a solo album, BOULDERS (which saw release in 1973). When he returned, he invited friend Jeff Lynne (who'd replaced him in The Nightriders / The Idle Race) to join, and the 2 hatched the idea of creating a new band to replace The Move, which would include classical instruments and experimental ideas: The Electric Light Orchestra. LOOKING ON was the first result, though their record company (at least temporarily) nixed the idea of a name-change, purely for "commercial" reasons".
This is one WILD album. As much of a major shift as SHAZAM was from earlier Move records, LOOKING ON is an even bigger departure. Both Wood & Lynne, whose earlier sound & styles were quite similar, come across doing & sounding almost completely unlike anything either of them had done before! Loud, heavy, ponderous, explosive, and downright bizarre are a few words that come to mind. This album is NOT an easy "first listen"! There's the ominous "Looking On", the growling-yet-bouncy "Turkish Tram Conductor Blues", the ethereal "What?" and the noisy "When Alice Comes Back To The Farm", with its almost honky-tonk piano. Things get extremely strange on Jeff Lynne's "Open Up Said The World To The Door"-- you have to HEAR this one, you still won't believe it! The one almost "normal" track is "Brontosaurus", a single recorded earlier, and I believe the only song here that includes departed bassist Rick Price. "Feel Too Good" makes for a relentless, hard-driving 9-minute finale. (But watch out for the "surprise" epilogue!) I've long considered this a "flawed experiment"; when they returned for their next outing, MESSAGE FROM THE COUNTRY, everything they were working toward seemed to fall in place!
This reissue includes a number of bonus tracks; mostly good songs in their own right, though wildly at odds with the style of the album they're backing. For new listeners, of course, they may wind up being the "best" part of the CD-- depending on taste...Manfred Mandel
Codec: mp3
Bitrate: 320 kB/s
Size ca.: 155 MB
Genre : Progressive Rock
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Tracklist:
01. Looking On 7.52
02. Turkish Tram Conductors Blues 4.51
03. What? 6.46
04. When Alice Comes Back To The Farm 3.48
05. Open Up Said The World At The Door 7.16
06. Brontosaurus 4.29
07. Feel Too Good 9.38
08. Lightin' Never Srikes Twice (Rare B-Side) (Bonus) 3.15
09. Looking On Part 1 (Take 3; Rough Mix - Previously Unreleased)(Bonus) 4.34
10. Looking On Part 2 (Take 12; Rough Mix - Previously Unreleased)(Bonus) 4.51
11. Turkish Tram Conductor Blues (Take 5; Rough Mix - Previously Unreleased) (Bonus) 4.54
12. Open Up Said The World At The Door (Take 4; Rough Mix - Previously Unreleased)(Bonus) 1.27
13. Feel Too Good (Take 11 Extract; Rough Mix - Previously Unreleased)(Bonus) 2.40
14. The Duke Of Edinburgh's Lettuce (Take 2; Rough Mix - Previously Unreleased)(Bonus) 1.26
