Shadows, The - The First 20 Years at the Top: 1959-1979 '1995
Artist | Shadows, The Related artists |
Album name | The First 20 Years at the Top: 1959-1979 |
Country | |
Date | 1995 |
Genre | Pop |
Play time | 03:20:53 |
Format / Bitrate | Stereo 1420 Kbps
/ 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps |
Media | CD |
Size | 465 mb / 1.12 gb |
Price | Download $9.95 |
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Tracklist CD1 01. Feelin Fine 02. Dont Be a Fool (With Love) 03. Driftin 04. Jet Black 05. Saturday Dance 06. Lonesome Fella 07. Apache 08. Quartermasters Stores 09. The Stranger 10. Man of Mystery 11. F.B.I. 12. Midnight 13. The Frightened City 14. Back Home 15. Kon-Tiki 16. 36-24-36 17. The Savage 18. Peace Pipe 19. Wonderful Land 20. Stars Fell On Stockton 21. Guitar Tango 22. What a Lovely Tune 23. The Boys 24. Dance On 25. All Day CD2 01. Foot Tapper 02. The Breeze and I 03. Atlantis 04. I Want You To Want Me 05. Shindig 06. Its Been a Blue Day 07. Geronimo 08. Shazam 09. Theme For Young Lovers 10. This Hammer 11. The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt 12. Its a Mans World 13. Rhythm and Greens 14. The Miracle 15. Genie With the Light Brown Lamp 16. Little Princess 17. Mary-Anne 18. Chu Chi 19. Stingray 20. Alice In Sunderland 21. Dont Make My Baby Blue 22. My Grandfathers Clock 23. The War Lord 24. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Arthur 25. I Met a Girl CD3 01.Late Night Set 02. A Place In the Sun 03. Will You Be There? 04. The Dreams I Dream 05. Scotch On the Socks 06. Maroc 7 07. Bombay Duck 08. Tomorrows Cancelled 09. Somewhere 10. Running Out of World 11. Dear Old Mrs Bell 12. Trying To Forget the One You Love 13. Slaughter On Tenth Avenue 14. Turn Around and Touch Me 15. Jungle Jam 16. Let Me Be the One 17. Run Billy Run 18. Itll Be Me Babe 19. Another Night 20. Love Deluxe 21. Dont Cry For Me Argentina 22. The Theme From the Deer Hunter (Cavatina) 23. Rodrigos Guitar Concerto De Aranjuez 24. Heart of Glass 25. Riders In the Sky Albums are all fine and well, but if you really want to know what made a band tick during the first half of the 1960s, you need to listen to the singles. It was singles, after all, that consumed the lions share of the market - singles by which a bands fame and acclaim were judged, and singles by which their star rose and fell. Three hits in a row, you were the biggest thing in the world. A flop for the fourth and you were dead meat. Most compilations today prefer to avoid this simple fact, preferring to delve into albums and archives in a desperate attempt to wrest away the last buck in the buyers pocket. But theres still a handful that know how history is best served - the Rolling Stones Singles Collection and Cliff Richards six-LP Story paramount among them - and The First 20 Years at the Top is a worthy addition to that roll call. Three CDs compile every A-side and the majority of the B-sides the Shadows released in the U.K. between their formation in the late 50s and their departure from EMI in 1980. Programmed with strict chronology, the box paints a picture of the band that no other collection has ever managed - and that includes the six-CD 1958-1966 box set. The set opens with the two 45s the band cut as the Drifters during 1958-1959, before they encountered a better-known American band of the same name. There, listeners hear the young rockers at their most guileless, innocent, and derivative; there, too, listeners discover that Mary Anne, the 1965 single that introduced their singing voices to the record-buying public, was not that much of a departure after all. Both the bands first and third 45s (plus the occasional past B-side) were also unashamedly vocal numbers. Still, it was as instrumentalists (and, courtesy of Hank Marvin, guitar gods) that the Shadows made their name, and across the rest of disc one, and great swathes of the other two, their prowess is as breathtaking today as it ever was at the time. Even more rewarding is the discovery that the bands mid- to late-70s output is often as striking as their 60s material. Having disbanded in 1969, the Shadows reformed in 1973 and, as though theyd never been away, proceeded to unleash both some startling pop (Let Me Be the One) and some virtuosic instrumentals. Dont Cry for Me Argentina, Cavatina, and even Blondies Heart of Glass arent simply executed with consummate style - that, after all, was the Shadows raison dêtre. They also pack a passion that is undimmed from the halcyon days of Apache and Wonderful Land - 20 years at the top indeed! All publication of the user fantastik - IsraBox
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