The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

Ok so this has been coming for a long time so here it is. One of the most influential albums ever produced, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Amazingly this was The Beatles eight studio album, took 129 days to record, was produced by George Martin and a host of engineers and was released on June 1st 1967.

By the time they began recording the album the Beatles had decided that they would no longer tour.The idea behind Sergeant Peppers was to create and album that could tour for them, thus the creation of a fictitious group Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. The theme is a bit loose it must be admitted, as the only Sgt. Peppers band bits are the introduction and With A little Help With My Friends both of which are sung by Ringo Starr aka band leader Billy Shears. The rest of the album albeit astounding is not really connected to any overarching concept, but who cares!

The use of state of the art recording technology and innovations in the use of this equipment was far ahead of its time, but then again they had free reign in the studio for 129 days. Even on the album itself there are loads of little quirks, such as in the run-out groove the band put in some playful sounds, there is a high pitch tone that was put there to annoy peoples dogs and instead of the record just repeatedly winding at the end there is laughter and gibbersh.

The arrangements on the album are also quite elaborate, and required a team of engineers and musicians. There was a clarinet ensemble on When I'm Sixty Four the George Harrison song song, Whithin You Without You is quiet long and features a group of Indian muscians and Harrison on sitar ad acoustic guitar. The John Lennon song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
is made up of a sound collage recorded and pieced together by George Martin and his team of engineers. The explosion of orchestration on A Day In The Life is an unforgettable moment in pop history and somehting that had never been heard before by pop fans. For the nerds out there there are some clips of the recording of A Day in the Life right here on youtube, which was recorded as part of a planned for TV special that never came to fruition.

When Sgt. Peppers was released most people got it straight away, well the critics anyway. The New York Times called it "an over attended child". Frank Zappa thought the Beatles were cashing in on the flower power generation. Even without Mr Zappa's criticism it, of course went to number one on both sides of the Atlantic.

The front cover of the album has become part of rock iconography and has been imitated on a number of occasions. It was designed by Peter Blake, the packaging was created by Robert Fraser and all in close collaboration with Paul McCartney. as a means to divert your attention from a days work we have included a picture of the cover with all those involved named, for the lazy just click here for an interactive picture.

Sgt. Peppers is one of the most important records of all time, it is fun and exciting and part of the Zeitgeist at the time. It is also the last album where The Beatles actually sound like they are having fun.

Track Listing

Side 1

1. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" – 2:04
2. "With a Little Help from My Friends" – 2:46
3. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" – 3:30
4. "Getting Better" – 2:49
5. "Fixing a Hole" – 2:38
6. "She's Leaving Home" – 3:37
7. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" – 2:37

Side 2

1. "Within You Without You" (George Harrison) – 5:07
2. "When I'm Sixty-Four" – 2:37
3. "Lovely Rita" – 2:44
4. "Good Morning Good Morning" – 2:43
5. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)" – 1:20
6. "A Day in the Life" – 5:33

1. Sri Yukteswar Gigi (guru)
2. Aleister Crowley (dabbler in sex, drugs and magic)
3. Mae West (actress)
4. Lenny Bruce (comic)
5. Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer)
6. W.C. Fields (comic)
7. Carl Gustav Jung (psychologist)
8. Edgar Allen Poe (writer)
9. Fred Astaire (actor)
10. Richard Merkin (artist)
11. The Varga Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas)
12. *Leo Gorcey (Painted out because he requested a fee)
13. Huntz Hall (actor one of the Bowery Boys)
14. Simon Rodia (creator of Watts Towers)
15. Bob Dylan (musician)
16. Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator)
17. Sir Robert Peel (politician)
18. Aldous Huxley (writer)
19. Dylan Thomas (poet)
20. Terry Southern (writer)
21. Dion (di Mucci)(singer)
22. Tony Curtiss (actor)
23. Wallace Berman (artist)
24. Tommy Handley (comic)
25. Marilyn Monroe (actress)
26. William Burroughs (writer)
27. Sri Mahavatara Babaji(guru)
28. Stan Laurel (comic)
29. Richard Lindner (artist)
30. Oliver Hardy (comic)
31. Karl Marx (philosopher/socialist)
32. H.G. Wells (writer)
33. Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (guru)
34. Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy)
35. Stuart Sutcliffe (artist/former Beatle)
36. Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy)
37. Max Miller (comic)
38. The Pretty Girl (by artist George Petty)
39. Marlon Brando (actor)
40. Tom Mix (actor)
41. Oscar Wilde (writer)
42. Tyrone Power (actor)
43. Larry Bell (artist)
44. Dr. David Livingston (missionary/explorer)
45. Johnny Weissmuller (swimmer/actor)
46. Stephen Crane (writer)
47. Issy Bonn (comic)
48. George Bernard Shaw (writer)
49. H.C. Westermann (sculptor)
50. Albert Stubbins (soccer player)
51. Sri lahiri Mahasaya (guru)
52. Lewis Carrol (writer)
53. T.E. Lawrence (soldier, aka Lawrence of Arabia)
54. Sonny Liston (boxer)
55. The Pretty Girl (by artist George Petty)
56. Wax model of George Harrison
57. Wax model of John Lennon
58. Shirley Temple (child actress)
59. Wax model of Ringo Starr
60. Wax model of Paul McCartney
61. Albert Einstein (physicist)
62. John Lennnon, holding a french horn
63. Ringo Starr, holding a trumpet
64. Paul McCartney, holding a cor anglais
65. George Harrison, holding a flute
66. Bobby Breen (singer)
67. Marlene Dietrich (actress)
68. Mohandas Ghandi (painted out at the request of EMI)
69. Legionaire from the order of the Buffalos
70. Diana Dors (actress)
71. Shirley Temple (child actress)
72. Cloth grandmother-figure by Jann Haworth
73. Cloth figure of Shirley Temple by Haworth
74. Mexican candlestick
75. Television set
76. Stone figure of girl
77. Stone figure
78. Statue from John Lennon's house
79. Trophy
80. Four-armed Indian Doll
81. Drum skin, designed by Joe Ephgrave
82. Hookah (water tobacco-pipe)
83. Velvet snake
84. Japanese stone figure
85. Stone figure of Snow White
86. Garden gnome
87. Tuba

Cream - Disraeli Gears

Its been said many times about Cream, but it is essentially true, they were the first super group. Consisting of guitar legend Eric Clapton, bass virtuoso and vocalist Jack Bruce, and drumming meistro Ginger Baker. They had all played before in various guises, and were considered the cream of the crop of British musicians, thus the non egotistical name of Cream!

Their first album Fresh Crea,m was released in 1966 and went to number 6 in the UK charts and number 39 in the US. However, what came next is still considered to be there greatest album, Disraeli Gears.

Recorded in a mere 4 days, from May 11th to May 15th 1967 in Atlantic Studios New York. It was the album that broke them in America going to number 4 in the charts.

The title of the album is something of an in joke. When Cream were touring their first album Eric Clapton wanted to buy a racer bicycle. One of their roadies Mick Turner commented on the performance of "those Disraeli Gears" actually meaning "those derailleur gears". The band thought this was hilarious an decided that their next album would be called Disraeli Gears!

The opening track Strange Brew, sets the tone for the album, a blues psychedelic journey with 3 powerful musicians. It's short length, barely 3 minutes, is more in tune with how cream liked to write their songs, even if their live sets had 20 minute jams in them. Apparently if they did not play long jams people would leave gigs angry, asking for their money back.

Up next is Sunshine of your love, Creams best selling single and indeed Atlantic's best selling single to date! Believe it or not but Atlantic originally rejected the song and only that Booker T heard the song and insisted Atlantic release it!! From the moment the riff kicks it is instantly recognisable and has influenced everyone from Black Sabbath to Queens of the Stone Age.

The third track on the album, World Of Pain featuring both the vocals of Clapton and Bruce, it s best known for the tremolo effect used on the guitar and the unusual style Clapton adopts during the solo. It is followed by two of the weakest songs on the album, Dance the Night Away and Blue Condition, however calling a song weak on this album is probably somewhat unfair, but there you go.

The fantastic, Tales of Brave Ulysses is a 2 and a half minute masterpiece, the lyrics of which were written by poet Martin Sharp on the back of a beer mat for Eric Clapton after a chance meeting. It is inspired by Homers Odyssey and bears more than a passing resemblance to another Cream song, and one of my favourites White Room.

The album is packed with other fan favourites. We're going Wrong, (which features some rather nice drumming technique it has to be said and a haunting vocal performance by Bruce) Outside Woman Blues, SWLABR (pronounced Slobber) and Take it Back all shine in this album of gems.

Track Listing

1. Strange Brew
2. Sunshine of Your Love
3. World of Pain
4. Dance the Night Away
5. Blue Condition
6. Tales of Brave Ulysses
7. SWLABR
8. We're Going Wrong
9. Outside Woman Blues
10. Take It Back
11. Mother's Lament

Songs Of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen

Released in 1968 Leonard Cohen's début album, Songs of Leonard Cohen was an apt answer to the psychedelic albums of the summer of love. The Canadian had long been a poet and a novelist and had waited until he was 33 before releasing an album of his folk songs.

While the album was not immediately successful in the US (only going gold in 1989) it was a hit in the UK and Europe which embraced the style and the lyrical content of Cohen's songs.

The album begins with the classic Suzanne. The song details an encounter Cohen had with Suzanne Verdal, the wife of sculptor Armand Vaillancourt, in Montreal. Suzanne Verdal is now homeless living in her car in Venice Beach California. Cohen said he never had relations with her, only imagined what they would be like. The song is like most of the album, sparse and dream like. With Leonard's lyrics taking the listener's by the hand and leading us all to that river.

This whole album brings the listener to different places. It burrows its way into your conciousness and takes root. Songs like So Long Marianne, Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye, and The Sisters Of Mercy are the big hitters and are instantly recognisable. But hidden amongst the crowd of hits is the superb Masters Song and Teachers

This lonely album is filled with Cohen's personal stories, sometimes listening to this album makes you feel almost embarrassed to have such access to his personal life. All put so beautifully in Cohen's forceful yet minimalist style. An album to be enjoyed on your own with a bottle of wine.

Track Listing

1. "Suzanne" – 3:48
2. "Master Song" – 5:55
3. "Winter Lady" – 2:15
4. "The Stranger Song" – 5:00
5. "Sisters of Mercy" – 3:32
6. "So Long, Marianne" – 5:38
7. "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" – 2:55
8. "Stories of the Street" – 4:35
9. "Teachers" – 3:01
10. "One of Us Cannot Be Wrong" – 4:23

Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones

Released in 1969 Let It Bleed was a musical stepping stone between the Bluesy sound of Beggars Banquet and The Rolling Stones standard rock sound on Sticky Fingers.

Brian Jones, the Stones founding member, died while the album was being recorded and only performs on two tracks, You Got The Silver and Midnight Rambler.
Let It Bleed opens with the classic, apocalyptic, Gimme Shelter, which surprisingly was never released as a single. Jagger called it an "end of the world song" clearly evidenced in the lyrics.
"Oh, a storm is threatening, My very life today; If I don't get some shelter, Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away"
"War, children, it's just a shot away, It's just a shot away; War, children, it's just a shot away, It's just a shot away"
Although they had had a hit with Honky Tonk Woman, they chose to leave it off the album and instead recorded an alter ego for the single Country Honk. This was also the album where Keith Richards performed his first solo vocal lead on You Got The Silver.
Other highlights include the drugtastic Monkey Man, which features on the Goodfellas soundtrack, and the title track Let It Bleed.
Closing the Album is yet another classic, You Can't Always Get What You Want

Written on the inner sleeve of the original album is a simple message "This record must be played loud" Turn up the volume, Let It Bleed is Thursdays Critical Junction.

Track listing
1. Gimme Shelter
2. Love In Vain
3. Country Honk
4. Live With Me
5. Let It Bleed
6. Midnight Rambler
7. You Got The Silver
8. Monkey Man
9. You Can't Always Get What You Want

At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash

The Man in Black breaks an album out from behind the walls of one Americas most notorious prisons to deliver an album which has not only stood the test of time, but has grown in cult status and popularity year on year.

Recorded on January 13th 1968 at Folsom Prison, it is Johnny Cash at his most charismatic. He stands with his wife and band before a crowd of hardened convicts and plays the concert of his life. Giving these men a voice and acknowledging that no matter what they had done to get where they were, they were still part of the human race.

Ok so what of the music on this album. Ably backed by June Carter, Carl Perkins, and The Tennese Three Cash delivers hit after hit. Folsom Prison Blues, Cocaine Blues, Jackson, Long Black Veil amongst many others.

Many poignant songs were sung by cash for the prisoners, Send A Picture Of Mother is the tale of a prisoner being released and the friend he leaves behind. The final song Greystone Chapel. The song was written by Glen Sherley who was an inmate at Folsom Prison. Cash heard the song the night before he was to play at the prison and soon as Cash heard the lyrics:

"There's a Greystone chapel here at Folsom,

A house of worship in this den of sin.

You wouldn't think God had a place at Folsom,

But he's saved the soul of many lost men."

He had to play it the next day.

Johnny Cash is the face and voice of country music his popularity has prevailed for decades. this si the album that put him on the map, and led to him going to San Quentin in 1969 and to him having his own TV show on CBS.

The original recording was released on LP and only contained 16 tracks, the CD re-released has 19 and thats the one we will feature on this weeks Crititcal Junction.

Track Listing:

1. Folsom Prison Blues (J. Cash) – 2:42
2. Busted (H. Howard) – 1:25
3. Dark as a Dungeon (M. Travis) – 3:04
4. I Still Miss Someone (J. Cash - R. Cash, Jr.) – 1:38
5. Cocaine Blues (T. J. Arnall) – 3:01
6. 25 Minutes to Go (S. Silverstein) – 3:31
7. Orange Blossom Special (E. T. Rouse) – 3:06
8. The Long Black Veil (Wilkin - D. Dill) – 3:58
9. Send a Picture of Mother (J. Cash) – 2:05
10. The Wall (H. Howard) – 1:36
11. Dirty Old Egg-Suckin' Dog (J. H. Clement) – 1:30
12. Flushed From the Bathroom of Your Heart (J. H. Clement) – 2:05
13. Joe Bean (B. Freeman - L. Pober) – 3:05
14. Jackson (duet with June Carter) (B. Wheeler - J. Lieber) – 3:12
15. Give My Love to Rose (duet with June Carter) (J. Cash) – 2:43
16. I Got Stripes (J. Cash - C. Williams) – 1:52
17. The Legend of John Henry's Hammer (J. Cash - J. Carter) – 7:08
18. Green, Green Grass of Home (C. Putman) – 2:13
19. Greystone Chapel (Glen Sherley) – 6:02

Dusty In Memphis

This week we get some soul on Live Drive as we step back to 1969 and the sultry sounds of the incomparable Dusty Springfield with her classic album Dusty In Memphis. Recorded surprisingly enough in Memphis Tennessee and produced by production legends Jerry Wexler and Arif Mardin.

Dusty In Memphis was Springfield's first album with Atlantic Records. Dusty signed with the label to reinvigorate her career and boost her credibility. Atlantic was the home of a number of soul artists including Aretha Franklin who was a hero of Dusty's. Memphis was chosen as the location to record as a number of blues musicians had come from Memphis including Dusty's new backing band The Memphis Cats, who had backed Wilson Picket and Elvis Presley. Not only that but her backing vocalists were The Sweet Inspirations (Founded by Whitney Houston's mother Cissy)

The album is filled to the brim with Dusty's signature vocals, warm and seductive she drifts the listener from track to track, most of which were written by greats such as Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Randy Newman of course Burt Bacharach.

Not only is this some of Dusty's finest work it is some of the finest soul music ever recorded. If Dusty wanted to revitalise her career and in due course boost her credibility she did it in style with Dusty In Memphis.

Track Listing

1. Just A Little Lovin
2. So Much Love
3. Son Of A Preacher Man
4. I Don't Want To Hear About It Anymore
5. Don't Forget About Me
6. Breakfast In Bed
7. Just One Smile
8. The Windmills Of Your Mind
9. In The Land Of Make Believe
10. No Easy Way Down
11. I Can't Make It Alone

Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan released Blonde On Blonde in 1966, and, running at an hour and 13 minutes, it is believed to be the first ever double album, for those only acquainted with CDs, you could only fit so much on Vinyl record so they had to spread it over two.
It was recorded in Nashville Tennessee, released to critical acclaim, and is often featured in top 20 lists of the greatest albums of all time.
Lyrically the album mostly concentrates on romantic entanglements, a perfect example being Just Like A Woman, an enduring and complicated song, it's hard to know if Dylan is being critical or appreciative.
Dylan was involved with 3 women at the time that he write the album, his future wife Sara Lownds, Folk singer Joan Baez, and Warhol set "It" girl Edie Sedgewick.
Sedgewick is thought to be the debutante referred to in Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat. Visions of Johanna is, perhaps, about Joan Baez, she in turn wrote a number of songs about him including 1975s Diamonds and Rust. The final track on the album was always presumed to be about his wife, and in 1975's Desire, the track Sara includes the lyrics, "Sitting up late in the Chelsea Hotel writing Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands For You"

Track Listing
1. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
2. Pledging My Time
3. Visions Of Johanna
4. One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
5. I Want You
6. Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
7. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
8. Just Like A Woman
9. Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine
10. Temporary Like Achilles
11. Absolutely Sweet Marie
12. 4th Time Around
13. Obviously 5 Believers
14. Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands

Are You Experienced - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The debut album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced was released in 1967 to imediate critial acclaim. Rocketing up the charts to number 2 in the Uk only to be held off the top spot by Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It is considers not only one of the most influential debuts albums but one of the greatest of all time and it spawned 3 top ten hit singles: Hey Joe/Stone Free, Purple Haze and The Wind Cries Mary/Highway Chile.

The album opens with Purple Haze probably one of the greatest guitar songs ever written. originally titled Purple haze, Jesus Saves, Hendrix wears his LSD influence on his sleave in the lyrical content of the song while singing "Scuse me while I Kiss the Sky" Pepsi made a hilarious add with a young Jimi Hendrix in 2004 making a rather significant career choice.

Foxy Lady or Foxey Lady as it is known in the states. This was a spelling mistake as believe it or not, Foxey is an old spelling of the word and can mean smelly or rank hardly Jimi's intention. Manic Depression the second track is a hard rock waltz, serioulsy its in watlz time but Jimi tears it appart creating a whole new interpretation to what a waltz actually sounds like. The album has been re-released a few times and has included the superb B-Sides to the singles.

This album turned music on it's head and openned up a whole new world of sounds that the electirc guitar could make and no one thought possible. Its combination of Blues, Soul and Psychedelia revolutionised rock in a way that was not repeated until it was brought back to groud zero with Punk.

Track Listing

1. Purple Haze

2. Manic Depression

3. Hey Joe

4. Love or Confusion

5. May This Be Love

6. I Don't Live Today

7. The Wind Cries Mary

8. Fire

9. Third Stone From The Sun

10. Foxy lady

11. Are You Experienced

Re-Released

12. Stone Free

13. 51st Anniversairy

14 Stone Free

15. Highway Chile

16. Can You See Me

17. Remember

18. Red House

Aretha Franklin: Lady Soul

January 22^nd 1968 Aretha Franklin released her 2^nd chart-topping album Lady Soul. Produced by the legendary Jerry Wexler. The man who coined the now much abused phrase, Rhythm and Blues and the person who is credited for turning Aretha Franklin's career around from 2^nd rate gospel singer to Queen of Soul.

Opening with Chain Of Fools the album sets out its tone and the soaring abilities of Franklin’s vocals. Chain of Fool’s was the biggest hit from the album, and won her a Grammy award for best female R&B performance.

The 1965 hit for the Temptations People Get Ready was given the Aretha treatment. Curtis Mayfield’s civil rights song is brought to new heights with this extraordinary vocal performance.

Another stand out on this album is Carole King’s You Make Me Feel (Like A Natural Woman) This has become another signature tune for Aretha and she own this song with the emotional depth of her interpretation. The song is a milestone in pop history. The song has been covered by many but none have succeeded to give it what Aretha could (bar of course Carole King)

The album-cemented Franklin’s position as the greatest soul singer of her generation and so it seems of any generation. Her power and ability to interpret songs and the way in which she gave new meaning to every syllable is unrivalled today. Without an album like this, today’s 2 bit warbling pop stars might actually be seen as good or, god forbid, good.

1. Chain of Fools
2. Money Won't Change You
3. People Get Ready
4. Niki Hoeky
5. You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
6. Since You've Been Gone
7. Good to Me As I Am to You
8. Come Back Baby
9. Groovin'
10. Ain't No Way

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

A while ago we featured The Beatles Revolver on critical junctions and mentioned that the story goes that Brian Wilson heard Revolver and was inspired to record Pet Sounds with The Beach Boys, which in turn blew Paul Mc Cartney away and thus was born Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. We've done Revolver and Sgt Peppers is bound to feature here so it makes a lot of sense to have a listen to Pet Sounds.
The album was recorded and released in 1966, Wilson collaborating with an advertising executive, Tony Asher, who specialised in Jingles, to put the lyrics together. The album continues The Beach Boys uplifting sound, with a more complex mix of sounds layering percussion, horns and even bicycle bells, coke cans and barking dogs with their harmonies. Critically acclaimed, it didn't sell very well and was a bigger hit in Britain than it was in the States. it also marked the beginning of Wilsons slide onto madness as he searched for the perfect pop song.
Track listing
1. Caroline No
2. Wouldn't It Be Nice
3. You Still Believe In Me
4. That's Not Me
5. Don't Talk
6. I'm Waiting For The Day
7. Let's Go Away For A While
8. Sloop John B
9. God Only Knows
10. I Know There's An Answer
11. Here Today
12. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
13. Pet Sounds

Revolver - The Beatles

A 1966 masterpiece from the Fab Four. Their established Pop Rock genius mingles with the first sign of Beatles psychedelia. The story goes that Brian Wilson heard this Album and was inspired to form The Beach Boys and record Pet Sounds, which in turn blew Paul Mc Cartney away and thus was born Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Producer George Martin told them to "Think Symphonic" and the result was what Rolling Stone called "the sound of good times meeting better drugs" No arguments, its a classic on Thursdays Critical Junction.
Track listing
1. Taxman
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. I'm Only Sleeping
4. Love You To
5. Here, There And Everywhere
6. Yellow Submarine
7. She Said She Said
8. Good Day Sunshine
9. And Your Bird Can Sing
10. For No One
11. Doctor Robert
12. I Want To Tell You
13. Got To Get You Into My Life
14. Tomorrow Never Knows

The Who Sell Out - The Who

This is the first "Concept Album" from The Who, it was released in 1968 and reissued, remastered in 1995 with additional material. The Album follows a day in the life of a radio broadcast complete with fake ads and jingles. Some of the tracks like Odorono and Medac are even written about fake products. The stand out track is "I Can See For Miles" but the album is chock full of jangly "radio friendly" pop songs. MaryAnne With The Shaky Hands is pure sixties with a bit of a folky Beach Boy sound, and for the romantic at heart there is Our Love Was and I Can't Reach You. This is an opportunity to acquaint yourself with one of the more unusual offerings from The Who.
Leave a comment if you would like us to play a particular track!

Track Listing

1. "Armenia City in the Sky"
2. "Heinz Baked Beans"
3. "Mary-Anne With the Shaky Hand"
4. "Odorono"
5. "Tattoo"
6. "Our Love Was"
7. "I Can See for Miles"
8. "I Can't Reach You"
9. "Medac"
10. "Relax"
11. "Silas Stingy"
12. "Sunrise"
13. "Rael"

The Velvet Underground And Nico

With Lou Reed at the helm this self titled album took a long time to make an impact but when it did it reached out too punk, glam rock, and Goth and pretty much every other left of centre musical movement going.
Released in 1967 it reportedly took 10 years to crack 6 figures but its influence is immeasurable. Even if you haven't heard the Album you've heard echoes of The Velvets in David Bowie, U2, Nirvana, Roxy Music, Joy Division the list goes on. This is the Original Artsy concept Album and Andy Warhols Peelable Banana Cover wrapped it up nicely.
On Thursday Mornings Live Drive we'll be playing Femme Fatale, I'm Waiting For My Man, Venus In Furs, There She Goes.......Tune in you might discover something new!

Track listing
1. Sunday Morning
2. I'm Waiting For The Man
3. Femme Fatale
4. Venus In Furs
5. Run Run Run
6. All Tomorrow's Parties
7. Heroin
8. There She Goes Again
9. I'll Be Your Mirror
10. Black Angel's Death Song
11. European Son

Music From Big Pink - The Band

Over the years 1968's Music From Big Pink has come to be regarded as a watershed work in the history of Rock. The Band were Bob Dylans Back Up Band and Big Pink was the house in Woodstock where they hung out in the late Sixties. Dylan collaborated on Tears Of Rage and I Shall Be Released and This Wheels On Fire was to be reworked years later as the theme tune to Absolutely Fabulous. At the time it didn't sell too well despite rave reviews from Rolling Stone. The Weight charted at No. 63, but gained huge popularity the following year when it featured on the Soundtrack of Easy Rider.
Eric Clapton was so blown away by this album that he disbanded Cream and went of in search of a new sound.
On Thursday Mornings Live Drive we'll be playing Tears Of Rage, I Shall Be Released, This Wheels On Fire and, of course, The Weight

Track listing
1. Tears Of Rage
2. To Kingdom Come
3. In A Station
4. Caledonia Mission
5. Weight, The
6. We Can Talk
7. Long Black Veil
8. Chest Fever
9. Lonesome Suzie
10. This Wheel's On Fire
11. I Shall Be Released