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Silver Wheels and Queen of the Crow are best. The rest so-so:
A must for the Grape nut. For anyone else you can buy the first album, a must have. 69 is another good one.
Moby Grape Gets It Again From Matthew Katz:
In the never ending saga of bad mistakes of Moby Grape comes this entry in their catalog; a Matthew Katz-produced-and-released album. Of course, by buying this you gleefully fork over your bucks so Matthew Katz can afford to sue the Moby Grape. And, in his oft-time go after It's A Beautiful Day. Please, do everyone a favor and don't buy this. It's great music, but you can afford to pass on it. Moby Grape can't.
Is this Moby Grape? Don't think so.:
This is not the same band that created, e.g., Omaha, Come in the Morning, Fall on You, Sitting by the Window, and Mr. Blues. These songs feature imaginative rhythm changes, and shifting of the lead voice among different voices with each voice having a different quality, e.g., earthy sounding versus more commercial (trained) sounding. These songs also feature shifts, where the emphasis is on guitar, then on multi-voiced chorus, and then on solo voice. In contrast, the album being reviewed contains none of these qualities. No imaginative rhythm changes. No switching from guitar solo, to chorus, to solo voice. No shifting from typical "trained" commercial voice quality to an earthy voice quality. Do not be deceived by the cover art. The sound in the album under review is not relevant to the "San Francisco Sound." If you have already purchased Moby Grape's powerful first album, then your next step in pursuing the San Francisco Sound might be to buy: ( 1 ) Surrealistic Pillow, ( 2 ) The first three Grateful Dead studio albums plus their live Dark Star album, and ( 3 ) Quicksilver Messenger's album containing The Fool. Then your collection could be rounded out by Big Brother and the Holding Company as well as Santana.
| Artist: | Moby Grape | | Binding: | Audio CD | | EAN: | 0099902483028 | | Format: | Import | | Original Release Date: | 1984-01-01 | | Release Date: | 1994-03-16 | | UPC: | 099902483028 |
Tracks:- Silver Wheels
- Better Day
- Hard Road to Follow
- Sitting and Watching
- City Lights
- Queen of the Crow
- Lost Horizon
- I Didn't Lie to You
- Suzzam
- Too Old to Boogie
- Think It Over
- American Dream
- Reprise
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