december 19, 2022

Evelyn “Champagne” King - Face To Face (1983) (LP) - €10,00

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Face to Face is the sixth album released by R&B singer Evelyn "Champagne" King on RCA Records in 1983. It was produced by André Cymone, Leon Sylvers III, Foster Sylvers, and Joey Gallo.
Straying from the post-disco sound prominent in her most commercially successful releases I'm in Love and Get Loose she embarked on a "punk funk" sound, moving towards the musical territory of Prince and the alike. 
In charge of the album production and musical direction was Leon Sylvers III, SOLAR Records producer known for his work for Shalamar and The Whispers, and Andre Cymone, a former bass player for Prince, replacing Kashif and Paul Lawrence Jones III. 
The years 1981 and 1982 could be described as Evelyn "Champagne" King's Kashif period. 
Working with producer/songwriter Kashif on 1981's I'm in Love and 1982's Get Loose, the East Coast singer provided some of the most rewarding and essential albums of her career. 
But King's Kashif period ended with 1983's Face to Face, which found her restoring the "Champagne" moniker (on I'm in Love and Get Loose, she was only listed as Evelyn King rather than Evelyn "Champagne" King) and working with different producers. 
The material on Face to Face, which was King's sixth album, was produced by either André Cymone (Prince's former bassist) or the team of Leon Sylvers III, Foster Sylvers, and Joey Gallo, and all of those producers push King in the direction of the dancefloor.
Quiet storm listeners aren't exactly a high priority on Face to Face; except for the slow jam "Makin' Me So Proud," this is an exuberant, highly energetic synth-funk/urban album with a lot of dancefloor appeal. And some of these jams incorporate new wave elements. 
This is true of "Don't It Feel Good," "Let's Get Crazy," and "Givin' You My Love (What Cha Gonna Do with It)," as well as the title song and "Tell Me Something Good" (not to be confused with the Rufus/Chaka Khan hit from 1974). 
Another tune with new wave elements is "Teenager," which is arguably the best thing on the album and combines that new wave influence with an appreciation of '60s soul-pop; "Teenager" is urban contemporary, new wave, and '60s-influenced all at the same time. 
And for 1983, it wasn't all that unusual for an R&B artist to be influenced by new wave; that year, new wave was affecting everyone from Prince and the Time to the Pointer Sisters to Shalamar to Nona Hendryx to the Mary Jane Girls. 
In 1983, some of King's fans were, understandably, wishing that she had continued to work with Kashif. Nonetheless, Face to Face is a generally fun, if uneven, listen even though it isn't among King's essential albums and isn't recommended to casual listeners.


Side one
1.  Action - 5:50  
2.  Face To Face - 4:55  
3.  Shake Down - 6:20  
4.  Tell Me Something Good - 5:10  

Side two
1.  Don’t It Feel Good - 4:07  
2.  Makin’ Me So Proud - 4:17  
3.  Givin’ You My Love (What Cha Gonna Do With It) - 4:39  
4.  Teenager - 3:40  
5.  Let’s Get Crazy - 3:59 


Companies, etc.
Credits

Notes
Release:  1983
Format:  LP
Genre:  Soul
Label:  RCA Records
Catalog#  PL 84725

Vinyl:  Excellent
Cover:  Excellent

Prijs: €10,00

december 17, 2022

The Cats - Take Me With You (1970) (LP) - €4,99

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Take me with you is een muziekalbum van The Cats uit 1970. Op een nummer van Peter Schoonhoven na, werden alle nummers geschreven door de vijf Cats-leden zelf. 
Schoonhoven had in die tijd een creatieve functie bij Bovema, de platenmaatschappij van The Cats, en speelde verder in Fresh Air uit Haarlem. 
Hiermee zetten The Cats de ontwikkeling van eigen nummers voort. Ook werd er niet geheel tegemoetgekomen aan de wensen van het grote publiek, wat bijvoorbeeld te zien is aan het langdurige nummer Lonely walk. Cees Veerman vertelde aan journalist Jip Golsteijn over deze elpee: "Take me with you greep ons ook heel erg aan. We hadden eigenlijk voor het eerst het gevoel iets heel goeds gemaakt te hebben."
Over het algemeen een redelijk goed album met als uitschieters de hit "Where have I been wrong", het titelnummer, "Don't waste my time" en "Lonely walk" en het door drummer Theo Klouwer gezongen "Irish" en de Jaap Schilder-bijdrage "I love you". 
De groep heeft al 3 behoorlijk goede vocalisten (Piet en Cees Veerman en Arnold Muhren). 
De elpee stond 21 weken in de albumlijst en behaalde de nummer 1-positie en de goudstatus. Verschillende nummers van dit album worden gezongen in de documentaire The Cats in Indonesië (maart 1971).


Side one
1.  Where Have I Been Wrong - 5:13
2.  Take Me With You - 3:00
3.  Don’t Waste My Time - 2:32
4.  Phone Call - 3:18
5.  Five Little Tears - 2:42
6.  Crying Like I’ve Never Done Before - 4:22

Side two
1.  I Don’t Know - 2:38
2.  I Walk Through The Fields - 3:52
3.  If I Could Make You Blue - 2:25
4.  Irish - 2:10
5.  I Love You - 3:30
6.  Lonely Walk - 6:10


Companies, etc.
Credits

Notes
Released:  1970
Format:  LP
Genre:  Pop
Label:  Imperial Records ‎
Catalog#  5C 054-24320

Vinyl:  Good
Cover:  Good

Prijs: €4,99

december 13, 2022

Bobby Womack - Womagic (1986) (LP) - €4,99

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Robert Dwayne Womack (March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career spanned more than 60 years and multiple styles, including R&B, jazz, soul, rock and roll, doo-wop, and gospel.

Womagic is the seventeenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bobby Womack. The album was released in 1986, by MCA Records.


Side one
1.  (I Wanna) Make Love To You - 4:22
2.  When The Weekend Comes - 5:33
3.  The Things We Do (When We’re Lonely) - 3:51
4.  I Can’t Stay Mad - 4:13

Side two
1.  Can’tcha Hear The Children Calling - 4:34
2.  Outside Myself - 3:17
3.  I Aint Got To Love Nobody Else - 3:20
4.  More Than Love - 3:25
5.  It Ain’t Me - 4:45


Companies, etc.
Credits
Notes
Release:  1986
Format:  LP
Genre:  Soul
Label:  MCA Records
Catalog#  MCG 6020

Vinyl:  VG+
Cover:  Good

Prijs: €4,99

december 12, 2022

Deodato - Motion (1984) (LP) - €10,00

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Motion, released in 1984, is an electronic affair. Deodato fully engaged the keyboard-drenched production of the 1980s and it is in full flower here, with Linn and DMX drums programmed all over the place to further enhance the multiple layers of synthesizers that coat every cut. 
In fact, the very notion of song takes a back seat to the terrain of sound itself. This is music for the dance club, but it has little to do with disco -- its rhythms are looped and linked but remain utterly uninteresting, and the sonics, while bright and silvery, are paper thin. 
The album's single was "Never Knew Love," a characteristic bit of urban pop-funk tossed into the mix for balance. Katreese Barnes' lead vocals are a breath of fresh air after the futuristic funk catastrophe of "S.O.S., Fire in the Sky." 
The funky disco fusion of "Bus Stop" is catchy but utterly unimaginative. In fact, most of this record sounds like it could have been cranked out in Deodato's sleep. 


Side one
1.  S.O.S. Fire In The Sky - 6:15  
2.  Never Knew Love - 5:44  
3.  Bus Stop - 7:02  

Side two
1.  Motion - 6:10  
2.  Are You For Real - 5:07  
3.  Make You Feel Good - 6:07 
        

Companies, etc.
Credits

Notes
Release:  1984
Format:  LP
Genre:  Disco, Dance pop
Label:  Warner Bros. Records
Catalog#  925175-1

Vinyl:  Excellent
Cover:  Excellent

Prijs: €10,00

december 11, 2022

Het Goede Doel - Tempo Doeloe (1983) (LP) - €10,00

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Tempo doeloe is het in 1983 verschenen tweede album van de Nederlandse muziekgroep Het Goede Doel.

De plaat werd wisselend ontvangen; fans van de band vonden het album beter dan het vorige; de critici vonden het minder. De teksten zijn soms wat geforceerd om de rijm. Het album haalde nog wel goud, maar zou het succes van eersteling België niet evenaren.
Na het overdonderende debuut met al die hits was dit album wel iets andere koek natuurlijk. Qua stijl en nummers bedoel ik dan. 
Op "Eenvoud" na staan er eigenlijk geen hitgevoelige nummers op voor mijn gevoel. "Geboren voor het geluk" werd dan wel op single uitgebracht en is ook een geweldig nummer.

Alle nummers zijn geschreven door Henk Temming en Henk Westbroek en gearrangeerd door Het Goede Doel. 


Side one
1.  Eenvoud - 3:30  
2.  Brood En Spelen - 4:05  
3.  Tolerantie - 4:07  
4.  Ergens Ben Ik Nergens - 4:07  
5.  Geboren Voor Het Geluk - 5:30  

Side two
1.  Tempo Doeloe - 5:15  
2.  Blij Dat Ik Je Weer Zie - 6:20  
3.  Babies - 4:02  
4.  De Plaat Sloeg Af En Het Gesprek Viel Stil - 6:07 


Companies, etc.
Credits
Notes
Release:  1983
Format:  LP
Genre:  Nederpop
Label:  CNR Records
Catalog#  671010

Vinyl:  Excellent
Cover:  Excellent

Prijs: €10,00

Ad Visser - Sobriëtas (1982) (LP) - €10,00

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Ad Visser is natuurlijk een cult-held voor een bepaalde generatie, noemt zich nu Multi-Media Performer. Zijn project Sobriëtas bestaat uit de gelijknamige door hemzelf geschreven roman (uitgave Meulenhoff) plus een bijbehorend album met synthesizermuziek dat de soundtrack van het boek vormt.

Grootgebracht met Top Pop, het wekelijkse moment om je te laven aan de nieuwe hits. 
Maar Ad Visser was ook de man achter Supercleandreammachine. Dit album van Ad Visser past veel meer bij Supercleandreammachine dan bij Top Pop. Het is een Space Opera staat er op de hoes en is een soundtrack bij een novelle van Ad Visser met dezelfde titel. Supercleandreammachine wordt trouwens ook op de binnenhoes aangehaald.
Dan de muziek. Eerlijk is eerlijk, verwacht hier geen top album. Ad Visser kan redelijk overweg met zijn Korg synthesizers , drumcomputers, en Vocoders en zoekt daarin een weg tussen de zware Duitse synths (Tangerine Dream) en de wat lichtere Franse (Jean Michel Jarre). 
Uiteindelijk is het meer Jarré dan Tangerine Dreams. 
De melodieën zijn niet erg sterk, de uitvoering niet verrassend, maar op zich niet slecht. Een zekere Ron Martin moet ook hebben meegespeeld. 
Geen idee wat het verhaal achter deze plaat is (de novelle nooit gelezen). De plaat is uitgekomen begin jaren 80, waarbij de synths natuurlijk erg populair waren bij een bepaalde stroming (Depeche Mode, Yazoo etc) maar juist de zware synthesizer muziek aan populariteit inbond. 
Maar Ad Visser heeft volgens mij altijd gedaan wat hij leuk vond, lak had aan van alles en deze plaat op de markt heeft gebracht. 
Op dit album, het nummer Giddyap a Gogo met de toen bekende zanger Daniël Sahuleka was eigenlijk een best goed nummer. En nog een hit ook.


Side one
1.  Overture In “S” - 4:28  
2.  March Of Hope - 4:50  
3.  Delicate Balance - 3:30  
4.  Nostalgia For Earth - 8:48  

Side two
1.  Giddyap A Gogo  (Sung by Daniel Sahuleka)- 4:50  
2.  Relief Of Demorzan - 5:28  
3.  Adventure (Restless Breed)  (Sung by: Daniel Sahuleka) - 4:44  
4.  A Last Farewell - 4:00 


Companies, etc.
Credits
Notes
Release:  1982
Format:  LP
Genre:  Synth-pop, Experimental, Ambient
Label:  CBS Records
Catalog#  85990

Vinyl:  Excellent
Cover:  Excellent (Gatefold)

Prijs: €10,00

december 10, 2022

Chic - Take It Off (1981) (LP) - €10,00

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Take It Off is the fifth studio album by American R&B band Chic, released on Atlantic Records in November 16, 1981. 
It includes the single "Stage Fright", which reached number 35 on the US R&B chart, but was the first Chic single failing to enter the US Pop charts, and this album only proved to be moderately successful as well, stalling at number 124 on the US albums chart and number 36 on the R&B chart.
In 1981, a lot of rock & rollers were claiming that the disco era was officially over. Disco, of course, never really died -- a lot of the dance-pop, house music, Hi-NRG, and Latin freestyle that was recorded in the '80s and '90s was essentially disco -- but as far as many of the radio stations and record company A&R men of 1981 were concerned, disco was dead. And that was bad news for Chic, a group closely identified with the disco era. 
Even though a lot of Chic's work had as much to do with funk and soul as it did with the Euro-disco sound, Chic was unable to live down its reputation as a disco group. 
But Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards gave it a try with 1981's Take It Off, an admirable, if uneven, project that finds the group downplaying the Euro-disco elements. With R&B and funk as the foundation, Chic tries to branch out by incorporating elements of pop-rock on "Your Love Is Canceled," and jazz on "Flash Back" and "So Fine" (which shouldn't be confused with the "So Fine" that Kashif produced for R&B singer Howard Johnson in 1982). 
In fact, a few of Rogers' guitar solos give the impression that he'd been listening to a lot of Wes Montgomery. But as likable as the LP is, it didn't contain a major hit -- the single "Stage Fright" only made it to #34 on Billboard's R&B singles chart. 
 

Side one        
1.  Stage Fright - 3:55  
2.  Burn Hard - 5:12  
3.  So Fine - 4:10  
4.  Flash Back - 4:28  
5.  Telling Lies - 2:28  

Side two
1.  Your Love Is Cancelled - 4:12  
2.  Would You Be My Baby - 3:34  
3.  Take It Off - 5:12  
4.  Just Out Of Reach - 3:45  
5.  Baby Doll - 3:10 


Personnel
Production

Notes
Release:  1981
Format:  LP
Genre:  Soul, Funk
Label:  Atlantic Records
Catalog#  19323

Vinyl:  Excellent
Cover:  Excellent

Prijs: €10,00

december 08, 2022

Steely Dan - Gaucho (1980) (LP) - €10,00

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Gaucho is the seventh studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released on November 21, 1980, by MCA Records. The sessions for Gaucho represent the band's typical penchant for studio perfectionism and obsessive recording technique. 
To record the album, the band used at least 42 different musicians, spent over a year in the studio, and far exceeded the original monetary advance given by the record label. 
In 1981, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording and received Grammy nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

Even the melody of “Gaucho” just throws the singer’s questions back at him, jumping up the scale as his intonation rises, swooping down as his voice trails off in bewilderment, echoing and exaggerating his phrasing. Naturally, the guy gets a little hysterical as the game goes on, but not so much so that he can’t remember details — such as everything that freaky gaucho was wearing. To Steely Dan’s constantly talking heads, surfaces seem very clear. It’s only people who are indistinct: shadow figures, possibly hallucinations, always unknown quantities.

But sometimes that’s a godsend. In “Hey Nineteen,” the satire is straightforward enough. Between a thirty-five-year-old’s nostalgia and a nineteen-year-old’s nonchalance, there’s not a lot of rapport (“No we can’t talk at all”). Yet the composition ends in a blessedly fuzzy epiphany, with the generation gap bridged by Cuervo Gold and fine Columbian. The labels are important — Steely Dan’s characters seem to know the world exclusively through brand names. These characters are the true “heads”: solitarily confined intelligences who’ve had to order all their experience from a catalog. But oh, with the right blurring agents, not knowing can be a beautiful thing.

It’s always been a problem with Steely Dan to figure out who’s being ironic about whom: Walter Becker and Donald Fagen’s cynicism blasts pretty indiscriminately. In the past, the saxophone used to give you a clue. On Katy Lied, it played the warm substance to Dr. Wu’s sinister shadow. On Aja, it was Deacon Blue’s salvation, and the LP’s as well. But the horns on Gaucho don’t cut loose — they lick at the melody.

There is no release. Potentially passionate outbursts, like the guitars at the end of “Third World Man,” are damped down fast by cool, muted choruses. And whenever something wholly satisfying and seemingly spontaneous does slip out — e.g., the line about the Santa Ana winds in “Babylon Sisters” — you wait almost forever for it to be repeated.

After years of hibernation in the studio, the metamorphosis that began with The Royal Scam is complete. Steely Dan have perfected the aesthetic of the tease. Their sound is as slippery as their irony. Are those the trumpets of angels near the end of the title tune? Could that slouching gaucho, the one denied a room in the singer’s high-rise inn, be the new messiah? On Gaucho, the melodies are questions, too — long-winded, probing, unresolved.

There are people who will tell you that that’s not enough. That Steely Dan have fallen into the dread imitative fallacy, making a record as desolate as the self-absorbed paranoids they describe. But I don’t think so. For all their sneering sendups of the superficial, the current and the hip — their name-dropping characters, those Szechuan dumplings at Mr. Chow’s — they take a sensualist’s delight in names and surfaces. Donald Fagen’s tongue slithers over a phrase like “Brut and charisma,” tasting the syllables, appreciating the copywriter’s wit in the civilized machismo of the continental spelling. That appreciation of, and absorption in, detail lends substance to Steely Dan’s obsession with surfaces. And, accuracy being satire’s cutting edge, it also makes their songs funnier than their characters realize.


Side one
1.  Babylon Sisters - 5:51
2.  Hey Nineteen - 5:04
3.  Glamour Profession - 7:28

Side two
1.  Gaucho - 5:32
2.  Time Out Of Mind - 4:10
3.  My Rival - 4:30
4.  Third World Man - 5:14


Steely Dan
  • Donald Fagen – lead vocals, backing vocals, synthesizer (2–6), electric piano (2–5), organ (6)
  • Walter Becker – bass (2, 4, 5), guitar (2, 5), guitar solo (4

Additional musicians
Production
  • Producer: Gary Katz
  • Executive producers: Paul Bishow, Roger Nichols
  • Executive engineer: Roger Nichols
  • Assistant engineers: John "Doc" Daugherty, Gerry Gabinelli, Craig Goetsch, Tom Greto, Barbara Isaak, Georgia Offrell, John Potoker, Linda Randazzo, Marti Robertson, Carla Bandini
  • Production coordination: Jeff Fura, Margaret Goldfarb, Shannon Steckloff
  • Mixing: Elliot Scheiner
  • Coordination: Michael Etchart
  • Sequencing: Roger Nichols, Wendel
  • Tracking: Elliot Scheiner, Bill Schnee
  • Mastering: Bob Ludwig
  • Overdubs: Jerry Garszva, Roger Nichols
  • Surround mix: Elliot Scheiner
  • Rhythm arrangements: Paul Griffin, Don Grolnick, Rob Mounsey, Steely Dan
  • Horn arrangements: Rob Mounsey, Tom Scott
  • Piano technician: Don Farrar
  • Special effects: Roger Nichols, Wendel
  • Consultant: Daniel Levitin
  • Art direction: Vartan, Suzanne Walsh
  • Design: Michael Diehl, Suzanne Walsh
  • Design assistant: John Tom Cohoe
  • Photography: Rene Burri
  • Photo research: Ryan Null
  • Liner notes: Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, Frank Kafka (actually Franz Kafka)
  • Liner note translation: Victor Di Suvero

Notes
Release:  1980
Format:  LP
Genre:  Jazz-fusion, Yacht rock
Label:  MCA Records
Catalog#   203192

Vinyl:  Excellent
Cover:  Excellent

Prijs: €10,00

december 07, 2022

Partner - On Second Thoughts (1979) (LP) - €6,99

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Partner was een Nederlandse band uit Limburg. De band maakte vooral Amerikaans klinkende popmuziek. Ze was actief tussen 1977 en 1981.

Partner leverde kwalitatief hoogstaande popmuziek af en bestond uit muzikanten die hun instrumenten uitstekend beheersten.
On Second Thoughts, hun tweede elpee, is wat steviger en meer down to earth dan hun debuut album. 
De eerste 2 songs zijn echte rocksongs die meteen blijven hangen en waar alles aan klopt !
Vooral "Running Around" staat als een huis van mij hadden ze deze stijl wel op het hele album mogen tonen (stevige rock dus).

Dan lijkt "Wish I Was Back" in eerste instantie wat tegen te vallen (lijkt wel een slaapliedje) maar de stevige solo op het eind maakt het toch de moeite waard.
Partner klinkt af en toe wat te braaf en dat is jammer, "I'll Be Waiting for You" heeft flauwe zanglijnen maar het instrumentale jazzy tussenstuk is dan weer van grote klasse.

De volgende 4 songs zijn gedegen MOR songs waar de gitaarsolo's van Bert Bessems het zaakje regelmatig boven de middelmaat uittillen en waar "Look over Your Shoulder" toch wel knap in elkaar zit.
Met "Never Told Her" is er weer een compacte rocksong te horen wat ik toch liever van ze hoor, daar lijkt het begin van "Your Smile" ook op te wijzen maar helaas zwalkt het alle kanten op had volgens mij meer in gezeten.


Side one
1.  Quitting The Fool’s Parade - 4:08
2.  Running Around - 3:11
3.  Wish I Was Back - 4:33
4.  I’ll Be Waiting For You - 3:32
5.  Throw It All Away - 3:25

Side two
1.  A Song May Tell - 3:11
2.  Another Night - 4:08
3.  Look Over Your Shoulder - 4:39
4.  Never Told Her - 4:10
5.  Your Smile - 4:50


Companies, etc.
Credits

Notes
Release:  1979
Format:  LP
Genre:  Pop, Rock
Label:  Philips Records
Catalog#  6423 141

Vinyl:  VG
Cover:  VG

Prijs: €6,99

december 06, 2022

John Travolta - John Travolta (1978) (LP) - €10,00

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Otherwise similar to John Travolta - Greased Lightnin'  Sandy, but with additional text 'Beperkte oplage - Transparant vinyl' on front sleeve.
The album is self titled - Greased Lightnin' * Sandy are just highlighted tracks
Printed in The Netherlands


Side one
1.  Greased Lightnin’ - 3:12  
2.  I Don’t Know What I Like About You Baby - 2:15  
3.  Baby, I Could Be So Good At Lovin’ You - 3:08  
4.  Big Trouble - 2:41  
5.  It Had To Be You - 2:34  
6.  Good Night Mr. Moon - 3:18  
7.  Right Time Of The Night - 3:07  

Side two
1.  Sandy - 2:30  
2.  Let Her In - 3:30  
3.  Never Gonna Fall In Love Again - 3:26  
4.  Rainbows - 2:23  
5.  A Girl Like You - 4:55  
6.  Razzamatazz - 3:08 
 

Companies, etc.
Credits

Notes
Release:  1978
Format:  LP
Genre:  Pop
Label:  Midsong International 
Catalog#   JT-65000 

Vinyl:  Excellent (Transparant Vinyl)
Cover:  Excellent

Prijs: €10,00

Roxy Music - Greatest Hits (1977) (LP) - €10,00

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Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the English band Roxy Music. It was released in 1977, when the band were on hiatus.

The first Roxy Music hits collection, released during the hiatus that divided Siren from Manifesto, was a straightforward rendering of all but one ("Both Ends Burning") of the band's UK hits, buoyed by an intelligent selection of key album tracks - US radio fave "Do The Strand", the pulsating "Editions Of You" and so on.
Divided neatly between the Eno and Eddie Jobson eras of the band, Greatest Hits was most valuable at the time for finally placing "Virginia Plain" and "Pyjamarama" on a British album release (the former was included on the American edition of the band's debut) - hopes that the set might also find room for the string of non-album b-sides that graced the band's 45s were, however, dashed as Greatest Hits went for the commercial, rather than the collectible jugular.

The band's first hit, "Virginia Plain", was re-released ahead of the album, peaking at number 11 in the UK (the original 1972 release had peaked at number 4). 
The edited version of "The Thrill of It All" is unique to this release, while the released single version (3:20) is available the 2012 boxed set Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings. "Mother of Pearl" is an edit in that it does not crossfade into the next song, as it does on the 1973 album Stranded. 
The version of "Pyjamarama" on this collection is a remix of the original 1973 single which is also available on The Complete Studio Recordings, as well as the 1977 Polydor reissue of the "Virginia Plain" single.
Still, it's a nice introduction for those who needed one, a smart souvenir for everyone else, and a vivid reminder that, for five years through the early-mid 1970s, Roxy really did release some phenomenal 45s. 


Side one
1.  Virginia Plain - 2:56  
2.  Do The Strand - 4:00  
3.  All I Want Is You - 2:51  
4.  Out Of The Blue - 4:48  
5.  Pyjamarama - 2:52  
6.  Editions Of You - 3:47  

Side two
1.  Love Is The Drug - 4:07  
2.  Mother Of Pearl - 6:45  
3.  A Song For Europe - 5:45  
4.  The Thrill Of It All - 4:20  
5.  Street Life - 3:24 


Roxy Music
Companies, etc.
Credits

Notes
Release:  1977
Format:  LP
Genre:  Art Rock
Label:  Polydor Records 
Catalog#   2310575 

Vinyl:  Excellent
Cover:  Excellent

Prijs: €10,00