30-04-2021

The Move Shazam

The second album in the discography of the band from Birmingham. About this album say it - a bridge between the pop singles of the group late 60s and Electric Light Orchestra .. A mixture of Californian psychedelia, heavy metal riffs, thundering drums and quotations from classical composers - the album was warmly received by music critics, and among fans as the best album of The Move. The last album, where the vocalist was Carl Wayne. Shazam music reflects the dichotomy that existed in the group, like split personality: one side of the plate consists of original songs of their own, the second - from covers of other people's. Wayne pleases as a vocalist for its wide range, from hard rock falsetto ('Hello Susie') to the touching and gentle voices in the ballad 'Beautiful Daughter'. He plays the role of master of ceremonies, leading between songs, comments, takes interviews with different people, find out their attitude towards pop music, etc. One can easily imagine him in a tuxedo and bow tie leading cabaret .. Things like 'Hello Susie' and 'Do not Make My Baby Blue' with their distorted (through the effect of 'distortion') riffs and drums sounded monstroidnymi It would be quite a place on the debut album Black Sabbath (not by accident, drummer Bev Bevan in 1983-84 traveled on tour with Black Sabbath, and in 1987 enrolled in their album The Eternal Idol). Wood Song 'Hello Susie' was originally performed by British pop band Amen Corner and got into the Top 5, but it was Amen Corner poppy variant, performs faster. The Move made it much harder. The Move also made a new version of its controversial superhit 'Cherry Blossom Clinic', calling it 'Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited' - the first verse Wayne does not sing, and timidly pronounces, at a slower pace, this time without the violins and brass, but implemented in her whole medley of classical music, including Bach and Tchaikovsky, played on the guitar. Drummer scourged Beavan said Shazam best album The Move, and agree with him many fans. In Wood's album is associated with unpleasant memories of that time. As soon record an album, the manager again, Walsh launched a group tour of the English theater. This finally finished off Wood. One night, Wood did not get along with the owner of the cabaret, he called him 'fagot' and Wood launched his glass. Behind the scenes of Wayne 'hit' on Wood. As a result, intsindenta, the original spirit of the group died .. more charismatic Wayne had hoped to revive the old structure, calling back guitarist Trevor Burton and bassist Chris 'Ace' Kefforda, but were against the other (that is totally different) charismatic Roy Wood and scourged Beavan .. Knowing that Wood is planning a new project of orchestral rock with Jeff Lynne, Wayne suggested Voodoo fully concentrate on the new group, and continue to write songs for The Move. But Wood refused, and as a result the group has left himself Wayne, and even before the album was released Shazam. Instead, Carl Wayne The Move came Jeff Lynne .. In this edition of the original album added 8 bonuses as they were selected, by what criterion - I do not understand and do not advise you to understand ..

All tracks written by Roy Wood except where noted.
01. Hello Susie - 5:19
02. Beautiful Daughter - 2:35
03. Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited - 7:40
04. Fields Of People (Wyatt Day / Jon Pierson) - 10:54
05. Do not Make My Baby Blue (Barry Mann / Cynthia Weil) - 6:13
06. The Last Thing On My Mind (Tom Paxton) - 7:34
Bonuses:
07. This Time Tomorrow (Dave Morgan) - 3:40
08. A Certain Something (Dave Morgan) - 3:42
09. Curly (alternate mix) - 2:42
10. Wild Tiger Woman (stereo mix) - 2:52
11. Omnibus (full-length version) - 4:07
12. Something (demo version) (Dave Morgan) - 3:57
13. This Time Tomorrow (demo version) (Dave Morgan) - 2:31
14. Blackberry Way (alternate mix) - 3:37
- Roy Wood - guitars, vocals, producer (01-06)
- Carl Wayne - lead vocals, producer (01-06)
- Rick Price - vocals, bass, producer (01-06)
- Bev Bevan - drums, percussion
- Tony Visconti - bass (02), producer (08), recorder (08), string and woodwind arrangements
- Mike Hurst - producer (07,09)
- Denny Cordell - producer (08,10,11)
- Trevor Burton - bass (08,10,11,14), vocals (08,10,11,14), lead guitar (12)
- Nicky Hopkins - piano (08,10,11)
- Glyn Johns - producer (10,11)
- Dave Morgan - guitar (12,13)
- Richard Tandy - bass (12), harpsichord (14)
- Jimmy Miller - producer (14)

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An effortlessly entertaining blend of humor and heart, Shazam! Is a superhero movie that never forgets the genre's real power: joyous wish fulfillment. Regardless, 'Shazam' is the product of a finely tuned, massively talented incarnation of the Move. This album is full of wonderful arrangements, stretching the musical talents of the group's members, and certainly withstands the test of time, sounding as relevant in 2009 s it did when it first hit record shops in 1970. For years now, fans have sworn up and down that they grew up on a cheesy '90s movie called Shazaam. In this 'movie,' Sinbad plays a bumbling genie who grants wishes to two children and takes them on a journey. According to some people, the two children accidentally summon Shazaam and wish for their dad to fall in love again.

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The Move

A&M 4359
Released: 1970

The Move's new album, Shazam, is an honest, happy child of that heavily electronic brand of rock and roll which was born of the Who and later massively popularized by Cream and their imitators.

Those tens of thousands of tours they've endured have paid off handsomely for the Move: their music, both in performance and on this album, is structured and flowing. Shazam is a brutally energetic rock and roll album.

It opens with 'Hello Susie,' which, in a substantially different form, was a large hit by a popular British teenybopper act called Amen Corner a while back. The Move introduced it during their American visit with some sarcastic remarks about how they'd restored it to its original state, and surely their own version will make even the hardiest teeny wilt with horror. Devastatingly brutal and containing some absolutely lewd guitar, it's sung with unutterable viciousness by lead-singer Carl Wayne, who, delivering some of the nastiest growling ever captured on vinyl, sounds like he'd just as soon bite off Susie's head as look at her.

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'Beautiful Daughter,' a tuneful little pop ditty embellished by a string section that sounds like it just arrived from a McCartney session, is a definite throwback to the first Move album (The Move Regal Zonophone SLRZ 1002), where, between the occasional syrupy Paulie imitations are to be found: an hilarious drummer Bev Bevan-sung duplicate of the Coasters' comic adaptation of 'Zing Went the Strings of My Heart'; the magnificent Duane-Eddy-reverb-guitar-decorated 'Fire Brigade'; a great copy of Eddie Cochran's 'Weekend' sung by nasty little bass-guitarist Trevor Burton with enormous greasy zeal; the charming Gilbert & Sullivan-cum-electricity-cum-acid 'Flowers in the Rain'; and five or so lovely helpings of the early Move's catchily simple, vocal-dominated and mildly strident, and distinctively British rock and roll.

In 'Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited,' an adaptation of a charming song about confinement in a mental hospital from that first album, the Move show us all their new tricks. Poundingly rocking and energetic, its orgasmic choruses are yanked in by siren-screech guitar-slides from Wood, after the last of which there appears a short acoustic bridge that introduces an amazing series of composed movements that alternately feature a baroque Spanish guitar line in front of Rick Price's stalkingly sinister bass, explosive drumming, and finally a choral repetition in falsetto of the baroque guitar line. The walls of the Whisky very nearly crumbled when the Move performed this one there last October.

'Don't Make My Baby Blue' is a Mann-Weill semi-schlocker which the Move have converted into a stunning display of all the techniques that characterize the most compelling, 'heavy' rock and roll. Wood here employs a monstrously ferocious Jimmy-Pagish guitar tone that he makes work perfectly in the context of the song. He slices the song in half in the middle with a screechingly dissonant wah-wah explosion that will floor you, and then at the end hands it over to Bev, whose drum explosion signals the torrent of sirenish harmonies that end the song.

'The Last Thing On My Mind' clinches it: what the Move here do with Tom Paxton compares quite favorably with anything the Byrds ever did with Dylan. And perhaps not coincidentally, the Move use all the Byrds' tricks, right down to the dense-sounding twelve-string guitar and massive high choruses that will remind you of jets taking off.

Do what you can to pervent this from being the last Move album. Petition Regal Zonophone in England or A&M (who's still sitting stupidly on the first album, afraid to release it). Or write your congressman. The Move must be kept going to give us more albums like this one.

- John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, Adobe acrobat reader 11 free download for mac. 5/14/70.

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This set has been expectantly awaited for some time and the wait was well worth it. The Move here is overpowering in one of the best underground albums of the year to date. Advance raves are borne out by this British quartet. 'Hellow People is a winner as is the inventive extended 'Fields of People.' Tom Paxton's 'The Last Thing on My Mind' also is a top cut here.

- Billboard, 1970.

Its enthusiasts to the contrary, this is hardly the greatest rock and roll record ever to thump down the pike. It's just an artier version of the overly self-conscious mode I call stupid-rock, simultaneously gartantuan and prissy, like dinosaurs gallumphing through the tulips. Java 8 jdk 64 bit mac download. It would be a lot worse if it weren't so funny, but it would also be a lot less funny if it were a little better. Recommended to Stooges fans who have just found a five dollar bill. B-

- Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide, 1981.

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The single most accomplished album to be recorded by any of the Birmingham rock bands (which include The Moody Blues), Shazam is sort of Sgt. Pepper with an attitude, a mixture of expansive progressive-rock worthy of The Beatles and high energy music honed by years of playing loud on stage. The rendition of Tom Paxton's 'The Last Thing on My Mind' pushes these guys simultaneously into Byrds and Jimi Hendrix territory, while 'Beautiful Daughter' is one of the most unabashedly pretty records of this era, and 'Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited' is defiantly strange. The album only exists as an import from Japan, paired up on one CD with the earlier Flowers in the Rain album (all songs in print domesticallly or a better German version filled out with five live tracks from London's Marquee Club, off of the super-rare Something Else EP). * * * * *

- Richie Unterberger, The All-Music Guide to Rock, 1995.

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Shazam shows the band in all its eclectic glory, from incandescent folk-pop to full-blown pomp. * * * 1/2

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- Simon Glickman, Musichound Rock: The Essential Album Guide, 1996.

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