Исполнитель: Alex Harvey
Box Set: Considering The Situation (The Definitive 2-CD Antology)
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Стиль: blue-eyed soul, hard, glam and theatrical rock
Продолжительность: 02:33:28
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Антология Alex Harvey на двух CD - это сольные композиции, живые выступления, а так же ранее не издававшиеся. Издание включает в себя 26 страничный буклет с фотографиями и дополнительной информацией на английском языке.
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A 2 CD anthology spanning the entire career of Alex Harvey from his early solo outings through The Alex Harvey Soul Band, his brief stay in the "Hair" house band and his seminal work fronting the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Feartures three previously unreleased tracks including Alex's solo recording of old SAHB favorites, "Isobel Goudie" and "The Harp", plus 'Elevator Rock'. 37 tracks with a slipcase. Universal. 2003.
The career of British rocker Alex Harvey is given a retrospective on this two-disc set, which reaches back to his earliest solo work and includes his best-known material with the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Included are three tracks not previously released.
Following on from the flood of generally interchangeable Alex Harvey/SAHB compilations that emerged during the 1980s and 1990s, Considering the Situation - at last! - is the first to actually sit down and figure out exactly what it is trying to do. Harvey's importance and influence have never been in doubt; neither has the sheer quality of the 20 years worth of recordings that preceded his death in 1982. Yet past attempts to corral this vast canon have always foundered around an obsession with the SAHB years. This collection, although it is still one full CD short of perfect, at least avoids that mistake.
The package is, sensibly, divided into two very separate halves. Disc one, "the early years," covers Harvey's meanderings through the 1960s, via the Hamburg veteran Soul Band, a handful of solo projects, his stint with the musical Hair and sundry short-lived band projects. It is not exhaustive - three of his period singles (and almost all the b-sides) are absent, while his four albums are barely scratched. Still it is difficult to quibble with a package that exhumes one previously unreleased (as opposed to simply hopelessly rare) Soul Band cut, plus two more tracks reconstructed from abandoned LP sessions towards the end of the 1960s - all the more so since those latter numbers, "Isabel Goudie" and "The Harp", are more familiar from SAHB's own canon than from Harvey's solo career. They join, incidentally, six other 60s-era songs that Harvey would later return to, most notably the so-evocative "Roman Wall Blues", reborn at the end of his life as "Soldier On The Wall".
Onto disc two and the bulk is devoted to a reasonably seamless survey of SAHB's eight albums. Rarities this time are at a premium - the aforementioned "The Harp", the non-album flip of the "Big Louie" single closes disc one, but there's no room for fellow b-sides, the live "St Anthony" or the immortal "Satchel & The Scalp Hunter". No out-takes or oddities either, and the absence of a few other SAHB classics - "Amos Moses", "Anthem" and "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" among them - may rankle. Similarly, the compiler's decision to follow conventional wisdom and pluck just one track apiece from the band's last two albums is one that should be questioned, all the more so since "Boston Tea Party" and "Water Beastie" both insist that those records demand some serious re-evaluation.
More disturbing is the complete absence of any reference to Harvey's final years, following the demise of SAHB. The album closes with a 40 second snippet from his Presents The Loch Ness Monster album (itself as elusive as the monster itself), but there's nothing from either the The Mafia Stole My Guitar or Soldier On The Wall albums, a failing that - more than any other - hamstrings the collection's claims to be "definitive."
Of course, such complaints are rendered academic not only by the vast riches that are included, but also by the fact that this collection even exists in the first place. How much easier would it have been, after all, for the label to simply slap together another SAHB best of, and save themselves the wealth of vault-scraping that surely comprised disc one? In terms of what it could have been, Considering The Situation is disappointing. But in terms of what it is, it's the greatest Alex Harvey compilation ever.
~ Dave Thompson
• Audio Mixer: Paschal Byrne.
• Audio Remasterer: Paschal Byrne.
• Recording information: 1964.
• Arranger: Alex Harvey
ru.wikipedia.org
Sensational Alex Harvey Band — британская рок-группа, образовавшаяся в 1972 году в Глазго, шотландия, когда Алекс Харви присоединился к четырем бывшим участникам прог-рок-группы Tear Gas. Некоторое время Sensational Alex Harvey Band считались частью глэм-движения, но очень скоро стали создавать эклектичную, разнообразную музыку с элементами блюз,- сёрф,- шок- и симфо-рока. Определяющим фактором развития группы являлся сам Харви с его эксцентричными манерами, богатым воображением и всеобъемлющим музыкальным мировоззрением.
Коммерческий успех в Британии группе принесли два сингла:
"Delilah" (версия хита Тома Джонса, # 7, 1975) и "The Boston Tea Party" (# 13, 1976).
Алекс Харви скоропостижно скончался в Бельгии после концерта своей новой группы The Electric Cowboys 4 февраля 1982 года.
В 2004 году (незадолго до этого реформированные) Sensational Alex Harvey Band заняли 5-е место в списке величайших шотландских групп всех времен, опередив в числе прочих Nazareth, Texas и Primal Scream.
Группа продолжает выступать по сей день в составе: Хью и Тед МакКенна, Крис Глен, Макс Максвелл.
The career of British rocker Alex Harvey is given a retrospective on this two-disc set, which reaches back to his earliest solo work and includes his best-known material with the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Included are three tracks not previously released.
Following on from the flood of generally interchangeable Alex Harvey/SAHB compilations that emerged during the 1980s and 1990s, Considering the Situation - at last! - is the first to actually sit down and figure out exactly what it is trying to do. Harvey's importance and influence have never been in doubt; neither has the sheer quality of the 20 years worth of recordings that preceded his death in 1982. Yet past attempts to corral this vast canon have always foundered around an obsession with the SAHB years. This collection, although it is still one full CD short of perfect, at least avoids that mistake.
The package is, sensibly, divided into two very separate halves. Disc one, "the early years," covers Harvey's meanderings through the 1960s, via the Hamburg veteran Soul Band, a handful of solo projects, his stint with the musical Hair and sundry short-lived band projects. It is not exhaustive - three of his period singles (and almost all the b-sides) are absent, while his four albums are barely scratched. Still it is difficult to quibble with a package that exhumes one previously unreleased (as opposed to simply hopelessly rare) Soul Band cut, plus two more tracks reconstructed from abandoned LP sessions towards the end of the 1960s - all the more so since those latter numbers, "Isabel Goudie" and "The Harp", are more familiar from SAHB's own canon than from Harvey's solo career. They join, incidentally, six other 60s-era songs that Harvey would later return to, most notably the so-evocative "Roman Wall Blues", reborn at the end of his life as "Soldier On The Wall".
Onto disc two and the bulk is devoted to a reasonably seamless survey of SAHB's eight albums. Rarities this time are at a premium - the aforementioned "The Harp", the non-album flip of the "Big Louie" single closes disc one, but there's no room for fellow b-sides, the live "St Anthony" or the immortal "Satchel & The Scalp Hunter". No out-takes or oddities either, and the absence of a few other SAHB classics - "Amos Moses", "Anthem" and "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" among them - may rankle. Similarly, the compiler's decision to follow conventional wisdom and pluck just one track apiece from the band's last two albums is one that should be questioned, all the more so since "Boston Tea Party" and "Water Beastie" both insist that those records demand some serious re-evaluation.
More disturbing is the complete absence of any reference to Harvey's final years, following the demise of SAHB. The album closes with a 40 second snippet from his Presents The Loch Ness Monster album (itself as elusive as the monster itself), but there's nothing from either the The Mafia Stole My Guitar or Soldier On The Wall albums, a failing that - more than any other - hamstrings the collection's claims to be "definitive."
Of course, such complaints are rendered academic not only by the vast riches that are included, but also by the fact that this collection even exists in the first place. How much easier would it have been, after all, for the label to simply slap together another SAHB best of, and save themselves the wealth of vault-scraping that surely comprised disc one? In terms of what it could have been, Considering The Situation is disappointing. But in terms of what it is, it's the greatest Alex Harvey compilation ever.
~ Dave Thompson
• Audio Mixer: Paschal Byrne.
• Audio Remasterer: Paschal Byrne.
• Recording information: 1964.
• Arranger: Alex Harvey
ru.wikipedia.org
Sensational Alex Harvey Band — британская рок-группа, образовавшаяся в 1972 году в Глазго, шотландия, когда Алекс Харви присоединился к четырем бывшим участникам прог-рок-группы Tear Gas. Некоторое время Sensational Alex Harvey Band считались частью глэм-движения, но очень скоро стали создавать эклектичную, разнообразную музыку с элементами блюз,- сёрф,- шок- и симфо-рока. Определяющим фактором развития группы являлся сам Харви с его эксцентричными манерами, богатым воображением и всеобъемлющим музыкальным мировоззрением.
Коммерческий успех в Британии группе принесли два сингла:
"Delilah" (версия хита Тома Джонса, # 7, 1975) и "The Boston Tea Party" (# 13, 1976).
Алекс Харви скоропостижно скончался в Бельгии после концерта своей новой группы The Electric Cowboys 4 февраля 1982 года.
В 2004 году (незадолго до этого реформированные) Sensational Alex Harvey Band заняли 5-е место в списке величайших шотландских групп всех времен, опередив в числе прочих Nazareth, Texas и Primal Scream.
Группа продолжает выступать по сей день в составе: Хью и Тед МакКенна, Крис Глен, Макс Максвелл.
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Disc One • Time: 01:17:04
Tracks 1-4, 6-8 & 20 - Alex Harvey and His Soul Band
Tracks 5 & 9-10, 13-15 & 18-19 - Alex Harvey
Tracks 11, 12 - from "HAIR" Rave-UP
Tracks 16, 17 - Rockworkshop
Треклист:
01. Shout - 4.45
02. Framed - 3.20
03. I Just Wanna Make Love To You - 2.27
04. Elevator Rock ( previously unreleased ) - 2.08
05. St James Infirmary - 3.01
06. Penicillin Blues - 3.52
07. Reelin' and Rockin - 3.28
08. Ain't That Just Too Bad - 2.24
09. Agent 00 Soul - 2.41
10. Work Song - 2.36
11. Hair - 2.46
12. Birthday - 2.26
13. Roman Wall Blues - 2.45
14. Midnight Moses - 3.30
15. Hammer Song - 3.10
16. Hole In Her Stocking - 4.09
17. Wade In The Water - 3.45
18. Isobel Goudie - My Lady of the Night-Coitus
Interruptus-The Virgin - 13.00
19. The Harp ( previously unreleased Demo ) - 5.22
20. The Harp - 5.08
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Disc Two • Time: 01:16:24
Tracks 1-16 - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Track 17 - Alex Harvey
Треклист:
01. Midnight Moses - 4.25
02. Framed - 4.54
03. There's No Lights On The Tree, Mother -
They're Burning Big Louie Tonite ! - 3.44
04. Buff's Bar Blues - 3.05
05. Swampsnake - 4.54
06. Next - 4.02
07. The Last of The Teenage Idols - 7.11
08. The Hot City Symphony Part 1: Vambo - 5.00
09. Sergeant Fury - 3.28
10. Tomahawk Kid - 4.33
11. Action Strasse - 3.15
12. Give My Compliments To The Chef - 5.32
13. Faith Healer ( Live ) - 6.56
14. Delilah - 5.01
15. Boston Tea Party - 4.37
16. Water Beastie - 4.50
17. I Love Monsters Too - 0.40
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ps: Внимание! Что бы послушать альбом "Considering The Situation" Вам необходимо иметь при себе паспорт(можно без фото) на имя "Graph•Galaxy" Прежде чем его использовать, предварительно нужно немного потрудиться - убрать кавычки и •(точку). Думаю это не составит большего труда и все с этим справятся. Паспорт представить каждому господину Арх и Ву один раз.))
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