![]() The good ones deserve to be in my top 300, while others wouldn't scrape my top 3000.Īmong their best: 8MH, Seven Tears, Moontan, Walls Of Dolls and Live (which is almost everything you need about GE if you must own only one album of theirs, despite the fact that it features a lot from Contraband, which is fairly average). I'm mostly a GE fan from their marvellous 8MH album until their first double live album (78), though I must say that Twilight Zone is an outstanding track.īut some of their albums are hit & misses O consagrar una propia estrella" -Alberto FeliciĪpparently, this thread flew under my radar in August. "Siento que debemos saber para el sueño de quién brillará esta luz ![]() Contraband has one of the band’s greatest songs ever in “Mad Love’s Comin’,” complete with guitar riff to die for, but the rest of the h! Switch has the regrettably unsung classic “Kill Me (Ce soir),” but with the possible exception of “Plus Minus Absurdio/Love Is a Rodeo,” the rest of the album’s a wash. (I’m selling them short I do rather enjoy those albums but none are anywhere near as good as Moontan).Ī big problem with them is their tendency to have one or two excellent songs surrounded by humdrum mediocrity. The pre-Moontan albums of the 70s will probably be worth it for the occasional stab at a Jethro Tull kind of sound in between their attempts at aping Led Zeppelin. ![]() Try To the Hilt, it’s as close as they came to full-blown prog. Here's the full To The Hilt which has some nice weird Proggy stuff Here's the full Switch album which has quite few moments of Proginess: Otherwise, there are no full Prog albums but there are a number of songs that they've done on other albums that a Prog fan would enjoy. The whole album is very enjoyable for a Prog fan. I consider it pretty proggy and it includes a killer extended psychedelic version of the Byrds song 'Eight Miles High'. įor a Prog fan, I can recommend their album 'Eight Miles High'. I have two albums by them - one is the LP of the European version of Moontan and the other is the CD of the US version of Moontan ! Great stuff in both formats, but not sure if I should get anything else given that I enjoy the prog side more than the heavy side. I'm not so sure I'd call them a Prog band but I consider some of their early 70s output to fit right in with the genre ('Big Tree Blue Sea', 'Are you Receiving Me?', 'She Flies on Strange Wings', 'Eight Miles High', 'Switch', 'Ce Soir'). 'Instant Poetry', I'm assuming, was recorded during the 'Moontan' sessions. Did it?Ī few years ago I first heard the non-album song 'Instant Poetry' and 'Holy Holy Life' and really liked them a lot. ![]() To my knowledge that track never made a CD release. The American version of 'Contraband' was called 'Mad Love' and contained a track not on 'Contraband' called 'I Need Love'. My favorite era would be 1972 through 1975 or so.Īs a kid in the late 70s, I was struck at very young age with that awesome bass sound on 'Moontan' and I always admired the drumming on that one. I have everything they did from 1969 to 1982. I would consider myself a fan but not an mega super duper fan (I don't have all of their albums). I'm just looking for any fans of Golden Earring around here. ![]()
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