The Polydor Years

the polydor years

Track Listings
1. Hello Nadine
2. Never Mind I've Still Got My Rock N Roll
3. Impala Saga
4. Quiet Man
5. Don't Let Go
6. Can't Get Over Loving You
7. It's a Secret
8. All That a Woman Should Be
9. Lovin' in the Alleys and Fightin' in the Streets
10. Heavy Foot Stomp
11. Gone to Malaya
12. Just Can't Say Goodbye
13. Sur le Pont d'Avignon
14. Feels Like I'm in Love
15. Lana
16. Sugar Mama
17. Hello It's You Again
18. Goodtime Goodtime
19. Baby Ride My Train
20. We're OK
See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
First Ever Round Up of 70's Glam Legends Mungo Jerry's Time with Polydor Records. Most Tracks Are Appearing on CD for the First Time.

The Polydor Years,Mungo Jerry,7T's,60's Rock,AM Pop,Album Rock,Folk-Rock,Jug Band,Rock,Rock/Pop,Rockabilly,Skiffle

The Polydor Years
Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Overlooked
  • She'll bring it on home to you!
  • The 'Real' Ellen McIllwaine
  • An Incredible Discovery
  • Up From Obscurity
 Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ellen McIlwaine
Manufacturer: Polydor / Umgd
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000009CM7
Release Date: 1998-07-07

Tracks:

  1. Toe Hold
  2. Weird Of Hermiston
  3. Up From The Skies
  4. Losing You
  5. It's Growing
  6. Ode To Billy Joe
  7. Pinebo (My Story)
  8. Can't Find My Way Home
  9. Wings Of A Horse
  10. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
  11. Wade In The Water
  12. Ain't No Two Ways About It (It's Love)
  13. All To You
  14. Sliding
  15. Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune
  16. Farther Along
  17. I Don't Want To Play
  18. Underground River
  19. Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (But Nobody Wants To Die)
  20. Jimmy Jean
  21. We The People

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Overlooked.......2005-10-23

How Ellen McIllwaine has remained so obscure for so long is a mystery. Her guitar playing prowess, earthy delivery and amazing vocal abilities should have garnered the attention of the public but failed to do so somehow. "Everybody Wants to go to Heaven" is a song I'd not heard in 28 years yet it remained intact in my memory because it is certainly among the top ten tunes I've ever heard.

5 out of 5 stars She'll bring it on home to you!.......2005-02-07

Ellen McIllwaine could just as well be the standard by which others can be judged. Her beautiful yet powerful vocals coupled with her versatile guitar playing is just a pleasure to listen to and her music gives off some unique vibes that you want to feel while listening to music. It's a mixed bag of rock, folk, blues and celtic with great lyrics and with her dead-on vocals, she'll bring it on home to you. Being that there were no "hits" to thrust her career into the mainstream eye and the lack of airplay from the radio stations of the day, she never really got as popular as she should have, but those who know of her really enjoy her incredibly unique style. If you can find a copy, listen to her late 60's material with FEAR ITSELF (yes, she was in a heavy blues rock band in the late 60's that released a great LP for Dot back in 69'). That's where "Underground River" (included here) came from, she took the song with her. Also, "In my time of dying" just gives me the chills. This collection is highly recommended, so do yourself a favor and purchase this CD! Not a bad song really to be found. From her late 60's material (which is not included in this release) up to her later work included here, I just really dig her. No doubt, one of my favorites - Love ya Ellen!

5 out of 5 stars The 'Real' Ellen McIllwaine.......2005-01-25

For many of her fans (and we're not talking stadium numbers)Ellen McIllwaine's slipping from sight in the mid 70s, after two fabulous blues albums was surpassed in sadness only by her re-emergence as a quite different performer flirting with disco for an audience I was not a part of. Whatever, the 'Polydor Years' encapsulates that early, stunning pair (though my Ontario pressings bear the Kot'ai Music stamp). I'm aware that Bonnie Rait was doing similar things on slide guitar, but McIllwaine's vocal range and register is simply awesome. Her choice of material was spot on, her own compositions sitting comfortably with Wonder's,'Higher Ground', some great selections from Jack Bruce and Pete Brown, Hooker and the rest. There is an album done with Jack Bruce that I've only been able to source on vinyl, Everybody Needs It'. Given the company, it's predictably bluesy and a solid workout, but without the high spots of the album under review. And while I enjoy her more recent outings and heard her recently on radio while touring Australia, and there's been no diminishment of her vocal prowess and their Qawwal-like gymnastics, I'm far fonder of these infatuating blues with the sparer production of the Polydor Years.

5 out of 5 stars An Incredible Discovery.......2005-01-09

I heard Ellen on the Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim) compilation 'A Break From The Norm' which had 3 or 4 interesting tracks on it. By far the best was Ellens version of Stevie Wonders 'Higher Ground'.
It took a while to find her music but I'm glad I made the effort!
Despite the fact that she is covering a lot of other artists work she really puts her own stamp on things (contrary to another reviewer I found her cover of Ode To Billie Joe as essential). She sounds, even playing others material, incredibly original.
The first half a dozen tracks are live, but they are extremely well recorded.
Ellen can really play the guitar. She plays slide, fingerpicking and even manages some kind of spanish fast riffing funky style that is damn hard to replicate properly. She was in Guitar magazines top 10 guitarists circa 1976!
And boy can she sing. She has a distinctive, powerful and unusual voice which is jazzy and free, but not in any way off the wall or grating. The two forces brought together create a highly distinctive and effective sound, that is fresh and modern to my youngish ears (in most cases). Ellens music is beautiful but not whimsical. She can be coarse yet refined. Basically she smokes.
The music is a mixture of Ellen and guitar unnacompanied and with a bass player/drummer/pianist/percussionist. Theres no grating strings on this it's just good, honest, earthy and technically excellent playing.
It's not an excercise in technichal excellence alone though- as the music still manages to be moving, be it for your head, or even your feet!
That's the great thing, around half of this album you could dance to. In fact I defy you not to be moved by the infectious toe tapping grooves!

This album is highly recommended and has been my musical find of 2004.

After this buy the slightly less succesful The Real Ellen McIlwaine. It's got a more varied palate but the picture is slightly less involving.
She is still playing and has a website; www.ellenmcilwaine.com Go take a look and see whether youre lucky enough to be able to catch one of her gigs.

5 out of 5 stars Up From Obscurity.......2002-05-17

Man, I've been searching for this CD for 20 years! I had the vinyl version, lost it in a flood, and only recently tried enough variations of Ms. McIlwaine's last name on the 'net to find her CD's. When a song like "Pinebo" sticks in your head for 20 years, there's either a great artist behind it, or you need to get your head examined. I think it's the former. There's no-one out there like Ellen. Multicultural influences, multi-octave voice, multi-talented percussive fingerstyle guitar. This isn't nostalgia. She didn't have much competition then, and has even less now. So overlooked. So wonderful!
The Classic Years
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • You are beautiful and you are alone
  • the beautiful and the damned
  • Classic
  • Roots of Goth
  • Not the best collection of her work, BUT....
 The Classic Years
Nico
Manufacturer: Polydor / Umgd
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000BIBV
Release Date: 1998-09-15

Tracks:

  1. I'm Not Saying
  2. The Last Mile
  3. I'll Be Your Mirror
  4. Femme Fatale
  5. All Tomorrow's Parties (From: 'The Velvet Underground & Nico')
  6. The Fairest Of The Seasons
  7. These Days
  8. Little Sister
  9. Chelsea Girls (From 'Nico: Chelsea Girl')
  10. No One Is There
  11. Ari's Song
  12. Frozen Warnings
  13. Niebelungen (From: 'The Marble Index')
  14. Janitor Of Lunacy
  15. Abschied
  16. Afraid (From: 'Desertshore')
  17. Secret Side
  18. You Forgot To Answer
  19. The End (From: 'The End')

Amazon.com

As the golden-haired, frog-throated chanteuse of the Velvet Underground, the German born Nico cast a decadent spell. Her cool, detached performances, in direct opposition with the feel-good hippie vibe of the 1960s, influenced the punk scene of the 1970s. This collection serves as an excellent sampler of Nico's work, beginning with her first single for Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham's then-new Immediate label (a 1965 cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "I'm Not Sayin'") and spanning her Velvet Underground contributions and her stunning first four solo albums. Her ethereal cover of the Doors' "The End" matched with material by producer John Cale, Lou Reed, and Jackson Browne, as well as her own doomy compositions, illuminate her unusual sense of style. The silent hero here, however, is Cale, who served as the perfect collaborator, elevating Nico's worldview with his often gorgeous, always sympathetic musical backing. --Rob O'Connor

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars You are beautiful and you are alone.......2007-04-21

Imagine the center of the song is a singer who cannot sing. Not an insurmountable obstacle, but one requiring special sensitivity in material and production. Often it's here and worth the effort to listen - a sound rarified and lunar.

Inelegant and primitive, Nico sounds best when supported by baroquefolk violins. (There's no dialectic when the VU backs her.) She gets an oblique, decomposing cabaret vibe going - it's despairing but never pretentious.

Marlene Dietrich doing Tom Waits - only much more glacial.

5 out of 5 stars the beautiful and the damned.......2006-10-19

Nico is the most under-rated female vocalist in recording history. Were it not for the valiant efforts of Danny Fields after the break-up of the original Velvet Underground, and others along the way, who really heard her voice - the tragic majesty of that voice - long before the rest of us - perhaps even this anthology would not be available to us. As others have noted, altho we get a solid compilation here - there are some notable exceptions. One wishes someone would issue "Behind the Iron Curtain" on CD. With all the junk out on CD today, is it really that difficult to re-release one of the great masterpieces of this unsurpassed diva? Nico's rendering of "My Funny Valentine" is in my opinion the greatest of all time - what I listen to when I really want to cry to music.

5 out of 5 stars Classic.......2005-05-17

She was the Velvet Underground's tambourine-shaking chanteuse, an influence on punk and goth, and the dark side to the vast expanse of pop music. In her solo career, Nico released some of the best music in all of pop-dom, full of despair, darkness and beauty.

"The Classic Years" is an excellent compilation of Nico's best. It's a bit of a surprise to hear it open with the bouncy melody of the Gordon Lightfoot cover "I'm Not Saying," with Nico doing her best to keep up. Her thick vocals seem more appropriate in "The Last Mile," a stripped-down guitar ballad.

Then we venture into VU territory, with songs that Nico did on the one album where she performed. "All Tomorrow's Parties" is slow, stately and rich, while "Femme Fatale" is a light, sharp song with a tambourine, and "I'll Be Your Mirror" is an exquisite, delicate little ballad. These are among Nico's best songs.

But things remain exquisite in her following solo songs, which stray away from typical pop rhythms, and the gritty, unpolished sound that the Velvet Underground made famous. Instead we have the darkly erotic cover of the Doors' "The End," the sensuous "Chelsea Girls," and the eerie, haunting "No One Is There."

"The Classic Years" is in more or less chronological order -- it starts off with her first single, recorded for Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, goes into her Velvet Underground Roots, and finishes with her solo pop career. Nico died in 1988 in a car accident, but had she lived, it would be easy to imagine that she would be just as much a legend today.

And away from English ubermanagers and American alt-bands, Nico's true musical style starts to shine through. It's more European in style: stately, polished, dark and rich as mahogany. In those songs, Nico seems most as home, singing almost cheerfully about isolation and death.

In technical terms her singing is not great -- deep, thick, heavily accented and monotone. But she's strange compelling, just because her voice is so unusual. The first song is the only one where she doesn't sound good -- uptempo made her sound artificially cheerful. The rest of the time, she stays slow and meditative.

Even today, Nico is a much underrated artist. But "The Classic Years" show her off at her best, with most of her best songs grouped as one album.

3 out of 5 stars Roots of Goth.......2005-03-21

While I love the Velvet Underground, I'll admit I've never been a fan of Nico's proto-goth solo career. Over half of this compilation is drawn from The Marble Index, Desertshore and The End, which means lots of long drawn out harmonium chords and Nico's Teutonic junkie poetry, with old VU pal John Cale's sporadic attempts to inject some semblence of order to the proceedings. Goth rockers may owe Nico an enormous debt, it's just not this reviewer's cup of tea although I'll admit that when it works, as on "Janitor of Lunacy," the results can be pretty awesome. Too often though, the result is something like the endless, pointless and unlistenable version of The Door's "The End."

The first half of this compilation unearths some rarities for hardcore collectors and provides some historical interest. The 1965 oddball single "I'm Not Sayin'" was written and produced by Stones producer Andrew Loog-Oldham, while the b-side, "The last Mile" was co-written, arranged and produced by none other than Jimmy Page, who is said to have played on the sessions as well. The rarely heard single version of the Velvet's "All Tomorrows Parties" is very cool to have too.

The collection is rounded out by four songs from her solo debut Chelsea Girl, two each by Jackson Browne and Lou Reed.

I would recommend this CD to anyone wanting to check out the roots of goth, as well as hardcore fans of Lightfoot, Browne, Cale, Reed, Oldham/Stones or Page/Zep who want some rarities for their collections. And of course Nico fans, who probably own this already anyways.

Richard Witts Nico bio "Life and Lies of an Icon" makes interesting companionship reading.

3 out of 5 stars Not the best collection of her work, BUT...........2003-06-30

Nico's albums sound like absolutely nothing released in the last 25 years. For the critics I rebut, that few if any artists of the time were even remotely as Original and Authentic as NICO. Buy her individuals albums, rather than this dim-witted posthumous sampler.
10 Years of Hits
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    		10 Years of Hits
    Ronan Keating
    Manufacturer: Universal/Polydor
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00062RBZO
    Release Date: 2007-06-26

    Tracks:

    1. When You Say Nothing At All
    2. Life Is A Rollercoaster
    3. The Way You Make Me Feel
    4. Lovin' Each Day
    5. If Tomorrow Never Comes
    6. I Love It When We Do
    7. We've Got Tonight
    8. The Long Goodbye
    9. Lost For Words
    10. She Believes (In Me)
    11. Last Thing On My Mind
    12. Father And Son
    13. Words
    14. Baby Can I Hold You
    15. I Hope You Dance
    16. Somebody Else
    The Best of Isaac Hayes: The Polydor Years
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Not his best, but still worth a listen
    • THE ALL-TIME BEST SOUL-BALLAD ALBUM EVER!!
    • fast funky and very catchy
    		 The Best of Isaac Hayes: The Polydor Years
    Isaac Hayes
    Manufacturer: Umvd Special Markets
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    ASIN: B000001EIJ
    Release Date: 1996-02-06

    Tracks:

    1. Moonlight Lovin' (Menage A Trois)
    2. Zeke The Freak
    3. Out Of The Ghetto
    4. Don't Let Go
    5. What Does It Take
    6. A Few More Kisses To Go
    7. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
    8. You Can't Hold Your Woman
    9. It's All In The Game
    10. Wherever You Are
    11. Lifetime Thing
    12. It's Heaven To Me

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Not his best, but still worth a listen.......2006-01-10

    Though Isaac Hayes's best years were in the late 60's and early 70's when he was a staple on Stax Records, he still had some successes, though moderate, when he moved to Polydor Records. One of his biggest hits, "Don't Let Go" (cut #4), shows that Hayes, like most artists of the day, was significantly influenced by disco.

    The 9:38 long "Moonlight Lovin' (Ménage a Trois)" sounds like a melding of both Hayes' Oscar-winning "Theme from Shaft" and the extended "Joy", making for a treat for his true fans.

    However, it is on the slower tracks, beginning with "What Does It Take," where the singer really shines. Though he and contemporary Barry White were often compared because both had deep basses, Hayes was more refined, clearer, and more soothing.

    For the younger generation that only know Hayes for his voiceover work as "South Park's 'Chef'," this compilation is a fair introduction to the singer and may serve to spurn interest in pursuing some of Hayes's landmark Stax recordings.

    5 out of 5 stars THE ALL-TIME BEST SOUL-BALLAD ALBUM EVER!!.......2001-10-31

    ...the first four tracks? some soulful-disco-uptempo-freak-funk-stuff...some strong four and a half star material fasho!
    track 5?
    okay the man's feelin lonely as hell, he's breakin it down to some sweet young thang tryin to get his groove on...i feel him, it's cool...
    track 6?
    hey hol' up! at this point everything on here begins to gel into one biggo erotic super-event! "...i've got to take my time, control my mind...even tho it's hard to dooooo...the longer we wait the better it's gonna be...."?
    awnaw!! is my lil girl still up lissenin to this!?! j, go to bed right now, daddy said so!
    track 7!?!?!?!
    there's like a two minute slowburn intro goin on here before brother ike kicks in with the lyrics, but his background singers keep thangs flowin until then but if you aint on the phone tryin to wail at some tender young thing by then...or if you aint already grabbed your woman up in your arms and started your slow-roll before ike gets to singin...then forget this and the rest of it....go and lawrence welk it for the rest of the night.
    this man done showed us his whole soul with this one. polydor did an excellent job puttin this collection together.
    a true r-n-b treasure!
    get this sit back and for at least one evening - in your own mind - hugh hefner aint got nothin on you!

    4 out of 5 stars fast funky and very catchy.......1999-05-19

    isaac is back in the groove with this hot little number,a true songster in every sense of the word. you must hear it for yourself, but let me say that after this you'll be hooked on hayes.
    10 Years of Hits
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      		10 Years of Hits
      Ronan Keating
      Manufacturer: Universal/Polydor
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      ASIN: B000AS1HF4
      Release Date: 2006-05-08

      Tracks:

      1. When You Say Nothing at All
      2. Life Is a Roller Coaster
      3. Way You Make Me Feel - Bryan Adams, Ronan Keating
      4. Lovin' Each Day
      5. If Tomorrow Never Comes
      6. I Love It When We Do
      7. We've Got Tonight - Ronan Keating, Lulu
      8. Long Goodbye
      9. Lost for Words
      10. She Believes (In Me)
      11. Last Thing on My Mind - Ronan Keating, LeAnn Rimes
      12. Father and Son - Ronan Keating,
      13. Words
      14. To Be Loved
      15. I Hope You Dance
      16. Somebody Else

      Album Details

      This Edition Comes in the "CD Slide Pak", featuring the Album Art on a Cardboard "o" Card which Houses the CD Inside, Sitting on a Simple Plastic Tray that Slides Out from the Card for Quick Access. The Album "10 Years of Hits" Marks an Impressive Body of Work for a Man who is Still Quite Youthful and Has Much More to Offer in the Future. From his Days with Boyzone to his Successful Solo Career, Keating's Appeal is Greater Than Ever. The Collection Includes Three Solo Versions of Track which He Originally Recorded with Boyzone: "Words", "Baby Can I Hold You" and "Father and Son" featuring Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens, who Wrote the Song).
      The Singles: The First Ten Years
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Excellent Abba
      		 The Singles: The First Ten Years
      ABBA
      Manufacturer: Polydor
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000008CNX
      Release Date: 1991-04-16

      Tracks:

      1. Ring Ring
      2. Waterloo
      3. So Long
      4. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
      5. SOS
      6. Mamma Mia
      7. Fernando
      8. Dancing Queen
      9. Money, Money, Money
      10. Knowing Me, Knowing You
      11. Name of the Game
      12. Take a Chance on Me
      13. Summer Night City

      Tracks:

      1. Chiquitita
      2. Does Your Mother Know
      3. Voulez-Vous
      4. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
      5. I Have a Dream
      6. Winner Takes It All
      7. Super Trouper
      8. One of Us
      9. Day Before You Came
      10. Under Attack

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Excellent Abba.......2007-04-22

      There is no doubt about this band,musicly and visually they captured the hearts of anyone who heard or saw them.They were extremely popular in the 70's,and their music today is loved by people from all over the world.
      I can recall this band when i was a child having alot of hits.Some of the songs i remember from those days were S.O.S. and Waterloo.My mum bought some of their albums and i just loved a heap of their songs.By the late 70's i started ignoring them as they got so much attention by the media.But i still liked alot of their tunes.Radio stations seemed to ignore this band alot in the 80's here.But i heard some of their songs and after so many years of not hearing them they sounded damn good,so i went and got a few albums,this was one of them.This was 1989 and i got right into them again.I always hoped this band would get back together,but the news is that they will not.Thats a shame,but there is so much music to reflect on.Every now and then i play their songs,Some of my favorites are the 2 i mentioned and Honey Honey,I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do ,Mamma Mia ,Fernando ,Ring Ring ,The Winner Takes It All ,Under Attack and Thank You For The Music.There is also a stack of other songs i like.This is a good collection of their songs.
      Undead
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
      • One of Alvin Lee's best live albums
      • Jazz blues extravaganza
      • The Greatest Jazz Guitar Album In The World
      • One of the best Blues albums of all time!!
      • fantastic
      		 Undead
      Ten Years After
      Manufacturer: Polydor / Umgd
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000001F6S
      Release Date: 1990-10-25

      Tracks:

      1. I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always
      2. At The Woodchoppers' Ball
      3. Spider In My Web
      4. Summertime/Shantung Cabbage
      5. I'm Going Home

      Customer Reviews:

      3 out of 5 stars One of Alvin Lee's best live albums.......2007-03-28

      BUT... Don't buy this cd. I gave this cd 3 out of 5 stars because it is only half of the concert. The whole show, (9) songs, are on the DERAM label. Look for the whole concert, you'll be glad you did. R. Lee

      4 out of 5 stars Jazz blues extravaganza.......2006-01-28

      The first wave of the British Invasion exposed many young Americans for the first time to the sound of the Blues through the interpretations of such luminaries as the Animals, the Rolling Stones, and the Yardbirds. And over time, many listeners delved deeper into the Blues to discover the roots of these Brits. Some of the great blues artists that emerged as prime influences included Albert and B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush, and others. Virtuoso guitarists like Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, and the late Mike Bloomfield reflected these influences in their guitar work. What makes "Undead" such an interesting album is that Alvin Lee's guitar playing displays completely different influences that seem to be more Tal Farlow than Elmore James or Freddy King. There aren't a lot of tunes on this recording and, in fact, Lee's vocals, such as they are, are eminently forgettable. But, let's face it, you don't buy a recording by Ten Years After for the vocals. Highlights on this album include "I May Be Wrong But I Won't Be Wrong Always," "Woodchopper's Ball," and "I'm Going Home." These are truly the numbers that Ten Years After built its reputation upon. Each of these tunes allows ample time for Lee and his band to fire off energetic solos at unbelievable speed. For many of us, "Undead" was our first exposure to Ten Years After and most of us became avid fans after hearing Lee's frenetic riffing, which seemed based more upon horns than the traditional blues guitar styles. If you love the guitar, this is a great album to have in your collection. This is a high point for Alvin Lee before he descended into self-parody by replaying his signature riffs over and over again later in his career. Points off also on this recording for self-indulgence (there is such a thing as having too many guitar solos) and lackluster vocals.

      5 out of 5 stars The Greatest Jazz Guitar Album In The World.......2004-01-20

      After releasing their debut album and earning a reputation as an earth-shattering live band, Ten Years After decided to record their second album, UNDEAD, in a small club in England called Klooks Kleek (it was not recorded at The Marquee Club, as many people seem to think). It amply demonstrates the uncanny stamina of the band in concert.

      This is primarily a jazz album, except for one song, the slow blues "Spider In My Web". All the other songs are pure jazz, and Lee plays them so damn good that you almost begin to wonder if the guy was born with a guitar in his hands! I'm telling you - no other guitarist in the world has ever played jazz like Lee does on this album. The best example, of course, is "At The Woodchopper's Ball", in which the boys take Woody Herman's jazz classic and turn it into a breathless jamming extravaganza. Just listen to those guitar licks, unbelievable or what?! Alvin's playing is so fast, smooth and fluid that you simply can't help but marvel at him. And if you listen closely, after Churchill's organ solo, he even inserts a few guitar lines from "Rock Around The Clock"! But with all due respect to Bill Haley, he could never match this in his wildest dreams. Anyway, Leo Lyons is also given a bass solo, although it's nothing spectacular (I'm MUCH more fascinated by the way he thumps his instrument on the Woodstock version of "I'm Going Home"). But you hardly even get a chance to contemplate his bass before Alvin comes back and rips into it one more time for the grand finale. AWESOME!
      No other song on the album could hope to beat that masterpiece of jamming, but they do come awful close. "I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always" also swings pretty good, and once again, Alvin plays some killer licks and Churchill and Lyons are each given a chance to solo (you could never accuse Alvin of hogging the spotlight). The slow blues tune "Spider In My Web" shows Alvin taking a page out of Eric Clapton's book and delivering some stunning blues work. That is, until it comes time for the solo, when he just freaks out and starts playing a thousand notes per second!
      "Summertime" is a trip, with some rather psychedelic guitar licks. And it segues into Ric Lee's drum tour-de-force "Shantung Cabbage". Ric is definitely a very underrated drummer, and he proves it here. I just love the way he wails on that snare drum.
      And last, but certainly not least, is "I'm Going Home". While not nearly as mind-blowing as the Woodstock version, it's still quite good. VERY good, in fact. The intro alone is fabulous, as Alvin introduces some blazing notes before the rest of the band follows him and starts to get a killer groove going. Perfect way to end a perfect album.

      Ride on, Mr. Lee!

      5 out of 5 stars One of the best Blues albums of all time!!.......2002-11-27

      Most people have only heard "I'd love to change the world" by Ten years after, and when you say "blues" in the same sentence as "ten years after" most people get a quizical look on their face, the simple truth is that they were a blues band that evolved into a blues/Rock band.
      This live album Perfectly demonstrates this point.
      My personal favorites on this recording are "goin home", "woodchoppers ball", and "I may be wrong, but I wont be wrong always".
      Alvin lee's guitar playing is some of the fastest you will ever hear, especially on "goin home" and woodchopper's ball".
      the rhythm section deserves a medal for keeping up with Lee.
      they are all skilled musicians and deliver some great drum and bass solos.
      all together this is an album that all blues lovers and guitar players should own, and if you've only heard "I'd love to change the world",you owe it to yourself to hear the best of their stuff.

      5 out of 5 stars fantastic.......2002-07-24

      This recording shows ALL four players striving to reach a peak. There are no heroes in the band at this time. All four were given and decerved rave reviews for their playing, Ric, Chick, And Leo were phenominal. Alvin..well he was comming into his own as a superstar, but at this time in history it must be remembered that this was a band effort NOT Alvin Lee and Company. I'm sure all four men would agree with me that the band was at it's peak in the jazz-blues field, then turned to ROCK to find a larger audience. Having had conversations qith Ric, Chick and Leo. they all agree this was TYA. The the dowhill spiral began. It took another 20 years before the band would put out out About Time . Which to me was a great comeback cd. Dan Jasper
      2 Years On
      Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
      • BGs 2 Years On
      • Easily their worst album
      • Phenomenous attempt.
      • An incredible variety of 70's songs.
      • feeling each other out
      		 2 Years On
      The Bee Gees
      Manufacturer: Polydor / Umgd
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000001FNG
      Release Date: 1997-09-09

      Tracks:

      1. 2 Years On
      2. Portrait Of Louise
      3. Man For All Seasons
      4. Sincere Relation
      5. Back Home
      6. The 1st Mistake I Made
      7. Lonely Days
      8. Alone Again
      9. Tell Me Why
      10. Lay It On Me
      11. Every Second, Every Minute
      12. I'm Weeping

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars BGs 2 Years On.......2007-03-10

      Some of the Bee Gees better music prior to the disco era; good mild sounds.

      1 out of 5 stars Easily their worst album.......2003-04-10

      It's leaden and ponderous. Clearly they're trying to figure out how to work together again, but they're trying too hard. It's not working. There is almost nothing here of interest, that would merit a second listening. Even the album's one hit, "Lonely Days", also appears on their "Best of Vol 2" collection (1973), and there's a better version of it on the "Here At Last, The Bee Gees Live" album (1977).

      It's interesting to compare their two albums "around" the breakup: 1969's "Odessa" and this one. "Odessa" is brooding and dark and sad, and this album also has plenty of sad songs.
      Yet "Odessa" is utterly brilliant; innovative, interesting, crackling with ideas and experiments, full of attention-getting musical arrangements. This is a dull reunion album. Skip it.

      Note that the brothers got it together very quickly after this. Their next album "Trafalgar" (1971), while uneven, has some terrific stuff on it. It's musically interesting and memorable, and it set the stage for the musical changes they went thru in 1972-4. This album is just something they had to get thru first.

      4 out of 5 stars Phenomenous attempt........2002-08-10

      Don't get me wrong. This album has wonderful songs in it. Where would Lonely Days be without this album? And then there's Man For All Seasons, another little hit. Portrait of Louise has beautiful voices in it, and so does the very catchy Alone Again. Every Second, Every Minute is another great solo by Barry. Lay It On Me is almost horrible, and Tell Me Why is quite boring. Overall, some great songs, some good songs, and just a couple dull songs makes this a good enough album to want.

      4 out of 5 stars An incredible variety of 70's songs........2002-07-11

      Two Years On is a great BeeGees album. The songs show many vocal talents and harmonious varieties. One example is one of my favorite song on the album,"Alone Again". They also add harmonies in "Man For All Seasons" and "Portrait of Louise". "Lonely Days" is the biggest hit on this album, reaching #1 in the U.S. You'll probably want to sing this song, even if your a woman. "Every Second, Every Minute" is shockingly a great song, and "I'm Weeping" is a great ballad-type solo by Robin."Back Home" and "Lay It On Me" are the only boring songs on this album. "Tell Me Why" is a classic and the album song "Two Years On" is an incredible song, although some of the notes are used way too much. I also love Robin's "Sincere Relation". I'm very curious of who George is."The 1st mistake I Made" sounds alot like "Alive", except that same tune repeats over and over and over again. It just gets boring after a minute. But overall, this album has two hit songs, and the rest of them are also incredible.

      4 out of 5 stars feeling each other out.......2001-07-18

      This may not be the Bee Gees' best album, but there is a lot to like about it. It sounds as though the brothers are feeling each other out in order to get the magic back. They succeed very well on a couple of songs. Lonely days gives me the feeling that they are back together and Alone Again in my opinion has the greatest harmonies of the Bee Gees' career. I would recommend this album for that song alone.
      Out of the Ghetto: The Polydor Years
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • ISAAC
      		 Out of the Ghetto: The Polydor Years
      Isaac Hayes
      Manufacturer: Universal/Spectrum
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B00004THFH
      Release Date: 2000-10-30

      Tracks:

      1. Moonlight Lovin' (Menage a Trois)
      2. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
      3. What Does It Take
      4. Don't Let Go
      5. Zeke the Freak
      6. Out of the Ghetto
      7. It's Heaven to Me
      8. Few More Kisses to Go
      9. I Ain't Never
      10. It's All in the Game
      11. Love Has Been Good to Us

      Album Description

      11 track collection for the original 'love-man' of the 70'snow enjoying a career resurgance thanks too his role in theanimated series 'South Park'. Includes 'Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight' and 'It's All InThe Game'. Universal. 2000.

      Album Details

      'the Polydor Years' Serves as a Great Introduction of a Previously Overlooked Period in Hayes' Career -- Between the Stax Glory Years and his Later Point Blank Albums.

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars ISAAC.......2002-02-13

      I hope this is the album/CD that I heard before. I can't be sure, because I didn't get to review the album/CD audible.
      Guitar Preacher: The Polydor Years
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        		Guitar Preacher: The Polydor Years
        Link Wray
        Manufacturer: Polygram Records
        ProductGroup: Music
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        ASIN: B000001EEZ
        Release Date: 1995-08-22

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