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Artist: ChicagoEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-07-16
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Introduction
- Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
- Beginnings
- Questions 67 And 68
- Listen
- Poem 58
- Free Form Guitar
- South California Purples
- I'm A Man
- Prologue, August 29, 1968
- Someday (August 29, 1968)
- Liberation
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Free Music Review: Chicago rules
Hit: 5 Stars
Listening to the very first Chicago album, it's hard to believe just how different they used to be back in the early days.
This album focuses on the raw, intense, dirty rock and roll style that was popular at the time. It's much closer to something a band like CCR, Steppenwolf or the Rolling Stones were doing, in terms of raw intensity (but with brass instruments thrown in to make the band sound distinct).
I NEVER thought "Question 67 and 68" was a prom dance hit. To me it's just a very beautiful and extremely difficult to sing along to POP song that's caught between a ballad and a pop hit.
"Liberation" almost features the same intensity and similarity to that of Frank Zappa's "Willie the Pimp". The guitar playing is quite similar in both songs.
"Beginnings" was probably the biggest hit from the album, and features an atmosphere that can best be described as captivating. The ending you wish would never end, it's THAT good.
How can you ignore what this awesome band was doing on the debut? Oh sure, the next two Chicago albums are a bit better, but what a mighty fine beginning for an extraordinary rock band this one is.
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Having morphed--some would argue devolved--into a predictable ballad machine by the '80s, it's good to be reminded of Chicago's original artistic ethos and vibrant promise. And what better place to start than their spectacular 1969 debut? This digitally remastered edition compiles the double album on a single disc that retains the original LP artwork and features a 16-page booklet with a retrospective essay (based on new band member interviews) by David Wild. Chicago weren't yet the '70s hit-singles factory they would shortly become, and CTA showcases a band whose muscular musicianship and creative restlessness fostered two LPs worth of music that was as aggressive and far-ranging as its singles were friendly and inviting. Tellingly, the hits showcased here--"Does Anybody Know What Time It Is?" "Beginnings," "Questions 67 and 68," and their rhythmically pumped cover of the Spencer Davis Group's "I'm a Man"--were often edited down from the original collection's suite-heavy structure. But those familiar cuts belie the downright progressive and angular nature of much of the rest, which fuses Terry Kath's neo-psychedelic guitar (which careens to noisy, feedback-laden Hendrixesque extremes on "Free Form Guitar") to one of rock's pioneering horn sections with enough experimentalism ("Poem 58") that it frequently overwhelms their undeniable genius with a pop song. Chicago would seldom sound so adventurous after this, one of rock's greatest debut albums. --Jerry McCulleyRemastered and repackaged edition of their 1969 album. Features 'Beginnings', 'Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is', 'Questions 67 And 68', 'I'm A Man', 'South California Purples' and more. Digipak in a slipcase with a 16-page booklet featuring complete lyrics and detailed liner notes by Rolling Stone contributing editor David Wild. 2002.
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