Merry Go Round - Listen Listen: Definitive Collection
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Artist: Merry Go RoundEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-05-02
Music Label: Rev-Ola
Soundtracks:
- Live
- Time Will Show the Wiser
- On Your Way Out
- Gonna Fight the War
- Had to Run Around
- We're in Love
- You're a Very Lovely Woman
- Where Have You Been All My Life
- Early in the Morning
- Low Down
- A Clown's No Good
- Gonna Leave You Alone
- Mother Earth
- Pardon Me
- Textile Factory
- Someone Died
- Come Ride, Come Ride
- Let's All Sing
- Holly Park
- Mary Will You Take My Hand
- The Man He Was
- In Days of Old
- 'Til the Day After
- Saturday Night
- She Laughed Loud
- Listen, Listen
- Missing You
- Highway
- Time Will Show the Wiser [Mono 45]
Free Music Notes for Listen Listen: Definitive Collection
Free Music Review: A Happy Accident for me: The Merry-Go-Round!
Hit: 5 Stars
I discovered this band totally by accident either while surfing here at amazon or on allmusic.com. I had never heard of them.
Not a word. Then I read the review on allmusic and heard the 30 second samples.
Amazing! How did this get ignored back in 1967 or 1968?
It's very very good. Very Beatle-esque but not in a bad way.
It's also a tad folky or Byrds-ish which is a plus!
Emmitt Rhodes was born in Hawthorne, CA according to allmusic.com. While I've heard British groups sound American this is the most British I've ever heard an American Group sound.
Track 2 features backwards and sped up guitars. Track 12 features fuzzed out guitars.
Remember that Utopia album, Deface The Music? It was Todd Rundgren doing the Beatles.
Remember the Rutles and how Beatles-like they sounded?
This band beats both of them hands down. Of course they have an advantage. They're not writing pun-filled opposite titled tracks like Utopia and the Rutles did.
I hear elements of folk: think Peter, Paul and Mary but in a real good way. There's California Pop: imagine the best Mamas and Papas tracks but just the guys on vocals.
The first 12 tracks represent the one album The Merry-Go-Round recorded. The next batch is an Emmitt Rhodes solo album with session men.
The tone of the music changes from the Beatle-esque pop to a collage of styles but Mr. Rhodes song writing is very solid.
Track 14 reminds me of Eric Carmen. Track 18 starts out like a lost Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds a-side.
Tracks 26-29 are from Merry-Go Round singles and "Listen, Listen" really rocks out. The guitars really ring loud. I love this song.
As a hidden bonus during track 29 the band starts doing "California Girls" [not Good Vibrations] with Herb Alpert on trumpet at 2:35 in.
None of this is bad.
You will listen to this over and over. It's a repeat disc.
A rare find these days.
I haven't described every song. I want you to discover them on your own. Enjoy.
This is a great re-issue of a lost treasure.
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