Music From Big Pink

The Band - Music From Big Pink

Music From Big Pink
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Artist: The Band
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Published: 1997-06-26
CD Release Date: 2000-08-29
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
  1. Tears Of Rage
  2. To Kingdom Come
  3. In A Station
  4. Caledonia Mission
  5. The Weight
  6. We Can Talk
  7. Long Black Veil
  8. Chest Fever
  9. Lonesome Suzie
  10. This Wheel's On Fire
  11. I Shall Be Released
  12. Yazoo Street Scandal (Outtake)
  13. Tears Of Rage (Alternate Take)
  14. Katie's Been Gone (Outtake)
  15. If I Lose (Outtake)
  16. Long Distance Operator (Outtake)
  17. Lonesome Suzie (Alternate Take)
  18. Orange Juice Blues (Blues For Breakfast) (Outtake - Demo)
  19. Key To The Highway (Outtake)
  20. Ferdinand The Imposter (Outtake - Demo)

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Free Music Review: Classic underground
Hit: 5 Stars

This album came at a time of crisis in this country and held great personal meaning to me. Although very good work, it was not really a commercial song album. It didn't fit the cookie cutter profile of successful pop tunes, which of course made it all the more desirable to me. After all, this was a time of going against the grain, a time of protest against the already established mass conglomerate majority that created the chaos.

24 bit digital remaster means "buy on site to me". I have always been very pleased with this format and the Big Pink continues to please well into the 21st century. All of the instruments and voices can be heard standing out and yet blend together well at the same time achieving a great balance for an overall excellent sound.

I can just picture in my mind these guys living way out in the country dreaming up creative new musical ideas. I don't think I have ever heard anybody use horns that way with a rock band. Robbie Robertson teaches his guitar how to cry (Tears of Rage) through what sounds like a spinning Whurlitzer leslie speaker system. Very cool.

The Weight - A version of this great sounding song was featured in the movie Easy Rider and it often reminds me of life in the sixties. To me, the Weight meant that people want to kill you because you have long hair, listen to rock and roll music, or protest the Vietnam war. I ran into lots of moronic people like that in the sixties. There were people all over America that resembled all too much the idiots who killed Captain America and his friends in Easy Rider. At the tender age of 18, I realized that the world was not a friendly place. I would have to join the march on Washington D.C. to protest the Vietnam war in order to stop the killing, and no one would thank me for it. In fact I would be hated for it. That was the weight to me and on me. So march we did along with millions of other Americans, and it was worth it. We stopped that Vietnam war and the senseless killing of Americans ( 500 Americans were being killed per week). We ended the draft and got the voting age lowered to 18. And so for awhile that weight was lifted and the world became a better place. What was a very sad song became a happy one. Always remember, if you want to get something done, the weight is on you.

Chest fever - Many of my relatives are musicians and they always gave me a hard time about rock and roll. "It's only three chords", would be the complaint. Chest fever starts out with something that sounds like Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, and then effortlessly blends and melts into a slow, smooth, really cool, rock beat. This song proved to me that Rock and Roll could be something more than just three chords and all the nay sayers would have to find some other complaint.

Tears of Rage - Martin Luther King was shot. Bobby Kennedy was shot. George Mcgovern, the peace candidate, was defeated. The Vietnam war raged on like an out of control forest fire. Every time it looked like someone was going to lead us all out of the fire, they were shot or killed, or voted down with dirty tricks. And so, tears of rage, a slow mournful song with everyone continually coming in late. At times it drags and complains like a funeral procession but always with compassion and empathy.

Long Black Veil - This is a creepy song from the grave that I have tried hard to forget but it is so creepy it is hard to forget entirely. Yes it is creative and yes I really wish they had left this song off the album. While this song succeeds lyrically and musically, it is just too creepy for me. Gives me nightmares.

Overall - a five star album and a five star CD. You didn't hear any of this on top 40 radio and that's another reason why I liked it. It was part of the other movement. Very good for those lazy days when you want to take your mind somewhere else. Just look at the album cover. People clowning around reaching over the piano to play it balancing a plant on their head. Are these guys somewhere else or what ? Warning: As in my case, it may make you want to pick up your guitar or turn on your piano. Enjoy !
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Music From Big Pink Poster

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Music from Big Pink stands as one of those rare albums that turned the rock world on its axis. On this record, released in 1968 at the height of the psychedelic revolution, the five members of the Band (along with producer-sideman John Simon) eschewed spacey diversions, opting for an earthier route. Soon enough, wah-wah pedals and tape loops were making way for fiddles and mandolins. The group's most democratic effort (Robbie Robertson would soon emerge as the ensemble's mouthpiece), the debut's 11 songs come from Robertson, bassist Rick Danko, and pianist Richard Manuel, who contributes two songs and cowrote the doleful opener, "Tears of Rage," with Bob Dylan. Manuel's role would diminish from this point hence and the balance he brought to the quintet would be missed. Many would argue that Big Pink's sequel, The Band, represents their crowning achievement. The truth is, Big Pink is the purest distillation of the Band, and their preeminent recording. This remastered reissue is generously expanded to include nine bonus tracks, a bunch highlighted by a Robertson rarity ("Ferdinand the Imposter") and a cover of the Stanley Brothers's "If I Lose." --Steven Stolder

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