The Band - Music From Big Pink
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Free Music Review: The best band album ever. Simple!!!!!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Their first and simply their best album. opening up with Tears Of Rage and finishing( really )with I Shall Be Released ( which may even be better than Dylans version )and the extra tracks included are just a bonus. Especially their version of the blues classic Key To The Highway. Ferdinand The Imposter does'nt have the greatest lyrics ( if you can make them out )but it may be the most catchy band song ever besides The Weight which is also on this album. Four of the extra songs included on this C.D are very similar to the versions on The Basement Tapes ( my favourite album of all time may i add ) and if you ask me some of the greastest Band songs. Other highlights include Lonesome Suzie and In A Station ( both Manuel compositions ) and the cover art is great too aswell as the photos in the booklet. The productions is the rawest of any of the Bands albums ( and if you ask me that's not always a bad thing ), a true rock and roll record. A classic. Buy it.Free Music Review: A record beyond time
Hit: 5 Stars
The Band's two acknowledged classics are Music from Big Pink and the second, self-titled album. Like the other reviewers, I prefer Big Pink. The Band is a great record, rooted in Americana, and definitely shows more a more developed approach; but Music from Big Pink is a completely timeless masterpiece. It has hints of 60s psychedelic rock, but has a rootsy aesthetic, with well-crafted songs and an almost obsessive emphasis on arrangements. Every song is a classic. Pianist Richard Manuel contributes about a third of the songs, including the anguished "Tears of Rage" (co-written with Bob Dylan) and "In a Station" while Robbie Robertson wrote the classic rock hit "The Weight" and three other songs. The album closes with a beautiful recording of Dylan's "I Shall be Released". Music from Big Pink definitely belongs in your collection.Free Music Review: Buy it.
Hit: 5 Stars
A highly respectful remix and repackaging, with great liner notes. The Band declined rather quickly once the 60s ended, but "Big Pink" and the eponymous followup album "The Band" are essential recordings that everyone should own.A word about the bonus tracks: in my opinion, these are rarely a good idea with CD re-releases. The artists chose a song lineup and song order with a particular flow, and the bonus songs tend to feel rather jarring. Surely a lovely silence should follow the majestic "I Shall Be Released"!
In addition, about half the outtakes here are songs that appear in very similar versions on the seminal Band/Dylan collaboration, "The Basement Tapes". In all, I would have preferred a simple repackaging of the original lineup of songs.
Having said that, this is a record everyone should have.
Free Music Review: back to the earth
Hit: 5 Stars
When "...Big Pink" came out in 1968 I was 21 years old, in the Navy, and a long way from home. I had just learned that the music which spoke to me so strongly, but was heard on the radio so rarely, was called Blues. I don't know which cut I heard first -- probably The Weight -- but whatever it was spoke to me as clearly as Sonny Boy Williamson and Eric Clapton. A thread which was woven through the psychedelic era was a wish by young adults to get back to the land, to eschew the suburban life in which we'd been reared and return to self-reliance and uncomplicated values. The Band let us return in our hearts to somewhere we'd never been, and Music From Big Pink will forever be one of the seminal albums of the Baby Boom's lives. The wonderful thing about it is that it holds up, does not go out of date. It is musical literature, and will never die.Free Music Review: Stunning In It's Simplicity.
Hit: 5 Stars
This debut from Bob Dylan's former backing band is masterful and brilliant for everything it's not; overlong, drug-addled, pretentious or silly. When it first came out in '68 it instantly flew in the face of everything that was happening in rock music (long drum solos, earsplitting guitars and overwrought lead singers) and offered a laid back, simple formula that still sounds fresh today. While the lyrics themselves perfectly encapsulate the tone of the era (Dylan's ballad "Tears Of Rage") the delivery is what sets them apart. The sole hit from this album "The Weight" is one of the all time greatest rock/pop songs and serves as a hefty reminder that even with their quiet, somewhat ragged delivery, The Band were a force to be reckoned with, even from the very beginning. A True Classic.