The Move - Shazam
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Artist: The MoveEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
Published: 1998
CD Release Date: 1998-02-20
Music Label: Repertoire
Soundtracks:
- Hello Susie
- Beautiful Daughter
- Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited
- Fields of People
- Don't Make My Baby Blue
- Last Thing on My Mind
- So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star [Live][*]
- Stephanie Knows Who [Live][*]
- Something Else [Live][*]
- It'll Be Me [Live][*]
- Sunshine Help Me [Live][*]
- Piece of My Heart [Previously Unreleased Live EP Outtakes][*]
- Too Much in Love [Previously Unreleased Live EP Outtakes][*]
- (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher [Live][#][*]
- Sunshine Help Me [Previously Unreleased Live EP Outtakes][*]
Free Music Notes for Shazam
Free Music Review: The Tale of Four Chaps who Lacked Direction and Inspiration
Hit: 1 Stars
Perhaps the title of this album is appropriate--"Shazam". The Move apparantely tried to transform themselves into several different things on this album alone, trying to see what would work. Okay, I'll cut them a little slack--this was only the second album they put out in their first four years. And being a singles-oriented band, anyway, one couldn't possibly expect them to offer anything other than one of the most disjointed affairs--which this was. In other words, an album only for the sake of putting one out, and it shows that their heart wasn't entirely into putting forth their best effort. But that's just the first 6 tracks that make up the original album!
Adding the 8 extra live bonus tracks reveals The Move to be little more than a "covers band", and a below average one at that! Both live renditions of "Sunshine Help Me" are nice, but probably because I'd never heard the original Spooky Tooth version before. The band really showed what they were made of on that particular number, some of their flashiest guitar and bass fretwork. But all the other covers simply lacked the energy of the originals. "So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star" lacked the enthusiasm of the Byrds', only adding a roaming 'wah-wah' pedal to the mix.
I could just tell from listening to this album that this group was headed for "divorce court"--it just sounds like a "train wreck". Much of the music here was recorded during 1968-1969, and by this time--even American music had passed these guys behind! Except for a couple of songs--"Don't Make My Baby Blue" and the aforementioned "Sunshine Help Me", The Move sound like they hadn't progressed much since 1966. The rock music world was changing so fast at the time of this album's release, the "singles" market had long since been a thing of the past, and The Move hadn't even "moved" beyond just trying to figure out how to properly make an album!
Oh, there was some nice musicianship here. Carl Wayne had a wonderful, Americanised, Paul McCartney-when-he's-shouting, sort-of baritone voice that might have served him well across the pond, if he hadn't made the fateful decision to leave rock music altogether and go into "cabaret" (reminds me of when the Yardbirds' Chris Dreja was faced with the opportunity to become Led Zeppelin's bass player, but decided at the last minute that photography would be a better way to make money!)
Just overall poor business decisions led to this group's eventual downfall. They just never got a chance to form their own identity, but kept living off the identities of other bands, rather than at least trying to take a few ideas from each one and forming their own. Plus, they were falling woefully behind the times--the 60s passed them by. They did eventually evolve and transform for the better--into the Electric Light Orchestra!
Altogether, this album is pure imitation that SURE isn't flattery! It's third-rate Beatles and bad west-coast psychedelia being released right at the dawn of the 1970s.
Shazam Poster
Digitally remastered 1998 reissue on Repertoire of their second album, originally released in 1970 on the Regal Zonophone & now featuring nine live bonus tracks: 'So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star', 'Stephanie Knows Who', 'Something Else', 'It'll Be Me', 'Sunshine Help Me' and previously unreleased versions of 'Piece Of My Heart', 'Too Much In Love', '(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher' & 'Sunshine Help Me'. 15 tracks total.Remastered with Nine Bonus Tracks.
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